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After Sunday's match between the United States men's team and Portugal became the most-watched soccer game in U.S. history, there's enormous anticipation for the U.S. match against Germany on Thursday. Unfortunately, most of us will be at work: Kickoff is at noon on the East Coast and 9 a.m. in the West.
So there may be a conspicuous drop in workplace productivity around then. Here's how agencies, marketers and media companies are (mostly) watching the game.
Leo Burnett, Chicago
This agency knew there were plenty of staffers who couldn't make it to Brazil. So it brought Brazil to them. Introducing Leo Burnettinho, the brainchild of Leo Burnett's Lapiz. Brazilian music plays in the elevators, and mangoes replace the legendary bowls full of apples in the lobby. There's also a Brazilian flag flying outside the building – and security guards all greet employees in Portuguese. There are no special plans for watching the match Thursday, though, the agency said.
Deutsch, Los Angeles
The agency has been watching soccer non-stop since the World Cup started anyway. The games play in two lounges and on a projector that displays in the lobby. One of the viewing areas is right by the desk of one of the summer interns, who is not getting much work done.
David & Goliath, Los Angeles
Plans were underway for a bagel breakfast viewing party at the West Coast shop -- until a client meeting was scheduled.
Johnson & Johnson
J&J will be watching for pleasure and for work. "We'll have TVs tuned into the USA vs. Germany match throughout our U.S. consumer campuses and will be posting live updates on our global intranet site to keep employees informed, no matter where they sit," said Lori Dolginoff, spokeswoman for Johnson & Johnson, a World Cup sponsor both for the corporate health care brand and the Listerine oral-care brand. "As with all FIFA World Cup matches, sport experts and illustrators from our New York City and London news rooms will be in full swing to react to significant real time moments on our Listerine Facebook page and Twitter handle."
TBWA/Chiat/Day, New York
The Omnicom shop is having a screening, replacing a town hall meeting with an earlier, beer-supported lunchtime session instead.
Digital Advertising Alliance
The industry group, which is holding its second-annual summit in San Francisco tomorrow, wanted to live-stream the game at the conference, but no go. So: "We're trying to script this in, that everybody who comes on stage has to give an update of the score," said Lou Mastria, managing director.
"World Cup fever is in full swing at Clorox in the U.S. and around the world, and everyone wants to see the game," said Benno Dorer, exec VP-chief operating officer at Clorox and a German by birth. "Our executive committee in Oakland has therefore agreed to extend an all-day meeting in the afternoon so we can watch the second half of the game together. I'm hoping for a 2-2 tie, which would make for a great game, allow both teams to advance and Germany win the group."
Droga5, New York
For the game tomorrow, the shop will use a big screen that drops down above the main staircase -- which then doubles as stadium seating.
Ogilvy & Mather, New York
Ogilvy is having viewing parties in its cafeteria, which is festooned with flags.
Targeted Victory
The ad firm, which ran digital for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign in 2012, is taking over its training center, which is big enough for the whole 90-person staff, and making its into an American-themed sports bar, according to co-founder Zac Moffatt.
Employees at the Emmaus, Pa., headquarters of the Men's Health publisher can watch the game at nearby SteelStacks -- the former home of Bethlehem Steel, now an outdoor event space -- as part of the International Soccer Festival and Viewing Party. It's among a handful of outdoor viewing events in the U.S. officially approved by FIFA and one of ESPN's cutaway locations during the U.S.A games. Men's Health is an official sponsor of the viewing party, though its staff, which are based in New York and not Emmaus, will have to settle for watching the game in a board room.
Havas Village, New York
Havas Village has converted its main dining space into the "#HavasWorldCup Hangout," where employees have been gathering to watch and cheer on their favorite teams with food, drinks and foosball. This week it also moved its weekly agency happy hour to Thursday at noon so everyone can see the match.


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August's abrupt sell-off ensured the summer holidays were not quite as relaxing as many market participants had hoped. Much has been written about the causes and influences of the extreme volatility but it is clear fundamentals played a significant role.
Developed world stockmarkets suddenly appeared to acknowledge something other asset classes have been concerned about for some time – that the fundamental health of the Chinese economy is nowhere near as robust as had hitherto been implied by valuations.
That the Chinese economy is slowing should not have come as a surprise. Recent quarterly growth figures have lacked credibility compared with other real economic data. Even Chinese Premier Li Keqiang allegedly mistrusts the country's official economic statistics, preferring to track growth by looking at real data. The Li Keqiang index, as it has become known, tracks growth in outstanding bank loans, electricity production and rail freight volumes, and currently shows a reading of just 2.5 per cent year-on-year. It last visited that level in November 2008, just after Lehman collapsed.
Of course, as a long-term fund manager, I am more concerned by the long-term outlook for the Chinese economy, and what that means for the global economy as a whole, than I am about its current predicament.
I have been consistently cautious in this respect for several years and I see no reason to change this view yet. Indeed, the number of reasons to be cautious about China is increasing.
The transition from an economy relying heavily on fixed asset investment to one which more closely resembles the Western, consumption-based economic model has been achieved before by other developing economies.
It is a very long road, however, and one with many bumps in it. In the case of China, the transformation also requires a different political approach but recent interventions in the stock and currency markets suggest the authorities are struggling to let go of the controls.
Meanwhile, the level of private sector debt in the Chinese economy is increasingly attracting attention. As the chart (left) demonstrates, Chinese private debt already surpasses the peak reached in the US in 2008 and is fast approaching the level of the UK's debt burden reached just before the financial crisis. This is alarming and suggests the Chinese economy will have to go through a period of prolonged debt moderation too at some stage, with negative implications for Chinese growth and in particular for its banking system.
The risks facing the Chinese economy are substantial and the market was right to start to worry more about them, albeit belatedly.
However, although the market correction implies the risks are now discounted more appropriately, it does not mean they have gone away. Far from it.
In 2009, China rode to the rescue of the global economy with a massive fiscal stimulus package. It does not have the balance sheet to repeat this trick now. Unlike other major economies, however, Chinese interest rates are not yet at the zero-bound so it does have scope to loosen monetary policy and has already started to do so.
This in turn creates problems for the rest of the global economy. Instead of facing internal deflation, China could export deflation to the rest of the world. The deteriorating fundamentals of the Chinese economy therefore have signification ramifications for the global economic outlook.
Recent events have not necessitated any changes to my portfolio strategy but they do provide further vindication to the cautious view of the global economy I have held for some time.
I have built the portfolios on the expectation they will receive little help from macroeconomic trends.
Nevertheless, there are some parts of the market that could continue to be very negatively impacted by China's ongoing woes.
Commodity prices and commodity-related stocks, for example, have already fallen a long way but are still far from low by historical standards. I continue to prefer companies that are more in control of their destiny.
Neil Woodford is head of investment at Woodford Investment Management


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Do you live in the now or keep a foot back in the past? Better yet, what should an API provider do?
At the end of July Last.fm shut off some old API calls, to the disappointment of some mashup users and developers (our Last.fm API profile). The company had some good reasons, but it raises the question about what developers should expect, especially from free APIs.
While the changes were announced in March, giving plenty of warning to developers, it is inevitable that some mashups wouldn't be fixed. Indeed, there are a host of applications that can no longer be written using the Last.fm API.
Carson Ball explains one way the change is noticed by users:
"The changes that Last.fm made were not backwards compatible and caused software that used the API to break. The open source music player Banshee for instance still displays recommended tracks from Last.fm, but is unable to play these tracks. When a user attempts to listen to a recommended track, he or she is greeted with the message 'GStreamer resource error: NotFound' on the terminal or in the error log. In light of this error, displaying the tracks at all is rather pointless."
In this case, it seems Last.fm had good reason to make the change. The streaming API was never documented or released, though the company did not stop it from being developed upon. Since copyrighted music is played through the undocumented API, Last.fm still had to pay for what developers used. There were real business and legal reasons for the API change.
Mature APIs like the Salesforce.com API, eBay API, and the Amazon Product API go to great lengths to address this issue via processes such as consistent release cycles and/or maintaining availability of old versions for long periods of time, even years.
Do you think APIs should always be backwards compatible? What's the best approach when something needs to change?


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'Arrow' Preview: Slade Comes to Starling City!
Slade (Manu Bennett) makes himself right at home in the Queen house in this still from tonight's episode of Arrow.
In "The Promise," Oliver (Stephen Amell) is shocked when he learns that Slade has come to Starling City.
Back on the island, as Oliver, Slade and Sara (Caity Lotz) prepare to take over the freighter from Ivo (guest star Dylan Neal), Sara pulls Oliver aside and tells him he needs to kill Ivo to prevent him from telling Slade what happened with Shado (Celina Jade).
Oliver feels immense guilt over the situation but realizes Slade's growing rage from the Mirakuru makes him unpredictable and he could turn on his friends if he thinks Oliver is to blame. Oliver agrees to kill Ivo and the battle begins.
"The Promise" airs TONIGHT, March 5 @ 8PM on The CW!
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So here was Namdar — Taliban chieftain, enforcer of Islamic law, usurper of the Pakistani government and trainer and facilitator of suicide bombers in Afghanistan — sitting at home, not three miles from Peshawar, untouched by the Pakistani military operation that was supposedly unfolding around us.You have to wonder whether Cheney and Rove would even care, as long as they get the spin they want.
What's going on? I asked the warlord. Why aren't they coming for you?
"I cannot lie to you," Namdar said, smiling at last. "The army comes in, and they fire at empty buildings. It is a drama — it is just to entertain."
Entertain whom? I asked.
"America," he said.
What's not so hilarious is that stories like this are only coming out now that Bush & Co. want to shift their military focus to Afghanistan and maybe even launch a war (declared or not) on Pakistan's tribal areas.


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Birthers beware: Hawaii may start ignoring your repeated requests for proof that President Barack Obama was born here. As the state continues to receive e-mails seeking Obama's birth certificate, the state House Judiciary Committee heard a bill Tuesday permitting government officials to ignore people who won't give up.
"Sometimes we may be dealing with a cohort of people who believe lack of evidence is evidence of a conspiracy," said Lorrin Kim, chief of the Hawaii Department of Health's Office of Planning, Policy and Program Development.
So-called "birthers" claim Obama is ineligible to be president because, they argue, he was actually born outside the United States, and therefore doesn't meet a constitutional requirement for being president.
Hawaii Health Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino issued statements last year and in October 2008 saying that she's seen vital records that prove Obama is a natural-born American citizen.
But the state still gets between 10 and 20 e-mails seeking verification of Obama's birth each week, most of them from outside Hawaii, Kim said Tuesday.
A few of these requesters continue to pepper the Health Department with the same letters seeking the same information, even after they're told state law bars release of a certified birth certificate to anyone who does not have a tangible interest. Responding wastes time and money, Kim said.
Both Fukino and the state registrar of vital statistics have verified that the Health Department holds Obama's original birth certificate.
The issue coincides with Sunshine Week, when news organizations promote open government and freedom of information.
"Do we really want to be known internationally as the Legislature that blocked any inquiries into where President Obama was born?" asked Rep. Cynthia Thielen, R-Kaneohe-Kailua. "When people want to get more information, the way to fuel that fire is to say, 'We're now going to draw down a veil of secrecy.'"
Nobody at the hearing questioned the fact that the president was born in Hawaii.
Attorney Peter Fritz asked why the state would pass a law punishing repetitive requests for open records. Instead, the state could simply say it would only answer each person's question once.
If the measure passed, the state Office of Information Practices could declare an individual a "vexatious requester" and restrict rights to government records for two years.
The committee will schedule a vote on the measure, said Chairman Jon Riki Karamatsu, D-Waipahu-Waikele.
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BROOKLYN, N.Y. — The Blue Jackets came into a game Tuesday night at the New York Islanders with 175 shots on goal their previous four games combined — a franchise record for a four-game span.
That included 50 Saturday against the New Jersey Devils — the sixth-highest total in franchise history — and 49 versus the Islanders at Barclays Center on Feb. 3, when they posted a single-period franchise record of 26 in the opening 20 minutes.
"When you're shooting (a lot), it gets you in an attack mentality," wing Nick Foligno said. "And it's helped our team. It gives you a singular focus … and it's got to continue, if not more. Let's throw 60 shots on net and see what happens."
Coach John Tortorella said the Jackets have concentrated on piling up shots "to try to help us get some consistency scoring goals."
Added Tortorella, "The way teams shut down shooting lanes and block shots in this league now, if you're not anticipating you're going to shoot the puck before it comes to you, that split-second, it's blocked."
Kukan, Sedlak back in
Defenseman Dean Kukan and Lukas Sedlak were back in the lineup Tuesday in place of healthy scratches Scott Harrington and Markus Hannikainen.
Tortorella said he went with Harrington and Hannikainen the previous game on "a gut feeling" and "I wanted to give them an opportunity to play." Both "did what they needed to do" in their first action in several games. He added of the four players, "I don't think there's a big gap as far as these guys in and out of the lineup."
Sergei Bobrovsky made his fourth consecutive start in goal and eighth in nine games.
In Juice he trusts
Tortorella said he has been more willing to put his fourth line on the ice lately, in large part because it includes veteran Jussi Jokinen.
"Juice can make a play. He forces those guys to make plays also," Tortorella said. "He makes up for the lack of foot speed right now in his career (in) that he can position himself and use a little bit of that savviness as a veteran guy."


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by Hugh Gilmore
Is there some way in which you're hoping to live a more creative life next year? Hoping to express yourself? Begin wood sculpting, or quilting, or writing a novel or memoir? Writing songs?
Are you hoping to lead an authentic life, one where you follow your personal star and not passively allow yourself to get sucked into the soft cushions of pop culture? Those ubiquitous earbuds everyone wears, the Internet they dabble with, the television they watch, are all provided by people who intend to make you passive and inexpressive.
They're not people, actually, they're corporations with products to sell. They hire "entertainment" companies to entice you to sit still long enough to hear their ads. The more ears and eyes they capture, the more money they make. The greatest number of eyes and ears are captured by appealing to the trite and obvious. Television is the elephant's boneyard of received wisdom.
Production companies know more about how to capture you than you know about how to escape them. They use the same principles that the junk food companies use to trick the taste buds – if you get pleasure from eating it, it must be good for you. The money guys have learned how to exploit that principle. Look around – the pharmacy counter is surrounded by aisles of health-destroying junk foods.
You only get one life. Tomorrow is never guaranteed. When should you begin your creative life, start capturing in print or song or paint the things you've noticed about life on earth? Does the fact that you worked all day mean you have to swoon onto the sofa every night? Think about that: You spend half your waking life working and the other half listening to lying commercials!
When does the time come to start living our real lives? No gong is ever going to sound and no celestial finger is ever going to point and say, "You! Yes you! Get up and start your true life's work now. The time has come."
Life doesn't work that way. Life creeps by, insidiously, quietly, entertainingly (if you have enough gadgets, you'll never get bored enough to notice), until it's all gone. It's possible that the only way to start your creative personal life is to pick a date and start. If you pick a date and you mean it, even though it frightens you, you'll figure out how to start.
Most people say, "I don't have time right now." They'll wait till there's a little more time, not getting it that there will never be more time.
You'll also need to know how much daily time you'll give the project. An hour is probably good. Two may be better, but even a half-hour will do, as long as you stay consistent. Try with all your might to make your work be daily, for the same length of time. A page a day of a novel or memoir means you'll be done in a year.
If you feel on any given day you have nothing to say, sing, or whittle, it doesn't matter. Go to your chair at your appointed hour and sit there the whole time. If you're writing, just tap one key over and over. You'll probably get bored and start typing words, or sentences. And a story, or memory, will come and you'll write it down. And you'll teach yourself to write that way. Read your writing back to yourself aloud (or tape it and listen). Everything you do in your chair counts toward your time.
Once you start, you'll have many temptations to quit. You'll have to face your own laziness, your own self-pity, your feelings of worthlessness, your negative energies and your own weariness after years of letting American commercial culture do your thinking for you. And the only way to do that is to show up every day and stay the appointed time. Before long, the mental and spiritual muscles you were born with will redevelop. If you put in your time, you'll feel good about yourself. If you don't, you'll feel like a coward and an excuse-seeker.
There's much more to finding your creative self than what's been said here. And there's no guarantee you'll get to Carnegie Hall. But you'll be able to say, "I tried." A weary soul can find much solace in saying that.
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Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine Hospitalized in Cincinnati
Update: In an emailed statement, DeWine spokeswoman Lisa Hackley said the attorney general is feeling better after a bout of vertigo, but will spend the night in the hospital for observation.
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text: Looking Up —MAV Well truth be told I've been hearing music in my head all week long. It has been constant and it has been mainly dance music. In fact, I have often enough found that I have broken out into dance whether hearing Love Train in the drug store (I swayed my hips straight up to the counter to pay for the toilet paper I was buying) or Butterflies on my iPod while driving (picture head bopping and high double snaps while at every stop sign I came up to). 'Oh Baby You Give Me Butterflies'………. yeah! I've been feeling it! But since short of making a dance and music video for 3191 Miles Apart (um, no way) I couldn't really think of a way to visually document my week-of-music-n-dance so I am going for the next best crazy idea that has been on my mind: looking up. Earlier this week I was hanging with my 14-month-old nephew and we were laying on the floor for a couple minutes together. Him looking at me; me at him; us both staring at the ceiling then back at each other. I really loved it; not sure why but I did. I decided in that moment that I would lay down in as many places as I could this week and take snaps … just to see what I found. No, before you wonder, I did not lay in the middle of the street but damn near close! It was a fun experiment and one I'm happy to show you … See! Isn't this better than a musical number by MAV? (Micheal Jackson and The O'Jays aside, if I had to do a musical number for you I think it would be something a little like this … me as Ginger of course … feathers and all.) —MAV Share TWITTER FACEBOOK TUMBLR PINTEREST EMAIL


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Walk inside Kourtney Kardashian's Calabasas pad and it's clear her kids have had a big influence.
From black and white striped walls to bright oversize Legos, the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star has transformed the family's home into a chic, child-friendly space.
"We have a kids kitchen right next to our kitchen, another teepee in the family room, some mini pianos in our living room next to the big piano [plus] random cars, strollers and shopping carts floating around," Kardashian says in the latest issue of Mini magazine.
"We also have an outdoor kids space with an arts and crafts table, an easel, a fruit stand and a train set for the kids to ride on."
But it's the bedrooms of Mason Dash, 4, and Penelope Scotland, 20 months, where Kardashian really took things to the next level.
"I think every child's room should have some magic in it. Those magical elements just came to life once the process began," the reality star says.
For her son, that means a safari-themed room full of big paper maché animal heads mounted on the walls, while a pretty-in-pink nursery adorned with cloud wallpaper on the ceiling is the perfect setting for her daughter.
"In both of their rooms, I started wanting everything all white," Kardashian explains. "And they both evolved once I found the perfect pieces that I knew were for them."
Now that the mom-of-two has finished up designing her home, she's teamed up with her sisters, Kim and Khloé, to launch their first clothing collection for girls. Their latest project, however, isn't exactly a surprise.
"My mom and I opened up a children's boutique called Smooch, which we had for five years and I did all of the buying," she says. "My grandmother also has a children's boutique called Shannon & Co., which she has had for 30 years and my sisters and I grew up working in."
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She continues, "It is in our blood. Once I had my own children, I [found] a new appreciation, understanding and education about children's clothes."
With his family's background, it's no surprise Mason has already started displaying an interest in fashion.
"Every day is different, but he loves to dress himself and pick out his outfit every day," Kardashian shares.
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"Knowing my priorities. Nothing comes before my children," she insists. "I find that putting everything else in order of importance also helps to get everything done! Having an amazing partner, Daddy [Scott Disick], doesn't hurt either."
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Listen to Podcasts on Your PDA
Use a PDA to listen to podcasts on the go.
Why restrict yourself to MP3 players or your PC when you want to listen to podcasts? Your PDA makes for a very capable podcatcher. Web-enabled PDAs can grab podcasts for you without having to sync to a computer.
This hack covers podcatching clients for both Pocket PC and Palm-powered PDAs.
Podcatching with Your Pocket PC PDA
With a Pocket PC device, you can use an application such as FeederReader to download podcasts from a wireless network and listen to or view them wherever you are. You can view any show notes included in the RSS feed, and with integrated file management, you can automatically delete podcasts after you've listened to them.
The integrated feel of the Pocket PC, with the optional ability to view notes from the podcast, makes for a great experience.
1.1 Sneakernet or direct connect.
You can treat a Pocket PC as a simple MP3 player to listen to podcasts: either downloading songs over ActiveSync or using a card reader. However, to really take advantage of podcasts, you'll want to consider installing an aggregator on the device.
To listen to podcasts you will need a decent amount of memory. I recommend at least 256 MB for a small number (510) of stored shows, with up to 2 GB to hold a large number of podcasts to listen to over a long weekend.
1.2 A walk-through using FeederReader.
First, download and install FeederReader (http://FeederReader.com/). You can install it into RAM or on a memory card. Installing it on a memory card will leave you more RAM for running programs. Using a program called CabInstl (search for "CabInstl" athttp://www.pocketgear.com/) you can install the CAB file onto your memory card.
Figure shows the process of installing FeederReader with CabInstl. After installing and running FeederReader, you can add a new feed by selecting that menu item and entering a URL, as seen in Figure.
Using CabInstl to install FeederReader
Adding an RSS feed
After adding all the feeds and arranging them into categories, select Update Enclosures (shown in Figure). This will download all enclosures in your podcast feeds. FeederReader downloads several podcasts at once. If any podcasts get stuck or time out, the remaining podcasts continue to download.
Checking the RSS feed for new podcasts
Then start the download by selecting the Enclosures option from the Update menu. You can see this in Figure.
At any time, you can bring up the Enclosure toolbar and tap the Play icon to play your downloaded podcasts. FeederReader will launch the appropriate player for the enclosure and let you continue reading other RSS feeds. You can listen to podcasts while you read news from RSS feeds. It works out great!
If the enclosure is a videocast instead, FeederReader will bring up the appropriate player for a videocast as well. It works with anything that the Pocket PC can display or play! To go to the next podcast or videocast, tap the Delete-Play Next icon (the right-facing triangle with the X superimposed on it) to automatically delete the previous podcast. This way, FeederReader is deleting the enclosure files right after you've finished with them.
Downloading a podcast
Figure gives some more detail on the IT Conversations show that FeederReader downloaded.
Inspecting a downloaded podcast
1.3 The Pocket PC as an MP3 player.
Some MP3 players can be mounted as hard drives without additional drivers on your desktop. With a Pocket PC, this is not directly possible. However, you can mount the Pocket PC as a drive on the desktop by using ActiveSync, the free program from Microsoft (it comes with every Windows Mobile Pocket PC and smartphone). When you do this, you can treat it as a mounted MP3 player and transfer files with thesame techniques as you would an MP3 player, whether using Windows Explorer to copy and paste or drag and drop. You can also set it up to transfer automatically from other programs (such as iPodder).
Installing podcatcher software on a Pocket PC or smartphone allows you to download podcasts directly to your device without a desktop. As of early 2005, four programs for Windows Mobile devices directly download podcasts: Egress (http://www.garishkernels.net/egress.html), Pocket RSS (http://pda.jasnapaka.com/), FeederReader for the Pocket PC, and iPodderSP (http://www.handango.com/) for the smartphone. (Get it? The SP stands for SmartPhone.) The developer of iPodderSP ported that program to the Pocket PC as well, and called it PiP, for "Pocket iPodder"; clever! While iPodderSP is a program dedicated to podcasts, the others are generic RSS aggregators in which you can also download nonpodcast RSS feeds.
In Figure you can see iPodderSP zooming in on the Dawn and Drew show.
Zooming in on the Dawn and Drew show
1.4 It's all about the Net.
To use these programs, your Windows Mobile device must have a connection to the Internet. Usually this is through WiFi, a cell phone (connecting with Bluetooth, IR, or a cable, and the cell phone data connection using, for example, EDGE), or ActiveSync with Internet Pass-through turned on (shown in Figure). Although a desktop is not required, it is sometimes helpful to connect with ActiveSync and take advantage of a broadband connection.
Many modern Pocket PCs come with integrated WiFi (usually 802.11b). WiFi combined with a broadband connection is one of the best ways to connect to the Internet for downloading podcasts. Remember that podcasts can be as short as 1 MB (one minute of audio of reasonable quality), but they can easily top 50 MB (one hour of stereo-music quality).
Unless you have a stable cell phone connection, and unlimited data for a fixed cost (more common in the U.S. than elsewhere), you'll likely prefer to download podcasts with a broadband connection and transfer them to your PDA through a WiFi connection or ActiveSync. GPRS data rates range from 20 kilobits per second to 50 kilobits per second (which averages 25 kilo-bytes per second). However, the newer EDGE data service offers between 6 and 15 kilobytes per second and 1xRTT hovers at around 712. (EV-DO is an improvement over 1xRTT that gets between 300 and 500 kilobytes per second in select U.S. cities.) A 20 MB file might take 12 hours over GPRS, 2030 minutes over EDGE, but less than 5 minutes over ActiveSync and even less over WiFi and broadband.
Setting up Windows XP for Internet pass-through
One of the things that is crucial to a Pocket PC but less so for a connected desktop is a "resume" capability for enclosures. The Internet connection on a Pocket PC is much less reliable than an Ethernet-connected desktop PC. In addition, you might be in a position to download for only a few minutes as you whiz by a WiFi hotspot on the road. In these cases, you would not want to have to restart any enclosure downloads from the beginning. Most Pocket PC podcatchers support resuming a download. For resume to work, it also needs to be supported by the server. This is common, but not universal. This capability benefits the podcaster (or, rather, the one who hosts the file), so you might have luck in contacting them and letting them know about resume capability.
1.5 Let's play.
So, you've got a flash memory card full of podcasts. Where do you start? You have three choices: browse the files within File Explorer, browse the podcasts with Windows Media Player (or another media player) and select one or more, or use integrated file management within your podcatcher.
If your podcatching program saves enclosures in one directory, you can use File Explorer to browse and play those files. However, you might need to be careful about which downloads are complete and which are only partially downloaded.
Figure shows the downloaded podcasts and videocasts. From here, you can sort them by date and delete them manually.
The directory of downloaded podcasts
The easiest way to play podcasts from a directory is to download all desired enclosures, listen to all of them, and then delete them before beginning to download the next group. If you delete the podcasts as part of your evening routine, you can download new podcasts overnight.
It can become difficult to determine when you can delete a podcast if you do not listen to all of them before beginning the next download. So, getting into a routine is highly beneficial. Better yet, use a podcatcher that has integrated file management.
1.6 Integrated file management.
File management can be integrated into the podcatcher. It involves launching the player programs and deleting files when you are done with them. With an MP3 player or podcatcher without integrated file management, you can develop a routine with playing and deleting, but that requires some effort and consistency in your podcatching life. With file management, you play podcasts, and when the first podcast is done, you play the next one while deleting the first one. Prior to playing the next podcast, you can choose to keep it or wait to delete it later. Integrated file management is implemented in FeederReader, for example, with the Enclosure toolbar.
With integrated file management, the podcatcher can keep track of the type of enclosure to determine the best method of playing it. If you play an enclosure from outside the podcatcher, Windows Mobile uses the file extension to determine the program used. Depending on how the podcasting server is set up, you might not have the original extension of the file and the system might find it difficult to play the file automatically. As a last resort, if you know what type of file it is, you can open the appropriate program and load the file from within that program.
Podcatching with Your Palm-Powered PDA
Quick News from Stand Alone Inc. (http://standalone.com/) is a PalmOS RSS reader that supports podcast enclosures. To start the installation, make sure your PDA is ready to sync. Next, download the QuickNews.rpc file from the Stand Alone site. Use palmOne Quick Install to install the QuickNews.rpc file on your PDA. Then, press the HotSync button on your cradle or cable, or initiate a wireless hotsync to synchronize your PDA.
Once the Quick News application is installed, tap the Add Feed button to subscribe to a podcast. You will need to type in the URL of the podcast's RSS feed, as shown in Figure.
Setting up a Quick News podcast feed
If your PDA supports a network connection, click the application menu button and select Update All Locally to start the download. You can use the host computer to perform the download by selecting the Update All at HotSync command.
To download enclosures (as shown in Figure), which are the MP3 files of the podcast, you need to have memory installed in your PDA. Podcasts range in size from around 5 MB at the low end to around 25 MB at the high end. So, plan your memory card purchase accordingly.
You manage the list of feeds using the feed list screen that appears on application startup. This feed list is shown in Figure.
Downloading podcast MP3s directly with Quick News
The Quick News feed list
Quick News is free for a 30-day trial period. You can purchase Quick News from the Stand Alone site for $14.95.
Some PalmOS PDAs come with MP3 player applications included in the preinstalled applications. Quick News does not play MP3 files directly, so if you don't have a player you will need to download and install one. I recommend Pocket Tunes (http://www.pocket-tunes.com/) and AeroPlayer (http://www.aerodrome.us/).
See Also
"Podcatching with Your PlayStation Portable" [Hack #9]


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"Looming oil shortages make industrial life vulnerable to massive disruptions and possibly even collapse.
"While the fossil-fuel era is entering its sunset years, a new energy regime is being born that has the potential to remake civilization along radical new lines, according to Rifkin. Hydrogen is the most basic and ubiquitous element in the universe. It is the stuff of the stars and of our sun and, when properly harnessed, it is the "forever fuel." It never runs out and produces no harmful CO2 emissions.
"Commercial fuel-cells powered by hydrogen are just now being introduced into the market for home, office and industrial use. The major automakers have spent more than two billion dollars developing hydrogen cars, buses, and trucks, and the first mass-produced vehicles are expected to be on the road in just a few years.
"The hydrogen economy makes possible a vast redistribution of power, with far-reaching consequences for society. Todays centralized, top-down flow of energy, controlled by global oil companies and utilities, becomes obsolete. In the new era, says Rifkin, every human being could become the producer as well as the consumer of his or her own energy so called "distributed generation." When millions of end-users connect their fuel-cells into local, regional, and national hydrogen energy webs (HEWs), using the same design principles and smart technologies that made possible the World Wide Web, they can begin to share energy - peer-to-peer - creating a new decentralized form of energy use."
"A market analysis group called CNW Marketing Research, Inc. out of Bandon, Oregon did a two year study of hybrids and found they were worse, not better in terms of life cycle energy consumption than comparable gasoline powered cars. That includes energy used in manufacture and recycling and disposal of very complex systems including loads of batteries. Then they are $4,000 to $6,000 more expensive than comparable non-hybrids. They are virtually un-reparable by anyone without a PhD in repairing hybrids, and many auto repair shops are declining to fix them - they go back to dealers where the price for repair is four to five times repairing similar problems on a conventional car. This means they are for the rich faux environmentalist crowd who want to keep driving and feeling good about themselves all at the same time. Shops have to gear up by buying $20,000+ in special tools, which means the home mechanic and person aware of peak oil would be an idiot to buy one even if they believed the hype that they were supposed to be better cars for the environment. Forget fixing it yourself. In addition to the $20,000 the car repair shop owner needs to train the mechanics in completely unfamiliar territory, which is advanced electronics and computers, a yet greater though widely variable cost. I learned most of this from the San Francisco Examiner, Car and Driver Magazine and interviews in the Sacramento Bee of many car shop owners in the Sacramento area who are refusing to repair hybrids."
"Jeremy, I have a similar position on decentralization as you, but Im for lower tech. It sounds as if you are advocating a continuation of the consumer economy with the same population size or larger. Have you quantified how much resources such as plastics from petroleum could float how many consumers for how long to have this global economy assuming theres no entropy or starvation from petrocollapse? Do you have an equation for your vision?"
"Greenhouse gases spur global warming, and scientists said that global warming in turn spurs greater greenhouse gas emissions, which means Earth could get hotter faster than climate models predict.
"Two scientific teams, one in Europe and another in California, reached the same conclusion: When Earth has warmed up in the past because of the suns natural cycles, more greenhouse gases wee spewed into the atmosphere. As greenhouse gas levels rose, so did Earths temperature.
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"Current climate models predict temperature increases of 2.7 to 8.1 degrees Fahrenheit, but Torns team found that additional carbon dioxide cause by the natural solar cycle could push these temperatures higher.
"That could mean increases of 2.9 to 11 degrees, and the higher temperatures are more likely, the scientists said in a statement. Both articles are to be published Friday in Geophysical Research Letters."
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If you prefer the layout of your keyboard and mouse on your MacBook rather than the lose side by side layout of your iMac, then a new gadget called MacDec can help you keep your keyboard and Trackpad in place.
The MacDec has been designed by thodio and allows you to simply click your wireless Apple keyboard and your Apple Magic Trackpad into place and enjoy an ergonomic layout as if it were a MacBook Pro. Keeping your keyboard and Trackpad in place using 8 powerful neodymium magnets.
The thodio MacDec is machined out of 15mm solid nut, teak or transparent acrylic in the shape of a MacBook Pro 15″ and comes equipped with 4 transparent rubber bumpers to provide a solid grip on your desk or lap.
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In the last week, we saw a fair bit of activity on the mobile front by some of the bigger social networks – and especially Twitter. Here's a recap of what's new: Twitter Yesterday the AP Twitter account was hacked and sent out a false tweet about the U.S. President being hurt. This led to a stock market tumble and then a quick recovery when the story was proved false. It highlights the need for all of us to filter and verify content before we spread it. That may slow us down a bit, but it's worth it. The latest…read more
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Last week I wrote about online security and how important it is to change passwords in order to safeguard your accounts and privacy. Now I want to talk about that other type of insecurity – the psychological kind. As individuals who are otherwise perfectly well adjusted, centred and completely at one with ourselves (aren't we? :)), we all have those gnawing feelings of self-doubt. And our online interactions often heighten them. As in: We went to high school together, why is that person taking so long to friend me?; I followed that colleague, shouldn't they follow me back?; I just…read more
Are you socially insecure?
Many of us are – insecure, that is – though we may not realize it. And I'm not referring to our personal psychological states (maybe in another post). Last Friday evening, I got an email from Twitter saying my account may have been compromised. I often get emails like that from spammers pretending to be banks or PayPal and attempting to get information. I never click on those. The same goes for Twitter DMs that claim someone has a photo of you that is…well, shocking. So I wasn't sure about the Twitter situation and decided to check the site's blog. Sure…read more
Chirp Guide: a 'TV listing' for live-tweeting events
With all the chats, hashtags and events being shared in real time, it's more challenging than ever to wade through the streams and discover topics of interest. Enter Chirp Guide, a new platform still in beta, founded by Rob Schutz. Chirp Guide is community-based resource that organizes Twitter events lets people have a 'TV Guide' overview of what's happening and when. You can follow the programmed streams (news, politics, sports, TV), customize feeds and find, add or rate the quality of live tweeted events. I like the concept and had a chance to ask Rob a few questions about the site.read more
Two tips for safer tweeting
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Working in Cinerama – wide-screen on the small screen
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text: SOUTH BEND - Sharon Marie (Black) Hoffman, 46, died Sunday in Memorial Hospital after an illness. Survivors include two daughters, Samantha R. Hoffman and Amanda E. Hoffman, both of South Bend; a son, David J. Jr. of Mishawaka; her parents, Anne and Raymond Black of South Bend; seven sisters, Mary R. Smith of Mundelein, Ill., E. Jean Morrell of Port Washington, Wis., Margie Deacon of West Lafayette, Ind., Patty Noble of South Bend, Paula Loria of Killingworth, Conn., Carol Vargas of Marietta, Ga., and Jenine Ward of Murfreesboro, Tenn. Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday in Corpus Christi Church. Friends may call from 4 to 9 p.m. Thursday in Kaniewski Funeral Home, 3545 N. Bendix Drive, where a rosary will be said at 8 p.m.


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SINBAD JR.Medium: TV animation
Produced by: Sam Singer
First appeared: 1965
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Space Ghost was the superhero who initiated the wholesale conversion of Hanna-Barbera from funny animals to that genre — but he was far from the first superhero to originate in that
medium. Tom Terrrific, Atom Ant and others preceded him. One of his more obscure predecessors was a guy named Sinbad Jr.
As the name implies, the young protagonist was the son of the famous sailor of The Arabian Nights (no relation). Aside from being an accomplished seafarer in his own right, Junior had a magic belt which, when tightened, gave him the build of a Greek statue and the strength of 50 men. The only other crew member on his ship was his first mate, Salty, a parrot. Together, they plied the seven seas, fighting villains such as Captain Sly, Blubbo and Rotcoddam. Viewers were at a disadvantage in trying to figure out the derivation of the latter's name, since they didn't see it in print and thus had no opportunity to spell it backward.
Like Clutch Cargo, Col. Bleep and other early TV cartoon stars, Sinbad Jr. had adventures brief enough to be syndicated and shown on kids' shows that also aired theatrical cartoons about Porky Pig, Popeye, Woody Woodpecker and the like. The producer was Sam Singer, whose earlier productions include Bucky & Pepito, Courageous Cat and Pow Wow the Indian Boy. In fact, a developmental version of Sinbad Jr. first appeared in one of Pow Wow's 1957 episodes.
Junior's own cartoons were made with the voice of Dal McKennon (Inspector Willoughby, Paw of Maw & Paw) in the title role, for broadcast in 1960. But American International Pictures, which had released The Magic Voyages of Sinbad a few years earlier, claimed rights to the Sinbad name. An agreement was eventually reached, and the series finally debuted on Sept. 11, 1965. The extremely limited animation used in it was no longer very salable, so new episodes were made by Hanna-Barbera. In these, the title character's voice was done by Tim Mathieson (Jonny Quest, Young Samson), and Salty was played by Mel Blanc (whose lesser credits include Pepe LePew and The Frito Bandito).
The 81 five-minute episodes were packaged into half-hour shows and syndicated to local stations in that form. Obscure as the show was, it actually had a media spin-off. Dell Comics published two issues of a Sinbad Jr. comic book in 1965. The art was by Tony Tallarico, whose less-than-popular work includes Jigsaw for Harvey Comics and Son of Vulcan for Charlton.
Both the TV show and its even less prominent comic book offshoot quickly ran their course and disappeared.
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'Oopiri' Valentine's day special poster outMar 24, 2016 03:55 AM
The teaser of Nagarjuna and Karthi's multistarrer movie 'Oopiri' will be releasing tomorrow (Feb 14) on the occasion of Valentine's day and before that the team has released a brand new poster.
Nag is on a high with the blockbuster result of 'Soggade Chinni Nayana' and his fans are looking forward to see this movie, which is releasing on March 25. He is going to be seen as a wheel chair bound quadriplegic patient in this movie. PVP is producing this Telugu-Tamil bilingual, which also stars Tamannaah as the female lead opposite Karthi and two of the important roles are played by Anushka and Adivi Sesh.
Vamsi Paidipally has eyed a hat-trick hit with this movie after 'Brindavanam' and 'Yevadu'. The film is all about the celebration of life.


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615 Spotlight: Granger Smith Introduces Earl Dibbles, Jr.
Texas Music Star Connects With Gun-Totin' 'Country Boy' Character
Texas artist Granger Smith loves to create. In the past year, he has released two very well received albums -- the studio disc Poets & Prisoners as well as the recent live album Live At The Chicken, recorded at the Chicken Ranch Dance Hall in Ledbetter, TX. In addition, the personable singer is about to do something very unique - in launching a brand new comedic persona named "Earl Dibbles, Jr." He admits that he loves getting to exercise his creative muscle.
"Sometimes people will say that it is too much," he admits to Billboard, "but I love moving forward with new ideas. That is my favorite thing about the business. Besides songwriting and singing for the fans, just being able to have no ceiling for creativity keeps me in it every day."
Though Smith is one of the biggest stars in the Texas format, his music has more of a laid back feel, similar to Don Williams. That's a comparison he likes -- a lot. "I love him, that's huge. I think about that concept everyday," he says of his different style. "When you're different, it has negative effects. However, I try to remind myself that anything that breaks big in the end was different in the beginning. I try to remember when I play music, I can only do what's natural. As much as I would love to be the rough guy who has that Texas sound because it sells a lot of records. But, ultimately I can't," he says. "It comes out sounding like me every time. I had someone tell me once that you can't chase the market. You've got to just do what you do and let the market chase you."
In addition to the two albums he has issued over the last twelve months, Smith is releasing a new single this week titled "The Country Boy Song," as the afore-mentioned Dibbles. Watch the Video:
Smith says it's another outlet for his creativity. "I've done a lot of different characters on YouTube, and the most recent character I have come up with is Earl Dibbles, Jr. He's a country boy who lives out on the ranch. It's actually my parents' ranch --- where they live. There's an old abandoned house out there. We created the skit in literally a couple of days. We threw it together -- the life of Earl Dibbles, Jr -- and the things he does in a day. He wakes up, puts a good dip in, cracks a cold one, gets dressed, and sits on logs. We thought it was funny, but we didn't think we had a goldmine of any sort. I don't remember being that excited about it, but suddenly it started taking off."
That is somewhat of an understatement. Smith smiles when he describes just how big Dibble has become. "People began to share it and pass it around. It started going and going," he reflected. "Now, we're over 410,000 views, so we know that we've got something special with it."
He says it has been received the way it has because the character is very familiar to people. "Everyone knows an Earl Dibbles, Jr. They have either met him, have one in their family, or have an aspect of him in themselves. Just like with music, I had always wanted to connect with people, and this video started to do that."
Smith plans to share the stage with Dibbles during his shows as the single picks up steam. "We are going to play our whole show, then I'll leave at the end, and I'll throw on the hat and overalls, and Earl will come out -- as if he's the headliner."
Smith doesn't have to be told that it's a unique approach to releasing a record. The closest thing that it could be compared to is Ferlin Husky recording as "Simon Crum" in the 1950s, or the Statler Brothers' transformation into "Lester 'Roadhog' Moran and the Cadillac Cowboys" in the 1970s. Though a risk, he likes rolling the dice. "It could totally fail, and be an embarrassment and a joke, but I am excited about it!" he exclaims. The single is available on iTunes today.
Highly respected Texas Music journalist Rita Ballou thinks the experiment will be nothing short of a slam dunk.
"Granger Smith fans or subscribers to his YouTube channels know that his 'characters' are nothing new, but there is just something about Earl Dibbles Jr. that was so different that people could immediately relate to. I think it is because everyone has a little Dibbles inside them or even has one in their family. Earl seems to allow Granger to let loose and show his vulnerability while still keeping that country boy pride," she says.
Check out the story of Dibbles at EarlDibblesJr.com.


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DENVER -- Xcel Energy Inc. is telling dozens of Colorado cities and towns that starting Jan. 1, they won't be allowed to hang decorative banners, flags or decorations on its power poles any longer.
The utility concedes that banners and flags have been hung on the poles before, but it says the adornments could catch wind and pose a safety hazard to the public _ and a liability to the company.
Xcel spokesman Mark Stutz says the company is simply enforcing a decades-old rule prohibiting anything except "police attachments" like speed limit signs or cameras from being placed on power poles.
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PERTH, 1 April 2014<\/strong> – A marquee investment opportunity in the heart of Western Australia's famed Margaret River wine region is being brought to market exclusively by JLL. <\/p>
The property at 4259 Caves Road in Wilyabrup includes a newly constructed cellar door, brewery and restaurant along with an expansive residence, and benefits from prominent exposure and frontage to the main scenic route through WA's south west.<\/div>

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According to JLL Director of Sales and Investments WA, Phillip Fogliani, the 14.1938ha property, located about 20km north of the Margaret River town centre, has a long term income stream equating to a weighted average lease expiry profile of more than 11 years. <\/div>

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JLL Executive in Sales and Investment WA, Matthew Monaco, said that the home offers the potential for use on a lifestyle basis, permanent residence or could be leased out for additional income.<\/div>

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MONTGOMERY, AL (WSFA) - We've all had that downtown lunch meeting that ran just a little longer than expected. We finish up our good-byes and then walk briskly to our cars hoping that there's no ticket. Sometimes we get lucky, sometimes not and in those cases a "friendly" piece of paper is waiting for us beneath our wiper blades – the beloved parking ticket.
Most people do the right thing and pay the fine because that's the law – you break it – there are consequences. There are however a number of "habitual offenders" that don't pay their parking tickets. Some of these folks have piled up hundreds of unpaid tickets.
The City of Montgomery on March 1st will be kick-starting a boot program to get violators attention. You will now receive a boot on your car if you have five or more unpaid parking tickets. To get it off you will need to pay $75.00 dollars within 24 hours as well as making arrangements to pay the fine. Interestingly, since the announcement daily payments for parking tickets have gone from $180 to $220 dollars daily to $1600 dollars per day. I think the city got their attention.
If Mark Bullock were doing this editorial he would say "Clean Up" but he's not so I say "Pay Up!" I'm Collin Gaston and we appreciate and encourage your feedback.
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Sticks and Stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me……. An old adage that can once more be taught, even in the digital age.
I read an article in The Australian about the rise in use of smart app. devices in 4 – 8 years olds and the consequent risk of cyberbullying exposure. Apptapping tots need cyberbullying lessons. (Karvelas, 2014)
I regularly witness tablet and smart phone use in a 7 year old neighbour and also a friend's 4 year old son, and I would not want them, or others, to receive any malicious cyberbullying.
What instigates concern is a line from this week's lecture, Living and Learning in the digital world, concerning social media bringing schoolyard bullying into the home 24 hours a day. The implications of a victim of bullying not having a safe haven away from the schoolyard, could have a debilitating effect on them both personally, and as a student. (Howell, 2014)
Couple that chilling thought with the potential for this schoolyard bullying to occur in a very young age group, 4 – 8 year olds, prompted me to think about keeping our digital security tight, and the need for an early childhood education program in the prevention of and protection from cyberbullying.
I explored some school programs and found the following article to have the most helpful guidelines I can use as an educator to prevent and stop cyberbullying. 15 strategies educators can use to stop cyberbullying. (Clifford, 2012)
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Clifford, M. (2012) 15 strategies educators can use to stop cyberbullying. Retrieved from: http://www.opencolleges.edu.au/informed/features/15-strategies-educators-can-use-to-stop-cyberbullying/
Howell, J. (2014) Living and Learning in the digital world Mod 1 04 Topic 3[ilecture]. Retrieved from http://echo.ilecture.curtin.edu.au:8080/ess/echo/presentation/1636447f-aa10-42de-bec3-f6fe6f44932e
Karvelas, P. (2014, March 12).App-tapping tots need cyber bully lessons. The Australian. Retrieved from: http://article.wn.com/view/2014/03/11/Apptapping_tots_need_cyber_bully_lessons/
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When decorating a bedroom in a beach house, it is tempting to use a lot of coastal themed patterns and objects, but that can sometimes lead to a "theme park" look. To decorate a bedroom with a chic coastal vibe, it is best to use classic coastal colors, solids, stripes and textured items. You can then bring in a few touches of the coast with your pillows, artwork or accent pieces.
Here are a few examples of Chic Coastal Bedrooms to inspire you.
In this master bedroom, a boat-like bow ceiling sits within a dutch gambrel roof.
The classic navy and white color palette and the seagrass texture of the bed frame evoke a coastal feel. A simple shell accent on the side table is all that is needed.
The shell themed pillows and the starfish above the bed are the perfect touches to this crisp, inviting bedroom. The classic stripe rug anchors the furniture
Beautiful browns and soft blues create a soothing color palette. The collection of sealife prints add a beautiful focal point to this room.
Happy Decorating!