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By: Zach Hernandez (@Zachhernan)
The 49ers have continued with their complete makeover of the entire franchise. Unlike previous years when Owner/CEO Jed York essentially bought a can of Fix-a-Flat when in reality the car needed an entirely new engine, the 49ers appear completely committed to this rebuild on all fronts. When the team hosted its Open Practice, the new decor was on full display for all of the Faithful making their way in to enjoy.
The 49ers also announced their plans to add a Ring of Honor to commemorate their lucrative, Lombardi-filled history. Along with their five Super Bowl wins, the 49ers will also recognize 26 players, coaches, and executives. Also, this season legendary fullback Tom Rathman will inducted into the Ring of Honor as well.
All of these visual changes are a beautiful sight to see. It shows the new regime trying to not only connect to the fan base, but also helping former 49ers greats feel right at home at Levi's Stadium.
The team also announced the presence of HOF'ers Jerry Rice and Steve Yound were at practice Monday (08/14/2017) and even participated themselves in a few drills.
Jerry Rice and Steve Young, who is not dressed for practice. #49ers https://t.co/10547Y4LAM—
Eric Branch (@Eric_Branch) August 14, 2017
Nice photo by The Chronicle's @Lea_Suzuki of Steve Young and Jerry Rice at this morning's practice. #49ers https://t.co/XbIpBYkSOY—
Eric Branch (@Eric_Branch) August 14, 2017
Jerry Rice & Steve Young talked to #49ers today about franchise's legacy and culture. Jerry sticking around to run… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…—
Cam Inman (@CamInman) August 14, 2017
Something you don't see every day: Jerry Rice is warming up with 49ers. (Steve young here, too, not warming up tho). https://t.co/qVtGcGXnwC—
Matt Barrows (@mattbarrows) August 14, 2017
The new visuals up at Levi's look fantastic if you ask me.
It looked like the perfect place for something magical like this to happen.
Look what else happened today?! Congratulations 🎊 💍 https://t.co/SVnhO2WhDK—
Levi's® Stadium (@LevisStadium) August 05, 2017
All in all, I know I'm not the only one who is loving the new appearance of Levi's Stadium. Having 49ers greats such as Jerry Rice and Steve Young is great for not only the fans, but the team as well. They get to learn under and practice with some of the greatest to ever play the game. The banners and player photos (current and previous) are doing a great job of making the 49ers' new house finally feel like a home. I can't wait to get this season started and hopefully get some new good memories to add to Levi's Stadium.


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PITTSBURGH – Leaders of the world's major economies are coming together on reforms to rein in huge bank bonuses, toughen financial regulations and guard against the dangerous imbalances that contributed to the worst global downturn since the 1930s.
In the process, the Group of 20 countries decided they will serve as the board of directors on decisions for the global economy, taking over a role performed for more than three decades by a smaller group of wealthy nations.
President Barack Obama initiated the move to transfer the responsibilities of economic coordination from the Group of Eight major developed countries – the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Britain, Canada, Italy and Russia – to the bigger G-20.
The G-20 also includes major emerging economies such as China, Brazil and India and underscores how much the world has changed since a small club of wealthy, industrial countries began meeting in the mid-1970s in an effort to respond to oil shocks, stagflation and other economic crises of that period.
The decision was to be announced Friday as Obama and the other leaders prepared a joint action plan to address regulatory overhaul and efforts to achieve more balanced growth.
The Pittsburgh G-20 meeting did have one thing in common with recent G-8 meetings: protesters seeking to demonstrate unhappiness with global capitalism. Police fired canisters of pepper spray and rubber bullets at several hundred demonstrators who had tried to march toward the convention center.
Police reported that about 20 protesters were arrested after demonstrators threw rocks and broke windows.
In another development, Obama and the leaders of France and Britain demanded that Iran fully disclose its nuclear ambitions "or be held accountable" to an impatient world community. They threatened new sanctions after the disclosure of a secret Iranian nuclear facility.
"Iran is breaking rules that all nations must follows," Obama said in the opening moments of the G-20 economic summit.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Iran has until December to comply or face sanctions. "This is for peace and stability," the French leader said. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown accused Iran of "serial deception."
The Pittsburgh meeting marked the third G-20 leaders summit in less than a year as the countries continued to grapple with a debilitating downturn that has resulted in millions of unemployed around the world, the loss of trillions of dollars in wealth and massive amounts of government stimulus spending designed to jump-start economic growth.
With spreading signs that the worst of the downturn is over and many countries beginning to return to modest growth, the leaders were able to hold their discussions with less of a crisis atmosphere than their two previous meetings – in November in Washington and in April in London.
But the lessening of the crisis raised concerns that the momentum to implement reforms could lessen as well, posing a threat G-20 officials vowed to resist.
"We are not going to walk away from the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and leave unchanged and leave in place the tragic vulnerabilities that caused this crisis," Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told reporters.
Geithner at a Thursday news conference predicted that summit partners would endorse the broad outlines of a proposal to deal with huge imbalances in the global economy, such as large trade surpluses in China and record budget deficits in the United States.
The Obama administration wants the group to agree to a "framework for sustainable and balanced growth" that could include monitoring by the International Monetary Fund.
The framework would not include firm targets for trade and budget balances, as had been urged by some European nations. That position was strongly opposed by China, which worried that its huge trade surpluses would become a target.
Geithner said the U.S. supports China's efforts to gain greater voting rights in the IMF and its sister lending institution, the World Bank, over the reservations of European nations, who would lose influence.
The leaders gathered with their spouses for a welcoming reception at a botanical reserve where they were greeted by Obama and Michelle Obama, wearing a sleeveless taupe-colored cocktail dress.
The biggest clashes between police and demonstrators occurred at just about the time the reception was beginning. The protesters banged on drums and chanted "Ain't no power like the power of the people, `cause the power of the people don't stop."
Geithner said the G-20 countries had reached a consensus on the "basic outline" of a proposal to limit bankers' compensation by the end of this year. He said it would involve setting separate standards in each of the countries and would be overseen by the Financial Stability Board, an international group of central bankers, finance ministers and regulators that has representation from all the G-20 nations.
The U.S. won a battle with Germany, France and some other European nations who wanted specific limits on bankers' bonuses.
"Europeans are horrified by banks, some reliant on taxpayers' money, once again paying exorbitant bonuses," European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said.
Geithner predicted the proposed crackdown on bankers' bonuses would be in place by the end of the year as countries join together to maintain momentum for change.
Also expressing optimism was German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who said, "I think we have a chance to reach progress in all important fields." Merkel faces her country's voters on Sunday.
Associated Press writers Ben Feller and Daniel Lovering contributed to this report.

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Taking an average of the cheapest five premiums, the average cost of a fully comprehensive car insurance policy fell by 2.9pc to £844 in the period July-September 2012 compared with the previous three months, according to AA Insurance.
But after a summer of storms and floods, a similar survey of home buildings insurance found an average rise of 2.4pc to £181, while home contents insurance costs rose by 1pc to £242.
Over the late-summer period, young male drivers saw their premiums fall by 0.7pc to £1,603 on average, while those for young women fell by 2.2pc to £1,127.
All regions of Britain saw average car insurance premiums fall except Anglia, where they rose by 1.4pc. Scotland remained the cheapest region in which to buy car insurance (averaging £438) while Greater Manchester and Liverpool are the most expensive areas (£1,059).
On home buildings insurance, the AA reported a rise in every region this late-summer period. The biggest regional increase, of 3.5pc to £177, was in Yorkshire and East Anglia, while London and south east England were the regions with the highest average premiums (up 2.9pc to £200).
Wales and the West Country had the cheapest home building premiums – they rose by 1.1pc to £157.
On home content insurance, the highest premiums were in the central England and north west England regions – up 0.7pc to £101. The cheapest regions were Scotland and the West Country, each with £79.
On car insurance, AA Insurance director Simon Douglas said: "Competition is tough in the insurance market, forcing many companies to reduce premiums despite the fact that costs show little sign of abating. Nevertheless, some are still increasing premiums.
"Motor insurance has been a focus of Government attention for some time and next year, new legal reforms are expected to reduce the cost of personal injury claims and fraud. Whiplash injury claims continue to pour in and under current legislation, they are difficult for insurers to reject, even if they think they may be fraudulent, because it is difficult to prove whether or not a claimant has suffered."
On home and content insurance, Mr Douglas said: "I am very concerned that no agreement has yet been reached in finding an affordable option to the 'statement of principles' between the insurance industry and the Government, which ensures that families in flood-prone properties can continue to obtain flood cover.
"This expires in June next year and if no agreement is reached soon, could lead to the most vulnerable homes becoming uninsurable.
"To put this into context, insurers measure flood risk in terms of events likely to happen over a period of years. Even if a home is at risk of flooding once in a century, given that the average cost of repairing a flood-damaged property is £20,000, that is the equivalent of £200 per year, on top of the cost of covering other risks."
Mr Douglas said flooding was extremely costly in terms of home and general economy disruption, yet investment in flood defences had fallen by more than 20pc.
He went on: "It's vital that the Government and local authorities make tackling the problem at source by investing in flood defences a priority. It's hard to think of a better return on investment."


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Piscataway, NJ (PRWEB) July 25, 2014
iTeleCenter is shining the spotlight on its client Share 'n Care Compounding Pharmacy of Belen, New Mexico. The pharmacy relies on an iTeleCenter toll free number to take messages when their local number is busy or when the pharmacy is closed.
Share 'n Care is a local independent pharmacy owned by Wilfred Chavez, R.Ph. The pharmacy has been in business since 1973. Share 'n Care is actually 4 pharmacies in one. They have a traditional pharmacy and a Durable Medical Pharmacy, where they sell wheelchairs, walkers, and hospital beds, diabetic supplies including shoes and socks for diabetics, all on the first floor. Located on the second floor is their Compounding Pharmacy along with their Long Term Care Pharmacy that serves Nursing Homes and palliative care patients.
iTeleCenter ensures that the pharmacy never misses a call. If the business's main number is busy, callers are routed to voicemail. This allows healthcare providers to call in prescriptions at any time of any day. It also lets customers leave a message after hours or when the main number is busy. Pharmacy staff is able to quickly retrieve messages at any time in order to promptly process prescriptions and return calls.
According to their sales and marketing specialist, Paul Davidson, prior to implementing iTeleCenter, there was no way for providers or customers to leave a message. When the local line was busy or it was outside of normal business hours, calls just went unanswered. iTeleCenter solved that problem and has given the pharmacy a more professional image.
iTeleCenter wishes Share 'n Care Compounding Pharmacy continued success and looks forward to serving them well into the future.
About iTeleCenter
iTeleCenter has been successfully providing communications solutions to small and home based businesses for more than two decades. Since its inception in 1992, iTeleCenter has flourished into a fully fledged virtual phone system with local numbers, vanity numbers, or toll free numbers. Businesses rely on its advanced features including voicemail with instant notification, call forwarding, call transfer, call capture, and online faxing. iTeleCenter helps entrepreneurs, business owners, and remote employees work from different locations while calls are forwarded to their mobile or home phones. To learn more about iTeleCenter, visit: http://www.itelecenter.com.


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Chinamasa: Zimbabwe not yet ready for its own currency
FINANCE Minister Patrick Chinamasa said Friday the country is still far from having its own currency.
Zimbabwe adopted use of multiple currencies in 2009 after its currency had been rendered worthless by a decade of hyperinflation.
The U.S. dollar has been the main transacting and trading currency but there has been an acute shortage of the greenback, resulting in authorities introducing local bond notes in November last year to ease the bank note shortages.
However, the supply of the bond notes has remained limited and the country continues to face cash and liquidity challenges.
Speaking at a post-budget meeting, Chinamasa said Zimbabwe will only be able to re-introduce its own currency after addressing key macro-economic fundamentals that include having sufficient reserves for imports.
"We are not yet ready for our won currency until we have done certain things which include addressing the budget deficit, addressing the issue about import cover. If I got six months cover, that is good enough but at the moment its 0.7 months cover. This is not good enough.
"We need to address the issue of trade balance especially where our imports are not adding value to the economy," the minister said.
The minister said one feasible way of building up reserves to support national currency is to resuscitate a few idle gold mines through joint ventures so that they can produce gold solely to build up reserves.
"What I have in mind is that there are a lot of gold mines sitting idle for lack of capitalization. We can take one, two or three of those mines to produce gold not for disposal but to build the serves so that we can build an anchor to any future currency that we may want to introduce," Chinamasa said.
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July 2015, Auto Dealer Today - Feature
by Jim Alton
As every dealer knows, technicians can make or break a service department. In this day and age of highly sophisticated vehicles, it is important to staff your service department with well-trained and motivated techs in order to fix every vehicle right the first time. But it's extremely tough to find and keep qualified techs.
A common route dealerships use to find technicians is to advertise in the local paper. This sometimes results in a good candidate, but more often it helps find technicians who are disgruntled, have developed bad habits, and are just looking for higher pay. Let's take a look at some other options, as well as key strategies for keeping your best techs on your roster.
Most community colleges and technical schools offer two-year degrees in automotive technology. Graduates have learned the fundamentals of auto repair and have demonstrated a level of commitment to the field. Though they may be lacking in experience, they can grow into valuable assets for a service department.
Automotive Youth Educational Systems (AYES) is another good resource for entry-level techs. It's a program available at select high schools in which students participate in learning auto technology while spending time working for a service facility. According to the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA), studies have shown that AYES interns who move on to full-time jobs in the service department are loyal to the dealerships in which they work and often improve efficiency and profitability. And because interns are paid less, dealerships can make a higher profit on the work they generate.
Given the difficulty of finding good technicians, dealerships should work equally hard at keeping them. The best way to do this is train, train, train. Given today's vehicle complexity, it is imperative that technicians are properly trained on a consistent basis.
Training not only ensures technicians have the proper knowledge to repair the vehicle (fixed right the first time) but also demonstrates the dedication of the dealership to continuing education. Techs who are well-trained tend to be more productive and take more pride in what they do. Let's face it, when a tech tries to perform a job he is not trained to do, there are some serious consequences: bad CSI, rechecks and exposure to liability, just to name a few.
Don't look at training as an expense. Think of it as an investment in the viability and profitability of your service department for the future. Take advantage of factory-sponsored training and advanced courses at community colleges. Train your techs properly, and chances are they will be an asset for your service department for many years to come.
Jim Alton is service solutions specialist for Service Group, an F&I income development company. firstname.lastname@example.com
Tags: employees, hiring, parts and service, technician training
This sounds like great advice however there are other factors not mentioned. When a tech comes out of school they are hired as a lube tech. In my shop they were shadowed by seasoned Mechanics as part of their training to move up. I found there to be a hierarchy in the shop that lube techs never seem to move up in. They cannot achieve the confidence of other techs/managers. They get their experience under their belt at one dealership and graduate to the next level moving to another where they aren't seen as just a "lube tech". So the training I am investing in tends to be for the next service department and I can only hope that the lube tech I get from them was trained just as well.
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Heard knows delegation and outsourcing are the quickest path to a work-life balance.
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Cheers is a modular shawl I designed for a weekend workshop at The Yarn Club in Virginia Beach, now that the workshop is complete I can share it with you all!
Cheer's begins with a shallow obtuse triangle that is worked from one end to the other. The top long edge of the triangle has an integrated i-cord edging, and the bottom edge is worked with a slipped stitch as the first stitch of every row.
Once the triangle is complete, stitches are picked up along this slipped stitch edge. Then a transitional 2 color border is worked with optional beads. The main color is then cut and an architectural lace border is worked in one color with optional beads. Finally the bottom edge is bound off and your shawl is ready to be blocked!
Yarn stores… do you think your shop might want to knit Cheers? I've got a mini version of it that you can use in class to teach your students everything they need to know to knit Cheers!!! Just get in touch if you are interested!
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Harder, deeper, longer: experts warn that cutting down can change the way you smoke
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Harder, deeper,<spanstyle='font-size:14.0pt;'> longer – expertswarn that "cutting down" changes the way you smoke
Tryingto cut down the number of cigarettes smoked is a pointless strategy for smokerstrying to protect their health. <ahref="http: www.ash.org.uk="" html="" cessation="" nsd2001.pdf"="">New advice [1] published by the <ahref="http: www.nosmokingday.org.uk="" "="">organisers of No Smoking Day based on <ahref="http: www.ash.org.uk="" html="" cessation="" cuttingdownseminar.html"=""><spanstyle='text-decoration:none;'>expert analysis ofthe available evidence [2] suggests that people may have been lured into afalse sense of security. Fewer cigarettes may be smoked, but they are likely tobe smoked harder, deeper and longer – leading to just as much exposure to toxictar and noxious gases, like carbon monoxide. At the same time, smokers may feel they are doing something for theirhealth and lose the will to quit – which is the only approach that does work. Clive Bates, Director of ASH said:
"It seems like common sense to advise cuttingdown, but actually it's a losing strategy which gives the appearance of doingsomething for your health, while distracting from the real business of quittingcompletely.
"Once you see smoking as a form of nicotineaddiction, it is easy to see how smokers can get the nicotine they need fromthe fewer cigarettes by smoking them harder, for longer or drawing the smokemore deeply into the lungs. If you cutdown, you are likely to change the way you smoke.
"It's a bit like advising an alcoholic to cutdown intake by switching from wine to whiskey. It's just a different way of consuming the same drug.
"There is no point in trying to cut down, youhave to tackle smoking head on and cut it out.
Aswell as cutting down, many people still believe that low-tar cigarettes offerthem health benefits. This is nottrue. Low tar cigarettes are justanother variation on the cutting down idea. With low tar cigarettes air is introduced through ventilation holes todilute the smoke [the tobacco is exactly the same]. Smokers adjust their smoking to take in more smoke to get thenicotine they need. ASH and ImperialCancer Research Fund have shown this to be a deliberate tobacco industry ploy[3].
"Low tar cigarettes are one of the biggestconsumer confidence tricks in all of history. People think they are less harmful, but smokers just take biggerlung-fulls of diluted smoke and end up with just as much tar and nicotine.
"The tobacco companies knew that low-tarcigarettes offered no health benefits, but promoted them to keep smokers buyingcigarettes even if they are worried about their health.
"Low tar cigarettes and 'cutting down' arediversions from the real business of quitting completely and likely to do moreharm than good in the long run.
[1] <ahref="http: www.ash.org.uk="" html="" cessation="" nsd2001.pdf"="">To Cut down or to stop smoking… is there anyquestion: a report for No Smoking day 2001
[2] <ahref="http: www.ash.org.uk="" html="" cessation="" cuttingdownseminar.html"=""><spanstyle='text-decoration:none;'>Report of an expert seminar[draft for consultation] 13th February 2001 on 'cutting down'.
[3] <ahref="http: www.ash.org.uk="" html="" regulation="" big-one.html"=""><spanstyle='text-decoration:none;'>Big one: Low tar cigarettesand how the tobacco industry fooled the smoking public
Contacts: <spanstyle='font-family:arial;'>Clive Bates: 020 7739 5902(office) 077 6879 1237 (mobile) (ISDNavailable)
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Succesful Round Table Conference
Monitoring Composite Structures2 July 2014 00:00
On the 26th of June, the Aviation Academy of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences was proud to host the Round Table Conference 'Monitoring Composite Structures'. The Round Table Conference united researchers and practioners from the industry to exchange thoughts on the developments in monitoring techniques of composites and its practical application.
After an introduction by Maurice Pelt regarding the conference topic and guest speakers, Peter J. Kortbeek from Fokker Aerostructures continued with a presentation on the requirements for monitoring systems. Afterwards, Roger Groves presented the research conducted at Delft University of Technology. Rolf Evenblij presented the activities of Technofobis. Engineering Manager Theo Versteeg concluded with a presentation on monitoring composite structures at Arkefly.
During an expert panel discussion led by John Verbeek of the Aviation Academy, Rogier Nijsen lector Hogeschool Inholland and research scientist from Knowledge center WMC, Giel Vaessen from NAC, Jeroen de Vries from KvE, and Maarten de Vlieger from Airborne were able to deliberate on the subject. The session concluded with a network drink.
The Aviation Academy would like to thank all guest speakers and expert panel members for the effort put into making the Round Table Conference a success.
For more information on related research at the Aviation Academy of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, click here.


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What the Papers Say - Huw S Thomas reports:
The joy of getting a bonus point in the mid-week game against Tonmawr and ensuring Premiership survival for another year was forgotten on Saturday when the Drovers lost to Aberavon in the semi-final of the Swalec Cup. Llandovery dreams of a return to the Millennium Stadium, where they beat Cardiff in the 2007 final, were shattered at Carmarthen Park where Aberavon won a very tight cup tie.
The Drovers matched the Wizards in tries and conversions but full-back Matthew Jarvis kicked two penalties to make the vital difference between two evenly matched sides.
Llandovery had more than enough possession to win the game but poor tackling on two crucial occasions and an inability to turn constant pressure on the Aberavon line into points cost them dearly.
Llandovery coach and former Aberavon back Lyndon Lewis was as disappointed as his opposite number Simon King was exultant. "With that possession we should have closed out the game but fair play to Aberavon they were defensively immense in the contact area and stopped us getting the momentum we needed. Everyone is bitterly disappointed as the game was there for the taking. I feel we lost it rather than Aberavon won it."
Aberavon started with a bang when No 8 Nathan Strong burst away from a lineout to run 30 metres through poor tackling for a try converted by full-back Matthew Jarvis.
But a yellow card for prop Neil White let the Drovers back in, full-back Daniel Evans dummying through for a try converted from wide out by fly-half Howard Thomas.
There was little to choose between two cautious sides but a Jarvis penalty and a solo try by wing Chris Lewis, who again exposed fragile tackling, took the Wizards to a 15-7 interval lead. The build up to the Lewis try included what looked a clear forward pass and, with Thomas missing with two difficult penalties, it did not look Llandovery's day.
But it was all change after the break and an excellent build up saw wing Lee Rees squeeze in at the corner from a pass by hooker Emyr Phillips with 20 minutes to go.
The Drovers bashed away at the Aberavon line, a series of scrums and lineouts stretching the Aberavon defence to the full. But there was a worrying inflexibility in the one-dimensional Llandovery attacking. An insistence on keeping the game tight, and a sad lack of wit and invention to deceive a wonderfully brave defence, proved costly and denied the Drovers a second Millennium Stadium final.


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University Relations and Communications
Student government readies for annual Easter Egg hunt
April 13, 2011
Associated Students of MSU Billings, 657-2365
Dan Carter, University Relations, 657-2269
MSU BILLINGS NEWS SERVICES — Montana State University Billings will hold its 21st annual Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, April 23 at 10:30 a.m. All children ages 10 and under are invited to participate in the free event.
Associated Students of MSU Billings — the student government of the university — are again organizing the event. About 6,000 brightly colored and candy-filled eggs will be spread across the university lawn near McMullen Hall and on Peaks to Plains Park for the search.
The Easter Bunny will be present at this event and free refreshments will also be provided in the Student Union Building atrium.
For more information, contact the ASMSUB office at 657-2365.
PHOTO ABOVE: Hundreds of children from around Billings attend the annual Easter Egg hunt at MSU Billings


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Putin has his flaws (like high level of corruption), but almost everyone would be better than the traitorous drunkard Yeltsin. Russia is stronger under Putin and is also more prosperous. Putin has political will. Under Yeltsin it was just crime, destruction of the army, of health care, of education etc.
Vladimir Putin is a better Russian leader than Boris Yeltsin. That would be leading though because they are both pretty bad when you compare them. Life under Putin is better in Russia then it was under Yeltsin. There is not much to like about Vladimir Putin because he is vain, runs a corrupt government and autocratic.
No Vladimir Putin is not a better Russian leader than Boris Yeltsin, because Putin has taken Russia several steps backwards. Putin is making sure that Russia is more secretive and strictly controlled than it was in Yeltsin's day. Boris Yeltsin took some positive steps to make Russia more free. For that reason, Yeltsin is better than Putin.
Putin is not better than Yeltsin but he is still good. Especially with the Olympics starting we can see how much pride and work Putin is putting into his country. He wants to re establish Russia as a major country in the world. He is not better than Yeltsin though who was a lot more involved politically
Vladimir Putin is anything but a competent leader these days. I think when he took over from Yeltsin, he was a good choice and the economic expansion of Russia was at first a good thing. But I think all that money flowing in has corrupted him and caused him to try to become the next Russian dictator.
Vladimir Putin is a corrupt thug who is attempting to bring back the worst of the Soviet era system, without actually resorting to Communism. It's pretty clear at this point he's rigging the elections to stay in power there. Also, his stance on human rights with regard to Russia's recent anti-gay laws is shameful and he should be shunned internationally for promoting hate.


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Nokia Asha 503 review
|Review: December 2013
In a nutshell: The Nokia Asha 503 is a fun, low-cost alternative to a smartphone. Pocket-sized, with a touchscreen interface and built-in messaging, this could be a good phone for teens.
Today's best buy: Nokia Asha 503 3 inch Sim Fr ... from Amazon (£0)
Design & looks
Innovation doesn't come very often to the budget phone sector, but here it is in abundance! The Nokia Asha 503 is a non-smart touchscreen phone with an unusual, if not unique, design.
The phone is made from a plastic core (available in a choice of colours) encased in a clear plastic shell that protects it and gives it a very distinctive look. It's a funky and practical design, with your phone protected from knocks and scratches. Gorilla Glass adds further protection to the screen.
The Asha is light in weight and pocket friendly in size too.
The screen is small for a touch-based phone. Perhaps too small to be comfortable. 3 inches isn't a lot, especially when you need a large part of the screen for a virtual keyboard. It isn't a high-res screen either, with just 320 x 240 pixels available, giving a pixel density of 134ppi. We'd say it's too small for serious use.
Asha platform
The Asha 503 runs Nokia's touchscreen-based Asha operating system. It's not a smartphone, but it does have some apps available. pre-installed apps include Facebook, Twitter, Sina Weibo, LINE and WeChat. It's basically a phone that's designed for messaging.
The Asha 503 is fitted with a 5 megapixel fixed focus camera. Although it has an LED flash, it's not a great camera for low-light photos, and the lack of focus means that it's below average even in the budget end of the camera phone market.
The phone comes with a stereo FM radio and a music player. There isn't much memory onboard, but you can add a 32GB memory card to store your music collection.
The phone includes Wi-Fi for fast data access, as well as Bluetooth 3.0, a micro-USB connection and a 3.5mm headphone jack as well.
It's also a 3G enabled phone, with HSPA giving download speeds up to 7.2Mbps for fast data on the move.
Battery life
The 1200mAh battery is small in comparison to smartphones. Although the screen is small, if you use the phone extensively with Wi-Fi enabled, you'll drain the battery quite quickly. Check your social media regularly and you'll be charging every night.
The Asha 503 is a fun, entry-level phone that could be a good alternative to an Android smartphone for a teen. It's cheap, robust, easy to use and with all the essential apps. But there are Android phones that can match it on price and offer more flexibility and power.
Nokia Asha 503 features include:
- 5 megapixel camera with LED flash and 3x digital zoom
- Video camera, 320 x 240 pixels, 15 frames per second
- Display: LCD, 240 x 320 pixels (3 inches)
- Music Player
- Stereo FM radio
- Music ringtones
- Speakerphone
- Messaging: SMS, MMS, email (POP3, IMAP4 and SMTP protocols), Instant messaging
- Internet: Web browser, GPRS, EDGE, HSPA
- Connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0, micro-USB 2.0, 3.5mm audio jack
- Memory: microSD card slot (up to 32GB supported)
- Vibration alert
- 3G HSPA plus quadband GSM
- Size: 103 x 61 x 12.7 mm
- Weight: 110g
- Battery: 1200mAh
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Reviewed by florence
from south africa
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This cell phone is freezing. Also as its facecover is glass its break so quick an easily if fell on down. Mine fell while it was only 3 months old and it broke, after that the touch screen stop working, some bottons were jammimg.
Reviewed by Brian majawa
from Malawi
on 4th May 2015
This phone is useless, freezing all the time.
Reviewed by Brett
from South Africa
on 20th Apr 2015
I have had this phone for 6 months now and I have not any problems with it. Good camera and excellent battery life with whatsapp and facebook. It is easy to use and built to last as its encased in a hard shell.
Reviewed by daniel
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on 12th Nov 2014
This phone is a stupid thing,I sold it to my customers and problem of freezing ,many of them complained of this device,most returned them for another
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I don't hear much from Wolfe Island about noise or health complaints, so when I came across this report I perked up. It turns out not to be very much. One lady is complaining about her arthritis getting worse. I don't doubt there's health issues with turbines, but this particular story doesn't advance the knowledge base much at all. I'm posting on it just so it's in the record.
Category Archives: Wolfe Island
Dec 7, 2011 – East Lake Ontario
Below is a click-to-enlarge composite of the 4 wind energy projects that are at least far enough along to have definite numbers and placements of turbines. The 4 projects are Wolfe Island, Amherst Island, White Pines and Ostrander Point. All of these are Important Bird Areas. And Ontario isn't done. There are plans for additional projects in the remaining gaps. Look and weep.
WI – Pre Operational
As an early part of the project the developer, Canadian Hydro Developers (CHD, sometimes referred to as CREC – a subsidiary who is doing the actual project), had to create a preliminary Wolfe Island Environmental Review, 3.5mb on the effects the project would have on the Island, including the birds. This review found a fair number of owls and other raptors there, and mentioned there would be effects upon them. The discussion section (section #4) of that report has 4 subsections on particularly important types of birds: winter, migratory waterfowl, other migratory and breeding. For each of these four types there's a
"monitor and mitigation" section, except for the winter birds, where's there's just "monitor." So I guess instead of having a plan to actually fix the problem, they'll just watch it develop. The report admits there are important populations of birds that will be affected, doesn't know how severe the effects may be, and does not offer any way to mitigate them. Nice work.
The final Wolfe Island Environmental Review, 3.6mb has no significant changes in the wording, and no movement of turbines, in spite of the risks. The "mitigate" link above now includes a comparison of the draft/final changes for the summary chart, where you can see the nature of the changes made. A NY bird specialist, Clifford P. Schneider, who knows Wolfe Island well, wrote this scathing report, 0.2mb on the value of this ER.
If you insist upon reading the entire final Wolfe Island Mitigation Study, 2.8mb be my guest. The bird section is 7.9 (their page 278), the VTE (Vulnerable, Threatened and Endangered) section is 7.10 (page 293), and the final mitigation summary chart (section 7.14) is located at the end of this study. I found it interesting that mitigation banking is not mentioned in this report; it didn't appear until the Post-Construction Follow-up Plan, below.
To make matters worse, there have now been proposed wind farms stretching from Cape Vincent to Point Petre that contain roughly 600 turbines. These 600 turbines would pretty much line up along the entire eastern end of Lake Ontario, potentially having significant effects on a globally important flyway. You'd think someone would take the time to study the total impact of all this, but so far the developers on both sides of the border are successfully getting each project approved individually. Consider the blatant dishonesty regarding Wolfe and Amherst Islands, where CHD persuaded Ottawa that a full EA wasn't needed on Wolfe because, in part, adjacent Amherst Island wouldn't be developed in the "foreseeable future". Almost needless to say, the "foreseeable future" didn't extend out to six months before AI came into play again. Leslie Kaduck of WIRE has written this letter to CHD and Stantec (the "bird" consultant) regarding this issue, received unsatisfactory answers from them and was unsuccessful in her pursuit of a combined assessment.
Due to the importance of the habitat on Wolfe Island, as part of the federal EA process (Ontario could care less), CHD had to create a Wolfe Island Post-Construction Follow-up Plan, 0.3mb (the PCFP) which details how the ongoing monitoring of birds and bats will be done, the requirement to create this plan having been added to the mitigation summary chart in the final ER. On page 14 there's mention of taking surveys on islands surrounding Wolfe (including Amherst) to see if a decrease in waterfowl on Wolfe is matched by an increase elsewhere. Nothing is mentioned about raptor displacement, an odd omission. I can tell you that the number of raptors on Amherst is very high right now (Dec 2008), high enough that I noticed it before I thought of any displacement from Wolfe. So now what happens if turbines are placed on Amherst? Where then do the raptors go?
In sections 3.2 and following (page 21) the Follow-up Plan lists 3 categories of potential victims (Birds, Bats, and At Risk), along with mitigation actions if too many carcasses are found under the turbines. As an example, one of the mitigations is to potentially shut down the turbine. Within birds there are 4 categories (Raptors, Waterfowl, Grassland Birds and Wetland Birds) where an additional trigger is a general decline in their populations in the project area. But the mitigation here will NOT be to shut down the turbines. Rather, CREC will donate money so someone can manage an alterative habitat, per page 24 in the plan. It sounds to me like they are fully aware there will be a decrease and they are probably already budgeting for that eventuality.
Even a fairly casual review of the mitigation banking – donating money so alternative habitats can be established – raises all sorts of questions about how effective it is. The Sierra Club has published this review of the practice. That review refers specifically to wetland mitigation banking and the problems it has. Mitigation banking for raptors has no history at all. Just a few seconds of reflection brings up a host of problems with any proposal to replace Wolfe Island's large raptor-friendly habitat. Where would that large an area be located? Who would take what is presumably now a large not-friendly habitat and rework it so that it becomes more friendly? My guess is CREC won't even try to replace the habitat. Instead they will give an unspecified amount of money (apparently at their discretion) to some organization who will spend it however they want. Perhaps it will go to Ducks Unlimited, so more hunting areas can be set up somewhere. Or maybe they'll buy a piece of crappy land and donate that. This response bothered me enough that I took the time to write this letter to Stantec (CREC's bird consultants) et al. It bothered WIRE enough to cause them to write this letter to Stantec.
There is, however, some new wording covering cumulative effects and Amherst Island, in section 8.4 on page 59. Due to the importance of this new wording to Amherst Island, I cover it in more detail in AI's history page. The Green Act may well remove the requirement to do a full EA, so even this last-second hurdle may be insignificant.
Early in December NRCan issued their final screening report, 0.5mb. This was a review, at the federal level, of all the environmental issues that were covered in the Ontario process. Most of this report simply mimics what CREC had prepared for Ontario, and refuses to submit those reviews to further scrutiny. So for all practical purposes, there will be no more obstacles for CREC to build whatever it wants on Wolfe Island. And whatever it wants is shown in the the Wolfe Island picture albums. Look and weep.
Construction Update: January, 2009, including information about shady construction practices.
Construction Update: April, 2009, including how promises are not being kept.
In the spring of 2009, Environment Canada put out a notice, which has since gone missing. Anticipating this, here's the text: "Note that hunting restrictions have been put in place for the Wolfe Island area to address concerns over the declining use of this area by waterfowl. As a result, hunting will be permitted in the Wolfe Island area only when hunters are on the island, on the shore, in the shoreline marsh, or on a dock within 20 metres of the shore." That certainly didn't take long, did it? I assume these restrictions were lifted, however the Follow-Up Reports are not good, see my posts on Wind Farm Realities.
May 2009. Wind Concerns Ontario has another update on the construction.
June, 2009. WIRE has distributed this letter to residents. You can certainly get a sense of how betrayed they feel. And there's this letter from a resident that provides more information.
June 26, 2009. The project is officially in operation. Normally they would have some sort of dedication and ceremony, complete with visiting dignitaries. If they had such a ceremony, it certainly wasn't advertised. For ongoing reports, please go to my WI – Post Operational page.
WI – Post Operational
As I get tidbits from Wolfe Island I'll be posting them here, in chronological order. For WI's history before and during construction, with a heavy interest in the bird issues, go to WI – Pre Operational.
April 2010. CHD has abandoned its commitments in the ERR to restore roads damaged by construction, opting instead for a financial buyout to the township. This was apparently negotiated by the mayor without full disclosure to the council. The final vote included several council members who have a direct financial relationship to CHD.
May, 2010. The first full 6-month Post Construction Follow-Up (PCFP) report was released by Stantec. Hundreds of birds and bats were found dead under the turbines. Wind Farm Realities, my companion site, has the details.
January 18, 2011. I posted a report on property values at Wind Farm Realities.
January 27, 2011. The second full 6-month PCFP report was released, things are not looking good for the birds. Wind Farm Realities, my companion site, has the details.
February 28, 2011. Margaret Duchoda, who lives on Wolfe Island, wrote this letter to Tim Hudak, the PC leader in Ontario who we hope will become the next premier after the October elections. Hudak favors returning control of wind projects to local governments, and mentioned that McGuinty, the current PM, had stopped a project ( WI Shoals) that Kingston had "favored".
May 5, 2011. Ed and Gail Kenney are appealing the tax assessment on their property on Wolfe and there was an article about it in the Whig-Standard [backup link]. It's interesting to note all the lawyers on one side of the hearing and just the Kenneys themselves on the other. I'd be very surprised if they found relief. The article did have one tidbit I found interesting – there have been 15 noise complaints, one of which is ongoing. It would be interesting to see what criteria Transalta is using to determine what "resolved" means – is (a) the complainer satisfied, or (b) the noise is "within limits".
May 13, 2011. The Whig had an article [backup copy] about how the short-ear owls have disappeared from the western end of Wolfe, where the most turbines are. It was also noted that: "Hennige said that from his recent observations, it appears all 10 of the resident red-tailed hawks were victims." I'm waiting to see how Trans-Alta and Stantec spin this. This was also mentioned at the KFN Workshop last March.
The Lake Ontario Waterkeeper has a link to this Living at the Barricades program, 11mb, 30 minutes that discusses wind projects in Ontario, with Wolfe Island prominently featured, especially in the first 15 minutes. CTV did a 2-part series on wind turbines, and the second part featured Wolfe Island. The links are to the right side of the page.
At least not everyone is upset by the turbines. Someone apparently thinks they'd be a draw. I'm waiting for someone to shank a ball off a blade tip.
Wolfe Island
The Wolfe Island project consists of 86 turbines spread over the western portion of Wolfe Island. The project has been controversial from the beginning and telling a complete history is beyond my means. For this discussion the most important thing to remember is that Wolfe Island is right at the mouth of the St. Lawrence river, and thus is a major (as in globally significant) stopover and corridor for migrating birds. It also has a large population of raptors and other birds some of which are not common, especially in the winter. It is listed by Environment Canada as an IBA – Important Bird Area – and as such any development on it gets their highest scrutiny. That's the theory, anyway.
A major problem is who ends up enforcing the environmental mandates. Note that all the large Ontario wind projects come in just under 200mw of capacity. Kincardine is 199.7, Prince is 189.0, the Melancthon's are 199.5, the Kingsbridge's would have been 198.3. Wolfe Island's is 86 turbines times 2.3mw each equals 197.8mw. Just one more turbine and the total would go over the magic 200 mark. What is so special about 200? I think that's when the federal full EA becomes mandatory. That limit applies to other energy projects, i.e. hydro. Below that limit the environmental reviews are primarily Ontario's responsibility, with the Feds doing just a screening (if that). Anyone who thinks these projects are optimally sized for physical or economic reasons as opposed to political reasons is in serious denial. And the developers have been richly rewarded by Ontario's largely-non-existent regulatory stance.
All projects of this size (gt 2mw) must go through what they call the "Environmental Assessment Process". The way its written, it sounds like they will end up doing an Environmental Assessment. Not so, and I think the misleading wording is intentional. The "Process" has a set of triggers that, if not met, lets the developer slide into a less restrictive "Environmental Review", which is reviewed by the province, with the federal government doing just a "screening". So far, not one of the 19 eligible projects in Ontario has triggered a full Environmental Assessment, even though their were public requests for 17 of them. The Ontario government simply refuses to do them.
For Wolfe Island, there's been a series of Environmental Reviews etc and a casual reading of them would lead one to think that the developer and the government will be doing everything necessary to protect the birds from harm. But a close reading and some history will quickly destroy any illusions that the government or the developer cares anything about the birds. I go into far more details on my Wind Farm Realities web site, as well as on my WI Birds and WI History posts.
Here's a series of links to reference materials regarding Wolfe Island and the project there.
- Wolfe Island Picture Albums
- Wolfe Island video, 3.1mb, 70 seconds.
- Canada Env 2005 Guidelines, 0.2mb
- Canada Env Assessment, 0.7mb
- Canada Env Protocols, 0.2mb
- Wolfe Island Final Bird Report, 3.6mb
- Wolfe Island Final Mitigation Report, 2.8mb
- Draft Wolfe Island Post-Construction Plan, 0.3mb
- Final Screening Report, 0.5mb.


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Some bands always seem to fly just under the radar much of their careers, with some varying success of album sales or tour popularity. Quite possibly the greatest example of such is the quirky but talented group known as Ween. Now in their 25th year making music together, Gene and Dean Ween have managed to create some odd and unique albums since their emergence in the late 80s/early 90s, but more importantly have managed to tour with extreme purpose and have gained a loyal following that crave their incredibly intense live concerts. Even after so long together, Ween still perform their shows with unbridled energy and fortitude.
This Halloween, Ween displayed evidence of that when they came to the 1st Bank Center in Broomfield, CO and threw down three straight hours of rock n' roll madness. The unofficial holiday is perfect for this band, as they are typically viewed as a bizarre, oddball act drawing legions of freaks to their shows. And the freaks were abound this evening for sure.
Approximately 4000 eager fans showed up to witness Ween in action, and of those about 85% donned their finest costumes to celebrate the festive day and this unusual band in proper style. Multiple takes on Alan (Zach Galifianakis) from The Hangover, Chilean miners, robots, slutty school girls, as well as various song references ("bananas and blow") shuffled about the venue, soaking in the friendly vibe.
In good form, Gene and Dean along with their talented band mates Dave Dreiwitz (bass), Claude Coleman (drums), and Glenn McClelland (keys) joined in the fun and graced the stage around 8:30 in giant bunny outfits. The five giant "furries" couldn't help but take turns pseudo-screwing their band mates while the audience roared with excitement.
Immediately following the mating session the band officially started the party and ripped into a fitting rendition of "Fiesta". The boys continued with two gems off their 1992 release Pure Guava, "Don't Get Too Close (2 My Fantasy)" and "Touch My Tooter".
Soon after these songs the majority of the group ditched the bunny outfits, due to the fact they were obviously too hot to wear on stage. Gene revealed a pink-dyed hairdo as flamboyant as his on-stage presence; while Dean stated "I think I'm having a heat stroke in this thing" (he powered through it and kept it on the rest of the show sans the giant head). One can only rock so hard in such costumes before comfort becomes a factor, and the same can be said about the audience who were obviously working up a serious sweat as well.
The first hour of the concert continued with spirited versions of "Take Me Away", "Spinal Meningitis (Got Me Down)", and "Voodoo Lady"; all culled from their popular studio album Chocolate and Cheese. Soon after fans were also treated to some of their more recent tracks "Your Party" and "With My Own Bare Hands".
Hour two continued to traverse through their large catalog of originals, and the band showed no signs of slowing down. A rollicking "Gabrielle" gave way to the concert favorites "Piss Up a Rope" and "Reggaejunkiejew"; all before the band launched into arguably the most fun song of the evening.
Gene told the crowd they had a very special guest joining them for this number, and asked everyone to please welcome to the stage "Mr. David Bowie". The band, and the crowd, looked towards the backstage but of course nobody came out. Gene proceeded with the joke by saying "What? You want me to do it dude? OK, here it goes", at which point the band launched into a dead-on and fiery version of Bowie's smash hit "Let's Dance". And yes, everybody in the place did just that and sang along to this 1980s pop classic.
Some odder tunes slowed things down a bit before the band revved the crowd back up with some of their most popular songs to start off the third and final hour of the night. The Caribbean-laced, Buffett-esque "Bananas and Blow" shook the house while versions "Booze Me Up and Get Me High" and "Push the Little Daises" had the entire audience singing along.
"Roses Are Free", an original that sometimes gets mistaken as a Phish song due to its heavy rotation as a cover in their live shows, also reared its beautiful head and was played with exuberant flair. With this performance, Ween officially reclaimed that song as their own. It segued into the set-ending tunes "The Mollusk", "Dr. Rock", and the explicit Irish drinking-style ballad "The Blarney Stone".
The band took a short break before returning for a 4-song encore. Their choices did not disappointment, as they executed perfect versions of the concert staples "Mister Won't You Please Help My Pony?" and "Freedom of '76", before launching into the oddly fun "Stroker Ace".
The final song of this monstrous evening of music was the jam-heavy and Prince-inspired "L.M.L.Y.P." (Let Me Lick Your Pussy). The evening culminated with this 15-minute blues/funk vehicle, highlighted by Dean's filthy, wailing guitar solos. The group even invited a bevy of female beauties from the audience to join them on stage to boogie down and show off their stuff.
From start to finish, this was three hours of pure joy. Even after a quarter century together Ween continue to impress during their concerts. Their live performances are mind-blowing, and the energy and command of the audience is matched by few. This Halloween show proved that they are still one of the most fun, talented, and obscure progressive rock bands on the planet.


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The Finger Lakes Region of New York State is a 9,000 square mile, four-season playground set against a backdrop of Mother Nature's best work – from waterfalls and gorges to thick woods, to rolling hills to spectacular shoreline on 11 glacial lakes, one Great Lake and the Erie Canal.
You can enjoy all four seasons in the Finger Lakes Region. Spring time brings with it cool lake breezes, colorful festivals and perfect, blooming flowers. Additionally, the world class wineries come to life. The warm summer season brings all the lakes to life. Pick any of the 11 lakes across the region to swim, jet-ski, wakeboard, boat and kayak, or simply to bask next to. Fall is one of the most popular times of year in the Finger Lakes—and it's no wonder. With harvest festivals, brisk temperatures and some of the most spectacular fall foliage in the country, autumn on the lakes is both relaxing and exciting. Winter also brings with it exciting snow sports such as skiing, snowmobiling and snowshoeing.
At the heart of the Finger Lakes lies the Rochester, NY metro region. Rochester and the surrounding counties are home to almost 70,000 veterans. The Greater Rochester, NY region has an exceptional quality of life, measured by a variety of factors including access to cultural amenities, affordable health care, recreational activities, cost of living, excellent colleges and universities, weather, and an environment in which to raise a healthy and educated family. Our community also has the arts, culture, sports and nightlife of a big city, but the ease and comfort of a small town. In addition to a beautiful, varied landscape, an abundance of cultural and recreational activities, Rochester is one of the least-congested cities in the U.S., with an average commute of just 21 minutes.
Veterans Outreach Center (VOC) was competitively selected to receive funding for the Upstate New York Coordination Center during the Finger Lakes Regional Economic Development Committee selection process that concluded in the Fall of 2015. The area to be served will include nine counties in and around the New York State Finger Lakes Region. However, the Upstate community is working diligently to expand its reach to include the western and central regions.
Veterans Outreach Center, located in Rochester, NY, is the oldest veteran services agency in the country. It opened its doors to welcome in veterans, service members and their families in 1973. The mission and values of VOC align with AmericaServes and together, they look to enhance the services provided to veterans, service members and their families. The goal of our Coordination Center is to team with other local organizations and practitioners to leverage the best-in-class resources and amenities.


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Discussion in 'iPad OS' started by langis, Mar 31, 2011.
Anybody else here is upset at the fact that personal Hotspots are not available with the iPad 3G?
It isn't on the 3GS neither, but bluetooth tethering works... Close enough...
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I am that my 3gs cant do it, well I know it can I did it with JB, but I think the update should have included wifi tethering with 3gs, not paying more money only to use via BT!
On my iPhone 3GS, if I go to settings>general>network it tells me about Internet tethering over Bluetooth, wifi and USB cable.Is it actually like the personal hotspot feature or not.If I click it, it tells me that I need to contact my provider, which is a romanian carrier.
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Sadly, cell providers have control over tethering. To enable that feature, you have to pay some extra cash to you provider. In my case, with Rogers in Canada, it is enabled at no extra fees if you have a data plan of at least 1Gig.
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BT tethering is a lot slower than wifi tethering. Faster speeds with wifi ;-)
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yeah thats why I want wifi tethering on 3gs, Im not going to pay more if I cant tether the way I want, I will just wait for the new JB and go back to using pdanet to tether!
I don't need to tether that often - I go to several places with hotspots available, but I do tether at work (severely crippled/blocked sites) during lunch, or the rare times at home if the cable messes up. There's no way I'm giving up my unlimited plan and drop to 2 gigs a month, *plus* then pay another $20 just for the privilege to tether? MyWi is a real lifesaver
I was enjoying tethering until I received the dreaded email from AT&T. They are going to up my data plan on the 16th if don't stop tethering. Anyone else get this message?
What i want to know is if they change peoples plans to the tethering one, can they still use mywi or pdanet to tether??


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Welcome to my stop in the FOREST OF WHISPERS by Jennifer Murgia Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Today on my stop we have an Interview + an awesome Tour-Wide Giveaway!
Forest Of Whispers
Forest Of Whispers
Jennifer Murgia
Publisher: Spencer Hill Press
Published: September 9th, 2014
Jennifer Murgia
Publisher: Spencer Hill Press
Published: September 9th, 2014
Raised by an old fortune-teller within the dark veil of the Bavarian Black Forest, Rune has learned two valuable lessons: only take from the forest that which you can use, and never, never look anyone in the eye in the village. For something terrible happened in the forest long ago... and now, the whispers of a long-dead mother with a vengeful secret have come haunting.
Forced to flee all she has ever known, Rune soon learns of a legacy she is bound to--one that is drenched in fear, witchcraft and murder--a birthright that stretches beyond the grave to the trees where Rune is no longer safe.
ALICIA: Hi Jennifer, I'm so excited to have you stop by today! :)
JENNIFER: Thank you! I'm thrilled to be here!
ALICIA: 1.) Before we get started, can you share with us a little bit about your upcoming release the FOREST OF WHISPERS, for readers who may be unfamiliar with it?
JENNIFER: Of course! FOREST OF WHISPERS is a 17th century Bavarian witch mystery. Rune has been raised in the Black Forest and kept hidden from a secret that has begun to slowly unravel: her mother was burned at the stake sixteen years prior for witchcraft and a murderous crime and now, Rune begins to hear her mother's whispers from beyond the grave. It sheds light on such a dark time in European history.
ALICIA: 2.) How was the idea for the FOREST OF WHISPERS created, and did it turn out to be what you planned on, or did it change a lot from your initial idea?
JENNIFER: I've always been intrigued by witch tales, in fact, rumor has it that my great, great grandmother was a witch, and I've always romanticized over it. My mother is very much interested in ancestry and family trees, so when she traced our family back to Pre-Germania, I couldn't help the images of rustic villages and Black Forest legends from creeping into my head. The idea evolved to that of a young girl living in what is believed to be a haunted forest and whose deceased mother seeks her from the edges of death to prove her innocence for a crime she may not have committed. I pitched it to my agent during a Facebook chat. It was insta-love, and she encouraged me to write it. And yes, it dovetailed my initial idea.
ALICIA: 3.) I'm intrigued by the forest's role in this book. Can you tell us how deep that plays into this novel, and what can we expect from that aspect of the book?
JENNIFER: I'm so glad you asked this question! The Black Forest is quite an enigma. Its enormous acreage is home to urban legend upon urban legend. They say banshees and witches dwell within it and, to this day, some truly fear certain areas of the forest. I loved toying with the idea that the forest could be a protective fortress for someone accused of something so frightening.
ALICIA: 4.) What was the hardest and best part of writing this novel and why?
JENNIFER: I truly enjoyed trying to nail the authenticity of the time and creating a world that was a mix of history and fiction. I spent hours researching and becoming completely obsessive over what grew in the forest, what was edible, what wasn't, and how it could be used in spell-craft—to digging into the accusations, the prisons and torture instruments many were victim to. The sheer number of executions during the inquisitions of the late 1600's is mind-numbing. Nothing could save you. If you lied, if you confessed, if you defended yourself . . . it was most often futile, so with that said, I have to say the hardest part of writing the story was allowing the devastation of the time to truly sink in. So many people turned on one another out of fear and it was completely hysterical and ridiculous that what could easily be explained, like poverty, famine, plague, was blamed on an innocent person who was then persecuted.
ALICIA: 4.) Can you tell us five random things about you?
~ My favorite color is brown.
~ I have a strange obsession with staircases and skeleton keys.
~ I co-founded and coordinate a book festival called YA FEST.
~ I prefer cats over dogs.
~ Halloween is my favorite holiday.
ALICIA: 5.) Can you tell us a little bit about our main character, Rune, and what we can expect from her?
JENNIFER: Rune is quiet and cautious, only because she was raised believing she couldn't trust anyone from the nearby village. She and Matilde, the woman who raised her, are often snubbed because they've chosen to live in the forest away from everyone, and because of Matilde's questionable profession—she reads fortunes, tends to the sick, midwifery . . . But there's a willful nature to Rune and this side of her comes in handy when her entire world is turned upside down and she must rely on her wits to survive a witch hunt.
ALICIA: 6.) If you could describe the FOREST OF WHISPERS in 10 words, what would they be?
JENNIFER: Teen girl is the target of a 1600's witch craze.
ALICIA: Jennifer, it's been a blast having you here today! I can't WAIT to read FOREST OF WHISPERS!!
JENNIFER: Thank you so much! I LOVED your questions and hope you enjoy FOREST OF WHISPERS! ~ Jennifer
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The Way the Crow Flies
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I thoroughly enjoyed this book from beginning to end. This author writes so well about events that happened in that particular era and is so spot on about habits, sayings, living styles and anything else you can name. It is a wonderful, can't-put-down book right to the very end. I would recommend it highly - particularly for anyone who lived through the 60's.
And of course, the murder of the little girl - pretty much the story of The Trial of Steven Truscott - though fictionalized, left me wondering how this would turn out. I would definitely give it 5 stars!
I greatly enjoyed the beginning of this book - I was intrigued by the history lesson and felt like I was making up for the things I missed in grade school. MacDonald has mastered writing from a child's perspective, and it is a delight to shadow Madeline. When pedophilia became a prominent theme and it was immediately obvious it would not be dealt with, I stopped reading. I found a great summary that offered closure for me, and I was glad that I stopped reading when I did. If you are reading the book and struggling as I did, please consider reading: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/oct/11/featuresreviews.guardianreview11
I really just thought this book was okay, but I had to add an extra star because the writing is so wonderful.
This is one of those stories that I just can't (or maybe won't, who can say) appreciate. The drama, the characters, the mystery, the why's and wherefores, I just lost interest. The entire middle part of the book was a dead loss to me, though I thought the beginning and the end superb. I loved how it started, with the little girl telling the story of moving, with her fears and understanding of her parents. It was almost magical in the telling. But then the story moves on to her new teacher and her fathers work and became less enchanted, it moves to murder and secrets and I'm not charmed but getting bored, right though to the modern day life of the little girl, all grown up. And then it get better, with her parents retired and the mystery getting solved, the end was good, with just the right amount of closure but leaving some to the imagination.
There is no doubt the the author is extremely talented, it is not easy to take your reader through the emotional wringer and still leave that hope at the end. But for me, this isn't the kind of book I can get invested in.
An idyllically happy air force family is posted back to Ontario after years abroad, leaving the idealized 50's to encounter shady cold-war covert operations and a horrific murder in their small community. MacDonald writes a gripping story with elements that every Canadian baby boomer of a certain age recalls vividly -– the Steven Truscott case and the Cuban missile crisis. In this tale of innocence betrayed we are swept along in secrets that breed secrets, the excitement of the space race, the fight against Nazis and Communists, the powerful grip of child abuse and -- most of all -- the worldview of a spirited eight year old.
Although not nearly as well recieved as "Fall On Your Knees", it is a mistake to dismiss this book as an also ran.
Each time I reread it I find more to love, her characters carry with them joy and heartbreak and bestow them on the reader in often surprising ways.
At times a mystery and a piece of Canadian historical fiction, "The way the crow flies" is really about the love and pain and tragedies (and indeed triumphs) each family carries with them and how they make us who we are.
Haunting, chilling, and sadly beautiful but never afraid to laugh with our frailties, MacDonald proves here again she knows how to tell a cracker of a story.
[Warning: this is a long review, but this complex book merits it.]
This is a long, thoughtful, and multi-layered novel. It was recommended to me as a good depiction of life growing up on Canadian military bases, as I did. And it is. It centres around 8-year-old Madeleine McCarthy, who's on her fourth move in 1962, and her father Jack McCarthy, a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) officer. The early part of the story is about how the McCarthys, including Madeleine's Acadian mother Mimi and her older brother Mike, settle into their new home at RCAF Station Centralia, in central Ontario. Author MacDonald captures very well what it's like moving all the time, setting up in yet another military-supplied house. I've been there and done that and I'll attest to the accuracy. She explains the lifestyle better than I could.
MacDonald writes that when you move all the time, you're not from anywhere that you can locate on a map; you're from a series of events. You define yourself by stories -- what she calls "remember-whens" -- not by home towns. And stories are what I think this book is really about. We tell stories to ourselves to make sense of our pasts. We tell stories to each other. We tell stories at a community or cultural level to make sense of our world. And often, we only know part of anyone else's story.
In addition, we sometimes lie to each other, and even to ourselves, to hide unpleasant truths. Stories and lies drive this novel. Madeleine tells lies to protect her parents from knowing how things are in her Grade 4 class. Jack tells lies to protect the secrecy of a military-intelligence operation he's involved in. And society tells itself lies, or at least omits part of history, to justify actions that are at best unethical and at worst criminal. Throw in post-war World War II optimism and Cold War paranoia, and almost every character in this story is deceived by someone about something. Only the reader knows what's going on, and even we can't be totally sure we have the whole story.
Near the half-way mark, all these stories and lies run against the murder of a child, which is announced on the first page, but not fully recounted until much later. The murder is highly reminiscent of the Stephen Truscott case, which MacDonald acknowledges. Jack and Madeleine both have information that is pertinent. One of them must decide whether to lie, and the other must decide whether to tell the truth. Their decisions have consequences that they must both live with. Nearly 20 years later, the story picks up with Madeleine and Jack having to confront and relive the decisions they made then, and update their stories.
The novel is very well-written, with every word carefully chosen. The whole story is told in the present tense, which gives it an immediacy that makes it very compelling. It is, in short, a page-turner. It is very long, however; over 720 pages. Occasional flashbacks and flash-forwards are also in the present tense, which can be a bit confusing, but it's generally easy to adjust. The first portion, dealing with life on the RCAF station, is slow-moving but still engrossing. The pace picks up with the murder trial and its aftermath. This is a sad, disturbing tale. While there are moments of childhood joy and silliness, the events are, on the whole, demoralizing. This is not a feel-good story, but there are one or two deeply moving scenes that remind us what the real point is: it's all about love.
Intense and disturbing and utterly absorbing. This is one of the best books I've ever read.
This is the BEST BOOK I have read by a Canadian Author, hands down.
Beautiful, in an aching sort of way. MacDonald has a way with words; she took me back in time and far far away from the very beginning, then led me slowly back again... She exposes sensitive, and often disturbing themes, intricately woven together in a story of loss, growing up, and learning how to let go.
One of my favourite books of all time. Ann-Marie MacDonald is a genius at character and plot development. This novel is at once a coming of age story, an alarmingly realistic portrait of abuse, an interesting depiction of Canadian military family life in the sixities, all wrapped up in an intricate mystery that will take you through twists and turns and keep you guessing until the very end. The way MacDonald navigates the subtleties of emotion Madeline goes through at the hands of her abuser is so painfully imaginable that it makes it a difficult read at times, but certainly a rewarding one. A brilliant addition to Canadian fiction.
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