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Finnish phrasebook
Finnish (suomen kieli, suomi) is spoken in Finland and by Finns elsewhere, predominantly in Scandinavia. Whether travellers to Finland need to learn Finnish is doubtful, since most Finns — including virtually all under 40 — speak at least some English. However, since so few people make the effort, you're guaranteed to get delighted reactions if you try.
Finnish is a Finno-Ugric language and hence completely unrelated to almost every language between Iceland and India. In particular, Finnish has grammatically nothing at all in common with other Scandinavian languages or Russian, although there are many loan words from both.
The origin of these languages traces back over 5000 years to nomadic peoples of the Ural mountains in Russia that migrated westward into Europe. Just across the Gulf of Finland the closest modern relative to the Finnish language, Estonian, is spoken. Other related languages are the Sámi languages of Lapland and the Murmansk Peninsula, and more distantly, Hungarian.
The Finnish language is fairly easy to pronounce: it has one of the most phonetic writing systems in the world, with only a small number of simple consonants and relatively few vowel sounds.
Native English speakers tend to have the most problems with vowel length and the distinction between the front vowels (ä, ö, y) and back vowels (a, o, u). English does make the same distiction — consider the "a" sounds of father (back) and cat (front), or the difference in the "i" sound for bit (short) and beat (long) — but you will need to pay extra attention to it in Finnish.
In Finnish, all vowels are single sounds (or "pure" vowels). Doubled letters are simply pronounced longer, but it's important to differentiate between short and long sounds. Example:
The basic Finnish alphabet consists of the following letters:
Additionally the letters š and ž appear in a small number of loanwords and are pronounced like English sh and as s in treasure, respectively. The letter w also occurs infrequently in some proper names and is treated identically to v. Lastly, the letter å occurs in some Swedish proper names and is pronounced "o", but the beginning learner need not worry about these minutiae.
Diphthongs (vowel sequences) like the uo of Suomi (Finland) are common. They retain the individual sounds of their vowels, but are slightly blended together to be pronounced in one "beat".
If a Finnish consonant is doubled, it should be pronounced lengthened. For plosives like p, t, k, this means getting your mouth ready to say it, but pausing for a moment. Hence mato (worm) is "MA-to", but matto (carpet) is "MAT-to".
Stress and tone
Word stress is always on the first syllable; compounds words have more than one stressed syllable. There is no tone whatsoever in Finnish speech, just long strings of fairly monotone sounds, with all syllables given equal value except the first one. Foreigners tend to think this makes the language sound rather depressing; Finns, on the other hand, wonder why everybody else's languages—including Russian—sound so sing-songy.
Finnish grammar is radically different from English (or any other Indo-European language), making Finnish a rather difficult language to master, and Finns love to regale foreigners with horror stories of compound words a mile long and verbs with seventeen suffixes tacked on. Basically, everything in a sentence (nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns) inflects to indicate who is doing what, why, when and in what way, so constructing even a simple sentence requires lots of tweaking about:
Nouns can be declined in 14 different cases and there is a whole assortment of additional suffixes, leading to improbable but entirely grammatical monsters like talo ("house") → taloissammekinkohan ("also in our houses, perhaps?") or kala ("fish") → kalastajamaisuudettomuudellansakaan ("even by using his non-fisherman-likeness").
The good news is that most of these monstrosities are limited to formal written Finnish, and it's possible to "speak like Tarzan" (without conjugating anything) in subject-verb-object order like English and still be more or less understood. Minä mennä kauppa, minä nopea ostaa leipä (I go shop, I quick buy bread) will get you a zero in Finnish class, but it gets the message across.
And there are some minor consolations for the aspiring student: Finnish has no articles and no grammatical gender. Rules for conjugation are often complex, but at least they are very regular.
Phrase list
Note: Due to the ease, specificity and regularity of Finnish pronunciation, the difficulty of transcribing long vowels, and the general inaccuracy of English-based phoneticizations, it is highly recommended you take a few minutes to learn the alphabet instead of relying on the phoneticizations. That being said, however, Finns are often quite excited to hear a foreigner attempt to speak the language and tend to be very forgiving of pronunciation blunders.
Clock time
The 24-hour clock is commonly used in Finland.
Writing time and date
Dates are written in the day-month-year order, eg. 2.5.1990 for May 2nd, 1990. If the month is written out, both the forms 2. toukokuuta (2nd of May) and toukokuun 2. päivä (May's 2nd) are used.
Due to the difficulty of conjugating various place names, the phrases below are not grammatically correct. They will, however, definitely be understood.
Place Names
In general, the name of the language is the same as the country, but uncapitalized.
Bus and Train
Learning more
While in Finland
The University of Helsinki offers a highly popular Finnish for Foreigners program in six different skill levels, ranging from absolute beginner to advanced courses ending with language certification. Spring and Fall classes are offered in standard 1 unit (3 hrs/wk, 135 €) and intensive 2 unit (8 hrs/wk, 310 €) versions.
Summer courses on Finnish language and culture are available at the major universities including Helsinki.


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03 Jan, 2011
Report: New LFX V6 Engine for 2012 Camaro
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In addition to the new 2012 Camaro options/features revealed a few days ago, it seems there may be a new V6 engine for the 2012 Camaro. Labeled the "LFX", it seems to be a significant improvement on the already outstanding LLT V6 found in LS and LT Camaros. The new engine option description is: "LFX [...]

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London 1978
In 1978 in London, I had a tan mid-length suede coat, chocolate brown Frye boots, a large leather handbag and daily practice of poetry. I lived in Highbury in North Islington in a basement flat with a small twin bed, a weak shower, and darkness all times of day. I often walked from Euston station to the Reading Room of the British Library on Great Russell Street, rather than take the Tube to Tottenham Court Road, so I could stroll Bloomsbury. Walking Virginia Woolf's neighborhood was an experience of art for me.
I carried my notebook everywhere and wormed my way into a mentorship with Elliott Coleman, who'd founded and then directed the Writing Seminars at John Hopkins. Retired, a bit lost, afraid of death after a recent stroke, Elliott shared stories of writers and writing and lessons about visual art, Proust, opera, BBC radio, and the newly installed Pope—John Paul II. Elliott showed me art practice meant paying attention to every detail in the physical landscape and mind's eye—and absorbing oneself in art.
In London, art was everywhere I was—at the market stalls in Covent Garden or Notting Hill Gate, in Foyles, the ICA, RADA (so many museums, bookstores, galleries!), the West End and Fringe theaters, the rock and classical musicians in the Tube stations, the jazz at Ronnie Scott's, and part of the pub lunches and take-out dinners I had with artists in my creative writing program.
I immersed myself in art, absorbing it through my skin into my bloodstream—so it could travel through my heart.
Art was in what I read, saw, experienced, touched, related to—every art and all arts were a teacher to me. I didn't focus on a skill or develop a technique. I took in everything. I learned specifically and generally, within a genre and discipline, and beyond discipline, across discipline and in relationship to everything.
London was London but it was also mine to create—I walked and visited and took notes and tasted, touched, smelled, wandered, observed, and revised pages. I visited art and allowed art to speak back to me. Did London make me an artist? No. London affirmed the artist inside me.
I've carried that affirmation with me all these years. It remains with and within me. I rely on it and it sustains me. Pursuing it was the reason for my arts education, and it can also be yours.
a version of this post was previously published on the CIIS blog


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Jefferson Elementary in Shawnee was visited by Niko Bain and John W. Bitinas, Narconon Arrowhead representatives who delivered drug education and prevention lectures.
They spoke to the students about the true harmful affects of drugs on a person's mind and body, citing personal stories of being former addicts.
One of the points of focus was combating the widely spread misinformation about the "positive" uses of drugs, stating that all drugs are basically poison to a person's body.
It is a proven fact that most major crimes, including rape, murder and robbery stem from the assailant being under the influence of one drug or
Oklahoma has what some believe to be the highest number of incarcerated people per capita, no doubt that a large portion of those come from the alarming presence of methamphetamine use and manufacturing.
In recent years Oklahoma has ranked in the top five for highest number of prescription drug abuse in the United States as well.
Education and prevention program provides new, vital information on the subject of drug addiction.
Sharing a unique perspective from someone who has "been there" and experienced the hardships of addiction and recounting what took place on the road to chemical dependency is something that students can relate to and accept as the truth.


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Spider-Man 2DVD - 2004
Spiderman two [videorecording]
From the critics
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Solid sequel to this series!
It was awesome.
The first one was good, the second, better!
I liked Spiderman 2
The best Spider-man movie to date.
Great action movie. Interesting plot, has some funny lines too.
My favorite of the three films directed by Sam Rami, and without a doubt the one with the most action, and a great dramatic backstory as well as Peter tries to juggle being an ordinary teen with his responsibilities as the hero Spiderman. Adding to his already troubled life, is the arrival of a new foe, Doctor Octopus marvelously played by Alfred Molina. The problems continue as Spiderman has self doubts and quits being a superhero. His complications with love, as Mary Jane is engaged to another, and a strain develops in his friendship with Harry Osbourne.My personal highlight moment is the battle between Spidey and Ock on a fast moving subway train. Worth a night's entertainment.
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"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" - random person :)
"I believe there's a hero inside each of us—to make us honest, to make us strong, to keep us noble, and so that we finally die proud." - Aunt May
You have seven and one half minutes to go forty-two blocks. GOOOO!!!!
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Peter Parker struggles to balance his crime-fighting duties as Spider-Man with the demands of his normal life. He loses a job, faces financial difficulties, and struggles to attend his physics lectures at Columbia University on time. Parker is estranged from both love interest Mary Jane Watson—now a successful Broadway actress—and best friend Harry Osborn, who still bears a hateful grudge against Spider-Man. Harry insists that Spider-Man murdered his father, Norman Osborn, who was secretly the supervillain Green Goblin. Parker's Aunt May is threatened with foreclosure, and Daily Bugle editor J. Jonah Jameson continues to denounce Spider-Man as a menace to New York City. As a result, Peter starts to think about giving up being Spider-Man. The attendant loss in self-confidence appears to have physiological effects, as Parker's enhanced arachnid powers soon become unreliable.


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RALEIGH � Gov. Pat McCrory wants a new transportation funding model that directs more money to projects that he says will grow North Carolina's economy.
McCrory's plan introduced Thursday would give more state money to projects that can prove their potential worth.
Supporters say the state can use this new funding model despite weak revenues because the plan reprioritizes spending. Secretary of Transportation Tony Tata says his department would redirect about $120 million a year from secondary road maintenance to capital projects of greater impact.
Currently, North Carolina has a model that awards funding equally among the state's 14 divisions. Tata says the new method could let the state work on 85 more projects and create 66,000 more jobs over the next 10 years.
The new formula will need legislative approval.


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BitTorrent Book Promotion Drives 40% Of Downloaders To Book's Amazon Page
from the well,-look-at-that... dept
However, it appears that my concerns may have been overblown. Late last week, Ferris revealed that not only did the book land on various best seller lists (despite the lack of Barnes & Noble sales), but an astounding number of people who downloaded that extra content bundle on BitTorrent also clicked a "support the artist" button:
For instance, BitTorrent conversion is NUTS. Of 210,000 downloads (of this bundle) earlier this week, more than 85,000 clicked through "Support the Author" to the book's Amazon page. We all had to triple and quadruple check that to believe it.Now, of course, not everyone who clicks will buy -- and he admits that as well. But, that's still an extra 85,000 people going to the Amazon page. Some of them are likely to buy.
Even at a 1% conversion after clicking an effective "buy now" link, that translates to 850 books… and BitTorrent is only accelerating. Wow.But BitTorrent is only for pirates and only hurts authors and artists, right?


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From MythTV Official Wiki
(S�quential Couleur � Memoire, or in English, Sequential Color with Memory.) (SECAM) The television broadcast standard for France, the former USSR, and various eastern European countries. Like PAL, SECAM is based on a 50 Hz power system, but it uses a different encoding process. It has 625 horizontal scan lines and 25 frames per second. SECAM is not compatible with NTSC or PAL, but conversion between the standards is possible.
(There are conflicting reports for SECAM standards. One site says:
It has 625 horizontal scan lines and 25 frames per second.
and another says:
displays 819 lines interlaced at 50 fields per second.
I understand the fields difference, but are the lines the same? I'll go with the 625 lines/25 frames for now.)


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Most of our clients are unsure of what they want when they order an explainer video.
Kuala Lumpur (PRWEB) January 08, 2014
Kasra Design has unveiled its new website, which features a completely new and dynamic layout. The company has redesigned the site in the hopes that it is more user-friendly and visually pleasing. Visitors are now able to search for relevant content quickly and easily, while the colors, animation and graphics give it an overall interactive appearance.
The company specializes in producing animated explainer videos and motion graphics for TV commercials, websites, corporate and training purposes. These videos are produced in a manner that is both educational and entertaining. This is what sets them apart from other production companies.
Two of Kasra Design's videos have been featured on the online magazine, "Motionographer". The videos, titled "What is Vector," and "Tri-Motion" are just two examples of what the company offers its clients. The quality and excellence of these explainer videos are apparent from the start. The company was also highlighted in the October 2013 issue of SME magazine. SME Magazine is among Asia's most respected and trusted business magazines.
Sheryl Chung, the Managing Director of the company, states, "Most of our clients are unsure of what they want when they order an explainer video. The Case Studies page sets out to educate our clients about the choices available, allowing them to make the best decision on which animation style to opt for. Our studio also provides consultations to our clients prior to the commencement of a project, giving them suggestions and finding a style that best suits their business concepts, branding, and budget."
"We've also laid down the production process in a clear and concise manner along with some graphics to make sure that our clients understand how we work. It is one of the most important elements in our business to involve our clients in each stage of the production so they can be sure that the outcome matches their expectations," says Sheryl.
One of the key website updates includes the Packages page. Visitors can now easily compare the different packages offered by the company, namely Starter Package, Gold Package, Viral Package and Custom Package. The page clearly lists what is included in each package and the associated price. Each package is tailored to suit specific need and budget, from start-ups to large corporations.
For start-up companies, or those with limited budgets, the Starter Package can be an ideal solution, with a 30 second high quality animation. For large corporations with even larger budgets, the 60- second Gold Package or 120 second Viral Package may be a better option. The Custom Package allows companies to choose the length of the video and features that best suit their needs, based on their budget and requirements.
In celebration of their new website launch, the company is offering a 15% discount on all video packages purchased from their site from January to March of 2014. Whether choosing the start-up package, the custom package, or anything in between, the discount can be applied.


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Cox presented with NLC Lifetime Award
PLYMOUTH — The Northern Lakes Conference recently presented former Plymouth head girls basketball coach Dave Cox with the NLC Lifetime Outstanding Service Award and Lifetime Gold Pass to all NLC events.
Prior to his hire as head girls' coach at Plymouth, Cox spent a combined six years in the Triton, Caston and Plymouth feeder systems. He initiated a Plymouth indoor/outdoor summer league basketball program in 1993 that grew to include over 85 teams and 874 participants across Northern Indiana.
Coach Cox is the winningest coach in PHS girls basketball history with a combined varsity record of 308-152 over 20 years, highlighted by the 2008 Class 3A state championship, nine 3A sectional championships, two regional and semistate championships and four NLC titles. He was named the ICGSA 3A State Coach of the Year in 2008 and was the 15th winningest active coach in Indiana at the time of his retirement.


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|Question of the Day
It's National Middle Child Day! What is your middle child like? How do they differ from their siblings?
This is part of BabyCenter's series: Question of the Day. Simply look for "QOTD" in the title and join us with your answer! Have a question you'd like to see asked? Pass a note to BabyCenter Games and we may use it!
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Payment of Enrollment FeesThe California Community Colleges' enrollment fee is $46 per unit.
Non Resident/Foreign Student Tuition is $371 per unit (see below for more information)
To make a payment online, click on Make a Payment under Financial Information in the My Services tab on the myWestHills College Portal.
To pay by phone call 800.266.1114 extension 2311(Coalinga) or 3120(Lemoore)
Please be advised that you are not officially registered for classes until payment has been made or other financial aid has been awarded, which may include PELL, BOG, or loans. After receipt of payment you will be placed in the class.
Board of Governors Enrollment Fee Waivers
All California residents are encouraged to apply for a BOG fee waiver.
Active Military
Active duty military personnel may apply for Tuition Assistance to pay 100% of enrollment fees up to 12 units per military fiscal year, October 1 to Sept. 30. An application may be picked up at the WHC NAS Lemoore Center or at the Navy College Office. The application for Tuition Assistance must be routed through and approved by your commanding officer before returning it to the Navy College Office for processing. Active duty military personnel who do not get approved for Tuition Assistance must pay all fees in full. For more information call 559-925-3350.
Non-Resident/Foreign Student Tuition
A student who does not qualify for California residency is classified as a non-resident student and is required to pay a non-resident tuition fee. The fee for non-resident tuition is $258 per unit. This fee is in addition to a $46 per unit enrollment fee mandated by the State of California.
Non-resident students must also pay an additional $67 per unit capital outlay fee.
Effective Fall 2018 total tuition fee = $371 per unit (includes enrollment fee, non-resident tuition fee, and capital outlay fee)
International students must also pay a non-refundable $100 per semester processing fee, and the following fees for United States health insurance coverage:
Summer 2017 Semester: $272.00
Fall 2017 Semester: $593.00
Spring/Summer 2018 Semester: $822.00
The health insurance fee may be waived for those students who provide proof they have current health insurance coverage valid in the United States or for those students who are not physically attending any onsite West Hills Community College District classes (e.g. attending only online classes).
To request a waiver of the health insurance fee, please send your request with proof of insurance to West Hills College Coalinga, Attention: International Students Office, 300 Cherry Lane, Coalinga, CA 93210.
International students may obtain more information about purchasing health insurance from the International Students Program Office located on the West Hills College Coalinga campus.
Materials Fees
Students must pay for required instructional materials. When such fees are indicated, the materials for which the fees are levied are supplied at District cost. These are tangible materials that are essential to satisfaction of course objectives, have value to the student outside the classroom, belong to the student, and may be taken home. These materials include, but are not limited to, such items as textbooks, workbooks, syllabus, computer disks, tools, uniforms, canvases and other art supplies. Students may be advised by their instructor to purchase certain optional instructional materials that enhance a student's learning experience in the classroom but are not essential to completion of course objectives.


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rushy needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 34 designs submitted by 14 freelance designers.
We have a logo ready for you to work on and good directions in here along with some examples of work we like. Should be easy to follow the style...
The company is a corporate cleaning services company and needs to look very professional and clean. Images and references to shiny surfaces, an overall mercury-like feel are most desirable.
What we want in the design:
You can see all the elements of what is required in the design in this example: http://www.whiteknightprojects.com/…ebsite.jpg the navbar items are what we need and the different points that are highlighted in this version are also what we need. We basically just need everything that is in that design re-designed to look a LOT more professional.
Our Logo:
You can see our logo here http://www.whiteknightprojects.com/pcs/logo.jpg
Example sites that we like:
http://www.peartreecleaning.co.uk - like the layout and content quality and the overall impression of quality
http://www.exclusivecontracts.co.uk - like all the examples of shiny buildings, shiny surfaces, emphasiing how clean things are.
http://www.capitalcitycleaning.com - We like the cleanlinness of this design and the simplicity of it all.
If we could have a combination of the peartree style of quality, with some shiny images combined with the cleanlinness of capitalcity we will have the perfect site!
Also if you want paying via western union you will need to cover money transfer costs.
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Task order stems from 2009 IDIQ
General Dynamics Corp. will provide battlespace awareness and other support to the Air Force under a task order worth $4.7 million.
The award stems from a five-year, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity Advanced Technical Exploitation Program contract awarded in 2009.
The task order calls for General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems business unit to support the Air Force's National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC).
Under this task order, General Dynamics will directly support national priorities, including overseas operations and missile defense, by providing hyper-spectral and multi-spectral imagery production and analysis, data processing and analysis, analytic support, publishing and distribution, and training, according to a company announcement.
NASIC serves as the national and Defense Department's executive agent for the processing, exploitation, analysis, integration and dissemination of measurement and signature intelligence data collected from radar, electro-optical and infrared technical sensors.
The center prepares signatures of threat targets, develops analytical tools for technical analysis and provides these techniques for the fusion of data in direct support of DOD operational missions and its partners throughout the intelligence community.
The majority of work will be performed in Dayton, Ohio.
General Dynamics has been serving NASIC as a prime contractor since 2001, the announcement states.
General Dynamics Co., of Falls Church, Va., ranks No. 5 on Washington Technology's 2011 Top 100 list of the largest federal government contractors.
About the Author
David Hubler is the former print managing editor for GCN and senior editor for Washington Technology. He is freelance writer living in Annandale, Va.
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So you've got a Windows Phone 7 phone, and now you need to fill it with lovely Windows Phone 7 apps. But with over 45,000 apps available for the Microsoft platform what are the best ones to get and are there any that take advantage of the Metro interface.
We've scoured the massive collection of Windows Phone 7 apps available (December 2011) in the Windows Marketplace to see what's on offer and what you should download.
We've tried, tested and reviewed all of the following Windows Phone 7 apps ourselves, rather than just guessing whether they're good or not.
They aren't in any order. All are good. And we will be updating this article as we discover more.
The music app for the music generation, the Spotify app for Windows Phone 7 is free, although you will need a premium subscription for it to work (£10 a month).
Still once you've done that you can search for any of the millions of tracks available on Spotify, load up playlists, and download music to your phone for offline listening if you know you are going to be out of service. Easy to use, if you like music, this is the one for you.
Full review: /apps/news/spotify/112859-spotify-windows-phone-7-review
Price: Free
Download: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-gb/apps/ca8d6603-a9ae-4a05-8643-baad091ecdd1
Chances are you've got a stack of RSS feeds that you like to read and Flux is one of the best RSS feed readers available on the market.
The app taps into your Google Reader account allowing you to read the feed quickly and easily. You'll be able to filter out read and unread posts as well as manage whether you want to look at the images (save bandwidth) and how you want to read them be it a mobilized version or the actual website. With plenty of options and quick loading times this will let you read what you follow really quickly. Thumbs up.
Full Review: /apps/reviews/112381-flux-windows-phone-7-review
Price: £1.49
Download: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-GB/apps/3c8daa82-bad5-df11-a844-00237de2db9e
Adobe Reader
Want to read pdfs on your Windows Phone 7 phone? Then you'll need to download the Adobe Reader.
It's free. Basic in its offering, but will let you open PDF files from email, the web and device.
Price: Free
Download: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-GB/apps/bc4f319a-9a9a-df11-a490-00237de2db9e
Amazon Kindle
You like reading books, you like reading your Kindle, but you don't always have your Kindle with you. Amazon Kindle for Windows Phone 7 is exactly what you would expect.
The official Windows Phone 7 Kindle app. That means you get to do all the usual Kindle app stuff like read your books, buy new books, and everything else you've come to expect from the Kindle apps.
Price: Free
Download: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-GB/apps/48195fb4-ee0e-e011-9264-00237de2db9e
BoxFiles for Dropbox
Windows Phone 7 comes with its own cloud sharing service, SkyDrive, however you might already be using Dropbox. If that's the case, don't panic, for while the company has yet to release an official app for Windows Phone 7, there is a very good one in the guise of BoxFiles for Dropbox that lets you access your dropbox folders on the go, share and transfer files from your SkyDrive account, or merely upload photos from the phone.
Users can take advantage of the Pin to start offerings of WP7 but pinning certain folders, as well as allow background transfers up to 5MB so you can head off to another app in the meantime.
Full review: /apps/reviews/112718-boxfiles-for-dropbox-wp7-app-review
Price: 99p
Download: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-GB/apps/798cf9d9-6efd-df11-9264-00237de2db9e
British Airways
If you are a frequent flyer with British Airways and are also a Windows Phone 7 smartphone owner then you need this app.
The app lets you manage your booking via your phone, giving you travel updates as well as becoming your boarding card. But where the Windows Phone 7 app excels is that it will let you pin your latest travel details on to the home screen allowing you to see the gate information at a glance rather than having to open up the app each time.
Full review: /apps/reviews/110156-ba-windows-phone-7-app
Price: Free
Download: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-GB/apps/2f9d08aa-b17b-e011-986b-78e7d1fa76f8
Make notes? Forget things? Well now you don't have to thanks to the Evernote app that will let you record notes and then have them synced to your other Evernote apps be it on an iPad or your computer.
New to Windows Phone 7.5 are better social integration, search integration, background synchronization, and pinning of notes, notebooks, tags, searches, maps, and "new note" shortcuts audio, text and photo).
All can also set the app to sync in the background so when you do load the app on your phone the files are all ready and waiting for you.
Full Review: /apps/reviews/110641-windows-phone-7-evernote-app
Price: Free
Download: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-GB/apps/db21927d-f292-e011-986b-78e7d1fa76f8
HTC Windows Phone 7 owners already get a flashlight - or torch to you and me - with their phone, but if you are a Nokia Lumia 800 user you won't.
There are plenty of options in the Marketplace, but we like Flashlight-X. Why? Because it is so simple. Turn the app on and your LED flash on the back of your phone will become a bright beacon and you can turn it on or off with a press of the big Pocket-lint logo looking power button. If you are worried about needing the option to SOS for help, there is a pretty set button for that as well.
FlashLight-X is free but with adverts, Flashlight-X Pro is 79p and rids you of advertising. Both offer exactly the same functionality.
Price: Free
Download: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-GB/apps/2638b778-5eab-45f1-a511-a08e1dbde751
Google Search
Windows Phone 7 comes with Bing search built in and that offers plenty, but there are times when the results just aren't what you want or what you expect.
If that's the case then you'll want Google Search, the official search engine app from Google.
The app is very simple letting you search Google's search engine with quick links to the company's web search, image search, places, and News.
Clean and simple it gives you a good alternative if Bing isn't giving you the answers you need.
Price: Free
Download: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-GB/apps/5b3f4847-71e3-df11-a844-00237de2db9e
IMDb Movies, TV & Celebrities
You are sat in front of the TV and you want to know who that actor is that you just can't place. Fire up the Windows Phone 7 IMBD app and your question will be answered with a couple of key presses and some swipes of your finger.
The app is the be all and end all of working out who is who and who was in what.
It's also a great app for showing off just how pretty Windows Phone 7 apps can be with the information flowing through the panels as you swipe right to left across your phone.
Beyond a massive database, the app will also give you plenty of other stuff including top movie news, what's on at the cinema near you, and trailers.
A must for movie fans.
Price: Free
Download: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-GB/apps/ff971299-eed8-df11-a844-00237de2db9e
Facebook is incorporated at a core level in Windows Phone 7, so you do get to post Facebook and upload pictures already, as well as incorporating your contact's details, updates and being able to view their photos. The Facebook app gives you the full treatment, again offering access to those areas already covered, but giving photos special treatment.
You'll get easy access to friend's updated albums, as well as random photos picked from your own and thrown in to the mix - we'd forgotten some of those horrific nights out, and here they are, resplendent in all their glory.
The app is basically broken down into your links (photos, inbox, events, friends, profile, etc), top news, photos, event, and notifications.
Price: Free
Download: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-GB/apps/82a23635-5bd9-df11-a844-00237de2db9e
Foursquare has made it onto the map, meaning you can checkin as you roam around with your new phone. We like the big bold interface, offering up places, tips and friends. Places shows you nearby venues with the option to search for more - opening one up will let you checkin and also offers a Bing map, giving you the option to navigate to that location.
The tips section - apart from offering a range of disparaging comments - will again let you get venue directions and the Friends section will offer links to their Twitter feed and an email option. Basic stuff, but isn't that the appeal of Foursquare?
Price: Free
Download: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-GB/apps/26cf3302-469f-e011-986b-78e7d1fa76f8
What better way to empty your wallet than bidding on someone else's junk whilst returning home from a night out at the pub. The Ebay app opens rather ashamedly with "popular searches", offering up a horrendously pixelated image, most probably of some misshapen sack from Topshop or Next.
Sign in to access all the goodness from your account, with messages, watched items and your selling and buying all listed.
You can even head into the feedback centre, although unfortunately there is no spellcheck offered to make sure you don't send complete gibberish. Reminders will come out of the background to alert you to junk you are watching - don't miss out - bid now!
Price: Free
Download: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-GB/apps/92d3a3a3-66d9-df11-a844-00237de2db9e
Webmasters that use Google Analytics, this one is for you. The unofficial app taps into your Google Analytics account and then lets you check your stats wherever you happen to be.
Features of Phonealytics include basic reporting allowing you to see your daily numbers, search engine traffic break down, and popular pages over the last day, week, or month.
There is an option to pin your favourite report on your start page, and have the data constantly updated throughout the day, but be warned this will drain your battery life faster than anything you can imagine.
Price: £1.49
Download: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-GB/apps/11416a38-28f6-df11-9264-00237de2db9e
RAC Traffic
Whether you are a RAC member or not, the beauty of the RAC Traffic app is that you can put in your start location and your final destination and then have the app tell you about any reported traffic incidents along the way.
Once you've then created a route you can have that route pinned to your start page so you can easy monitor what is going and hopefully avoid the traffic jams.
Price: Free
Download: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-GB/apps/188295c5-2fc5-4c6d-8407-5e9bee53e203
Yes there is an official Twitter app for Windows Phone 7, trouble is, it isn't very good. In steps Rowi, a third-party app that lets you monitor your Tweets as well as offering you alerts when you are mentioned. The App also allows you to create dedicated panels for certain people or search terms.
The only real drawback is that you can only track one account at any given time.
There is a free version of the app, but it comes with adverts.
Price: £2.29
Download: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-GB/apps/304c9bfd-9b65-e011-81d2-78e7d1fa76f8
Fancy getting fit? Already running? This is going to be the app for you. Runkepper for Windows Phone 7 allows you to track your runs when you are out and about as long as you remember to take your phone with you.
The app uses the phones GPS signal along with a stopwatch to monitor and time your activity so it can then give you accumulative data as you go.
The combination of the simple to use app, and the power of the website makes this a great combination for runners, cyclers and anyone else looking to track their fitness. With the calorie tracker included into there too you even get to work out just how many snacks you've earned yourself.
Full review: /gadgets/reviews/112957-runkeeper-windows-phone-7-app-review
Price: Free
Download: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-GB/apps/906cd463-9f34-e011-854c-00237de2db9e
We've all been there - heard a track in a bar, or on the radio and wondered what it was. Shazam as you'll probably know lets you tag that track by listening to it and then giving you the results on your phone.
Here you get to pin a "tag now" button to your start page saving you valuable seconds opening the app.
Once you've tagged your track you'll get all the details, plus the ability to find that track in the Zune marketplace so you can buy it to listen to. If your being on the cheap side you can click on the YouTube link to see if it is available to listen to for free.
Price: Free
Download: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-GB/apps/2f8d5271-2b81-e011-986b-78e7d1fa76f8
Tube Map
The London Underground is a complicated system even when you think you've cracked what station is where, so rather than have to wait until you are actually in the station to know where you are going, Tube Map lets you plan your route ahead of time.
Rather than just be a giant PDF that you can pinch zoom your way around, you can get status updates on the lines, zoom in on status updates for individual stations, or plan your routes and the time it will take to get from A to B.
Price: Free
Download: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-GB/apps/4c3140d0-6335-e011-854c-00237de2db9e
While not all Windows Phone 7 phones have a front facing camera - Nokia Lumia 800 we are looking at you - those that do, like the HTC Titan or Radar, can enjoy Tango - a messaging app that lets you do video calling.
Tango allows you to make free phone calls and free video calls over 3G, 4G, and Wi-Fi. Make calls to any other person who has Tango installed on their smartphone, tablet or PC.
Yep it would be easier if Microsoft made Skype available on Windows Phone 7, but they haven't.
Still that shouldn't put you off, the app is simple to use and works across Windows Phone, Android and iOS phones and tablets, and PCs meaning you don't have to insist that your friends get a WP7 phone as well for it to work in the same way FaceTime users have to both have an iPhone or iPad.
Price: Free
Download: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-GB/apps/fe30c379-d111-427d-894f-dc3bfa0ec371
Pocket Recorder
Apple's iPhone has a built in voice recorder as standard. Windows Phone 7 doesn't. So if you want to record that important conversation, be it an interview, memo to yourself, or when you want to blackmail your friends you'll need an app to do it.
Pocket Recorder is one of the better voice recording apps in the marketplace and allows you to do all the above and more.
Pocket Recorder Sound + Recording Hub transforms your Windows Phone 7 device into a full-fledged sound recording and editing tool.
You can create ringtones from your recordings, pin them as tiles to your start menu, treat you recordings like tasks (complete with alarms), and many more features.
There is a free ad supported version, or for 99p you can ditch the adverts all together.
Price: 99p
Download: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-GB/apps/52c8faec-dbe7-df11-9264-00237de2db9e
Using the power of Augmented Reality SkyMap lets you point your phone to the sky and see where the stars, constellations, planets or deep space objects are out there in real time.
SkyMap shows the sky in 3D, like you see it at night time exposing a collection of over 110,000 stars even if it is cloudy.
Price: £1.29
Download: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-GB/apps/dd2dbb0f-7c24-e011-854c-00237de2db9e
Rail planner
What time does the train leave? If you find yourself asking that question a lot it might be advisable to download Rail Planner for Windows Phone 7. The app, built in conjunction with the National Rail Enquiries service will let you plot and plan your train rides across the country.
Why is it so good - even though it costs £4.99? Well the big selling point is that Rail Planner provides "Live Departure" information for every train station in the UK (excluding Northern Ireland) and includes real-time service service disruptions such as late running trains, cancellations or even engineering works.
Rail Planner also includes a "My Departures" feature which allows you to set up regular journeys so that Rail Planner can automatically display the status of upcoming journeys, directly on the app's welcome screen.
We especially like the ability to see where your train is on the journey so you can get an ETA of your final destination. Handy when you are arranging a taxi or your partner to pick you up from the station.
Price: £4.99
Download: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-GB/apps/8dce4a78-1b3e-e011-854c-00237de2db9e
Next bus
Like Rail Planner, Next bus lets you map your journey out so you can see when to get to the bus stop. The difference here of course is the method of transport. Unique to the Windows Phone marketplace, Next Bus UK is essential for any public transport user.
Next Bus UK provides information from over 370,000 bus stops in England, Wales and Scotland, detailing the next buses due at your chosen stop.
The data is grabbed from real-time and scheduled departure times.
You can also search for the nearest stops around your location as well as look at over 1300 route schedules from cities around the UK.
Price: £1.49
Download: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-GB/apps/ea564875-6310-477e-b318-15f63e05f648
Pictures lab
It would be great if Hipstamatic or Instagram was on Windows Phone 7, but they aren't. The next best thing is Pictures Lab, an app that lets you apply funky affects to your pictures as you take them or after the fact.
The app comes with almost 30 controllable, easy-to-use, but advanced effects like different vintage and hipster-like filters, Tilt Shift (miniature faking), HDR, Lomo, Soften, Auto Adjust, Sharpen, Comic, Bulge, B&W, Sepia and many more.
Dynamic previews of the effects are shown in a list, making it possible to easily pick the right one with the ability to apply multiple effects to get the look you are looking for.
The app also provides basic editing features letting you crop, rotate and flip your pictures.
Price: £2.29
Download: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-GB/apps/5db119bf-7ad5-df11-a844-00237de2db9e
The app lets you browse your Flickr streams in "stunning high-resolution display", offers "rich navigational features" and makes it easy to share photos via email, Twitter and Facebook with a simple upload directly from your device.
There's also a nice feature mentioned whereby you can "seamlessly transition" from your handset to a Windows 7 tablet and vice-versa and keep your place in a photo stream.
You can also pin additional Live Tiles to your Start screen for quick access to the in-app camera, contacts' activity, and your photostream.
Price: Free
Download: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-GB/apps/2e49fb07-592b-e011-854c-00237de2db9e
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York Region Road Watch is a community-based initiative that gives citizens an opportunity to report dangerous and aggressive drivers to York Regional Police.
Road Watch incorporates three components essential to modifying aggressive driving behavior – public education, awareness and enforcement. Together, these key factors can reduce motor vehicle collisions, prevent injury and even death.
Aggressive Driving
Aggressive driving includes speeding, following too closely, failing to yield, unsafe lane changes, unsafe passing and disobeying traffic signs and signals.
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If you observe an act of aggressive driving in York Region, report it. Reports can be filed online with York Regional Police.
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About 50mm to 60mm fell in the headwaters of Lake Wanaka yesterday and the Otago Regional Council predicted it would again rise, exceeding its first alarm level of 279.4m in the early hours of today.
Council duty flood officer Phillip Purves said it was not expected to rise high enough to cause flooding in the township but the council would monitor the situation overnight.
"We're fairly confident we are not looking at flooding."
Much less rain had fallen in the headwaters of Lake Wakatipu, so its level was not expected to increase significantly from its 2pm yesterday level of 310.864m, which was just above its first alert of 310.800m, he said.
"The worst is over."
Wanaka and Queenstown townships received only about 10mm to 12mm from the front, compared to 84mm at Franz Joseph and 62mm at Mt Cook.
Dunedin received 4mm.
The "good news" was that while a quick southerly change today would cool temperatures, ease the humidity and bring a few showers, a high was building that was expected to bring settled weather through to the middle of next week, he said.
Queenstown Lakes District Council communications officer Jo Blick said monitoring staff had liaised with retailers in Wanaka and it was unlikely any would be affected by flooding.
Queenstown Lakes deputy mayor Lyal Cocks, who is also Wanaka's chief Civil Defence co-ordinator, said he was watching lake levels closely.
Rainfall, which was steady throughout yesterday, was not as heavy as predicted, he said.
Lake Wanaka was starting to rise late yesterday afternoon, recording 279.185m at 3pm, beneath its first flood alert level of 279.40m.
The Clutha River was draining out of Lake Wanaka at 654.204 cumecs at 2pm yesterday, above its first flood alert level of 600 cumecs, at the confluence with the Cardrona River, near Albert Town.Read more at http://www.odt.co.nz/regions/otago/143440/one-more-rise-then-sun-shines
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - February 6, 2013 --Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter has asked the state Supreme Court to take jurisdiction in the city's lawsuit over contract negotiations with its largest municipal union.
Last week, the city filed the suit in Common Pleas Court. It asks for permission to unilaterally impose what Nutter says is the last offer to District Council 33, a union representing thousands of blue collar municipal workers.
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Well not much new, but a lot of wrong things still going on. For example, here we are in 2014 and we still have a huge disparity in sentencings in drug cases and in cases where children are harmed. There are much tougher rules for both in Federal courts. Sad but true.
Federal courts still have mandatory minimums on what can be simple drug cases, and much harsher penalties on anything having to do with children. So, it's a true mixed bag.
What I do know is that one can "program" easier in State prison and be released much earlier than in Federal Prison. This again hardly seems fair.
And of course both have almost no help for people who need real re-entry assistance. We must start here so that people stop going back for silly reasons. Our prisons are full of people who could have served creative alternative sentences that would help both the offender and society. Remember, almost everybody incarcerated today is coming home and most in less than 5 years. A sobering thought at best.
It is 2014 and the time to change is NOW. It is not that complicated a system that we cannot change it. But, we need to understand it first. Prison is BIG money and the fewer people in prison the less money made by the Prison industrial complex. This too must change and will.
There are plenty of people who do belong in prison, but let's work on those who can change and be rehabilitated first, This will actually make room for the people who belong there.
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Demoiselle crane
(Grus virgo)
Facts about this animal
The demoiselle is a small crane standing 64-66 cm tall and weighing about 2-3 kg. Sexes loook alike, males are slighly larger than females.
The plumage is characterized by elongated feathers on the neck and over the tail. It is predominantly pale blue grey, darker on the wings and tip of tail. The head and foreneck are slate black, and there are tufts of long white feathers at sides of nape.
The iris is bright crimson or red-brown. The bill is short, straight and pointed, greenish, the tip tinged orange-red or pink. The legs and feet are dark horn-grey to dull black.
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that Queen Marie Antoinette of France gave the demoiselle crane its name? Demoiselle means maiden, or young lady, in French. The queen was enchanted by the crane's delicate and maidenly appearance.
|Name (Scientific)
|Grus virgo
|Name (English)
|Demoiselle crane
|Name (French)
|Grue demoiselle
|Name (German)
|Name (Spanish)
|Grulla damisela
|Local names
|Croatian: Zdral krunas
Czech: Jeráb panenský
Hindi: Karkara, Koonj
Slovakian: Zeriav stepný
|CITES Status
|Appendix II
|CMS Status
|Appendix II (as Grus virgo) Included in AEWA
Photo Copyright by
Matthew Field
|Widely distributed in Eurasia and Africa. Africa:Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, Morocco, Nigeria, Sudan Asia:Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea Rep., Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tajikistan Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Yemen Europe: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Moldova, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Turkey, Ukraine. Vagrants may be encountered in many more countries.
|Grasslands, wetlands
|Wild population
|The global population is estimated to be 200,000–240,000 individuals by Wetlands International (2002).
|Zoo population
|375 birds reported to ISIS (2007). In addition numerous birds in smaller facilities, which do not report to ISIS.
In the Zoo
How this animal should be transported
For air transport, Container Note 17 of the IATA Live Animals Regulations should be followed.
Find this animal on ZooLex
Photo Copyright by
J-M Demimieux
Why do zoos keep this animal
The demoiselle crane is not a threatened species. Zoos keep it primarily for educational reasons and as an ambassador species for wetland and grassland conservation.


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This coming weekend provides an opportunity for South African citizens to register as voters for the municipal elections that will take place later this year on a date still to be announced.
Registrations will be done on Saturday and Sunday from 08:00 to 17:00 and citizens aged 16 and older may register although only persons who have reached the age of 18 on voting day, will be allowed to vote. To register, a green bar-coded ID book or smart card ID or Temporary Identity Certificate (TIC) is required.
A prospective voter only has to register once, provided that his or her address has not changed since the last registration or if the voting district boundaries of residence have changed.
The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) advised that details of registration may be verified by sending a SMS to 32810 with an ID number or to access the IEC's website at www.elections.org.za.
In a media release, the South African Local Government Association (Salga) Limpopo reported that its member municipalities will ensure that all voting stations will have access to water, sanitation and electricity as well as access to roads.
"Municipalities have also committed to ensure that most of the voting stations that are municipal facilities shall be accessible by people with physical disabilities; and further that keys and access to the facilities are available on time to ensure that the voting stations for registration open on time," Salga Limpopo said.
Salga Limpopo urged residents to verify their addresses with their traditional authorities and municipalities to ensure that they appear on the voter's roll.
Story: BARRY VILJOEN
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HE 2006 Special Events & Giveaways
Ladies' Day
XM Satellite Radio–Oprah's digital radio home–would like to invite all women to the show. It's Ladies' Day on Sunday. All women get into the show for free with any regular adult admission on Sunday, June 4 from 10am–5pm.
Register To Win a New XM2GO Pioneer Inno
Sponsored by XM Satellite Radio. Nine lucky showgoers will win Pioneer's great new media players. Entry forms can be picked up at registration. Drawings are held on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at 5pm in Gateway Salon One. Three Innos will be given away per day. No purchase necessary. Good Luck!
Register To Win $10,000 of Gear!
Sponsored by Musical Surroundings and Elusive Disc. Over 15 prize packages total. Win Benz Micro phono cartridges, Clearaudio turntable, Musical Surroundings Phonomena, Pathos integrated amplifier, Stax headphone systems, Gingko products, Kubala Sosna cables, Groovenote music gift certificates, and more. Entry forms can be picked up at registration. No purchase necessary. Registration will take place all weekend; drawing will be held in rooms 200 and 206 on Sunday, June 4 at 4pm.
Free Home Theater Movie Night
Sit back and relax for a great Home Theater event within the HE2006. The editors of Home Theater will present a showing of a classic movie on Friday night at 7pm in the Grand Ballroom. Enjoy the best surround sound and projection equipment—just like you would with your own in-home system—only here, you get to see what it looks like with 400 guests! Come have some popcorn and enjoy the show. Available free to the first 400 ticket holders. Tickets available at registration. Showtime: Friday, June 2 7pm Grand Ballroom.
ELF Live Auctions
Creating Rooms of Magic. The Elf Foundation is a 501c3 non-profit charity that brings the enchantment of uplifting music and film to sick children around the country by building state-of-the-art home theater systems in children's hospitals. While you are at HE2006, join in to pick up some great deals on great gear donated by industry leaders. This will ensure that you go home with a deal while also helping to make a difference.
HT Gaming Room
Join the editors of Home Theater magazine and try out the best in gaming home entertainment equipment. Try our special seating and surround sound. See what it is like to enjoy your favorite games on systems valued at over $30,000.
HeadRoom's Headphone Heaven
Tired of reading about the best in headphone technology and not being able to try them out? Take a test ride with headphones from $10 to $500 and see how to make your computers and mobile gear give their best performance ever.
Record Pressing Plant and Mastering Facility Tour
Acoustic Sounds presents a tour of the RTI/AcousTech record pressing plant. This four-hour off-site tour will take attendees to the RTI record pressing plant to see vinyl in action, as well as to the AcousTech mastering facility! The tour is free and maps are available at registration or you can take the bus. The bus leaves at 6pm sharp on Friday June 2 from the HE Show registration. Registration and an additional fee are required to take the bus. Pizza and beer are provided during the ride. To register , click here.
Acoustic Treatment Rooms
Join members of the Acoustic Guild and industry experts in acoustics in really hearing the difference in acoustic treatments for your home. Two rooms will be set up with the exact same system: one with acoustic treatments in place, one without. See if you can tell the difference. Ask the hard questions. Debate the experts. Is the space the final frontier to achieving great sound?
HP Presents the Digital Photography Workshops
Two great days of hands-on seminars are being held at the Show on Saturday, June 3 and Sunday, June 4 in the Hermosa Room. Your ticket also gets you into the Home Entertainment Show.
Day One: Digital Cameras Made Easy
In this day-long lecture seminar, you will learn how to take your pictures from the camera to the finished print and discover how to easily and effectively manipulate on the computer the photographs you took with your digital camera. This class opens the door to all aspects of digital photography. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from the pros.
Day Two: The Digital Darkroom
In this day-long digital darkroom seminar, you will learn to work with digital photographs or digital scans of existing film images to enhance, manage, color correct and print your images. This seminar covers in more depth, aspects of digital imaging that you will need to know to make the most of your photographs once they are in your computer.
$80 per day advance registration—includes admission to HE2006
$90 per day on-site registration—includes admission to HE2006
For more information, call (561) 276-9797, ext. 111. To register, click here.


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Now in its 4th year, this annual event brings to life the many tastes of Jewish living yesterday and today. Join us for a fun-filled day of treats –both sweet and savory—along with guided tours, a Marx Brothers classic and plenty of Jewish entertainment!
Enjoy Corky & Lenny's Matzo Ball Soup, Jack's Deli latkes, Aladdin's hummos, Whole Foods Israeli salad, Vienna Hotdogs, Mister Brisket, Chef Dave's Catering Salmon on salad, Hermann's pickles, Chopped Liver courtesy of food maven Ellen Vendeland, and delicious homemade treats.
11am-Noon – Laugh along as the Marx Brothers go to college in Horse Feathers
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Announcer: From the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, this is All About Grants.
Megan Columbus: Welcome to another edition of All About Grants. This is Megan Columbus from the NIH Office of Extramural Research. We've all seen it. Investigators working right up to the application due date, hoping to incorporate that last bit of late-breaking data into their application. Sometimes those research findings are not available until just after the deadline. Then what happens, or what do you do when there's a mistake in your application that you do not discover until after the due date? Can you fix it? We often receive questions about what kinds of material NIH will accept after the due date, but before the actual review happens. Today we have with us Sally Amero, NIH's Peer Review Policy Officer, to join us again to talk about NIH's post-submission materials policy. Sally, could you tell us what types of materials NIH will accept after the deadline?
Sally Amero: Sure. So, in broad terms, we will accept materials that arise from an unforeseen administrative issue or event. So let's say that there was a loss of an investigator, perhaps that investigator moved to another institution and has to be replaced. That could be an unforeseen administrative issue that has a big effect on the review and on the project. Let's also think about many of the natural disasters that have happened in recent years. Those are unforeseen events that might involve loss of an animal colony or replacement of certain facilities. So that's the type of thing that will be accepted.
Megan: Those would be fairly unusual events.
Sally: Fairly unusual. Now there is another spoke in the wheel there of the policy which will allow news of a publication that has been accepted. So we will not accept the actual manuscript, but one can inform the reviewers that manuscript has been accepted for publication.
Megan: What about in the case of a single receipt date funding opportunity announcement, so a request for applications, for example. If there's late-breaking data and this is somebody's one shot to get this application in, what happens in those cases?
Sally: Well, in those cases we will accept updated specific aims or research strategy pages, late-breaking research findings, or new letters of support or collaboration.
Megan: Okay, so those are handled a little bit differently. Are there exceptions to this policy?
Sally: There are a few. So, one involves certain funding opportunity announcements, which will specify the types of materials that they will accept. So it's not unusual to see in particular RFAs or PARs statement of the types of materials that will be accepted after the deadline. There's almost a separate policy for institutional training grants and fellowship applications. And the final exception would be things like videos and devices, which one cannot submit electronically and obviously have to come in after the deadline. Those are accepted at the discretion of the scientific review officer.
Megan: In terms of the timing, so how far before the review takes place would somebody need to contact the scientific review officer to see about submitting these types of materials?
Sally: So there is a cut-off for accepting these materials, which is thirty days before the review panel meets.
Megan: Does the scientific review officer automatically have to accept any of these materials or is that a conversation or a negotiation that's had?
Sally: No, if they fall under one of these acceptable categories, then it is no longer at the discretion of the scientific review officer.
Megan: So it's often times the investigator that is interfacing with NIH on these questions, but again this application is coming from an institution. So when these post-submission materials are submitted who submits them?
Sally: They can come either from the investigator or from the authorized organization representative, the AOR. If they come from the investigator, however, they must carry the active concurrence from the authorized organization representative. So, simply a CC to that AOR person is insufficient. Either the AOR can submit them on behalf of the PI or the PI can submit an email from the AOR confirming that they're aware of this material.
Megan: You know, Sally, one of the interesting things about doing podcasts is being able to see a little bit behind the scenes of the some of the policies. I wonder if you could give us some insight into the rationale behind this policy. I could imagine people out there saying, "Well doesn't NIH want to know everything so they can give me a fair review?"
Sally: So part of the rationale comes from our long-standing policy that incomplete applications are not accepted. So it becomes a fuzzy area here where people find that pages are missing or they really meant to say x, y and z when it says a, b and c. So to sort of firm up that policy and make it easier to decide when an application is complete, we had to cut off things that dribble in after the receipt date.
Megan: Well NIH has also been moving in other ways towards making sure an application is complete by the due date. So they've gotten rid of the error correction window that used to apply for electronic applications. Increasingly, what you submit by the due date needs to be a complete application.
Sally: So another aspect of the policy has to do with fairness. So when things are in the discretion of the SRO one would think that all of the applications going through one study section would be held to the same standards and expectations. But we were finding that across the agency different SROs had different views of what would be acceptable and that could be problematic. So in order to increase fairness, everyone should be treated to the same standard. We also wanted to implement the thirty day deadline so that SROs and reviewers could have a clean window in which what they were provided is what they were to evaluate without changes at the last minute. So there were many reasons for the policy.
Megan: It does lead me to realize -- I didn't ask this directly so I just want to confirm -- so that means if I had a mistake in my application that is not something that I'm going to be able to correct after the fact?
Sally: That's right.
Megan: And so the appropriate time for me to do that would be once I submit my application before the deadline, I look at my application before the deadline in the eRA Commons and I look at my image. At that point, as long as I'm still before the deadline, I could submit a corrected application and that's the only time?
Sally: Yes. Or let's say in the paper world it does happen sometimes where the master copy, if you will, with the ink signature comes in intact, but in the duplicating process some pages get lost, they stick together in the Xerox machine and that's hard to find. So in those cases we would probably just run off new copies from the master. But if the master is deficient we will not allow you to replace them, unless it's one of these RFA exceptions.
Megan: Alright. I think that helps. Thank you very much for joining us today. For NIH and OER this is Megan Columbus.
Announcer: You can find frequently asked questions and answers about the post submission materials policy on our website at grants.nih.gov. Click on the yellow question mark and look under "application/progress report information."


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Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac to consider new fee structure for mortgage servicers
The Federal Housing Finance Agency directed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to work on a new payment structure for mortgage servicers in the future. Servicers are currently paid a minimum servicing fee that is part of the mortgage rate, which the FHFA said, is not "optimal" for the best work on nonperforming mortgages for either the borrower or the government-sponsored enterprises. The FHFA said the new structure will improve servicing for borrowers, reduce the financial risk of the servicers and give the GSEs more flexibility when managing the loans. The new plan could include a new fee for servicing those nonperforming mortgages and could possibly reduce or eliminate the minimum servicing fees for performing loans. "As the recent problems in managing mortgage delinquencies suggest, the current servicing compensation model was not designed for current market conditions," FHFA Acting Director Edward DeMarco said. Mortgage servicers have come under fire for mishandling affidavits in the foreclosure and modification process, with some consumer groups arguing that the current fee structure is an incentive for the servicer to foreclose rather than work with the borrower. However, Fannie and Freddie have directed their more than 3,000 contracted servicing companies to consider alternatives before pursuing a foreclosure. The Mortgage Bankers Association will hold a summit in Washington, D.C. Wednesday, inviting industry players to consider a new mortgage servicing standard. However, it warned regulators this month not to rush. "Through our Council on the Future of Residential on Mortgage Servicing, we are looking at many of the same issues that Fannie, Freddie and FHFA will presumably be looking at," MBA CEO John Courson said in a statement sent to HousingWire. "We welcome the GSEs' participation in the broad debate over how to improve the mortgage servicing model and look forward to working with them on a new structure that better serves consumers, investors and servicers." In a letter to DeMarco, Treasury Department Secretary Timothy Geithner and Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan supported the initiative and pledged to work closely with the agency. "The current model has not motivated mortgage servicers to invest the time, effort and resources needed to fully explore all options to help delinquent borrowers avoid foreclosure," they wrote. "As we move ahead on a comprehensive plan to reform the Nation's housing finance system, addressing this issue will help better protect homeowners, investors, and taxpayers, while also increasing efficiency and competition in that market." The FHFA said the industry, consumer groups, investors and government agencies will be given the next several months to provide feedback, but it does not expect any new implementation before the summer of 2012. Write to Jon Prior. Follow him on Twitter: @JonAPrior


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Gray, Parker undergo MRIs following Game 5
Less than 24 hours after his team suffered a Game 5 AL Division Series loss to the Tigers for a second straight year, A's manager Bob Melvin sat in his office and went through a laundry list of injury updates. Notably, right-handed starters Sonny Gray (left thumb) and Jarrod Parker (right elbow) were scheduled to undergo MRIs at some point in the day. More >
MLB Notebook: Verlander owns the ALDS
In Division Series history, only seven times has a starter fanned 10 batters while not allowing a run. With his performance Thursday in Game 5 vs. Oakland, Justin Verlander added his name to that list for the third time. More >
Road to the World Series: Oct. 11, 2013
It was a different year, but the ending looked awfully familiar in Oakland on Thursday night. For the second time in as many seasons, a Justin Verlander gem in Game 5 propelled the Detroit Tigers into the American League Championship Series and sent the Oakland A's headed for an earlier-than-expected offseason. More >
Did you know? ALDS Game 5: DET 3, OAK 0
A look at some notable facts and figures from the Detroit Tigers' 3-0 win over the Oakland Athletics in Game 5 of the American League Division Series at O.co Coliseum on Thursday. More >
Verlander makes Coliseum his home away from home
The A's were home, but so was Justin Verlander. Talk about your hostile takeovers. He moved right in and made O.co Coliseum, not the most inviting of venues, his second residence in Thursday's dominant Game 5 victory. More >
Anibal realizes Fenway dream in Game 1 of ALCS
Anibal Sanchez used to imagine himself pitching for the Red Sox at Fenway Park. Saturday night, he'll make his first start at Fenway, but as the Tigers' hurler in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series. More >
Tigers 'Turn Up' the volume to celebrate clinch
The Tigers unleashed the "Turn Up" cheer, devised by Torii Hunter to help the team through some trying times, to celebrate their ALDS-clinching win over the Athletics. More >
Tigers GM Dombrowski: 'We're not done yet'
This is Dave Dombrowski's 12th season as Tigers president and general manager, and the celebrations never get old. But there are still mountains to climb. More >
ALCS has makings of even matchup of heavyweights
Despite their storied histories, the Red Sox and Tigers have never met in the postseason ... until now. The ALCS matchups promises to be an exciting one between a pair of heavyweights. The series opens Saturday at Fenway Park. More >
Miggy's homer helps stifle A's and injury fears
If Detroit is looking for harbingers, the appearance that Miguel Cabrera could be getting at least healthy enough to turn on pitches is encouraging. So is the fact that after scoring a combined six runs in the first 31 innings of this ALDS, the Tigers piled up 11 in the final 13. More >
Verlander's gem books Tigers' return trip to ALCS
Justin Verlander returned to Oakland and no-hit the A's for 6 2/3 innings Thursday, and though Oakland broke up the no-no, it couldn't snap his shutout streak as the righty helped send the Tigers through to the ALCS with eight shutout innings in a 3-0 win in Game 5 of the ALDS. More >
A's hitters tip cap to playoff nemesis Verlander
For the second straight year, the A's were eliminated in Game 5 of the ALDS by the Tigers' Justin Verlander, this time in a 3-0 loss in which he held Oakland hitless until the seventh. "He had a little extra life on his fastball tonight," Stephen Vogt said. "Whether he was fired up for Game 5 or what, I don't know. He was outstanding tonight." More >
A's savor West title but seek greater heights
The A's put together six straight winning months of baseball, only to be taken out of the postseason picture in seven days. Thursday marked the end for Oakland, which dropped its sixth consecutive Game 5 -- second in as many seasons to Detroit -- taking a 3-0 loss at the Coliseum to close the American League Division Series. More >
Gray unable to recreate Game 2 magic, takes loss
Should Sonny Gray have started Game 5, as A's manager Bob Melvin opted for in the deciding game of the American League Division Series? Would the end result -- a 3-0 Tigers win at O.co Coliseum -- have been different if Game 1 starter Bartolo Colon had pitched in Gray's place? The answer, of course, is unclear. More >
Deja Verlander: Athletics relive '12 heartbreak
Justin Verlander, who ended the A's season with a complete game in Game 5 of the ALDS last year, was even better on Thursday night, keeping Oakland hitless until the seventh inning on his way to eliminating the club once again. More >
Seeking hot hitter, Melvin starts Callaspo
Hoping for an improved offensive showing against Tigers righty Justin Verlander, A's manager Bob Melvin elected to give Alberto Callaspo the start at second base over Eric Sogard on Thursday for Game 5 of the ALDS. More >
Melvin reluctant to use Colon out of bullpen
Less than three hours before his club was set to take the field against the Tigers for Game 5 of the American League Division Series, A's manager Bob Melvin remained reluctant to use righty Bartolo Colon out of the bullpen. More >
Lineup breakdown: Tigers-A's, Game 5
Here is a look at Thursday's starting lineups for Game 5 of the American League Division Series between the Tigers and the Athletics. More >
Peralta given start at shortstop in Game 5
The Tigers have stayed alive in this American League Division Series in no small part by getting Jhonny Peralta back into their lineup, putting their Opening Day shortstop in left field. For Thursday's winner-take-all Game 5, manager Jim Leyland took his chances with Peralta back at short. More >
Coke resumes throwing program in Florida
While the Tigers prepared to try to continue their season, lefty reliever Phil Coke continued his throwing work in Florida, presenting the team with a potential option for later rounds in the postseason. More >


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10 Warning Signs of Alzheimer's Disease
By Maureen Pratt
Alzheimer's disease is a debilitating and progressive brain disease that causes changes in thinking, reasoning and behavior. An estimated 5.4 million people in the United States have the disease and, although it is more common in people age 65 and older, younger people in their 30s, 40s and 50s can develop it, too. There is no cure for Alzheimer's disease, but today, there are more treatments and support available for Alzheimer's patients and their families, particularly if the disease is detected and diagnosed in the early stages. The Alzheimer's Association (www.alz.org) has developed a list of 10 warning signs that might indicate the presence of Alzheimer's or another dementia. This list is not a substitute for a consultation with a medical professional, but it does provide helpful information that can then be discussed with your doctor:


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