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Put social media widgets on your site. Add a widget to your site that followers can use to easily share your content. It also simplifies many processes for your visitors, like re-tweeting or voting on a contest.
Try and rate all of the items you have on your sites if you are selling products, people who come from social media sites will appreciate this. By adding these things onto your site, users can decide what content is the most popular. This provides them with a voice so that they feel they are important.
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To get a better social media marketing network, avoid pushing products. Generate posts that relate to your niche. These could include stories or perhaps external provider links can be made available from within your industry. Run contests, post pictures and ask questions. Engage your readers in order to encourage their voices to enter into your conversation about your business. Instead of focusing on product placement, encourage people to discuss your products. Rather than simply encouraging customers to purchase your product, show them how well it fits into their lifestyle, and why they should purchase it.
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Big Brother Final Betting: Jason closing in on Hughie For Title
Jason Shortens to 7/2 After Emotional Outburst
It was a tumultuous night in the Big Brother house as Sam and Alex were dramatically evicted from the show in a shock twist. We now have our finalists who are Hughie, Andy, Jason, Jackson, Jayne and Evelyn. The pressure is on as the winner will be crowned TONIGHT, but looking at the latest Big Brother Final Betting Odds, what once looked like a one horse race could now become a three horse race as the odds begin to shift.
Hughie remains the favourite to win, but after days of shortening, the Irish traveller has suddenly drifted from 1/3 to best odds of 5/6 from William Hill to claim the title.
Jason could yet pip Hughie to the post however, after fresh support from punters, following his harrowing and emotional experience in the house, saw the stuntman shorten into odds of 7/2 from Ladbrokes, in from 9/2 previously.
Andy is also a contender according to the bookmakers at best odds of 7/2 from Betfred, though his odds have lengthened overnight from 11/4, as Jason takes over the main challenge to Hughie.
The rest of the housemates look set for runner up spots with Jackson and Jayne at 25/1 and 40/1 respectively.
Evelyn is rank outsider at both 100/1 from Betfred, and most likely to be the first one out in tonight's show. In fact Coral have a betting market for who will finish 6th and Evelyn is the 4/11 favourite.
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Our prediction is that Andy is going to win the title. He has the momentum, and Hughie has many irritating qualities that might ultimately lose him the vote. Of all the contestants Andy has gone on the longest journey and would be a well deserved winner. You can still get him at 7/2 via Betfred.
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New York Weekend Review #MIMM
..obviously, nobody wants to be back at work on a Monday morning after an amazing weekend in NY.
for the Marvelous in my Monday party because I can't wait to share marvelous highlights from the weekend.
is the city of New York, spending time with my family, and catching up with friends from college.
This is one city if I could I would move like
right now
Marvelous are these flats - I don't believe in "too many shoes", esp. if it has leopard print on them.
Marvelous are doughnuts from Doughnut Plant in Lower East Side. If you are in the area - you ought to try - Coconut Cream, Tres Leches, and Peanut Butter and Banana Cream. Last time I was in NY, I had Green Tea ones. I am totally aware of my donut habit lately, but I feel the same way about donuts like shoes - so flew these babies home with me.
Meyer Lemon, Tres Leches, and Pistachios
Marvelous was Macy's Flower Show - vibrant colors, architecture, and spirit representing Southeast Asian flair. It was simply beautiful.
I can't believe my parents were here for three weeks and right now they are flying already some thousand miles away from me...you know how they say - time flies when you are having fun and being spoiled by them. I miss them already but it surely feels marvelous to have my routine life again.
...and fresh flowers always brightens up my day. Literally - its marvelous to wake up and smell the roses.
and before I end this marvelous post, I want to share a song - Good Life by One Republic because whenever I am happy, sad, angry, grateful, disappointed, lonely - whatever I am feeling at that moment, it instantly makes me feel marvelous because I am sure we all have at least one thing in life to be thankful for, celebrate and smile about..
Sending lots of positivity and marvelous thoughts to everyone!
What's your go to song?


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Nautilus Preferences Usability Review
The following is a usability review of the Nautilus Preferences dialog. It is being conducted on a Ubuntu 11.10 system. Any comment or discussion is welcome.
For this review, I'm considering an item can be a folder or a file. The current dialog contains five tabs, as follows:
- The 'new' in 'View new folders using' might be confusing. It would be better if changes in view mode were reflected in the current window, as happens with changes in the other settings, favoring consistency and system status visibility.
- The 'Text beside icons' checkbox could be with the other icon caption settings, in the Display tab. The same goes for the 'All columns have the same width' checkbox, which could go in the List Columns tab.
- Tree View is not a view like Icon View, List View and Compact View. It is a sidebar view. This information should be clear.
- The 'Text beside icons' and the 'All columns have the same width' checkboxes were moved to the Display Tab and the List Columns tab, respectively. This way, zoom controls could be grouped.
- A new heading 'Sidebar View' makes clear Tree View is a view mode for the sidebar. Also, it should be possible to change the sidebar view from the preferences dialog, as with the main view, for consistency.
- 'Open each folder in its own window' might be confusing.
- Emptying the Trash is also an action of deleting files. Label could be more objective.
- Instructions about icon captions could be more objective.
- Unnecessary 'Date' header.
- Since I moved the 'Show text beside icons' checkbox to the Display tab, it made sense to change the header to 'Icon View'. This way, Icon View display settings are all grouped.
- User can choose either he/she wants more information to appear when zooming in or not. 'Choose the order of information to appear beneath icon names' and its drop-down lists are greyed out if 'Show more information when zooming in' is unchecked.
List Columns
- Renamed 'Use Default' to 'Reset to Default' to make the effects more clearer to the user.
- The 'All columns have the same width' checkbox was grouped with the rest of the List Columns settings.
In a way, the List Columns tab works as a Display tab for List View. Should the contents of these tabs be merged? I experimented with it, but the resulting tab was a bit cluttered since there were a lot of controls (DisplayDesign2.png).
- Tooltip for 'Reset to Default' button: 'Replace the current List Columns settings with the default settings'.
- Unnecessary headers.
- The complementary relation between 'Show thumbnails' and 'Only for files smaller than' could be clearer.
- 'Count number of items' and its header 'Folders make it confusing to understand the effects of this setting.
- If 'Show thumbnails for other previewable files' is set to 'Never', 'Only for files smaller than' should be greyed out.
- Renaming the possible options for 'Count items in a folder' makes the effects clearer .


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Do depraved acts constitute crimes if they're solely online fantasies? As the Web is ever more a place to congregate for comfort and community, do we become as accountable for our behavior there as in the material world?
Playwright Jennifer Haley tests our moral grasp of the boundary between what one might entertain in one's mind and one might commit on a computer in "The Nether," a startling, chillingly engrossing drama that's been expertly mounted by director Shana Cooper for Woolly Mammoth Theatre.
Mind you, this is no mere academic rumination about the most degraded impulses explored on the Web. (And it's not for the young ones, either.) Making her example of some of the most repulsive offenses conceivable, Haley certainly gets you to pay close attention. In "The Nether" she constructs a perverse electronic underworld of the future, rendered even more unsettlingly because it's a destination of perceptible serenity and beauty. In a virtual Edwardian-Age environment called "the Hideaway," members of a clandestine group are given the opportunity by the site's creator (a suitably haughty, lugubrious Edward Gero) to indulge their awful predilections without preying upon a flesh-and-blood child.
For sure, the premise doesn't exactly sell itself. ("Honey, there's a new play about child molestation at Woolly. Let's go!") And mercifully, the online activities do not extend on the stage to callous and tasteless dramatizations — although we are introduced to a product of the imagination of Gero's Sims: a young girl, Iris (Maya Brettell), who dwells in Sims's online "realm." Iris is a computer creation, designed to be (there's no other way to put it) defiled by Sims's clients, who themselves prowl the Nether (the new name for the Internet) as avatars, their identities masked in digital disguises known as "shades."
Haley, though, appears to have more on her mind here than scandalizing us. As Sims claims about the Hideaway to a detective (Gabriela Fernandez-Coffey) who has the task of locating Sims's server and shutting down the operation: "They're only images, without consequence." (The parallels to the work of the Thought Police in George Orwell's novel "1984" are not difficult to discern.) And still, the illicit liaisons playing out before our eyes not only feel disconcertingly real, but the playwright also posits that "the Nether" exists in a time when people can shed their corporeal forms and migrate their consciousness onto the Web. So here the question becomes: if there is "consequence" in the minds of those participating in the online practices, are these men more than mere fantasists, and does a society have an obligation, or the right, to stop them?
It's a troubling can of worms that Haley opens. And the handsome platform that Cooper and her design team devise for the production magnifies our discomfort. In the luminous digitized graphics of the Hideaway, set designer Sibyl Wickersheimer and projections designer Jared Mezzocchi create a diabolically saccharine storybook backdrop for Sims's unwholesome site. The costumes by Kelsey Hunt complete the impression of a world of dark desires cloaked in civility. Visitors to the realm such as Mr. Woodnut (Tim Getman) appear in the finery of a bygone age; Sims, we gather, understands that virtual pedophiles want to build into their fantasies an air of respectability. It's all supposedly a harmless, victimless adventure.
The performances all contribute convincingly to a demi-monde vision of how, through the easily applied anonymity of the Web, we're all slowly disappearing into our basest selves. Getman, Gero, Fernandez-Coffey and Paul Vincent O'Connor excel as beings who pass in and out of the Nether, and Brettell offers a fine portrait of innocence subjected to perpetual abasement.
It's all seriously creepy. I mean, seriously.
The Nether, by Jennifer Haley. Direted by Shana Cooper. Sets, Sibyl Wickersheimer; costumes, Kelsey Hunt; lighting, Colin K. Bills; original music and sound, Eric Shimelonis; projections, Jared Mezzocchi; dramaturg, Kirsten Bowen. About 90 minutes. Tickets, $35-$78. Through May 1 at Woolly Mammoth Theatre, 641 D St. NW. Call 202-393-3939 or visit woollymammoth.net.


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At TJI we asked two questions:
- What advice would you give to a new elder?
- What did you learn that most shocked you in your first year as an elder.
Here are the top 20 comments we got: We heard from older shepherds, newer ones, ministers and several ministers who also serve as elders. Thanks to all who responded. We cleaned it up a little but tried to just give as much as possible what was said to us. In the comment section please add your thoughts. We have the utmost respect for Shepherds and hope this will be of aid to your elders - feel free to forward this to them (If you are reading from TJI for the first time and want to get our updates email us at email@example.com and we will add you):
Don't micro manage.
No shocks during the first year. Don't be a "one hit wonder." In other words don't come into the eldership with a single agenda. i.e. "I'm going to change this…I'm going to fire him…etc."
If you feel under-qualified and inadequate, good your you. That's normal. I interpret that as a sign of humility and recognition of the great task you have undertaken. Don't let those feelings be your only feelings.
Listen a lot. Then, listen some more. It's amazing what you'll learn and what people will share. They'll count you wise and caring if you listen.
Pray for everyone, but especially for the one's you find challenging/difficulty. Praying for them does wonders for our attitude toward them.
Please recognize that even good change almost always comes slowly. Slow is fine as long as there's movement toward God.
Don't quit. The devil will give you reasons to quit. Sometimes, the brethren will give you reasons, too. Don't quit. Get biblically-stubborn, persevere, and keep growing.
Partner with others. Take people with you when you visit. Take people with you when you do Bible studies. Never teach a class alone--tag team it.
Work hard to present a united front as an eldership. Nothing hurts the church more than division and no church can be at peace if the elders are, or appear to be, divided. Elders must come out of their meetings in agreement and no one elder must ever say outside an elders' meeting, "I didn't agree with that decision."
My greatest surprise after becoming an elder: As a preacher I did a lot of "shepherding", but after becoming an elder the heavy responsibility of watching for the souls of members with the realization that I must give an account (Heb. 13:17) began to weigh heavily upon my mind.
You are not the "elder." you are one of the elders. Every elder has his say but not always has his way (Ira North's statement, but it is a good one).
When you are "ordained" and enter the eldership, you are equal to every other elder in that room. There is no such thing as an apprentice or junior elder.
Make all decisions, even on matter of "opinion," on God's Word or principles that are taught there.
Don't play favorites.
Be prepared to give not just your time, but be prepared to give of your emotional energy. I'm not sure how to explain it, but hearing about the problems and pain people go through and hurting with them (empathy), takes a toll on you. (If you're normal) I have many in my family who are or have been psychologists and I know from them the effect it has on them to continually listen to the pain and suffering of people. It has to be even more so with an elder, because it's people you love who are hurting, many times because of their own mistakes and actions. I think it's like the Apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 11, talking about his trials and burdens, when he seems to put at the top, "the care of all the churches".
Don't try to change too many things too fast.
Biggest surprise in my first year as an elder: How fickle people are and how easily and over such seemingly small things they get their feelings hurt and leave.
Listen to the other elders and get their input.
Never be surprised at what you might learn from or about your flock, sometimes you may hear too much information.


text: Developing liturgical resources for homeless ministry ... sharing Christian Formation resources via smartphone app in South Africa ... piloting a touring ensemble of evangelism plays ... these are all examples of recent Evangelism for the 21st Century grants awarded to Episcopal seminarians, faculty, staff and their spouses/partners by the Evangelical Education Society of the Episcopal Church. How has your life and work in your seminary community inspired you to proclaim the Gospel in a new and different way? Where do you imagine that the church needs to be? Discuss your idea with Ms. Day Smith Pritchartt, Executive Director of EES, prior to the application deadline of February 4th. She's ready, willing and able to help you understand the grant criteria and how your idea may be eligible for an E-21 grant. She may be reached at (703) 807-1862 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Learn more about EES, read more about recent grants, and download the E-21 application at www.ees1862.org. Applications for the fall grants cycle are due September 23, 2013.


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Babes in Bikeland 10!!!!!!
The preeminent alley cat race for WTF riders happens today! BiB celebrates its 10th year and it promises to be quite the bash. Many alley cat races can feel pretty male-dominated, so Babes in Bikeland was started as a way for WTF to get involved in a race that was completely welcoming. The best part is you don't even have to race! If you want to just ride recreationally, then just do so.
Riders can choose from a 20 mile route or a 13 mile route. After party is at First Avenue - can't wait for that! Bikarelly is a proud sponsor and I'll be riding with a smile on my face. See you there.
Look for more information at www.babesinbikeland.com


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mission: harmony and community, locally and globally, through harp music
From: "P. Morgan" Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 00:53:03 -0500 Subject: [MillenniumHarpers] Quest Completed - Stops 24 - 26
I finished my quest today on what's probably the last day of beautiful weather we'll see for a while. I've posted some pictures of these last stops in the list photos file.
Stop # 24 --- Rocky Hollow Park 11/24/02 Today was my last official day of questing, and it turned into a nice family outing. My mother joined Roy and me for these last few stops. It was a wonderful day- the weather was perfect and the company unbeatable. Our first stop was Rocky Hollow Park, a small city park very close to downtown Somerset. I set up to play on a small stone bridge that is part of the walking trail. A few walkers passed and paused, but they only spoke to Roy and Mom for a few minutes. They told Mom they didn't want to disturb my playing.
Stop #25--- Bee Rock 11/24/02 From Rocky Hollow we ventured east into Laurel County to Bee Rock Campground on the Rockcastle river. This is a well-developed campground that sees a lot of use in the summer. The area was settled as Sublimity Springs in 1792 and has been in constant use ever since in some form or other. The campground encompasses both sides of the river and is connected by Sublimity bridge, which was last used for car travel in 1942 but has been refurbished as a pedestrian bridge. The campground was empty when we first arrived, but after about 15 minutes several cars drove in. One older gentle man approached me and after a minute confessed to being a bluegrass guitarist. He put a harp twist on that old saw about pianos- Why can't you play Bluegrass music on a harp? Answer: there's no place to put a capo! After a few more songs I packed up and we continued on our way.
Stop #26 --- Bald Rock 11/24/02 From Bee Rock we continued to Bald Rock Conservation Center, a bunkhouse type setup that the Forest Service uses for educational purposes and community service programs. It's a frequent stop for youth groups as well, although it was unoccupied today. I played for 20 minutes or so while passersby on the road did double takes.
It was with regret that I packed up to leave this last stop on my quest? I've had such fun getting out, talking to people and even drawing a few strange looks. The quest has terrified me (in the beginning), excited me (as I got closer to finishing) and brought me closer to my family, who at first thought it was a whim but grew more supportive as the number of stops mounted. I've seen new scenery and new faces and been forced to grow as a performer. I've educated a few people about harps and learned a few things about people, first and foremost of those things being that you can improve someone's day (and maybe their life) with just a smile and a bit of music. It's a lesson I won't forget.
Peggy Morgan, Millennium Harper of Daniel Boone National Forest, Burnside, KY
(below is the quest declaration from early 2002:)
I, Peggy Morgan, wish to become Millenium Harper of Daniel Boone National Forest 2002. I will seek to promote healing and understanding by playing my harp in the following 25 public places within the Daniel Boone National Forest area: 1)Alpine Park, 2)Bald Rock Picnic Grounds, 3)Bee Rock camping area, 4)Buffalo Arch, 5)Beaver Creek Day use area, 6)General Burnside state park, 7)Big South Fork recreation area, 8)Blue Heron Interpretive Trail, 9)Cumberland Falls state park,10) Great Meadows campground,11) Hemlock Grove Picnic Grounds, 12) Historic Stearns,13) Koger Arch, 14)Middle Ridge Trailhead, 15)Natural Arch, 16)Princess Falls, 17)Pulaski Park, 18)Rocky Hollow Park, 19)Somerset Town Square Yahoo Falls, 20)Whitley City Historic town square, 21)Little Lick campground 22) Hollybay Campground 23) Zollicoffer Park, 24) Nancy National Cemetary, 25) Cole Community Park
Peggy Morgan, Burnside, KY
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Faculty Teaching Fellowships
About the Fellowship
The fellowship includes $15,000 that can be used for a teaching release (with departmental approval), summer support, travel, research supplies, and/or a GRA/GTA line.
Direct questions to Laura Carruth (CETL Director) at email@example.com
Awardees must be a full-time faculty member, serve as a teaching fellow by leading a Faculty Teaching & Learning Community (Faculty-TaLC), conduct research in the area of teaching and learning, demonstrate a commitment to excellence in college teaching, and participate in a scholarship of teaching and learning conference.
Nominees submit s curriculum vitae that highlights teaching and research in the scholarship of teaching and learning and an online application that includes information on project design and budget. Applicants must apply for one of two tracks:
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- College to Careers
Applications are due on May 3, 2019 via iCollege "CETL Faculty Fellows" course page. If you cannot find the page in your iCollege course list, just enter the name in the search box and search for it. All instructors are automatically enrolled. The course page opens for submissions on March 15, 2019.
2018 Fellows
Hakyoon Lee, Ph.D.
Dr. Lee has proposed a project called Linguistic Landscape Project in Korean as a Foreign Language Class: Focusing on mobility and language learning experiences. The purpose of this project is to explore the place-based geolocative resources in the Korean as a foreign language classroom. Focusing on technologies used for learning and teaching languages, this project explores the linguistic environment, particularly, the usage of Korean in the urban areas of Georgia by using different technologies. Students taking a Korean as a foreign language class at Georgia State University are participating in this project. The goals of this project are to explore how Korean is used in multilingual contexts, to compare and contrast the use of Korean in diverse multilingual environments, and eventually to find a connection between linguistic environments outside the class and the language lessons in the class. Utilizing the power of technologies to enhance language learning, the goal of this project is to do deep mapping, incorporating the students' oral histories and their linguistic landscape projects. This participatory research shows how geopolitics can be connected to language learning and teaching, and it will become an important topic critical to urban research.The pedagogical implications are made not only with special reference to the local context and particular language, but also to the broader educational domain and other languages or national settings where learning a language with authentic materials has increasingly become a key component. Language learning occurs in various environments. Whatever the setting, this study will present how technology—ubiquitous, pervasive and forever changing—shapes the learners' experiences of learning as well as teachers' teaching in the language classroom.
Samantha Parks, Ph.D.
Brian Thoms, Ph. D.
Dr. Thoms is Associate Professor, Associate Chair, and Undergraduate Director in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at GSU where he has been since 1995. He graduated with a BS in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1983. He completed both MS and PhD in Physics at Cornell University in 1987 and 1992, respectively, specializing in experimental investigations of semiconductor surfaces using electron spectroscopies. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC from 1992 to 1995 investigating wide bandgap semiconductor surfaces including diamond and silicon carbide. Dr. Thoms continued his surface science research at GSU studying Group III nitrides (GaN and InN) before transitioning to physics education research over the last ten years. He led the
introduction of a physics teacher track within the BS in Physics contributing to making GSU a recognized leader in the preparation of well-qualified high school physics teachers and receiving the PhysTEC 5+ Club Award three times in the last four years.Project Description
Laboratory experiments are an integral part of physics teaching, yet often lab components in introductory courses involve following cookbook
instructions to verify theory resulting in little learning and poor student attitudes. In this project, the introductory algebra-based physics laboratories will be redesigned to emphasize inquiry and allow students to be active decision-makers in the experiments. Many times introductory labs are constructed to have many different goals and often they accomplish few if any of them. The main goal of the redesigned labs will be focused on students' conceptual understanding, especially
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Bible Study
Wednesday, June 6 at 6:30 p.m. at First English and continuing on Wednesdays through July 18. In this seven week study, we will ask seven major questions about the Bible, and discuss these answers using the book Making Sense of Scripture: Big Questions about the Book of Faith by David J. Lose. There is no need to purchase this book.
We hope you can attend!
Pastor Russ' Installation at Punxsutawney Area Lutheran Parish
an important liturgy for our parish, and we hope that many parish members will be able to attend, as well as pastors from the local area and synod. A tureen dinner will follow the liturgy. Please bring a dish or dessert to share.
The Scribe posts have returned!
The Scribe (Notes from the Pastor) have returned! Posts from The Scribe will be updated monthly... so be sure to check them out regularly.
Change has Arrived!
Punxsutawney Lutheran Parish has been expanded to form the Punxsutawney Area Lutheran Parish, which now includes First English Lutheran Church (in downtown Punxsutawney), Mount Zion Lutheran Church (by the Punxsutawney Airport), and Mount Zion Lutheran Church (in Trade City). With the arrival of our Parish Pastor, Reverend K. Russell Crouthamel, the new traditional Lutheran Liturgy and Holy Communion worship schedules are as follows:
First English Lutheran: Saturdays @ 5:30 p.m.
Mount Zion Lutheran (Trade City): Sundays @ 9:30 a.m.
Mount Zion Lutheran (Airport): Sundays @ 11:00 a.m.
Combined Liturgy & Front Porchin' Workshop
Jacobson, Director for Evangelical Mission, Northwest PA Synod. Following worship will be a light lunch and his workshop "Front Porchin'". This program is about talking with others about God in natural settings. It helps congregations and individuals reassess their gifts and sharpen their skills for sharing the Good News with others both inside and outside the community of faith. All are encouraged to attend this workshop. For more information on the workshop, see the booklet in the narthex at First English or our Facebook Event page.
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Martin Luther: A Timeline
November 11, 1483: Martin Luther is baptized on St. Martin's Day
1484: The Luther family moves to Mansfeld where later Martin is sent to the Latin schools
1497: Martin is sent to school in Magdesburg and in 1498 to school in Eisenach – Luther compared his education at this point to "purgatory and hell"
1501: at age 19, Luther attends the University at Erfurt
1505: Luther attains a Master's degree; enters law school but drops out the same year
July 2, 1505: Luther is caught in a terrifying thunderstorm and prays "Help St. Anna, I will become a monk."
July 17, 1505: Luther joins the St. Augustinian Monastery, the "Black Cloister" in Erfurt
April 3, 1507: Luther is ordained a priest
1508: Luther is sent to University of Wittenburg to teach theology
March 9, 1508: Luther attains a Bachelor's degree in Bible studies and in 1509 a degree in "Sentences"
1510: Luther walks 800 miles from Erfurt to Rome; he is shocked by what he sees in Rome
October 19, 1512: Luther attains a PhD in Theology; October 21 becomes faculty chair of Theology at Wittenburg
1515: Luther becomes the Vicar of Saxony and Thuringia
1516: Johann Tetzel, Commissioner of Indulgences is sent to Germany
October 31, 1517: The "95 Theses" or "Disputation of Martin Luther on the Power of the Efficacy of Indulgences" is posted, and sent to Pope Leo X in December
January 1518: Friends of Luther translate the 95 theses from Latin to German, and thanks to the invention of the printing press, within 2 months it is spread throughout Europe
October 1518: Augsburg Imperial Diet: Luther is questioned by Cardinal Cajetan and spends 3 days defending himself
June-July 1519: Johann Eck debates Luther and is devoted to Luther's defeat
June 15, 1520: Luther receives a Papal Bull (edict) that, unless he recants, he risks excommunication
December 10, 1520: Luther sets fire to the Papal Bull at Wittenburg
January 3, 1521: Pope Leo X excommunicates Luther
April 18, 1521: Diet of Worms, general assembly of estates of the Holy Roman Empire, Luther again is asked to recant all his writings which he cannot do
May 25, 1521: Emporer Charles V declares Luther an outlaw; Luther is "kidnapped" and taken to Wartburg Castle. Under
the protection of Frederick the Wise of Saxony, he is known as "Knight George"
March 1522: Luther secretly returns to Wittenburg and preaches the "Invocavit Sermons" on the Christian virtues of love, patience, charity, and freedom, and not violence for change
April 1523: Luther helps 12 nuns escape a convent in Nimbschen, smuggling them out in herring barrels. One of the nuns was Katharina von Bora
June 13, 1525: Luther marries Katie (age 26), Luther (age 41) and moves into former "Black Cloister" monastery; has 6 children from 1526-1534
1525-1529: Luther organizes a new church, publishes a German Liturgy and Mass; establishes a supervisory church body; does not want the church to be called Lutheran
1531-46: Luther's health deteriorates and preaches his last sermon on February 15, 1546
February 18, 1546: Luther dies in Eisleban, the city of his birth; buried in the Castle Church of Wittenburg beneath the pulpit. The Pope declares that Luther's remains not be disturbed
Throughout his life, Luther was a prolific writer, the most popular and most printed of his day, making him the source of "social media" of the day. His love of music also gave us many hymns still used today.
Reformation Sunday Dinner
Reformation Road Rally
The parish is hosting an Oktoberfest fundraiser on Saturday, October 14 from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. This is a luncheon fundraiser for a scholarship of $500 for the United Lutheran Seminary in Gettysburg, and additional funds for our Lutherlyn camperships. Lunch items include bratwursts and wieners, German potato salad, sauerkraut and hot slaw, pretzels, and kegs of beverage. For dessert are sweet "indulgences", German cakes and pies, and "Augsburg Confections". Donations are requested to help defray costs. Items include: brownie mixes, chocolate cake mixes, German chocolate cake mixes, cherry pie filling, bags of Reese's pieces, jars of maraschino cherries with stems, bags of pretzels, and money. Sign up sheets are in the narthex.
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The life of a digital nomad is all about being location independent. A new millenium buzzword? Perhaps. The 21st century telecommuter? Sure. Valid way of living the life of travel while still earning a wage? Absolutely! But that is a Tier 1 nomad and today we're exposing the Tier 2 nomad.
Thanks to the Internet, laptop advancements, a cell phone with data plan, and Cloud storage, anyone with a bit of enterprising in their blood can make a living as a digital nomad. Common digital nomad occupations include writers, photographers, web developers, personal assistants, graphic designers, and even work-as-you-go laborers. And now with the prominence of social media you can build up your brand and market internationally even as a team of one!
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We are handed a life. And along the way, that life changes. That's what it's supposed to do. But in this life, we aren't always happy with who we become. For folks who aren't out yet, this can be a scary thing. They think there is something wrong with them. They think they fell into the wrong life. They wish it could be easier. But where there is fear and uncertainty, this is also where great things can come from. But it's not easy.
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In September we welcomed Jamie Schoen, Doctor of Physical Therapy, on to our team. Jamie is from Western Massachusetts and grew up as a ballet dancer. Before returning to graduate school she spent six years teaching Pilates to clients of all ages and physical abilities. She enjoys partnering with clients on their wellness journey, helping them find the tools they need to achieve and maintain their long-term health. We are excited to have her! If you haven't met her yet, please introduce yourself! READ MORE!
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Erin's ESS = 7.5 out of 10
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Why: We've said it at least 2 times before and we'll probably say it again. For now however, we'll be content saying it in the present: we award high points to novels with completely unique narratives. The setting for this novel takes place in Botswana and the proceedings that follow are all related to southern Africa living. The agency's staff is unique, the clients are unique, and the cases are unique. Heck, even the cover art is unique.
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Sunday, November 09, 2008
Purple phone
Here is the phone Janet, its a Motorola that I got at Verizon.
A funny little little manifesting story about this. I was at a write in on Thursady and one of the writers had this phone and I thought how cool I'd like a purple phone next time. Now on Friday night I am writing on the couch, we have 12 couches a 2 seater and a 3 seater that are right next to each other. I am in the 2 seater and I have a glass of Pepsi just on the cusion of the 3 seater. My phone is sitting on the arm of the couch and I somehow knock it over and yes, it lands in the glass of Pepsi. I cleaned it out and store it in rice to draw the moisture out. I turn it on Sat morning and low and behold it comes on but a little glitch it keeps searching for service indefinetly.
So I head out to Verizon and of course the phone is not fixable. So here I get the phone I was thinking about less than 2 full days ago. I had been told we'd be able to manifest quicker but this was amazing to me.
Dave still thinks he can fix the old phone but that may take several days and not work. We have no land line so I really needed a phone now. He has soaked the phone in water to get the stickieness of the Pepsi out of it and then is doing the rice thing. We'll see, if he fixes it he will have a phone when his dies. Meanwhile I have a purple phone and for those of us who like purple thats a good thing.
Posted by Kate Robertson at 10:35 AM
Labels: manifesting, phones
4 comments:
- craftyhala said...
Purple...that sounds good. I like purple as well. Hey, instead of pink blogs, we can start the purple blogs...
- Shopgirl said...
I want a red one, this seems to be my red year...last year I was into pink. But this purple could be really fun. Pepsi, hummmmmmm!
Hugs, Mary
- Janet said...
Thanks for the info, Kate. I might have to find a glass of Pepsi and drop my old phone in!!
- Sharee said...
I just discovered your blog Kate:) What a great manifesting story!
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- Place the left hand on the heel of the right foot to support it. Then clasp the toes with the right hand, squeeze it slightly firm and then extend and flex the toes to enhance their flexibility.
- Support the right foot with one hand's fingers.
- Place one thumb on top of the other, using the fingers to support the foot. Then work over deep, circular thumb pressure over the foot's sole and later stroke the area. Repeat the same process on the left foot.
Under this method, you need a few things including warm water, wash basin, Epsom salts, body lotion, and golf or tennis ball.
- Soak feet in a tub of warm water for about 10 minutes. Then add ½ cup of Epsom salts to the water for extra relief. At the end of it, dry in a gentle way the whole of the feet with a clean towel.
This should be followed by any one or all of the below workouts.
- Place a golf or tennis ball on the floor. Then roll the bottom of the foot all over it.
- Massage your foot that is on your lap with lotion (avoid oil since it does not glide well over the feet). Then use both hands to squeeze the foot all over. Later wrap the feet in a clean towel, allowing the foot lotion to soak in for a few minutes.
- With one hand, stabilize the foot and with the other hand, take all the toes and rotate them in a particular way followed by the other way. Later take each toe one by one and gently pull up and twist.
- Use thumbs to massage the sole of the feet from the heel to the toes in a circular motion. Then crisscross the thumbs to back down the sole to the heel.
- Place one hand on one foot's top and likewise the other hand on other feet's top. Then place the hands in a fist against the ball of the foot and slide both at the same time down towards the ankle.
- Take the back of the calf and grab it. Massage it up and down while making sure to flex the foot.
- Once done successfully, get into comfortable slippers.
NOTE: Stop the process in case you feel anything painful. Immediately check with your doctor and find out if your ankles are swollen. If that is so, find out whether you have a kidney disorder or heart disease or advanced diabetes. Then later abide by your doctor' advice.
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Women's Leadership Conference in Dallas Texas on February 8th and 9th
Leadership Conference for Professional Women: Skills for Success has been designed by women lawyers for all professional women. This conference will provide women with the necessary tools to enhance productivity and job satisfaction. Participants will learn innovative techniques for effective communication and strategies to better market themselves, become better organized, manage their time more efficiently, and advance to positions of leadership.
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Upcoming Webinar-Forks in the Road: The Many Paths of Success in IP Law
Join Us for a Free Webinar on Tuesday November 13
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The Women in IP Law and Diversity in IP Law Committees of AIPLA invite you to a panel discussion of the varying paths (law firm, corporation, government, or a combination thereof) to a successful career in Intellectual Property law. This webinar's panelists include Sharon Barner, Vice President & General Counsel, Cummins, Debbie Wright, Chief Counsel for Technology Transactions, Kraft Foods, and Jennifer Choe Groves, Vice Chair of Intellectual Property Group, Eckert Seamans. In this interactive webinar, the panel will share their own professional stories, providing insights into how each made career decisions, which communication styles they utilized, and other styles and attributes they incorporated along their paths to success.
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Calling all Women in IP Members to the AIPLA 2013 Mid-Winter Institute!
The American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) is trying something new for its 2013 Mid-Winter Institute which will be held in Tampa, Florida on January 30-February 2, 2013. For a description of the program see the AIPLA 2013 Mid-Winter Institute flyer.
The focus of the meeting will be on why Intellectual Property is THE business asset of the 21st Century. IP attorneys and company executives will work side by side to present how they work together to face the challenges presented by today's economy and protect IP in the global marketplace.
Here are some of the advantages of attending the meeting, alone or with a client:
- attend the sessions and think through best practices and procedures to determine how to best maximize IP protection
- learn directly from business executives and leaders why IP protection is so important to companies today
- the conference will provide an intense primer on IP protection, including patent, copyright, trademark, as well as trade secret protection
- this is a great opportunity to network with in-house or law firm attorneys and to learn from each other how to best maximize IP protection
- learn how a working knowledge of IP has benefited business executives, CEOs and CTOs straight from the source
- learn how IP matters to Angel and Venture investors
- learn about global IP issues in biotechnology, chemistry, high-tech fields and other technical areas
- learn how start-ups can best maximize the value of their IP and attract investors
- attend the Women in IP breakfast to network with other women in the profession
If you want to receive more information from the AIPLA on the 2013 Mid-Winter Institute as it becomes available, click here. Many Women in IP members are organizers and will attend the Mid-Winter Institute. We look forward to seeing you there!


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You Got Soul: Norman Jay's Favourite Singles
Yousif Nur
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After releasing his latest Good Times compilation last year, the DJ talks Yousif Nur through the early musical experiences that shaped his taste, from northern soul nights to crate-digging for 7"s, in picking his top 13 records
"No record comes out on its own and makes a scene." If I come away with anything from my phone call with Norman Jay, it'll probably be that quote, which he says with such emphasis and aplomb. To say that Jay has an encyclopaedic knowledge of black music from the last 60 years would be the grossest of understatements. I spend a good hour-and-a-half on the blower with him talking all things reggae, soul and dance despite him having DJed a house party the night before, stumbling home at 5am.
I go into the interview in the unknown as I have no list to hand, only knowing that he's picked all singles. "It was a difficult thing to consider, and not a difficult thing to consider, if you see what I mean," Norman explains. "I started off by buying 7" singles because albums didn't come out until many years after! It was purely down to economics. Singles were easy to buy and, from about the age of eight or nine, which would have been in 1968, my dad used to give me a five-pound note – which was huge in those days – to trust me to go and buy the records for the Christmas party or wedding reception, family christening or gatherings. Up until then, my dad always used to do that."
In short, as he will explain later on, Jay's preference for singles is simply because they were what educated him in his formative years buying records and listening to music. As he says, "there's something intrinsically special" about the 45. And who are we to argue.
Norman Jay MBE Presents Good Times – Skank & Boogie is out now on Sunday Best Recordings. Norman Jay begins a run of sets in Australia at Electric Gardens 2016 on January 23 in Sydney; for full details and tickets, head here
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Making sure your consumer is receiving an accurate representation of your product is a crucial part of advertising—both online and off. Some of the most successful e-commerce retailers post high-quality images that show their products in the best light, including how they can be used. In a non-brick-and-mortar setting, getting an overall feel for the product has a bigger hurdle.
This is where product photography will help do the extra legwork to land the sale. Try out these five tips.
First things first—do you have the right camera to do the job? Product photography will typically require at the very least a good, high-quality DSLR digital camera. (Avoid using your smartphone camera as much as humanly possible, budget-allowing.) Select lenses that won't distort your product, such as wide angles or fish-eye lenses. You should also be careful to choose a camera that allows the right aperture for your end product. (For instance, lifestyle photography requires a wide aperture to narrow the depth of field and leave some products out of focus, while catalog or close-up photography requires a small aperture to widen the depth of field and keep all angles crisp and in focus.)
And don't ignore your white balance—misstepping with your white balance can alter the overall color of the photo and misrepresent your product to the end consumer. A good rule of thumb is to set your white balance to the same kelvin temperature as your lights.
Setting your product up in the best light is important. For an in-studio photo shoot, try to assemble at least two or more light sources that feature identical bulbs in cooler colors. And depending on your preferences and how your brand features its products, make sure it is evenly lit from all angles. The most important thing with in-studio lighting is to avoid blow-outs, or lighting that is too harsh on the subject and washes out or overly whitens your product.
When it comes to outdoor or lifestyle photography, use as much natural light as possible and supplement artifical lighting or reflective surfaces as needed to cast enough light on your product so it can be easily discernible to the viewer.
Spend some additional time, before you start photographing, to think through the end uses of the image. Will the photo need to be taken in use and in its element? What is the best way for my product to be showcased for online sales? What are other ways I can stage my product or put it into context in order to help market it? Will I need the composition or framing of the photograph be a certain way for different uses (i.e., website sliders, Facebook timeline cover photos, etc.)?
Step one is to draft a shot list—what are the shots you know you are going to need for the full range of your marketing purposes? Will you need close-ups of certain features or angles of the product? Make a list of your end deliverables, and determine what shots will be necessary to fulfill them. Consider this in advance to save time and money in billable hours from your photographer.
As for staging, make sure you build out multiple angles of each of your products—including close-ups. Showing your customers every angle and detail of your product will accurately depict it and show multi-faceted features. Try out a couple setups with a full cycle of your products—this will help with consistency across photography throughout your whole line. Offer your graphic designer various angles from which to choose to avoid reshoots, and try highlighting your product in context, with a human subject interacting with it.
Finally, try out shooting on a white, black or solid-color background—this optimizes your photography for magazine, catalog or online usages. In addition, white backgrounds can reflect light back onto your product and improve the quality of your image.
A strong, appealing product photograph with great composition, focus and lighting will keep your customers coming back. A blurry, low-quality, busy image will scare customers away. Ensure that your focal point is always in focus, and invest in a tripod to avoid camera shake. Sharpness and clarity are the most appealing to the eye, so this is critically important. And avoid busy backgrounds—the image should be simple and clean so that your subject stands out and speaks for itself. Lastly, maintaining focus can come down to avoiding over-cropping—especially in lifestyle photography. Allow enough space around the product for the end designer to work with—the exception being, of course, intentional close-ups or detail shots.
To set up your designer with the most flexibility in the final deliverables, it's important that you shoot in the raw during your photo shoot. This ensures that your designer can better make adjustments to the final photos. A designer can adjust white balance, contrast and exposure as needed when shot in the raw, as formatting won't have compressed elements of the shot. Final touches courtesy of your design team may also include removing dust, scratches and blemishes from your shot, especially in close-ups where these flaws are typically even easier to spot. (This is also an opportunity to remove any suspension techniques, such as fishing line to elevate the product during your shoot.)


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Closing Date and Terms: The Competitions will run until 10pm every Sunday, should the minimum amount of entries not be reached by 10pm on Sunday as per our terms and conditions the draw will roll over until the minimum number of entries is reached at which point the competition will end on the first Sunday after this at 10pm. The winner(s) will then be picked based on our terms governing judging the competition. The winner will be drawn within 14 days of the competition end and the winner announced and contacted after this.
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There's no doubt about it: Silicon Valley is the center of the US tech scene, and it's producing some of the most exciting and forward-thinking new businesses in the world right now. This June we're bringing YMS, the world's largest youth marketing festival, to nearby San Francisco for our first ever YMS SFO. In anticipation of the event, let's take a look at the local startups that everyone in youth marketing needs to know about.
Social network tbh hit the news in 2017 when it was purchased by Facebook. The app allows users to leave anonymous compliments for friends, with an aim to combat cyber bullying with positivity.
Shopping app Dote is a "mobile mall" where you'll find top fashion and beauty brands like ASOS, Converse and Sephora all in one place. The app not only has a great list of partners, but also notifies users when their fave brands go on sale and has built-in social sharing tools.
Millions of high school and college students use Chegg for online test prep, writing tools, textbook rentals, study help, tutoring, internships and career advice. The company's EVP of Marketing Services will give a keynote on college marketing at YMS SFO.
Episode is an interactive 'choose your own adventure' app that appeals to creative, imaginative teens. Tapping into the fanfiction trend, TV series Pretty Little Liars and movies Pitch Perfect and Mean Girls have been subjects of Episode spin-offs.
Discord is a free chat app for gamers, offering text and voice communication via a VoIP network. It had over 87 million users just two and a half years after its 2015 launch, overtaking industry leader Skype, and is considered the best app in its field.
Teens unable to meet up with friends in person can simulate the experience with a group video call on the Houseparty app. It has 20 million users, 60% of which are under 24, and they spend on average 51 minutes per day on the app.
Zebra Intelligence
Zebra Intelligence is a consumer insights company that helps Fortune 500 companies, top VC firms, and venture-backed startups build brand loyalty with Gen Z. Founder Tiffany Zhong will be speaking on our Kids That Are Changing The World panel at YMS SFO.
Holberton School
This coding school has found a way to make learning the skills to succeed in the tech industry accessible to all. Holberton School doesn't charge tuition fees, instead taking a percentage of its students' earnings for the first three years after they graduate.
Brigade is an online community that aims to engage the American public in political and civic issues, and empower them to "turn their passion into action." The accessible, colourful website and app make politics engaging and unintimidating to young people.
Don't miss your chance to get advice and insights from the youth marketing experts and meet the stars of the tech scene at YMS SFO. Tickets are on sale now at our early bird price for this month only.


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Box Score is back! What a wonderful feeling that is to see the only NBL Fantasy podcast returning after a two week hiatus (sorry!). The boys cap off a remarkable December, with a little pat on the back for our wonderful monthly winner before getting into the real crux of Round 14.
We touch on the Adelaide long-form – where your Sixers players will end up in the final six weeks of the season, the Felix effect and why your NBL Fantasy team will be starting to migrate South.
All this and more in this week's edition of Box Score!


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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
PYO - Pick Your Own (fruit) in Auckland
Hey - we picked our own! (Massey Orchard, Auckland.) I must admit it wasn't just for the children. I had just read about making your own jam, and I wanted practice. But it was a really really great family activity. (And zero plastic container waste was involved!)
They should call it "Find your own" though, not pick your own. Most of the fun comes from trying to find the ripe strawberries amidst the plants. It's a challenge!
We picked two moderately full boxes, as you can see above. They weren't cheap - it came to $80 (NZ).
But it was worth it.
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This week, we have a lot to celebrate!
Lab member Amos Teo was awarded the University of Oregon Doctoral Research Fellowship, the highest award to a dissertating student, for his project on differential case marking in Sumi.
Recent graduate, and lab collaborator, Drew McLaughlin was awarded the Undergraduate Research Award from the University of Oregon Libraries for her honors thesis, "Coping with Adversity: Individual Differences in the Perception of Noisy and Accented Speech."
Congratulations Amos & Drew!!


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Empress of India – 48m
Map UnavailableDate - 09/09/2017
Time - 10:30 am - 5:00 pm
Top of wreck : 34m
Sea bed depth : 48m
The Empress was built in Pembroke as one of the Royal Sovereign class battleships when Britannia well and truly ruled the waves. She entered service in 1891 but was deemed obsolete soon after. After never firing a shot in anger she was towed out in to Lyme bay in 1913 and used for target practice. Onlookers were amazed at how quickly she sank. A very good wreck tour can be found at the link below.
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I still remember the day back in in 1997 when I purchased my first PDA on a business trip to Mountain View, California. I got out of Fry's and back to my hotel room, unpacked the unit (a PalmPilot Professional) and began learning Graffiti. The little beast became part of my life for good after just a few hours, and was subsequently upgraded to a Palm IIIx, then to a Sony Clié PEG-T675.
I still used to carry a mobile phone around although my use of it was typically limited to, well, making and receiving phone calls. Indeed, my camp in the whole PDA vs. mobile phone debate was always clearly with the PDA's. They always seemed superior to mobile phones because of their versatility, large screens, stylus entry and synchronization possibilities. But they lagged in communication capabilities.
I never really considered Pocket PC's during my loving relationship with variants of the Palm OS-based devices. They always seemed bulky and slow, plus no release of Windows Mobile ever looked like something I wanted to carry around and depend on for on-the-go organizational tasks or for having phone conversations. This changed abruptly a few weeks ago as I started reading reviews of the HTC Wizard (a.k.a. QTek 9100, Orange SPV M3000 or K-JAM). This neat little device runs Windows Mobile 5.0, has a phone built-in, and was the object of rave reviews.
Holding a QTek 9100 in my hand at the nearest reseller sealed the deal the same way playing with the PalmPilot had – 8 years earlier. Form factor, weight, shape, functionality, everything seemed to fit together so perfectly that I got myself an Orange SPV M3000 the next day (same device, cheaper price since it is partially absorbed by my mobile operator). There's no point in writing yet another review of the Wizard, so I'll simply share some thoughts resulting from my few weeks using it and its associated software.
Form factor
HTC managed to pack all the Wizard's features in a really small package. The device is too thick to fit in a shirt pocket but is hardly felt when carried around with the included holster clipped to your belt. It's also easy to carry in any other pocket but then make sure you use a screen protector. The rounded angles look nice and feel comfortable, although they can make the Wizard a little slippery when your hands are cold (I'm writing this from Switzerland in the middle of winter).
Data entry
Windows Mobile 5.0 offers a ploethora of data entry modes, notably an on-screen keyboard, a Graffiti equivalent, a phone-like pad and Transcriber (its own proprietary text recognition solution) which allows you to write anywhere on the screen and have your text recognized afterwards. The Wizard stylus is a little small but still useable for pointing and clicking and the occasional note. There's also a slide-out keyboard which is great for the occasional email or short message.
Microsoft Activesync connects your PC & pocket device by creating a TCP/IP connection and doesn't play too well with firewalls. There are extensive workarounds documented on Microsoft's site but ultimately I switched from Sygate Personal Firewall to the XP SP2 firewall. Although my network has other layers of protection this is bad. I should probably take the time to try again with a more robust firewall than Microsoft's, but considering the number of people apparently having such issues, I'd have expected Microsoft to deliver a smoother experience. Once these glitches were ironed out, though, syncing worked flawlessly.
I was used to Chapura PocketMirror syncing my Palm OS-based devices to Microsoft Outlook and other desktop applications upon request. Microsoft ActiveSync works differently in that it constantly monitors what has changed on one side or the other and mirrors it. You can basically plug in your device, work at your PC for an hour making many changes in Outlook or your synchronized Windows Media Player playlists, unplug and leave your desk with up-to-date appointments, tasks, contacts and mp3's in your pocket.
Other considerations
The Wizard is fast enough to be used comfortably. However since Windows Mobile 5.0 is a multitasking OS, you'll want to make sure you don't keep too many applications open at once.Related or not, I've had to reboot this device far more often than all my prior PDAs and phones combined, which can become frustrating in the long run. Most of the problems seemed to be the consequence of installing a new piece of software, this being probably the Wizard's weakest point. Basically I haven't been able to upgrade a single application, resulting either in a full uninstall/reinstall cycle or even a hard reset.
All in all, the Wizard comes close to representing the perfect PDA/phone combination. Let's give Microsoft and HTC another 18 months (probably a couple product gnerations?) to iron out those few remaining "hard edges" and we should have a true winner. In the meantine, I'll still be enjoyoing every minute with my Wizard.