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Dec. 12, Grain Valley,
MO -- On Dec. 11, U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah W. Hayes (for the Western District
of Missouri) recommended the court direct Ledar Transport, Inc. to pay damages
to the owner-operators named in the class action lawsuit brought by the Owner-Operator
Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA).
On June 21, 1996, U.S.
District Court Judge Fernando Gaitan Jr. entered a default judgment against
Ledar Transport in the case, holding the carrier liable for, among other things,
failure to return escrow accounts and pay interest on escrow accounts. Thereafter,
the case was granted class certification and OOIDA's counsel was instructed
to submit a calculation of the amounts owed to each claimant by the Kansas
City carrier.
Yesterday's final report
and recommendation by Judge Hayes finalizes the calculation of principal and
interest to be awarded to the individual owner-operators.
Jim Johnston, president of OOIDA, said he welcomed the court's
recommendation and looked forward to the final directive issued by the District
"We are pleased
with the court's forthright attitude toward the long list of violations by
this carrier and are anxious to see these escrow accounts finally returned
to the owner-operators involved," Johnston added, "This case once
again reinforces OOIDA's position that class certification continues to be
the most effective tool in giving individual owner-operators the strength
to collectively seek relief from the illegal business practices of carriers
in the court system."


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Product Description
Recording King natural open back banjolele Combining everything that players love about the ukulele with the crisp sound of a banjo, the Recording King banjo ukulele (or banjolele) is a unique instrument that you'll love. The maple neck and maple rim give it a bright tone with great projection, and the coordinator rod and 10 brackets are a nod to classic banjo-style construction. With nickel hardware, nylon strings, a 6-1/4" frosted banjo head and comely satin finish, you'll appreciate the attention to detail on this uncommon instrument.
- Model Name: Recording King Banjo Ukulele
- Banjo Type: Ukulele
- Tone Ring: none
- Flange: none
- Truss Rod: none
- Rim: 5-7/8″ Multi-ply
- Hoop: 6-1/2″ nickel plated
- Fretboard: Rosewood
- Fretboard Inlay: Pearloid Dots
- Nut: Bone, 1-5/16″
- Peghead: Madison style
- Peghead Overlay Black
- Peghead Inlay: Recording King block
- Hooks and Nuts: 10, flat hook
- Rods: Single
- Tuners: Geared
- Tailpiece: Bent metal, ukulele style
- Bridge: Maple/Ebony, 1/2″
- Head: Remo Frosted, 6″
- Crown: n/a
- Finish: Brown Satin
- Hardware: Nickel

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By Malti Gautam, Delhi
I have a maid working with me for the last 5 years. About 2 years back she got married soon came in family way. I was also quite happy as she gave a birth to a baby girl last year. Unfortunately, the baby was borne a little premature. I only gave her name "Shobha". Just about 7 days back I asked my maid to bring Shobha to the house as it was her birthday.
I wanted to give her a gift , a beautiful dress. Shobha came with her mother and I was quite excited to see her. She was unable to walk though but her cute smile just took my heart away. I gave her the dress and she was too happy to receive it.
Out of curiosity I asked my maid about the immunization of Shobha and polio drops. She had got done some vaccination and some were still not done. Not happy with her on such laxity I softly scolded her and took her to a pediatrician in the nearby market. Fortunately not much vaccination was missed. But the Doctor when took her weight was surprised. She was under-weight. I was surprised too.
With a little thorough check-up the Doctor informed me that Shobha is anemic and requires proper diet. She is missing nutritional diet. My maid informed that she eats something or the other so her stomach is full but that is not proper food. A one year old child should start eating roti and daal. Some medicines were give by the Doctor but important was nutritious diet.
My maid informed me that as she has to leave early from the house for the work so her mother-in-law takes care of Shobha.
I was not happy to hear all this. Why should a child suffer only because parents do not have time. I had a way out and asked her to bring the child with her and prepare her food in my house and before starting the work ensure that she eats properly.
For the past 7 days, Shobha comes to the house regularly with her mother. I have also kept some toys for her. My maid prepares food for her in my house and makes her eat. The child is happy, her mother is happy and I am happy too.
I must say, your story "You Never Know Who Needs You Where" inspired me to take care of people around me. Thank you "Khushi" I am happy to bring change in one life.
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MWC 15 Special
Microsoft's previously released public Beta of SyncToy has reached the final v1.0 and is available for download since yesterday. The easy to use, customizable application helps you copy, move, rename and delete files between folders and computers.
There are new sources of files coming from every direction: digital cameras, E-Mail, mobile phones, portable media players, camcorders, PDAs and Laptops. Increasingly, computer users are using different folders, drives and even different computers (such as a Laptop and a Desktop) to store and retrieve files. Yet managing hundreds or thousands of files is still largely a manual operation. In some cases it is necessary to get copies of files from one place; in other cases there is a need to keep two storage locations exactly in sync. Some users manage files manually, dragging and dropping from one place to another and keeping a mental card catalog in their heads. Others use one or more applications to provide this functionality for them.
Microsoft yesterday announced it has acquired Teleo Inc., a provider of voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) software and services that enable the placement of phone calls from PCs to traditional phones and that deliver this technology in unique ways through a variety of software and Web applications. Microsoft expects to combine the technology and expertise of Teleo with the existing VoIP investments of MSN to further develop products and services that connect consumers to the people and information that most matter to them. Financial details were not disclosed.
Looks like it isn't a scam as I thought first when I read it earlier today. Opera is definitely giving away their Opera 8 for PC for free to celebrate 10 years of Opera! 8O
Simply download Opera now and submit your E-Mail address to Opera - that's it and you should receive your key from them!
As T-Mobile announced earlier this year, the carrier plans to equip the "web'n'walk" ready devices with special "optimized Internet browsers" and now it seems we know what T-Mobile means. It looks T-Mobile will use Opera Mobile - at least for the Windows Mobile Smartphones as we can read now on T-Mobile's updated SDA II specification page:
"Includes 64MB Mini-SD card with preinstalled Opera-Browser, SD card adapter to use the Mini-SD card with a card reader".
I've just received the (German) press release from T-Mobile where T-Mobile Germany is announcing the availability of the MDA Pro (HTC Universal) for 1st of September which is basically this week!
So from this Thursday, the long awaited first UMTS-enabled Pocket PC Phone Edition should be available in Germany. :-)
T-Mobile Deutschland launches sale of innovative MDA Pro.
Following the news from last week, that O2 UK is expected to ship the Samsung SGH-I300 from October, phoneArena.com also found it at FCC now, where it got its type-approval last week.
On CeBIT, Samsung announced the the SGH-I300 availability for Europe during Q3 2005. However, so far it's not released here but since it got the FCC approval now, it could be also sold in the US, even if there are no information about a quad-band or US-based tri-ban version available.
According to teltarif.de, E-Plus, the 3rd largest GSM and UMTS carrier in Germany, is going to release a new flat-tariff which can be used in both E-Plus networks - GPRS and UMTS.
As leaked today in an advertisement, E-Plus will introduce the new plan from 1st September with a - so far - limited validation until end of this year.
According to teltarif.de, the flat-fee will be available for 39,95 Euro with a minimum contract length of 3 months only. After the first three month, the plan can be canceled daily.
Today Skype announced a new Skype Beta for Windows Mobile Pocket PC devices which is available from now as v1.2 - Beta.
As before, with the released version, Skype for Pocket PC provides you with the freedom to enjoy Skype on the go, wherever you are and you have a high speed data network (WiFi, 3G or EDGE) connection: home, office or outdoors.
How British the Inquirer found out, O2 UK has the Samsung SGH-I300 on its "coming soon" page (together with the Motorola "Pebl" aka Motorola V6) to be available during October 05. According to The Inquirer, the I300 should go on sale for around £ 79.99 which is something US$ 144.230 or 117.27 Euro with a O2 contract, not a bad price at all for a 3 GB HDD phone with (hopefully) Windows Mobile 5.0 (so far I've seen both, Windows Mobile 2003SE and 5.0 on a SGH-I300):
So after the the HTC Tornado also the HTC Wizard is coming to the US and will go on sale from T-Mobile? According to Engadget, who got an anonymous hint it will happens anytime during October but most likely, this devices won't be an exclusive T-Mobile one but also available from Cingular. Time will shows but unlike all T-Mobile MDAs and SDAs before, the HTC Wizard will be a quad-band device which makes more sense for T-Mobile to use in the US as well:
The guys over at Mobinaute managed to get an early HTC Galaxy into their hands and put a preview online already - with a lot of photos and comparison shots.
As mentioned by the::unwired earlier, the HTC Galaxy is just a pure Pocket PC (w/o Phone Edition) but incorporates a GPS received; the first device of its kind from HTC (Taiwanese competitor Mitac already built a lot of GPS enabled Pocket PCs while yesterday their first GPS enabled Pocket PC Phone Edition device leaked).
If you want to stay up to date about the latest PDA developments, news, views, thoughts and reviews you need to check many different sources. RSS Feeds are an easy way to do so, either from your PDA or Smartphone. However, to get a complete list of sites is near impossible. Nevertheless, Handy Entertainment has started to compile such a list you can download now to import it into your favorite RSS News Reader. So far you can browse a comprehensive and growing collection of 77 validated RSS Feeds, carefully selected by Handy Entertainment staff. You can also point directly to http://www.handyent.com/pda-rss.opml to open OPML file from an online feed.
Okay, I hope not too many system administrators are reading this ;-) but I want to rant about Google Talk as well, as so many did during the past 36 hours (looks like the whole blogsphere as well as the Internet is knowing one topic only at the moment) already.
I don't know how it is with your (business) contacts but many of my contacts (mostly the one outside Europe but in the US and Asia) are using Instant Messaging services to stay with their colleagues or clients in touch but what I've seen so far from most European companies - they don't support or even allow to use IM clients on office PCs. For some reasons, most (European? - how is your company treating this topic) companies still think IM is something for teens only and they are chatting just private stuff - which isn't true at all. With most of my contacts (except some real good friends for sure) I'm mostly chatting business related and it's a fast and easy way. It's like an E-Mail but as fast as a phone call.
According to The Register who got exclusive information, Mitac is going to announce its first Windows Mobile Pocket PC Phone Edition device under the Mio-brand next week. But the A701 isn't a Pocket PC Phone Edition only but is expected to be GPS-enabled also which would make it the first Mio Phone Edition with GPS support and the second GSM/GPS device so far.
According to basic specifications The Register has received, the device is based on a 520MHz Intel XScale PXA270 processor with 192 MB of memory, of which - The Register reckon - at least 64 MB will be ROM. For sure the A701 is a Windows Mobile 5.0 device:
Engadget has received information, that the upcoming HTC Tornado will be on sale from T-Mobile USA as well which would be the first Windows Mobile device which makes it from T-Mobile Europe to T-Mobile USA.
However, since the HTC Tornado (which will be called T-Mobile SDA II) is a quad-band device, it will work perfectly in the US.
According to Engadget, the Tornado will be on sale from October:
Following expansys UK's yesterday announcement to sell the HTC Universal as i-mate JasJar, today expansys made the revealed the i-mate K-JAM (K = Keyboard-JAM? ) which is the HTC Wizard.
Expansys writes:
O2 Germany has signed an agreement with the Swiss company Infront Sports & Media for the rights to mobile phone video coverage of the 2006 FIFA World Cup. The agreement covers all sixty-four games of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, as well as the archive of 2002 FIFA World Cup video material. O2 will broadcast all key passages of play during the games and provide its customers with a post-match overview of each game's highlights. This makes O2 Germany's first mobile phone operator to offer video coverage of the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
I'm not going to regularly link to this kind of pages or call for any donations (for instance donations for the::unwired are appreciated also as you can imagine but at least it's "my job" to keep the site up and running as well as free of charge for you) but if the Wikimedia Foundation needs our support, I'm happy to help them out with a link here since I'm also referring to Wikipedia from time to time as well as I use it often myself.
The Wikimedia Foundation and all its projects are growing at a rate faster than ever dreamed. Wikipedia.org alone gets 800 million hits a day, making it one of the top 50 websites in the world. That means that people everywhere are turning to the projects - Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikiquote and the Wikimedia Commons - as a free reliable source of information and knowledge.
Today, Siemens announced to present programs broadcast by a variety of private TV stations live on a mobile phone equipped to receive digital TV signals using DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcast Handheld) during the IFA consumer electronics trade fair IFA in Berlin. To demonstrate "Mobile TV", Siemens will for the first time use its new DVB-H test system comprising a server platform for mobile television and a handset prototype capable of receiving these services. The equipment enables mobile operators to conduct DVB-H trials with relatively little effort, for example to test the level of acceptance for Mobile TV among consumers.
Ouch, it must hurts if an online shop leaks information prior the company of the product is able to announce it officially himself. This time expansys UK leaked the i-mate JASJAR (what's that), basically known as HTC Universal - the first and long awaited UMTS Pocket PC which is scheduled to be officially announced by i-mate at Gitex next month. Anyway, expansys did it today already and writes:
The earlier announced HTC Tornado (announced as Qtek 8300) passed the FCC tests. The version that was tested by the FCC had the WiFi module includes which doesn't mean that carriers will release the Wi-Fi enabled version but HTC just want to make sure to have approved all options. Another thing that Kris over at Smartphone Thoughts found out by reading through the documents is that this Smartphone will most likely be branded in the US as model "ST22A". It is not known who the vendor is but Kris guesses Audiovox.
And the next one! After today's Google Talk and Skype IM announcements also MSN has something to contribute to step-up the competitive pace in the messaging arena with today's release of MSN Messenger 7.5, an updated version of the MSN's chat client. As always the program is available as a free download from MSN.
The new version primarily offers back-end improvements to help overall performance, with just a few rudimentary changes in the feature set. It now allows the exchange of brief audio clips of up to 15 seconds, and also includes dynamic backgrounds that add some visual variety to the program's appearance.
That's interesting - the same day Google released its Google Talk service, Skype unleashed its SkypeWeb and SkypeNet developer tools. By doing so, Skype says it's opening up its platform to anyone who wants to integrate Skype Instant Messaging -a lesser-known feature of Skype - with most other versions of voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) software.
Today, Google really introduced what was already rumored for some time: Google Talk - Google's own IM and VoIP service which is based on the Jabber standard.
Google Talk is a simple and free way to talk with and send instant messages to your friends. Like Gmail, Google Talk uses Google's innovative technologies to help people communicate more effectively and efficiently.
At IDF, Intel today previewed the Monahans CPU, a gigahertz-class successor to the currently widely used Pocket PC CPU Bulverde.
The 90nm part is due to be formally launched in Q4 2005, Sean Maloney, VP and General Manager of Intel's Mobility Group, said today at Intel Developer Forum.
Describing the chip as "another step ahead in performance", Maloney showcased a pre-production Monahans running at 1.25GHz which was used to decode and play back HD video on a PDA screen. 8O
Noting that high-tech companies are growing again as a result of delivering exciting new products, Intel Corporation CEO and President Paul S. Otellini said the industry is on a new "performance per watt" course that will deliver powerful Intel-based computers that are increasingly smaller, sleeker and more energy-efficient.
Describing Intel's role in driving innovation at the Intel Developer Forum, Otellini unveiled the company's next-generation, power-optimized micro-architecture for future digital home, enterprise, mobile and emerging market platforms - and low-power products that will enable a new category of converged consumer devices.
According the the always well informed Chinese-language Commercial Times, BenQ is likely to sell its P50 Pocket PC Phone Edition under the Siemens brand, at least in Europe, instead of using the - still unknown - own Benq brand and the final launch is expected for late September/early October.
While I understand this move, it makes me a little bit wonder since Benq preqiously announced not to use the Siemens brand any longer (max. 1 year), after the acquisition is finalized.
Ok, there is nothing more boring than sitting in the car while in a traffic jam without a high-speed connection, that's wasted time. Sure you can have your Notebook with a 3G/UMTS PC-card with you or (if you are lucky) your HTC Universal, also with inbuilt 3G or - if you are not that lucky (but lucky enough) - you have your GPRS connected Pocket PC with you but why not making the whole vehicle truly wireless? I did - with O2's Surf@home box I'm calling from now "Surf@Autobahn". I've previewed O2's Surf@home a while back; it's basically a W-LAN access point with an interface to O2's UMTS network instead an interface to a DSL-modem which means, you can use your W-LAN equipped devices (Pocket PCs, Notebooks, Smartphones) to surf with UMTS speed, even if these devices aren't UMTS enabled and you don't need a dial-up connection at home anymore (for sure it cannot replace a DSL connection).
Melodeo, a Seattle-based company that provides solutions for music on the mobile phone, last week announced its expansion into new markets, including making Podcasts available for download to the mobile phone. There are nearly 400,000 Podcasts available today but to hear them you need to connect your PC to the Internet, and your portable device to your PC. You need to repeat this process each time you want an update.
Google Desktop 2 (Beta) gives you easy access to information on your computer and from the web. It's a desktop search application that provides full text search over your E-Mail, computer files, music, photos, chats and web pages that you've viewed. By making your computer searchable, Google Desktop puts your information easily within your reach and frees you from having to manually organize your files, E-Mails and bookmarks. It makes searching your computer as easy as searching the web with Google.
Over at Yahoo! News, they have an interesting article called "PluggedIn: Portable media players may struggle to find market" where the author comes to the conclusion that Portable Media Players are too pricy, too hughe and that they haven't found there "natural" place yet, like MP3-players (a logical follower of the good old 80's Walkman). Actually it's an interesting thought and even the media player manufactures might don't see a serious market yet if you count the available portable media centers and compare it with the number of Pocket PCs which can do basically the same.
Orange is pretty active in supporting mobile device developers as good as they can and therefore Orange announced today the next Code Camp even where Orange expects around 450 attendees and held in Opio, South of France from 17 - 19 October, 2005: Code Camp will bring together mobile application developers, games publishers, content providers, device manufacturers and operating systems companies from all over the world, for 72 hours of workshops, seminars, networking and testing.
Dear German (speaking) readers of the::unwired! I'm please to introduce today a new project I'm involved into: digital lifestyle mobile, a gadget blog which launched today! After years of hard work with Arne's Windows CE Site, MobileNet.de, Unwired-I.Net, PPCW.Net and lately with the::unwired, recently I joined a new project as "Blogger #1", created by CMP-WEKA, a German publishing house and ajoint venture of WEKA Germany and CMP Media US. CMP-WEKA is going to launch a new print magazine called "digital lifestyle magazin" soon and I was asked to manage the online version of the digital lifestyle magazin which is called "digital lifestyle mobile" and will becomes a more personal, more up-to-date version of the print issue and can be basically called a blog. digital lifestyle mobile is what I will be responsible for as "Blogger in Chief" from now and after spending some weeks with the team to make the idea true, it went online today! :-)
While it's not ready to order, at least the Orange SPV M5000 made it to Orange UK's online shop today; a good sign that Orange is confident to launch it soon (at least that's the experience from the past).
The Orange SPV M500, better known as HTC Universal and also known as T-Mobile MDA Pro and it's HTC's first UMTS Pocket PC Phone Edition device, is running Windows Mobile 5.0, supports tri-band GSM/GPRS plus UMTS, W-LAN and Bluetooth (not to forget infrared).
Germany based shift TV is quite an interesting service for PC, Notebook and PDA users since it uses a brand new technology called "iPVR" which lets you schedule, record and watch your own private copies of TV programs over the Internet.
shift TV is a web-bases PVR and every user runs its own, dedicated shift TV. Via the web Interface, you get access to a EPG to program the recording. As soon as the show was recorded, it's converted into a streaming format (Windows Media Video 9) to get it streamed to your PC. From now, you can also download your recordings to archive it on your local PC since storage space is limited to 5 hours per account. However, also new from now is that you can record two shows in parallel.
After Microsoft's own pricing leak yesterday, today Microsoft finally announced the Xbox price which starts at US$ 299.99/299.99 Euro/£ 209.99
Ending weeks of speculation about which upcoming video game platform will give gamers the most bang for their buck, today at the German Games Convention, Microsoft Corp. revealed that consumers can get their hands on Xbox 360 - the most powerful and feature-packed next-generation video game and entertainment system - for as little as US$ 299.99/299.99 Euro/£ 209.99 starting this holiday season. For gamers who want to experience the ultimate digital entertainment thrill ride, Microsoft also announced a model with hundreds of dollars worth of accessories for US$ 399.99/399.99 Euro/£ 279.99, giving consumers the definitive entertainment experience at an unbelievable value right out of the box.
As assumed in my Qtek 8300 posting earlier this week, T-Mobile prepares its SDA II launch. While T-Mobile Germany hasn't announced it yet (beside the earlier CeBIT announcement), the T-Mobile SDA II Smartphone appeared on the business customer page of T-Mobile Germany recently.
However, all the information T-Mobile provides there doesn't seems to be the final one, from the device photo to the specifications.
For instance T-Mobile isn't providing any information about the used operating system (and normally they do) or T-Mobile is describing the SDA II as a "black device" while the photo shows a silver one:
Sweet! Until its release of Opera for Smartphone, Opera always denied that it will go to release a Pocket PC version sooner or later but with the official release of Opera for Smartphone, Opera also announced that a "Pocket PC version is under development".
Now PocketCenter.de got its hands on a first version and has published three screenshots of Opera for Pocket PC, running on a VGA Fujitsu Siemens Pocket Loox 720:
No, I'm not going to cover Xbox 360 news here in general (as long as they are not related in any way to its Media Center Edition connectivity features) but this news is way too interesting for most of us anyway to leave it unpublished.
Microsoft Switzerland itself leaked the (estimated) sales price of the Xbox 360 - it's 600 Swiss Franc!
The Qtek 8310 announcement is just 24 hours old there popped-up the first preview in the net with tons of photos and screenshots.
Mobile-review.com got their hands on a working sample of the Qtek 8310 (identified as HTC Tornado) and gave it a first test.
Ouch, this will hurts all Orange SPV C500 and Windows Mobile Smartphone-lovers but according to cellular-news, which posted the results of the latest mobile application report, Strategy Analytics doesn't see a bright future for music phones yet (compared to dedicated music devices like the Apple iPod) and I have to admit that my #1 music device is still my Apple iPod indeed.
In this analysis, the Strategy Analytics advanced buyer panel performed head to head benchmarks of the iPod against 4 leading mobile music enabled devices: Samsung E720, O2 XM, SEMC V800 and the SPV C500.
Recent consumer research by Critical Path, a leading provider of messaging software and services, has found that there is a large market opportunity for access to personal E-Mail via mobile phones, revealing a potential market of more than 16 million consumers in the UK. However, unlike users of corporate mobile E-Mail, British consumers overwhelmingly want to be able to control who they receive E-Mails from on their mobile, and the majority of consumers cite "low cost" as very important.
In addition to the previously announced Qtek 8300, Qtek Finland also announced the Qtek 8310 Windows Mobile 5.0 business-Smartphone; toghether with the Qtek 8300 the first HTC Smartphone utilizing Microsoft's Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system which also supports quad-band GSM, GPRS and EDGE as well as W-LAN (see my earlier preview of W-LAN with Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphones here).
Scandinavian based Qtek recently announced on its Finish website its Qtek 8300 Windows Mobile 5.0 music-Smartphone, the first HTC Smartphone utilizing Microsoft's Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system and supports quad-band GSM, GPRS and EDGE for worldwide use. Like the additional announced Qtek 8310 (the business version of the 8300), the new 8300 also includes (as the first Windows Mobile Smartphones ever) W-LAN support (see my earlier preview of W-LAN with Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphones here).
Last week I have posted here that Orb Networks has made its APIs for Orb available for public use and development and the first plug-in we have seen was the Skype Voicemail plug-in.
Now the second Orb pug-in made it to the mass: TiVoAnywhere. While I'm not a TiVo user at all (it's not available over here in Germany) it looks like a fantastic service to record and watch you TV (OK, I do the same with my Windows XP Media Center Edition anyway) and if you are a TiVo customer, now you can watch your recoded shows on any Windows Mobile device, from Pocket PC to Smartphone plus most of current 3G phones and for sure any Windows PC and Notebook:
PocketPCTechs today announced to release a replacement battery for the HTC Blue Angel which has 2400 mAH instead of the original 1490 mAH. Based on PocketPCTechs testing, the standard 1490 mAH battery runs for around 3.5 hrs and due to some special tweaking of the microcontroller of their battery, PocketPCTechs have benchmarked their new 2400 mAH battery at 7.5 to 8 hrs of run time which would be a 54% increase in runtime based on the lowest benchmarked time.
Greenlight Wireless this weel announced that its Skweezer service, which optimizes Web content for cell phones and PDA's, now provides a customizable search feature that allows users to choose between several popular search engines.
Skweezer customers can now search the Web from a mobile device using search engines designed for the desktop environment, such as Google, Y! Search, MSN, Looksmart, and Ask Jeeves. Skweezer reformats and optimizes search result pages, so they load faster and can be viewed more easily on a small display. Switching between search engines can be done using a convenient drop-down menu or, if the user has signed up for a free personalized account, a default search engine can be set as a preference.
Is this an indication or even a proof that Palm really has a Windows Mobile based device (like the Treo 670) in development? In an interview, Palm Chief Financial Officer Andrew Brown said that building a Treo that runs on the mobile version of Windows might help the company woo corporate customers who have been reticent to buy its Palm OS-based gadgets.
Without confirming Palm has such a product in development, Brown mentioned "CIOs don't get fired for using Microsoft products."
As announced earlier this week, today MSN has updated their MSN Screen Saver (Beta) and removed the MSN Toolbar requirement!
With the new MSN Screen Saver (Beta) you can personalize your screen saver with individual background photos and news and weather information from MSN or any RSS feeds from websites you choose. In addition the MSN Screen Saver allows you to search the Web and click news headlines directly from the screen saver.
Last but not least you can stay connected with MSN Hotmail, MSN Messenger, and MSN Spaces and track how many unread Hotmail messages and current Messenger conversations you have and display blogs and photos from your friends' MSN Spaces.
Hitchhiker, a kind of W-LAN sniffer, which shows you available wireless LANs in your area, recently got an update and is available in version 0.3 now.
Hitchhiker helps you to connect your Pocket PC to the wireless Internet by simply tapping the Connect button it will try all public access points nearby.
Hitchhiker will handle all settings for you and perform complicated tests to ensure you can connect to the Internet in no time.
As the always well informed DigiTimes reports, Palm is likely to outsource the production of its next generation of Treo-series Smartphones (the Treo 670 which is expected to be the first Windows Mobile-based Treo device recently made its way to the Internet), built using Microsoft's operating system, to Taiwanese HTC (High Tech Computer, also OEM of all T-Mobile, O2 and Orange Windows Mobile devices as well as ODM of most HP iPAs), with volume shipments to begin in the first quarter of next year, according to an August 10 report from the Chinese-language Commercial Times.
Looks like HP is working on an update of the HP Messenger Windows Mobile Pocket PC Phone Edition aka iPAQ hw6500 which is called iPAQ hw6700. At least Dave, over at Dave's iPAQ found some more information at HP UK.
While the hw6700 series will also use the same ID as the hw6500 series before and also includes the same 312 MHz Intel XScale CPU, the hw6700 get a doubled memory of 128 MB ROM and, according to HP's UK site, Wi-Fi 802.11g! While the hw6500 includes two memory card slots, one for SD cards and one for miniSD, the hw6700 will include a miniSD slot only. Last but not least, the hw6700 is announced to run Microsoft's latest Windows Mobile 5!
Last week, the first HTC Apache photos made it to the Internet, now somebody over at Mobile01 got his hands to a different, stylish black Apache and uploaded way more photos.
Doesn't looks that bad at all, I like the keyboard. Comes pretty close to the HTC Universal keyboard which is a pleasure to use for E-Mails and IM:
iSkoot, a mobile Internet phone company, announced yesterday that it is offering free unlimited use of its Call Forwarding software for the Skype service. The Call Forwarding software allows users to forward Internet calls from their online Skype buddies to any phone number. The company's software provides mobile phone access to millions of Skype voice-over-Internet users and enables complete access to Skype for both making and receiving calls from any mobile phone. iSkoot software enables:
Mexens Technology recently released Navizon, its 'revolutionary', P2P "Wireless Positioning System" that successfully blends GPS, Cellular and WiFi technologies together into one accurate "mobile geo-location" system and service.Navizon might be the perfect navigation companion for your WiFi or Cell enabled Pocket PC as long as you are in a Navizon covered area (like New York, Miami or Toronto today).
How Omer Khan, MSN Portal Group Manager posted today in the::unwired Forum, MSN will release a new version of its famous MSN Screen Saver during this week. According to Omar, the updated version of the MSN Screen Saver will works with OR without the MSN Toolbar. It will be your choice if you want want to install the MSN Toolbar or not. :-) GREAT but it comes even better (in terms of configuration):
As eHomeUpgrade reports, now there is also a Flickr plug-in for Xbox Media Center available but for sure not not for the original Xbox Media Connect but for the mod'ed Xbox only. After Tivo (HME Flickr plug-in) also the Xbox got its Flickr plug-in but still there is nothing for the Windows XP Media Center Edition available?
Flickr is definitely the most successful photo sharing service and really ramped-up like a rocket over the past months. It's really handy to upload your photos from your mobile phone which is widely used by Flickr members and ehomeUpgrade's asked rightly: "So, what's up MCE developers? Why can't someone get on the ball and code a Flickr plug-in?".
T-Mobile is working hard to promote their web'n'walk "mobile Internet" service (which is basically a mobile bookmark list plus access to Google Mobile) here in Germany and beside the typical TV- and print-campaigns, you also have a lot of online ads floating around. However, the latest web'n'walk raffle is far too much "Paris Hilton"-like than something for the average T-Mobile customer or who wants to win such a T-Mobile Sidekick II? 8O
Yesterday I have written about Orb's APIs for developers and today Orb made another cool plug-in available for public download: Orb-powered V4S which is the first way to get your Skype voicemails from anywhere for free! As you know, Orb gives you access to all your home media from any Web-connected device including live TV-streaming, photos, tunes, videos and more! However, now you can also listen your Skype Voicemails via Orb, thanks to V4S.
This plug-in is even more interesting because it provides you also Voicemail access from devices which doesn't support Skype Voicemail yet, like Pocket PCs (which can use Skype but the client isn't supporting Voicemail today) or Smartphone (where no commercial Skype client is released today).
Call Assistant is assisting your while you are busy. It is running on your device and if you activate it, it is waiting for incoming calls and is these calls replying with a predefined SMS message.
Call Assistant can be used while you are in meetings where you have your phone silent and you don't want to get interrupted, but you want to let the caller know that you have recognized his call; during vacation and due to high roaming costs you don't want to answer the call but you want to let the caller know that you are in vacation or any other situations where you don't want to answer the phone.
If you are a developer, working with Microsoft's Windows XP Media Center Edition and Windows Mobile devices, this is your chance to create some cool add-ons for Orb!
The Orb Add-Ons API makes it possible for you to make a variety of programs available to nearly any Web-connected device through Orb. Orb can stream audio and video content to nearly any Web-connected device with a Windows Media Player, RealPlayer or 3gp player that can stream .sdp files.
Obviously if your Add-On only involves text and images, the range of supported access devices is even greater.
Following T-Mobile UK's earlier announcement to cooperate with ALK to provide mobile navigation solutions for the UK MDA and SDA customers, today T-Mobile Germany announced its cooperation with TomTom.
T-Mobile is adding mobile navigation solutions to its product range with TomTom MOBILE 5 and TomTom NAVIGATOR 5. The wireless solutions fit into any coat pocket and are ready for use in no time. With flexible route planning, voice-activated navigation and 3-D maps, the TomTom products offer everything for the perfect journey, getting you to your destination in the shortest time. Special offer from T-Mobile: with all-in-one packages comprising the TomTom navigation system as well as MDA or SDA, accessories and favorable Relax 100 tariff, customers can save over 100 Euro compared with the unit price.
QUALCOMM and Connexion by Boeing announced today that they are working together to test and demonstrate in-flight wireless communications aboard Connexion One, a specially equipped Boeing 737-400 aircraft.
The companies have performed a series of test flights that successfully demonstrated the simultaneous use of CDMA and GSM mobile phone technology over an on-board network with infrastructure and integration support from UTStarcom. Using standard cellular communications, a small in-cabin CDMA2000 and GSM "picocell," or small cellular base station, is connected to the worldwide terrestrial network by an air-to-ground satellite link provided by the Connexion by Boeing high-speed airborne network.
British BBC News recently published an interesting article about how (mobile)bloggers changed the mind of O2 - UK, who made a change to their MMS to E-Mail delivery method back in mid-July. Now O2 has backtracked from the change in the way multimedia messages are delivered via E-Mail after too many complaints from mobile bloggers.
Mobloggers rely on E-Mailing bits of multimedia content as attachments to post directly on blogs from their mobile phone, however back in July, O2 changed that so that the E-Mail arrived as a web link instead.
ThinkSecret, an independent Apple news site, recently got some inside information about Apple's Retail Store Policy where - not surprisingly - Apple retail employees are ordered not to comment on rumors to customers under any circumstances. Furthermore, while Apple employees are granted permission by Apple to create their own personal Web pages and blogs, they are not allowed to comment on anything related to Apple on such pages. Furthermore, they are prohibited from posting in any capacity on any Mac-related (does it includes iPod related or not? ;-)) Websites or forums, whether they identify themselves as working for Apple or not.
In this context, it doesn't surprise how Apple defines bloggers (no, it's not really Apple but Apple took the definition from the New Oxford American Dictionary, 2nd Edition) as Scott Beale from Laughing Squid found out (screenshot taken from Tiger's Dictionary app):
Yahoo! News has an interesting article about the latest CDs by Foo Fighters and Dave Matthews Band containing a new anti-piracy technology which are selling (still) well despite a backlash among some fans angry that the discs are incompatible with iPods, experts said on Thursday.
Aiming to curb piracy, labels like Sony BMG, which released both records, are rolling out copy-protected albums in the United States, which let users make three exact duplicates of a CD and store files on a PC in Microsoft Windows Media format!
But the copy-protection bars users from importing music onto iPods since Apple's Fairplay software is incompatible with protected Windows Media Audio files.
With the introduction of Windows Mobile 5.0, Microsoft also integrated MSN way deeper as it was before (but please keep in mind that it is a carrier/manufacture option which some carriers and manufactures might not use/support). Basically before, with the previous Windows Mobile versions, Hotmail wasn't even accessible (without workarounds) and also the MSN Homepage was just a link in the Favorites. Now, with Windows Mobile 5.0, Microsoft supports Hotmail as an Inbox service as well as it provides a Today screen plug-in for "widely" used MSN services like MSN Messenger, MSN Hotmail, MSN Mobile Home and it also includes a new small stand-alone application called "Pocket MSN" which lets you start the previously described services also:
Today I was working on several Multimedia reviews including my promised highpad Media Control review and a Orb Networks comparison with the highpad Media Control client but unfortunately I noticed, that something went wrong with Microsoft's Windows Media Player 10 Mobile steaming capabilities and Windows Mobile 5.0.
In fact you you can not stream anymore! 8O Or at least I'm not able to get it working! :?
For some days now, I have the MSN Screen Saver installed on my PCs (Notebook, Media Center Edition and office PC) and I must admit it's exactly what I was looking for for a long time. It shows my very own photos randomly as well as it adds RSS news feeds on top, something absolutely handy if you want/have to stay up to date. Anyway, I was "slightly annoyed" by MSN because I had to install the MSN Search Toolbar for Internet Explorer. As good as these Toolbars might be (doesn't matter from whom - Google, Yahoo! or MSN) I don't want to be forced to install it just because I want to run a different application, especially because the MSN Search Toolbar doesn't provides me any benefit because I'm using Avant Browser instead of the Internet Explorer (even if Avant Browser is using the Internet Explorer OCX) which offers tabbed browsing and some other goodies for a long time already.
Okay, after the earlier leak of the HTC Apache, you remember, the EVDO brother of the HTC Wizard, the first real photos (and confirmed specification? ) hits the Web, over at Xda-Developers.com.
It looks like the earlier specifications became true, except the CPU which seems to be confirmed with 416 MHz (not the rumored 520 MHz):
The first information and a blurry pictured popped-up yesterday over at HowardForums where "roc a fella" posted the information of a Treo 670 (with Verizon label) which should be running Windows Mobile 5.0 for Pocket PC Phone Edition. However, to prove it, he has send three videos to engadget and either these (short) videos are well done fakes or we really see a Treo running Windows Mobile 5.0 which wouldn't surprise me at all since HTC is also manufacturing the Treo's and for them it should be easy enough to adopt the Windows Mobile platform to the Treo hardware.
Mediasync for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 is a plug-in to transfer several media types to your portable device and is currently in development by mcesoft. Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition does have built-in support for synchronizing your media files with a portable device, but the downfall here is that only the newer devices are supported. A lot of people have probably hooked up their Pocket PC to their Media Center only to discover Media Center advising to synchronize the device using the Windows Media Player instead.
Adapt Mobile, the first company to introduce Bluetooth GPS based on the new Nemerix chipset in Europe, today announces two new GPS receivers. The Adapt AD-300, the successor of the most popular Adapt 16 channel GPS receiver, and the AD-500, the latest and smallest Nemerix receiver on the market today.
The ADAPT AD-300 is build around the same housing and chipset as the famous Adapt 16 channel Nemerix receiver. It uses a larger capacity Nokia compatible replaceable battery that lasts up to 30 hours.
How PDAFrance reports today, HTC is preparing the launch of a new Pocket PC (without Phone Edition) with inbuilt GPS, which would be the first GPS device from HTC itself and follows the success of other OEMs like Mitac who launched a couple of GPS enabled Pocket PCs already.
According to PDAFrance the Galaxy is a kind of an updated HTC Magician (i-mate JAM, o2 Xda mini, etc.) with approximately the same dimension.
On Monday I was writing about the i-mate JAM (HTC Magician) limited edition launch in Australia and I wasn't sure if it will be released worldwide too. However, as Carrier Devices/i-mate confirmed today, the limited edition will be released world wide also.
i-mate, the specialists in Microsoft Windows Mobile devices and supportive applications, are pleased to introduce their new limited edition i-mate JAM. Following on from the world wide success of the original, this limited edition device comes with all the advanced Windows Mobile features of the i-mate JAM, plus twice as much built in memory at 128MB RAM, Computer Associates eTrust Antivirus software, Skype internet telephony software, global warranty and exclusive access to the club i-mate web portal. The new i-mate JAM retains the same striking minimalistic design and compact dimensions of the original but comes in a distinguished charcoal color. The original i-mate JAM will continue to be available for those who want the award winning standard feature set in a sleek silver color.
Who isn't aware of this problem today, keeping your PC, Notebook and digital gadgets synchronized. While you can use ActvieSync to sync your PC with your Windows Mobile devices (which works pretty good IMHO), synchronizing a PC and a Desktop is a pain and I have used many programs in the past. Now Microsoft has released a new and free PowerToy: SyncToy v1 for Windows XP.
The folks over at msn recently launched a new (promising looking) Beta - MSN Screen Saver. It was built by a few people in their London team and (impressing for a Microsoft project) there wasn't really a business model behind this; someone had the idea to build this because it would be cool for users" and so they let them go and build it.
So what's the big deal about a screen saver? Well, it displays personalized content from self-imported RSS feeds to MSN news to (US) weather and your personal pictures from both, the web and your hard-drive.
Scoopt, the world's first 'citizen journalism' picture agency, officially launches tomorrow on August 4th. Now anybody with a cameraphone can sell their pictures to the press on the same terms as a professional photographer. Scoopt bridges the divide between the public and picture desk.
Using MMS and mobile E-Mail technology, Scoopt members can submit photographs straight from the scene - any scene - in seconds. Scoopt then licenses these photos for publication to the mainstream media. Membership is free and without commitment.
How The Register reported yesterday, Intel has formally announced the death of the PXA26x series of ARM-based XScale chips for PDAs, according to company documents seen by The Register.
PXA26x parts were the de facto standard for Pocket PC devices, for instance it was lately used with the HTC Blue Angel (Xda III/IIS) until the chip giant began shipping the more advanced PXA27x family, aka 'Bulverde' CPU (used with the HTC Magician aka i-mate JAM), just over a year ago. Since then, almost all of the new Intel-based PDAs and Pocket PC-phone combos have shipped with Bulverde processors (except the Blue Angel, a decision I never understood since the PXA26x was already used with the Xda II aka HTC Himalaya).
Socket Communication, together with SanDisk, was the first company which introduced a SD W-LAN card for Pocket PCs, back in 2003 which got a lot of attention because it made devices like the Xda II (HTC Himalaya) truly connected.
However, as time went bye, other companies like Spectec minimized the SDIO card earlier this year which made the Spectec card a great companion for the i-mate JAM (HTC Magician).
Now Socket Communication followed this trend and introduced the second W-LAN SD card which is way shorter than the original one:
And the next one. Music and mobile music is everybody's darling and after the carriers, now also the mobile phone distributors enters the mobile music market to sell music tracks over the air (full-featured scenario) or via PC download with device synchronization. The next one who enters the mobile ,usic market is Brightpoint who announced yesterday that its subsidiary, Brightpoint Sweden AB has entered into a mobile content agreement with InProdicon AB, a leading distributor of digital content in the Nordic region, to launch a new website (www.mediamilkshake.com) that will employ InProdicon's technology to offer cutting edge music bundles for all customers via an intuitive user interface. The website offers the ability to sample and/or download ringtones (polyphonic and mastertones) and complete songs for use on Windows Mobile devices and other devices.
SecureGSM encrypts the phone call in both directions, end-to-end, to Military Grade encryption standards and beyond. On connection between parties, SecureGSM uses strict verification procedures to ensure the identity of calling parties, backed up by widely endorsed encryption technologies.
SecureGSM is the first software-only solution designed to provide truly secure communication on Microsoft Windows Mobile enabled Communicators and Smartphones without affecting their original functionality.
Following the trend to release non-silver colored Pocket PCs anymore - started by O2 with the introduction of the black Xda III/IIs (HTC Alpine) and continued by O2 Germany with the anthracite Xda mini (HTC Magician) - some time ago, Qtek announced the introduction of the Qtek S110 which is an upgraded HTC Magician with 128 MB RAM (instead of the original 64 MB) and an anthracite cover.
Now also i-mate followed with today's announcement to carry an upgraded i-mate JAM with anthracite cover as Geekzone reports:
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Case Filed Against Pooja Gandhi's Abhinetri
Kannada novelist Bhagya Krishnamurthy has filed a legal case against the makers of Sandalwood's upcoming movie Abhinetri starring Pooja Gandhi, which is all set to release this week, June 6, 2014. The writer has alleged that the movie is based on the serialised novel 'Abhinetriya Antaranaga,' which was penned by her in 2003. The serialised novel was being published in Kannada's weekly magazine Mangala. It was later published as a book by Sapna Publications under the authorship of Bhagya Krishnamurthy. Pooja Gandhi Atul Kulkarni's Erotic Scenes
Actress turned politician Pooja Gandhi is making her comeback with the film, which is said to be based on the real-life incidence of Kannada's yesteryear actress Kalpana. After watching the promotional programs of Abhinetri, Bhagya Krishnamurthy smelt a rat and tried to clarify the issue with the makers. She has alleged that expect few scenes in the beginning and in the climax, the entire film is based on her serialised novel 'Abhinetriya Antaranaga'. Therefore she has filed the petition to the court seeking a stay against the movie release. The case is expected to come up for the hearing by this afternoon in front of the bench. Spicy Stills Of Pooja Gandhi
Beside playing the title role, Pooja Gandhi is also producing Abhinetri along with BS Vyjayanthi. Apart from Pooja, Abhinetri also features Atul Kulkarni, Markand Deshpande, Ravishankar, Neetu and others in the significant roles.


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As soon as the first few notes of the guitar rang out, I felt chills. It was like hearing Pink Floyd right in front of me, and I could tell everyone in the crowd felt the same thing. Starting the show with, 'Shine on You Crazy Diamond' it was as if everyone in the crowd had been transported in some sort of time machine to relive something that was impossible to ever bring back.
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I can't force the computer to boot from the cd
I bought a surplus "desk lamp" G4 from our local university to use as an auxiliary desktop, ie, I use Linux Normally, and most of my colleagues can't access my files easily.
Anyhow, the university has a deal with Apple that allows them to sell the computer with a broken OS, so that the buyer has limited access, and can see if the machine works. Mine is missing the OSX AND OS9 system folders.
I bought a new black label OSX, Tiger 10.4, which came with additional disks of other software.
I try to boot the new system, and it bypasses to the default hard drive startup.
I've pressed C while booting; I've changed the boot order in Settings. Nothing works.
The cd drive is working. It reads, and even installs from the additional disks I got.
The OSX disk is working, because it boots right up on my wife's laptop MacBook.
How can I solve this problem?
If it is the missing system files, how can they be replaced? Isntherena way to format the hard disk, and just start over with the new OSX disk I have?
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You can vary the vegetables depending on your preferences and what's in the cupboard (e.g. try using some diced new potatoes as well as one or two floury potatoes, a sweet potato instead of carrots, broccoli instead of cauli...) Serve as a meal on its own or with rice, slices of bananas, cucumber and tomato, and pitta bread. Yum!
Cur the potatoes, swede, parsnips, leeks, carrot and cauliflower into bite size pieces and par-boil in lightly-salted water. Drain, reserving water.
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Virtuoso instrumentalist Martin Simpson, who brings his blues infused folk to Lancashire next week, tells TONY DEWHURST of the 'catastrophic decline' he has seen performing across Northern Britain
Martin Simpson, one of Britain's finest virtuoso instrumentalists, was born in the north and lives in the north.
The North of England is being separated from the south by the most self-serving, heartless, arrogant government we have ever seen in Britain and it breaks my heart to see what damage they are inflicting on us
Raised in the industrial town of Scunthorpe, his home is Sheffield, the steel city that has forged his musical character.
While Simpson is a writer of beautiful and thrilling tunes, as well as being an outstanding composer, he has never been scared to nail his colours to the mast.
He said: "The North of England is being separated from the south by the most self-serving, heartless, arrogant government we have ever seen in Britain and it breaks my heart to see what damage they are inflicting on us.
"What we are witnessing is worse than Thatcherism. It is horrifying. I see that damage every week when I'm out on the road playing music and it disgusts me.
"Where I was born, Scunthorpe, and like many other towns in the north is in catastrophic decline.
"The opposition must pull back to the left – it is our only hope if we are going to challenge this ruthless government."
He added: "I also sense a deep apathy, an air of resignation even, and that's something I don't associate with our country.
"We are living in very strange times indeed, and something has got to change."
Simpson hops over the Pennines again next week, this time alongside acclaimed musicians Andy Cutting and Nancy Kerr, to collaborate for a special show featuring The Martin Simpson Trio at Clitheroe's Grand Theatre (Friday September 18).
Simpson, though, resolutely refuses to conform to expectations.
While his inimitable guitar playing is rooted in the English folk tradition, Simpson spent 15 years living in the musical melting pot of America, where he lived in New York and New Orleans.
"I'd been aware of these amazing Blues legends, and when I went over there I already had a massive background in the history of American music, but it exposed me to what was there and it was like 'wow.'
"I was playing with Henry Gray who was Howling Wolf's piano player, and I'd be on stage open-mouthed, just having to pinch myself that it was really happening."
He recalls a road trip he took with New Orleans musician Spencer Bohren.
"We got in Spencer's '55 Chevy and off we went in this icon of Americana.
"We had a fantastic time listening to music on his cassette player and drove through all these little Mississippi towns, many of which were very run down and very depressing to see.
"Every time we stopped, some old black guy would appear and talk to us about about the car.
"I realised that it was a passport to communication, because the car was one of the most successful symbols of the American dream.
"We'd just stand in the high street of these little towns talking to old chaps about the Blues. There were lots of high points.
"Spencer took me to the grave of Sonny Boy Williamson beside an old burned-out chapel, and I found two nails in the ashes that had fused together in the shape of a cross.
I thought: 'That's enough Mojo for me – and I've still got it at home."
He added: "Every day I think how lucky I am, because I've got to do something I'm utterly passionate about in life for a living and it is always there, beckoning for me to go further on this incredible journey."
The Martin Simpson Trio are at Clitheroe Grand Theatre on Friday September 18. Tickets £15, call 01200 421599.


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Andy and I are just back from a trip to the north of England. Remember that a few months ago, we took in two very small badger cubs that desperately needed somewhere for a period of rehabilitation, where they could recover from near starvation. No rehab centre in the north of England could take them. The cubs were kept in isolation at Hessilhead, and had 3 bTB tests which were all negative. Last week, much bigger now, they were released into a sett not too far from where they were found. There is an observation hide at the sett, and we look forward to hearing about the cubs in the next few weeks.
While in England we met up with Reg, who found the cubs. Reg regularly feeds badgers at another sett, and he took us to see them. We thought we would have a long wait, and would have to be very quiet. Not at all. We strode up the bank, and Reg called loudly 'Come on badgers, time to get up' and 3 stripey heads popped out of holes. The badgers ate peanut butter sandwiches, taking no notice at all of us. It was amazing. We couldn't help thinking how lucky these badgers are, to be living in N E England and not Somerset or Gloucestershire! Lets hope they stay safe.


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Geologist: Excerpts From Steep Trails
Abridged Audiobook
Written By: John Muir
Narrated By: Michael Scott
Publisher: Thought Audio
Date: January 2006
Duration: 0 hours 16 minutes
These four excerpts, from the writings of John Muir, document his naturalist studies in a number of different settings. These highly descriptive stories detail his expeditions in the rugged outdoors. His documented studies led him to an awe of the natural splendors of the earth, and eventually to a position of preservation. His direct activism helped to save the Yosemite Valley and other wilderness areas.


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Soy Sauce, 2012
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Adam McEwen's work resides somewhere between the celebratory and funereal. After writing obituaries for the Daily Telegraph in London, he began producing obituaries of living subjects such as Bill Clinton and Jeff Koons, thus highlighting the blurred line between history and fiction. He is known for paintings employing wads of chewing gum on canvas that reference aerial images of bombed German cities and for machined graphite sculptures of such banal objects as a water cooler or this scale reproduction of the iconic Kikkoman soy sauce bottle produced by SculptureCenter.
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We are constantly receiving requests for a "local, Santa Barbara Champagne". Since, technically, Champagne can only come from the Champagne region, all other bubbly is referred to as Sparkling Wine. On a Sunday afternoon tasting tour of the famed Santa Barbara Funk Zone, we were thrilled to discover the delicious line up of Sparkling Wines from Riverbench. And once we made our way through their bubbly, we fell in love with their other signature wines, such as the Reisling, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. And although we are not typically fans of Rose, their's became our go to Summer wine for picnics and in particular a couple of baby showers.
Riverbench Vineyard was established in 1973, when its first Chardonnay and Pinot Noir grapes were planted on the property. For years since then, some of the most renowned wineries in Santa Barbara County have purchased Riverbench Winery's fruit for their own wines. Over time Riverbench has become a prominent name for high quality Chardonnay and Pinot Noir in the Santa Maria Valley.
In 2004, a group of local families purchased the property. Wine drinkers themselves, the owners quickly became enamored with the wine industry and decided to start producing their own wine label using small quantities of their exceptional fruit. Riverbench Winery was born.


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Strictly monitoring the Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) to be maintained by all banks, the Reserve Bank of India has been using one of the age-old monetary control mechanisms, almost since its inception. In the Second Bi-monthly Monetary Statement of 2014-15, Governor of Reserve Bank of India has "reduced the SLR of scheduled commercial banks by 50 basis points from 23.0 per cent to 22.5 per cent of their Net Demand and Time Liabilities (NDTL) with effect from the fortnight beginning 14 June, 2014." By this gesture, the lendable resources of the banking system would be increased by about Rs 40,000 crore.
Reserve Bank of India has been empowered to use the SLR mechanism to impound up to 40 per cent of the demand and time liabilities – namely total deposits - of commercial banks. At one time - in September 1990- it was as high as 38.50 per cent. Banks have become over the years a captive source for investing in government securities whenever the SLR is raised. Spendthrift state governments easily raise funds through this process from banks and they are euphemistically called public debt. A gradual reduction in the SLR is desirable to curtail deficit financing in state budgets. Similarly it is necessary to examine the need for stipulating a more reasonable level for Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR). The central bank can raise it up to 15 per cent, if required. In the past, when bank failures were common, a high CRR was an expedient safety measure. It was 9 per cent in 2008. It has been gradually brought down to 4 per cent at present.


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Josh Grady Wins The NMMRA Feature And Bo Baker Is the 2011 Champion
By Lynn Hensley on September 18, 2011, 12:35 am
The NMMRA non wing sprints closed out their season with a 25 lap feature at Aztec Speedway. Twenty five cars took the green with Farmington's Josh Grady taking the lead from the pole. Jason Grady chased his bother for seven laps till a yellow came out for Bo Baker. Baker lost his front brakes and was done for the night. Baker only had to start the main to win the 2011 Championship. On the restart, Jason Tanner moved into 2nd with Jon Taylor and Jordan Mattson close behind. The red flag was thrown on lap 10 as James Hatch rolled his #41 Dave Burn's owned car. He was ok and racing continued with Jason Tanner in the lead and Josh Grady seemingly fading. Josh turned up the heat and caught up and passed Tanner with a great slide job going in to turn three. Tanner repassed on the bottom out of turn four. They would do this two more times. Finally, on the last lap Grady passed Tanner on the high side in three and four for his first win at Aztec. Tanner held 2nd and Jason Mattson came up for 3rd. In fourth was Jon Taylor and Scott Box was fifth and Box also took 2nd in the points race. Rounding out the top ten were, Brett Ream, Jason Grady, Bill Mitchell, Cody Mansfield and Kristy Smith. Jordan Mattson had fast time of 14.303 sec. for an average speed of 83.059 mph for one lap.
The IMCA modifieds ran a 20 lap feature with only 11 cars taking the green. Porter Smith ran off with the race having almost a half lap lead at one time. A few cautions slowed the race, but each restart saw Smith jump way out to a comfortable lead. Following Smith to the line was Kevin Brown in 2nd with JJ Harpole 3rd and Regan Tafoya 4th followed by Danny Bradford. The track was fast tonight as Regan Tafoya turned in a lap of 15.327 sec. The rest of the finishing order was, Mark Rodgers, Jason Keeler, Eddie Farley, Robert Reed, Bob Harter, and Bill Dowdy.
In the IMCA stock car feature, Michael Farley lead 19 cars to the checkers. Only one car managed to get beside Farley as Mike was in front all the way. Lee Moss challenged but settled for 2nd. Frankie Hendershot moved up through the field to take 3rd with Danny Stevenson 4th and Rex Higgins 5th. The rest of the top ten were, Larry Bradley, Steffan Carey, Kenny Hendershot, Samuel Sansoni, and Arlen Cochran.
The IMCA southern sport modified feature produced a first time winner at Aztec. Ryan Henley started on the front row beside his dad, RL Henley and when the green fell he put the #9 in front and kept it there. Ryan had a huge lead until a late yellow tightened the field. With four laps to go, Henley held off Brian Carey and Randy Eitel for the win. In fourth was Wayne Soares and fifth went to Julie Boettler. The rest of the top ten were, Ace Eavenson, Shane Simonton, RL Henley, Kristi Tenski, and Marshal Moody.
The hobby stock feature saw a short field take the green and put on a superb race. Tommy Valdez, Randy Dorsett, Dennis Spencer and Amador Milliano put on a close race for 15 laps. A few others were not too far back as Randy Dorsett finally put his lucky #13 in front. Dennis Spencer gave it his all but came up short by about 4 feet. In 3rd was Milliano, with Jeremy Bradley 4th and Darrell Cordary 5th. Valdez took 6th and Howard Asbe and his grandson, Jessie Asbe were 7th and 8th. (on a side note: Spencer ran with the stock cars last week and finished 7th in his hobby.) Could be time to move up.
The mini stocks were down to 3 cars with Jim Griffin winning over Amanda Tenski and Brandi Morrow.
Only two more weekends of racing are on tap at Aztec Speedway this season. Next week, a regular program will run followed on Oct. 1st by a no points weekend. USRA modifieds are invited to join us along with other classes.
NMMRA Sprint cars:
1st: Josh Grady
2nd: Jason Tanner
3rd: Jordan Mattson
4th: Jon Taylor
5th: Butch Box
IMCA Modifieds:
1st: Porter Smith
2nd: Kevin Brown
3rd: JJ Harpole
4th: Regan Tafoya
5th: Danny Bradford
IMCA Sport Modifieds:
1st: Ryan Henley
2nd: Brian Carey
3rd: Randy Eitel
4th: Wayne Soares
5th: Julie Boettler
IMCA Stock Cars:
1st: Michael Farley
2nd: Lee Moss
3rd: Frankie Hendershot
4th: Danny Stevenson
5th: Rex Higgins
Hobby Stocks:
1st: Randy Dorsett
2nd: Dennis Spencer
3rd: Amador Milliano
4th: Jeremy Bradley
5th: Darrell Cordary
Mini Stocks:
1st: Jim Griffin
2nd: Amanda Tenski
3rd: Brandi Morrow


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Sunday, October 27, 2013 -- 4:09 AM EST
At 19, he becomes one of the youngest bracelet winners in WSOP history.
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013 -- 3:58 PM EST
Bracelet winners Dominik Nitsche and Fabrice Soulier headline Friday's televised final table.
Tuesday, October 22, 2013 -- 8:03 PM EST
Danny Steinberg poised to make second WSOPE Main Event final table with 24 left.
Tuesday, October 22, 2013 -- 6:53 PM EST
The German bracelet winner rockets to the top as Day 2 wraps for the night.
Monday, October 21, 2013 -- 6:38 AM EST
Harwood bagged up six-figures; Lacay leads; Negreanu survives.
Saturday, October 19, 2013 -- 8:16 AM EST
After three top four finishes in Mixed Max events, Noah Schwartz finally gets the bracelet.
Sunday, June 9, 2013 -- 8:57 PM EST
Mark Radoja makes it five for Canada and two for himself in the $10K Heads-up Event.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 -- 11:03 AM EST
Monday, July 5, 2010 -- 12:27 PM EST
Las Vegas Poker Pro Takes Down $10K Pot Limit Omaha Championship On Eve of Main Event.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 -- 8:37 AM EST
Ayaz Mahmood Becomes First Bangladesh-Born Winner at WSOP.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 -- 8:12 PM EST
Just as Level 31, the second of the day, was winding down Frenchman Ludovic Lacay was sent to the rail in 16th. Only 15 remain, including Phil Ivey.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 -- 10:20 PM EST
As the final 29 players head to the Day 7 dinner break Billy "Patrolman" Kopp leads the field but Phil Ivey is right behind him and gaining. Action continues after the break until only 27 remain.
Friday, July 10, 2009 -- 9:55 PM EST
Owen Crowe is amongst the chip leaders as Day 3 reaches the dinner break. Only 1,134 players remain in the 2009 Main Event.
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No more chemical waste, no more scrubbing!
The SWAK toothbrush combines the many benefits of the natural, traditional miswak wood with today's modern toothbrush.
Aggressive scrubbing is now a thing of the past!
The way we brush our teeth today can be, rather like our consumer culture in general, rushed, haphazard and harmful not only to us but to nature as well.
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For millennia many indigenous people have used the wood of the miswak bush, or "toothbrush tree" (salvadora persica) for their daily dental routines. Generations upon generations have relied on its tooth-cleansing properties and have passed this knowledge down over many hundreds of years.
The plant is found mainly in East Africa, the Middle East and India. It is not established as a modern dental care option yet, but that's all set to change as more and more people discover its amazing cleaning properties. With the ergonomically optimised handle this toothbrush wood can now be used easily and efficiently; it's willing, ready and able to find its way into your
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Alpha 0.2 Release!
That's right version 0.2 is out, adding some minor improvements and fixes as well as new content!
Download Bad Fur Day Remake 0.2
This will be the last release of Bad Fur Day Remake for a long while, finding the time and effort to work on this project has become increasingly harder as my schedule gets busier. However this didn't stop me giving you guys a somewhat updated version of the game to try out in the mean time. The game now has a new skin for the bots that's a type of Mutant Squirrel Tedi morph, this was a good alternative to trying to implement the Tedi Model. A lot of the model files, rigs and animation got corrupted when I updated my tools over the period of the past couple of years forcing me to redo work. It fells like starting the project from scratch over and over, thus increasing the amount of work that had to be done in each iteration. I will not say this project is permanently dead but will take a very long time until it'll reach that nice polished stage. With time my skills have been improving and the knowledge to get the project done keeps improving, this makes me redo work because its outdated and doesn't fit in with the new content I create.
Bad Fur Day Remake has been in development since 2006 and still hasn't died, I don't plan on stopping it but updates will be very far in the future. Please have patience as this slowly comes together in time.


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I did a second day on my Dementia & Creativity project recently. Once again, it was a presentation and discussion day, rather than one working with actual sufferers. The team were thinking through ideas ready for putting in bids for large projects. I was there, as last time, both as Artist in Residence and as an active part of the team, giving a creative's perspective.
Participants had gone away after our initial session and put together presentations on various possibilities to explore further. I tried to capture what I could of each presentation, though the ideas were many and complex, so I was up against it and only scratched the surface.
In the afternoon, we had group discussions on the presentations, to generate yet more ideas and avenues to think about. I drew some of the time and pitched in part of the time. It was hard to wear both hats, as it's hard to listen properly and concentrate on the sketching. Your focus goes in and out, so you miss bits.
During the final part of the day, people paired up to begin writing up the first drafts of bids. Since I was no use whatsoever at this point, I happily reverted to being just the artist and sketched them at it.
It has been really interesting following the methodology for creating the ideas and substance of research bids. I don't know if this is a standard way of doing things, but it certainly got people buzzing.


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The Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) training is comprised of two parts – flight training and ground training. You have several options for ground training, but the goal is to successfully complete your aviation knowledge test. Flight training takes place in the airplane. You will learn skills and gain experience necessary to safely operate an airplane on your own and pass your check ride
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The Federal Aviation Administration has established no minimum training time for the Airline Transport Pilot Certificate. However, the do have time requirements for eligibility to become an ATP. They require a minimum of 1500 total flight hours, of which at least 500 hours of cross country flight time, 100 hours of night time flying and 75 hours of flying in instrument flight conditions.
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Leave an Inheritance For Your Children or Charity
For many people, it is important to leave an inheritance to their posterity. If one of your priorities is to leave a monetary legacy to your children and grandchildren, it is important to plan for how to do this. This includes planning related to taxes.
Know The Difference: Inheritance Taxes vs. Estate Taxes
While these two taxes have some similarities, it is important to realize that there are some differences. The inheritance tax and the estate tax are not the same thing. Here are the basics of each:
- Inheritance Tax: States collect these taxes. The tax is on the inheritance " the assets and cash received by an heir. Many states have repealed this tax. The way the inheritance tax is usually applied depends on who the heirs are (direct descendants are usually taxed at a lower rate than non-relatives and non-lineal relatives), and what the assets in question are. There are deductions available for those paying inheritance taxes.
- Estate Tax: This is the tax collected by the federal government on the property left behind. Individual heirs are required to pay taxes on inheritance, but with estate taxes, it is the executor of the estate who makes sure the tax is paid. This is usually done with money from the estate. There are exemptions to consider, along with the fact that estates valued at $5 million or less are exempt from the estate tax.
Of course, your goal is likely to be to reduce the taxes that your beneficiaries have to pay after you are gone.
How to Legally Reduce Your Estate and Inheritance Tax Burdens
If you want to increase the amount of money your heirs actually enjoy, you will need to make plans. Some of the strategies for protecting heirs from taxes include the creation of certain trusts for the assets, family limited partnerships, private annuities, and charitable transfers (if you want your legacy to be a cause you believe in). There are other strategies you can use, including taking out life insurance policies to cover the cost of taxes, as well. Consulting with a knowledgeable estate attorney can help you figure out the best way to pass your legacy on intact.
Of course, the best way to avoid inheritance taxes and estate taxes is to give money gifts while you are alive. In 2011 is possible for you to give $13,000 ($26,000 per couple) without it being subject to gift tax. So, if you have two children, you can reduce your estate by $52,000 a year. Of course, that amount goes up if you have grandchildren as well. And, because the gift tax is paid by the giver, your heirs don't have to worry about paying taxes on the money.
It is also worth noting that if you make a gift of medical expenses or education expenses, you can reduce your estate " and the taxes paid. There is no gift tax for these gifts when you make payment directly to the medical institution or educational facility (tuition only). When you give money gifts, you have the added bonus of watching your posterity spend the money.


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Enterprises, government agencies and other organizations understand how hosted IVR systems automate calls to reduce support costs. They also understand the importance of inquiring about capacity, uptime and technical features when composing an RFP for a hosted IVR solution. But even the savviest of organizations overlook critical questions that can ensure they select the hosted IVR vendor that will help them stay current into the future, that truly differentiates them from their competition, and most importantly, that improves their customer self-service.
1) What percentage of calls on your hosted platform use natural language understanding? Having the capabilities to deliver conversational IVR is critical in today's market. Most RFPs ask whether the prospective platform supports speech recognition and natural language understanding, but don't seek to understand how well. By inquiring about percentages, organizations can probe deeper to determine whether the prospective vendor has extensive experience with natural language understanding, including in high-volume situations.
2) Describe the platform's features that extend IVR self-service to smartphones and feature phones. Cite at least three examples of customers benefiting from those features. Depending on industry, up to 80 percent of contact center calls originate from a mobile phone. This question ensures that the prospective vendor has proven capabilities extending features, capabilities, and investments in IVR self-service to mobile callers.
3) In [insert your industry], what is the average automation improvement rate for customers after they've migrated to your platform? Describe how those improvements were achieved. The goal of implementing an IVR is to reduce costs through automation and accurate call routing, but not at the expense of the calling experience. That's a delicate balance, which is why it's important for the prospective vendor to show that it has the reporting/analytics tools, innovative features, as well as the expertise necessary to help its customers achieve optimal self-service rates. Industry-specific examples demonstrate that the vendor has experience meeting the unique needs of an industry.
4) Describe the unique features or services that your platform provides that enable your clients to deliver an improved and differentiated caller experience. Provide at least three real-world examples. Many hosted IVR vendors simply provide a collection of technologies. This question verifies that the prospective vendor has unique capabilities and helps their customers combine them in a way that meets each customer's distinctive requirements for differentiating themselves in their market.
5) Provide three recent examples of new features to your hosted platform. How many calls are being processed using the feature? Cite example benefits for at least one customer for each feature. One reason why organizations increasingly prefer hosted IVR solutions is because they get access to the latest and greatest technologies fast- increasing savings. A new version of a speech recognizer, for example, typically reduces errors by more than 30 percent, critical in improving both economics and experience. This question verifies that the prospective vendor's hosted clients are not only provides access to innovative features, but also how those features are used by clients. This question also provides insights into the vendor's recent track record of developing innovative new features that enable its clients to stay ahead of the competition.
The strategy behind all five questions is not to simply ask whether a particular technology is supported. Instead, require prospective vendors to quantify business benefits, provide real-world examples and detail how they'll help your organization use those technologies to improve customer loyalty and minimize support costs. In the end, you'll have a far better understanding of the depth and breadth of their experience. Considering that it's your business at stake, that's not too much to ask for.