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After struggling for over a decade to publish a commercially successful novel, author Mario Puzo struck bestseller gold with his crime saga, The Godfather (1969), a hugely successful book that popularized the Mafia in American culture and led Francis Ford Coppola to direct "The Godfather" (1972), widely considered to be one of the best films ever made. Working in close collaboration with Coppola, Puzo won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay and repeated the feat two years later with the sequel "The Godfather, Part II" (1974), which some considered superior to its predecessor. Because of the success of the novel and the two films, Puzo finally found the financial success he had long craved. He went on to write the scripts for "Superman" (1978) and "Superman II" (1980), and received a cool $1 million to write Coppola's misfire, "The Cotton Club" (1984). Meanwhile, fiction like Fools Die (1978), The Sicilian (1984) and The Fourth K (1991), were less than stellar follow ups to The Godfather. Following a near fatal heart attack in 1991, Puzo rebounded with The Last Don (1996), which was turned into a CBS miniseries starring Danny Aiello. While that proved to be the last major success he saw during his lifetime, Puzo nonetheless was associated for almost single-handedly bringing the Mafia to the forefront of popular culture.
Born on Oct. 15, 1920 in New York City, Puzo was raised one of seven children in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood by his father, Antonio, a railroad trackman whose increasingly erratic behavior led to being institutionalized as a schizophrenic, and his mother, Maria, an immigrant from Naples who later became the model for Don Corleone. After being inspired to become a writer while attending Commerce High School, Puzo joined the United States Air Force during World War II, but his poor eyesight limited him to working with the military government of captured French towns. Upon his return to the United States, Puzo used the G.I. Bill to attend both Columbia University and the New School for Social Research, where he studied literature and creative writing. He published his first story, "The Last Christmans," in a 1950 issue of American Vanguard. Soon after, he published his first novel, The Dark Arena (1955), based on his World War II experiences which followed a former G.I. who returns to Germany to find his girlfriend. The book received modest praise, but was not a commercial success.
Because he was unable to make a living from writing, Puzo was an editor for publisher Martin Goodman's Magazine Management Company and also worked as an administrative clerk for government offices both in New York and overseas. After writing non-fiction for magazines like True Action and Male, Puzo published his second novel, The Fortunate Pilgrim (1965), which was about an immigrant widow, not unlike his own mother, whose strength helps steer her family through the tumultuous times of the Great Depression and World War II. Widely hailed by critics and considered to be Puzo's finest work, the novel nonetheless was a second commercial disappointment. His third novel, a children's work called The Runaway Summer of David Shaw (1966), followed a similar financial fate as his previous two works. But his fortunes changed upon receiving a $5,000 advance from G.P. Putnam's Sons for his proposed Mafia novel after researching the East Coast branches of the Cosa Nostra. He set his sights on writing a bestseller and produced The Godfather (1969) after suffering bitter disappointment for over a decade. Though he was nearly 50 years old at the time of its publication, Puzo was able to finally making his living strictly as a writer.
The international success of The Godfather led Hollywood to come knocking on Puzo's door and option his work, which director Francis Ford Coppola turned into "The Godfather" (1972), a sprawling crime saga that earned Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, which he co-wrote with Puzo. He again shared an Oscar with Coppola for writing "The Godfather, Part II" (1974), a fragmented look at both the beginning and end of the Corleone crime family that critics hailed as being better than its predecessor. Puzo went on to write the screenplays for the grandly entertaining "Superman" (1978) and its nearly as successful sequel "Superman II" (1980) before demanding $1 million to write a screenplay for which he had no interest, "The Cotton Club" (1984), a rather humdrum crime drama directed by Coppola and starring Richard Gere and Diane Lane. In between, Puzo sold the paperback rights to Fools Die for an astonishing $2.5 million in 1978, even though the book itself was deemed aimless and dull. Still, it remained the author's personal favorite.
Puzo went on to write The Sicilian (1984), a fictionalized account of Salvatore Giuliano, a political separatist who was considered to be something of a Robin Hood figure in Sicily. He entrusted rogue director Michael Cimino with the 1987 film adaptation of the novel, but the resultant bomb failed to overcome the director's lack of humor or Christopher Lambert's wooden lead performance. After "Mario Puzo's 'The Fortunate Pilgrim'" (NBC, 1988) was turned into a miniseries, he collaborated with Coppola one last time on "The Godfather, Part III" (1990), which picked up with Michael Corleone in 1979 and focused on his desire to shift the family to more legitimate business. Though well-received by critics and a success at the box office, the third installment paled in comparison to the previous two masterworks. Meanwhile, he published The Fourth K (1991), a speculative work that focused on the presidency of the fictional Francis Xavier Kennedy, nephew of John, Robert and Teddy, and a crisis involving the assassination of the Pope and the threat of nuclear annihilation in New York. Certainly his most ambitious novel, The Fourth K was another commercial failure.
Puzo returned to writing for Hollywood with "Christopher Columbus: The Discovery" (1992), which chronicled the events of Columbus' famous discovery of America and was released on its 500th anniversary. But the built in publicity failed to generate into box office success, while the movie was savaged by critics. Meanwhile, Puzo nearly died of a heart attack in Las Vegas in 1991, but bounced back following quadruple-bypass surgery to write his comeback novel The Last Don (1996), which was turned into a CBS miniseries the following year starring Danny Aiello, Joe Mantegna and Daryl Hannah. The network paid a handsome sum for the film rights to the book, outbidding Coppola to the tune of $2.1 million. Puzo's work on "The Last Don" proved to be the last he saw completed in his lifetime. On July 2, 1999, he died of heart failure in his home on Long Island at 78 years old. The following year, the third book in his Mafia trilogy, Omertà (2000), was posthumously released and received mostly negative reviews. Despite his obviously waning skills in his later years, Puzo was best remembered for being godfather of Mafia fiction.
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Winter is a difficult time for many wild animals in Britain, few more so than garden birds. The RSPCA have put together a short guide to help you look after the birds in your garden during the harsh conditions of the winter months...
Helping garden birds can be as rewarding for you as it is for them. By using bird tables and hanging feeders, you can bring wild birds right up to your window!
What should you feed them?
Be careful! Grapes, sultanas, raisins and some artificial sweeteners are toxic to dogs.
- Suitable seeds and grains (like nyjer, millet, oats, and sunflower seeds)
- Only feed peanuts if they're unsalted, fresh and sold for human consumption or by a reputable feed shop. To protect chicks from being fed whole nuts and choking, provide peanuts in good quality mesh feeders
- Cooked pasta or rice, boiled potatoes, cheese, uncooked and unsalted bacon rind, raisins and sultanas
- Net-free fat or suet balls attract a wide range of species and provide a great boost of calories
- Apples, pears and soft fruits are popular and are a great autumn food
- Insects such as mealworms or waxworms.
When do they need extra food?
Birds will benefit from being fed during some of the hardest times of the year – not just in the winter months. Take a look at the RSPCA's visual guide on how to feed and care for garden birds for more tips on seasonal feeding.
Fresh water is essential
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Many garden birds die each year through the transmission of diseases. It's important to clean all feeders weekly – water containers daily – and dry them before refilling.
Simple tasks like rotating feeding and drinking areas will help reduce the transmission of disease.
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Please report any dead or diseased birds in your garden to the Garden Wildlife Health project.
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Nigerian Prophet T.B. Joshua sounded a prophetic alarm in his church service yesterday, stating that a "very big 'bigshot'" in Nigeria would soon be attacked and killed.
"Last time, I said we should pray for Nigerian 'bigshots' – because I am seeing these people begin to target them," the cleric stated on Sunday 31st August 2014, reminding people of the message he had previously given early in May that Boko Haram's attention would turn to target the 'political class'.
He called for prayer against an impending 'attack' against a 'very big bigshot' in a service broadcast live on Emmanuel TV. "It will result to death," Joshua plainly stated. "They are just looking for an avenue that will cause crisis and conflict in the region… When it happens, it will cause political crisis."
Joshua continued by prophesying an imminent plane crash in the unstable region near Russia and Ukraine. "Commercial planes should not pass there because I am seeing a plane full of passenger's crash in that region. It will not be between Ukraine and Russia this time but it is close to that place, a neighboring region," he warned.
The controversial cleric further revealed that US President Barack Obama would be rushed to hospital with a 'health challenge'. "Pray for the president of America. I am seeing him being rushed to the hospital but he will get over it," Joshua stated. "They should allow him to rest; he should not go for an operation," he also warned. "I am not talking of myself; I am talking of God."
Joshua further prophesied a 'militant' attack against a highly placed political figure in Southern Africa, also specifying the nation of Kenya for prayer. "I am seeing militants are interested in embarrassing a president – either they kill him or kidnap him. That is just their objective in the Southern region– to kidnap the president, vice president or first lady of that nation."
Continuing, the Nigerian cleric stated crisis would soon envelop the European nation of Poland, calling for prayer. "Crisis will start any moment from now. It will start with internal crisis… What is the word 16? I was made to see the nation Poland – pray for the nation," he said.
He concluded his diverse prophetic messages by stating UK should 'secure their country' in lieu of the security alert issued by the UK government due to the threat of ISIS terrorists. "They should strategise and secure their country in the middle of this month – 15,16,17,18 – and the end of the month," he said.
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Business was booming over the Discover Lincolnshire weekend held recently on March 22 and 23 as the very best of Lincolnshire food was showcased in Skegness's Hildreds Shopping Centre.
Organised by Select Lincolnshire For Food; award winning food from all over the county was able to be bought and sampled from a 'pop-up shop' to celebrate Lincolnshire Weekend.
Shoppers flocked in their droves to the fully functioning shop over the two days, as six Select Lincolnshire for food members; Mountain's Boston Sausage, Spire Chocolates of Louth. Sweet Heat Chilli from Horncastle, Market Rasen's Cote Hill Cheese, Spilsby's Moden Plumbread and Ownsworth's Rapeseed Oil of Fulbeck, all set up stalls in the shopping unit; the first of its kind for the Hildreds.
Executive Coun for economic development at Lincolnshire County Council, Colin Davie said: "The Lincolnshire food business is worth in excess of a billion pounds a year.
It's important to spread awareness of what Lincolnshire food has to offer, far and wide and hopefully consumers will seek food from the county wherever they go.
I'm committed to ensure the county's food industry grows and develops in year's ahead, so the whole country can enjoy the fantastic food produced here.
I'm also looking to see how we can introduce local food businesses more permanently into the local shopping experience. I feel with the economy slowly improving it is the right time to do this and now, more than ever, following recent food scandals, people want more clarity about where their food comes from."
Select Lincolnshire business development manager, Gillian Richardson said: The shop's been extremely busy and I'm delighted the Hildreds have given us this opportunity to bring together these small Lincolnshire businesses to sell their local artisan products."
"Select Lincolnshire is like a family network of businesses that help each other through selling a variety of foods all grown and produced in Lincolnshire.
All pur members are entered into an award scheme each year and Boston Sausage won last year," she added.
Skegness mayor, Jim Carpenter said: "It's great to see all the different produce that's grown and made in Lincolnshire and it just goes to show that the area has more to offer than the bucket and spade industry."
The businesses taking part over the weekend, were equally delighted with the success of the event.
Darren Jones from Sweet Heat Chilli said: "It's been a lot busier than I thought it'd be. I'd definitely do it again. To have all this Lincs produce in one place is fantastic and
Lincs select do a great job promoting the county's produce."
Mary Davenport, of Cote Hill Cheese, said: "I've been a dairy farmer for forty years and diversified to make cheese nine years ago and this saved our business.
Our cheese sells nationally, but I'm finding out local's haven't heard of us and it's nice to make people aware and seek out local customers."
Cattle, pig, wheat, barley and rapeseed farmer Andrew Ownsworth said: "My versatile homegrown rapeseed oil can be used for cooking, salad dressing and frying. I sell it throughout Lincs, Yorkshire and Leicestershire. There's been a lot of interest today, the place is buzzing."
Gary Skipworth of Mountain's Boston Sausage, said: "It'd be nice for it to be a permanent fixture" and Spire Chocolatier, Lindsay Gardner agreed: "It's a brilliant idea, I hope it happen's again. For small businesses to be able to trade in this environment is amazing."
Martin Brown of www.visittheseaside.com, who instigated the event, to bring the County Council, Select Lincolnshire and the Hildreds together, said: "It's great to bring the coast and the county together. This event identifies the importance of including the Lincolnshire seaside resorts with the counties rich, unique products and events and sharing them with the local communities and visitors."
"I am looking forward to working with the Hildreds Centre and the County Council throughout the year to bring more events to the Lincolnshire seaside and achieving similar results", he added.
Hildreds deputy manager, Steve Andrews said: "I'm blown away how busy it's been. If it's like this out of season, what's it going to be like in the holiday season? We're really proud to be able to host the event and due to it's success, we hope to do it again in the near future."


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I've tried searching this out, but am having some difficulties - I am looking for a resort (reasonably priced please) that has a venue for an on-site wedding that would have a staircase that could be decorated as sort of the "aisle" to the ceremony. I want to wear heels and worry that if I had a beach side wedding I would fall haha :/
If anyone has some good ideas of venues (pictures would be nice too!) I would be super happy!
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The Social Action Group (SAG), along with the Student Support, will be holding a Charity Day tomorrow (Tuesday 15th November) from 10am – 2.30pm in the Marshall Room (Chaplaincy).
The event will be helping to raise money for Children in Need.
There will be a Body Shop stall and Julie Angel will be in attendance for staff/students to be able to purchase local, handmade jewellery. There will also be tea, coffee, cakes and a raffle.
Please come along and join us to help raise some money for a great cause as well as getting in on some early Christmas shopping!
On the Friday 18th November Children in Need will be screened on campus in both the SUB and the Marshall Room for all to get involved with.
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ISR explores modern and contemporary Israel from the perspective of the social sciences, history, the humanities, and cultural studies and welcomes submissions on these subjects. The journal also pays close attention to the relationships of Israel to the Middle East and to the wider world, and encourages scholarly articles with this broader theoretical or comparative approach provided the focus remains on modern Israel.
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You can use this tutorial, Cheesecloth Ghosts. I don't remember which we used, but it's all the same. We used water bottles with rice in the bottom for weight. We stabbed skewers in the bottle for the arms and head with balls of aluminum foil on the ends. It helped to have more than two hands, one person pulling the cloth strips out of the bowl of starch as the other person used their gloved hands (a must) and squeegeed the excess liquid through their fingers. You drape the strips to your liking over your ghost mannequin and let it dry. There was three of us and each ghost turned out different, but all very cute.
Paper Pumpkins: Orange Card stock, hole punch ends, string green pipe cleaner, "knot" at bottom and curly Q at top, fan around. Skeleton body parts were for a game. The kids had dice. They would roll to build their skeleton. They would need to roll a certain number to earn a certain body part.
Years ago, I made a hanging ghost from an old sheet and hung it on a past apartment patio. We haven't used it since. It became an impromptu tablecloth for this party which gave it a new re-recycled future use.
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Lost World Discovered Near Antarctic Vents. Sea Cucumbers: Dissolving Coral Reefs? Seawater Won't Halt Burmese Python Invasion.
These headlines introduced recent marine science news stories. Did these articles attract readers? If so, what's the secret to their success? Participants in this workshop will learn how to present science in an interesting way while retaining factual accuracy — the key to good science communication and science journalism. David Conover, NSF Division Director for Ocean Sciences, will offer opening insights on communicating about the ocean sciences.
Science journalism aims to transmute scientific concepts and results from jargon-based language often understandable only by scientists, to news relevant to the lives of general readers (listeners/viewers). The workshop explores science writing for a non-scientific audience. Participants will review examples of good science writing from newspapers like the New York Times and Washington Post, and news magazines like Science News and New Scientist; "dissect" the structure of science news and feature articles; discuss how popular coverage of science has changed in recent years; and learn the basics of science journalism.
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Haley and Landon Talk About: Salvation, Baptism, & Eternal Security
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One of the greatest ministries we have as Christian parents is to teach our children about the things of God. Can there be any teaching more important than the Gospel itself, of how the love of God sent His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ. Willing to suffer the death of the cross, Jesus Christ gave Himself ransom for all those which put their faith in Him. Through His death, burial, and resurrection, we as sinners can find forgiveness of sins and eternal life in Jesus Christ. Our children deserve to know of this great love. As Christian parents we owe it to our children to tell them of the things of God, and as saved sinners we owe it to God to be obedient to His Word. Written from a Baptist perspective.
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On Friday, Donald Trump got on stage at the RNC and spent 74 minutes trying to scare ignorant white people into voting for him. On Monday, Paul Krugman took aim at Donald Trump's terrifying make-believe post-apocalyptic America by pointing that, surprise!, it's all bullshit:
Last year there were 352 murders in New York City. This was a bit higher than the number in 2014, but far below the 2245 murders that took place in 1990, the city's worst year. In fact, as measured by the murder rate, New York is now basically as safe as it has ever been, going all the way back to the 19th century.
National crime statistics, and numbers for all violent crimes, paint an only slightly less cheerful picture. And it's not just a matter of numbers; our big cities look and feel far safer than they did a generation ago, because they are. People of a certain age always have the sense that America isn't the country they remember from their youth, and in this case they're right — it has gotten much better.
I remember going on field trips to the Museum of Natural History in Manhattan when I was in grade school and driving through Times Square with all of the porn theaters, junkies and filth on the streets. I remember a lot of the action flicks from the 70s showing how unsafe the streets were with all the gangs and killers.
Now? These days people sit outside in Times Square, sipping an $8 latte without a second thought:
58 million tourists visited New York last year; tens of millions more visited other major cities; and of course many of us live in or near those cities, and see them every day. And while there are, as there always were, bad neighborhoods and occasional violent incidents, it's hard to see how anyone who walks around with open eyes could believe in the blood-soaked dystopian vision Mr. Trump laid out.
But they'll believe it because the "crime" that they're pretending is everywhere is actually the "crime" of diminished white supremacy. They're losing control of the country and that is scaring them to death. They WANT the country to be thrown into chaos so they can feel vindicated. The absolute worst thing that can happen in the mind of a white conservative is for Those People to take control of the country and for things to get better. They would rather see it all burn to the ground than to find out that white people aren't superior after all.
Part of Trump's success is that he's telling the angry and scared white conservative that, yes, the country IS in crisis because they're no longer in total control. He's telling them they have every right to blame Those People out loud. But more importantly, he's telling them that he, Donald Trump, can save them by putting Those People back in their place and making America white again. If not, America is doomed, DOOMED!
Krugman sums up the election thusly:
The question now is how many such people, people determined to live in a nightmare of their own imagining, there really are. I guess we'll find out in November.


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The Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 Review – Samsung's Biggest Phablet Yet
The first time I sat down with the Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3, my thoughts were similar to the first time I sat down with the Dell Streak; "that's too big." I've been using one for the last few weeks to better understand the handset and of course how it could fit into my life as a productivity tool. My opinion of the device changed quite a bit during the first couple of weeks, which is why this review has taken longer than usual to write.
I'm going to start with the design and hardware specifications. It fits in with the rest of Samsung's 2013 range: it looks like a scaled up Galaxy S4. It's constructed of plastic so it's light, it's thin and it has a replaceable battery so the back comes off. The finish is smooth and glossy; it does not feel cheap until you have spent time with some of the metal and glass handsets, or even the Nokia Lumia devices such as the 620. Unfortunately, I'm not surprised at how the Mega doesn't feel so amazing to handle as some of the competition as this is how Samsung make their handsets. The Mega feels okay in the hand and for me, it is not a dealbreaker.
Let me write about the Mega's screen, because this is most of the point as to why somebody would consider the device. It uses a 6.3" LCD screen of 720p resolution. As a cell 'phone, this is huge. As a tablet, it's small. The Mega straddles both camps, a compromise. It fits into a pocket without looking like there's something oversized stuffed into your pants thanks to how thin it is, but it still surprises people when you pull it out.
Although Samsung have not used their characteristic AMOLED screen, the display is still decent. It's a little sharper than the 2012 Nexus 7 but isn't anywhere near as sharp as the 2013 Nexus 7. One interesting point is that the screen is not made of Gorilla Glass so it will be easier to scratch than many high end devices.
The device uses a dual core 1.7 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor backed up by 1.5 GB of RAM, 8 GB of storage (with around 5 GB free), a MicroSD slot. When it comes to networks, the devices comes with 2G, 3G, 4G LTE, WiFi, NFC and Infrared. Everything is powered by a 3,200 mAh battery with a MicroUSB port for charging. It is fully voice capable other than the huge size of the device. It has a pair of cameras, the main one being an 8 Mpixel unit. The Mega runs Samsung's custom Nature / TouchWiz skin over Android 4.2.2.
Hopefully, readers won't have immediately disregarded the Mega because it uses a dual core processor rather than a quad-core processor. The reason is almost certainly down to the compromise between cost and performance, with the current generation dual core Snapdragon processors being powerful enough to keep most people happy. Giving it 1.5 GB of memory is an interesting compromise between the 1 GB devices such as the HTC One Mini and the original Nexus 7, and the 2 GB of the Nexus 4, Galaxy Note II and HTC One.
When it comes to running speed, the Galaxy Mega is a mixed bag. It is not a slow handset but some operations cause it to take a moment longer than I would expect. Bringing up the application switcher causes a momentary pause, as does working with some Internet-connected applications such as the Google Play Store. Once you are in an application, the device is smooth and quick: web browsing is fast, Documents-to-Go quickly renders text, presentations and spreadsheet cells. But pulling down on the notification tab or switching between screens in the launcher occasionally causes the device to stutter just for the briefest of moments. I am pointing my finger squarely at Samsung's Nature or TouchWiz interface. Performance is noticeably poorer when Power Saving mode has been activated.
The camera module appears to be lifted straight from the Galaxy S III, Galaxy Note II; it's good. It's perhaps not as great as Samsung's 2013 'phones, but it acquits itself well. Any camera that can capture my kitten in such detail deserves a gold star!
I'm also going to write about Samsung's changes to the Settings menu, where because of the huge number of options, Samsung have seen fit to extend Settings across four tabs. The Mega includes many of the extra features of the S4 including gesture control, eye detection and similar. Some, no actually, most of these features are what I consider to be fluff: with the best will in the world, I am not going to scroll a web page using my eyes, or wave my hands in front of the screen to move around a document until their execution is more reliable. They are not yet at the point where they always work and because of this, I will try to eye scroll a document once, maybe twice, then I'm just going to touch the screen (and disable the feature).
In some respects, the TouchWiz launcher is great: users can customise the order of, uninstall or hide applications right from the home screen. But I wish I could reorder the Settings so I could hide the stuff I don't need.
In my testing, I've found that battery life on the Mega is a mixed bag. When used with the screen in automatic brightness and in brighter environments, battery life is similar to the Nexus 4. I would see an easy twenty four hours from the handset, a little more. Using it with the screen deliberately dimmed extended the battery life by quite a bit, it was much closer to the Nexus 7. In standby, the device shows decent longevity as you'd expect from a modern device, modern operating system and large battery. The device I'm using appears to have a bug in the firmware, which causes the radio to use more battery than I would expect.
Samsung's included Power Saver mode can be used to help prolong the battery life; it can dim the screen, lower the processor speed and stop the device from vibrating. The Mega feels less responsive in use with Power Saving on and from my testing, it does not make a significant difference to the 'phone when it is in standby and only a small difference when in use. It is not worth the slower interface.
Unfortunately my carrier sells the Mega with just 8 GB of storage with around 5 GB of space available for the user after the operating system and Samsung's application suite. Quite simply, this isn't enough if you want to store any media on the handset. I appreciate that there's a MicroSD slot but some applications cannot put data onto external memory. And in any event, I am not a huge fan of MicroSD cards, either, because many clients buy the cheapest possible card and then wonder why it fails after a few weeks of use. There's too much temptation to put a twenty buck expansion card into a device with a sticker price of several hundred dollars.
On that note, I need to throw price into the ring. In the United Kingdom, the 8 GB unlocked model costs around the same as the 32 GB unlocked LTE Nexus 7. With the Mega, you get a voice-capable device that's slightly smaller and so more portable, a better camera and a replaceable battery, plus expandable storage. With the Nexus 7, you get better battery life, faster hardware, better build quality, five times the local storage and a better screen.
It's time to put the Mega into perspective and consider it as a productivity tool. On paper, it has the credentials to replace both a normal sized smartphone (my Nexus 4) and a small tablet (my Nexus 7). It still fits into my pocket but has a bigger screen that's perfect for reading, writing and emailing. Battery life is reasonable, it has all the connectivity we can ask for and it's reasonably smooth. Samsung do make you suffer some compromises: there's not a lot of internal storage and you don't get the bragging rights of the latest and greatest of hardware. Depending on what you need to do on your device, these may not matter.
Overall, I like the Galaxy Mega. It's more portable than I thought it would be. I would, however, like it a lot more if Samsung had given it 32 GB of storage for my music. And perhaps I'm too used to stock Android but I would like it more if Samsung offered a Play Edition version device.


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Android Community 101: Bootloaders
May 27, 2011 Leave a comment
Bootloaders. They're quite the touchy subject for many of us geekier android lovers. Naturally they've been a hot topic in the news lately, with HTC deciding to lock down phones only to reverse the decision. This is hardly an issue reserved for HTC though. For those who aren't as privy to the underlying workings of […]
Bootloaders. They're quite the touchy subject for many of us geekier android lovers. Naturally they've been a hot topic in the news lately, with HTC deciding to lock down phones only to reverse the decision. This is hardly an issue reserved for HTC though. For those who aren't as privy to the underlying workings of computers, what a bootloader is, and what it means for one to be unlocked can be unclear. We're gonna break down for you what a bootloader does (at a non-technical level), what the difference between locked/encrypted/unlocked/signed/etc, which manufacturers are doing what, and why the debate is so hot, and why you should care.
What is a Bootloader and What Does it Do?:
When any computer turns on (including your Android phone) it has to run a small dedicated program that loads the operating system. This program is what we call the bootloader. Because the bootloader is in charge of loading your OS, it rules quite a bit of your ability to load a custom ROM. It is not impossible to customize your phone with a locked bootloader. For instance the Motorola Atrix has several "pseudo ROMs" which consist of mostly cosmetic changes. To load a truly custom ROM though, one with lower level changes, like those that allow you to overclock your phone, the bootloader must be unlocked.
So Why Can't We Just Unlock it?:
This is the tricky part. A lot of terms have been thrown around, misused and confused in regards to bootloaders. So first a few terms:
Locked: Nearly ALL phones sold commercially have a "locked" bootloader. This is not any sort of indicator as to whether or not you will be able to customize you're phone. What matters is how easily it can be unlocked.
Unlocked: Once a phone is unlocked you can basically any software on it from a custom version of Android (aka a custom ROM) or custom recovery, like ClockworkMod Recovery.
Signed/Encrypted: To put this plainly, a signed bootloader requires an obscenely large code to unlock. The security can be more complex, and "key" sizes vary, but this is what has many Android lovers up in arms.
Locked down: This generally means that a bootloader cannot be unlocked, at least not without the "keys" that were used to sign or encrypt the bootloader by the manufacturer. Usually signed or encrypted bootloaders are considered locked down
Even phones like the Nexus line have locked bootloaders, but unlocking them is very simple if you so desire. On most phones this will void the warranty however, but more on that later. Not all phones' bootloaders are as easy to unlock though. Some have been unlocked by exploiting weaknesses in code, while some require the help of the manufacturer, as is the case with Sony Ericsson's newest Xperia phones. It's when we get a "signed" bootloader that trouble starts.
The first phone to really bring the bootloader issue to light was the Motorola Milestone, which was the international version of the original Droid here in the U.S. The bootloader was indeed signed, and to this day has not been truly cracked. For this reason international owners of the Milestone did not have anywhere near the freedom as Droid owners had. Since the Milestone we've seen several different approaches to bootloader policy from different manufacturers, but until recently things had not been going too well.
So Where are We Now?:
We are finally starting to see some progress in the way of bootloaders. Although HTC, who used to be recognized as one of if not THE most hacker friendly manufacturer, did give a scare recently, locking down the Sensation in a complete 180 after giving us some of the most customizable Android phones ever. As mentioned Sony Ericsson is starting to let developers unlock their SE phones by following a process and instructions from SE. Samsung and LG have yet to implement anything to completely lock down the bootloader. Finally there is Motorola. They started the locked bootloader fiasco for Android, and many of their devices remain completely locked down. We are all still waiting for their promised "fix," which will allow users to unlock the bootloader on "certain devices," but with no details other than it will come in late 2011.
So Why Does Any of this Matter?:
Flashing custom ROMs is not for everyone, and neither is rooting. That's a major reason why manufacturer's don't listen more ernestly to those of us who want full control over our phones, we're simply not that big a percentage of the market. Furthermore manufacturers have other reasons motivating them to lock bootloaders, like the possibility of people bricking their phones, then trying to return them. Solutions have been suggested, but an in-depth analysis of the arguments if for another time. For now I will wrap up by saying that Android is meant to be free. It's open source. Manufacturer's don't have to pay to use it, or even any of its logos. Many people love Android over iOS, overlooking that it's not as polished in some areas for the freedom it brings them. When you buy a phone it's yours, you aren't leasing it from the carrier, no where in your contract does it say Motorola can come to your house and take back your phone if they don't like how you use it.
If you have any questions feel free to hit up this thread! I'll be watching it and answering questions anyone asks there as best I can. Also feel free to leave your opinion on the bootloader issue either in the thread or the comments.
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The videos, readings, and assignments in this four-session course are meant to help you create a culture of conversation in your classroom, as well as explore how you can use conversations to teach the skills of interpretation,argumentation, and application—and the language used to enact these skills—across disciplines.
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You do not have to be a teacher to take this course. The course may also be valuable to instructional coaches, teacher educators, and site and district administrators, among others. Coaches/PD Providers also have different but related assignments.
In order to fully participate in the course, you need to have access to a classroom in which you can obtain student language samples and implement lessons (or collaborate with classroom teachers to obtain student language samples and implement lessons).
Participants who complete the course (i.e., finish the required assignments 1, 2, 3, and 4) will receive a Statement of Accomplishment from NovoEd. Please check with your employer as to whether this statement of accomplishment may be used for professional development credit. There is no fee to take the course.
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This first session provides a brief overview of the course and addresses the role of classroom conversation in learning and teaching and assessing of key thinking skills across disciplines. In this session we address why attending to student conversation skills is vital (but often neglected), particularly if our ultimate goal is to improve the overall quality of academic learning. This session opens with suggestions for cultivating classrooms that value learning through constructive conversation. We present an overview of key conversation skills as well as instructional scaffolding and teacher modeling to support them. The session prepares participants to observe paired student conversations, model and scaffold conversation skills, then analyze paired student conversations to improve teaching and assessment.
Session 2 – Fortifying INTERPRETATION Skills & Language with Conversation
In this second session participants learn how they can use the conversations in their discipline to teach the skill of interpretation and its language across disciplines. Interpretation, in a nutshell, means using clues (textual, visual, etc.) to construct meanings that aren't explicit and obvious. Students often interpret when reading, listening, and/or viewing. Interpretation happens in various flavors across disciplines. A student might interpret: data from a lab in science, what is happening in a long word problem in math, themes in a short story in English, the purpose of symbols in a famous painting in art, and an author's bias in a primary source document in history--all in the same day!
Session 3 – Fortifying ARGUMENTATION Skills & Language with Conversation
In this third session you learn how you can use the conversations in your discipline(s) to teach the skills of argumentation and its language. Argumentation, in a nutshell, means building up two or more competing sides of an issue with evidence and then comparing the "weight" of the two sides to decide on a winner. Argumentation is highlighted in most of the new standards for ELA, math, science, and ELD. Argumentation, of course, varies across disciplines. A student might argue: that the data gathered in a lab is not strong enough to support the original hypothesis, that a person needs to find the slope of the line to move on in a math problem, that the poem is about the cost of freedom in English, and that the patriots were justified in inciting events that led to the Revolutionary War—all in the same day!
Session 4 – Fortifying APPLICATION Skills & Language with Conversation
In this fourth and final session participants learn how they can use the conversations in their discipline to teach the language and skills needed to apply newly learned knowledge and skills across disciplines. Application, in a nutshell, means using knowledge and skills in novel contexts. Application, for the purposes of this session, includes related skills such as transferring, extending, designing, problem solving, and creating. Application looks different across disciplines. A student might apply: newly learned ideas about animal adaption in science to make conclusions about local birds, methods for solving an algebra problem to figuring out college costs, a theme in a novel to explain a situation at school, and skills of recognizing bias in historical primary sources to present day news articles--all in the same day!
This final session also pulls together what we have learned in the course to design lessons that effectively and efficiently use conversations to strengthen language and content learning.
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Jeff Zwiers is a senior researcher at the Stanford Graduate School of Education and director of professional development for the Understanding Language Initiative, a research and professional learning project focused on improving the education of academic English learners. He has consulted for national and international teacher development projects and has published articles and books on literacy, cognition, discourse, and academic language. His current research focuses on improving professional learning models and developing classroom instruction that fosters high-quality oral language and constructive conversations across disciplines.
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Steven Weiss is a Senior Research Associate at Stanford's Understanding Language/SCALE and the Project Manager for the Stanford ELL Leadership Network, a collaboration between seven small to medium sized school districts in Northern California focused on developing leadership capacity around English Language Learners. Prior to joining Understanding Language, he worked at the Quality Teaching for English Learners (QTEL) program at WestEd, where he was a professional developer and instructional coach for secondary teachers and administrators in urban school districts such as New York City, Austin, San Diego and San Jose. He has also worked as a K-8 school administrator, a bilingual/ESL resource teacher, and a high school Spanish/History/ESL teacher. Steven is bilingual in Spanish. He holds an M.Ed. from U.C.L.A., an M.A. in Educational Administration from San Francisco State University, and an M.A. in Spanish from Middlebury College.


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Pros: Comfort grip handle Effective for drills increase power and control bat speed
Cons: 54 inches long No real drawbacks this is a great baseball training aid.
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TheDonik Sports Junior Hit N Stick Training Aid is quite simply a must have for coaching baseball at any level really. It is very simple to use and it gets results. It is a lot like a baseball on the hitting end. It has an impact resistant type of plastic that is a very visible yellow. It also comes in red. The hitting end is attached to a long flexible shaft made of a shock stick fiberglass compound. This is then connected to an easy grip handle that is held by a coach. It is a comfortable type handle and has a Velcro piece to put around your wrist so if you let go of it no one gets hurt. You might think to yourself there is a kid at the other end of this stick with a baseball bat swinging full boar while I am holding onto the other end. No worries, it doesnt hurt and that is coming from a team mom that has had to hold onto the Hit N Stick a time or two. The Donik Sports Junior Hit N Stick Training Aid is safe, controllable, and it is a non threatening device that has proven to dramatically improve hitting stance, contact, and bat control. With the horizontal type of hitting it gives the player a correct feedback for each swing. They can actually tell what the swing is dong for them without having to wait for a pitch and feel frustrated when they cant hit that ball. We have seen it all to many times our kids are up to bat at practice and they just cant hit the ball their self-esteem is pretty much gone because they cant seem to place the there bat in the right area to get a good hit if even any hit at all. We as parents try to tell the kids lift your elbow, widen your feet, move up, move back, we have all as parents tried to help our kids what is it that we can do really, We arent coaches most of us. We rely on them to help our kids do their best. Let me say with the Donik Sports Junior Hit N Stick Training Aid we dont have to wait for practice we can hold the end of the Hit N Stick after we go to the Hit N Stick website and make sure are kids are using the proper techniques. Go to http://www.hitnstik.com/demo.html and watch the demo now. They also have a great drill guide that you can download and use.
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The hotel, located across the street from a local police precinct in Anyang city, hastily withdrew the flag after criticism flooded Weibo on Friday
A hotel in China's central Henan province was forced to apologise after angry net users accused it of flying a banner resembling the "Rising Sun Flag" used by the Japanese army when they invaded China during the Second World War.
The hotel, sitting across the street from a local police precinct in Anyang city, hastily dismantled the flag on Friday after criticism flooded China's blogosphere.
A spokesperson explained that the controversial piece of cloth was meant to dispel evil spirits and bring good fortune for the recently-opened business. The hotel had adopted advice to display the flag from a feng-shui master following the sudden death of a shareholder prior to its grand opening in August, he said.
And despite the resemblance, the hotel also pointed out that their "good luck banner" had a yellow background, instead of the white used in the Japanese flag.
Qin Yongmin, a Beijing-based lawyer told the Beijing Times that the hotel had violated advertising laws by promoting a message that "compromises the country's reputation and hurts the nation's feelings".
A police investigation has been launched.
This is not the first time the appearance of the Japanese military flag has caused trouble in China. Popular movie star and singer Zhao Wei was forced to apologise in 2001 after posing in a dress with a design that resembled the military flag in a magazine photoshoot in New York City, causing a national outcry.
Relations between China and Japan have deteriorated further during recent months following territorial disputes over the Diaoyu Islands, known as the Senkakus, in Japan.
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|SANTA CLARITA, April 26, 2017 -- Crews have broken ground on a two-story building on Santa Clarita's east side that will house Facey Medical Group's newest medical office complex, slated to open in summer 2018. This new building, located on a 3.85-acre parcel, is being developed by Indiana-based Duke Realty.
The 37,000-square-foot building at Soledad Canyon Road and Mammoth Lane will house physicians specializing in adult medicine, pediatrics and ophthalmology and offer ancillary services such as optometry and an optical shop, radiology and a lab. Facey is exploring options to offer urgent care services there as well. The Facey clinic at 17909 Soledad Canyon Road will move to the new building.
"Facey is a leading health care provider in the Santa Clarita Valley," said Dr. Fredrick Russo, president of Facey Medical Group. "We've been in the area for more than 30 years and have grown with the community, providing a range of services from primary care to pediatrics; women's services to urgent care. Many of our physicians and caregivers live in Santa Clarita and we are committed to improving the health of Santa Clarita residents."
Frederick Facey, M.D., opened his one-man practice in 1923, laying the groundwork for today's Facey Foundation/Facey Medical Group, now with 183 physicians and more than 25 allied health professionals serving more than 170,000 patients throughout northern Los Angeles County and Ventura County.
Facey Medical Foundation affiliated with Providence Health & Services in July 2012. Today, Facey Medical Foundation employs approximately 1,100 staff members; Facey Medical Group employs the physicians, representing more than 20 specialties. Facey accepts multiple health maintenance organization (HMO) and preferred provider organization (PPO) insurance plans.
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One of the intriguing mysteries is how St Andrew came to be the patron saint of Scotland, trumping the powerful challenge of Colum Cille or st Columba of Iona. One respectable theory says that the Picts picked this foreign saint in an effort to resist the cultural take-over from the 'family of Iona', centring his cult in the place which became known as St Andrews. But what truth is there in the legend that one St Rule came by sea from Constantinople to Pictland, bringing this apostle's holy bones with him? There are several versions of this 'St Andrews Legend' and all of them are frustrating.
In the year 834, the Pictish king Angus [II] mac Fergus died and some sources credit him with the foundation of the cult centre of St Andrews at Kilrimund, following the arrival of St Rule (or Regulus) with his followers. To muddy the water, the monastery at this place, also known as Cendrigmonaid, may in fact have been founded during the reign of the first Angus mac Fergus (c. 729 x 747). Leaving that annoying anomaly aside, the version of the legend we should consider is contained in the St Andrews abstract, and there it is stated that the account derived from a memorial written by a cleric named Thana son of Dudabrach, in Meigle, during the reign of the Pictish king 'Pherath son of Bergath' (839 x 842). It is interesting that Meigle, a parish which sits in Perthshire but juts into Angus, was a very early Pictish Christian site, comparable to St Vigeans near Arbroath in Angus. The local connection perhaps helps to authenticate the tradition.
Thana stated that Regulus met the Pictish king and his three sons at Forteviot in Perthshire, which was indeed an important royal Pictish power centre. Then they travelled to meet Queen Findchaem (or Finchem) at a place named 'Moneclatu, which is now called Monichi', where the queen gives birth to a daughter named Mouren, who was afterwards buried at Kilrimund, and Findcaem gives this place to God and St Andrew. They then journey across the mountains to a lake called Doldencha. Then the saint returns with the king across Moneth to Monichi, Forteviot, and Kilrimund. Part of the intention of the story was doubtless to justify the later ecclesiastical possessions of St Andrews. The place across the Moneth is reckoned to be Kindrochet in Braemar, Aberdeenshire (dedicated to St Andrew). But Monichi is probably not to be equated with Monikie in Angus, similar as the names are, because that parish was in the possession of the see of Brechin, not St Andrews. Next door, in Monifieth parish, there was an ancient church called Eglis Monichti, in the see of St Andrew. The Latin derived eglis (ecclesia) points to a very significantly early Christian foundation. We also have to admit the presence of St Andrews Well in Monikie. For many centuries there was a Trewell Fair held in Monifieth, the name being a contraction of St Rewell or Ruil, possibly the St Rule of the St Andrews Legend. This St Rule may ultimately have been a real person, the Irish cleric St Riaguil of Muicc Innis. His feast day corresponds with the date of the fair, the second Tuesday in October. It was this Irishman who showed significant interest in our area by composing a poem celebrating King Brude's victory at the Battle of Dunnichen in 685. Was the Irishman recast as a Continental by Picts anxious to escape the shadow of Iona?
Further evidence of the early church in the area is attested by the presence of the arcane order known as the Culdees (celi de, 'servants of God') at Monifieth. In the year 1242, Matilda,Countess of Angus, gifted to the church of Arbroath all the land on the south side of Monifieth which the Keledei had held in the time of her father. Malcolm, Earl of Angus, issued a charter 22 years earlier, and one of the witnesses was a Nicholas son of Bricus, one of whose titles was abthein of Monifeith, an ancient Cletic church role. While it cannot be proven that there was a continuous Celtic Christian settlement here from Pictish times, right through to the 13th century, the case for some kind of continuity is compelling.
And, if nothing else had been learned, at least we have the first known named child who was born in Angus - Princess Mouren. It was conjectured (by Bishop Forbes in Kalendars of Scottish Saints)that the place of birth of this princess was at the ancient chapel and settlement of Eglismonichtie now long since vanished.
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Worst stay ever Jan 25, 2011
My first hostel like stay with my best friend and the last! The whole hotel was so noise, and there is a pub/club next door that was banging all night! LIve music in the hotel kept me awake all night and drunk men and women kept banging on door and screaming down the corridoor. The staff didn't even bother asking them to shut up!
Well my husband did say that these type of hotels are normally like this but i had to try. Now I won't be staying in anything under 4* ever!
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The Abbey Lodge Hotel Bournemouth is a pleasant 10 minute walk from the nearby lively downtown area complete with pubs, shopping and plenty of nightlife including clubs and theaters. It is close to the pier and beach as well. Whether you are looking for sightseeing buses or rental cars, the Abbey Lodge Hotel Bournemouth is conveniently located so guests can easily find and take advantage of whatever mode of transportation they desire. Tour buses are easily accessible for short trips and day long excursions.
Each room at the Abbey Lodge Hotel Bournemouth has a private bath, Internet access, coffee maker and television.
The Abbey Lodge Hotel Bournemouth has 45 simply decorated and amply comfortable rooms. The onsite pub is a fun filled stop with its plasma TVs, pool tables and snacks. Live music is offered every night of the week till the early morning hours. Guests should be aware that during the months of April to September, weekend reservations are limited to a two night stay.
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Author Notes: The quintessential Moroccan flavour of this stew comes from the sweet and spicy combination of flavours. What's great is that you don't need an authentic Moroccan tagine in order to recreate this beautiful food – a saucepan or dutch oven will do the trick! —Ginene Hutchison
Serves 4
- 1.5 pounds Stewing beef, 1 inch cubes
- 2 tablespoons Olive Oil
- 2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
- 1 tablespoon Paprika
- 1 tablespoon Coriander and nutmeg
- 1.5 cups Butternut squash, half inch cubes
- 5 Dates, diced finely
- 5 Turkish Apricots
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1 small can of tomato paste
- 500 milliliters beef or lamb stock
- 1 lemon, zest only for garnish
- 1 bunch cilantro, for garnish
- 1 cup yogurt
- 0.5 cups Almonds, slivered and toasted
- Heat oven to 375F
- Blot the meat very dry with paper towels (so that it will brown nicely), and season generously with salt and pepper. Dredge meat in flour, shaking off excess flour - the flour will create a little "crust" on the outside of the meat, and will slightly thicken the stew juices.
- In a heavy very hot skillet, over high heat, add enough oil to film the bottom of the tagine, then add the meat pieces without crowding the pan (this may be done in batches depending on the size of the tagine). Don't move the pieces for a minute or so, then turn them to brown all, or mostly all, sides. This will take no more than 3-5 minutes. Remove the browned meat pieces and set aside.
- Heat the oil in a tagine, add the onion and cook for 5 mins until softened. Add the garlic and spices and cook for a couple mins more, stirring to prevent them catching and burning.
- Add the beef, squash, dates and apricots to the tagine, pour over the tomatoes and stock, season and bring to the boil. Put the lid on and transfer to the oven. After 1 hr, stir the tagine and return to the oven, uncovered, for a further 30 mins. Check the seasoning. Sprinkle over the zest, almonds and cilantro, and serve in warm bowls with couscous and yogurt.
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- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Recipe with Dates
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A teenage driver miraculously walked away unscathed from this wreck after a car ploughed into a £500,000 luxury home.
The white Ford C-Max careered through metal fencing into the five-bedroom home on Victory Boulevard, Lytham Quays, at around 3.10am on Sunday – 10 minutes after it was reported stolen from a property on Lowton Road, St Annes.
The car flipped over before smashing into the front of the house in what one witness described as an "enormous bang".
The crash caused damage to the empty house, which is up for sale, as well as ripping out metal railings, a tree and plants in the front garden.
Neighbours today told of being woken by the noise of the crash.
Richard Heaton, 44, said: "We heard an enormous bang.
"The car must have come flying down, it flipped and ended up on the house.
"It looks a mess now."
Another neighbour described being woken by police who said his £23,000 Audi had also been targeted during the incident.
Ryan Wilson, 27, said: "It looked like something out of a film scene.
"The car took out the metal railings and hit the windowframe.
"It's a good job the railing was there, they probably stopped it being worse, it could have gone straight through the house."
Mr Wilson, an electrician, said he had left his black Audi A4 unlocked by mistake and police had found someone inside the vehicle when they arrived at the scene.
Describing his neighbour's house, he said: "There's white marks up the house where the car hit it and smashed glass from its windows even on the upstairs windowsills.
"Luckily there was no-one in the house or anyone out there – they wouldn't have stood a chance."
A teenager was arrested at the scene.
A spokesman for Lancashire Police said: "At 3.10am on Sunday, police were called to an address on Victory Boulevard in Lytham where a Ford C-Max, which had been stolen about 10 minutes earlier from an address on Lowton Road, had crashed into a house.
"A 17-year-old boy was arrested at the scene. Nobody was injured."
A teenager, from St Annes, has been charged with driving a motor vehicle with an alcohol level above the legal limit, two counts of interfering with a motor vehicle, using a motor vehicle without third party insurance and driving a motor vehicle otherwise than in accordance with a licence.
He has also been charged with burglary dwelling and theft, and taking a motor vehicle without the owner's consent.
He is due to appear at Blackpool Youth Court on June 19.


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Type I and Type II errors, β, α, p-values, power and effect sizes – the ritual of null hypothesis significance testing contains many strange concepts.
Much has been said about significance testing – most of it negative. Methodologists constantly point out that researchers misinterpret p-values. Some say that it is at best a meaningless exercise and at worst an impediment to scientific discoveries. Consequently, I believe it is extremely important that students and researchers correctly interpret statistical tests. This visualization is meant as an aid for students when they are learning about statistical hypothesis testing. The visualization is based on a one-sample Z-test. You can vary the sample size, power, signifance level and effect size using the sliders to see how the sampling distributions change.
The visualization will show that "power" and "Type II error" is "-" when d is set to zero. However, the Type I error rate implies that a certain amount of tests will reject H0. It is tempting to also say that this ratio is the test's "power", and frequently textbooks and software do just that. Some sources also say that power is zero when H0 is equal to Ha. Both claims are incorrect, power is not defined when the estimated effect is an element of H0's parameter space. When this is the case, the power function returns α, and therefore "power" is undefined. So even though the power function says 5 % of the tests will reject the null, it does not make sense to talk about "power" here. This also implies that as Ha approaches H0 power will approach α for small values of d. As a result the slider for "power" isn't allowed to be equal to or less than α.
Here are some recommended books that discuss the issues of NHST.
The distributions in the visualization show the theoretical sampling distribution for the null distribution (H0) and the sampling distribution under the alternative hypothesis (Ha). Although this site is not meant as a first introduction to NHST, here is a quick summary of the core concepts.
|The conditional probability of incorrectly rejecting H0 when it actually is true.
|The conditional probability of failing to reject H0 when it is false.
|The complement of β (i.e. 1 - β), this is the probability of correctly rejecting H0 when it is false.
|The null hypothesis, usually stated as the population mean being zero, or that there is no difference. However, it does not have to be stated as a zero or no difference hypothesis.
|The alternative hypothesis, usually stated as the population mean being non-zero or greater then or less than zero.
I am deeply skeptical about the current use of significance tests. The following quotes might spark your interest in the controversies surrounding NHST.
"What's wrong with [null hypothesis significance testing]? Well, among many other things, it does not tell us what we want to know, and we so much want to know what we want to know that, out of desperation, we nevertheless believe that it does!"
"… surely the most bone-headedly misguided procedure ever institutionalized in the rote training of science students"
"… despite the awesome pre-eminence this method has attained in our journals and textbooks of applied statistics, it is based upon a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of rational inference, and is seldom if ever appropriate to the aims of scientific research"
"… an instance of a kind of essential mindlessness in the conduct of research" – Bakan (1966)
"Statistical significance testing retards the growth of scientific knowledge; it never makes a positive contribution"
"The textbooks are wrong. The teaching is wrong. The seminar you just attended is wrong. The most prestigious journal in your scientific field is wrong."


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HistoriCity is a service that combines city marketing/branding , histotainment and well-researched information in order to find new ways of bringing all the stories and people that make up the identity of a place to life. Working closely with the local cultural department and city marketing office, after an intensive research phase we create a unique city tour which makes a place's past tangible through the means of modern digital media. Be it reading, listening or watching – by consuming a mixture of different kinds of content, the user experiences the space around him in a new, historical dimension.
Generally, we offer several different models of historical tours. In accordance with the individual needs of our customers, we can put a stronger focus on different aspects of town history.
Why HistoriCity?
Cultural marketing has nowadays become an indispensable motor of tourism for most cities. Attracting visitors, showing them the special places of a city and giving them an unforgettable experience has thus become more important than ever.
History can and should be exciting. It tells us about all the things people are capable of – be it good deeds or bad ones. Thus, it makes us understand the life of our ancestors, their ideas, dreams and actions become traceable. This gives us an understanding of the complexity and diversity of human life and its cultural products.
But when historical facts are being retold, often they fail to grip us and touch us emotionally. A lot of people associate history only with dates and long-forgotten events that have no bearing on our life today.
At HistoriCity, we consider it our goal to bridge this gap, to bring together scientific factuality with entertainment and excitement. Our Audio-App makes historical figures and their world come to life in sounds and images, just like an audio-book or film. It appeals directly to users' emotions and makes the past spring to life before their eyes. It tells anecdotes as well as people's fates and personal stories that aren't common knowledge. Bu these stories aren't chosen randomly, but rather try to transmit an image of the past in a comprehensible way, always in accordance with the latest research. That way, the user learns about history in a playful way. As a citizen, he gets to know his own town better and to (re-)engange with it in new ways. As a tourist, he takes home new knowledge that will always be inextricably bound to this particular place.


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Failure to Launch: McLaren Mercedes' 2009 Campaign PreviewMarch 27, 2009
At the 2007 Australian Grand Prix, the racing world was shocked by the outstanding performance that the newest driver in Formula One gave. Finishing in fourth, Lewis Hamilton secured himself and his team a strong following.
Fast forward now two years. Hamilton is a World Champion. McLaren had a good season overall after being severely penalized in 2007. Sweeping rule changes have taken place in the World Championship, and the 2009 season looks to be the most competitive in a while.
Though the actual racing hasn't begun, the test results from the Silver Arrows have been dismal. Finishing behind almost everyone in the preseason tests, this season looks to be off to a horrible start.
Hamilton on Friday went 16th and 18th in Friday Practice one and two, respectively. Teammate Heikki Kovalainen went fifth and 17th.
Will McLaren Mercedes survive this first Grand Prix and be able to salvage a decent season after all. Ferrari was able to come back from what seemed to be an abominable start to last season to put a driver, Felipe Massa, into serious contention for the title.
Prediction: Three or four wins for the Silver Arrows this season. These wins will more than likely be late in the season, but don't rule out Monaco as a possible site for a victory.


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Take a look at the below list of Top 10 Best Selling Xbox 360 Wireless Controllers in The Market 2017. Xbox 360 is a great gaming console that has been around for many years. Many people who own this machine really like to play it whenever they can. The system normally comes with a wired control pad. However, there are some wireless models available for sale. Here is a list of top selling Xbox 360 Wireless Controllers that game owners can purchase today.
List of Top 10 Best Selling Xbox 360 Wireless Controllers in The Market 2017
10. Microsoft Xbox 360 Chatpad
The 360 Chatpad for Xbox is a great tool for Xbox controllers. This unit can attach to a wireless controller and provide easy communication with other people. The unit is backlit and it give people the ability to chat while they are playing a title. This feature is useful over the internet or when people are playing games on the same network. Windows Messenger Live can even be used for this device. The Microsoft Xbox 360 Chatpad is a great device for talking and coordinating in game attacks.
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7. Microsoft Xbox 360 Media Remote
Microsoft's Xbox 360 Media Remote ensures that users can control the media functions on their Xbox units. The unit is wireless and is shaped like a TV remote. Users can utilize this remote to access media content, their TV and to play games. They even have a D-Pad navigation and configuration on the remote. The Media remote can even connect to live TV to provide the ultimate control.
6. Microsoft Xbox 360 Wired Controller
The Microsoft Xbox 360 Wired Controller is designed to give games precise control and game play. The unit is designed not to lose power through long gaming sessions. Let's face it, this is a problem for many wireless controllers when they are used continuously for hours on end. The USB ports that are included on this device can be quickly connected to power up the device and to charge it up while people play. This unit also works well with Vista orientated titles. This is one of the Top 10 Best Selling Xbox 360 Wireless Controllers in The Market 2017.
5. Razer Sabertooth Xbox 360 Controller
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Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel's wedding plans are top secret no more! The pair's impending ceremony, including hints about the location, has been revealed to the public.
The Timberlake-Biel wedding celebration has, according to sources, already kicked off in southern Italy. Guests began arriving at the romantic destination Tuesday, while the exchange of vows is set for the weekend.
Jessica Biel, surely excited to play the blushing bride after five years of dating the musician and actor, is said to be already in Italy, busy with last-minute dress fittings and wedding details.
"They are ready to get married," a source gossiped to UsWeekly, adding the ceremony will be an intimate, rustic affair attended only by close friends and family. No big Hollywood bash for this bride and groom!
"She's a really, really, really special person," Justin Timberlake said of Jessica Biel last month. "Plus, she's really, really, hot!"
On a more serious note, the 31-year-old added, "I think it's important to remember that you go into something like marriage knowing that you don't know very much about it at all. But I do look at the marriage of my mother and stepdad, and what makes it work for them is that it's a team effort."
The famous pair's security teams are said to be taking extra precautions to keep the ceremony and reception location top secret, though it seems someone on the inside is having a hard time keeping their excitement hush-hush already — not that we mind!
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