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Privacy Policy
The Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony is committed to protecting the privacy of its ticket purchasers, subscribers, donors, volunteers, and employees. This policy describes the personal information collected and how it is used.
If you have questions about your personal privacy, please contact:
Patron Services
Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony
36 King St. W.
Kitchener, ON N2G 1A3
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Phone: 519-745-4711
The KWS collects personal information necessary for processing donations, tax receipts, and ticket orders, including information such as name, mailing address, phone number, and email address. Such personal information may also be collected when people participate in KWS promotions, contests, surveys, social media or register to receive e-newsletters. Information collected will be used for KWS purposes only and may be included in KWS mailing, email, and telephone lists. Personal information obtained about patrons or other individuals or companies during telephone conversations or in-person meetings is recorded only for purposes of patron stewardship or relationship development. Personal information is also used for purposes of communicating with patrons regarding their KWS ticket and/or donation activity. Access to the KWS website is anonymous unless someone voluntarily supplies information through transactions as described above. Business addresses and certain publicly available information, such as names, addresses, and phone numbers as published in telephone directories, are not considered personal information. The KWS collects information about identifiable individuals from published or public sources for the purposes of its own fundraising and marketing activities. Personal information may also be collected as necessary for KWS purposes to administrate programs including the Youth Orchestra Program, summer camps, other education and community initiatives, and Conrad Centre for the Performing Arts rentals.
The KWS does not share, lend, sell, or rent mailing lists or any personal information with third parties, with the exception of companies hired by the KWS for purposes of selling KWS concert tickets or fundraising. These companies are contractually bound to the same privacy standard as the KWS and data is provided for one time use only. All employees, interns, and volunteers having access to private information are required to read and sign a non-disclosure statement.
The KWS takes technical, contractual, physical, and administrative security steps to protect the personal information in its possession. The KWS database is Safe Harbor certified and requires data collectors to comply with Safe Harbor Framework regulations regarding the collection, use and retention of personal information. The KWS accesses a secure computer network, requiring permissions, two factor authentication using Deepnet safe ID and passwords. Only staff members needing access to personal data are provided access to such information and information is limited to required levels of access. Credit card numbers are securely kept in our database, and the KWS complies with Payment Card Industry Standards. Hard copy records with patron transaction information are retained as required by law for seven years and then shredded and destroyed. Electronic database files with purchase and donation history are retained in order to provide appropriate patron service and recognition.
As a registered charitable organization, the KWS is exempt from the national "do not call" list but is committed to ensuring that patrons do not receive unwanted phone calls, emails, or letters. Individuals may contact the KWS at the contact information provided above to notify us of any types of communication they do not want to receive.
The KWS respects any donor's request to remain anonymous for recognition purposes.


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With the fast changing educational arena in Michigan and across the country, the look of a classroom is evolving. Teachers often juggle increased student loads as a result, making it even tougher to create individualized learning plans or keep up with applying research.
A new type of high school has emerged as an alternate type of educational institution. These are growing in popularity as many students in "brick and mortar" schools face increased amounts of bullying, lack of connection, and increased dropout rates. From offering individualized curriculums, safety from working at home, and a flexible pacing schedule, virtual high schools' popularity is growing quickly in Michigan.
Take, for example, Great Lakes Cyber Academy. Teachers meet in Okemos, Michigan, at a central office to collaborate on their assigned students. They touch base with students frequently via web and phone in one-to-one and small group discussions. Students are allowed to call their teachers or counselor any time during the day to ask questions. The grades 9-12 charter academy allows any high school student who resides in Michigan to enroll. They also provide a year-round school option for fast-paced students or those who may want to take fewer classes at a time and go at a slower pace. Additional events such as field trips, state testing, online clubs, and collaborative projects allow students to create friendships with other virtually educated students.
Another school, Nexus Academy of Lansing, is a blended high school offering both in person and virtual coursework. Students attend part of the day in the physical classroom (also in Okemos), and then spend the rest of the day completing their classes on a computer with an individualized curriculum. This option allows students to complete courses such as gym classes or art with other students and develop local friendships.
Finally, a third virtual school encompasses K-12 and is again centralized in Okemos. It is called the Michigan Connections Academy, and is authorized by the Ferris State University Charter Schools Office. Teachers interact with students and their learning coaches, while students attend from home. They have the benefit of offering gifted and talented programs as well as using peer tutoring.
These cyber schools are growing quickly. For example, one of them grew from zero to over 200 students in a matter of months. The word spreads quickly among families of a rigorous, individualized curriculum. Many home-schooled students are switching to public education via cyber schools. Their parent transitions from teacher to learning coach.
In the end, the goals of brick-and-mortar and cyber schools are the same — help students graduate. Cyber schools offer students who want to focus on academics instead of social distractions an opportunity to thrive. All materials, including digital textbooks and the computer, are provided to each family. Cyber schools meet the needs of prodigies or students who travel for say, Olympic training. Cyber teachers are certified and meet the same requirements of traditional public school teachers. Given all that cyber education can offer, it appears that cyber schools are here to stay.

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Seniors win more protection with new annuity disclosure requirements
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones today thanked Governor Brown for signing into law AB 2347 (Gonzalez) which extends important consumer protection on annuity products that are commonly marketed to seniors. The Commissioner also thanked Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez for authoring AB 2347.
The new law requires disclosure language on the front of the policy jacket or on the cover sheet for an immediate annuity that aligns with the disclosure language already required for the more common deferred annuity products. Immediate annuities are purchased with a single lump-sum payment and pay a guaranteed income which starts almost immediately.
"The new disclosure requirements provide important consumer protections for seniors and those purchasing annuities," said Insurance Commissioner Jones. "Assembly Bill 2347 ensures consumers have the necessary information when considering these long-term investment products, which can tie-up a senior's money for decades."
Consumer protection and helping seniors avoid possible financial hardship is paramount to the mission of the Department of Insurance.
Under this law those getting immediate annuities are guaranteed a 30-day free look period giving consumers time to ensure the product is right for them. These changes will simplify and clarify disclosures and provide clarification to insurers which will assist them in their compliance efforts.


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Fianna Fáil has called on the Minister for Education Ruairí Quinn to immediately explain why his department has rehired 67 retired primary school teachers instead of giving the jobs to qualified teachers who are out of work.
In response to a series of Parliamentary Questions from Deputy Smith, Minister Quinn has admitted that 254 retired secondary school teachers and 67 retired primary school teachers have been rehired by his Department.
Deputy Smith commented, "New figures show that there are now 8,674 teachers on the Live Register as well as thousands more teaching graduates that have not been able to start a career here yet. However instead of these unemployed teachers being given the opportunity of work, Minister Quinn's Department have hired retired teachers in receipt of pensions to fill a number of key vacant posts at primary and secondary schools across the country.
"While there may be an argument for keeping retired secondary school teachers in their positions in the short term until after this year's State Examinations, there is absolutely no justification for rehiring retired primary school teachers. These jobs must be given to graduates who want to start a career in Ireland or to unemployed teachers who cannot find work.
"Last week Fianna Fáil published an in-depth policy on tackling youth unemployment. This includes proposals to ensure that no retired public servant is rehired ahead of someone suitably qualified on the live register. Under our strategy, each Government Department would be obliged to prove that it has made every effort to find a suitably qualified young graduate before hiring a retired public servant.
"I am calling on Minister Quinn to explain why unemployed teachers have been overlooked in favour of retired teachers for the vacant primary school posts in particular. I am also calling on him to consider Fianna Fáil's proposals to introduce a fairer and more transparent policy of filling vacancies in the public service so that unemployed graduates are given every opportunity to begin their career in Ireland."


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MWC 15 Special
the MP3 player from Electric Pocket that has had BlackBerry users buzzing, is
now also available to users of Windows Mobile Standard and Professional
smartphones such as the
Palm Treo 700xw,
HTC Mogul,
Samsung Ace and
Samsung Blackjack.
The feature that has made FlipSide such an instant hit among BlackBerry users is
its iPhone-like interface that allows users to visually "swoosh" through their
music quickly and easily.
Navigating through music and selecting tunes is a simple process with FlipSide:
scroll through the Album Covers, or flick through them using your finger on the
screen, then click on the navigation button to open up a vertical list of the
has announced a newly developed UI software for its GSmart Windows Mobile
smartphones which is called "Smart Touch". This new interface that is intuitive,
informative and flexible, offers users a more user friendly interface.
GSmart has established a sound position in the market when its famous world's
first (and still the only one) DVB-T Windows Mobile smartphone (the
GSmart t600)
were introduced to the public, and after since, GSmart has been harvesting the
market productively and actively, it has introduced several new models, and each
with unique features.
Media today announced the availability of its
previously unveiled
Mobile uppdate for Windows Mobile Pocket PCs (aka Professional and Classic),
Windows Mobile Smartphone (aka Standard) and Symbian S60 smartphones.
The SlingPlayer Mobile clients are required to watch and control home television
programming from anywhere in the world via a
Slingbox. These
new versions add support for additional handsets (for example the
Samsung SGH-i760,
the Palm Treo 500/500v
and the Nokia N95 8GB), improved video streaming quality on select handsets
(like the Sprint HTC
Mogul), add support for additional set-top boxes, provide additional channel
favorite logos and some few under the hood tweaks.
the earlier exclusive Sony Ericsson
Xperia X1
videoview from last week, here we go with a couple of photos which shows you Sony
Ericsson's first Windows Mobile Professional smartphone a little bit more
detailed again.
The Xperia X1 has
several highlights, feature- and design-wise, like the slide-out thumb-keyboard,
the 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera (unfortunately with a white photo LED only),
the optical joystick in addition to a standard D-Pad, the WVGA touchscreen, the
as well as the brushed-steel housing (bellow in the black version contrary to
previously photographed silver version from the Mobile World Congress):
Until earlier this year, the Palm Treo 500 Windows mobile 6 Standard smartphone was available from Vodafone as the Palm Treo 500v only but later, Palm also released is carrier free to retail channels. Now, O2 UK has selceted Palm's first Windows Mobile Standard for its business customers as well.
The Palm Treo 500 smartphone runs on Windows Mobile 6 Standard and has a full QWERTY keyboard, QVGA screen and supports triband GSM/GPRS at 900/1800/199 MHz and singleband UMTS at 2100 MHz (but not HSDPA). Furthermore it supports Bluetooth 2.0+EDR bit it's not including WiFi. The 150 MB ROM can be extended by microSD cards (up to 2 GB).
Deutsche Bahn's (DB) MMS Ticket some time ago but last weekend, I finally
had the chance to test it. As a matter of fact, I was at at my parents and the
printer was out of order. This means, I wasn't able to order my ticket over the
Internet to print it at home on the PC. However, without a ticket, you cannot
make a seat reservation and it's always a good idea to have a seat reservation
on German
InterCityExpress (ICE) because the German high-speed train can be pretty
overcrowded and since I wanted a seat with a table in the mobile phone area, I
had to reserve a seat. But what to do if the printer is kaput? Use the mobile
phone instead and I remembered my
previous article here.
the Giga-Byte GSmart t600 design is over one year old already, it's still
quite stylish, if you like white "iPodish" mobile devices.
The front is glossy white, with a white surface under a clear paint while the
backside is white plastic only. In any case, the surface is quite fingerprint
resistant and not a magnet at all. However, the t600 still features the old
screen technique with a bezel but the 2.6" touchscreen supports a VGA
resolution. In addition to the Windows Mobile smartphone
typical call and end button, the device features a huge D-Pad which looks like a
scroll wheel but isn't a wheel at all. Furthermore it has the Pocket PC typical
Start and OK button as well as two soft-buttons under the screen.
we are still waiting for the official
HTC Diamond
announcement (most likely
we will hear more on May 6),
T-Mobile previewed its version of the HTC Diamond, aka the MDA compact IV,
during last month's CeBIT in Hanover already. And now O2 Germany followed with a
pre-announcement that its next Xda Windows Mobile smartphone will be called "O2
Xda diamond".
So far, O2 only unveiled that its Xda diamond will be black and featuring a big
touchscreen as well as HSDPA and GPS. But if it is based on the HTC Diamond,
which T-Mobile's MDA compact IV is also expected to be based on, it's somewhat
confirmed, that the Xda diamond will also features a 3 megapixel autofocus
camera, 4 GB internal memory, a VGA touchscreen and Windows Mobile 6.1
recent forum posting, Jon Canan, program manager of Microsoft
MSN Direct
unveiled, that the SPOT
Smart Watches
with MSN Direct have sold out and Microsoft/Fossil have no further plans to
continue the 2006 Smart Watch series. While Microsoft plans to continue to move
forward with MSN Direct and seeking out new opportunities for devices that would
benefit from the MSN Direct service (like the recently released
MSN Direct service for Windows Mobile smartphones or GPS devices), Microsoft
has, along with its watch partners, no immediate plans to create a new version
of the Smart Watch.
first contact with Sony
Ericsson's Xperia X1 Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional smartphone during the
Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, recently I had some more quality time
with Sony Ericsson's first Windows Mobile device. Nearly everything is said and
written about the Xperia X1 but this time, I also had the chance to dive deeper
into the device, to record a short video.
The Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 does everything, a state-of-the-art Windows Mobile
smartphone is able to provide these days (and even more). It features a
slide-out QWERTY keyboard and an ultra fast Qualcomm 7200A CPU at 520 MHz,
supports quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE and triband UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA as well as
Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, WiFi b/g and GPS.
the GIGA-BYTE GSmart t600
isn't a brand new device anymore,
unveiled it during last year's 3GSM World Congress already, this Windows
Mobile smartphone just made it recently to the European market. First launched
Russia late last year, it was introduced in
France last month and
soon hitting Germany as well.
Sporting Windows Mobile 6 Professional, the GSmart t600 is a 2.5G smartphone,
featuring quadband GSM and GPRS as well as Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and WiFi b/g.
However, it neither features EDGE nor UMTS or HSDPA.
widely known already that HTC is holding a global press conference on May 6th to
announce something big but so far, it's unknown what HTC is going to announce.
Speculation are floating around that it might be
HTC's first Android aka
Google phone, or it
might be some new Windows Mobile smartphones or maybe just HTC's
TouchFLO v2 aka "Manila".
In any case, a recently unveiled photo shows three so far - more or less -
unknown (most likely) HTC smartphones. While on the top row we see the
HTC TyTN II, the
HTC Touch Cruise
and the HTC Touch, on
the lower row we have 2nd from left the
HTC P3470 but left
and right to it at least 2 unknown devices:
German heise online,
Germany is releasing next month two DVB-T phones, the LG HB620T mobile phone
and the - already well known -
GIGA-BYTE GSmart t600
Windows Mobile Professional smartphone.
While I've recently seen a t600 which was running Microsoft's Windows Mobile
6.1, it's not yet clear if Vodafone Germany, which previewed the t600 on last
month's CeBIT, will release the GSmart t600 with newer and
just recently announced
Mobile 6.1 Professional version or with Windows Mobile 6.
today announced the availability of its V2R PhotoViewer for Windows Mobile 5.0
and Windows Mobile 6 Classic and Professional devices, which is fully graphical
animated photo and image viewer. PhotoViewer lets you quickly view all your
photos in a clear structured way by generating your own photo album and even
allows you to easily add and remove albums to your gallery. Another main feature
is the fact, that it was designed for thumb-use (which makes it even more
attractive for HTC Touch users but not only) since it also works with the
device's D-Pad. Other features are album thumbnail preview, photo detail
scroll view and smooth photo animation:
took a little bit longer (in Europe, the
HTC Touch Dual
was introduced back in October last year already) but the U.S. will finally get
its version of the Touch Dual as well. The HTC NEON300 just cleared the FCC and
it will be a real power-horse, featuring Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional which
is powered by a 400 MHz CPU which is backed-up by 256 MB ROM and 128 MB RAM.
Like the European version, the North American Touch Dual will also feature
Bluetooth 2.0 and will misses WiFi (again) but will support 850 and 1900 MHz
UMTS/HSDPA. The FCC is showing the
20-keys SureType version (which nevertheless might change to the
16-keys version):
Well, some days ago, I've blamed the U.S. carrriers for not offering any prepaid data enabled SIMs for inbound roamers and it turns out, I was wrong. Well, it wasn't just me who was wrong but basically the sales person at AT&T had no clue what he is selling. My fellow MVP and friend Mike Temporale just told me 2 days ago that he is using an AT&T SIM card if he is in the U.S. and that this SIM works perfect for data as well.
As you might can imagine, I was somewhat irritated but he showed me and indeed he was accessing Smartphone Thoughts without any problems, straight from his Windows Mobile smartphone. Furthermore he told me that it doesn't matters which plan you use, either the US$ 100 for one year or the US$ 0.25 per day, both would work.
there are many reasons why people dislike
Windows Vista
and which keeps them away from upgrading from Windows XP, and indeed - as
Ballmer said in his
MVP Global Summit keynote today - "Windows Vista is work in progress".
Nevertheless, there are these kind of "hidden" but very usefully features
available as well, like setting up a wireless ad hoc network which can be quite
useful in hotels.
I'm currently staying at the Westin, downtown Seattle and the Westin offers
in-room high-speed Internet access through CAT5 and WiFi. Unfortunately the
Westin is charging its "guests" for Internet access.
to fellow MVP and friend Steven Hughes of
yesterday I had the chance to play a little bit with Celio Corp's REDFLY Mobile
Companion, which
was announced in January this year. The REDFLY employs a sleek clamshell
design that includes an 8" high-resolution display, a full function keyboard and
a touchpad mouse at a size of just 2.5 x 15.2 x 22.9 cm and a weight of 907 gram
it offers 8 hours of battery life with instant-on access and the ability to
power smartphones via USB. The REDFLY also has a standard VGA port for output to
projectors and displays.
a Dutch telecom event called "Televisie 2008", Samsung unveiled a new Windows
Mobile smartphone
we've hard about before - the
Samsung SGH-i900!
And unlike previous rumors mentioned, it's not running anything different to
Windows Mobile Professional and Samsung even confirmed that it will run Windows
Mobile 6.1.
While most specs are unknown or at least unconfirmed yet, it's known that the
i900 will feature at least triband GSM/GPRS/EDGE as well as singleband
UMTS/HSDPA, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and WiFi b/g. While not yet confirmed, sources
said the i900 also sports GPS and an FM radio.
in January,
I've posted here about WMWifiRouter which instantly turns a compatible
Windows Mobile smartphones (running Windows Mobile 5.0 AKU 3.3 or Windows Mobile
6) with WiFi into a wireless Internet hotspot. It allows you to use WiFi capable
devices, such as your your Notebook and other devices, like the iPod Touch, to
connect to the Internet through your phone's data connection (similar to Windows
Mobile 5.0 and 6 inbuilt Internet Sharing functionality which however works via
USB or Bluetooth PAN only).
However, WMWifiRouter isn't freeware anymore now but the developers decided to
charge for the final version which is now available:
Corp. honors its 2008 Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs), a highly select group
of experts who represent the best and brightest in technical communities, at the
2008 MVP Global Summit April 14 - 17 in Seattle at the Washington State
Convention and Trade Center and at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond. MVPs are
recognized by Microsoft as outstanding leaders who voluntarily share their
expertise in technical communities worldwide. MVPs also provide invaluable
feedback to Microsoft by serving as early adopters of new technology and
assisting in the product design and development processes.
O2 Asia became
MWg, its line of
Windows Mobile smartphones like the Xda Atom and Xda Zinc were officially
available in Asia only (with some exceptions where
O2 UK and
O2 Germany took
the one or the other device for local markets as well). However, now - where MWg
doesn't belongs to O2/Telefónica
any longer but belongs to
Expansys now - the
Windows Mobile specialist is expanding its business to Europe as well.
MWg is holding a press event next month which is about the official European
launch of MWg. Mark Billington, former head of O2 Asia and now CEO of MWg will
provide an introduction to the company's objectives and strategies.
Information Systems has announced the launch of its new Glofiish M810 and M750,
the first in a new series of Windows Mobile Professional Pocket PC smartphones
that put the focus on portable entertainment, dynamic social networking and
go-anywhere communications. E-TEN's newest 2.5G and 3.5G Pocket PC Phones
harness the latest mobile hardware technologies together with innovations in
software to create a pair of sleekly portable, multi-connected devices, designed
to help the new breed of bloggers, podcasters, video makers, and chatters, stay
online and updated wherever they are.
for more advanced smartphone users in the U.S., T-Mobile might be the worst
option to chose since the Seattle-based carrier still lacks support of UMTS, not
to talk about HSDPA but for inbound roamers like me, T-Mobile isn't that bad.
Especially if you use a smartphone like the Samsung SGH-i600 which supports
triband GSM at 900, 1800 and 1900 MHz and singleband UMTS/HSDPA at 2100 MHz
Not sure what's wrong with
AT&T's EDGE network here in Seattle but I don't get EDGE here (maybe it's
available on 850 MHz only?) while
T-Mobile's EDGE shows up everywhere:
right, I've just arrived at Seattle for the annual Microsoft MVP Summit. While
I'm normally fine to use my
WebSessions SIM card for international data roaming, unfortunately Vodafone
isn't offering WebSessions in the U.S. because they don't have any GSM/UMTS
shares here (but are a shareholder of Verizon Wireless only). Since I will be in
Seattle again next month, I've visited
AT&T as well as
T-Mobile shops to figure out what my prepaid mobile data options are and
guess what - there are no options! Unlike most (or all?) European carriers, non
of the U.S. carriers offers prepaid SIMs which can be used for real mobile data as
sure if you have missed me the past days but as you might have noticed, I
haven't updated the::unwired. Well, the reason was, as said earlier, that I was
the whole week in Israel for the
HANDY Tech 2008 to which I was invited by HANDY
and PocketPCFreak.com.
In addition to my presentation at HANDY Tech 2008, I've also visited a couple of
Israeli start-ups like Modu and Fring and - for sure - I took the time to travel
around Israel where I've visited Jerusalem, the Dead Sea and other great places
here, just to mention a few.
Just arrived this morning with El Al (but flying El Al is another interesting
story), I'm currently on the train to Frankfurt, from where I'm writing this
article, to catch my flight tomorrow morning to Seattle where the Microsoft MVP
Summit happens next week.
Mobile found a new Samsung phone, listed by the FCC which is called the Samsung
SGH-i788. Unfortunately not too much is known yet but remember, Samsung uses
"SGH" for GSM and UMTS smartphones while "i" is used for its Windows Mobile and
Symbian S60 smartphones. And if you compare FCC's drawing of the SGH-i788 with
the SGH-i780, it
looks quite similar. Furthermore, while Samsung tried to hide details of the
drawing, if you scroll the FFC PDF quite fast, you can see a square camera
whole, centered on the top with a speaker right to it (on the left the SGH-i780,
on the right the unmasked SGH-i788):
Lotus Notes mobility expert
CommonTime has
teamed with Microsoft to provide a mobility solution offer exclusively targeted
at businesses looking to utilize Lotus Notes Domino and
System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 solutions.
Providing real-time mobile E-Mail, messaging and line of business applications,
the combined solution offer will feature Microsoft's System Center Mobile Device
Manager 2008 solution for security and device management with CommonTime's
industry-leading mobile messaging and Notes database access products, mNotes and
after HTC's first UMPC, the
HTC Shift was
delayed several times, two days ago I've finally received my German Shift
with the much appreciated German QWERTZ keyboard.
Running on Windows Vista Business and a kind of locked Windows Mobile 6
Professional, the HTC Shift supports quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE and triband
UMTS/HSDPA up to 3.6 Mbps, as well as WiFi b/g and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR.
Powered by a Intel CPU at 800 MHz and backed-up by 1 GB or RAM, the HTC Shift is
able to run Windows Vista Professional. If not needed, there's a second OS
installed, which is a locked Windows Mobile 6 Professional HTC calls SnapVUE,
which runs on a Qualcomm MSM 7200 CPU at 400 MHz.
Google's shiny AJAX-featured Picasa Web Albums for the Apple iPhone, Zak Cohen,
Software Engineer at the Google mobile team, started thinking if they can make
an AJAX interface work on new Windows Mobile devices too? After all, Internet
Explorer Mobile supports many of the advanced browser features that were used to
build the iPhone version. The team wanted to give it a try and started to work
on a Windows Mobile compatible version which the Google Mobile team is pleased
to launch today. So far available for Windows Mobile 6 Classic and Professional
devices (touchscreen) only, you can now enjoy a much faster and slicker way of
browsing Picasa Web Albums on your device:
another video demonstration, this time of Windows Mobile 6.1. This time, the
Windows Mobile team sat together and recorded a video, demoing most of the new
features in Windows Mobile 6.1.
While this is quite a long video (40 minutes, so prepare some Popcorn first
before you press the play button), this video shows several features in great
detail that you may have not seen elsewhere. Also note, there are other
improvements in Windows Mobile 6.1 that weren't covered in this video, including
Internet Explorer Mobile's new Zoom feature and integration with SCMDM 2008:
CTIA, Ed Hardy from Brighthand had his first contact with yesterday's announced
Internet Explorer Mobile 6, which follows
also yesterday's announced
Windows Mobile 6.1 later this year and
he recorded a quite interesting video where the new browser (currently in Beta)
was demonstrated.
While Windows Mobile 6.1's Internet Explorer Mobile was slightly refreshed by
adding a zoom in/zoom out functionality to make use of larger, PC optimized web
pages easier, the big shot comes later this year with Internet Explorer Mobile
6, which will supports - out of the box - established and upcoming industry
standards such as H.264,
Adobe Flash and Microsoft
Silverlight, the updated
Internet Explorer Mobile gives people a rich mobile Internet experience:
yesterday, together with the official release of
Microsoft's new Windows Mobile 6.1, HTC unveiled which devices will be
officially upgradeable. In partnership with Microsoft and key mobile operator
partners, HTC will continue to extend the functionality of many current HTC
devices both in the United States and abroad by providing Windows Mobile 6.1
updates. Windows Mobile 6.1, an update to Windows Mobile 6, provides new
timesaving features, easier phone navigation and management, stronger security
safeguards, and support for Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008.
far, the HTC Touch Dual featured Windows Mobile 6 and triband GSM/singleband
UMTS/HSDPA only but during CTIA, HTC revealed that the popular HTC Touch Dual
will debut in the United States this quarter, featuring
yesterday's announced Windows Mobile 6.1 and quadband GSM/dualband HSDPA.
The HTC Touch Dual combines an intuitive touch screen with integrated TouchFLO
technology and slide-out keypad and Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Mobile 6.1
Professional software, making it easier for customers to communicate on the go.
since Mobile World Congress, today Microsoft officially introduced Windows
Mobile 6.1, which was designed to better meet people's rapidly expanding work
and personal needs. At CTIA Wireless 2008, the company unveiled the newest
version of Internet Explorer Mobile, which adds desktop-grade Web browsing to
Windows Mobile phones. In addition, Microsoft announced Windows Mobile 6.1, an
update for its Windows Mobile software that includes new time-saving features,
easier phone navigation and management, and increased security safeguards.
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Today I headed down to design company "Thoughtful" to show off my portfolio for the first time ever! After giving us a helpful and portfolio-inspiring talk the previous week, Stuart, who is part of the company agreed to let me come visit.
Before my appointment I have to admit I was really nervous. It was my first time showing this portfolio to anybody outside the classroom; in fact, after I'd made quite a few changes in the morning concerning the layout and presentation, Stuart was the first to see this version. So for me this meeting was a kind of personal test of how well I'd accomplished so far in the year.
After brief introductions, I put the nerves to the back of my mind and presented, keeping in mind all of the advice Stuart mentioned in his talk. He made some great comments about my work, both on what aspects he liked and what he'd like to see more of. I was happy to hear that he was a fan of my developing style and would like to see what the future holds as he could tell I was still growing. He also mentioned that he could see a commercial aspect to my work, was fantastic to hear! We looked through each piece and I talked him through each piece, which I found was a lot easier than I thought it would have been for some reason.
On a portfolio-inspecting level, he liked that I'd kept it simple. He liked that I'd cropped my work and added it to the bottom of each page with a small description, to which I could then elaborate. Advice he gave me (which I have avidly taken on board) was to maybe make an introduction page instead of sticking an image there, and that it would be good to see more of my work in context; spread it out more to give it all room and let it speak for itself!
Thanks Stuart!


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Remember When Spain Beat Malta 12-1 In The 1984 UEFA Euro Qualifier?
Yup – everyone does
In 1983 Malta underwent possibly the most embarrassing moment in its football history – a colossal trashing from the Spanish football team, who beat our boys 12 to 1 in a qualifying match for the UEFA Euro 1984.
Thirty-three years have gone by since the historic game, and this video shows two Spanish football commentators, Lobo Carrasco and Paco Buyo, analysing everything that happened during the game, including all the goals.
Aside from being high up on our most shameful football performances list, this game has gone down in history as one of the most important in the Spanish national football team's history.
Why? Because in one big sweep they managed to score the exact 11-goal advantage they needed to qualify for the competition. Sounds like everything fell a bit too conveniently into place, right? Who knows. Whether or not the game was corrupted is a very obvious question that comes to mind. But it's probably one that will remain forever unanswered.
At the time, accusations flying around that Malta threw the game instigated an inquiry into the result by the Malta Football Association, as well as changes made to the national team. The Association admitted that the Maltese team didn't have the facilities they needed to compete on that playing field.
Cut to 2016 and we may not have seen a similar thrashing since, but Malta's football performance is at an international level has is officially at its worse. Malta currently ranks 176th in the FIFA World Ranking.
This ranking confirms that Maltese football is in somewhat of a crisis. Add to that Malta's premiere league player André Schembri highlighting the hopeless situation in a brutally candid interview, where he suggested that a "whole reshuffle" was needed to save Malta for losing games for another 20 years.
So we're going to keep watching this space and hoping that the next memorable moment in our football history is a positive one. Oh, and if anyone speaks Spanish and can translate what the football commentator dudes are saying, we'd be happy to know too!


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Luka Modric looks for a Real quick exit
ARSENAL, Spurs and Chelsea are all monitoring Luka Modric's future at Real Madrid.
Spurs would be willing to take him back
The Croatian playmaker is having a tough time in Spain with a recent poll in the press claiming he was the 'worst buy of 2012'.
Modric, 27, the former Spurs lynch-pin who flourished under previous manager Harry Redknapp, has made only eight starts under Jose Mourinho in Madrid and finds himself in no-man's land since his £33million move.
He claims he wants to stay and fight for his place but he is way down the pecking order, behind the likes of Mesut Ozil, Angel di Maria or even a half-fit Kaka.
Spurs would be willing to take him back, Arsenal want a leader, while Chelsea have been long-term fans.
Real know if they put him up for a loan they would have many offers but they want to recoup much of their outlay.
That leaves Chelsea in the driving seat, even though they have stars such as Juan Mata, Oscar and Eden Hazard.


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When my granddaughter was born I made this soldered necklace for her mom.
The picture I used is one that I took at the hospital when she was born.
The other day she asked if I would make one for her friend who is getting married soon.
Her color is turquoise.
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25th Anniversary of Pollution Prevention Act Serves as Reminder That Everyone Can Take Steps for a Healthy Environment
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PHILADELPHIA (Sept. 21, 2015) Each year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency celebrates Pollution Prevention Week – the third week in September – to highlight ways the agency is working with an array of organizations to prevent pollution right from the start. The 2015 week-long observance is particularly important since it marks the 25th anniversary of the Pollution Prevention Act, the law which established the national policy that pollution should be prevented or reduced at the source whenever feasible.
"We celebrate Pollution Prevention Week to recognize people and organizations who are successfully preventing pollution to reduce their environmental footprint, and to remind others that we all can choose to do one small thing for a healthier environment," said EPA Regional Administrator Shawn M. Garvin. "Compared to 25 years ago, more businesses, industries, communities and families are seeing the health and economic benefits of reducing waste and using energy and other natural resources more wisely."
EPA estimates that each individual generates about 1.67 tons of solid waste per year, which equates to about 4.62 pounds per person each day. Whether you are a student, a parent, a small business owner or a corporate leader, everyone can help.
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Something I Wrote
Cheryl Tan
Posted on 27 November 2013
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Azmyl Yunor is my current frontrunner for the quintissential urban-Malaysian multihyphenate. The multihyphenate is commonly found in cities like ours where there is a demand for sophisticated or globalised ideas, art and other consumables, but still not big enough to sustain all of the talent. Put another way, the brain drain is so pervasive that the outstanding talents who do stick around have lots of room to stretch and work. Specialisation as an artist in KL is often both unnecessary and unfeasible — smaller fish means you don't have to fight so hard for that one job, and at the same time there won't be enough work if you only do one thing. Azmyl is a true many-hat-wearer as he's achieved distinction in many of his fields. And when you're that good, sometimes your friends stage a musical based on your work.
Something I Wrote was presented by Five Arts Centre at the Black Box in MAP Publika. Grudgingly labeled a documentary-musical, it was conceptualised by director Mark Teh partly in reaction to the swathe of nostalgia-focused local musicals that have appeared such as Tunku, Puteri Gunung Ledang and P Ramlee the Musical. Devised from research of written work by and about Azmyl, the play was structured as a medley of vignettes presenting a selection of songs, journalism, academia dan lain-lain turned into theatrical pictures. Like a best-of album or Wikipedia page, we learned a little bit about the man's early life, discography, academic work and political activism.
Teh and his cohort of able actors are adept at crafting beautiful moments, living images full of context and thought that present themselves honestly and dissolve gently. The set and cast were amorphous like their image of Azmyl. Pieces of scaffolding were pushed, pulled, locked and split to make vans, podiums and projection screens in a welcome change from wooden black cubes; and the actors were journalists or demons or seven copies of the man himself.
Paired with varied and imaginative arrangements of the songs, the piece presented several delights. One song was sung while the actors just created circles of candlelight or wound fairy lights on bars, made lamps out of tubs and generally made small islands of illumination, vigil-like against the dark. A speech made at an UndiMalaysia event was delivered by an actor dressed entirely in flags — flags became a kain sampin, a tanjak, a cape and other things. He was joined by actors dressed as superheroes with colour-coded costumes made mostly out of plastic bags and T-shirts tied in various ways . After the speech, they slowly stripped their many layers and tossed them into the air. The black air and ground were filled with falling colours. Pretty, poignant and funny.
The humour in the piece was generally sidelong and sarcastic but with compassion – "This is my Malaysia, warts and all," it seemed to say. In the much-highlighted segment about an incident at Paul's Place, where police broke up a punk show by claiming to be doing a black metal raid, actors flipped roles according to whose perspective they were viewed from. To the police they were delinquents; as normal participants they were scared and confused; to the Utusan journalist they were winged-sex-fiend-demons with masks and capes. Hilarious but not judgmental. To my mind, Five Arts has a pretty healthy handle on dealing with our various issues of race, identity, globalisation and so forth.
The peaks of the show were thoughtful and strong, but the connecting threads in between lacked a consistent direction. Since it was difficult to get a feel for where we were going, each peak moment had to work harder and harder to regain attention. Interestingly, the most gripping parts near the end were projected recordings of Azmyl himself, which makes the tribute succesful while unfortunately upstaging the actors. Unhelpfully, the Black Box has no soundproofing, and there was loud music coming in from outside (the musicians were valiant in staying in time with the cast, who dealt with this bravely).
It is hard to see what it's all about or trying to say. One possibility is simply, "Hey, check out this cool person." Perhaps it's a meditation on many-hat-wearing. Or just glimpses of the contemporary intellectual artist and their challenges. Speaking of contemporary intellectual artists, it's interesting to note that the readiest applauders were exactly such people — songwriters, theatrefolk, filmmakers, and people generally recognised as being "in the scene". The other half of the audience, by the end, was a bit fidgety. An anecdote — one sequence was a fake open-mic night with the stereotypes you get at those. One person imitated singer-songwriter Peter Hassan Brown, and I laughed and felt the warmth of inclusion. But when another referenced Reza Salleh, who was in the audience, I wondered if it was still funny if you didn't know that he runs a fortnightly open mic. The specialisation of the target audience becomes a question then. Is it a show created mostly for one gang? Most of the actors came from one school, where Teh is a lecturer. The only podcasted radio interview I could find was from BFM. There was literally an interview conducted by Azmyl Yunor featuring Mark Teh about the show about Azmyl Yunor.
"Something I Wrote is a strong, thoughtful and daring piece in the vein of Five Arts' work which has always been of high quality."
Is it important? If it's really full of inside jokes then perhaps it becomes a celebration of this community — we are here, we are still here and we are numerous enough to be a market. Worthy things. Conversely, it asks whether theatremakers are responsible for insistently reaching out. Insularity within the English-language KL theatre scene is more or less endemic, and it's up to the creators and next generation artists to decide how much they feel the need to address this.
All in all, Something I Wrote is a strong, thoughtful and daring piece in the vein of Five Arts' work which has always been of high quality. I will continue to watch their shows and probably most importantly, I am now inclined to buy a stack of Azmyl Yunor albums. ∗
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Spain: What Are Its Funding Needs?
As we've mentioned before, Spain is the 600-pound gorilla in the room as we try to weather the the most recent spate of euro worries.
Part of the reason has to do with the size of the funding needs of the euro zone's fourth largest economy. By "funding needs" we essentially mean the amount of cash the country needs to borrow or rollover to keep the lights on, keep paying government salaries and keep the government functioning.
For instance, Greece's IMF/EU bailout came about back in May in part because Greece was facing an immediate need to go to the bond markets to borrow the 8.5 billion euros. But more broadly, Goldman Sachs analysts at the time pegged Greece's funding needs at about 150 billion euros over three years.
Analysts at Brockhouse Cooper say in a note out Nov. 23 that the amount of borrowing Spain would need to do to pay for deficits and roll over loans it received in the past is much bigger. :
Spain's funding needs are far larger than those of Ireland or Greece. Over the next three years, Spain will need approximately EUR 350 billion to roll over existing debt and fund deficits. This figure would probably exceed amounts available through the EFSF after loans are disbursed to Ireland and after subtracting guarantees from the weaker Eurozone members (including Spain itself, as it would not make sense for the country to guarantee its own debt through the EFSF).
The European Financial Stability Facility [EFSF] is the 440 billion euro bailout fund set up this summer by euro-zone governments to try to deal with the more indebted members of the monetary union. You can see, that a 350 billion euro bailout would be a fairly healthy chunk of that. That's why the sight of those Spanish bond yields blowing out makes the good folks in Brussels rather nervous. As the analysts at Brockhouse Cooper put it: "Bottom line: If Spain finds itself in need of rescue funds, the EFSF will likely not be in a position to provide enough support and some recourse to IMF funds will probably be necessary. As a result, we do not believe that the European debt crisis is over yet."
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Studying art is quite a good prospect in the province of Manitoba, considering the fact that there are a number of schools which offer art courses in this province.
Likewise, the place is ideal for artistic and creative occupations because of its idyllic and pristine beauty. The yearly tuition fee in Manitoba is less in comparison to those of other provinces. Likewise, the provincial government encourages the development of creative arts among primary and secondary students.
With so much encouragement from the government, Manitoba will surely be a haven for career-seeking artists.
Art awareness in Manitoba is briskly improving and this development augurs well for prospective art graduates who want to start their art career in Manitoba. So if you are planning an art career in Manitoba, you would surely have an exciting career considering the fact that job opportunities for art graduates in this province are increasing at a very brisk pace.


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The public face of the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, Frauke Petry, said Thursday she is considering stepping down amid a poll slump and bitter infighting.
"Neither politics nor the AfD are without alternative for me," Petry, 41, told the Berlin daily Tagesspiegel.
"It's a good idea to reassess your own life from time to time and to readjust it," she added.
"That's what I'm doing now, after more than four years in the AfD which have required an enormous effort and meant saying goodbye to a normal life," said Petry, who is currently pregnant with her fifth child.
Petry joined the AFD shortly after its founding in 2013 and later led a coup against the eurosceptic economics professor who founded it, Bernd Lucke, to take the party further to the right.
The small protest party surfed a wave of angst and anger over Germany's mass refugee and migrant influx that peaked in 2015 but has recently slipped in opinion polls into single digits as arrivals have dropped sharply.
Petry sparked outrage during the crisis when she suggested that as a last resort, guards should be allowed to open fire at migrants streaming into Germany.
She has voiced strongly anti-Muslim views and linked up the AfD with far-right European leaders such as France's Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders of the Netherlands.
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Gina K. Designs welcomes you to another fabulous Inspiration Blog Hop!!! Gina and the Design Team will inspire you with many beautiful ideas!
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Today is the last day I worked at PMC. There was some not-so-big problems as usual but I have nothing to regret before leaving.
Hmm, it has been 13 months from the day I came there. Some friends came to me and shared their personal view to me. It's so great.
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Happy Easter to All!April 24th, 2011 in blog, projects
First of all I want to wish each and every one of you a blessed Easter and say thank you for being members and sharing your creativity here at JUNKMARKET Style! I hope you all have a wonderful day with your family and friends. Often times I will make little Easter baskets for my adult friends and family. There are some things we never grow too old to enjoy! This year I decided to make tussie mussies instead. A flower bouquet does not contain chocolate calories that go straight to your hips. Te He! When all was said and done each of these florals cost about $3.00. Wow... no breaking the piggy bank this year!
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Hope your Easter was wonderful. Those "tussies' are fab! You are such an inspiration to all of us too.
Alice Posted: 8:27 pm on April 25th
Happy Easter to a special Lady,Just thinking of you today and your family.You are truly blessed.Have a nice day
LOVE & BLESSINGS ROBERT. Posted: 12:42 pm on April 24th
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A total of 215 responses to the consultation were received and
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The Scottish Government published their response to the
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Daniela Troiani said (10 Jan 2008):
Sembra che questo ragazzo è circondato di spiriti dei morti. Un po 'strano, ma mi piace!
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Things to Do in Colorado Springs
The attractions of Colorado Springs cling on the verge of infinite. Outdoor enthusiasts will marvel at all the opportunities available to take advantage of the impressive wilderness. From exploring scenic hikes through the spellbinding terrain of Pikes Peak to biking through the National Natural Landmark Garden of the Gods, there's no wrong way to get acquainted with your beautiful surroundings here.
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Gulf Coast Marathon should be annual tourism event
They came. They saw. They ran.
We were impressed with the first Mississippi Gulf Coast Marathon, which attracted more than 3,300 runners for a weekend of races and fun. We think this event has the potential to be the Coast's next big tourism draw, sort of the way Cruisin' The Coast has transformed itself into the monster event it is now.
Everybody knows the Coast is already a fun place to be, with its casinos, tasty restaurants, friendly people and growing list of family attractions. And an annual tourism event in December will just expand South Mississippi's reach, especially in the world of runners.
We found it impressive that runners for last weekend's marathon came from 42 states and three countries, though about half of the participants came from Mississippi and about a quarter from Louisiana. We also found it pretty cool that the course was a qualifier for the 2017 Boston Marathon, set for April 18.
Organizers were smart to have a kids race the day before the main event, because we hope the event will be something the young ones remember. And organizers were also well advised to have the race's finish at MGM Park in Biloxi, showcasing one of the Coast's newest attractions.
"We couldn't be more ecstatic with the outcome of this inaugural event," said Renee Areng, executive director of Visit Mississippi Gulf Coast, the race's host organization. "In working with the Mississippi Gulf Coast Marathon team, we were able to showcase the entire region to new visitors.
"The overwhelming success of all communities and agencies working together shows that the Mississippi Gulf Coast is stronger as one. Everyone operated in tandem to make this event seamless, as shown by the commentary on social media about participants wanting to come back for next year."
We hope they do, and suspect they will.
The editorial represents the views of the Sun Herald editorial board. Opinions of columnists and cartoonists are their own.


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CORPUS CHRISTI - NuStar Energy LP has completed a private marine loading dock at its North Beach Terminal at the Port of Corpus Christi, which triples marine loading capacity to 400,000 barrels of crude oil per day.
With this new dock, NuStar now has three loading docks in the Port of Corpus Christi, and can load crude oil onto ships simultaneously on all three docks. NuStar also completed major additions and upgrades to the terminal's pump systems.
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The dock system is designed to load Panamax-class vessels (which carry between 350,000 and 500,000 barrels) at rates up to 30,000 barrels per hour.
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The Tories were accused of hammering practical school subjects after they downgraded more than 3,000 qualifications yesterday.
Vocational courses like hair-dressing and horse care – which can be worth four GCSes – will no longer be taken into account when compiling school league tables.
Education Secretary Michael Gove claims pupils are pushed into taking qualifications which boost a school's ranking but do little to improve their prospects.
But Labour predecessor David Blunkett said: "By all means slim them down – do not send the message out that this is a wholesale trashing and that vocational education has been downgraded."
And Russell Hobby of teachers' union the NASUWT warned: "Vocational qualifications are an essential part of the mix and they should not be treated as second-class courses."
The value of most BTecs and similar qualifications has been cut but a number in performing arts, sport, health and social care, media, music and engineering will still count.
Schools are ranked on how many of their students get five GCSEs, including English and Maths, at grade C or above.
Expert Professor Alison Wolf was brought in by Mr Gove to review the system and concluded that just 70 of the 3,175 vocational courses should count.
Mr Gove said: "For too long the system has been devalued by attempts to pretend that all qualifications are intrinsically the same."
* The quality of advanced level apprenticeships was blasted by the National Audit Office today. It also said firms do not pay enough towards the £500million schemes.


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So, what exactly is LEED?
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As he reaches the grand old age of 26 this June 6th, Andrew Reynolds is still bossing is out there and still has the best frontside flip in the game.
Following the battle of the Hollywood High 16 set last month, (watch it here) Greco's House of hammers has pieced together a new edit featuring footage of Reynolds throughout the years, paying homage to one of the greats and inducting him into their Hall of Fame.
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Rock Hall of Fame Rant
So the annual inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame have come and gone, and so with it my annual ranting about who got left out. It may come as a shock (shock!!!) to many of you, but yours truly is a rock and roll aficionado from w-a-a-a-a-ay back. I was a radio DJ back in high school, college, and even briefly after college, and continue to spend an inordinate amount of time and money on music.
That said, there are plenty of detractors of the Rock Hall, me being one of them. It's overly "US-Centric" and heavily influenced by certain producers and managers. As a result, some artists without the money or the publicity machine may not make it into the Hall, and instead some questionable decisions seem to be made. Frankly, it makes sports halls of fame look downright honorable. Google "rock hall omission" and you'll get plenty of blogs, some of which run into the hundreds of omissions. I'll admit that a lot of the so-called omissions are simply really popular bands who probably will never make it, ranging from the Monkees to Procol Harem — definitely groups that should be in anyone's music collection, but probably not acts that changed the rock paradigm in the way a true Hall of Famer would have. I'll admit that in recent years, the Hall has been picking up some wayward omissions over the years. 2014's induction of Linda Ronstadt was TWENTY YEARS overdue, and this year's inclusions of Chicago and Steve Miller made up for two long-time, terrific oversights. That said, there are still some real game-changers among rock and roll acts that, for whatever reason, haven't had their day in the Cleveland sun yet. Here are my humble suggestions for the 10 most egregious oversights. Feel free to disagree!
10. Jethro Tull — Ian Anderson's flute-based homage to baroque music was more than just a cute twist on rock music. Aqualung, Locomotive Breath, and Think as a Brick are all classic rock cuts, and they really moved the needle on progressive rock in its early days (1969 — when progressive rock was barely an infant). Unfortunately, the Hall of Fame seems myopic regarding non-US acts, and Jethro Tull may have to wait a while until the needy American bands are all picked up.
9. Moody Blues — Ditto. Note that 10 and 9 are both British bands that featured flutes. Hmmmm… That said, the rock hall tends to favor the starting line-up for inductee-bands, but the Moodies really didn't hit their stride until Justin Hayward and John Lodge joined the band. Of course, that didn't stop the Hall from inducting Fleetwood Mac, which was nothing but a drummer and a bass player until their new guitarist demanded that his girlfriend be hired as a front-woman singer.
8. Chubby Checker — Seriously???? The singer who gave us the Twist isn't in the Rock Hall of Fame????
7. Tina Turner — MASSIVE ditto. Plus, Tina made it twice — first as the lead signer for Ike Turner's band, and then as one of the hardest working acts in showbiz. Add to that the notable lack of women in the Hall (not a single woman was inducted this year!) and Tina's absence is all the more striking. (As a dis-honorable mention, I'll note that Marvin Gaye was inducted in 1987, but his partner Tammy Terrell has yet to get a nod.)
6. Sarah McLachlan — It almost comes as a surprise that she's already eligible (25 years since the first record), and even if she wasn't a ground-breaking singer and songwriter, her creation of Lilith Faire should have put her in on her first eligibility. Go figure…
5. Jimmy Buffett — Yes, amazingly, Saint Jimmy is NOT in the Hall!!! Anyone who can blend Calypso, Country, and Rock for 50 years (yes, that long!) should have been in the Hall a long time ago. Jimmy has single handedly created the genre of "Jimmy Buffett Music".
4. The Commodores and/or Lionel Richie — Yeah. I was surprised, too. Shocked may be the better word for it.
Now, we get into my top 3. These omissions simply boggle the mind.
3. Whitney Houston — Continuing to note the absence of female performers in the Hall, Whitney is the ONLY artist to chart seven consecutive No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hits, and "I will Always Love You" is the best-selling single by a female artist in music history. The soundtrack to The Bodyguard is the 4th best-selling album of all time (behind Michael Jackson, AC/DC, and Pink Floyd, all of whom are in the Hall). Add to it — and this is amazing — her soundtrack to The Preacher's Wife is the best-selling GOSPEL album of all time. Again… go figure…
2. Doobie Brothers — My personal favorite act of all times. Their eventual induction ought to be a given — they are on nearly everyone's "WTF" omission list. One of the biggest problems the Hall will have is picking exactly WHICH members of the Doobies get to receive the award — there have been nearly 100 Doobies over the years. This was a problem with Chicago — the original 7 from the first few albums got inducted, but none of the band-members who joined after Terry Kath died and Peter Cetera left. (By the way — wasn't Cetera a jerk for not showing up????). Anyway, it would be hard to argue that founders Tom Johnson, Patrick Simmons, Dave Shogren, and John Hartman don't belong on the stage, plus Michael Hossack, Skunk Baxter, Tiran Porter, Keith Knudsen, John McFee, and of course Michael McDonald. That group, plus a few others, would pretty much cover everyone up thru their 1982 disbanding, and all of that crowd should be on the stage sometime soon.
1. Steppenwolf — "Born to be Wild" gave the phrase "Heavy Metal" to the rock lexicon. The string of hits that came out of this pivotal band are almost too numerous to mention. They were the core of the soundtrack to "Easy Rider" and while they were never as popular as other groups of the time, they did produce 6 gold and one platinum album. It's hard to turn on a classic rock station anytime in the past 40 years and not year "Magic Carpet Ride", "Born to be Wild", or "Rock Me". Their famous cautionary tale from 1969's album Monster still rings true today (go listen to it — it's haunting and damned good rock and roll).
There are plenty who could be added to this list, but these are my top-10 severe omissions. We'll see if the Hall is listening.


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Rock Report: Axl Goes Home To Hollywood
Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose did his first TV interview in over 20 years when he sat down with Jimmy Kimmel Wednesday night and he actually came off pretty good!
Axl seemed to be in a great mood and said he was pleased to be there. He told stories about finally getting a chance to meet and play with Neil Young last weekend at Young's Bridge School Benefit, his admiration for Elton John and Bernie Taupin, and even his love of Halloween.
He also gave a couple of fans in the audience tickets to see GNR at the Hard Rock in Las Vegas, where the band opens a 12 night residency at The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on Halloween. He even had a food truck from a local burger joint come down to the studio and feed the audience.
What's this? Axl Rose is actually a normal human being??


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Tamron Announces Free Seminars for New DSLR Buyers
If you're new to DSLRs or you know someone who will be come December 25th, you'll want all the education you can get. Leaping from point-and-shoot or cell phone cameras to something a bit more professional can be a scary endeavor.
Tamron is offering a free seminar to anyone who buys a new camera from select retailers. The seminar is called "Secrets to Better Pictures" and it aims to give you some tips that every photographer should know, including the basics of composition, lens selection and lighting.
The seminar will run during the first half of 2012 and will feature instructors from across Tamron's technical and educational teams. The full list of stores and cities is below.
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Why we left Europe, lest we forget
Winningreen Discourse A052711
Why we left Europe, lest we forget
By Tom Randall
Date: May 27, 2011
We often talk about America being a right-of-center country. Research has demonstrated this to be true. In polling, Americans consistently score about 40 percent conservative, 40 percent moderate and 20 percent liberal.
How we got that way goes back way before the first European "dissidents" ever gave a shot at establishing a colony in the New World. When Martin Luther nailed his The Ninety-Five Theses to the church door in Wittenberg, Germany in 1517, he touched off much more than the religious upheaval it was never his intention to create.
On a philosophical level it presented not only a series of religious dilemmas but a profound political one as well. If, as Luther postulated, anyone could speak directly with God, without the intercessionaries of the priesthood, how is it that a few could claim to rule the many by virtue of Divine Right?
On a political level, it led to all sorts of conflict and confusion as "Sovereign Rulers" scrambled to get on the right side of the religious tide while serving their own purposes. Henry the VIII is a prime example of this. Just ask Jane Seymour, Anne Boleyn or Catherine Parr...oops, they're not doing interviews. Under Henry and his successors, Catholics were in, then out. Episcopals rode the same roller coaster as did the more radical Calvinists — each swing bringing greater confusion to exactly what secular rules applied to whom, how and when and all leading to civil war about 75 years later. The rest of Europe fared no differently. The new Dutch Republic fostered the same uncertainty regarding individual rights. French Huguenots scarcely knew where they stood from one day to the next.
There was no certainty of rights. Europe was in chaos.
So, early in the Seventeenth Century, small bands of dissidents began striking out to seek the fuzzy notion of freedom in the New World. Of course, it is interesting to note that in these new colonies there was little religious freedom, except for their version of religion. Moreover, their first forms of government were usually what we know today as socialism. These, of course, collapsed almost immediately when lack of individual incentives to produce led to collective starvation.
Only the rugged individuals remained, those who distrusted governments and ruling classes, those who wanted none at all, those who just wanted to go their own way. And, those are the kind of folks who followed on. The American Declaration of Independence and Constitution later reflected these attitudes.
As the century progressed, John Locke and others began to provide the philosophical underpinnings for freedom and limited government.
It can be argued, successfully, that we as a country have gotten quite far away from the ideals of individual rights, limited government and no ruling class. Bigger government certainly seems to be here to stay. And, we certainly have enough liberal elitists of the ruling class who look and act their part of the American Royalty. President Obama seems to personify it.
But, wait.
There is a growing backlash. Obama's numbers are pathetic on almost every issue. Some boldly say that he is even not American.
Liberal elitists in the American Royal ruling class decry this charge as being racist and its purveyors are derided as "birthers". They make these dismissals at their own political peril.
If those who call some people "birther racists" are right, how come Americans hold Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and the other liberal American Royalists in pretty much the same disregard? No one would question whether they were born in this country and they are certainly as Caucasian as anyone who sailed on the Mayflower. But they don't seem to be American. Not in the way as we poor buffoons who watch NASCAR races and love Air Force flyovers before sporting events. Or like those of us in Chicago, who are captured with our hearts in our throats when Jim Cornelison does his stirring rendition of the National Anthem in the United Center before Blackhawks games, current military and vets at his side and the crowd cheering at the top of their collective lungs.
No. The American Royalty doesn't seem to understand any of that. They are better and smarter people, they seem to be saying. They're above all that. A fine example of their superior attitude — and the difference between how Americans and Europeans view it — was demonstrated by the reaction to the alleged attack of a hotel maid by the head of the International Monetary fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn. To Americans it was a charge of sexual assault to be investigated and tried in court. Pure and simple. To Europeans it was simply an opportunity for the lower class "chambermaid" to have an encounter with one of her "betters."
However, it runs even deeper than that. We think America belongs to all of us, not just the liberal elite political Royal Class and it should be run the way we want it run, not the way they tell us it should be run. A recent Rasmussen poll of likely GOP voters (both mainstream and Political Class) confirmed that divide.
Rasmussen asked these voters if they agreed or disagreed with the statement, "[The] gap between Americans who want to govern themselves and politicians who want to rule them is as big as it was between the American Colonies and England in the 18th century." Mainstream GOP voters agreed 71 percent to 12 percent. Among the GOP Political Class only six percent agreed and 73 percent did not.
When asked, " On important national issues whose judgment do you trust the most, American people or Political Leaders?" Mainstream voters chose the American people 92 to zero. The Political Class chose Political Leaders 67 to zero.
When asked if the federal government, itself, had become a special interest group, mainstream voters said "yes" 97 to zero while the Political Class said "no" by 89 to zero.
All of this being said, and looking at the political landscape today, there is reason for some optimism that "government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from this earth." It all depends on how we vote.
One thing is for sure, the brave men and women living and dead who have fought and will continue to fight for our freedom are fighting for all of us. This weekend find one — no, find as many as you can, and say, "Thanks."
Have a happy Memorial Day.
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