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One of the lesser known features about Corona SDK may be the ability to use gradients on display objects within your app. With gradients, you can add a certain level of shine or luster to your display objects. You can also set the direction of the gradientRead more →
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Too cute Lisa (not really spooky wink)!
Simply a CAS Spooky beauty!
What a cute, and very clever, angle to display your adorable ghost. Nice job Lisa!
so cute! love your CAS designs, Lisa!
your card is just too cute to spook, lisa!
Darling card! Wonderfully CAS ♥
What a spooktacular Halloween card! Super cute!
take care!
awwww love the simplicity of this card! The ghost in the corner is great and refreshing twist. Beautiful work!
I really like how you have the image coming out of the corner of the paper - very creative.
Oh my goodness! This is sooooooo cute!
Love your CAS card!
cute, cute, cute!!! love that the set also includes birthday words!
LOVE your Adorable card!!!!
Oh, SUPER cute!!
Perfectly CAS and adorable!
That ghost is cute as can be! I love your sweet card!
This is definitely an eekadorable card! I love the clean look and fun angle ghost is peeking in from!
Great CAS and love your coloring! Thanks for sharing this inspiration! ~Annie
Clean, Simple, and adorable!
Lisa, Lisa, Lisa! I could not wait to see what you came up with today! You did not disappoint! I LOVE your take on this cute set!!!!
it's a perfect CAS card, I love it!
Oooh, Lisa, how adorable! I love this friendly ghost and the sweet color you used! Just the sweetest...like you! Hugs!
I love your Clean & Simple take on this stamp set. The ghost is so cute.
Love the color of your cute ghost - wonderful break from grey.
Cute ghostie playing Peek - a - Boo on your card front!! SO clever!!

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Olympi Village in Chios
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Olympi village Chios: Olympi village lies in a green valley, approximately 30 km to the south west of Chios Town. The village was established in the 13th century and stands out for its remarkable architecture. The houses are built in such a manner that the outer walls are conjoined, so that anyone facing the village will see a fortress with no visible openings, except for one door that allows people in and out of the village. This door is located at present day Kato Porta.
The narrow cobbled streets of the village and its imposing archways give you a sense of those times. The tower that stands at the center of the village is 20 meters high and was used for defense in case of a pirates attack. Today, the tower houses a nice restaurant.
The church of Agia Paraskevi, with its wooden iconostasis and valuable icons, offers visitors a remarkable sight, as does the Trapeza of Olympi, a two-storied medieval building. Another marvelous sight is the Cave of Olympi, located 3 km to the south west, close to Sykia village. It dates back almost 200,000 years and the cave has magnificent stalactites and stalagmites formations.
The neighbouring villages of Pyrghi and Mesta are also captivating. Mesta is a scenic village with vaulted archways. The Church of Taxiarches in Mesta portrays scenes from the Old Testament. Pyrgi is the largest of the medieval villages of Chios. On a hill near Phana beach, lie the remains of the temple of Phaneou Apollo. It is said that the statue of Apollo, that once stood there and hasn't yet been found, was made of silver and gold. If you are a trekking enthusiast, you could wander along the old Olympi and Mesta trail.
Tourist facilities such as traditional apartments are situated within Olympi village. Some of the old traditional houses have been renovated and turned into guesthouses, to give visitors a feel of the traditional charm. The area around Olympi is also abundant in mastic trees. These trees constitute the trademark of Chios island and are an important financial source for the island. These trees have an aromatic resin that is used in varnishes, adhesives, astringents and condiments. The nearest beaches to Olympi are Didima, Mavra Volia, Trahili, Kato Phana and Agia Dynami. They are all unique and can be easily reached from the main road.
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It is important that commingled recyclable items not be placed in plastic bags for disposal. The bags cause the machines at the recycling plants to jam, costing these plants time and money to remove them. Please place all commingle items in a container. NO BAGS.
It has come to our attention that cardboard is not being place at the curb properly, causing our crews to spend unnecessary time in collection efforts.
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|NEW YORK –August 2, 2011 – MSNBC continued to beat CNN in primetime among total viewers and demo for the month of July 2011, according to data from Nielsen Media Research. MSNBC topped CNN by 20% among A25-54 and by 31% among total viewers. This is the 4th consecutive monthly win over CNN in Weekday Prime. CNN ranked #4 for the second month in a row, behind sister network HLN. MSNBC also beat CNN in the morning, with "Morning Joe" ranking #2 among total viewers for the 4th consecutive month.
Following are MSNBC ratings highlights for July:
"Morning Joe" beat CNN's "American Morning" in all key demos, including total viewers (461,000 vs. 249,000 CNN) and A25-54 (161,000 vs. 97,000). "Morning Joe" ranked #2 among total viewers for the 4th consecutive month, beating "American Morning" for the 4th straight month and HLN's "Morning Express with Robin Meade" for the 19th consecutive month. Compared to July 2010, "Morning Joe" is up in all key demos, including 42% growth in A25-54, 20% growth among total viewers, and 100% growth among the younger demo of A18-34.
"Hardball with Chris Matthews" beat CNN at both 5 p.m. and 7 p.m among total viewer and A25-54. At 5 p.m., "Hardball" topped CNN's "The Situation Room" by 15% in total viewers (733,000 vs. 639,000) and 22% among A25-54 (185,000 vs. 152,000). Compared to July 2010, "Hardball" at 5 p.m. was up double digits across the board in all key ratings categories, including 54% among A25-54, while Fox News Channel at 5 p.m. was down double digits in all key ratings categories.
At 7 p.m., "Hardball" topped CNN's "John King USA" by 45% in total viewers (723,000 vs. 500,000) and 22% among A25-54 (190,000 vs. 156,000). Compared to July 2010, "Hardball" at 7 p.m. is up 24% in total viewers and 12% among A25-54.
At 8 p.m., MSNBC topped CNN for the 41st consecutive month among total viewers. "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell" beat CNN by 41% in A25-54 (214,000 vs. 152,000) and 63% among total viewers (870,000 vs. 535,000).
"The Rachel Maddow Show" beat CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight" for the month of July by 44% among total viewers (974,000 vs. 678,000) and in A25-54 (292,000 vs. 202,000), marking the 18th consecutive monthly win over CNN in total viewers. Compared to July 2010, Maddow is up 24% in A25-54 and 9% among total viewers.
"The Ed Show" at 10 p.m. topped "Anderson Cooper" on CNN by 15% in total viewers (872,000 vs. 760,000). Compared to MSNBC at 10 p.m. in July 2010, "The Ed Show" is up 50% in total viewers and 42% in A25-54.
MSNBC is No. 1 among African American viewers in M-Su Primetime. May marks the 18th consecutive month MSNBC has been the #1 network among African Americans in primetime.
In weekend sales prime (Saturday and Sunday 7p-2a), MSNBC's longform programming ranked No. 1, beating CNN and Fox News Channel among A25-54 for the 2nd straight month. Among younger viewers A18-34, MSNBC ranked No. 1 for the 33rd straight month.


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Where did it all begin, this land called Kentucky? "The Dark and Bloody Ground" it was called. At least this Daniel Boone-type expression was used to begin many stories. I now know that human existence began much before my family knew anything, well...., about anything.
The earliest humans were thought to arrive in my neighborhood around 10,000 BC. This Paleoindian period was even before the "Ice Age" which is felt to have begun around 8,000 BC. They were thought to be nomadic, big-game hunters and gatherers which certainly set the stage for Daniel Boone. I always thought that it must have been the combination of water, limestone formations, and summer heat, which produced the most important item of all, salt. Salt was necessary for life, and I suspect that all those woolly mammoths smelled the salt and "came a runnin".
By the late Archaie period (3,000 - 1,000 BC), settlements had become more permanent, but were generally considered base camps along the water and salt trails. A site in Clark County was discovered called the Stone site which contained scrapers, hammer-stones, and other tool making implements. Food processing was defined by circular pits and must have been the first cookout in Clark County!
Clark County continued to be occupied from this point forward with archaeological evidence from the Woodland periods; Early (1,000 BC - 200 BC), Middle (200 BC - 500AD), and the Late (400 AD - 1000 AD). It is generally believed that bows and arrows were introduced into the area at this time; and because of this, it provided one of the chief collections that many boys from Clark County had, i.e., the arrow head collection. Of course bows and arrows produced blood shed, and perhaps this was the reason for the name "Dark and Bloody ground". The final stage prior to any written history was known as the Mississippi period (900 AD - 1700 AD). By this time, life in what was to become Kentucky had become fully agricultural, and distinct villages and towns were being built. Of course you had to protect your village from others with bows and arrows and there is evidence that many villages were fortified. Kill or be killed. Man what a life!


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Duration: 33 minutes with stereo audio
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This installation reimagined Ontario Place's silos as observatories and the Cinesphere as a planet to contemplate the legacy of the futuristic design of the site. A video projection on the ceiling creates the illusion of watching an eclipse featuring cell-phone footage shot by my daughter.
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Kristen Stewart: How She's Coping With Her Broken Heart
Kristen isn't letting her breakup with Rob get in the way of her work, a source tells HollywoodLife.com exclusively. Keep reading to find out how K-Stew's handling her heartache.
Fortunately, Kristen Stewart knows exactly how to mend her broken heart: by focusing entirely on Camp X-Ray and avoiding all conversations about her ex-boyfriend, Robert Pattinson.
Kristen Stewart's Broken Heart — How KStew's Coping With Robert Pattinson Split
"As far as Rob is concerned, she still misses him, but doesn't want to talk about him with her friends. She wants to remain focused on her film. While she's working, she has asked her family and closest friends to not mention his name or ask her how she's feeling. This is her way of healing," a friend of Kristen's tells HolltwoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY.
Thankfully, Kristen, 23, has a smart technique in thwarting any potential questions about Rob. She'll just stay in character, even while on break from filming!
"Kristen has the next two days off from filming, but is so committed to the role that she wants to stay in character. Not 100%, but she admires how Daniel Day Lewis actually embodies the roles he plays. She is putting her all into this film. She says it's the most complex role she's ever played so far. She listens to music that she thinks her character would listen to. She has different techniques to help her channel the character," our source adds.
Robert Pattinson Is Enjoying Single Life
As HollywoodLife.com previously reported, Rob, 27, is currently in Toronto filming Maps To The Stars and by the looks of it, he seems to getting along wonderfully with his sexy, female co-stars.
A source tells The Metro that Rob and Sarah Gadon, 26, have "great chemistry".
"(Rob and Sarah)are filming out in Toronto and they have an obvious chemistry. They laugh a lot," the source adds. "But they are also very serious about their work and have been discussing their roles and rehearsing loads together, one on one."
Rob has also been seen getting cozy with his other female co-star Mia Wasikowska (Alice In Wonderland), 23, but she is reportedly linked to Social Network actor Jesse Eisenberg.
What do YOU think, HollywoodLifers?
–Reporting by Sandra Clark
More Kristen Stewart News:
- Robert Pattinson Gets Cozy With Sexy Co-Star On 'Maps To The Stars' Set
- Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart: 7 Reasons They Should Give Each Other Space
- Kristen Stewart 'Dedicated' To 'Camp X-Ray': Moving Past Robert Pattinson?


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It's hard to know on what basis they will finally be willing to concede, but based on a quick round of all the rugby blogs recently, that day appears a long way off. Which only matters because once it ceases to be this pathetic north-versus-south rivalry, will Australia become unique among nations in having a full-time professional indigenous sport as its first-tier sporting code nationwide (Gaelic football is amateur, before anyone whinges too loud). Not merely that, but what must surely be the greatest spectator sport on earth can then safely, finally turn its energies to spreading its creed through the rest of the world, as is only fitting.
And of course rugby, and its traditions won't die. Nobody is asking them to. But I'm sick to the gullet of credible media institutions like the Sydney Morning Herald, courtesy of the obsessed Roy Masters, printing outright lies, such as claiming League outrates AFL on TV and deserves an equal deal for their rights the next time round. It's a complete lie, by any statistical measure. It outrates AFL on Pay-TV alone, because pay has a much higher penetration in Qld and NSW - pay having carried the majority of League games since the Super League debacle of count 'em 13 years ago. That if anything is an argument that Foxtel should throw a hell of a lot MORE than they threw at the last AFL rights deal.
The point is also made by Talkingfooty.com that "when one takes into account the "reach" of the programs, a different story emerges. The reach measures the cumulative audience that watches a program (including when it was replayed at various times during the week) for any length of time. The reach of the average AFL home and away game on Foxtel was 562,000 to the NRL's 546,000."
AFL kills league on free to air, week-in, week-out.
This from Talkingfooty.com ...
"Using the official Oztam readings, the average weekly audience for the AFL in 2009 was 2,956,000 per week, compared to the NRL's 1,548,000.
Over the entire season, the AFL was watched by a total of 65,023,000 and the NRL by 40,272,000. But what many fail to take into account is the three hour running time of an AFL telecast compared to the two hour running time of it's NRL rival. When this is taken into account, the AFL is viewed 2.4 times as often as the NRL on free-to-air according to Oztam figures. 195,069,000 cumulative hours were viewed for the AFL compared to 80,546,000 for the NRL."
Consider each code's grand final, the ultimate game of the year. The surefire measure of maximal interest in the sport. League plays their game (as the sport had all sense of real tradition ass-raped out of it by Rupert Murdoch during Super League) on a Sunday night. Absolute rolled-gold TV primetime. This year the League game featured a hugely-supported underdog team from Australia's most populous city, and a team finally gaining real media traction in its second most populous city, a team arguably in the process of creating one of the sport's true dynasties. The script could not have been better for the League gurus. The AFL product featured two Victorian teams who rank amongst the sport's smaller fan-bases - one from a city with a population of a few hundred thousand, and was played on Saturday afternoon, in deference to tradition - but in TV terms complete dead-air time. The result? AFL audience 3,848,813 - League audience 3,537,613. A difference of not far under 10%. If League couldn't beat the AFL in 2009, it is never going to happen, short of a Fremantle v Gold Coast final in 2011.
And just this week, we now have the results of the Sensis Consumer Report - a very detailed study by one of the country's premier suppliers of business data. And I hope the advertisers, sponsors and networks are paying heed;
Australia's favourite sports:
1. AFL (21 per cent)
2. NRL (12 per cent)
3. Cricket (11 per cent)
4. Soccer (11 per cent)
Australia's favourite teams:
1. Australian Cricket Team
2. Adelaide Crows
3. Collingwood Magpies
4. Brisbane Broncos
5. West Coast Eagles
6. Carlton Blues
7. Essendon Bombers
8. Sydney Swans
9. Hawthorn Hawks
10. Fremantle Dockers
Tally that against the most recent stats I've been able to obtain for attendances (2006), which this retarded blogger thing won't let me post with any sort of sensible formatting (if anyone wants to see the numbers, let me know - I have an excel spreadsheet). You will find only one NRL club (Brisbane) averages better crowds than even the lowest drawing AFL club (Port Adelaide). The top 11 clubs in the country are all AFL, then Brisbane, then the entire rest of the AFL comp. Then to add insult to injury comes the Perth-based Rugby UNION team, and the Melbourne Victory A-League side. Then come your NRL teams, most attracting half as many people or less than the average AFL crowd. AFL averages 36,831. NRL averages 15,820. The Sydney Swans are the most popular team in Sydney by about 18,000 attendees.
So, bring on your new Commission-based structure. Keep ringing in the "innovations" the AFL was wise to twenty years ago. You'd have to be a little fearful what might happen without News Corp in there to give you so much puff and page space, or pay the $6m Melbourne Storm loses every season (after, it should be added four consecutive years in the Grand Final - Sydney of course turned profits in its Grand Final years).
By any reasonable yardstick the game is up. If it weren't for the fact that media was so Sydney-centric, it would be all over completely. Which isn't to say Rugby doesn't have a place, or immense cultural value to those who love it. It always will. Nobody wants it to die, but there are plenty of people waiting for people to let go of the ridiculous cultural cringe, and let the world's greatest spectator sport be embraced for what it is - one of the country's greatest gifts to itself.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
AFL lords it over League
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Sunday, June 28, 2009
Iran - some perspective, please!
OK, has it really been three months since I last blogged this place? Goddamn. I think I must rescind my original premise that posting in-depth newspaper-length articles on subjects was a realistic and much-needed addition to the blogosphere. For this commentator it's not feasible for now, so I shall continue with more humble aims perhaps. And I shall rely on others to carry more of the detail where needed.
Anyway, are we all tired of the ni(t-witted) commentary on the Iranian elections yet? In saying that, I should commence by saying that I don't have a huge amount of time for Ahmedinejad - he is on some fundamental level quite unhinged, and certain of his belief systems are truly potty, but let's be quite clear about a few things;
• Mousavi is not some kind of liberal reformist pro-western democrat. We should not be backing that particular horse with any expectation it would bolt in the direction we'd like to see the country run in. And irrespective, the position of President in Iran is just one of the many seats of power, and not even the most important amongst those.
• The likelihood is almost complete that Ahmedinejad legitimately won the election, albeit with a handful of irregularities. This from Robert Fisk's very earliest report on the election aftermath...
"An interval here for lunch with a true and faithful friend of the Islamic Republic, a man I have known for many years who has risked his life and been imprisoned for Iran and who has never lied to me. We dined in an all-Iranian-food restaurant, along with his wife. He has often criticised the regime. A man unafraid. But I must repeat what he said. "The election figures are correct, Robert. Whatever you saw in Tehran, in the cities and in thousands of towns outside, they voted overwhelmingly for Ahmadinejad. Tabriz voted 80 per cent for Ahmadinejad. It was he who opened university courses there for the Azeri people to learn and win degrees in Azeri. In Mashad, the second city of Iran, there was a huge majority for Ahmadinejad after the imam of the great mosque attacked Rafsanjani of the Expediency Council who had started to ally himself with Mousavi. They knew what that meant: they had to vote for Ahmadinejad."
My guest and I drank dookh, the cool Iranian drinking yoghurt so popular here. The streets of Tehran were a thousand miles away. "You know why so many poorer women voted for Ahmadinejad? There are three million of them who make carpets in their homes. They had no insurance. When Ahmadinejad realised this, he immediately brought in a law to give them full insurance. Ahmadinejad's supporters were very shrewd. They got the people out in huge numbers to vote – and then presented this into their vote for Ahmadinejad."And for more cogent recent analysis I heartily recommend the following articles...
Ahmedinejad Won. Get Over It (Flint and Hillary Leverrett at Politico.com)
US Likely Source of Interference in Iran's Election
So, of course it is morally repugnant to see peaceful protest being so brutally and bloodily repressed. But it's perhaps worth reflecting for a moment on the moral culpability of Mousavi himself - a man who claimed victory in the election before the polls had even closed, and who has actively encouraged is supporters into the streets in a bid to foment what would by any rational analysis be a completely anti-democratic coup. In simple terms, he has asked people to go out and seek to install him as President in the face of a powerful and brutal state apparatus that knows who the real winner was, one that is backed by a barely regulated and highly lethal militia. Mousavi is basically asking people to go out and die, to spill blood for him in order to have himself undemocratically installed in the second most powerful post in the land. This is not the action of a great democrat, a great humanitarian, but of yet another great spoiled child - one who has somehow convinced himself of his own self-worth, of his patent entitlement to the post he seeks - or even worse, a man who knows he lost but thought he may have found an alternative means to snatch his entitlement at the inconsequential cost of the lives of his supporters.
None of this of course excuses any of the state or militia-sourced brutality, but God knows there's been enough of that type of statement written lately - and once again we have Fisk to thank for the best of the reportage. The stupidity of authoritarian regimes in the face of popular protest remains one of their most profound hallmarks. They never seem to learn that resort to batons, bullets and imprisonment is fuel to the flames of revolution. But the stupidity of those Western leaders like Sarkozy and Merkel pontificating on the situation as if they have some right to act as arbiters is as breathtaking in its arrogance, and they've dealt themselves out of any sort of constructive arrangement with Iran for the entirety of Ahmedinejad's next term, whilst simultaneously giving the regime the perfect pretext to decry internal protesters as acting as mere puppets of the West.
Obama on the other hand has been perfectly upstanding in not taking sides, maintaining the perfectly valid principle that no country has any right to interfere in another's electoral process (although that's of course laughable from an American President, if not this one in particular) whilst deploring the violence, etc. The difficulty for Obama will now come where those on the right and even worse the "Bomb Iran" hawks (and hasn't John McCain gone a long way towards showing us why it's a blessed thing he didn't get his hokey arse installed in the White House - he'd already be fueling the B-52s by now) will now use this whole thing as evidence for any sort of detente with Iran being misguided and amoral.
But that's tomorrow's story. You won't read about this on Twitter though, as it takes more than 144 characters to look at any situation with more nuance than pathetic sloganism.
Tweet on.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009
I heart Andrew Bolt xxxox - What's wrong with the left, part one
I love Andrew Bolt as though he were my own father (he's not, by the way - in spite of several remarkable similarities). Yes, you heard right - love. Alan Jones too for that matter. Miranda, Imre come collectively to my open arms! Symbolically only of course - I'm pretty sure you're all disease bearing.
While I'm at it, I love the bedraggled flanellette sporting revolutionaries with their Green Left Weekly and their daily changing roster of petitions. State smashers, anarchists, seperatists and revolutionaries of every hue, you too are loved from the safest of distances (ie more than an outstretched arm and pamphlet away).
My point being that I've always conceived of political debate as a kind of rugby scrum contested by those at the fringes, with the midpoint of political debate represented by the placid, inert ovoid of inflated pigskin. This sits aptly in my inept metaphor representing the middle ground of society - the unblushingly apolitical who in our sad, uninflamed, self-absorbed two party democracies are the ones who perversely have the ultimate sway on seemingly every issue. Proper debate in these circumstances involves a massing of effective forces at either end, and the struggle will then be decided on strength and ability.
I love the extremes of any given debate, because they allow the median so much more scope to shift either way. They enable possibilities and solutions for the midpoint that wouldn't otherwise exist. I'm suggesting the extremes of political debate are necessary to shift the consensus position by anything more than a fractional degree. And if you're a believer in change, a dreamer of a radically better world, you have to accept those who deal in the extremes to give us a chance of moving beyond the mire of the present.
But we don't have proper debate, do we? Notice how those on the Right all have names, and those on the Left are generic charicatures. Surely the Left has some names of note that could be placed at fly half or some other starring position? (nb I know nothing whatsoever about rugby, and have probably just demonstrated it.) Think about it - sure we have John Pilger and Michael Moore, but you don't hear either of those prosetylising daily in our newspapers or on the airwaves on any and every topic of the day. The truth is that those leftist commentators that we do hear from are rolled out usually to discuss their own particular area of expertise - people like Waleed Aly or Antony Leowenstein (on whom more in a minute) are permitted to discuss issues in their capacity only as specialists on issues such as muslim culture or Israel-Palestine. In this country, where is the space given to the Leftist demagogues spitting forth fire and brimstone on the issues of the day? Philip Adams has his spot on Radio National, but his brief is really broader affairs of the mind rather than current affairs (and forgive me, journalism for saying this, but it IS only Radio National).
John Faine might come across as a leftie some of the time, but you're left with an overwhelming sense that the only ultimate cause he has any faith at all in is John Faine-ism.
So what about Michael Moore, then? I find the rise of this hairy behemoth fascinating. Let's face it, he is first and foremost an entertainer. The real distinctive merit in his films lies in my opinion mostly in their humour, and through their resultant popularity he plays an immensely valuable role as cheer squad leader for the left. He is no sort of journalist whatsoever, and only really half pretends to be. If you strip all the gags and stunts out of his films what you're basically left with is a thoroughly incoherent mess in journalistic terms.
But here I think we're getting close to the heart of the problem, for Moore appears to have understood instinctively what most right-wing commentators woke up to decades ago - that the easiest means to popularise political diatribe is to present it as entertainment.
The Independent ran a fascinating article yesterday on the topic of American shock-jocks, in which they spoke with Dennis Prager, a syndicated conservative host based in Los Angeles. Prager put it quite succinctly in stating "there's really only one rule in talk radio, and that is that, whether you're on the left or the right, you can never be uninteresting. You can be an idiot. You can be a moral fool. You can be primitive. But you cannot be boring. Every sentence must hold the attention."
The Independent have also put together a fascinating selection of videos of US right wing media cadres (mostly from Fox News), which illustrates this point perfectly, and is well worth a look. CLICK HERE
With their props and their stunts, their wacky overblown voices, their Letterman style asides to floor staff off camera, there's no disguising which business these people realise they are in.
So why does the left not embrace this culture? Why can't we at least give as good as we get? Why should I be hard pressed to look beyond Mike Moore or Al Franken in terms of leftists who have worked this out. Why, when you realise how spectacularly successful these two have become have other figures not rushed to crowd the marketplace?
I think this says a lot about both the culture of the left and the culture of the mediascape more broadly. Firstly, there is a distinct po-facedness and a snobbery ingrained in leftist culture, which sets up an artificial and in my view extremely unhelpful dialectic between a moral, community-minded, caring-for-fellow-beings left and an amoral, uncaring, selfish, indiviualist right. The left time and again cloaks itself in the trappings of moral superiority, as though that in and of itself should be enough to make the truth of its arguments self-evident or self-fulfilling. There is so much wrong with the way so many on the left present themselves - they come across as arrogant, presumptive and self-absorbed. They're often having a conversation with themselves in terms that are significant to them alone. They're not trying to sell their message in terms remotely relevant to the very people they want to adhere to it, and in doing so they're almost saying "I assume you will gravitate to me by force of my moral superiority", and when an audience develops a sense that you are making assumptions about them, their beliefs, attitudes, values and feelings they don't just become unreceptive to it, they become offended by it, they feel morally pushed around, they'll ultimately actually react AGAINST it.
But the left so frequently maintains this self-righteousness, this seriousness, this smugness, this aloofness. It modes and mores are still more rooted in the nineteenth century than the twentieth - street demonstrations, petitions and pamphleting are still prevalent modes of "action", yet it could be argued that those that have been the Left's most successful advocates have sought to develop a mastery of more twenty-first century media - bloggers, viral campaigners and entertainers to the fore.
Another problem is that the Left is a fractious beast, and there is this continuous desire (again rooted in a much older political tradition) to recruit, to convert people to their own vision of the grand narrative amongst the tribes of the Left that works so severely against the body of Leftism as a whole, which is almost entirely absent in Rightist politics. I recently attended a lecture by Antony Loewenstein at Melbourne University, hosted by the good folk at Australians for Palestine. In order to make my way into the lecture theatre I, and every other interested party had to make my way past no less than five stalls, staffed by pamphlet-waiving recruiters, trying to get me to attend "Marxism 2009", or to sign on to one or another various causes, only one of which directly concerned itself with Palestine. Can you imagine ever attending a lecture by, say, PJ O'Rourke and being asked to come along to a One Nation meeting afterwards? The Right is happy enough to be spreading the word, and making it easy for people to do so. The Left in contrast is ever on the lookout to recruit, recruit, convert - partly perhaps from a culture of internal competition with so many varied, almost tribal movements at the vanguard.
And the existence of those fractious tribes highlights a further problem the left has in terms of being able to act as a united movement and get behind a particular individual and cheer them, advocate on their behalf, propel them to prominence. The Left in my experience (and it may be clouded somewhat by excessive exposure to the student political arena) is perpetually on the lookout for heresies and heretics. The various tribes have their own unitary, almost biblical "truth" - a set of values that bind its adherents together and separate them from the other respective movements. There is a sense in which elements of the Left appear at times more in competition with one another, more disdainful of those whose vision seems like a perverted or heretical version of their own, and thus more distasteful to them than the diametrically opposed views of the Right.
I haven't read Charles Firth's book American Hoax, and I don't need to, having heard him talk about it in person. Whatever you may make of Firth, the experiment itself is an infinitely fascinating one, and goes to the heart of what the real problem is here. In it, Firth sets out to establish a number of fake characters for himself via the internet, with the aim of trying to get them all fame. The conclusion is that the right-wing pundit was by far the winner in the exercise, to the point where it led to a series of uncomfortable situations for Firth whereby he was basically needing to reproduce the character in the flesh. Firth's inescapable conclusion was that the Right invariably acted like a cheer-squad to his views, they were friendly and supportive and glad to have a like-minded soul amongst them.
The response from the Left to Firth's leftist character could not possibly have been starker. They were distrustful, suspicious, unwelcoming of this newcomer to their rarified world. Who was this person? What credentials did they have? What was their specific views on X,Y, or Z? And as soon as any remotely divergeent view was found on any topic, it became a reason to tear them down, to dismiss them as impure, heretical, not truly left, or at least not a particular enough version of leftism to get behind. Firth concluded that while the Right offered a real sense of an open community, the Left (and when you put it in these terms it really highlights the ideological inversion) had a much more gated community, much more suspicious and fractured.
I fear for the future of the left if it cannot find a way to move beyond the culture it's become mired in. I despaired during Antony Loewenstein's excellent lecture. The key point for me wat when he revealed from discussions he's had with very senior journalists that the pressure applied to them by the pro-Israel lobby does work, and that several journalists themselves as good as said as much. The sad reality, Loewenstein asserts, is that every time they write anything remotely critical of Israel, they are bombarded with up to 500 emails and letters decrying their "imbalance". When they do the same vis a vis the Palestinians, they may receive one or two bits of correspondence, or more usually none. This, Loewenstein says, leads to an inevitable and often subconscious culture of self-censorship amongst reporters. What is clearly needed is a sense of community amongst those opposed to Israel's actions. It requires the left end of the scrum pushing hard, together and with a sense of purpose.
Yet at this very same meeting, discussion became hijacked by ideologues. One woman in particular felt the need to remind the meeting of the primacy of direct actions and protests to build the "movement". She saw the need for an "activist" agenda to alert people to the tragedy of the Palestinian people.
Well, no, people actually do know quite a bit about the plight of the Palestinians. People do care and sympathise with them. There are plenty of opinion polls to show that. The problem is that they're put off doing anything actively about it by precisely the kind of thing that these people presenting - a politics that tries to pitch everything in terms of a "movement". A politics that asks participants in this cause to yoke themselves to something bigger, more over-arching, and ultimately almost not at all in keeping with a concern for the Palestinians themselves, who care by and large not one whit for Marx, for the role of class or imperialism or whatever broader discourses shape their plight. They'd sooner have 500 people poised, pens at the ready to counter the Israeli lobbyists, to ensure their story is told in a balanced way by the media, to tilt the playing field of public opinion back in their favour where it rightly belongs.
It breaks my heart the way leftist objectives are continually usurped by ideology, the way an opportunity to pursue a common good - a meeting which could have been talking about how we can start organising a grouping to petition the media with the fervour the Zionists so readily muster, gets bogged down in discussion of modes of political activity rather than practical concerns.
I can't really see how to move beyond this though. I started out by saying I love those on the fringes for the possibilities they enable, but the reality is that those on the Right have a mode of political engagement which at present enables the fulcrum to shift more readily to their end - as though the rugby field has a natural lean that way. As though the inevitable force of political gravity on pigskin has it seeing an easier and clearer route trundling their way of its own accord. The problems of the Left are so deeply ingrained, so cultural that it's impossible from where I sit to see a way forward - confront them directly and you just get shouted at, and the divisions get worse. To shut those voices out altogether is impossible and counter-productive. But so's tolerating them and the damage they do, so I guess my answer is to blog about it and hope. Blog, and hope, blog and ...
Next Week: Part Two, the problem with media culture - stay tuned (nb I now have an RSS link, get your fill of bloodied marsupial in a heartbeat!)
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Bully boy Israel has its way with OUR money
It's an age-old dilemma we're all acutely familiar with. Do you keep giving lunch money to the kid who always has it stolen?
Placing this question in another context - the world's leaders have just pledged US$4.48 billion dollars for the reconstruction of Gaza, more than double the targeted figure. Such generosity, such nobleness of spirit must surely be welcomed and praised? The suffering of the denizens of Gaza ameliorated to some extent at last.
Well, there's a large amount that troubles me about this. Firstly, most of the infrastructure in the Gaza strip that was destroyed by the Israeli offensive (and surely that word has never been more applicable to a military campaign) was financed in the first place by exactly this sort of foreign aid. Secondly, the Gaza strip is occupied territory annexed by Israel. Under international law the welfare and well-being of Gaza and its infrastructure is actually Israel's responsibility. With the rights of being an occupier comes a bundle of obligations - many of which are set out in the Geneva Convention, a large number of which Israel regularly flouts.
So we have a situation where from time to time, as it sees fit, Israel inflicts collective punishment on people supposedly within its protective remit by smashing their infrastructure, roads, schools and power plants. It allows its soldiers to shell, occupy, trash and often bulldoze people's houses, and these things are invariably nothing more than an exercise in projecting Israel's arbitrary tantrums on the Palestinian people - they are pure exercises in populist politics, playing to the Israeli public's periodic demands do "do something" about the fact that the Palestinians, after 60 years of Israeli occupation with still no homeland refuse to sit obediantly behind their fences and wait for it to happen.
You may pardon my cynicism about this, but it seems quite obvious that the objectives and behaviour of Israel in its occupied territories is always first and foremost governed by political concerns. In this case, somehow all of the supposedly clear objectives of Operation Cast Lead were magically achieved a handful of days before a new administration entered the White House, discounting for the fact that actually ... err ... precisely none of those objectives were achieved - Hamas is as strong as ever, the rockets still rain down on Sderot, and the smuggling tunnels are still operating. Oh yes, and 1300 people are dead. Take a guess how many of those were involved in firing the rockets in the first place, and then consider why you think the rockets are still falling. But that's a fair price to pay for the deaths of little more than a dozen Israeils over the past ten years, I guess. At least we now have a proper calculation for the relative worth of a Palestinian versus an Israeli life - approximately 1:100.
So, we saw it when Israel decided to smash Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah (built by western donor money), we've seen it in every previous military incursion anywhere in Gaza and the West Bank - where power plants have been deliberately bombed, homes, schools, police stations businesses, and orchards laid waste with absolute impugnity. Then when they decide they've had enough, Israel turns to the rest of the world and says "right, you can fix it now". The world then spends billions of dollars once more building up high value targets for Israel to pummel the next time it feels aggrieved.
And nobody says a word about it. Nobody tells the bully off. Nobody beats the bully up, hardly anyone has more than the most muted criticisms for the bully's actions. Instead they follow dutifully in the bully's wake, clearing up the mess that was made. The bully learns no lesson except his unbounded impugnity. And we know from that - don't we my readers, that means the bully will someday be back for more lunch money? Effectively ours.
PS: Oh yes, and a bunch of innocent people will die in the process. But that's just a byline here, right?
By way of an update - the UN statistics are 14,000 homes, 68 government buildings, and 31 offices of nongovernmental organizations destroyed during Operation Cast Lead.
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McGinley looks to Irish Open as Wiesberger wins Ballantine's
Paul McGinley clinched his biggest tour cheque for more than two and half years as Bernd Wiesberger sealed a dominant maiden European Tour victory at the Ballantine's Championship in Korea.
The 26-year old Austrian holed a 20 foot birdie on the final hole for a 68 to finish five shots clear of Richie Ramsay on 18 under par at Blackstone Golf Club.
McGinley closed with a 70, getting up and down from a bunker at the last for a birdie, to share seventh on nine under and clinch his first top 10 finish since last September's KLM Open, where he was sixth.
He earned €51,067 - his biggest cheque on tour since he was ninth in the 2009 Alfred Dunhill Links Championship more than two and a half years ago - to move up to 98th in the Race to Dubai standings and revive hopes of regaining his full playing privileges.
Having a full tour card is important for McGinley, who needs to be seen as well as heard as often as possible next year if he sees off opposition from the likes of Miguel Angel Jiménez and is named as Ireland's first Ryder Cup captain.
Looking forward to the BMW PGA at Wentworth and a return to his amateur stomping ground of Royal Portrush for June's Irish Open, McGinley said: "I played very well. I had a double-bogey on the ninth today which took the wind out of my sails a bit, but I did really well to regroup on the back nine.
"I played really solid, it's probably the best I've played of the four days today. Shot 70, my second-best score of the week so overall I'm pretty pleased."
The 45-year old Dubliner has eased his way into the season following knee problems but now plans to play a full schedule for the rest of the year and feels good about his game despite being forced to rely on his place in the Top 40 on the Career Money List for starts.
McGinley added: "It does bode well. Hopefully have a good season going forward, and I'm particularly looking forward to the Irish Open.
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"I think this is only my fourth event this year, and now from Wentworth on, which is my next event, I'll play a full schedule from then on."
Five clear starting the day, Wiesberger saw his lead reduced to three strokes when Ramsay, who closed with an impressive 65, birdied the 16th.
But Wiesberger stepped up another gear on the way in and picked up shots himself on the 15th and 16th holes before a memorable birdie on the last.
"I can't say I wasn't nervous on the first tee box, but when I got the first shot out there on the fairway, it was a bit of a relief," Wiesberger said.
"I was under a bit of pressure when I had to hang in there on 13 and 14, and I was able to make a couple of good shots, and great putts, and I was pleased to finish the way I did.
"That long putt on the last and the celebration reflects the last four days which were awesome, and I really enjoyed it out there today.
"I felt comfortable out there. I thought I just had to do what I did the last couple of days, hit those greens and make two putts, and make a couple of birdies. It was key for me to do that and I hung in there. I was very proud of how I finished the round up."
The two-time European Challenge Tour winner, who finished on 18 under par 270, did not drop a shot for the final 59 holes of the tournament following his double bogey on the 13th hole on Thursday. He became the third Austrian to win on The European Tour following Markus Brier and Martin Wiegele.
"Every sportsman dreams about winning, especially a tournament that was so well organised and has such great players in the field," he said. "To play the way I did this week is very special."
Ramsay, winner of the South African Open in 2010, carded seven birdies to finish on 13 under par 275, with Frenchman Victor Dubuisson (66) and Australian Marcus Fraser (70) two shots further back on 11 under par 277.
Spaniard Jiménez (69) finished tied fifth on ten under par 278, along with Englishman Anthony Wall who eagled the last for a 67.
Shane Lowry 's final round 70 saw him fall three spots to tied 32nd on four under with Gareth Maybin two shots further back in tied 38th after a 71.
Damien McGrane ended up joint 61st after a 74 that featured 33 putts.


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Be aware that arbitrary decisions will come back to haunt you – 50 books
Writes one Horrid Henry per year; easy to become formulaic if in a rush
Based on 2 sides of everybody, comic extremes, tension
Good memory for emotion in childhood
What would Henry do in an ordinary situation?
He's locked in a battle and will never grow up
Moody Margaret is her favourite
18 million copies
She writes by asking herself questions – for the Chessman it was why are they so miserable
Actual naming of a character sparked the story
4 random people embarking on a quest – who knows why
Not a planner – needs to know what they are doing and why
What do they want – until that's answered the books has no energy- doesn't need to know anything else
It's the momentum
Question then answer
A story is as long as it needs to be - always can cut
Setting & time
She had not run out of ideas but fears not writing well
She hopes that she's learned she can make a bad first draft (they are always bad) better – trusting that now
Of course you get stuck – you're a writer
Sets a low word count, 500, which she knows she can achieve
A terrible 12k is better than a perfect 0
Professionals finish books
I took heart from that last comment as that was one of my biggest fears when I began writing fiction again - could I finish a book? Yes, I can and have now done it several times....
All in all I can't recommend the festival enough...I met and chatted with so many lovely people-just brilliant!


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High school grades down across Florida
There were no tears of joy this year at Miami Northwestern Senior High. There were no pompons and cheerleaders at Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale.
Last year, both inner-city schools announced — with much fanfare — their first-ever "A" grades from the state. This year, that top mark was lost when Florida released grades for high schools on Thursday.
Both schools were knocked down to a B.
"We feel we're an A school. We're going to work to improve until that grade is up," said Northwestern Principal Wallace Aristide.
The slide was expected — engineered, some argue — after the state drastically changed the way it grades schools. The harder grading scale meant that schools with the same number of academic "points" as last year sometimes got lower letter grades this time. Even some schools that had improved their overall point total saw their letter grade drop.
Broward Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie explained it this way: "This is like we're playing a basketball game and we've been playing for years and the rim is at 10 feet. And all of a sudden, we come in for the championship game and somehow they've raised the height of the rim to 11."
"That doesn't mean my playing ability's reduced," he said. "The game just got a little tougher."
Across the state, 71 percent of schools earned an A or a B in 2013-2014. That was down from last year, when 78 percent earned top grades.
The rate in Miami-Dade County also was down significantly: 74 percent of high schools earned an A or a B this year, compared with 86 percent last year. In Broward, A or B-rated schools dropped sharply, from 91 percent to 76 percent.
Still, there also were no F traditional schools in Dade or Broward for the fourth year in a row.
And though grades are down across the state, graduation rates are up slightly, according to results also released Thursday. The statewide rate was up a fraction of a percentage point: 76.1 percent. In Miami-Dade, the rate stayed flat at 76.6 percent. Excluding charter schools, the graduation rate bumps up to 80.1 percent.
Miami-Dade Superintendent Alberto Carvalho cautioned against making comparisons from year to year, citing the tougher statewide grading scale automatically adopted after a historic number of high schools made top marks last year.
"We don't fret too much over grades, especially in a time when everything keeps changing," Carvalho said. "When you compare how well you did this year versus last year when everything's changed, it's hardly a fair question."
The changes will continue next year as the state abandons the controversial FCAT for a brand new test that is also expected to drag down school grades. However, penalties for poor performance — which can range from reassigning staff to shutting down a school — will be put on hold for a year as schools adjust.
This year, there were some key changes in Florida's school grading standards.
In addition to raising the minimum scores for letter grades, a new end-of-course exam in history also counted. So did the test scores of first-year students who are learning English — of which there are almost 13,000 in Miami-Dade alone. Schools also got fewer points this year for the number of students enrolled in advanced courses.
"Look out for the changing criteria," warned William Mathis, managing director of the National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado. "They've done this over a number of years, and they've done this to say, 'Things are terrible and we need reforms.' Or after reforms were put in, they'd change it to say reforms were successful."
On a conference call with reporters, Florida Education Commissioner Pam Stewart defended the grading system.
"I think there's much to celebrate here," she said. "As our high schools have improved over time, then it is important for us to consider that we want to continue moving the bar up, and have done that. And our schools respond to that."
She pointed to 55 high schools out of the 455 that were graded in Florida that managed to improve their grades this year. Only three schools in Dade and one in Broward pulled up their grade. One of those schools was Miami Palmetto Senior High, which went from a B to an A.
Principal Allison Harley quickly made a school-wide announcement and students have been high-fiving her in the hallway, she said.
"When we dropped to the B, the staff and the students took it personally. So it just reinvigorates them," Harley said. "It's a sense of pride for them. You go to the best. Their school is the best."
That's part of the allure of grades, said Kathleen Oropeza, co-founder of the advocacy group Fund Education Now. Grades are a quick way to pass judgment on schools when the reality is much more complicated.
Determining what makes a passing or failing grade is often subjective, not based on science, Oropeza said. And school grades — as with individual test scores — correlate strongly with wealth and poverty.
"Please show me an F school in an affluent neighborhood," Oropeza said. "It's disturbing that we are in a place right now where the goal is to label schools instead of to truly help the kids inside the schools."
But as controversial as letter grades are, Runcie, the Broward superintendent, said they still impact public perception — particularly for people who are unfamiliar with their local schools. Complicated details, such as the impact of the ever-changing grading scale, can get overlooked, he said.
"To be honest," he said, "I believe that most people take these letter grades at face value."


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The World Wide Web is filled with sites dedicated to the Megami Tensei series. Here, the Wiki attempts to list them for those who wish to know more about the series.
You are welcomed to add any Megami Tensei resources and fansites that you know. Please ensure that the sites are well-maintained, active and relevant to the series.
Official SitesEdit
Official site of the developer of the Megami Tensei franchise.
Official site of the American subsidiary for Atlus
- Persona Channel (Formerly known as "Persona Portal")
Official site of the Persona series
Official Japanese site of Atlus parent company Sega.
A website dedicated to reporting the latest news about Sega and Atlus.
A comprehensive listing of all Shin Megami Tensei related communities.
A blog dedicated to the translation of the Digital Devil Story trilogy novels by Aya Nishitani.
Ever curious about Persona 2: Innocent Sin? Read the story here!
A "Megami Tensei study guide".
A fansite with some information and news regarding the SMT series and Atlus' games.
- Baroco {French}
A fansite with comprehensive information on the history of the franchise.


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text: Elephone H1 Specification, Features, Questions and Answers Apple launches new 10.5-inch iPad Air Google Pixel 3 Lite leaks again, right next to a Pixel 3 this time Apple starts selling SIM free iPhone XR in the US Phones Laptops Computers & Tablets Electronics Car Electronics Hardware Components Elephone H1 - Specification, Features. Phones Specs >> Elephone >> Elephone H1 Specification | Reviews | Secret codes | Unlock | Root Body Elephone H1 Size: 73.0 mm x 142.8 mm x 9.6 mm Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Weight:169 g Usable surface:66 % Materials:Plastic Colors:Black Blue Gold Red Origami:Print 3D Model Diagonal:Screen size detect physical dimensions of your display in inches.5" Screen Type:LCD IPS Screen Resolution:The display resolution or display modes of a digital television, computer monitor or display device is the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed. It can be an ambiguous term especially as the displayed resolution is controlled by different factors in cathode ray tube (CRT), flat-panel display which includes liquid-crystal displays, or projection displays using fixed picture-element (pixel) arrays.720 x 1280 px (HD) Density:Medium Density, 294 Pixels per inch differentiable less than 40 cm away Others:, 2.5D curved glass screen, Capacitive, Multi-touch Software Elephone H1 Operating System:Android 6.0 Marshmallow Performance Elephone H1 Model:MediaTek MT6580 CPU:A mobile processor is found in mobile computers and cellphones. A CPU chip is designed for portable computers, it is typically housed in a smaller chip package, but more importantly, in order to run cooler, it uses lower voltages than its desktop counterpart and has more "sleep mode" capability. A mobile processor can be throttled down to different power levels or sections of the chip can be turned off entirely when not in use. Further, the clock frequency may be stepped down under low processor loads. This stepping down conserves power and prolongs battery life.ARM Cortex-A7 MPcore Type:Quad-Core Frequency:Processor frequency specifies the operating (internal) frequency of CPU core. The higher the frequency is for a given CPU family, the faster the processor is. Processor frequency is not the only parameter that affects system performance. Another parameter than greatly affects the performance is CPU efficiency, that is how many Instructions Per Clock (IPC) the CPU can process. Knowing these two parameters it is easy to calculate total number of instructions per second.1.3 GHz 64 Bits:No GPU:ARM Mali-400 MP2 RAM:Random-access memory (RAM) is a form of computer data storage. A random-access memory device allows data items to be accessed (read or written) in almost the same amount of time irrespective of the physical location of data inside the memory.1 GB Antutu score:Facebook Twitter Pinterest Stumbleupon Email AnTuTu is one of the most popular benchmark apps for Android devices. It tests many parts of your device and assigns an overall score. Here's what AnTuTu is actually measuring and what each benchmark means for real-world use.21.000 Overall performance better than 25% of devices Capacity:8 GB (Capacity with the OS (depends on the brand and ROM version): 6-7 GB) More or less equivalent to:1454 Songs, 3200 Photos and 114 Videos SD Slot:YesSlot for SD or second SIM card Special Features Elephone H1 Fingerprint:Yes Accelerometer:An accelerometer is a device that measures changes in gravitational acceleration in a device it may be installed in. Accelerometers are used to measure acceleration, tilt and vibration in numerous devices. At rest, an accelerometer measures 1g: the earth is gravitational pull, which registers 9.81 meters per second or 32.185 feet per second. Accelerometers that use the piezoelectric effect measure a small voltage change. Others measure capactitance between two components. Yes Light sensor:A Light Sensor is something that a robot can use to detect the current ambient light level - i.e. how bright/dark it is. There are a range of different types of light sensors, including Photoresistors, Photodiodes, and Phototransistors. The sensor included in the BOE Shield-Bot kit, and the one we will be using, is called a Phototransistor.Yes Proximity:Yes Notifications LED:No Camera Elephone H1 Resolution:The number of megapixels is only one aspect relating to the quality of a camera, or the actual quality of a photo it is capable of producing. Factors such as camera sensor and processor, and the optical quality of a lens, play equally important roles.13 Mpx Sensor:Sony IMX219 Exmor RS Type:CMOS Aperture:Simply put, aperture is a hole within a lens, through which light travels into the camera body. It is easier to understand the concept if you just think about our eyes. Every camera that we know of today is designed like human eyes. The cornea in our eyes is like the front element of a lens - it gathers all external light, then bends it and passes it to the iris. Depending on the amount of light, the iris can either expand or shrink, controlling the size of the pupil, which is a hole that lets the light pass further into the eye. The pupil is essentially what we refer to as aperture in photography. The amount of light that enters the retina (which works just like the camera sensor), is limited to the size of the pupil - the larger the pupil, the more light enters the retina.f/2.0 Pixel size:1.103 µm Flash:LED Optical Stabilisation:No Slow Motion Video:No, 30.0 fps Features:Autofocus, Continuous shooting, Digital zoom, Exposure compensation, Face detection, Geotagging, HDR, ISO settings, Panorama, Scene mode, Touch focus, White balance settings Resolution:The number of megapixels is only one aspect relating to the quality of a camera, or the actual quality of a photo it is capable of producing. Factors such as camera sensor and processor, and the optical quality of a lens, play equally important roles.2 Mpx Connectivity Elephone H13G:B1 (2100), B8 (900) 2G:B2 (1900), B3 (1800), B5 (850), B8 (900) SIM:The standard SIM card is the original SIM and largest of the three. This SIM measures 25x15mm. The Micro SIM card is essentially a standard SIM card with the extra plastic around the circuit board trimmed off. Micro SIM cards measure 15x12mm. The Nano SIM card is the most recent type of SIM card which only measures 12.3x8.8mm.Dual SIM Dual Standby (Micro SIM Nano SIM) Wi-Fi standards:These standards were created by an organization known as the Wi-Fi Alliance, a trade association consisting of companies interested in promoting a common standard for wireless Internet connections. IEEE 802.11 - The original! Created in 1997, this now-defunct standard supported a blazing fast maximum connection speed of megabits per second. Devices using this haven't been made for over a decade and won't work with today's equipment. IEEE 802.11a - Created in 1999, this version of Wi-Fi works on the 5 GHz band. This was done with the hope of encountering less interference, since many devices (like most wireless phones) use the 2.4 GHz band as well. 802.11a is fairly quick too, with maximum data rates topping out at 54 megabits per second. However, the 5GHz frequency has more difficulty with objects that are in the signal's path, so the range is often poor. IEEE 802.11b - Also created in 1999, this standard uses the more typical 2.4 GHz band and can achieve a maximum speed of 11 megabits per second. 802.11b was the standard that kick-started Wi-Fi's popularity. IEEE 802.11g - Designed in 2003, the 802.11g standard upped the maximum data rate to 54 megabits per second while retaining usage of the reliable 2.4 GHz band. This resulted in widespread adoption of the standard. Wireless g remains common even today, as it is adequately fast and routers lacking support of the new n standard are incredibly cheap. IEEE 802.11n - The newest Wi-Fi standard, n was actually introduced in 2009. It's been adopted slowly, but it now common on routers and laptops. 802.11n can operate at both 2.4GHz and 5 GHz and it supports multi-channel usage. Each channel offers a maximum data rate of 150 megabits per second, which means the maximum data rate of the standard is 600 megabits per second. However, this requires hardware support, and I have yet to see a Wireless n router with more than three channels. The support must be on both ends as well, so you can't make use of a dual or tri-channel router if your laptop only supports a single channel.802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n Others:Wi-Fi Hotspot Bluetooth:Bluetooth is a global wireless communication standard that connects devices together over a certain distance. A Bluetooth device uses radio waves instead of wires or cables to connect to a phone or computer. A Bluetooth product, like a headset or watch, contains a tiny computer chip with a Bluetooth radio and software that makes it easy to connect. When two Bluetooth devices want to talk to each other, they need to pair. Communication between Bluetooth devices happens over short-range, ad hoc networks known as piconets. A piconet is a network of devices connected using Bluetooth technology. The network ranges from two to eight connected devices. When a network is established, one device takes the role of the master while all the other devices act as slaves.v4.0 Profiles:A2DP (Advanced Audio Distribution Profile)The Advanced Audio Distribution Profile is a Bluetooth profile that allows for the wireless transmission of stereo audio from an A2DP source (typically a phone or computer) to an A2DP receiver (a set of Bluetooth headphones or stereo system). Such devices typically also support the AVRCP profile as well in order to allow for track selection and such. A common misconception is that A2DP support is available on all Bluetooth 2.0 devices, which is not the case, and that A2DP is only available on Bluetooth 2.0 devices, which is also not true. A2DP support can exist in older versions of Bluetooth, it just was not commonly supported. GPS:The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a space-based navigation system that provides location and time information in all weather conditions, anywhere on or near the Earth where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites.with A-GPS, GPS USB charging:Yes USB Mass Storage:Yes Audio Jack:Yes Radio FM:Yes Computer sync:Yes OTA sync:Yes Tethering.:"Tethering" is the use of your cell phone (or another mobile device that is connected to the internet) as a modem for another device, usually a laptop or a Wi-Fi-only tablet. This gives you internet access on the go, wherever you are. You connect your phone to your laptop or tablet either directly with a USB cable or without wires through Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. (In the good old days, we tethered devices via infrared.)Yes Battery Elephone H1 Capacity:2500 mAh Type:Li-Polymer Comments, questions and answers to Elephone H1 Ask a question about Elephone H1 Name: Question: 6+5= *Enter the sum of the two numbers. Copyright © 2014-2019 MobileSpecs.net. All rights reserved. Contact


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We've all been told, and you may even believe that it is better to give than it is to receive. That's what we know. That's what we say.
Quite often, however, what we know and say does not match what we do. Consequently, we have a church full of people who don't know the true joy of giving the way God shows us is better. Oh sure, we may give our donation (I dislike that word). We may even give in ways that don't involve money. The impact, though, is not in how much or how often we give. It's the attitude we have when we give that is important.
For many people, this attitude we have about giving reminds me of this guy:
That's why the Apostle Paul reminded us that God loves a cheerful, or a hilarious giver.
At least that's what I said in this week's sermon.
I don't know that I emphasized the more joyous point, that when we give with a cheerful heart, God rejoices and is blessed. God isn't interested in us learning how to give money (or any other kind of gift) to him. I think God is much more interested in us learning to trust in God and to learn how to give money (or any other kind of gift) away to others who may need it.
When our attitudes reflect the gift of God's grace in our own lives, it doesn't matter how much we have to give. We give freely. Too often, I hear people's idea that once they begin making a certain amount of money they will give regularly or more faithfully. I want to recall some of Jesus' words about being faithful with little. That is an almost understandable approach to giving. What tends to happen, though, is that the more we slowly begin to make, the more we begin to spend or keep for ourselves. Mo money. Mo problems. Mo bills.
I consider the tithe to be a biblical standard, that we begin our giving at 10% of our income. That comes out in my sermons and studies. I can't see that I would ever encourage someone to not do that. Still, I don't make it a mandate. Paul said we should give as we have decided to do. All I would like to do is remind you of the blessing we are missing and are taking from others and God when we don't give with a hilarious heart.
Here's my sermon from this Sunday I hope it's a blessing.
Stay blessed…john
P.S. If you find yourself upset or disturbed by me speaking about money, that may be what the FBI calls a clue. 😉


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Youth America Grand Prix 2015: The Final Round, at the David H. Koch Theater
Onstage with the Dancers
Youth America Grand Prix
New York Finals 2015: The Final Round
Top Finalists for Junior (ages 12-14)
and Senior (ages 15-19) Categories
David H. Koch Theater
Lincoln Center
Larissa Saveliev: Artistic Director and Founder
Gennadi Saveliev: President and Founder
Press: Jonathan Marder and Company, Inc.
Dr. Roberta E. ZlokowerApril 15, 2015
The annual Youth America Grand Prix ballet competition draws many hundreds from the international ballet community, including student competitors, teachers, family, sponsors, and ballet aficionados from New York and well beyond. The final round of competition is held at Koch Theater, with screaming student fans in the upper tiers. Seemingly hundreds of floral bouquets can be seen in the audience, with parents, as well as students, already disqualified from the finals, showing up for support. The spirit and soul of this and the following nights Gala are ebullient. First we see Junior Women, then Junior Men (ages 12-14), followed by Senior Women, then Senior Men (ages 15-19). Some of these students are already in dance ensembles and receiving school tutoring, while others are in junior or senior high school, practicing and studying dance every other moment. Preparation for dance competition requires dedicating many hours/day to focused and grueling exercises and barre work, plus performance rehearsals.
Over 7,000 students begin the semi-finals rounds in Argentina, Brazil, Belgium, Mexico, Japan, and 15 American cities. Only 350 students are invited to the New York finals. Those who win, and many more, will be awarded scholarships to the worlds top dance schools and contracts to renowned dance companies. There were too many student performance highlights to mention or list all. Some recorded music is heard over and over, as students have learned a variety of male and female solos for this competition. Numerous dancers caught my eye tonight, including Kotomi Yamada, 12, from Yamada Chie Sunny Ballet School, Japan. She danced Vaganovas Variation from Diana and Acteon with youthful verve and vivacity. Also, Shin-Yong Kim, 14, from Sunhwa Arts Middle/High School, Korea, danced Petipas Variation from La Esmeralda with unique skill and charisma. Both of these Variations were exceptionally challenging and only performed a few times during the evening.
Junior Men, who caught my eye, were Liam Boswell, 14, from Next Generation Ballet at the Patel Conservatory, USA, who danced Vainonens Variation from Flames of Paris, and Ryu Bautista, 14, from The McDonald College of Performing Arts, Australia, who danced Petipas Variation from La Bayadère. Both of these young men brought enthused shouts from the energized crowd. Among Senior Women, I was impressed with Madeline Woo, 16, from V&T Dance, USA, who performed Petipas Variation from Don Quixote, and, among the Senior Men, I was impressed with Lang Ma, 19, from The Washington School of Ballet, USA, who performed Gsovskys Variation from Grand Pas Classique. Both Ms. Woo and Mr. Ma had astounding speed and balance. Click Here to see a full list of winners of the YAGP competition. Kudos to all of tonights Finals competitors, kudos to the teachers and judges, and kudos to YAGP.
For more information, contact Dr. Roberta E. Zlokower at firstname.lastname@example.com


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|From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Sun Jul 19 22:54:05 EDT 2009
I don't think that there is any (intentional) buffering going on in those methods. Perhaps you could supply a (short) complete program that illustrates the problem? That would be a big help. And yes, there were big changes in the editor classes in 4.2, so you might have found a bug. There have been a few fixed since 4.2, so a simpler thing might be just trying your program in the latest nightly build. Robby 2009/7/19 Ivanyi Peter <pivanyi at freemail.hu>: > Hi, > > I have upgraded my PLT-Scheme to version 4.2. > In my program I have used to write into an editor% in the > following way: > > (let > ( (ed (send window get-editor)) ) > (send ed lock #f) > (send ed move-position 'end #f 'simple) > (send ed insert text) > (send ed lock #t) > ) > > (I wanted to write to the end of the editor.) > With the new version of PLT-Scheme it does not "exactly" work > as it used to do. It does some sort of buffering. It does not > write the text into the editor immediately. > > Has anything changed? > How should I do it "properly", if this is not the right way? > > Thanks for any help. > > Best regards, > > Peter Ivanyi > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme >
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