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Increasing smallholder farmers' incomes through value addition
The early morning sun is unforgiving. But Bosco Oryem Owiny doesn't seem to mind the heat. He is in the gardens ploughing away with his cow. As he works the machines, pushing the animal forward, sweat beads freely drip down his face.
Oryem is a rice farmer and a member of Awere Farmers Marketing Association in Kitgum district, one of the leading rice farmers' associations in the district. He is ploughing and clearing his field in preparation for the rice planting season. Many people here call it "opening up the land". Oryem only recently graduated from using a hoe and a panga when opening his land. Even though using animals has made his work much easier, it remains very tedious and slow. But that is not all.
- The DIMAT project is in line with the Government of Uganda's Agricultural Development Strategy and Investment Plan 2010/2015 programme on "Market Access and Value Addition".
- Project is implemented by Enterprise Uganda, Kilimo Trust, Eastern Private Sector Development Centtre (EPSEDEC), Acholi Private Sector Development Centre (APSEDEC) and Private Sector Development and Consultancy Centre (PRICON).
- Total cost of the project is USD$ 2.6million.
- At least 200 MSMEs will access financial, market information, extension services and appropriate technologies.
"We used to go through a hard time finding market for our produce after harvesting. Very often we sold our rice at give-away prices. We simply did not know the right buyers; so we would sell to anyone who wanted to buy." Sometimes traders from Kitgum town used to buy from them. "But they exploited us badly," he says. His earnings were small and could not help him to cater for his family.
Then, things changed.
In 2011, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) offered to support the members of Awere Farmers' Marketing Association through a project known as the Development of Inclusive Markets in Agriculture and Trade (DIMAT). This project was established to transform agriculture in different parts of this country, including Kitgum. The 2. 6 million US D project is funded by UNDP and implemented by Enterprise Uganda, in conjunction with Kilimo Trust, Eastern Private Sector Development Centre (EPSEDEC), Acholi Private Sector Development Centre (APSEDEC) and Private Sector Development and Consultancy Centre (PRICON).
For the last two years DIMAT has facilitated the training of farmers from Gulu, Kitgum, Amuru, Pader and Lira in management and farming methods. The project has also helped to link the farmers to buyers and processors for their products and also helped them acquire modern tools for their farming and funds to support them.
We have been linked to Peyero Millers Association- the best marketing and processing company in Northern Uganda and now we are able to get the latest market information and links to buyers for our produce," says Oryem.
"Once we are assured about the market for our produce, it is easy for us to concentrate on our farming," says Olabongo Ceaser the chairman Awere Farmers Marketing Association. Farmers have also received training in financial management, savings and marketing. "We are now able to plan for our produce and to manage our finances to make profits," Olabongo says.
"We expect to get tractors from Payero millers for the next season. This will make our work even more productive because tractors are more efficient than animals," he adds.
Comprising 39 small producer farmer groups and nearly 800 members, Awere Farmers Association has had a turn around since the intervention of UNDP through the DIMAT project. "From 300 bags of rice per season before the UNDP-DIMAT intervention, today we produce 600 bags. And with the better farming practices and improved inputs, we are hoping to open 1500 acres of rice next season," he says. The farmers' personal lives have also improved. "Today, I get more out of my work, and I am able to feed my family and educate my children," Oryem says. The future, he says, looks very bright for him and other farmers in his community.


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Positano is a small picturesque town with splendid coastal views, on the famous Amalfi Coast in Campania, Italy. The town itself is perched on an enclave on the face of a hill and winds down towards the waters of the Amalfi Coast. Naturally beautiful, Positano attracts thousands of visitors every year. All year long, the town is always full of people, but if you are planning to visit Positano, it would be best to schedule your trip during the spring season.
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Mediterraneo and Saraceno D'Oro also offer local specialties for the budget conscious. Located next to each other, near the Grotto of Fornillo, Mediterraneo serves seafood and pasta and Saraceno D'Oro specializes in pizza.
'Mamma Rosa Bed And Breakfast Positano . Mamma Rosa is an old house skilfully restored, with arches and vaults typical of Mediterranean architecture, situated between terraced citrus groves and secular vineyards. The decor is simple, refined and elegant, equipped to make your stay as comfortable as possible. The B&B Mamma Rosa is situated in Montepertuso, a small and tranquil village on top of Positano with amazing views overlooking the Amalfi Coast and Capri Island. Telephone +39 089 875546 email [email protected]
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Julian Tippett has published a nice walking guide book for the area in the "Sunflower Countryside Guides" series.

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Geneva Toland Hicken, age 91, passed away on Sept. 11, 2012, in Santa Barbara, Calif.
She was born in Iuka, on Jan. 29, 1929. Geneva grew up and attended school in Pratt, then earned a teaching degree from Kansas State Teacher's College of Emporia in Emporia in 1942.
She moved to California where she taught school and married Charles Waynick on Nov. 20, 1948. They moved to Denver in 1957 and lived for many years in the Columbine Country Club in Littleton, Colo., where they remained until his death in 1993. She was a committed golfer who served as a committee chair of the 49th PGA Championship that was held at Columbine in 1967.
Geneva married Daniel Hicken in 1995 and lived in Santa Barbara until her death. They loved to travel and enjoyed living in Montecito on the ocean.
She had endless amounts of jokes to share, loved to entertain and had a great sense of adventure. She loved to fish.
She loved her family and friends beyond words.
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, at the Chapel in the Pines, with a graveside service to follow in Fairmount Cemetery, Denver, Colo., where she will be buried with Charlie.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Oct. 22 at first United Methodist Church of Santa Barbara.
In lieu of Flowers the family is requesting donations the American Cancer Society in her name.


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Regarding Reid Joyce's letter ("Pandering to big oil", June 29).
The Middlesex Township board of supervisors is the governing body of the township. The supervisors are elected. The board enacts laws, or ordinances, that govern various activities.
The zoning hearing board conducts hearings and renders decisions on requests for variances and special exceptions to the zoning ordinance.
The zoning ordinance is not chiseled in stone and the supervisors have not made a major revision to it; rather, they have made a clarification as to what is permitted, and where, pertaining to drilling for natural gas.
With more than 77 percent of the land in Middlesex Township under a gas lease, the supervisors are not pandering to big oil. They are listening to the majority of the residents — including residents of Weatherburn Heights who have signed a lease with an energy company.
The writer and his small group have been told by Middlesex and Adams townships there is more danger from traffic on Route 228 running through the Mars School District, than from a well site almost a mile from the closest school.
The lawyer instrumental in overturning Act 13 put the control back in the hands of the townships, and the townships have spoken. The Department of Environmental Protection's 500-foot setback from any structure stands.


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Former Rox pitcher Joe Kennedy dead
This is crazy.
Former Rox pitcher Joe Kennedy dead
By Patrick Saunders
The Denver Post
Former Rockies pitcher Joe Kennedy died early this morning in Florida. He was 28.
According to his agent, Damon Lapa, Kennedy was visiting his wife's family in the Tampa area. He got up in the middle of the night, got out of bed then collapsed. The cause of his death could not immediately be determined, but Lapa said an autopsy would be scheduled.
"It's a sad day and a sad situation," said Rockies first baseman Todd Helton, one of Kennedy's closest friends. "He's leaving a wife and a little boy behind."
Kennedy, his wife, Jami, and their 1-year-old son, Kaige, still lived in the Denver area.
"They had just bought a new house," Helton said.
Helton played golf with Kennedy about two weeks ago and said the two families often spent the holidays together.
"This was the first Thanksgiving we haven't spent together in quite awhile," Helton said. "This is just really sad news."
Kennedy, a left-hander, pitched for the Rockies in 2004-05, compiling a 13-15 record with a 4.88 ERA. He was the opening-day starter in 2005 against San Diego. That was the game in which Clint Barmes hit a dramatic walk-off homer to give the Rockies a 12-10 victory at Coors Field. The Rockies traded Kennedy to Oakland in July 2005.
Rockies manager Clint Hurdle was stunned by the news.
"My wife (Karla) and I were driving down the hill when a coached called and told me. I was just crushed," said Hurdle, who spent Thanksgiving at his second home in Breckenridge. "We are so sadden by the loss. I know that Joe was really embracing fatherhood."
In seven major league seasons, Kennedy compiled a 43-61 record Tampa Bay, Colorado, Oakland, Arizona and Toronto. Kennedy had a career 4.79 ERA, pitching 908-1/3 innings over 222 career appearances.
Kennedy began the 2007 season with Oakland, was claimed off waivers in August by Arizona, then designated for assignment before being signed by the Blue Jays on Aug. 29. He filed for free agency at the end of the 2007 season.
"He was just a fun-loving guy with a lot of heart," Helton said. "You could see what a great person he was by the way he was around my daughter (Tierney)."
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You just never know. Very sad.
This is what, the fourth Pitcher in 3 years to lose his life suddenly? 2 ST Louis pitchers, Cory Lidle and now Kennedy. WTF!
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"If we then use comScore's figure for total smartphone users (110 million) then the data would suggest that there are 330k Lumias in use in the US. This would have been accumulated over a sales period of about four months." Ouch. For a phone with such a huge marketing push, this is quite painful.


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Rollin' On TV Adds NMC/Coach-Net as Sponsor
September 19, 2011 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on Rollin' On TV Adds NMC/Coach-Net as Sponsor
Mattapoisett Mass.-based Rollin' On TV has signed NMC/Coach-Net as its latest advertising sponsor.
"We're delighted to have such a great company on board with us and we look forward to working with them as an advertising partner on some exciting, upcoming promotions," Jose Moniz, co-producer and host for Rollin' On TV, said in a press release.
The NMC/Coach-Net brand has been a trusted name since 1987 and covers over 80% of all motorized RVs sold in the U.S. each year. Coach-Net provides 24/7 roadside assistance in all 50 states and has the largest network of heavy-duty providers in the US and Canada. Coach-Net is also the pioneer of RV Technical Assistance.
Moniz said Rollin' On TV will be airing a segment featuring NMC/Coach Net in an upcoming episode.


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|2009-08-22, 15:35
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Sword Wielding Penguin
The 'Golden BB' effect I like to call 'Murphy's Law AVALANCHE' is actually a bit of a character trait. But with a slight twist. Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong, but there HAS to be something that can/will go wrong. Not just random dominos.
|2009-08-22, 15:54
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blinded by blood
Fortunately the shells of Nena's neutron rifle do not fail in such a spectacular manner... ^^;
Think of a capacitor popping and then make that capacitor the size of a shotgun shell, you'll get the idea.
|2009-08-22, 16:01
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Sword Wielding Penguin
Nice to know.
One reason I decided to make cartridges so powerful when they 'breach' is because you have to remember those things give a mage a power boost they then apply to spells that go through buildings like bunker buster bombs.
If I were doing counter-mage tactics, I'd be aiming for the cartridges, rather than the mage. Chances are if you hit the mage, you hurt them. If you hit the cartridges enough to damage them the same level you'd hurt the mage, you blow the mage straight to hell. I figure one of Nanoha's magazines has to be holding enough compressed, stored energy to equal an F-16 loaded up with bombs.
Of course, I'd bet money to say the magazines are armored, and the cartridges themselves aren't merely plastic like a shotgun shell. Probably armored too.
|2009-08-23, 11:38
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
Age: 35
Can't be that armored, unless the energy density is something like a nuclear bomb.
Those cartridges aren't more than an inch in diameter, and even some sort of high impact polymer/other armor of your choice is going to need at least a quarter to half inch of thickness to stop anything more powerful than a rifle round.
|2009-08-23, 11:51
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Sword Wielding Penguin
Unless you count the fact that they, and the devices, are appearantly made of magical 'plasteel'.
Light enough to be swung around by a nine-year-old. Strong enough to take explosive impact. Make metallic 'clacking' sounds that aren't pure metal sounds, and aren't plastic sounds. Brightly colored, without the appearent use of paint... Weird stuff.
|2009-08-23, 22:37
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Once and Current Subber
Join Date: Dec 2005
I don't buy that you could do that as a good tactic.
The devices are made of tough stuff. We've seen Bardiche and RH take an exploding Jewel Seed at essentially point-blank range, an explosion that was "loud" enough that the Arthra detected it from several dimensions away. But we know that normal cartridge use isn't on that same energy level (mostly because, otherwise, the Knights would have stood out like comets in A's). That explosion did manage to damage the devices, but they weren't completely wrecked; cracked, but not shattered. Considering that ready-to-use cartridges are in containers that are made of the same stuff, that implies that you'd have to hit it with a tremendous amount of juice in order to bust the cartridges inside - an amount that would knock the mage silly anyway.
|2009-08-23, 23:21
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Location: Maine
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It might be a situation where whatever process is used to compress the energy into a cartridge, a similar specific process is necessary to get the magic "uncompressed" in explosive fashion. Not unlike nuclear weapons--you can't get a fission reaction just by beating on a warhead with a hammer. Indeed, the cartridge might not even contain "compressed mana" per se, but might be a one-use mechanism to channel mana from an external dimensional source. In that case damaging the cartridge wouldn't blow it up, it would just break it--like smashing a bomb's detonator when it isn't actually attached to any explosive material yet.
|2009-08-23, 23:30
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Sword Wielding Penguin
Except that a charged up Levantine sliced right through Bardiche like a hot knife through butter and later damaged its core... and a charged Graf Eisen chipped away at RH's core like a rocket powered jackhammer. Neither were Jewel seed power, but did significantly more damage to the devices.
Cannon insists that there is some level of magical reinforcing to them, which explains why a magic boost makes a sword that is no more sharp suddenly cut so much better. One should also note that the release from the Jewel seed was not all that physically destructive because there were two considerably less resistant to 'blow-the-f*ck-up' fleshbags named Nanoha and Fate right there standing in the core of the 'blast' holding on to those devices, and that despite the 'nuclear fireball' effect we get to watch, they remained physically unharmed. Even when fate grabbed the seed bare handed.
So it is not a clear cut example.
Though the point is prudent. Good Tactic it is NOT unless you have something designed specificly for dealing with it. You're talking about hitting a moving target the size of your fist with a high power precision attack. Essentially the magical version of "BOOM!" Headshot.
In direct combat with a mage, this may be futile when they actively spot the attacks and are defending. This leaves you with standoff and surprise. Not only do chances of hitting the mark go down with distance, but the mage and/or device are probably in constant motion.
Still, a weakpoint is a weak point, and you must always account for them, as you never know when you may need to, or can exploit it.
EDIT: @ Dezo
In A's, Shamal was charging the cartridges like they were batteries.
|2009-08-24, 01:31
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Well, HE damage isn't the same thing as AP damage when it comes to penetrating armor. ;p
Of course, if you wanted to, you could say that cartridges aren't explosive - that they're juiced up in a magical process, but they aren't just little packets of mana waiting for a firing pin, and unless they're "fired" in the proper manner, they don't explode. Think powergun ammo from Hammers' Slammers - there's lots of ways to bend, fold, spindle, and mutilate those cartridges without causing them to gang-fire, though that's possible under the right conditions.
|2009-08-24, 01:59
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Writer, Jester, MtG nerd
All this talk has me thinking of spellbombs
I do enjoy the talk ^^
|2009-08-24, 04:19
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Sword Wielding Penguin
One, I find cartridges being 'handle with care' safety issues something to give them flare asside from just being 'ammo'.
Two, I'm three chapters and something like fifty thousand words past the scene where I apply them, and a chapter or two ahead of where I first threw in the Checkov's Gun on it. Changing it now would require to change the dialogue of the early scene. (After I find it.) And then rewriting the entire end sequence of chapter four.
Now of course, I don't treat them like grenades waiting to happen. But I make it known in the fic that Cartridges and high intensity Microwaves don't particularly get along.
In fact, catagorizing the punishment I give them. Damaging the magazine doesn't set them off, but it makes RH reject the thing for safety purposes, and even blasted and beaten up they don't go off. Microwaves of course, arc them...
And then I treat the detonation like some kind of incindiary. If one blows, it takes out whatever's near it, and sprays 'sparks' of raw mana all over the place. The sparks themselves behave like superheated molten fragments, torching whatever they touch. (It's raw energy, what do you expect. It's just that it's magic energy so it behaves rather odd. In this case staying in 'spark's rather than just radiating out in a flash of light.) So of course, when one of these sparks lands on or very near another cartridge, they melt it. Boom^2.
|2009-08-24, 16:50
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Age: 35
On an unrelated note, I did wonder about the power armor since it brings up an interesting point about their tech in general. The materials the Mids have to work with would make a suit like that possible, if not practical, but never do we see any kind of protection beyond the chestplates the disposa-mages wear.
You'd think that anything that could reduce the amount of power needed for protection would allow them to channel more into attack or mobility, something they obviously sorely need.
|2009-08-24, 18:23
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Once and Current Subber
Join Date: Dec 2005
(shrug) Weight issues? Full armor is heavy and restricts your movement. If a barrier jacket provides most of the protection but is only as restricting as a normal set of clothes, it's probably a superior solution.
We know that Mid does have device-vehicles, like Storm Raider, but that not all their vehicles are devices or even "smart". Why not? Rogue actor problems? Tough to say.
At the end of the day, you're not going to get past "it's a magical girl show and thus the technology must accommodate cute girls in skirts in combat". Even if Nanoha would be better-equipped and better-protected piloting RH in Nanoha Gundam mode, it's just not that kind of show. Same reason that the power armor in Starship Troopers became "minimal armor with exposed faces" for the movie - they didn't want to do a story where most of the characters had their faces covered most of the time. There's not a "good" story reason why. Obviously everyone but Subaru and Ginga could use a magic crash helmet on top of the stuff they normally wear, but it ain't gonna happen, so...
|2009-08-24, 21:15
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blinded by blood
I did something similar, having Teana integrate Cross Mirage into an aerospace fighter. I was sort of at a loss, since the fighting was in the air, Subaru wasn't involved and Teana can't fly. Had to get her up there somehow.
|2009-08-24, 23:03
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Sword Wielding Penguin
I must state, that even with advanced controls giving the vehicle arcade simplicity... Flying ain't easy without at least ten hours practice. I hope you had her flying the thing like a true novice...
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Ennis, just thirty minutes away from downtown Dallas is known as the Bluebonnet City for all the blue wildflowers that cover its terrain. It has around 18,513 with the largest Czech community in Texas. Ennis is known for having an antiquated feel, and its downtown area is recognized as a Historic Place by the National Register. See http://www.ennis-texas.com/ for more information on this cosmic wonder and visit LocalTalk to learn what the locals have to say about it.
The shine of Ennis just got a little brighter because of its out of this world renting prices for apartments! Check out our rental and census data tables as well as our other fact sheets for more info about affordability and options for your future new digs. Even aliens will be taken about by how cheap we Earthlings get to live!
My biggest delight here on planet Earth is food. To be more exact, my biggest delight is experiencing food in Ennis, Texas, Earth, the Milky Way, the Universe. The breakfast and fresh baked goods in Kolache Depot & Bakery at 114 W Brown St will fill your soul with joy. For dinner try El Mexicano Grille at 219 Ennis Ave. This authentic Mexican cuisine will satisfy the hungry hombre in you. Treat yourself to a post-dinner margarita and go home happy and full.
No need to wish upon a star for fun things to do in Ennis since this place is already stellar. I figure I might as well run with this cosmic theme and first mention the Galaxy Drive in Theatre at 5301 N Interstate Hwy 45. How awesomely retro is that?! Pull up in your 1950's vehicle with your lady, share a malt, and watch Grease on the silver screen through your windshield. Also, just thought I'd mention that this place is cheap as Earth dirt. After you've finished exploring the Galaxy Drive in, blast off to downtown Ennis for some window-shopping, boutiques, restaurants, cafes and more. Not to generalize or anything, but moms will love this historic district's antique and craft Shops. If you are sick of soaring through the space-time continuum then focus your attention on the wonderful Earth that surround Ennis. There are seventeen parks as well as three lakes in this beautiful city! Hike, play sports, go fishing, paddle boat, picnic, feed the ducks, or stargaze. The choice is yours! After a morning hike, rev up your engines and visit Ennis' famous Texas Motorplex to catch a race. I can't believe what I am about to say but….DO NOT MISS the Ennis Annual National Polka Festival!!! I really think I might have to visit Texas for Memorial Day weekend to see the parade, polka bands, street dancing, and to try all the Czech food. So cool!!!!
You and your family have had a great weekend out on the town, but it is now Monday morning and time to get the kids ready for school. Parents can feel confident that they are sending their kids off to great schools within the Ennis Independent School District. Check out http://www.ennis.k12.tx.us/ to learn about this District's award winning public schools.
The young adults of Ennis, TX will not be at home watching Dancing with the Stars because they will be out being stars themselves. College Street Pub at 210 N College St is just one hot spot Ennis stars might find themselves. This Texan bar is fused with some authentic English culture, making it a genuine pub experience. For the shooting stars that can't be kept in Ennis, drive down to Dallas and be part of the happening nightlife there. There is a niche for everyone, and those looking to find the gay community might want to check out the Round-Up Saloon at 3912 Cedar Springs Rd. At this gay country club you will find karaoke, plenty of room for dancing, good drinks and a diverse crowd of men and women. You seldom ever see the words gay and country club in the same sentence so you know this place has got to be good.
It has definitely been established the Ennis is not UrEnnis, but it could be your Ennis if you choose to rent an apartment there!


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Do you like the occasional adult beverage? Do you like nerding out over cars while drinking that adult beverage? You do?! Then why not meet up with us, your friendly Jalopnik writers tomorrow evening so we can drink and talk cars together?
We'll be meeting at 6 PM tomorrow evening at Mother's Ruin (18 Spring Street, b/t Elizabeth and Mott) for some drinks and lively discussion of cars and the impact of Glasnost policies on the disolution of the Soviet Union. It should be an enlightening evening.
Matt wants to go there because they have fried garbanzo beans. I tried to explain to him that this isn't an uber popular dish amongst the majority of the world's population, but he insisted it was the shit and then said the word "kinja" like 37 times.
It's been one of those days.
So yeah. Tomorrow night. Mother's Ruin. 6 o'clock post meridian. Be there or don't be there. There might be Jalopnik stickers, if I can find them somewhere in this kinja we call an office.


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Breastfeeding is ideal for you and your baby. Parents who attend this class feel more comfortable and relaxed when it comes to feeding time. Learn how to be successful in this three-hour class. You and your spouse or partner can learn about everything from establishing a good milk supply to what to expect when you go home from the hospital. You will receive tips from an expert educator on how to begin breastfeeding and discuss frequently-asked questions and other general information. In addition to the class, you get access to Web-based class materials. Partner participation is encouraged.
Preparing for the Parenting JourneyWe offer a full range of classes to prepare for birth and life with your new baby. For the best selection, we suggest that you register in your fourth month of pregnancy. Plan to finish all classes at least one month before your due date. If you are expecting multiples, please complete all classes before your third trimester.
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DescriptionIn Super Hang-On you race a motorcycle around the world, completing each section of track within a time limit. There are other bikes on the road, but beating this is not important, so they can be thought of as moving obstacles. Each continent is a different difficulty level: Africa is beginner, Asia is junior, the Americas are senior, and Europe is expert.
This is a very simple and straightforward game, viewed from behind the bike in 2D (so the screen does not tilt with the bike). The right/left controls are steering, and up/down are gear changes. Your cycle is always moving, and your speed strictly depends on the gear you are in, although contact or running off the road slows the bike down.
The Sega Genesis version features "Original mode" in which the player participates in racing tournaments, hires mechanics, upgrades his bike. This mode uses passwords allowing players to continue a previously played game.
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1001 Video GamesThe Arcade version of Super Hang-On appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.
CompilationsA version of Super Hang-On is included in Sega Smash Pack 2.
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- May 1991 (Issue #00) - #41 in the "All Time Top 100 Amiga Games"
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School: Bethany College
Year: Sophomore
Field: Art therapy
Family: Michael and Pamela Ramsey (parents), Grant Ramsey and Eliesa Webb (siblings), Neil and Bernadette Austin (grandparents), Lois Ramsey, Roger Ramsey (grandparents)
Hometown: Garden City
Activities: College Choir, Chamber Choir, Art Club (VP), Bethany Ambassador
Interests: Ceramics, sculpture (anything artsy), fashion, singing, nature (camping, hiking, you name it), yoga
School highlights: Acceptance into Bethany! Winning Best of Design in the Messiah Art Show, singing a solo in the Messiah rehearsals, singing a solo in choir's final concert
Post-graduation goals: After Bethany on to grad school! Not sure where yet. I want to receive a degree in art therapy and then practice in either Colorado or New Mexico (unless I find somewhere I like better).
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. - The offense kept hitting for the Tennessee Tech baseball team Sunday afternoon as the Golden Eagles wrapped up a four-game sweep of NYIT with a 12-1 victory at Bush Stadium at the Averitt Express Baseball Complex.
Nine Tech players combined for 14 hits against the Bears, including three players with muti-hit affairs.
Leading the Golden Eagles offensively were juniors David Allen, Jordan Hopkins, and Dylan Bosheers. Starting in left field, Allen put togehter an impressive day at the plate, going 3-for-3 with three RBI and two runs scored. He also stole a base for the Golden Eagles.
Hopkins, who spent the day as Tech's designated hitter, also went 3-for-3 in the contest, scoring three runs while driving in two and garnering a walk. The starting shortstop, Bosheers collected two hits and scored three runs.
The Golden Eagles scratched three runs across in the bottom of the second inning, using a free pass and hit-by-pitch from NYIT to give Allen base runners with no outs. He promptly singled through the right side, driving in the first run of the contest. Following a walk of Jordan Parris, second baseman Zach Zarzour ripped a ball to second that became a fielder's choice and drove in a run.
Zach Stephens added a sacrifice fly to right center field to wrap up the scoring for the inning. But the Golden Eagles would not stop there.
Tech added two more runs in the bottom of the third with a double by Bosheers, an RBI single by Hopkins, and an RBI double Allen. And there was still more to go.
In the fourth, the Tech bats really took off, putting up a five spot while going all the way through the lineup and some. The Golden Eagles also added two more runs in the eighth inning to finish the weekend on a great tear offensivley.
John Gora earned his first career victory as a Golden Eagle, tossing five innings with six strikeouts and just one hit allowed. Four Tech relievers, along with Gora, combined for 13 strikeouts on the day, allowing a total of only four hits and one earned run.
The Tech squad will return to the diamond on Tuesday, Feb. 25 when it hosts in-state rival Lipscomb in a 3 p.m. match-up. Admission to Tech baseball games is free and open to all fans.


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Nightly Business Report Tonight on Nightly Business Report, the Dow Industrials Index gets a makeover. Does the addition of Goldman Sachs, Nike and Visa give these stocks just a short term pop or a lasting advantage over others? And, Apple introduces new phones, but the stock drops. What will it take to get the shares juiced again?. D
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Live From Lincoln Center "Josh Groban: All That Echoes" The multi-platinum recording artist, whose versatility ranges from opera to pop, performs at a special one-night event at Lincoln Center. His concert features selected career-spanning favorites, such as his break-out song "You Raise Me Up" from 2001.G
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American Masters "Billie Jean King" The series' first profile of a sports figure commemorates the 40th anniversaries of the Billie Jean King versus Bobby Riggs "The Battle of the Sexes" tennis match and the launch of the Women's Tennis Association. King presents her own story with perspectives from Serena and Venus Williams, Hillary Clinton, Sir Elton John, Marie Sharapova, members of the Virginia Slims Circuit "Original 9," Bobby Riggs' son Larry, family and friends.G
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Frontline "The Suicide Plan" FRONTLINE explores the shadow world of assisted suicide, where the lines between legality and criminality are blurred. Filmmakers are allowed access to people who are taking the initiative and reveal their stories - those choosing to die, their "assisters," individuals and right-to-die organizations.G
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The contents of this one-hour special draw from the documents of the US Bishops, Faithful Citizenship (1999), and Living the Gospel of Life (1998). The message Fr. Frank delivers is a strong challenge to voters to put more importance on their Christian identity than their political affiliations.
The Catholic Vote: Responsible and Prayerful is scheduled to air during the following dates and times:
October 29th 8pm
November 2nd 1:30pm
November 3rd 3am
November 3rd 10pm
All times Eastern.
For more information about EWTN, contact the network at 205-271-2900, or www.ewtn.com.
For more information, or to interview Father Pavone, please contact Adam Bromberg at (703) 683-5004 x102.


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A host of new data center startups are coming on the scene to help IT shops handle the challenges posed by virtualized infrastructures and cloud computing.
The GigaOM Structure event next week will feature 11 new companies, including at least two that Network World readers will be familiar with.
NETWORK WORLD'S TOP STARTUPS: 25 hot products from new IT companies
Big Switch Networks, which has $13.8 million in funding, is building new technology to bring the OpenFlow protocol to data center networks, Network World reported in April.
ZeRTO, meanwhile, is developing disaster recovery and business continuity software for virtualized, mission critical applications and cloud deployments. ZeRTO was featured last year in Network World's "25 new IT companies to watch" and is now emerging from stealth mode.
Other new companies touting their goods next week include Acunu, which is building storage technology that uses commodity hardware to boost the performance of data intensive applications; CloudFloor, which says it will control the operations of a customer's cloud applications; and Cloudability, which will manage the cost of cloud services.
All of them will reveal more June 22 and June 23 in San Francisco.
Here's a little bit more of what we know about the aforementioned startups:
Big Switch Networks is putting its chips behind OpenFlow, a Stanford University and UC-Berkeley project "designed to separate the control function of switches from the switch hardware and forwarding function so that users can program traffic patterns in a network of multivendor switches and routers," as Network World's Jim Duffy reported. Big Switch is building an OpenFlow controller.
Former Stanford professor Guido Appenzeller is the CEO of Big Switch, which also has ex-Cisco executive Mike Volpi on its board.
ZeRTO is led by Ziv Kedem, who previously co-founded Kashya, a company acquired by EMC and turned into EMC's RecoverPoint data protection and remote replication product. ZeRTO has been quiet about exactly how its disaster recovery technology will work, but has been conducting a private beta and says next week it will "finally reveal what we've been working so hard on while we've been in stealth mode."
Acunu will launch the first version of its storage platform for Apache Cassandra, a distributed database. Acunu has released its core technology as open source software and says it includes CentOS Linux and "can be used with most Linux compatible 64-bit hardware."
"Acunu is rebuilding the storage stack to meet the challenge of data intensive applications offering fast and predictable performance from commodity hardware," according to the GigaOM LaunchPad page. Based in the United Kingdom, Acunu announced $3.6 million in first-round funding in March.
CloudFloor, which also has more than $3 million in first-round financing, calls its own technology a "mystery project." Not much is known except that CloudFloor will "control the operation of your cloud applications based on business insights and events." The company is led by former executives from application performance management vendor Gomez, which was bought by Compuware for $290 million in 2009.
Cloudability will tackle the billing model in cloud computing services, providing "a comprehensive billing view for all the services you've got running in the cloud."
"Add your cloud accounts, set budget limits, run reports and choose notification preferences to take control of your cloud budget," the company says.
The Cloudability website shows a sample dashboard illustrating a customer's spending patterns on Amazon's cloud and Heroku, a cloud service recently purchased by Salesforce.com.


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March 6, 2012
Still there
I can't believe I've been absent here for an entire month.
February flew by. We all got sick (and better again...) at the beginning of February - I even managed to be sick in bed on my birthday. And after that the girls had a two week break. One week was spent in the mountains which was really great. We were in good company, had great snow and the most lovely weather - what more could one wish for...
And now we're back to normal, impatient for Spring to come - which won't be this week as temperatures were announced to go down again and the sky looks sort of grey.
But that's ok as I have plenty of 'inside' jobs on my to do list still.
I'll (try to) keep you posted...
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5 comments:
- elena nuez said...
Welcome, I miss you!
- March 6, 2012 at 10:58 AM
- Seaweed and Raine said...
Welcome back! :) Don't worry, spring temperatures will warm up soon. Get stuck into that list before the warm, fragrant air beckons you outside. ;)
- March 6, 2012 at 11:34 AM
- virginia said...
i was wondering if you had abandoned your blog...
plus, i love that photo!
- March 7, 2012 at 2:18 AM
- eloleo said...
Ha! Daar ben je weer!
- March 9, 2012 at 9:45 PM
- Pascale said...
I have a hard time finding the right balance in terms of posting frequency - I deliberately wanted to cut back a little as I started to feel like living a virtual life only, but I never meant to be gone for this long...
But even if you don't hear from me... I'm still there!!
- March 10, 2012 at 12:18 AM
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Nothing makes the holidays happier than a good stiff drink. It's even better if it's one that's easy to concoct and uses what's in season.
And now that we're just days from turning the corner to 2011, sharing a cocktail or three with friends and family is imperative — in a convivial setting, some mistletoe hanging or even balloons and streamers. (Happy New Year!)
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Speak-easy trends may celebrate esoteric tinctures or rare liqueurs, but, fortunately, the success of a holiday cocktail doesn't rest on whether you've stocked up on unusual spirits or ingredients. Indonesian batavia
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Canonical has come up with an idea for really putting purpose into your multicore Android phone. So powerful have mobiles become in the past 12 months that the London-based company is suggesting we use them to power our desktop computers - and power them on Ubuntu, of course. Pocket-lint took some time at Mobile World Congress 2012 to see what the company was talking about.
The demo set up included a keyboard and mouse with a monitor showing a pretty normal-looking version of Ubuntu running quite happily on it. But look a little closer and there was no computer tower, no box, just a Motorola Atrix 2 set upon an arbitrary dock with a few wires sticking out of the back of it. The whole computing experience runs straight from the mobile, allowing you to take your desktop in your pocket wherever you go.
It's all possible because Android and Ubuntu share the same Linux kernel on the phone and can quite happily co-exist. Add in the fact that Ubuntu is an incredibly light operating system and it's easy to see how a dual- or quad-core CPU, backed up by the impressive kinds of GPUs and RAM packs that we get these days, can easily power a desktop experience. All the phone really needs beyond that is an HDMI-out and USB support for connecting to the monitor and peripherals.
The added bonus comes in with the development of 4G technologies, meaning that you'll also get a speedy internet connection included but, of course, if there's a wireless network in the location, then the phone and system could jump on that as well.
As for the actual workings, it's essentially identical to desktop Ubuntu for the time being. You get access to all the usual Ubuntu apps with the only proviso that these apps have to be optimised for ARM architecture which, fortunately, most of them are. The idea is to include some certified business apps from the off as well including software from Adobe, Citrix and VMWare.
Your Ubuntu-enabled phone will be able to share with the desktop everything you have in the Android side of your handset - calendar synchronisation, video, music, social network accounts, browsing sessions and history and even contacts for you to make calls from your computer. So, you might be reading a web page on the go, then set down at your desk, plug in your handset, the Ubuntu desktop fires up and there's the same page but full screen instead. Very simple really, but very clever indeed.
For now, of course, it's just a demo but the main reason Canonical was at the show in Barcelona was to chat with the mobile phone manufacturers and start convincing them that enabling their devices to work with Ubuntu in this way is a very easy and very good idea - which it absolutely is. We can only hope they listen.


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Physician-assisted suicide
Physician-assisted suicide is the act of voluntarily ending one's life by administering a lethal substance with the help of a medical professional. It is different from euthanasia because the physician does not administer the substance. This means the physician could give the patient a prescription for the lethal substance and advice on using it. It also lets a doctor rig a patient to a device which causes death, for example by lethal injection.
The practice is legal in the US state of Oregon, Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands. However, it applies only to patients with terminal or incurable illnesses.
Patients choosing physician-assisted suicide often express the wish to 'die with dignity'. They do not want to become helpless and possibly unable to communicate their wishes to others.
Opponents of the practice use religious and moral arguments. They say suicide is sinful or immoral. Some medical practitioners also argue that assisting a death goes against the Hippocratic oath. Others worry that making assisted suicide legal could lead to vulnerable people feeling pressured into taking their lives
Related links
C F McKhann, A Time to die: The place for physician assistance (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999)
R F Weir, Physician Assisted Suicide (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997)
D Birnbacher and E Dahl (eds.), Giving death a helping hand: physician-assisted suicide and public policy. An international perspective (Dordrecht: Springer, 2008)


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|from the window at Fuente De
We started our hike at a clifftop monastery, and ended it -- spiritually at least -- at a severe little Cistercian sanctuary with 20 sisters singing psalms.
In between was seven days of breathtaking, knockout, spectacular scenes -- glacial cirques, thousand-foot walls of rock, gangs of Scouts camped out in meadows, salamanders, eagles, storks, owls, cows and calves, goats and kids, even a baby donkey. (Baby donkeys may be the most cute things on this planet.)
It was cold up there, and lonesome. These mountains are prime tourist territory, and Spain is supposed to be on vacation about now. The "Crisis" is cutting deep up north, deep enough that the national bus company is only sending out one bus every three days from Leon to Potes. Tracy, an expat author and lover of arcane Spain, lives down in Andalucia, but was passing this way in her car. She gave Kathy and I a ride up to the mountains, saving us about seven hours on a combination of trains and buses. With Tracy we scanned facsimiles of bizarre apocolyptic manuscripts written in the neighborhood about a thousand years ago, and put on display in downtown Potes. We wandered the twee town, saw the nice (and empty) pilgrim albergue, and touched with our own fingers the True Cross relic so deeply revered at the Monastery of Santo Toribio de Liebana, up on the nearest mountain.
We left Tracy up there, and hiked 20 kilometers up the Deva river to Fuente De -- home to a cable-car that hauls the hardy another 500 or so meters up to the very top of the peaks and the trail-heads that scatter outward from there. It´s the edge of the Picos de Europa national park, a huge patch of skyscraper peaks that march in ranks right up to the Cantabrian Sea. We were, apparently, the only guests in our Fuente De hotel. The tour buses looked empty. The queues at the cable-car station just were not there. We were too tired to care very much, and the next day promised even more high-altitude wanderings.
|the reservoir at Riaño
The maps tell us the mountain path we followed is only about 11 kilometers long, but it took us five hours to reach the Pandetrava Pass from Fuente De. We walked in glory, with eagles hovering overhead and long, green views down valleys and upward to the blue heaven. (The weather was very kind -- it was apparently pouring rain on the Leon side of the massif.) We ate a soft white cheese we bought in Camaleño, drank water from the springs along the route, cooled our toes in the watersheds and stock-watering tanks. The ten additional kilometers to Portilla de la Reina were gently downhill, following a babbling river past sheep herds and massive mastiff dogs. We were beat, and the paved surface was not kind to our feet. This is a stupendous camino, but it follows narrow valleys -- once you leave the mountain trail, there´s often noplace to walk but along the quiet country road. Which is covered in asphalt.
|The locals
We slept in a private albergue in Portilla, a tiny town nestled in the folds of three mountains. The roof above us was new, and snapped and groaned all night. "It took those timbers a hundred years to grow. Now it will take them a hundred years to die," the owner said. I heard no other noise.
|a water fountain/ancient tombstone
We walked a narrow gorge, then a tractor path along a stream with a thriving marijuana plantation on one bank. We dined like queens at a truck-stop in Boca de Huergano, and followed alongside the haunted reservoir of the Embalse de Riaño, a great blue mountain lake made when the Esla was dammed in 1990. (It´s along here we found the tombstones and rock carvings left by the Vadiniense, a pre-Roman tribe that lived here before the Romans showed up, and gave their name to the trail.) The dam project drowned nine little towns in the river valley. Their church bells hang in a little memorial park in the new concrete-and-plaster town of Riaño. When the wind blows, the bells sing and wail.
These are just the first three days of the hike. I am now writing a guide to the path for the CSJ in London, and I need to get back to that... so hang on for more travelogue soon. Here are some photos from then, and maybe even one of Kathy´s videos!


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Jeg nyder Red Dead Redemption 2. Dets begrænsede HUD, mange animationer og stille western-musik sikrer den fulde oplevelse. Dog er der visse bugs som bryder illusionen og minder mig om at det bare er et spil skabt af programmører - og de kan jo lave fejl. Denne video er et eksempel på en sådan fejl, hvor en død hjort skifter ham!
Sam and Dóri are attending this years Blizzcon and not only covering game announcements but also all the Esports competitions!
Sam and Dóri are sitting comfortably on the front row and waiting eagerly for the opening ceremony of Blizzcon 2018 to start.
Yeh, just some far cry 4 footage from some years ago, with some Strauss to go along.
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During their trip to West Virginia for Fallout 76 Lisa & Dóri got a tour of a real life fallout shelter.
Dóri arrives in his hotel room at the legendary Greenbrier hotel in West Virginia for the Fallout 76 event.
Lida & Dóri are in a private plane heading out to a Fallout 76 event!
Sam and Mads are in Brooklyn for the Overwatch League grand finals.
David and Thomas briefly step outside the venue to talk about what exciting news and events the day will bring at PES League finals in Barcelona
Does Alex Alguacil have the meatballs to go all the way?
David and Thomas the techie is back in sunny Barcelona to cover the PES League finals 2018. We discuss how the event is gonna go down and what to expect from our coverage
just having left the venue and hotel David and Thomas looks back at a really interesting three days in Barcelona and suggest highlights for you to seek out within all the content that they filmed these last days.
David shares expectations for the last day of Gamelab.
David and Thomas talk day 2 experiences while heading into town to grab some spanish dinner.
David outlines the days coming interviews og expectations for day 2 in Barcelona
David and Thomas the techie talks day 1 experiences and expectations for tomorrow
Welcome to Gamelab 2018! David shares expectations before Gamelab kicks off proper.
Le Grand final
Last day
Eirik talks COD BO4, Heroes of the Storm and much more before waving a farewell to this round of Dreamhack
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Napster co-founder Sean Parker ties the knot
June 2, 2013
BIG SUR, Calif. (AP) — A spokesman for former Facebook president and Napster co-founder Sean Parker says the wealthy Web entrepreneur has married singer-songwriter Alexandra Lenas.
Matthew Hiltzik says the couple wed Saturday evening in front of 300 family members and friends at the swanky Ventana Inn & Spa in Big Sur. He says the couple's daughter, Winter, participated in the ceremony.
Parker helped start the music-sharing site Napster and was an early Facebook adviser who served as its first president. He was portrayed by Justin Timberlake in the movie "The Social Network."
Forbes estimates the 33-year-old's net worth at $2 billion.


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Today's Contact A Day is
Contact A Day is an opportunity to reach out to companies and let them know that your family loves their products. Many companies will thank you for your email with coupons. There is no guarantee that they will send coupons but it is a great way to let them know that you appreciate their products.


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ASUS P7H55D-M EVO Review
Intel's H55 chipset is a low priced, mainstream product that is designed to utilize the integrated graphics built into the new Clarkdale based processors. This design has proven to be a very good option for users that are looking to get the best performance possible while avoiding the high premium of the Core i7 series. What really separates this chipset from others using the LGA 1156 socket type (such as the P55) is that the H55 along with the H57 have onboard video options to add support for the IGP found on the Clarkdale processors. This should make this an ideal solution for HTPC use and as stated before the price puts it well within the mainstream. So, with the H55 line expanding the new Core lineup to a wider audience and many motherboard manufactures producing boards based on this chipset it might be hard to find the board that best fits your needs. In this review we are going to be looking at the ASUS P7H55D-M EVO and comparing it to other offering from the H55 and H57 lineup to see what distinguishes this board over the others.
Closer Look:
The ASUS P7H55D-M EVO comes packaged in a light blue box that is standard size for a mATX motherboard. Both the front and back of the packaging highlight the main features and support of the motherboard. But like most products the back panel is more in-depth where as the front is used more to showcase the included features. Once the packaging is opened the accessories are found sitting on top of a cardboard divider with the motherboard below.
The included accessories are two SATA cables, one IDE cable, the rear I/O shield, the user manual and the driver's disc. Really just the basics are included, but this is standard for a mainstream motherboard. Found below the accessories is the P7H55D-M EVO which comes in a protective antistatic bag.


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Van Dyke hopes to enlighten students on the importance of conservation during Creation Care Week at Wayland
November 12, 2012
PLAINVIEW – Fred Van Dyke, Ph.D., can still remember a sermon he heard as a young
boy that played an important role in shaping his future. Not an overly religious family,
Van Dyke said he had some "minor contact" with the church while growing up but nothing
steady or consistent.
Still, one sermon stuck with him. In a sermon on idolatry, Van Dyke said the preacher stated that those things in life that drive what you do, how you make decisions and how you spend time can become your god.
"As I looked at the men in the congregation, I thought he was really describing their jobs," Van Dyke said. "In my 13 or 14-year-old mind, I drew the conclusion that if one wishes to avoid idolatry, one should find a vocation or a job in which one is serving God and advancing His purpose.
"I suppose, ironically, I was considering full-time Christian service before I really understood what it meant to be a Christian."
It was years later, as a freshman at the University of Idaho, that Van Dyke became a Christian and surrendered to a lifetime of ministry and service. Like many Christians committed to service, the first thing that entered his mind as a vocation was a career in pastoral work. That, however, was a short-lived idea.
"I came to the conclusion that my interpersonal skills were so poor that it would probably do the Gospel more harm than good," he said.
Van Dyke began looking for a career that was more adaptable to his aptitude. As he studied scripture, he began to understand the importance of serving and protecting God's creation. This led to the study of wildlife ecology, graduate school and eventually teaching positions in the field of biology at Wheaton College. Throughout his education he came to realize that the conservation movement was lacking a strong ability to communicate its purpose and moral endeavors.
"It often presented conservation as an array of techniques and skills with a tactical objective," Van Dyke said. "That works fine within science itself, but if you want to engage a larger public, you have to be able to answer questions like: Does this earth have a future? Is it part of any redemptive plan or purpose?"
Van Dyke began to search for ways to strike up conversations between conservationists and Christians in an attempt for each group to engage the other to find the best possible ways to reach a common goal.
"In order for conservation to really become something that can be culturally affirmed and embraced, it has to move beyond the science and show that there is a real culture and tradition behind it," he said. "For example, the Civil Rights movement didn't really go anywhere until its leaders like Dr. King began to speak of it in Biblical terms. When they did that, people started to see its legitimacy."
That is Van Dyke's goal in his current position as Executive Director of the Au Sable Institute of Environmental Studies. He wants to communicate to young adults and college students the Biblical basis for serving, protecting and restoring God's creation.
"I want them to see what the scripture says about it, why God reveals that to us as part of His revelations about Himself," he said, "and why God wants this to be part of what we understand about Him and our relationship with Him."
While at Wayland this week, he also hopes to build a relationship and understanding with students that will eventually lead to the sharing of resources in such a way as to further students' education and commitment to environmental stewardship.
Van Dyke, who taught courses at Au Sable from 1984-99 before joining the board and then becoming executive director, will be speaking in several classroom settings as part of Wayland Baptist University's Creation Care Week and will be the featured speaker at chapel at 11 a.m. on Wednesday in Harral Auditorium. The public is invited to attend.
For more information on the Au Sable Institute, log on to ausable.org.


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Ravens, former Raiders safety Michael Huff agree to 3-year deal
OWINGS MILLS, Md. – The Baltimore Ravens have agreed to a three-year deal with former Oakland Raiders safety Michael Huff.
Huff played his entire seven-year with the Raiders before being released last week. The 29-year-old visited the Dallas Cowboys earlier this week.
He must pass a physical before he can sign a contract.
The Ravens announced the agreement Wednesday. Huff is expected to fill a void in the backfield for the Super Bowl champions, who previously this offseason released starting strong safety Bernard Pollard and lost free safety Ed Reed to Houston via free agency.
Huff started all 16 games for Oakland last season — 14 at cornerback and two at free safety. He had 71 tackles and two interceptions.
The 6-foot, 210-pound Huff has 11 career interceptions and 453 tackles in 108 games.


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Concert Posters: Cool Art from Sasquatch! Festival
In honor of this weekend's sold-out Sasquatch! Music Festival at the gorgeous Gorge Amphitheater, just a couple of hours outside Seattle, here's a sampling of the 60+ band posters created by artists near and far for the famous four-day event.
Silk-screened concert posters don't cost much and make a bold graphic statement in any space. They're usually numbered, which means you're taking home a limited-edition piece of art, and they're a design-savvy way to celebrate your favorite band (or a killer concert) without causing flashbacks to the Tiger Beat tear-outs you tacked to your wall when you were 13 (or was that just me?).
My personal collection includes early Death Cab for Cutie and Shins posters that Sub Pop sent me when I was the editor of a music webzine, and an Arcade Fire poster that everyone in the band signed. My man has a strict rule: Posters must be from concerts he attended. I say if it's a great piece of art, go for it anyway and wish you'd been there.
If you're in Seattle and want to check out all the prints in person, swing by Capitol Hill's Vermillion Gallery before May 29. You can also browse the entire gallery on the official Sasquatch! site.
Posters by:
• Iron & Wine by Killorn O'Neill
• The Decemberists by Hero Design
• Ratatat by Lia Cerizo
• Foo Fighters by Don Clark of Invisible Creature (Also check out Don's super-cool Sasquatch! figurine sets.)
• Gayngs by Clay Nowak
• Best Coast by John Foster
• Death from Above 1979 by Nat Damm
• Yeasayer by Frida Clements


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Special edition "A5 DTM Champion"
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Audi A5 Coupé
Combined fuel consumption in l/100 km: 6.5 – 4.0 (36.2 – 58.8 US mpg)
Combined CO2 emissions in g/km: 148 – 105 (238.2 – 169.0 g/mi)
(Figures on the fuel consumption and the CO2-emissions vary in case of given ranges depending on the used combination of wheels/tires.)
Fuel consumption and CO2 emissions data as well as the efficiency classes are dependent on the choice of wheels and tyres.


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Ten Ideas You Can Try Right Away
"Discipline is not the Enemy of Enthusiasm!"
– Morgan Freeman as Joe Clark
When it comes to Discipline in the schools, there are many well-publicized and well-marked "systems". People sometimes get carried away with systems, or programs, structures, textbooks, etc., arguing passionately, for example, that block scheduling is better than traditional scheduling, or integrated math is better than traditional math, or whole language is better than phonics, Or this discipline system is better than that discipline system. Similarly, real estate agents will include the name of various school districts in their advertisement for a particular home based on how beautiful the district's buildings are.
The focus, wrongly, is almost always placed on things, and not people. The truth of the matter is, and I'll wait while you etch it in stone, my system will do better than your system if my people believe in our system and are passionately committed to its success. So when you hear the arguments, ad nauseum, for this system over that system in the schools, know that it is not the "thing" that caused the success, but the caring and passionate people working within the system.
The rules of golf, my friends, state that you are allowed to have 14 clubs in your bag. In the "golf course" of life in the schools, do you remember the teacher who only had a "driver" in his or her bag?
As we approach the topic of School Discipline, we must begin with the a priori acknowledgment that the American Juvenile Justice System is built on a rehabilitative model. This starts with the understanding that kids- you were a kid too, remember- are not perfect, that they will make mistakes, and that it is our duty as grownups to help them acquire the social skills needed to function as a productive individuals in society . If the Juvenile Justice system is set up this way, then how much more so must the school disciplinary approach be one that attempts to assist young people so that they improve their inappropriate behavior and become productive individuals? Naturally, this means that kids are expected to get second and third chances, and some attempts at modifying behavior may take several years.
If the people who work in the schools were able to actually "fly the plane" in all respects, there would be no "Zero Tolerance" policies, either, and you would not read about kindergartens kids getting expelled for having a nail file, or Because they cave a member of the opposite sex a hug. These coward politicians love to show how tough they are passing by legislation to expel kindergarten children for hugging somebody or having a pocket knife. Media people, please listen: No real educator would ever come up with a policy like that- even criminals get three strikes- the one strike baseball game was concocted by politicians trying to get votes, not the educators you criticize when this tragedy occurs!
In the Broadway Show Bye Bye Birdie, Paul Lynde, bemoaning the behavior of teenagers "today" (circa 1960) sings in one of the songs this phrase- posed as a question … "Why can not we be like we were, Perfect in every way … what's the matter with kids today, etc.? " A school I attended as a child had this quote on the wall by John D. Rockefeller … "What I am to be, I am now becoming." So, everyone listen carefully … The kids you have right now or are going to have when you are out there teaching have not, unlike you, attained to perfection yet !!! However, throughout through your efforts, patience, and rehabilitation strategies, they may get a few steps closer to the target- but they are not there just yet. So you will have discipline problems.
There are still teachers around who make kids stand in the corner and hold a dictionary in their outstretched arms or have someone write the dictionary, or "I must not talk in class" 500 times. We have all heard the horror stories of actions taken by teachers that do nothing but guarantee that the student will continue to do the wrong thing- often with greater enthusiasm. Do not forget the line from Bye Bye Birdie … they are not perfect yet like you! Remember also that we are not selling a system in this book. You can buy books and take courses. Our purpose in this chapter is to give you a variety of tools- more like 14 clubs for your diplomatic "golf bag" if you will. These are strategies that have a high degree of success and can effect quick change.
PROACTIVE vs. REACTIVE
1. Start With a Positive …
Very few kids are discriminate problems the first day of school or the first week of school. You probably already have an idea about the reputation of most of your students because the grapevine has informed you. The kids that have the potential to have problems have parents who usually are also aware that their child is a problem because that same child is a problem at home. So when these parents come to school angry at you the teacher, it's really a case of misplaced aggression because it is their kid who is driving them over the edge. These same parents have literally beaten on the telephone to me when they received good news about their child from the people at school- because it never happened before this. What's the message for you? While it's still early in the year- before the problems have characterized themselves, look for something positive that these potential problem individuals are doing and contact the parents to tell them the good thing that their child was doing.
Later, you will need the help of these parents to help change their child's behavior and they will remember this phone call and view you as a nice person- a fair person- maybe the first person in the school district who has ever said something nice about Their child. When you call later, you begin by saying … "Hi Mrs. Smith." This is Mr. Jones from the school. Mom will say that yes, she remembers you. You then say, "I need your help with something." Then you explain the discipline problem that her daughter is involved with and ask her if she could get involved at home and works, working together as a team, you and Mom can help the child to improve this problem she is now having. Most of the time, the parents will go out of their way to help you. They will also remember the child that you actually said something nice about them and we want to keep this nice teacher on our side- he's a friend. This potential problem child may start acting better anyway because he realizes that you also make good comments, not just negative ones like everyone else. This is an example of a teacher being PROACTIVE.
2. The Unknown Time-Out
Although this strategy works best with youngger students, used sparingly, it will also be equally effective with high school students. Make a plan with one of the secretaries, the Athletic Director, the Principal in a smaller school, or some other person- sometimes the Librarian, the Nurse, Custodian, etc. You can arrange multiple destinations for the Unknown Time-Out maneuver. When you have one or more particularly difficult students or ones that start well but get mixed up in any of the commotion that occurs in class, you call one of the students up to you desk, hand him a colored envelope that has something in it with The name of the person the envelope is going to on it. You tell the student to take this envelope to the person and wait for a response and then bring the response back.
When the recipient of the envelope sees that particular student or that colored envelope, he or she knows what is going on and tells the student to sit in the waiting area while they get the answer ready. Now they take 10 minutes to prepare the response, give it to the student and tell the student to take it back to you. This student just got a "Time-Out" lasting period 15 minutes without knowing it. This Proactive strategy kept the student from being yelled at again for what would have been his inevitable misbehavior, he has done something that seemed to be responsible, and so you the teacher commented on his reliability and thank him. The anticipated daily problem never occurred in the first place. In this process, the envelope, not the student, can be the indicator, so more than one teacher and additional students can be involved in this process. It is unlucky that the students- even high school students, will ever catch on to this strategy.
3. Inviting the Principal to Provide the Positive
If you had the pleasure to attend a Catholic Elementary School in the mid 50's, you may remember this- ruefully, I do. The report cards were distributed every 6 weeks, so every 6 weeks, the priest would come into class on a Friday to be involved in the process of handing out the report cards to 65 or so students in the class. As the Priest cave out the report cards, he always added a moment or two of editorializing. To this day, I have bad dreams about him saying … "Daniel. Hmmm. Let's see … My goodness, I know your Mother … The Poor Woman will be broken-hearted when she sees this awful report card. " Of course, everyone is sitting all prim and proper with their hands folded, but your buddies are looking at you and silently making faces and laughing all the while. All of this had quite the dramatic effect.
What's the message for you? DO NOT INVITE ANYONE IN FOR A NEGATIVE !!! But, invite the principal in and when he is there, publicly acknowledge the student by saying something like … "By the way Dr. Stevens (The Principal) Billy here has been one of my most improved students this report period- he is Doing some very nice work! " – Or, "Billy, why do not you show Dr. Stevens your excellent Social Studies project?" Billy has been doing some excellent work laately Dr. Stevens! The principal knows that this is his cue to congratulate the child and talk more about how nice it is to see students behaving this way, etc. This is another very proactive way to reinforce any positive behavior being shown by a student who does not show it that often.
4. The Sandwich Technique
The Sandwich Technique comes to us from the world of sports psychology and has been an effective tool for modifying behavior and encouraging people for over 30 years. It has application to almost every area of human endeavor- in fact, you can even use it with your spouse. It begins by getting a person's attention by saying something positive. We say this because, for the most part, whether you are a spouse, an athlete, or a misbehaving child, your ears tend to close when you sense that a negative comment is coming your way- we all tend to tune this stuff out. So we get people's attention by saying something positive first- the ears perk up. The positive is followed by what we really wanted to say- the criticism or negative and any diplomatic action that might be occurring. It is followed by a final upbeat and positive comment. Thus the negative is the Peanut Butter and Jelly, and the positive in front and at the end are the two pieces of white bread.
We'll leave it to you how best to apply it in other walks of life, but consider how it can be used in the school setting by looking at the following hypothetical:
Johnny misbehaved in you class again today. He's actually an intelligent individual who simply is not working to the best of his ability. He has shown flashes of brilliance, but for the most part, is usually at the center of any commotion that goes on in class-he's been turning in some sloppy work just as well. Write a script of what you would say to Johnny making sure to apply the Sandwich Technique.
It might go like this: Johnny, you know that I like you- you and I have developed a pretty good friendship over the last couple of months have not we? That's why I am surprised that it is you I have to talk to so much. I have looked at your test scores and I have seen some of your work and it is excellent- you have the ability to be one of my bright students. Here's the problem, though … this is the fourth time in a row that you have turned in such sloppy work. So I am going to just keep giving it back to you till you do it correctly, and I do not care if it takes you a month to do it correctly. You will have to come in after school to redo the work, Also, if you do not change the quality of your work, then I am going to have Mom and Dad come in, and you know what your father said he would do if I Call him about you, do not you? What do you think would be a good way to fix this problem? (Avoiding the Yes-No question) All right. Let's get back to work, but I want you to know, I think you are a sharp kid, and I was just talking about you in a good way to Dr, Stevens. So let's start doing the work I know you are capable of. Etc. "
5. Divide and Conquer
In this situation, two students are a constant disruption in class. Take one of the students and treat him in a way that is a little less strident than the other. This can be done by rewarding one of the students for doing something right and making it seem as though he is not the real trouble maker in all of these class problems- it's the other guy. The second person will not stay too friendly with the first person, and the first person will begin to distance himself from the second person. You say to the first student, "You know Billy, I look at you as one of my better students and I do not think of you as a troublemaker like some students seem to be in this class. To improve this problem? (Again, not a yes-no) Following the private discussion, you move Billy making sure to explain to him that you want to get him away from the problems so he can do good work and not be bothered all the Time The partners in crime will not be so friendly with each other after you take this action.
6. The Phone Call From Class
Signal for the misbehaving child to join you in the hallway. Tell the child that you have your cell phone "right here in your hand", and if you ever see this kind of behavior again, you are going to call his or her Mom at her place of work right here from class and the child is Going to have to explain to her Mom the reason why the call is being made. The teacher then asks the student how happy he thinks his Mom is going to be to receive such a phone call from school when she is working? When he replies, "Not very happy", say, "Right, not very happy, so I expect to see some very quick improvement in your behavior- got that Billy? The next day, or for the next few weeks or so, if Billy is acting out, the teacher will surely holds the phone up and looks at it and then looks back to Billy. Will have on the other students, notably potential problem individuals when they find out that someone had to actually call his or her mother from class!
7. The Letter in the Drawer
Let's say that a child uses foul language in you class. First you tell him that this kind of language is not appropriate for class and that you and he are going to have to talk about this after class. Quietly, without any overreaction and typically after class, although there may be occasion to use this technique within the earshot of classmates, you tell the student the following: You are really surprised that a person like him would be speaking like that. You then tell him to write down what he said on a piece of paper. Make sure all of the words and details are included in the writing. Then, with a flourish, you place the writing in a business envelope and put a stamp on it and tell the student that normally, this would go directly into the mail with a phone call to let Mom know it is coming. Also, you dramatically write out a disciplinary referral.
Then you may tell the student that you are going to give him a detention for his behavior, but since you the teacher are such a nice person, you are going to keep this letter and the referral in your desk for mow. If this behavior ever occurs again though, both of these items are being sent along with a second mailing for the additional liability. Then you tell the student that this will stay in your desk till the end of the marking period at which time you will dispose of it if he, the child, continues to behave properly. Like the technique involving the cell phone, if the child is starting to misbehave a few days letter, you can point to the letter or the referral as a silent reminder. The child will get the point and probably appreciate your kindness.
8. Invite Mom to come in
This is a great technique for improving everyone's behavior because one visit to your class by someone's Mom who sits right next to her usually misbehaving child for one or more periods and everyone will have because they will fear that they might be next. Kids would rather have root canal than have Mom come in to sit next to them for an entire period or several periods. The process works like this: You make an effort ahead of time to establish a good working relationship with the Moms of some of your most significant problem individuals. You call Mom and invite her in because Junior is misbehaving. Mom comes to class and sits right next to her child and can remain for one or more days. Nobody wants to end this humiliation. Do it just once and many of your discipline problems will be over. The next day after the visitor leaves, the teacher can say … "Well, you saw a parent in here to visit because there were some problems I wanted her to see … who's next?" Do not expect any hands !!!
9. Involve the Guidance Counselor
Without fail, you will find guidance counsel more than happy to assist you in dealing with a student experiencing problems because it gives them the opportunity to do what they went to school to learn how to do. This is important to guidance counselers because, in the present national testing zeitgeist, they have all too often become the de facto assessment coordinators for their school. They have less time to actually counsel children because much of their time is being spent checking bubble sheets, counting booklets, and filling out forms for the state as well as sifting through mountains of paperwork related to special education, for example. As a teacher who sees the same students on a daily basis, you know which students have the most pressing issues related to discipline and which ones would profit most from a visit with the counselor as opposed to a visit with the Principal or Dean of Students. Not every matter needs to go to the principal.
On the other hand, you are out there amidst the masses and you hear various stories about kids regarding things that are happening in their lives. Sometimes you have established enough of a rapport with a student that he or she shares it with you himself. Once a student was talking to me about where she was going for the holidays and matter of actually told me that she and her two sisters are from 3 different fathers and they would be going to see all of the fathers as well as the related grandparents, And even though one of the fathers used to "beat my Mom up", things are pretty good around the holidays as long as he does not get too drunk, etc. The child acted as though this was completely normal, and although she was a discipline problem now and then, after hearing this story, I looked at her much differently. I realized quickly that this was something that should involve the guidance counselor.
Also remember that kids spend more time around the people in school than the people at home, so you will often know immediately when a kid just does not look right which might be an indicator of sexual abuse, drug use, eating disorders, pregnancy, self Abuse, etc. Maybe the grapevine knows about a death, a loss of a job, marital unrest, etc. You are the first line of defense in this process. The counselor has all of the right contacts and phone numbers of professionals that she can bring into the process. When a kid who was never a discipline problem starts to become one, or his work starts to take a negative turn, pay attention and do not just turn directly to the discipline code page in the student handbook. You and the counselor, working together, can be a great force for changing a kid's life- and the matter never has to get to the discipline office. Do not be upset, however, if after the counselor gets involved, he or she is unable to share all information about the child with you. There are some issues with Confidentiality involved, so maybe all you will hear is that "The matter is being taken care of." That may be all you are able to find out.
10. Careful About Examples
Do you remember the movie Home Alone? In it, Mc Cauley Culkin, the child who was left behind is talking to the old man who used to scare him. They are sitting in a church and the kid tells the old man that a certain third grader got "nailed" when kids found out that he wore dinosaur pajamas. If you are not careful about certain examples you speak about to misbehaving kids, you might get somebody "nailed". To clarify, if you had brothers or sisters, do you ever remember hearing this from either of your parents, "Why can not you be more like your brother who always makes the honor roll- he always does all of his work so neatly!
If, as a teacher, you make an example like this by saying, "Why can not you people in the back turn in neat work like Jimmy here- he is such a wonderful student?" … … you may be insuring that poor Jimmy is going to get "Nailed". The world of kids is difficult enough, do not put someone in peril because he or she is a model student. You can still have pageantry involving rewards, but never expressed in a comparative way as in, "Jimmy got this, but look at you Billy, you only got this!" Your parents did that. It did not necessarily endear you to your brother or sister when the comparison was made.


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Sigh. Doesn't anyone go on The Bachelor or The Bachelorette with the right intentions anymore? Isn't there more to life than money, fame, and rubbing elbows with various celebrities?
Apparently not -- especially if the new rumor about Jef Holm making a play for Ashley Tisdale is true. Yes -- Ashley Tisdale, as in Ashley Tisdale from High School Musical.
According to a new report in Star, Jef has gotten pretty chummy with Ashley's sister, Jennifer, on Twitter, in the hopes of getting closer to Ashley, who he became "infatuated" with after meeting at the Jingle Ball in Los Angeles last month.
And call me crazy, but if Jef really is pursuing Ashley, my gut tells me it's not because he's madly in love with her and wants to put a ring on her finger. (Been there, done that.)
Nope. Get this one -- she might be able to give him a second chance at fame.
One source says, "Ashley and her sister have a successful production company named Blondie Girl that produces reality shows. So he's hoping Ashley and Jennifer will develop a new show for him."
OMG. I really, really don't want this to be true, but for whatever reason, the idea of Jef looking for his ticket to super-stardom really doesn't seem all that far fetched.
I know rumors are just rumors most of the time, but there have been so many different stories popping up about Jef that make him sound like a total fame whore -- to the point where it's pretty hard not to believe them a little.
First, there was talk of him wanting to be on Dancing With the Stars. And oh yeah, there was the whole rumor about him shopping a tell-all book about his experience on The Bachelorette. And then he supposedly showed up at Emily Maynard's hotel before Ashley Hebert and J.P. Rosenbaum's wedding in the hopes that she would bring him as her date (where he could mingle with the reality TV "in" crowd).
And now -- there's the Ashley Tisdale thing. If it's true, it means that Jef is way more interested in fame than anything or anyone else in his life, for that matter. (What a letdown.)
Man. Sure sounds like Emily's a lucky gal for getting out when she did.
Do you think Jef is really trying to connect with Ashley?
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Nokia Windows Phone 7 Lumia 800 vs Apple iPhone 4SNokia's first Windows Phone 7 device offers specifications somewhere between Apple's iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S, but is missing some key hardware and software features and will only debut in Europe, effectively leaving the US market to Apple and Android this holiday season.
Nokia recently revealed two new phones running Microsoft's Windows Phone 7.5 Mango platform: a lower end Lumia 710 and the top of the line Lumia 800. Both phones are GSM/UMTS/HSPA only, and will initially be sold only in Europe and parts of Asia this year.
That makes the devices only potentially functional on AT&T if imported to the US, but Nokia hasn't yet released plans to bring the devices to America. The company has never established a significant presence in the US for its smartphones.
Nokia has indicated that may eventually build CDMA or LTE versions of its phones for sale in the US next year. Worldwide, Nokia's leadership as a smartphone vendor once established its Symbian OS as the leading platform for more sophisticated mobile devices, but that dominance has collapsed since the arrival of Apple's Phone in 2007.
In China, Apple has now passed Nokia as the brand consumers express a preference for, leaving Nokia now tasked with rebuilding its presence using Microsoft's year-old Windows Phone 7 platform, which over the past year has seen very limited adoption.
Nokia's Lumia 800 is based upon the company's N9, a MeeGo Linux phone released in June of this year after Nokia announced its plans this spring to shift from Linux and Symbian to Windows Phone 7. Nokia made no plans to sell the N9 in the US, focusing on bringing WP7 to market instead. The Lumia 800 is a cross of the two.
Nokia's new Lumia 800 (left) and Lumia 710 are its first Windows Phones.
Nokia Lumia 800 vs iPhone 4S hardware
The new Lumia 800 is not a global CDMA/GSM phone like iPhone 4S, but does match its HSDPA 14.4 Mbps download potential on European networks. It has the same 512MB of RAM and uses a faster clocked but simpler, single core Qualcomm chip, putting it somewhere between Apple's iPhone 4 and 4S in terms of general performance but considerably worse than both in graphics performance.
The model is offered only in a 16GB capacity, and lacks the SD Card slot and removable battery that many previous Nokia buyers expressed a preference for over the iPhone's built in storage and battery.
The Lumia 800 offers similar camera specifications to the iPhone 4S, but has a dual flash and lacks a front facing camera for video conferencing. It also has no support for HDR photos, 1080p video capture, nor HDMI video output, nor wireless video output similar to Apple's AirPlay. It also lacks a gyroscope for accurate motion control.
Nokia uses a AMOLED display that is slightly larger than the Phone, but offers a lower 480x800 resolution than the iPhone 4/4S' 960x640 display, and at 252 ppi, it falls considerably short of Apple's 326 ppi Retina Display in terms of sharpness.
Nokia rates the model as having a longer 3G talk time but a shorter 2G talk time compared to Apple's own iPhone ratings, although the battery life tests between Apple and Nokia are not standardized and therefore not necessarily comparable. Nokia also does not outline a rated battery life for WiFi web browsing, watching video or listening to music as Apple does.
Compared to the previous N9, the similar Lumia 800 includes half as much RAM and no 64GB storage option, but a slightly larger (but still integrated) battery. This indicates Nokia is aiming at establishing even its higher end model at a price point affordable to the mass market. It plans to sell the model for 420 Euros (about $580), making it about the same price as iPhone 4 (which is $599 unlocked in the US for the new 8GB version) and slightly cheaper than $699 and up iPhone 4S.
However, Apple reportedly commands 40 percent greater subsidies from carriers, which would tend to make Apple's devices appear $200 cheaper than alternatives in the same market.
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Keystone Upgrades, Enhances Springdale Line
September 12, 2013 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on Keystone Upgrades, Enhances Springdale Line
Keystone Rv Co.'s popular Springdale line of travel trailers and fifth-wheels will unveil a host of changes at next week's Elkhart County RV Open House, including full-body graphics exterior, distressed cherry cabinetry and an expanded floorplan offering including 12 brand new models.
"This introduction marks the most extensive list of upgrades to the Springdale line that we have ever made," said Springdale Product Manager Dustin Tavernier in a press release. "From head to toe, inside and out we have touched everything in order to give our dealers an entry-level product that is unmatched in the marketplace, at the same time retaining our price point. Retail customers cannot compare the new Springdale to any other trailer at this price point because nothing else compares."
The new full-body exterior graphics package adds the look of a painted exterior most often seen on luxury fifth-wheels and motorhomes. A completely redecorated interior with distressed cherry hardwood cabinetry, high definition countertops, brushed nickel hardware, redesigned tri-fold sofas, and 29- or 39-inch LCD TVs creates a luxurious interior. The limited–time Adventure Package ups the ante with a 7-cubic-foot Dometic Renaissance refrigerator, Electrolux cordless vacuum and USB power center.
In addition, Springdale will be launching two new fifth-wheel models at Open House featuring a new bath deck and introducing fireplaces with brick surrounds. Springdale's Summerland line of travel trailers will showcase an interior makeover and two all-new floorplans.
Springdale is also focusing on additional Pendleton, Ore., production and will soon debut a new front-platform toy hauler, the 190SRT, for distribution in the west. Keystone will exhibit product at the RV/MH Hall of Fame during the RV Open House, Sept. 17-19.


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Addressing the Digital Divide
Perhaps the biggest challenge to harnessing technology for economic development is addressing the digital divide. How can we do so? This is a big question and to answer it comprehensively by looking at all the work on this area is beyond the scope of this blog. However let's look at a few obvious ways of overcoming the digital divide:
(1) Development projects that focus on, and are relevant to the poor. The Monitoring of Integrated Farm Household Analysis Project (IFHAP) was conducted every five years from 1996 to 2007 in the thirty-three (33) major rice- producing provinces in the Philippines. The study noted the potential of mobile phones as key tool for information dissemination in agriculture as they are widely owned. In 2007, 90% of the farm households surveyed owned at least one mobile phone. I agree with the authors of this study that while policy, infrastructure, and digital divide do indeed aid in assessing readiness; a social dimension is also present, which we ignore at our own peril.