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A few weeks ago I made an honest man of Mr C after 7 and a half years together. We had originally decided to get married last December and toyed around with different dates. We always knew we'd get married one day, but with so many things going on it's always a challenge to coordinate everything.
Once we started the process of planning though, we somehow managed to organise the whole wedding in around 12 weeks. It can be done!
Our wedding day was small and intimate, which is how we wanted it (we would've eloped but decided to have a smallish do so our families could be there) and we chose to be in London as it's a particularly exciting and vibrant city in 2012.
It was actually really sweet as we walked to some landmarks to have our photographs taken, people stopped to congratulate us!
Also, it was those weeks when we had none stop downpour and I 100% expected rain (I even bought a bridal brolly) and what happened? Not a single drop. The sun actually shone brightly with a lovely breeze in the air. Thanks for that one, man in the sky.
Anyway, here are a few photographs. The talented people who helped us along are mentioned at the end of the post.
I got a hairdresser, a lady called Candice Sweeney to do my hair as I knew I couldn't handle it myself. She did a good job and my hair more or less stayed up all day! I didn't mind doing my own make up but it's definitely worth practising before (I didn't have time to practise in the end although I had a rough idea of what I would use!).
Candice also did my flower girl's hair – see her hair? Has never been cut and she's nearly 4!
There she is again – her bouquet (made up of pink majolica spray roses) was amazing the cutest thing I have ever seen:
My flowers were amazing too – I never knew carrying a bouquet could be so much fun and seriously one of the saddest thoughts I had on the day is that I'll never get to carry one around again!
My bouquet was a mixture of Akito Roses, Freesias and white trit lowers. The finish and detail was amazing.
A rare group photo of my attractive lot:
Remember Megan, star of YouTube? She did a reading for us and did so, so well considering I only told her the night before :).
I never really thought that pink would be my wedding colour theme, but it just ended up that way. It is very hard finding dresses for a 11, 17 and 26 year old that match!
My hair comb is from Etsy and I loved it. My lashes were done the day before by Teresa at I Love Lash and they looked FIERCE on the day! I could not have coped with trying to apply falsies on the morning of the big day.
Bloody confetti throwers – my lot were VERY VIOLENT with the confetti, my mother bombed my face with half a pack of confetti so much that I couldn't see a damn thing and the mother in law came over and tipped the contents of a box down the back of my dress so that when I took my dress of in the evening, it would go everywhere! (Yes it did, it was even in my knickers).
Food – we had different menu choices for people. I am hungry right now I wish I could go back and finish my food but there must be some unspoken rule when it's your wedding day you don't have any appetite!
One more for luck – we have some really really gorgeous photos that feature the landscape of London too, but they're kind of for the private wedding album!
It was a really lovely day and I will always have fond memories! London will always have an extra special place in my heart now.
And although we didn't need to be married to be 'committed' to one another it feels really, really special to be his wife! And there is a different level of completeness I feel – it's hard to describe, maybe I won't be able to put it in words but it's like, we are really really really in it together now – may we live long enough to buy each other incontinence pads.
P.S. We still giggle when someone refers to us as 'husband' or 'wife'!
Wedding mentions
Photographer – The immeasurably talented Charlotte – yes one of our own, Ms Lipglossiping! Once we knew she was doing the photographs I didn't worry at all because I knew they would look amazing. I will always be grateful for her help. Mr Clive Lipglossiping did a great job carrying stuff too. Thanks Clive.
Flowers – were by Charlotte (are they all called Charlotte?!) from Spangle Flowers. The sister in law who goes to about 94327384 weddings a year said to me that she had seen many many bridal flowers but mine was the nicest bouquet she'd seen. I loved my bouquet, I carried it around all day like a purse and my bridesmaids, flower girl and groom's corsage all had so many details and worked well together. Her Facebook site is here and her email contact is: Charlotte Tatam firstname.lastname@example.com or on Twitter @spangleflower
Hair – was done by Candice Sweeney who is a freelance hairdresser who has worked for Salons like RUSH. She was very professional, set up quickly and my hair held up well throughout the day.
Another thing; even when planned and executed in a short space of time, wedding costs add up. It's definitely worth shopping around to find talented people who have reasonable charges, as some places take the mickey once they hear the word 'wedding'. There's also a lot of things you can do yourself, like we designed and printed all our own stationery, but there are things that are better done by the professionals (like flowers and hair!).
That was our day! Hope you enjoyed looking at the photos, I'll have the fondest of memories, always.


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Association areas can be located in the four cortical lobes of the Cerebral cortex. They are primarily involved in processing and integrating information from the senses and relate to higher mental abilities such as [[[thinking]] and reasoning. In general, areas of the cortex apparently uninvolved in motor or sensory processing are regarded as associaition areas.
Association areas function to produce a meaningful perceptual experience of the world, enable us to interact effectively, and support abstract thinking and language. The parietal, temporal, and occipital lobes - all located in the posterior part of the cortex - organize sensory information into a coherent perceptual model of our environment centered on our body image. The frontal lobe or prefrontal association complex is involved in planning actions and movement, as well as abstract thought. In the past it was theorized that language abilities are localized in the left hemisphere in areas 44/45, the Broca's area, for language expression and area 22, the Wernicke's area, for language reception. However, language is no longer limited to easily identifiable areas. More recent research suggests that the processes of language expression and reception occur in areas other than just the perisylvian structures, such as the prefrontal lobe, basal ganglia, cerebellum, pons, caudate nucleus, and others. [1]
Association Area of The Frontal Lobe Edit
Association areas of the frontal lobes pay an executive role in thinking, feeling and behaviour because it is an 'end point' for much of the sensory information received and processed in the other lobes.
Key Processes include:
·Planning and thinking
·Expression of personality
·Control and expression of emotion
Damage to the frontal lobe's association areas can cause impairment to mental abilities such as judging, planning and using initiative. The case study conducted on Phineas Gage, showed a dramatic change of personality after an accident damaged his frontal lobes.
Association Area of the Parietal Lobe Edit
Key Processes include:
·Spatial awareness (sensing the body's position in space)
·Paying visual attention to stimuli
·Spatial reasoning (determining where an object is located in space)
Damage to the right parietal lobe (only) can cause Neglect Syndrome where a patient acts as if the left side of their world does not exist.
Association Area of the Occipital Lobe Edit
Association areas of the occipital lobes interact with other lobes to integrate visual information with information from memory, language and sounds so we can interpret a visual stimulus.
Key Processes include:
·Enables retention of memories associated to visual images
·Enables one to think visually
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Association areas of the temporal lobe interact with other lobes to complete processes related to memory.
Key Processes include:
·Determining appropriate emotional responses to sensory information and memories
·Memory of facts
·Procedural memories (how to do things)
·Episodic memories (personal experiences such as birthdays)
·Memories of faces to enable facial recognition of familiar people
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33 thoughts on "I'm Not Scared of You Any More"
Amazing read.
Really brave article, it took me a long long time to realise thatI was in an abusive relationship and how I was manipulated into thinking it was because I was at fault. Even longer to get out and get over it. The best thing I can take from that is I am a much stronger person now. Thanks for writing this.
Crying my eyes out. This was incredibly brave and you are amazing.
Well done for writing this, it was a moving read at the very least.
Thank you for writing this – both moving and brave.
WOW. Well done. You have nothing to fear x
very brave – thank you
This is amazing. You are wonderful.
Brilliantly written, and with a very important message to share. Thank you x
You rock our story.
Im thankfull.
This is beautifully written and really powerful.
Struck a few chords which brought me to tears, thank you for writing this brilliant piece.
Thank you for writing this, it's so important that stories like yours are shared. I'm awed by how brave you are.
Made me reflect on my past and how you're not always aware of the bullying at the time. How refreshing being happy is. Well done for getting out. Took me a hell of a lot longer. X
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Nothing anyone ever does will invalidate any part of your life. Not even him. Well done for getting out, for carrying on with your life and for writing this.
Completely agree with Tonia, (above).
This made me think of my last big relationship and how easy it is to dismiss the signs. My ex used to tell me I was stupid and useless. He, just as yours did, expressed disgust and dismay at my drinking with friends but encouraged me to drink a lot when at home with him. He was quite controlling, always telling me what I should do and if I did something of my own accord he said I was being ridiculous and clearly hadn't thought it through. He used emotional blackmail to guilt me in to having sex with him if I wasn't in the mood and in the end it felt like a chore, something I had to do or he would sulk and accuse me of not loving him. He occasionally would smack my thigh like a naughty child to stop me doing something or in an argument, and during arguments would throw things at me. I always had this feeling that one day he could snap and really hurt me. If I called him out on any of this he would get defensive and angry and say he wouldn't allow me to say those things about him, would never accept his behaviour was unacceptable. Luckily I left him before anything more serious happened but reading this made me see that it's so easy to brush things off and pretend that things are okay.
Thank you for sharing this. Hopefully people will read this and realise that they don't have to accept abusive partners.
Claire x
Thank you.
This is the most moving thing I have read so far on this blog, and whoa, is that saying soemthing.
The part I appreciate the most about your courageous story, is that is shows how your boyfriend was always the victim in his own head. When someone ele is completely convinced – not pretending, but TRULY CONVINCED that they are the abused party in every situation; when that person is someone you love very much; when it's so easy to believe that your faithful constant love could heal those irrational insecurities over time… that is when abuse happens. That is when victims protest to themselves and everyone aroudn that it's not so bad, and that their abuser has it way worse, and that nobody else understands how it really is.
I'm so tired of watching TV shows where abusive partners are painted as pure evil monsters at heart who calculatingly pretend to be loving and romantic at the beginning. It only reinforces the idea that victims are morons who get tricked by smart people. This, the way you've painted it above, THIS is how it is. The abusers really are squalling helpless infants, thrashing around havign toddler tantrums and lashing out because they're afraid of everything and desperately want to be in control of something so they can feel safe. It's the protective instinct that fucks us up. It's not a matter of smart or stupid. It's a matter of learning not to feel responsible for another person's feelings, and when that person is someone you love, that's practically impossible.
But you did it. Well done you. You are awesome.
Wow. I could have almost written this myself, such are the mirrored experiences.
Thank you so much for sharing.
Thanks for sharing this, I'm glad you are free now and can be happy and feel safe. I do worry for humanity when stuff like 50 Shades of Grey is promoting the idea of being able to love someone better when they are abusing you, when this is clearly not possible. I hope your writing and others with similar experiences helps to get the message out and show people how it really is.
Incredible. So much respect and awe for your sharing this. The world needs more of it.
This is a fantastic example of an abusive relationship. I too had an ex who I would allow to mentally and occasionally physically abuse me until I saw what was really happening. When I look back at the things he'd say, I feel angry at myself for allowing this but I remind myself how easy it is to happen and I'm not the first person and certainly not the last to experience this.
I'm in the process of divorcing an emotionally abusive man. I know it's the right thing to do and I'm proud of myself for getting out a year ago. My life is immeasurably better now, and I'm happy.
But the divorce papers came in the post today and I'm a total wreck. This was an amazing article and reading it meant a lot to me, but it's the way you've just put it in this comment, Kate, that's put a finger on why I feel the way I do. It's so easy to mistake the searing pain I feel today for regret, but it's the power of my protective instinct pulling me back. It fucks us up.
Sometimes I doubt whether I'll ever be free of it, or of him. But now I'm pregnant with a little girl of my own, and I'm praying that caring for a real child who rightfully needs and depends on me will help me move on, for her sake and mine.
Thanks for the timing.
You're very brave. Thank you for sharing!
bravo! this is a strong and eloquent post from a strong and eloquent woman. well done for having the bravery and strength to get out and to write about it and share your experience. what you've written is so true, that abuse really screws you into believing it's your fault – it really does take immense strength to leave a relationship like this. i hope that women in abusive relationships read this and realise that they are not idiots for getting into this mess, and that their friends read it also so they don't judge so much. bravo
Crying my eyes out, as a woman who has also experienced abuse from a loved one I hope one day I have the bravery to tell my story x
I can understand both people's perspectives in this story as I am a man.
From your perspective, you just want to be happy together. You want him to be happy. But obviously he is fucked up in some emotional way, probably due to people in his past. You dont know how to fix him. So you put up with his behaviour because you love him and it isn't all bad. But someway along the line the fact that he is messed up plays on your mind more and more and you start wondering whether you should ditch him. So you do.
From his perspective, I don't think he intended to hurt you.
But I think you did the wrong thing, from a moral point of view, by ditching him completely for a year. He still plays on your mind. You are still in a mental tug of war with him evidenced by the fact you spoke directly to him in the article and told him you can't hurt me anymore. You felt the need to do that because you feel mentally he is still affecting you.
I think you could have fixed him before you left him or maybe you wouldn't have needed to leave him at all. But you ask, should I have to fix him, is that the feminist thing to do? This is where I disagree with feminists. Feminism makes out like women are the weak ones with no power and no merit, constantly having to adapt to a situation rather than be in control of it. If you believe that men have all the power, that women have no power or influence over men, and you then find yourself lumbered with an emotionally messed up man, then the only thing to do is to dump him.
I'd argue it's not the partner's job to 'save'/'fix' the person who spits in your face and hurls abuse at you during violent rages. it's their fault. I know this myself after spending 18 months being emotionally crushed, belittled and bullied by an ex startlingly similar to this one (thankfully never violent, though I think he used that as a justification for how his actions weren't wrong – if he'd ever hurt me he'd not have been able to justify it). It took me a long time to break out of the 'I can save him' mentality and into an 'it's not me, it's him' one. And this is a belief I think you're obstructing. For men, for women…whoever. It's not a feminist debate here, it's an emotional one. Nobody's partner should make them feel this way, and no partner should have to tolerate this behaviour.
Good grief ~dude~, it is not the victim/survivor's job to "fix" their abuser (regardless of gender). It's that kind of messed up thinking that shames people into staying in abusive relationships, and why people end up dead.
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Thank you this is so great. I pray for you to stay strong, and you will probably need to keep reminding yourself, because my guess is that this will not be the end of the character assassinations even though you have thankfully separated yourself physically and you may not get to actually hear all of them directly. How long do you think it takes to learn to be mortally offended by being called a fucking cunt? And how long to stop being mortified? It is not something that I ever saw modelled in my own young life, and so when on the receiving end of it for the first time, in my late twenties, was so shocked, I could not believe the evidence of my (boxed) ears. I never ever got used to it. I was taught that 'sticks and stones can break your bones but words will never hurt you'. I found this not to be true and that was a shock as well. But it is better to be separated physically and a very good start. I wish you and other women like you well, and hope you meet someone that you love and who loves you back. It goes without saying that you keep your friends, phone and keys where you know where they are at all times.
James, I think your post is really patronising, but more importantly dangerous. It implies a woeful lack of understanding of how domestic violence works, and puts impetus on victims in a violent situation to 'help' their abuser. Firstly, that is NOT her responsiblity. The perpetrator is responsible for his actions as a grown-up human being. Secondly, violence, if un-checked, always escalates. The best thing the author could have done – and thank goodness she found the strength and courage to do it – is to leave the relationship.
To the author of the article: this is such an inspiring story. Thank you.
Very dangerous post, James. Some abusers can not be 'fixed', and they especially cannot be fixed by the people they are abusing. People have been murdered because they felt it was their duty to stay, and not become another person who ran out on the abuser and abandoned them.


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The tax credit's Achilles' heel, however, is implementation. As the program has expanded, it has become more complex; the eligibility criteria related to proving custody over children are notoriously difficult to parse and all too easy to manipulate. When you combine that with EITC beneficiaries' lack of time, resources and expertise, you get between $11.6 billion and $13.6 billion in inaccurate payments in 2012, according to the Treasury Department's inspector general. Most of that was overpayment, though there is evidence that the program's complexity also deters some eligible workers from applying.
Many who qualify turn to paid tax preparers for help, only to find that their troubles have just begun. Most preparers are honest and try their best; the market is unregulated, however, so poorly qualified or fraudulent freelancers abound. Typically, fly-by-night preparers charge a contingency fee, giving them an incentive to inflate the EITC — for which the client is ultimately answerable to the Internal Revenue Service, as testimony Tuesday before the Senate Finance Committee revealed. Both Congress and the IRS have been aware of the issue for years; in 2011, the IRS introduced regulations that would have required preparers to register and meet minimum qualifications, but federal courts struck down that well-intentioned rule. The most recent ruling came in February from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, which upheld a finding that the regulations lacked sufficient basis in law.
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Surely if Republicans and Democrats can agree on anything, it would be ensuring that the EITC pays exactly what the law requires — no more and no less.


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The iPhone 4S might be Apple's top dog but Android has some pretty impressive breeds of its own. Right now, the No.1 in the Google mobile space has got to be the Samsung Galaxy S II with the LTE and even LTE HD editions to enjoy if you happen to live in the right parts of the world.
We've already seen how the iPhone 4S matches up to the iPhone 4 but there's going to be an awful lot of people out there tempted to make the step over to Android given that the 2011 Apple phone announcement has been an S upgrade rather than an iPhone 5 in its own right. So, if that's you, or if you just want to know how your Samsung superphone compares to the latest that Cupertino has to offer, then here's Pocket-lint with the iPhone 4S vs Samsung Galaxy S II so you can see for yourself.
Form Factor
1ST: GALAXY S2 : 125.3 x 66.1 x 8.49mm, 117g2ND: IPHONE 4S : 115.2 x 58.6 x 9.3mm, 140g
As far as pure design aesthetics and ergonomics go, this one's a matter of horses for courses. Both the iPhone 4S and SGS2 are good looking devices with neither a knobble out of place. So, what the form factor contest comes down to is pocket space. What we always go on first are the mass and profile of the phones and it's the Samsung Galaxy S II that's both thinner and lighter. Yes, it's longer and wider but these tend to be the dimensions of least importance when it comes down to taking up the room where your wallet and crumpled up tissues go. Ultimately, what you want is less weight to carry around and something that keeps the lining of your clothes as close to the way which your tailor intended.
1ST: GALAXY S2 : 4.27-inch, 800x480px, 218ppi, Super AMOLED Plus2ND: IPHONE 4S : 3.5-inch, 960x640px, 326ppi, LCD with IPSA contentious one but, for our money, the Samsung Galaxy S II has a superior screen to the iPhone 4S. Why? Well simply because it's bigger. At this point, there will be the cries of a thousand Retina Display-o-philes, but we've listened, we've considered and you're wrong. The resolution on the iPhone screen is superb and there's no doubt, but put an SGS2 handset next to an Apple phone and the latter just looks a bit too junior. At this kind of small size, it's about having the space to browse the web and watch movies properly rather than the clarity at which you can resolve them.
What's more, Samsung does have some seriously impressive panel technology from all of its TV work and that Super AMOLED Plus and the colours that it can produce are superb. The iPhone's screen is good. The Samsung's is better.
Engine Room
1ST: IPHONE 4S : Apple A52ND: GALAXY S2 : Samsung Exynos 4210As it goes, both of these systems on a chip are made by Samsung anyway and it's of little surprise, therefore, that each contains a dual-core, 1-1.2GHz ARM Cortex-A9 CPU running the show. Where it gets complicated is the graphics. On the one hand, the SGS2 features the Mali-400 GPU – an impressive piece of kit in its own right. However, the PowerVR SGX543MP2 working the magic in the Apple A5 seems to out-bench the Mali by quite some distance. Even though the Samsung packs double the RAM of the iPhone 4S at 1GB, it looks as if you'll just get a smoother video and gaming experience with Apple's handset, and that might be key.
TIE: IPHONE 4S : 8MP rear, 2MP front, 1080p videoTIE: GALAXY S2 : 8MP rear, 2MP front, 1080p videoApple went to great pains to explain just how good the iPhone 4S camera is but the headline hard specs are identical to those on the Samsung Galaxy S II. Sure, there's five glass elements, 74 per cent more light absorbed than the iPhone 4, temporal noise reduction and a maximum aperture of f/2.4 but Samsung simply hasn't furnished the world with the same level of detail. Both have image stabilisation and face recognition and, ultimately, the only way we'll ever know how they compare is once we get the new Apple phone in for a full iPhone 4S review. Until then, we'll leave this category tied with one interesting caveat from the Samsung Galaxy S II review and that's that the autofocus does tend to hunt around a bit during video capture and that can ruin your clips at times. Worth considering.
1ST: GALAXY S2 : Wi-Fi, NFC, 4G, BT 3.0, DLNA, free Wi-Fi tethering2ND: IPHONE 4S : 3G, GPS, BT 4.0, 4G, Wi-FiIt's pretty much of a muchness on the connectivity front but, the odd level of Bluetooth here and 4G standard there, it's the Samsung Galaxy S Ii that brings slightly more to the table where it counts. Now, there are a few different versions here but the majority of the SGS2 phones have NFC built-in.
On top of that, there's also the native DLNA functionality through Samsung's All Share app that's just more flexible than AirPlay on iOS. Granted, there's nothing to match the AirPlay Mirroring on the iPhone 4S where you can witness exactly what's going on on the phone's screen on a larger TV but it, and the rest of the AirPlay fun, has to take place over Apple TV and that is seriously limiting.
Finally, you can tether your Galaxy S II to your laptop over Wi-Fi or USB to you heart's content, so long as your contract can manage the data. With the iPhone, that's very much under lock and key and something that most mobile providers get you to pay extra for.
Battery Life
TIE: IPHONE 4S : Up to 8 hours 3G talk timeTIE: GALAXY S2 : 1650mAhSadly it's not possible to tell which smartphone has a better battery at this stage. Samsung hasn't been kind enough to furnish the world with any of its "up to X amount when blowing your nose with it" figures and Apple hasn't talked milliampere-hours, so we just don't know. What we can tell you is that neither will quite last long enough. They'll just about both limp across the line as you crawl into bed at the end of the day but, if we had to guess, we'd probably say that it's the iPhone that offers that little extra. We'll have to wait for the full review for the answer, though.
1ST: IPHONE 4S : iOS 5 + Siri2ND: GALAXY S2 : Android 2.3 Gingerbread + TouchWiz 4.0The question of mobile phone OS choice is an ever-changing, ever-difficult to measure category but today we're handing it to what you get packaged with iOS 5 on the iPhone 4S.
Let's get the simple stuff out of the way. iOS offers more apps and greater ease of use. Android tempts with more flexibility and greater customisation potential. We know this. What tips the scales this time though are a) the highly intriguing Siri personal organisation, voice recognition software that's been hard wired in to the iPhone 4S and b) the fact that iOS 5 has basically robbed all the best bits of Android and integrated them in to its own UI. This is not intended as a slur. Android has done plenty of robbing itself and, at the end of the day, it's all to the consumer's benefit if such systems borrow from one another. Right now, though, iOS is just a little fresher but that could all change when Ice Cream Sandwicharrives on the scene.
TIE: GALAXY S II : 16/32GB + microSDTIE: IPHONE 4S :16/32/64GBOK. So, it is just about possible to buy yourself a 64GB microSD card in this day and age and max your storage space out on the SGS2 to 96GB, you utter hoarder, you. But, bearing in mind that they cost over £100 and that working with a single fixed flash memory unit is much easier to manage than the dual internal/removable system on Android, we're willing to cut the iPhone 4S a little slack here and call this one a tie. If enough SGS2 owners start actually forking out for massive microSD cards and tell us it's the only way to fly, then we're willing to listen. At the end of the day though, a smartphone is never going to have as much space as your computer, so you're going to need to do some kind of management on your mobile. If you can't do that with 64GB, then it's you that's the problem and not the phone.
1ST: GALAXY S22ND: IPHONE 4STricky, tricky, tricky. There are a lot of close run categories here and some small victories that perhaps don't quite matter as much as others. The iPhone 4S A5 chip is a big plus point but that wonderful screen on the SGS2 is probably an even bigger one. It's something that you're aware of every single time you interact with the phone and effects the pleasure of anything that you choose to do with it.
The Samsung also has a slightly better form factor with some really useful features like DLNA and the promise of NFC if your locale happens to have any kind of infrastructure. So, with little to separate the two elsewhere and it having a lower price tag too, it has to be the Samsung Galaxy S II that takes the crown.
That's the objective choice, but do bear in mind that the software on these phones may be quite a big factor for you when making your buying decision. If you're frightened by the flexibility of Android and would prefer something that just works, then it might be that the iPhone 4S is the one for you. The success of Siri might also be something to keep an eye out for.


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Having introduced the Jelly Bean version of its Android operating system, Google engineers spent the rest of this morning's Google I/O keynote focusing on hardware that works with Android, including a new Nexus 7 tablet, Nexus Q video streaming device, and the company's "Project Glass" glasses system.
Android Play
First, though, Google's engineering director Chris Yerga talked about improvements coming to Google Play. Formerly the Android Market, the app store now has more than 600,000 apps and games, and has resulted in more than 20 billion app installs.
For consumers, Google Play now contains movies and TV shows, starting today, through partnerships with a lot of the major studios, as well as hundreds of magazines titles, including Conde Nast and Hearst publications.
Yerga also mentioned new developer features, including app encryption, new payment methods, analytics, ways of responding to reviews, Google Cloud messaging to pass messages from applications to back-end servers, and "smart app updates" to allow for smaller sizes for the updates, supported on Gingerbread and above.
Nexus 7 Tablet
The most widely anticipated product of the day was the Nexus 7, an Android 4.1 tablet built by Asus. Hugo Barra, director of Android Product Management, introduced the tablet, which has a 7-inch, 1280-by-800 high-definition display; an Nvida Tegra 3 processor with a quad-core CPU and 12-core graphics; a front facing camera; Wi-Fi; Bluetooth; NFC; a gyroscope; and an accelerometer. Its battery allows nine hours of HD video playback, yet it only weighs 340 grams.
The size isn't all that surprising—it looks like an Amazon Kindle Fire—but that does make for a tablet that's easy to carry. Doing the demo, Yerga said it is "the perfect size for reading" and showed how it works with Google Play, including interactive magazines, movies, and TV shows. Content can be synchronized between multiple Android devices.
He showed off new widgets for the tablet, like recommendations and a tool that identifies music currently playing (which seemed to work like Shazam and SoundCloud).
This will be the first device to ship with Chrome as its standard browser and will consist of tablet versions of other Google applications, such as an HD version of YouTube, Google Maps (with new features like reviews and views of local restaurants), and offline maps.
Currents is a new mobile magazine that lets you subscribe to a number of feeds from other magazines. There are some interesting features such as Translate. It looks a bit like Flipboard, but designed for a smaller screen.
Yerga also talked up gaming by showing Horn, which presented very good looking 3D graphics, and Dead Trigger, where he pointed out features such as realistic fog and rain (plus lots of blood).
The Nexus 7 will cost $199 including $25 Google Play credit, and a couple of movies and books. It will ship in mid-July.
Nexus Q Media Streaming
I was a bit more surprised to see the Nexus Q, a sphere-shaped device that streams music, video, and other content to TVs and speaker systems, all designed to be run from an Android phone or tablet. Engineers Joe Britt and Matt Hershenson demoed the device, which sounds a bit like a competitor to Roku or Apple TV.
It has a number of interesting features. It will work with your Google Play library from the cloud, but what makes it special is "social streaming," which lets someone with another Android device also stream to the same device. It can work with multiple Android devices, and if you have multiple Qs, they can all stream music in sync in multiple rooms like a higher-end sound system such as Sonos. This way, you can bring movies on your Android device over to a friend's house, and have it stream to the Nexus Q.
From a hardware perspective, the Q is based on a TI OMAP 4460 (also used in the Galaxy Nexus Phone and a variety of 7-inch tablets), along with Optical digital audio and micro HDMI ports; dual-band Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and NFC connectivity; and a micro USB port. It will cost $299 and be available in mid-July
Project Glass
By far the most surprising demo of the day involved co-founder Sergey Brin showing off "Project Glass" by connecting with some users in a Zeppelin above San Francisco. Four people were wearing glasses while skydiving onto the roof of the Moscone Center, rappelling down the side of the convention center, and using stunt bikes to bring the glasses to him on stage. Throughout, viewers could see it from their point of view, as transmitted from the special glasses. It was a unique and impressive demo, especially because the glasses apparently retained Wi-Fi connectivity at 7,000 feet above and down to the ground.
Glass engineer Babak Parviz and designer Isabelle Olsson described the project and the glasses, explaining how the devices themselves had gotten much smaller over the past two years, even though they still need to include all sorts of technology, like a microdisplay, camera, multiple radios, GPS, compass, and accelerometer.
Olsson talked about how important it is to put the display above the eye, "close to your senses but not blocking them." She said the goal was to make the glasses "pretty much invisible," so they don't get in the way. They had to be light, both visually and in weight—lighter than most conventional sunglasses.
I was a bit surprised to see how much of the demo focused on the first-person views enabled by the glasses. Developers talked about Project Glass as giving you a "companion camera" that lets you capture fleeting moments that otherwise would be lost and record how your life looked. This allows you to capture unique moments, especially involving babies and children, who might otherwise be distracted by a separate camera.
Parviz said the glasses are also designed to answer questions. In the long term, he said, the goal is to let people know things instantaneously, so they feel more knowledgeable. He called this a possibility, but did not actually demo much of this.
Brin said the Glass team is still small, and Glass is hard to show. He announced a Google Glass Explorer Edition that will be only available for pre-order by US-based I/O attendees for $1,500, due to ship early next year. He warned this is "really early technology" and not aimed at consumers, but it certainly looks fascinating.
Google Plus and Events
Vic Gundotra, senior vice president of engineering, demoed Google+ but was interrupted by the Glass demo, calling it a "Taylor Swift moment." He seemed more serious in quoting Google CEO Larry Page as having a "healthy disrespect for the impossible."
Regarding G+, Gundotra introduced a couple of new versions, including a major new feature called Events. G+ now has 250 million active users, of which he said 50 percent sign in every day for an average of 60 minutes across Google and 12 minutes per day in "the stream." More people use it on mobile than from desktop, and the mobile clients for iOS and Android have been updated in recent weeks. Today, the company announced Google+ for tablets.
This includes the ability to view the stream in a way that lets you scroll left and right on the tablet (in horizontal mode) and go through your items. It features a good looking version of Google Hangout for video chats, as well as "crisper text" and "fuller photos," in Gundotra's words. This is available for Android today, with an iPad version coming shortly.
More importantly, he introduced Events, saying that most events applications were good at planning events, but not good during such. Before an occassion, Events offers things such as better invitations (with what he called "cinemagraphic themes") and improved calendar integration (including putting those "cinemagraphs" and invite info into the calendar). During, there's a "Party mode" that lets you collect your guests' photos of the event and stream them. After the event, you can again see a collection of all the photos from all the participants, and view them all in chronological order, ordered by popularity, or by different photographers.
Gundotra said the goal was to make it easier to hang out with your friends by not having to mess with "annoying computers," although that's something I'll need to try.
He invited conference attendees to download the new version, available for Android today, at a party with Paul Oakenfold and Train scheduled for the evening. He and Barra concluded by saying all 6,000 paid attendees would receive a Galaxy Nexus phone, Nexus 7 tablet, and Q, plus a Jelly Bean preview.


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There's a kind of faith that some atheists have: that one is better off knowing the truth, that people can handle the truth of the human condition (which is pretty devastating).
Richard Dawkins for example thinks it condescending to religious believers to think that they need their faith.
I don't know about the condescension, because religious believers are always telling us how helpful God is to them. But RD does feel that people can do fine without religion.
I sort of have this faith. I'm VERY wary of deception and self-deception. They cause so much harm. Faith in truth sets a very high standard: that people can tolerate life without denial, regardless of what's dished out to them. Somehow living in illusion seems to deny higher human possibilities.
This faith isn't necessary to atheism. An atheist could easily think that they personally have it easy enough so they don't need faith, and others don't necessarily; or that they might be happier if they were religious, but they just don't believe.
After all pretending and deception play a HUGE part in human affairs, and there are reasons for that.
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I'm not sure if I understand your analogy about faith but I did relate to one comment:
or that they might be happier if they were religious, but they just don't believe.
I do think that while there is awe and beauty to be seen in the miracle of existence, that life is also absurd and depressing. I have had chronic depression problems throughout my life. And so I have often envied certain religious people (even though they make me crazy) because they are saved from that kind of depressing thinking. They just live in their stupid happy oblivion of knowing that God has a plan for them and they are saved. But I can't make myself believe in that stuff just because it might make me feel better.
Faith in truth sets a very high standard: that people can tolerate life without denial, regardless of what's dished out to them.
I don't think all people are capable of living without that self-deception. They aren't strong enough to face existential questions without their security blanket. But I hate it when they use that argument as proof of why there has to be a god. They always ask, "Isn't your life bleak and depressing without God?" Well it can be, but it isn't always. But that doesn't prove god exists. So if I cling to faith in god to protect me from feeling empty or without purpose, I still know it's a fantasy that makes me feel better.
It seems to me that religious faith is a seductive escape for people who were abused as children.
I was very emotionally tormented, LOTS of anxiety, I would go on crying jags often thinking why not kill myself, an ongoing somewhat hallucinatory aspect to my vision, especially when I was emotionally stressed. I thought this was all from being abused as a child.
Then when I was 43 I came down quite physically sick with what seems to have been celiac disease - I'd been mysteriously sick often since I was 20, but I got a lot sicker then. I had a lot of delayed food allergies, probably related to the celiac disease, and when I stopped eating those foods, my anxiety and tension got MUCH better, and my vision became just vision, not an expression of my feelings. I still had suicidal crying episodes of despair, but a couple years later I found more delayed food allergies and stopped eating those foods too (I eat a lot of exotic foods since I don't have reactions to them), and then I stopped having the awful despairing crying jags.
My anxiety and suicidal feelings back then, seemed like an authentic response to my childhood experiences and my situation in life. But now, my situation is really bad - but even so, I'm fundamentally pretty cheerful, I smile easily, I socialize much more easily. I feel like, well, my childhood happened, but it's in the past, and it stays back there and doesn't haunt me too much.
About meaning and purpose: I see us as living in spacetime, not in a parcel of space moving in time. What matters is what happens in our place in spacetime, some ultimate end of our progress in Time is not the important part.
I don't think all people are capable of living without that self-deception. They aren't strong enough to face existential questions without their security blanket.
It's hard to tell, maybe they would do fine if they dropped the security blanket. Humans have suffered and still do suffer an incredible amount. It makes me feel less tormented by my own particular hell, to know that I'm not alone in it, hells and worse hells are all around ...
It's true that all humans are driven towards emotional satisfaction, we only differ in our strategies to get there. So, atheists and Christians are both hedonists (for want of a better word). Atheists seek emotional satisfaction through reliable beliefs. Christians seek emotional rewards in a relationship with an imaginary god, and anticipation of a joyous afterlife.
So, if some people seem better off in denial, better off with illusions than reality, is it right to try and shatter those illusions and possibly destroy their peace of mind? Can ordinary folk survive and flourish without those illusions? Tough questions.
In the long term I think atheists can thrive without any illusions, but whether it's right to shatter someone's world by calling their religion 'barking mad' as Dawkins does, who can say?
I think the only answer to this question is for atheists to build a thriving movement/community that is so engaging and emotionally satisfying that religious people will look on in envy, and find themselves naturally drawn into, leaving their religion behind.
if some people seem better off in denial, better off with illusions than reality, is it right to try and shatter those illusions and possibly destroy their peace of mind? Can ordinary folk survive and flourish without those illusions?
People seem quite able to hang onto their illusions, so I wouldn't worry too much about the morality of debunking them :)
yes, it brings up the question, what is the legitimate role of illusion? My belief against illusion comes a lot from coming from an abusive family, where I was lied to so much by abusive people, and it showed me the destructive power of lies.
I've thought, since there's a good deal of pretending in many people's belief anyway - like singing in a musical play, and not coming back to reality afterwards - how is it, for those people, any worse than going to see a musical?
Any worldview would tend to be associated with a belief that people are better off with that worldview, because of the tendency to justify one's worldview.
I guess religious believers pretty generally think the everyone would be better off if they had that belief. Except perhaps the version of satanism known as Murphy's Law :) :)
So atheism or agnosticism is perhaps rather unique in that we don't necessarily think it's better not to believe.
And what about people like Sophie Scholl of the White Rose, one of the very rare people in Nazi Germany who took a stand against Hitler, and was quickly beheaded for it? Her religious faith seems to have been enabled her to do what she did. Perhaps she threw away her life, since Nazism was ended by military power, not by any protest. But it's also crucial and inspiring that people sometimes act that way. So would atheists do this kind of thing, much less often?
How about going to war, are atheist nations more peaceful?
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A family had a close encounter with a bear while celebrating Father's Day during a camping trip in Wyoming, NBC-2 reports.
The Kelly family had a relaxing Sunday morning breakfast, but apparently they didn't clean up as well as they initially thought. According to NBC-2, a bit of bacon grease was still on the campground grill, and that was enough to draw the attention of a bear.
Two staff members of the camp came to warn the Kelly family that a bear was close by, and that's when 11-year-old Baden Kelly sprung into action.
Baden began screaming in order to get the bear's attention. He was able to distract the bear long enough for most of his family to run into a nearby cabin.
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"I said, 'Run, Moriah,' and she didn't run, so I got to her and I started running with her, and that's when the bear started running after us," Baden said. "By the time it got to about 10 feet behind us, my brother [Logan] came running really fast out of his cabin and shouted very loudly."
Baden told Fox13Now.com that he "was scared because of Mariah and she's just little, she wouldn't have been able to fight for herself. So I had to make a choice and do that."
Logan's hard-charging bravery and Baden's refusal to leave his sister's side led to a happy ending for the family.
Mom Kamila Kelly told NBC-2 that Moriah gave all the credit to her two big brothers. "The moment I saw Moriah being brought up by the staff, it was just such a relief, and she jumped into my arms and said, 'Baden and Logan saved my life,'" she said.
Dad Brandon Kelly expressed his pride in his two boys. "He is definitely a hero, both of our boys are heroes today," he told Fox13Now.com.
And even though many people would rethink their camping hobby after a face-to-face encounter with a hungry bear, Baden's enthusiasm for camping didn't appear to be waning.
"I love camping, I love the outdoors, it's just the experience," he told Fox13Now.com. "It's something that can make you stronger."


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The city of Rochester, New York is widely recognized as a leader in the photo imaging industry, but little is known of Rochester's contribution to the advancement of the medical field. The city's reputation as a leader in the medical field goes back to 1856 when St. Mary's Hospital opened on West Main Street. By 1900, Rochester hosted many prominent hospitals such as the City Hospital, later named Rochester General Hospital, Rochester Homeopathic Hospital which later became the Genesee Hospital, Hahnemann Hospital that later became Highland Hospital, and St. Mary's Hospital. Many smaller hospitals would emerge during this period such as the Lee Private Hospital. The Rochester community became an important area in the practice and advancement of homeopathic medicine. One of Rochester's leading homeopathic physicians was John Mallory Lee, a renowned surgeon and a leading figure in Rochester medicine. Dr. Lee established the Lee Private Hospital on the corner of Lake and Jones Avenues on January 8, 1898. For the next seventy-three years, this hospital would embody the virtues of commitment to medicine and service to the community from Dr. Lee and his family and under his successor, Charles C. Teresi M.D. as the Lake Avenue Hospital.
Both Doctors Lee and Teresi were innovators in their medical practices. Dr. Lee gained recognition for his work with nuclear medicine for the treatment of cancer. Dr. Teresi's own personal experiences would endear him to the many ethnic communities in Rochester by his compassion and unwavering commitment. The ornate building, would endure through the economic hardships of the depression, endeavor through the war years and adapt to the ever-changing advancements in medical technology. The story of this unique institution ended in the summer of 1975 with the building's demolition, but its legacy remains in the memories of the people whose lives were improved by the hospital at 179 Lake Avenue.


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Westman Islands
The Westman Islands are a fascinating part of Iceland. We visited the largest island, Heimaey, which has a population of 4,135. The other islands are uninhabited. The Icelandic name for this group of Islands is Vestmannaeyjar. In 1973 the eruption of the Eldfell volcano destroyed many buildings and forced a months-long evacuation of the entire population to mainland Iceland. Approximately one fifth of the town was destroyed before the lava flow was halted by application of 6.8 billion litres of cold sea water. Before the eruption 5300 people lived on Heimaey, 2000 of these moved back immediately after the eruption ended. Slowly more families returned and began to rebuild their community.Read More


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An epic Hotmail takedown is kind of like an epic takedown of a three-legged puppy. But that doesn't mean it's not highly entertaining. Or maybe I'm just a sucker for British nerd raps.
The silky verses come complements of Dan Bull, who should probably just switch to Gmail already. Along with anyone else who watches this, nods their heads knowingly, and needs three attempts to successfully forward it to a friend.


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12 O'Clock High-Leadership Lessons from James Garfield
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