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I'LL HAVE ANOTHER (Winner) – "The highest of the highs," trainer Doug O'Neill said Sunday morning of the emotions that winning Kentucky Derby 138 brought.
The colt, owned by J. Paul Reddam's Reddam Racing LLC, looked the picture of health as he exited Stall 17 in Barn 3 to get his legs washed off at 6:20 Sunday morning.
"He looks great this morning and a key thing is he ate up last night after the race," said O'Neill, who finally got around to having dinner with his team after midnight.
O'Neill, who was returning to his home base in Southern California later Sunday, plans to return to Louisville mid-week with an early departure planned for Pimlico and the Preakness, the second jewel in horse racing's Triple Crown.
"I will be back in two or three days," said O'Neill, who later in the morning informed Churchill Downs Stall Superintendant Steve Hargrave that I'll Have Another would ship to Pimlico Monday afternoon. "I'd like to get him over there and get settled in."
Sitting at the apex of the highest of the highs, O'Neill is now in position with I'll Have Another to bring the sport its first Triple Crown winner since Affirmed in 1978.
"I get goose bumps just thinking about it," O'Neill said. "I think he is the kind of horse who can maintain his form and keep it going."
Under first-time Kentucky Derby rider Mario Gutierrez, I'll Have Another became the first horse in Derby history to win from post position 19.
"I don't think we were more than four wide at any time in the race," O'Neill said. "I heard some of the horses on the inside had some problems, but we got a smooth trip."
Also making the trip to Pimlico with I'll Have Another is Lava Man, the 11-year-old earner of more than $5.2 million, who ponied the Derby winner during his Churchill Downs stay.
"He has taken three horses to the post," O'Neill said of Lava Man. "They won the Santa Anita Derby, the Kentucky Derby and a horse I ran here Friday, Unex Dali (GB), who ran second on Friday but thinks he won. Lava Man makes a pretty good caddie."
Before returning to Kentucky, O'Neill has some pressing business to attend to in California.
"When we started talking about the Derby, I told the kids (son Daniel and daughter Kaylin Dixie) that we would get a hot tub if he won the Derby," O'Neill said. "We are going to have to do some shopping now."
BODEMEISTER (Second)/LIAISON (Sixth) – Trainer Bob Baffert said his two Kentucky Derby runners, Zayat Stables LLC and Michel and Tiffany Moreno's Bodemeister, the runner-up, and Arnold Zetcher's Liaison, who finished sixth, came out of the race in good shape.
They will stay at Baffert's barn at Churchill Downs and are possible for the Preakness on May 19. Another Baffert colt, Paynter, is a possibility for the Preakness. Paynter worked five furlongs in 1:00.20 on Sunday morning.
Baffert was scheduled to fly home to California Sunday afternoon, but will return to Louisville next weekend and decide whether any of them will go on to Baltimore for the Preakness.
Bodemeister's performance – setting blistering fraction and still managing to stay on to finish second – was a major story line of the 138th Kentucky Derby. It was the colt's fifth race of 2012, but Baffert didn't rule out a Preakness try.
"I will let him tell me if he's ready, like I did with Lookin At Lucky," Baffert said.
In 2010, Lookin At Lucky finished sixth as the favorite in Kentucky Derby despite drawing the rail, and went on to win the Preakness.
"With Lookin At Lucky, the day after the Derby I told them, 'We're not going to run,'" Baffert said. "The next Monday I said, 'Not only are we going, we're going to win this.' I've got to wait and see if he shows me a spark."
Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith rode Bodemeister and was at Baffert's barn Sunday morning to breeze Paynter. Smith said he was impressed with the way Bodemeister ran on after covering the first quarter in :22.32, the half-mile in :45.39 and three-quarters of a mile in 1:09.80.
"It's the first time I finished second in the Derby that I wasn't pissed off," he said. "I was so proud of him. He ran an amazing race. He did all the dirty work. That :45 kind of got us. The last sixteenth killed us, but he ran amazing.
Smith said he had looked at replays of the race to judge his ride, but didn't second-guess the strategy.
"I watched it over and over again and thought maybe I would see something I could have done a little bit different," Smith said. "He caught such a flyer leaving the gate I had to take advantage of it. We did."
After Bodemeister drew post six, placing him inside of the other speed horses, Trinniberg and Hansen, Baffert told Smith that they would have to leave the gate running and to get the lead and set the pace. Baffert didn't talk his plan, though, and was careful not to tout his horse in hopes of making people think he was down on the colt's chances.
"I played it low key because I knew we were going to be the speed," Baffert said. "I didn't want the Trinniberg camp and the Hansen camp to say, 'Oh, that guy thinks he's going to do this thing.' I just played it down low and everyone thought, 'he's not happy about his horse' "
Baffert said he wasn't surprised that Liaison ran well in the Derby over a surface he liked.
"He was training like he was going to run a big race and he did," Baffert said. "He moved up when he got here."
DULLAHAN (Third) – Donegal Racing's Dullahan, a fast-closing third after being fanned seven-wide into the stretch, "came back good," trainer Dale Romans said.
Romans said he had yet to talk with the ownership group regarding the Preakness in less than two weeks.
"Not at all," he said. "We won't even talk about it for a couple more days. Gotta get over this hangover first."
WENT THE DAY WELL (Fourth) – Team Valor International and Mark Ford's Went the Day Well sported a cut on his right front ankle suffered during his fourth-place Kentucky Derby finish that "didn't seem like a big deal" to trainer Graham Motion, who reported that his colt otherwise "seemed fine."
Went the Day Well got away slowly while getting bumped out of the gate and raced far back before swinging seven-wide into the stretch, where he closed with a rush to finish fourth. The son of Proud Citizen finished 2 ½ lengths behind victorious I'll Have Another.
Went the Day Well went to post with a chance to put Barry Irwin of Team Valor International, Motion and jockey John Velazquez back in the Derby winner's circle. The trio, who scored with Animal Kingdom last year, would have been the first owner/trainer/jockey team to capture back-to-back Derby wins since Meadow Stable, trainer Lucien Lauren and jockey Ron Turcotte doubled with Riva Ridge and Secretariat in 1972-73.
It's frustrating. As good as a trip we had last year, we really suffered this year. Johnny said he just got off a step slow and that cost him. He got further back going into the first turn, and that made all the difference," Motion said.
"It's somewhat deflating, but we had it pretty good last year. You have to look at that side of it. It shows you how hard it is to win this race. The winner had a dream trip, and that's a lot to do with this race."
As disappointed as Motion was with Went the Day Well's trip, he was extremely proud of the late-developing colt's effort.
"I said all week, I felt very good about running the horse in this race. I didn't know if he was good enough to win the race. Ultimately, I think he was good enough to win the race."
Monday morning, Went the Day Well will ship to Fair Hill, Md., which is a relatively short van ride to Pimlico, where the Preakness Stakes will be run on May 19. A decision of Went the Day Well's status for the middle jewel of the Triple Crown has yet to be determined.
"I haven't talked to Barry yet. We'll see how he does, but it's certainly a possibility," said Motion, who saddled Animal Kingdom for a late-closing second-place finish behind Shackleford in last year's Preakness.
CREATIVE CAUSE (Fifth) – Heinz Steinmann's Creative Cause was scheduled for an 11 a.m. flight back to his Southern California base Sunday morning.
"He came out of the race fine," said John Cisneros, exercise rider and assistant trainer of Creative Cause for trainer Mike Harrington. "I thought he would be quiet this morning, but I had to put a lip chain on him to walk him around the barn."
Creative Cause was third at the eighth pole and then passed late by Dullahan and Went the Day Well and finished fewer than three lengths behind I'll Have Another. In all, Southern California-based horses accounted for four of the top six spots in Derby 138.
Immediate plans for Creative Cause were uncertain, Cisneros said.
"We will take him back home and see how he trains and talk it over with Mr. Steinmann and see what he wants to do," Cisneros said.
UNION RAGS (Seventh) – Chadds Ford Stable's Union Rags was "bright" Sunday morning after his troubled seventh-place finish in Saturday's Kentucky Derby.
Trainer Michael Matz was pleased with his Derby starter's condition Sunday, but still disappointed that Union Rags' Derby trip was compromised by a slow start and subsequent traffic and resulted in a seventh-place finish.
After breaking a step slowly, Union Rags was bumped and squeezed back to 18th in the 20-horse field before encountering traffic on the far turn that forced jockey Julien Leparoux to take a hold. The son of Dixie Union closed from 16th to seventh in the final quarter-mile.
"All I could see was that Dullahan came over to the left. I couldn't see what happened to the other horses. (Leparoux) said he got hit out of the gate after he didn't break sharp. That's the Derby," Matz said. "I feel bad for the horse. He didn't have the chance to show his true ability. He probably ran a half-mile in about 2 ½ miles (including the Florida Derby)."
Union Rags, who was trapped behind horses before closing late to finish third in the Florida Derby as the 2-5 favorite, surprised his trainer by failing to break alertly.
The last two times he ran, he broke real sharp. The gate has never been a problem. He's always broken good. It's such a disappointing situation right now," Matz said. "I'm trying to figure out what I did wrong. Certainly, after the Florida Derby, I thought it wouldn't happen twice. There's only one chance to do this with a horse like that. That's the disappointing part of this."
Matz reported that Union Rags would leave Churchill Downs Sunday evening and would arrive at his Fair Hill, Md., barn early Monday morning after an overnight van ride.
The trainer of 2006 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro said it will be a tough decision whether to run Union Rags back in the Preakness or wait until the Belmont Stakes.
"It kind of puts you in a tough situation. If you go to the Preakness and he runs good, then you'll say, 'He has to go to the Belmont.' If he goes to the Preakness and runs bad, you'll say, 'I should have waited until the Belmont.' So it's kind of a no-win situation right now," Matz said. "It's a long year. It sort of makes you say, 'Do you want to go an hour and a half down the road to the Preakness in two weeks. Or do you want to wait the extra time and go to the Belmont and space his races out?'"
Ultimately, a decision will be made after observing Union Rags' training at Fair Hill and discussing the colt's future with owner Phyllis Wyeth.
"We'll just have to see how he comes out and talk to Phyllis and see what she would prefer to do. There are some nice races all through the whole year, so we'll see what happens," Matz said. "It's (Union Rags' Derby trip) so unfortunate for the horse and for the owner. How many chances do you get like this, especially for Phyllis, who's 71 and this was her first chance to get here – and might be her only chance?"
ROUSING SERMON (Eighth) – Mr. and Mrs. Larry D. Williams' Rousing Sermon exited Kentucky Derby 138 in good order according to Christina Jelm, assistant to trainer Jerry Hollendorfer.
"He came out of the race really well. He is very happy this morning," Jelm said. "He is going to go back to California today."
Hollendorfer flew back to California on an early Sunday flight.
HANSEN (Ninth) – Kendall Hansen, M.D. and Skychai Racing LLC's Hansen likely is headed to Baltimore after his ninth-place finish in Kentucky Derby 138.
"We'll try the Preakness and give it one more shot," Hansen said.
Hansen was vanned back to trainer Mike Maker's Trackside Training Center base at 8 a.m. and will stay there through the middle of next week.
"We like to keep him here at his home base," Hansen said.
After the race, Hansen, the owner, said Hansen, the horse, was in fine shape but not his usual self.
"He came out of the race perfect," Hansen said. "He had his head down, he was a little embarrassed. He's usually pretty hyper after a race but last night he was calm, almost like he was embarrassed. He had a bad start, got pinched back and had nowhere to go the first time through the stretch. That took a lot of him. He got a lot of dirt kicked in his face."
DADDY NOSE BEST (10th)/SABERCAT (15th) – Trainer Steve Asmussen said both of his Kentucky Derby 138 runners – Cathy and Bob Zollars' Daddy Nose Best and Winchell Thoroughbreds' Sabercat – were doing "fine" the morning after the race.
Asmussen declined to say whether either horse might be under consideration for the Preakness.
OPTIMIZER (11th) – Bluegrass Hall's Optimizer came out of Derby 138 in good order according to trainer D. Wayne Lukas and remains under consideration for the Preakness.
"I will talk with Mr. (Brad) Kelley, but yes, there is a chance he could go to Baltimore," Lukas said.
ALPHA (12th) – Godolphin Racing's Alpha was shipped back to Belmont Park Sunday and is off the Triple Crown trail after a 12th-place finish in the Kentucky Derby.
Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin said the Bernardini colt came out of the race in good shape. Alpha was uncomfortable in the paddock in the sweltering temperatures and McLaughlin said that probably had an impact on how he ran.
"It was a hot, very difficult day," McLaughlin said. "We'll live to fight another day. It was tough, tough day on all horses. It was very hot and he didn't handle it well."
EL PADRINO (13th)/GEMOLOGIST (16th) – Let's Go Stable's El Padrino and WinStar Farm's Gemologist exited Kentucky Derby 138 in good order, trainer Todd Pletcher reported Sunday morning.
Gemologist, who finished 16th after stalking the early pace, is scheduled to be given "a week's vacation" at WinStar Farm in Versailles, Ky., after suffering his first loss in six starts. El Padrino, who closed from last to finish 13th, will be shipped to New York on Sunday.
"At this point, I'd say both of them would be unlikely for the Preakness," Pletcher said.
The trainer of 2010 Derby winner Super Saver said neither of his starters encountered any real trouble in their trips on Saturday.\
"Gemologist broke really well. He was probably a touch keen early and settled into a good position early," Pletcher said. "El Padrino broke poorly. He had a clean trip. He was just way back and made some progress along the way."
DONE TALKING (14th) – Skeedattle Associates' Done Talking was loaded on a van shortly before 8 o'clock Sunday morning for the ride back to his home base at Laurel in Maryland.
"He's perfect this morning; came out of the race real good," said Bobo Brigmon, exercise rider for the Hamilton Smith-trained colt.
Smith indicated after the race Saturday that Done Talking, winner of the Illinois Derby (GIII) in his previous start, would bypass the Preakness.
TRINNIBERG (17th) – Shivananda Parbhoo's Trinniberg was doing well Sunday morning after finishing 17th in Saturday's Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs.
Trinniberg closely stalked the rapid pace set by Bodemeister to the top of the stretch before tiring during the final quarter of a mile.
"I think he ran a good race. He ran as much as he could run," said Parbhoo, who reported that his Swale (GIII) and Bay Shore (GIII) winner would go back to sprinting.
Trinniberg, who will be shipped by van to Calder Race Course in South Florida early Monday morning, will be pointed toward the seven-furlong Woody Stephens (GII) on the undercard of the Belmont Stakes (GI) on June 9.
PROSPECTIVE (18th) – John C. Oxley's Prospective suffered one of the more difficult trips of Kentucky Derby 138 and came back with the scars to prove it.
"He's a little cut up but he seems no worse for the wear," trainer Mark Casse said. "He's got nicks and cuts on three of his legs. We're just lucky he didn't fall on his head. He clipped heels pretty badly out of the gate."
Prospective was bumped at the start, clipped heels and stumbled in traffic the first time past the grandstand, and bumped with El Padrino approaching the half-mile pole.
Casse said that even though Prospective's horrific trip prevented him from running his race, the colt would not be considered for the remaining Triple Crown events.
"I think what we're going to do is just kind of regroup, try to find a nice spot and try to get back on the winning track," Casse said.
TAKE CHARGE INDY (19th) – Chuck and Maribeth Sandford's Take Charge Indy will undergo surgery this week to remove a bone chip in his left front ankle, an injury he sustained during the running of the Kentucky Derby. Trainer Pat Byrne said that the injury is not career threatening and that the colt could be back under tack in about 60 days.
The son of A.P. Indy was in a contending position, running fourth, several lengths behind pacesetting Bodemeister through three-quarters of mile. Jockey Calvin Borel noticed that the colt reacted to something – Borel thought he might have bled – they began slowing down and finished 19th in the field. Take Charge Indy was examined and it was determined that he did not bleed, but he began to show some problems with his left front leg when he returned to Byrne's barn. X-rays taken Sunday morning revealed the chip.
"Dr. Bill Baker just did the x-rays and in the ankle we have a P-1 chip fracture," Byrne said. "We've got an excellent prognosis."
Byrne said the colt will be shipped for Woodford Equine Hospital in Versailles, Ky., on Monday and that the surgery will be performed in mid-week.
"They will take that little chip out of the ankle, the rest of the leg is fine," Byrne said. "We're looking at 60 days of down time. If everything works out, we will make the Breeders' Cup Classic with a prep race beforehand."
Byrne felt that the Florida Derby (GI) winner was going to turn in a big performance in the Kentucky Derby and Borel had him in a ground-saving, stalking position when the colt began to feel the sting for the chip in the joint.
"This wasn't a talent issue; he was going so easily to the three-eighths pole," Byrne said. "It's a major disappointment, but it is horse racing. It happens. So we have an excuse. The horse is fine and we'll take care of that chip."
DADDY LONG LEGS (20th) – Michael Tabor, Mrs. Susan Magnier and Derrick Smith's well-traveled colt started his journey back to Ireland at 7:30 a.m. Sunday when he was loaded on a van outside the quarantine barn.
The UAE Derby (GII) winner was in contention early after starting from the inside post position but didn't respond when asked for more approaching the second turn, slowed, was eased and finished last. The colt showed some symptoms of being affected by the heat Saturday, but trainer Aidan O'Brien's traveling head lad T.J. Comerford said the son of Scat Daddy was OK on Sunday.
"I don't know what it was. Maybe the whole thing got to him," Comerford said. "He broke well, got away, had a lovely position. It didn't work out for him, that's all. It's one of those things. He's fine. Bright as a button."
Daddy Long Legs was flying to Chicago and then on to Europe.
Comerford said he didn't know where the colt might run next, but noted that he has done well on turf and synthetic surfaces, but had not performed as well in two tries on the dirt at Churchill Downs.
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The lineup for the 2015 Hampton Jazz Festival was announced Monday. Tickets go on sale Saturday.
While the early festivals in the late 1960s and early '70s featured jazz legends such as Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, it has become common in recent years for people to note that the lineups now include more R&B and soul and funk than actual jazz.
That said, the festival is three days of very hot music, and no one goes home disappointed. Here is a look at the acts who will be performing at this year's festival, which is scheduled for June 26-28 at the Hampton Coliseum:
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So I immediately began to think deeply about how that might be wrong.I think most players need humans as a baseline from which to proceed when creating characters, even nonhuman ones.
Can anybody think of a game (either table top or video) where you create a character but can't create a human? The only game I can't think of where can't play a human have you playing something that's basically a human, a cartoon animal, or are so abstract or simple that you are basically not playing a person.
I think that some of these tropes are so well established in our culture that gamers could do without them. More that they're always included as a "sure, why not?" or a safeguard if a players happens to dislike all the other races. I think, maybe, that some game designers need humans as a base point; but (good) game design is involved and requires some pretty solid baselines.
Does that strike anybody else a dealbreaker to them to not be able to play as a human? I think some things that get lumped in with humans in fantasy are essential to many players, (like being good or being attractive) but we can separate the conditions. Like a my-little-pony rip of race is good and beautiful (okay, and maybe not classically masculine), but decidedly non-human.


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Pro ArthMax by Human Science Foundation: Recall - Undeclared Drug Ingredients
Audience: Consumer, Health Professional
[Posted 01/14/2014]
ISSUE: Human Science Foundation is voluntarily recalling all lots of Pro ArthMax 120 count bottle, labeled and sold as a dietary supplement, to the consumer level. The product has been found to contain undeclared active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), making it an unapproved new drug. FDA sample analysis tested the product to contain the following APIs: 2.4mg of Chlorzoxazone, 0.78mg of Nefopam, 2.5mg of Diclofenac, 7.7mg of Ibuprofen, 2.1mg of Naproxen, and 1.9mg of Indomethacin.
Use of this product, containing the undeclared drug ingredients listed above, has a reasonable probability of resulting in fatal adverse events in consumers and patients with underlying illnesses, including known allergy to the hidden ingredients, cardiac, gastrointestinal, hepatic, and renal conditions as well as patients who have recently undergone cardiac bypass graft surgery. Consumers would be unaware that the product contains Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) (and other ingredients), may inadvertently overdose by taking another NSAID concurrently, thus increasing the risk for NSAID associated adverse events, which include but are not limited to, myocardial infarction, stroke, congestive heart failure, renal toxicity, and bleeding, ulceration, or perforation of the stomach or intestines.
BACKGROUND: Pro ArthMax is marketed as a dietary supplement for joint pain and arthritis and is packaged in 120-count tablets per bottle, in a white plastic screw top bottle. Product was distributed to direct consignees in the state of California then further distributed nationwide to retail stores and via internet sales.
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Human Science Foundation is notifying its distributors and customers by telephone and e-mail and is arranging for return for credit of all recalled products. Consumers with questions regarding this recall can contact Human Science Foundation by email to firstname.lastname@example.com from Monday through Friday, 10 AM and 4 PM, PST.
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It's no secret that price is the main reason why P&C insurance customers switch from one provider to another. It's also often said – correctly – that the claims experience is an important trigger for switching. However, a new Accenture survey has shown there's more to this than many people think.
The survey – of 7,785 auto and household insurance customers in 14 countries, fairly evenly split between those who have submitted a claim in the past two years and those who haven't – found that most people are fairly satisfied with their insurance companies. Only 7 percent are generally dissatisfied, and 14 percent are unhappy with the way their last claim was handled and settled.
However, of the 14 percent who think their claim could have been handled better, 29 percent have switched providers and a further 54 percent plan to do so. This means that 83 percent of all customers who are disappointed at the so-called "moment of truth" find themselves a new insurer.
Can one conclude from this that it's essential for customer retention that insurers provide a satisfactory claims experience? Unfortunately it's not that simple. The survey found that 22 percent of customers who have not recently claimed are likely to switch in the next 12 months, compared with 41 percent of those who have claimed. In other words, irrespective of how well the insurer manages the claims experience, the mere fact that a customer submits a claim will almost double his or her likelihood of switching.
So what should insurers make of all this?
Clearly, it's as important as ever that they improve their claims experience – with dissatisfied claimers defecting at a 62 percent higher rate than satisfied claimers, they have much to gain by keeping them happy.
But it's also important that they do whatever they can to prevent the claim in the first place. In Accenture's 2013 Consumer-Driven Innovation Survey, 92 percent of consumers said they would appreciate their insurers helping them to manage their risk rather than just insuring it.
A combined strategy of improving the claims experience, while at the same time helping to reduce the incidence of claims, is likely to be the most effective at minimizing loss costs while maximizing customer retention.


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Web Design Spotlight: Santa Maria Del Mar Catholic Church
Santa Maria Del Mar Catholic church is located in Flagler Beach, Florida. They are an active community that serves local residents, community, and hundreds of visitors every year. Their mission is to commit themselves to living the Four Pillars of Stewardship . . . Hospitality, Prayer, Formation, and Service as they respond to God's love with compassion and creativity.
They contacted OurChurch.Com to build a website using the Custom Express Website package.
A few things I want to point out about the design of their site.
1) Content rotator. When you visit the Santa Maria Del Mar website, the first thing that jumps out at you is the content rotator on the homepaege. The bright images and movement get your attention and convey a sense of life and vibrance.
2) User-friendly Admin. The staff and volunteers at SMDMCC have been extremely active in updating their website creating more than 100 pages of useful information for their visitors and parishioners. The WordPress platform makes adding and updating pages very easy and accessible for multiple administators.
3) Organized, sub-menus. With so much content, it's important that it be well organized and easy to find. Using drop-down sub-menus allows visitors to quickly mouseover each main menu item and see the list of pages available in the sub-menu.
4) Upcoming Events. One of the most important purposes of Santa Maria Del Mar's website is to keep paritioners informed about upcoming events. Not only does the site include a calendar plugin, but there is also an integrated "Upcoming Events" plugin in the right sidebar which is display on every page of the site. So no matter what page a visitor is on, they can see what's coming up and can click for more info.
5) Simple Design. With so much content on their site – pages, events and bright images – it's important that the design of the site not clash with the images or make the site look busy. Going with a very simple design that makes the content stand out.
All of these design elements are contributing to the success of the site and the mission of the church. I hope they help you with the design of your site. And of course, if you're interested in having our team work with you to develop an effective site, let us know. We'd love to talk with you.
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Getting Help/Contact belongs to the Contact / Contribute pages, not into this tutorial itself (it only bloats up the page) - what do you think? Dhaumann 17:05, 23 December 2006 (CET)
I have to say that this seems to be duplicating much of intent of the Tutorials section in general. The topics are pretty eclectic (nearly random?) and would each make nice top-level tutorials where they would be more visible and likely gain more editing love as well as readership. thoughts?
This page is NOT a dumping ground for all the small tips you couldn't find anywhere else for. This is a small series of tutorials for introducing a completely new programmer to the KDE API and build system etc. We don't need a tutorial telling the reader how to implement a QTreeView for example. That's what the Qt docs are for! I'll leave these up for a week incase someone wants to move these somewhere more appropriate after which point I will delete all these stubs. The CMake tutorial should perhaps be slimmed down and included into the CMake tutorial in the Development/Tutorials page. The XML parser tutorial isn't really needed, that's not the sort of thing someone looks up documentation for. That's what we have the Qt XML stuff for. --milliams 15:14, 31 May 2007 (CEST)


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Chacin, E.Y. Jr. named to Futures Game
DENVER — Double-A star pitcher Jhoulys Chacin and speedy Triple-A second baseman Eric Young Jr. have been recognized for their strong seasons with a signinifcant honor. Both have been selected to participate in the Futures Game for top prospects held in conjucntion with the All-Star Game in St. Louis.
Young will play on the U.S. Team for manager Ozzie Smith, while Chacin will be a member of the World roster led by Jose Oquendo.
They are in good company. The game will begin at noon mountain time and can be viewed live on ESPN2, ESPN2 HD and MLB.TV
There have been 52 players who have competed in both the XM All-Star Futures Game and the Major League All-Star Game. In 2008, a record 23 Major League All-Stars were alumni of the XM All-Star Futures Game (including Alfonso Soriano who was replaced on the All-Star roster due to injury), edging the previous mark of 22 set in 2007.
Here are the full rosters provided by major league baseball:
U.S. TEAM Roster
Player (Organization) Bats/Throws HT WT Birthdate Birthplace Current Team (League/Level)
Bumgarner, Madison (Giants) R/L 6-4 215 8/1/89 Hickory, NC Connecticut Defenders (Eastern League/AA)
Drabek, Kyle (Phillies) R/R 6-0 185 12/8/87 Victoria, TX Reading Phillies (Eastern League/AA)
Duffy, Danny (Royals) L/L 6-2 185 12/21/88 Goleta, CA Wilmington Blue Rocks (Carolina League/A)
Kelly, Casey (Red Sox) R/R 6-3 194 10/4/89 Sarasota, FL Salem Red Sox (Carolina League/A)
Latos, Mat (Padres) R/R 6-6 225 12/9/87 Alexandria, VA San Antonio Missions (Texas League/AA)
Lincoln, Brad (Pirates) L/R 6-0 215 5/25/85 Lake Jackson, TX Altoona Curve (Eastern League/AA)
Matusz, Brian (Orioles) L/L 6-5 200 2/11/87 Grand Junction, CO Bowie Baysox (Eastern League/AA)
Parker, Jarrod (D-backs) R/R 6-1 180 11/24/88 Ft. Wayne, IN Mobile BayBears (Southern League/AA)
Reckling, Trevor (Angels) L/L 6-1 195 5/22/89 Livingston, NJ Arkansas Travelers (Texas League/AA)
Tillman, Chris (Orioles) R/R 6-5 195 4/15/88 Anaheim, CA Norfolk Tides (International League/AAA)
Castro, Jason (Astros) L/R 6-3 210 6/18/87 Castro Valley, CA Corpus Christi Hooks (Texas League/AA)
Flowers, Tyler (White Sox) R/R 6-4 245 1/24/86 Roswell, GA Birmingham Barons (Southern League/AA)
Alvarez, Pedro (Pirates) L/R 6-3 235 2/6/87 New York, NY Altoona Curve (Eastern League/AA)
Carter, Chris (Athletics) R/R 6-4 225 12/18/86 Redwood City, CA Midland RockHounds (Texas League/AA)
Espinosa, Danny (Nationals) S/R 6-0 190 4/25/87 Santa Ana, CA Potomac Nationals (Carolina League/A)
Sizemore, Scott (Tigers) R/R 6-0 185 1/4/85 Virginia Beach, VA Toledo Mud Hens (International League/AAA)
Vitters, Josh (Cubs) R/R 6-3 200 8/27/89 Anaheim, CA Peoria Chiefs (Midwest League/A)
Wallace, Brett (Cardinals) L/R 6-2 255 8/26/86 Marin, CA Memphis Redbirds (Pacific Coast League/AAA)
Weeks, Jemile (Athletics) S/R 5-10 175 1/26/87 Orlando, FL Stockton Ports (California League/A)
Young, Eric (Rockies) S/R 5-10 180 5/25/85 New Brunswick, NJ Col. Springs Sky Sox (Pacific Coast League/AAA)
Heisey, Chris (Reds) R/R 6-0 200 12/14/84 Lancaster, PA Carolina Mudcats (Southern League/AA)
Heyward, Jason (Braves) L/L 6-4 220 8/9/89 Ridgewood, NJ Myrtle Beach Pelicans (Carolina League/A)
Jennings, Desmond (Rays) R/R 6-2 180 10/30/86 Birmingham, AL Montgomery Biscuits (Southern League/AA)
Jones, Daryl (Cardinals) L/L 5-11 180 6/25/87 Royal Oak, MI Springfield Cardinals (Texas League/AA)
Stanton, Mike (Marlins) R/R 6-5 225 11/8/89 Panorama, CA Jacksonville Suns (Southern League/AA)
Player (Organization) Bats/Throws HT WT Birthdate Birthplace Current Team (League/Level)
Banuelos, Manny (Yankees) L/L 5-10 155 3/13/91 Gomez Palacio, Durango, MX Charleston RiverDogs (South Atlantic League/A)
Chacin, Jhoulys (Rockies) R/R 6-3 200 1/7/88 Maracaibo, Venezuela Tulsa Drillers (Texas League/AA)
Feliz, Neftali (Rangers) R/R 6-3 190 5/2/88 Azua, D.R. Oklahoma City RedHawks (Pacific Coast League/AAA)
Flande, Yohan (Phillies) L/L 6-2 170 1/27/86 El Seibo, D.R. Clearwater Threshers (Florida State League/A)
Lo, Chia-Jen (Astros) R/R 5-11 181 4/7/86 Pingtung County, Taiwan Corpus Christi Hooks (Texas League/AA)
Mejia, Jenrry (Mets) R/R 6-0 162 10/11/89 Azua, D.R. Binghamton Mets (Eastern League/AA)
Perez, Luis (Blue Jays) L/L 6-0 205 1/20/85 Guayubin, D.R. New Hampshire Fisher Cats (Eastern League/AA)
Septimo, Leyson (D-backs) L/L 6-0 150 7/7/85 Santo Domingo, D.R. Visalia Rawhide (California League/A)
Sulbaran, J.C. (Reds) R/R 6-2 198 11/9/89 Willemstad, Curacao, Neth.-Antilles Dayton Dragons (Midwest League/A)
Tazawa, Junichi (Red Sox) R/R 5-11 180 6/6/86 Yokohama, Japan Portland Sea Dogs (Eastern League/AA)
Montero, Jesus (Yankees) R/R 5-11 180 11/28/89 Guacara, Venezuela Trenton Thunder (Eastern League/AA)
Santana, Carlos (Indians) S/R 5-11 190 4/8/86 Santo Domingo, D.R. Akron Aeros (Eastern League/AA)
Baez, Pedro (Dodgers) R/R 6-2 195 3/11/88 Bani, D.R. Inland Empire 66ers (California League/A)
Castro, Starlin (Cubs) R/R 6-1 160 3/24/90 Monte Cristi, D.R. Daytona Cubs (Florida State League/A)
Escobar, Alcides (Brewers) R/R 6-1 180 12/16/86 La Sabana, Venezuela Nashville Sounds (Pacific Coast League/AAA)
Flores, Wilmer (Mets) R/R 6-3 175 8/6/91 Valencia, Venezuela Savannah Sand Gnats (South Atlantic League/A)
Lawrie, Brett (Brewers) R/R 5-11 200 1/18/90 Langley, B.C. Wisconsin Timber Rattlers (Midwest League/A)
Liddi, Alex (Mariners) R/R 6-4 176 8/14/88 San Remo, Italy High Desert Mavericks (California League/A)
Viciedo, Dayan (White Sox) R/R 5-11 240 3/10/89 Remedios, Cuba Birmingham Barons (Southern League/AA)
Villalona, Angel (Giants) R/R 6-3 200 8/13/90 La Romana, D.R. San Jose Giants (California League/A)
Durango, Luis (Padres) S/R 5-9 160 4/23/86 Panama City, Panama San Antonio Missions (Texas League/AA)
Gillies, Tyson (Mariners) L/R 6-2 190 10/31/88 Vancouver, B.C. High Desert Mavericks (California League/A)
Kang, Kyeong (Rays) L/L 6-2 200 2/6/88 Busan, South Korea Bowling Green Hot Rods (South Atlantic League/A)
Tosoni, Rene (Twins) L/R 6-0 194 7/2/86 Toronto, Ontario New Britain Rock Cats (Eastern League/AA)
Weglarz, Nick (Indians) L/L 6-3 245 12/16/87 Stevensville, Ontario Akron Aeros (Eastern League/AA)


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My current read is 'Selected Essays, Lectures, and Poems' by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
If you've never read Emerson, you should. He's one of the great literary minds and philosophers from the US. So far the writings that have really struck me are 'Woman', 'Nature' and 'Self-Reliance'
Brilliant stuff!


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Priests for Life is challenging the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) contraception mandate in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., and is joined by other individual plaintiffs. The challenge asserts that the plaintiffs' religious freedoms are being violated by forcing them to provide no-cost access to contraceptives, including those that induce abortion.
Priests for Life is being represented by attorneys from the American Freedom Law Center. Individual plaintiffs on the case include Father Frank Pavone (shown), Janet Morana, and Dr. Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King, Jr.
"With this mandate contained in the Affordable Care Act, the government is not only violating our religious beliefs; they are also taking it upon themselves to tell us what the boundaries of those religious beliefs are," states Father Pavone. "It is not up to the government to tell us when our conscience hurts; on the contrary, it's up to us as believers to tell the government."
Robert Muise, American Freedom Law Center co-founder and senior counsel, summarizes the issue before the court:
The question for the court ... is not whether compliance with the contraception mandate can be reconciled with the teachings of the Catholic Church. That's a question of religious conscience for the plaintiffs, and they have concluded that their legal and religious obligations are incompatible. Consequently, the contraception mandate forces them to do what their religion tells them they must not do in direct violation of the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
The challenge landed in federal court on Monday, but the plaintiffs appeared unsatisfied with what took place in the courtroom.
Following Monday's hearing, Father Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, said, "What we just saw in that courtroom is of Biblical proportions."
According to government attorneys, there are exemptions in place for entities that are truly operating as religious organizations and can prove it. As noted by the plaintiffs, however, there is still a problem. Even if organizations manage to qualify for that exemption, they are still obligated to ensure employee access to the contraception via a third-party vendor.
Father Pavone declares the options to be unacceptable, and states that the group will drop the health insurance if they are forced to comply with the mandate.
"Where are the brakes?" Pavone asked. "Where does it stop for the government to tell the church what it can and cannot do?"
Those in support of the mandate defend it as a well-balanced provision.
"The Obama administration has, I think, made a very strong compromise trying to accommodate religious liberty interests while at the same time protecting the health of women," said Elizabeth Wydra, chief counsel for the Constitutional Accountability Center.
The challenge brought by Priests for Life is one of over 80 lawsuits pending across the United States. Just last week, the University of Notre Dame and the Fellowship of Catholic Unversity Students (FOCUS) filed similar suit.
"I think the Obama administration's attempts to take religious freedom away from anyone are bound to fail," said Matthew Bowman, the senior legal counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, which is representing FOCUS.
Lower courts currently considering challenges to the mandate are believed to be waiting for guidance from the Supreme Court.
Fox News reports, "The justices have agreed to hear the cases of two for-profit organizations whose owners say their rights will be violated if they're forced to comply. Though the newest lawsuits stem from faith-based organizations, that Supreme Court decision — due by June 2014 — could provide enormous legal precedent."
Father Pavone is confident that the court will rule in favor of the plaintiffs, though challenges to the HHS mandate have been met with resistance.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled that the Conestoga Wood Specialties Corporation, a Mennonite-owned company, must comply with the Health and Human Services mandate that compels companies to pay for drugs that may cause abortions. The ruling was handed down in a 2-1 decision asserting that the Mennonite faith of the company's owners may not prohibit the company from complying with the mandate.
And in February 2012, the attorneys general of seven states — Florida, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas — along with three employers affiliated with the Catholic church, a nun, and a missionary, filed suit against the federal healthcare law's contraception mandate. But on July 17 of that year, a federal judge dismissed the case, declaring that the groups behind the suit had no standing.
Still, challenges continue to be made against the controversial mandate.
On February 9, 2012, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty filed on behalf of the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN), a Catholic news organization. The Becket Fund also filed on behalf of Ave Maria University, a school dedicated to living the teachings of the Catholic church, in February of the same year.
On March 22, 2012, the state of Alabama joined the Becket Fund's lawsuit on behalf of EWTN.
On July 18, 2012, Wheaton College filed a lawsuit in partnership with Catholic University of America, "marking the first-ever partnership between Catholic and evangelical institutions to oppose the same regulation in the same court" the Becket Fund website states.
Last September, Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., a privately held retail chain, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, opposing the HHS "preventive services" mandate, which forces the Christian-owned-and-operated business to provide, without co-pay, the "morning after pill" and "week after pill" in their health insurance plan.
On October 11, 2013, three religious ministry groups — Reaching Souls International, Truett-McConnell College, and Guidestone Financial Resources — that do not fall under the proper criteria to qualify for the "religious employer" exemption filed a class-action lawsuit defending their right to carry out their Christian mission.
Last month, the Supreme Court agreed to review the HHS mandate, accepting two cases — those involving the Conestoga Wood Specialities Corp. and Hobby Lobby — centered on that very issue. The White House is hopeful that the high court will conclude that the mandate is "lawful and essential to women's health."
In addition to opposition from various organizations, a majority of the American people continue to remain opposed to the HHS mandate, according to a December 2 Rasmussen Report poll. While 38 percent of those polled believe that businesses should be required by law to provide health insurance that covers government-approved contraceptives without co-payments, 51 percent disagree.
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It looks incredibly cheap and nasty!
Spod's Cage Rocket might sound the stuff of bad Fifties sci-fi flicks but serves as a refined, albeit relatively expensive alternative to the butchered bottle, freezer bag and elastic band bodge for hauling, everyday ride essentials.
Made in the US of A and available in seven relatively tasteful complimentary/contrasting colours; the shell is constructed from high-density polyethylene. There is also a waterproof design but the standard design incorporates water channels to, er, channel water and muck from entering the main compartment but river crossings are definitely out. Flipping the lid reveals a modest internal compartment measuring approximately 640cm3 (forgoing the lining frees up a further 95cm3 but with obvious loss of soundproofing) in to that I was able to get a mini-took, keys, Co2 cartridge, patch kit, standard tyre levers and energy bar.
However, before we all click buy now; I can confirm, despite my best efforts that this glasses case on steroids is only compatible with traditional square type bottle cages - the chaps in the office couldn't actually muster a cage between them to fit it. Beefy aluminium MTB types, or those such as the Velocity (review coming up) designed with carrying lead acid batteries are ideal but standard design carbon models with gel bumpers work equally well - the cages we struggled to fit it in were those newer desings that incorporate a tab that grips the neck of a standard bottle.
Nipping litigious opportunity in the bud, Spod warn against accessing the pod while riding but in practice, quick draws are no more dangerous than taking a swig from your regular bidon. Laden to the gills and with liner in situ, chatter is virtually non-existent over rougher roads resting in carbon cages but lower level vibration induces a faint rattle if used with old school 6061 aluminium designs but binding inner tube off cuts around the cage lip cures this. However and contrary to the blurb, it wouldn't be my default home for cameras/smart phones or related electricals. It's also worth noting that there are similar products on the market in the shape of the Tacx Tool Bottle and the Pro Storage Bottle both available online for considerably less then the Cage Rocket - although it also has to be said that both also look like much more basic designs. Currently the Cage Rocket is on offer at £10.99 from UK distributor, Cycle Premier.
Refined and likeable alternative to bottle butchery for stowing tools and similar nick nacks in standard cages but it is pricey and it won't fit all cages
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road.cc test report
Make and model: Cage Rocket Personal Storage Pod
Size tested: n/a
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
"Our SPods are great for cycling, backpacking, inline skating, paddling, golfing, fishing, in the gym, or anywhere you need to carry and protect your gear. Don't think of Cage Rocket just for cycling anymore, our SPods are multi-sport assuring you will get a lot of use and value from our products". Broadly agree but price seems a bit steep relative to function.
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
High-density polyethylene housing, EVA foam internal lining, ABS lid.
Built to a high standard.
Easy enough to use-even on the fly.
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
The cage rocket is a remarkably simple yet well executed stash point for multi-tools, patch kits, house keys, money etc. Compatible with most standard cages, it doesn't chatter annoyingly or threaten to eject when riding over poorly surfaced roads and seems pretty weather resistant too. That said, I'm not sure I'd leave smart-phones or similarly sensitive electricals to chance. It also only seems to fit certain types of bottle cage - while I did have the required type to fit it, it didn't work with any of the bottle cages belonging to the chaps in the road.cc office.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
Neat, well executed design.
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
Cost + it doesn't fit all bottle cages
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes
Would you consider buying the product? Possibly but not at full rrp.
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Yes, as an alternative to bottle butchery.
About the tester
Age: 38 Height: 1m 81 Weight: 70 kilos
I usually ride: Rough Stuff Tourer Based around 4130 Univega mtb Frameset My best bike is: 1955 Holdsworth Road Path and several others including cross & traditional road
I've been riding for: Over 20 years I ride: Most days I would class myself as: Experienced
I regularly do the following types of riding: cyclo cross, commuting, touring, fixed/singlespeed, mtb,
Shaun Audane is a freelance writer/product tester with over twenty-eight years riding experience, the last twelve (120,000 miles) spent putting bikes and kit through their paces for a variety of publications. Previous generations of his family worked at manufacturing's sharp end, thus Shaun can weld, has a sound understanding of frame building practice and a preference for steel or titanium framesets.
Citing Richard Ballantine and an Au pair as his earliest cycling influences, he is presently writing a cycling book with particular focus upon women, families and disabled audiences (Having been a registered care manager and coached children at Herne Hill Velodrome in earlier careers)


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Sunday, April 1, 2012
Yamazaki 50 canned highball
Update 2.4.2012: Just so the joke doesn't go too far, let me point out the obvious: This was an APRIL FOOLS' JAPE.
I just got an email from a friend with fairly decent connections saying Suntory are preparing a campaign for a canned Yamazaki 50 highball. Apparently, the press release is going out early next week. It won't be cheap, at 70,000 yen (about 850 dollars) a can, but, by God, I have got to get me one of those!
2 comments:
- jeffdrinks said...
april the thirst???
- April 1, 2012 at 11:27 AM
Happy AF''s!
- April 1, 2012 at 10:35 PM
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Your calendars, as well as calendars that you subscribe to, appear in iCal's calendar list.
Using iCal
Open iCal from the Dock or the Applications folder. The week view appears in the main pane. You can change the calendar view by clicking the Day, Week, Month, and Year tabs at the top of the calendar.
Learn more about what you can do with iCal.
Create new calendars
If you want to create a new calendar, choose New Calendar from the File menu. Type a name for your calendar in the text field. For example, if you have kids, you might want to create a separate calendar for each one.
Schedule an event on a calendar
- Click and hold the Add (+) button at the top of the calendar, then choose a calendar.
- Enter a name, date, and time duration for your event, and then press Return. For example, you can enter "Birthday Party June 11 at 7pm," and then press Return.
- Your event is placed on the calendar with the date and time your entered. You can make changes or add other options to your event (for example, you can set options for your event to repeat, set an event alert, or invite others to the event and more). Make your changes to your event and click Done.
- You can also add an event by dragging across the date and time where you want to add an event. The event will start with the name "New Event".
If the event is for a future date that you can't see on the calendar, click the left or right arrow buttons at the top of the window, or choose Go To Date, or Next or Previous, from the View menu.
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- Click Done when finished. If you want to adjust the event's options, double-click the event, and click Edit.
Tip: If you moved your calendar to a different date, you can quickly get back to today by pressing Command-T, or choosing View > Go To Today.
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To create reminders, choose New Reminder from the File menu. The Reminders pane appears on the right side. Enter the reminder information and repeat the process to add other reminders.
You can also add reminder list for different areas of your life (work, home, school, and so on) or for every task you're working on. This is similar to the different calendars you can create in iCal. To create a new reminders list, choose New Reminder List form the File menu. Then enter a name for the reminder list and press Return.
When you create a reminders list, it appears in the Reminders pop-up list. In the Reminders pop-up list, you can select to show or hide individual reminder lists. To show or hide reminder list, click Reminders at the top of the list of reminders and unchecking the reminder list from the pop-up menu.
Publish your calendar
To make your calendar available to others, choose Publish from the Calendar menu. In the resulting dialog, type a name for your calendar in the top field, choose to publish it on your own server from the "Publish on" pop-up menu, select any of the other options you want, and then click Publish.
When iCal finishes publishing, a dialog opens and displays the URL for your calendar—be sure to write this information down.
Set up your iCloud calendar account for use with iCal
iCloud comes free with OS X Lion and iOS 5. Once you sign up for your free iCloud account, you can push calendar updates across your devices, share your iCloud Calendar, and use web calendar on iCloud.
If you have an iCloud account and OS X Lion v10.7.5 or later, you can use iCal to access and manage your iCloud calendars. If you set up the iCloud Calendar service on several devices and computers, your iCloud calendar and reminder information is kept up to date on each device and computer.
Set up your iCloud calendar account in either of these ways.
- In System Preferences:
- Click iCloud.
- Sign in to iCloud.
- If this is your first time signing in from this device, you'll be asked if you want to use iCloud for contacts, calendars, and bookmarks. Make sure that this box is selected (checked), then click Next.
- If you've previously signed in to iCloud, you'll see a list of iCloud services. Select the box next to Calendars. Your iCloud calendar events should now be viewable in iCal.
- In iCal:
- Choose iCal > Preferences.
- Click Accounts.
- To add a new account, click the Add button (+) in the lower-left corner.
- Choose iCloud as the Account Type.
- Enter your iCloud email address and password, then click Create. Your iCloud calendar events should now be viewable in iCal.
iCal will find any calendar accounts associated with the email address you provide.
Set up your CalDAV calendar account in iCal
If you have a CalDAV account, for example, through your workplace, you can set up that account in iCal.
- Choose iCal > Preferences and click Accounts.
- To add a new account, click Add button (+) in the lower-left corner.
- Enter the email address and password given to you by your server administrator, and then click Create.
Set up your Exchange calendar account in iCal
If you have an Exchange account, for example, through your workplace, you can set up that account in iCal. Note: Your calendar account must be hosted on a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 with Service Pack 1 or later.
- Choose iCal > Preferences and click Accounts.
- To add a new account, click Add button (+) in the lower-left corner.
- Enter the email address and password given to you by your server administrator, and then click Create.
Subscribe to other calendars
You can use iCal to subscribe to someone's published calendar, such as a family member, your work team, or a publicly available iCal schedule.
If you have an iCloud account set up in iCal, you can choose to add the subscribed calendar to that account. You can then view the subscribed calendar in iCal as well as in the Calendar app on your iOS 5 or later devices that have been configured for iCloud. This works without having to resubscribe to the calendar.
- In iCal, choose Calendar > Subscribe.
- Enter the web address for the calendar you want to subscribe to, and then click Subscribe.
- Type a name for the calendar in the Name field and choose a calendar color from the adjacent pop-up menu.
- If you have an iCloud account, choose whether you want the calendar to be located only on your Mac or on your iCloud account. If you want to view a subscription calendar in iCal and in the Calendar app on devices with iOS 5 or later without resubscribing to the calendar, choose your iCloud account.
- If you want to receive any reminders or attachments, or hear any alarms associated with the calendar, deselect the appropriate Remove checkboxes.
- If you want iCal to update your copy of this calendar when changes to it are published on the Internet, choose the update frequency from the "Auto- refresh" pop-up menu.
- Click OK.
The calendar you subscribed to appears in your Calendars pop-up list under the heading "Subscriptions." To make changes to the calendar, click Calendars, select the calendar, and then choose Edit > Get Info.
- Subscriptions that you manually add on iOS devices will not push to iCloud; you need to subscribe to calendars using iCal on OS X to push those subscriptions to your other devices and computers.
- icloud.com and Microsoft Outlook will not display subscribed calendars pushed to iCloud.
Find more information about using iCloud with calendar subscriptions.
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If you have an iCloud subscription, you can use it to automatically sync your calendars across multiple computers or devices, including an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. If you don't have an iCloud subscription, you can use iTunes to sync with an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. You can also use iTunes to sync with an iPod classic, iPod nano, or iPod mini. See these articles for more information:
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You can share a calendar with others, so they can view or edit it using iCloud Calendar, iCal, Microsoft Outlook, iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. See iCloud Help: Share a calendar or reminder list with others.
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I talked a little while ago with President of the Professional Firefighters of Maine John Martell, who was on the phone from Washington. His organization endorsed Sen. Collins in 2008.
Martell made a passionate, pointed case for the Zadroga Act, describing first responders who lost their lives on 9/11 as the "first killed in action" in our nation's ensuing military battles. And after mentioning his own military background, he called 9/11 responders and those who worked the pile afterward "domestic veterans" who deserve "nothing less" than what is owed to battlefield soldiers.
He said he "feels very strongly that" Sen. Gillibrand has addressed Sen. Collins' insistence on appropriate offsets. And while he declined to single out Maine's junior senator for criticism, he drew attention to the different budgetary standards being used by some to assess the Zadroga bill and the recently-enacted, deficit-ballooning tax cut package.
"If we can't take care of the people who took care of us," he said--some of whom are "dying"--then it would be a "harmful, almost shameful statement about who we are as a nation."


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Photos of Delita Hooks Prove She, NYPD Det John Vergona LIED
Detective John Vergona lied in police reports verbally violently threatened me over the phone because the corrupt evil coward would not meet me and I was not able to get his badge number either because corrupt NYPD hide their identities like klu klux clan members. Det John Vergona was going to false arrest me with a hole in my retina and cervical damage from Delita Hooks grabbing my hair after a running punch to my left eye repeatedly yanking my arthritic neck trying to pull me down the hall by my hair trying to pull me to her as she tried kicking me and when she failed repeatedly to kick me the groin she pressed her barefoot against me.
I finally found a Det John Vergona who said on his facebook page he lives in Manhattan but I checked it a FB friend who confirmed he lives on Staten Island and his other FACEBOOK Friends are Det Andy Dwyer Delita Hooks evil corrupt Detective who participated in lying in police reports and the threats and coercion directed at me including Delita Hooks signed letter to the NYPD threatening me and how I found Det John Vergona to serve him in NY State Supreme court since 1 Police Plaza refused service for retired Det John Vergona is the fact he is married to Susan Balzan Vergona so I was able to track him down and have a process server serve him at his home in Staten Island but the biggest shock was seeing his and Andy Dwyer's faces and see they are facebook friends with NYPD PO Eugene Schatz and his partner Tommy Moran. Schatz was the first cop I reports to internal affairs and just a few blocks from where I was attacked. I left a message for Det Tommy Moran that Schatz is bad and the next morning I got an email with a fake account telling me I am a bad artist and gay bashing me.
4 Judges Have Not Looked at the YouTube of Delita Hooks Savage Assault and Det John Vergona and Delita Hooks Lies
These photo grabs are going in my motion to not dismiss so a 5 judge can whoops can't pretend the NYPD did not commit a series of crimes along with Delita Hooks and ANYONE THAT LIED to the NYPD during the course of an open investigation -- anyone behind the scenes involved in retaliation.
The City is asking my case be thrown out on a technicality but I am prepping a motion that will finally not make it easy for judges to not look at the evidence.
Four Judges never looked at the video and listened to the audios proving the NYPD violated my rights and also broke the law including coercion and lying in police reports. Besides coercion Det John Vergona was verbally violent and yelled at me YOU ARE GOING TO DROP THOSE CHARGES (not it was plural charges) OR I AM GOING TO ARREST YOU!.
The defense lawyer in Federal Court handed in some police reports not understanding they incriminated her clients proving my case underscoring the NYPD lied and Internal Affairs as guilty protecting the corrupt NYPD and Delita Hooks who both lied during an open investigation so both Delita Hooks and the NYPD and Internal Affairs lying including in written documents like Delita Hooks SIGNED letter openly threatening me to her corrupt NYPD fixer are serious crimes.
A list of Det John Vergona's lies are here but clearly you can hear Delita Hooks threatened me with bodily harm to slap the crap out of me as she violently gestures and I back away as she repeated hits me -- you can see the KEYS coming at me as she strikes me and than she switches hands and strikes me with the iPhone and than she throws her shoes and later after I told her not to touch my body she presses her barefoot against my groin touching my vagina -- if a man did that that would be sexual assault -- the most shocking disturbing parts of her attack including threatening me with bodily harm all omitted from the DD5 including the fact I sent the video along with the photographs and my MD's notes.
I filed out this form and mailed it to one police plaza asking for her false cross complaint. The NYPD employee wrote what down Delita Hooks lies at the very bottom -- Delita Hooks lied during an open police investigation along with others including the NYPD but she does acknowledge she understood I was a patient.


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Actress Rosanna Arquette has wed for the fourth time.
The "Pulp Fiction" star exchanged vows with fiancé Todd Morgan at a private ceremony in Malibu, Calif., on Sunday after a two-year engagement.
Arquette and investment banker Morgan married in front of family and close friends including singer Barbra Streisand, according to UsWeekly magazine.
A representative for the actress tells the publication, "Rosanna Arquette and Todd Morgan were married in a private family ceremony in Malibu on Sunday. … They are very happy."
Arquette has been married three times before – to film director Tony Greco, composer James Newton Howard, and to restaurant owner John Sidel.


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It's been a while since I posted a song-based activity, so here's one for one of my favourite songs this year.
Activity A (Pre-listening)Play just the second chorus - from 2.58 to 3.51 in the video embedded above.
Activity B (Listening)Play the whole song (from 0.42). Students listen and tick the chunks they hear. Allow 1 min to compare the answers in pairs before taking feedback. The answer key can be found in the Teacher's Notes below.
Activity C (Post-listening)Encourage discussion about the meaning of the song. Most of it, of course, is open to interpretation; however, some possible answers are suggested in the Teacher's Notes.
Activity D (Language focus)This can be assigned as homework and done using netspeak.org. See how this online tool can be used to teach common lexical chunks HERE
Activity E is adapted from LeanEnglish website, which also has a brief explanation of the rules.
Teachers' Notes
Let me know how it goes. For other song activities, click HERE
If you have used other songs for listening to chunks, do share in the comments below.


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Pre- and Probiotics Could Help HIV Patients, Suggests New Research
Researchers believe that supplementation with prebiotics and probiotics can help lower the risk of infection and inflammation for HIV patients taking antiretroviral drugs (ARVs). Jason Brenchley, of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, and others were aware that people treated with ARVs have a higher mortality rate than uninfected individuals, and that HIV infection causes gastrointestinal (GI) tract damage, microbial translocation, and immune activation. Based on the results of the research, the team suggested that pre- and probiotics could provide adjunctive therapy for HIV infection that is well tolerated and inexpensive.
Brenchley and colleagues treated macaques infected with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), a model of the human infection, with either ARVs alone or ARVs in combination with a symbiotic mixture of probiotics and prebiotics. Seven SIV-infected macaques received the symbiotic mixture of prebiotic inulin and a probiotic for 60 days. These macaques were found to have GI immune function and decreased inflammation compared to the control group. The subjects who received probiotics showed increased frequency and functionality of the GI tract. According to Brenchley and colleagues, symbiotic treatment resulted in increased frequency and functionality of GI tract APCs, enhanced reconstitution of and functionality of CD+ T cells, and reduced fibrosis of lymphoid follicles in the colon.
The study, "Probiotic/Prebiotic Supplementation of Antiretrovirals Improves Gastrointestinal Immunity in SIV-Infected Macaques," was published online ahead of print in the Journal of Clinical Investigation (doi: 10.1172/JCI66227).


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Megadeth's Dave Mustaine Talks Creative Risks, 'Super Collider' Album + Band's Future Plans
Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine was the guest on Full Metal Jackie's radio show this past weekend. Mustaine spoke about taking creative risks, the band's latest album, 'Super Collider,' and his thoughts on reviews and what lies ahead for Megadeth. If you missed Jackie's show, here's her full interview with Megadeth's Dave Mustaine.
It's Full Metal Jackie bringing you two full hours of metal each and every week. On the show once again, the one and only Dave Mustaine. How are you?
Doing great, thank you.
It's great to see you again, you recently did 'Jimmy Kimmel' and there's this [holiday sketch] all over the Web that's totally hilarious. It looks like you guys had a good time.
We had a great time, we love Jimmy Kimmel and his brother Jonathan did a great job producing the clips. Jenny Lewis is a star, I think she's a great talent. It was really cool to work with her. I think the band guys did pretty well. Playing live outside after we were done was really a treat, because we went back into, deep into the catalog. You know, when you play four songs you have more gas left in the tank. Some of those songs are a little more demanding vocally now and we haven't been doing them, playing longer sets. We figured, if we're playing four songs now we're going to break it out. Those old songs, the singing is so high pitched.
Megadeth recently performed at the George Jones tribute show in Nashville, which seemed to be an unexpected highlight for people. What made being there so important to you?
It was paying respect to George Jones. It was honoring him right by doing the best performance we could, and the song choice was the highest form of flattery by honoring the man's beliefs. When a man dies, you send him flowers. That's all well and good, but if you pick up that guy's torch and carry it or support their cause or do something, it shows a deeper gratitude for someone. While I wasn't as familiar with George Jones as I was with Johnny Cash I do know that they asked Johnny Cash who his favorite singer was and he said George Jones. It was fun working with Jamey Johnson too. I only knew him from being with Miranda Lambert in the 'White Lies' video. My daughter is a country singer now and I have to, well I don't have to but I listen to that stuff at home. It's playing in the background, I'm like, them preachers got bears down there in Alabama.
Did you have a good time doing it?
I had a great time. I think that a lot of people, they didn't expect that out of us. I'm a risk taker, always have been. I share a lot of my personal life and people don't really like it. I've been an educator for so long, all of a sudden you don't just be struck dumb because people don't want to be educated anymore. Going there and representing heavy metal and doing a good job, I think we brought a lot of respect to our genre again. Just like I did in 1992 when I covered the Democratic National Convention. How quickly they forget.
I remember that very well, on MTV you were walking around and doing interviews. People were surprised, I don't think they were expecting you to know as much as you did. That must have been fun.
I thought it was fun that with the whole day in Madison Square Garden talking to all these people and the only time I heard the F word was coming out of Phil Jackson's mouth when he said 'F--- MTV.' I think maybe he was ahead of the curve because it seems to be the national sentiment nowadays. It's no longer a music channel. It was great for us for a long time, we had a great run with MTV with MTV News, 'Peace Sells.' It kind of sucked that they cut it off one note before we would have gotten paid for it. But, that's corporate America for you.
Dave, how have you most matured most as a person? What correlation can you make between personal maturity and continued growth as a musician?
I think when you're young and you don't have anything to live for, you live your life a lot more reckless. As you start to grow up and -- remember, I was a street kid -- when you find someone and you fall in love, not everybody who is listening right now has had that luxury. We've fallen in lust, but not love. When you do that and you find that person that is your soulmate, all of a sudden there are two people and you have to work a little harder to keep your act together and you work a little harder to bring home the bacon to take care of things. Then when you have a few rug runners, I've got two -- a lot of people said it would make me a wimp and that parenthood would change the sound of the band. It didn't. The industry changed the sound of the band,. People don't remember what was popular back in 1992 when we did 'Countdown.' Bush and Nirvana, Sponge stuff like that. What choices do you have?
Dave, there's Altitudes and Attitudes, with Dave Ellefson and Frank Bello's new band with Jeff from A Perfect Circle. What's the healthiest thing about stepping outside the context of Megadeth? How does that best benefit Megadeth?
I don't know anything about this, so it's not really any of my business. Whenever I do anything it's always Megadeth centric. The symphony thing we're doing, we're closing with a Megadeth track. I know where home is for me. In the past we have had alumni that have wanted to do other things, nah I don't care if you do other stuff. I think the fans kind of do. They wonder, is everything OK? It's OK with me, I haven't heard it. I don't know if it's any good or not, I'm sure it's good. Franky and Junior are good musicians, but I mean, it reminds me of that joke when you're in the jungle and the drums stop, it's very bad then they ask why is it bass solo? I don't know man.
Funny you mention that, musicians in bands doing other bands. I have found myself in the past when I was a fan of a band, and a member of that band went and did a solo record. While I can appreciate somebody wanting to explore, I was always like, well I hope it doesn't do that well.
We grow up with these bands that we love. When I discovered AC/DC, I thought it was great until everyone started listening to them. They were no longer my indie band from Australia. Granted, they're Scottish. As bands became popular a lot of times the reason the public turns on them, because the bands turn on the public. They forget who pays the bills. When I got my Aston Martin I said, thank you to all of our fans. Granted, not everyone has one of those but I remember who bought that car for me.
I'll never forget that. When you do grow up being homeless and having to live in a car, food stamps and welfare. You have a choice, you can continue sucking on ---- or you can make a difference if you're capable of working. If you're not capable of working and you need that assistance, then it's there. But that's the proper use of it. I know that a lot of things we have right now, in this bus, the way we travel. Some bands don't get to travel by bus. They travel by motorhome, like we did in the beginning. Talk about the Griswolds.
Do you remember that? Driving an RV?
Yeah we were in a RV and it broke down so we got a station wagon and Gar Samuelson was driving, Gar -- God bless him who passed away. I have a lot of great memories of him. He was driving and he was turning around, and digging in the back seat while he's driving for a drum pedal and he drove right off the side of the freeway and we took out one of those giants posts, the 4x4 posts. You hear this loud noise, and the sign hits the top of the station wagon and we finally stop about 10-15 feet from an aqueduct. We ended up driving with the headlights dangling off the front of the car, like one of those car crash derbys. We pull into Cleveland, thank God there was a guy there named John. He goes, you guys need a place to stay huh, we're like yeah we do.
Dave Mustaine of Megadeth with us on the show talking about 'Super Collider,' the latest record. Of course it made a lot of year end best of lists for the end of 2013. Is a best of mention a better compliment than a favorable review?
I think with Megadeth music, you have to remember that the music industry now has a lot of new writers that are in there and they don't know the history of the band. They listen to Megadeth and think, well these guys are older and I listened to the record and I don't get it. Megadeth isn't a record you can listen to and get everything in one listen. There's a lot of moving parts. The lyrics are pretty provocative and thought out, you can't just read through the lyrics and understand all the double entendres and all the hidden meanings. I consider myself being a New York Times best selling author and have a pretty good grasp of the king's english. I think over my whole career, with over 200 songs I've said "baby" in three songs maybe.
I don't think there's a lot of records out there now you can get through without hearing one song that doesn't have it. I think that looking back at everything we've done, it's all a cumulative effort with 'Super Collider,' but that was also a turning point for us going back to a major label. The love that we feel from Universal and their staff, everyone with our agency and all the people involved with us right now, we're just going to go back what we do best and not try and write songs for radio. Because, it's like trying to have a baby. It either happens or it doesn't. Its fun to try but a lot of people fail when they do that. For us, when we try to make songs, a lot of times they're good. 'Symphony of Destruction' came out of nowhere, so does 'Peace Sells.' That's what everyone says, write another 'Peace Sells' or write another 'Symphony.' You can't just write that stuff, it's inside of you and it has to come out when it's ready.
I agree. When those bands have people over them and they say, listen to the radio and what hit songs sound like. It never comes out like it's in their soul.
It is good to study what's around, just so that you know the use of technique and what's current, what people are listening to. But, again it goes back to if what you do is Megadeth centric. You can take all kinds of things that you learn from people. For example, there's a band. Girl singer, the song - it's the Budweiser commercial. Garbage. I remember in the middle of 'Insomnia,' we had used that little guitar sound because it reminded me of that alternative band. It was some band from deep in Europe or the UK that most people don't even know. It's great to listen to other stuff.
What can you tell us what we can expect from Megadeth in 2014?
Nothing, we're going to tour outside of the nation. In August we'll start writing the next record. We'll probably have a new release in 2015, we're going to take next year off. We've changed management, we've had a lot of stuff happen over this year that's been really good for us. One of the things that happened that was great was Gigantour, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath and all of these things. But it's also that we've been through the States three times in the last year. We just did the 'Countdown to Extinction' anniversary too. Our fans are loyal, but they're not made of money and we know that. So we'll go someplace else, focus on writing the new record. I've already have 68 riffs ready for the next record and for me it usually takes a lot of riffs to get where -- it's like making Sake. You have to go to the center of that grain of rice for the best stuff.
Awesome, you deserve the time off. Appreciate you being on the show.
This coming weekend, Full Metal Jackie will welcome on her show Children of Bodom frontman Alexi Laiho. Full Metal Jackie can be heard on radio stations around the country — for a full list of stations, go to fullmetaljackieradio.com.


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Broncos name Heckert director of pro personnel
Englewood, CO – The Denver Broncos have named Tom Heckert director of pro personnel.
Heckert most recently served as general manager for the Cleveland Browns from 2010-12 and in the same position with the Philadelphia Eagles from 2006-09.
"With more than 20 years' experience in the NFL, Tom brings a tremendous amount of knowledge and insight to our personnel department," said Broncos vice president of football operations John Elway. "He has worked in several different capacities for multiple teams and his diverse background in talent evaluation will be a strong resource for the Broncos.
Heckert was a member of the Miami Dolphins' front office from 1991-2000, serving as a scout and director of pro personnel, then joined the Eagles in 2001. He first worked as the director of player personnel and vice president of player personnel in Philadelphia before becoming GM in 2006.


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I am really excited about this Zoetrope Ichiro's Malt, not solely because of its own qualities but also because it is a bottling by Shot Bar Zoetrope, which, as I never tire of pointing out, is the world's best Japanese whisky bar. The owner Atsushi Horigami is one of the key personalities on the Japanese whisky scene. Far from sitting back and simply flogging the excellent drinks Suntory and Nikka put out, he has taken on an active role in encouraging some of the exciting independent distilleries that have begun to emerge in recent years (more on that theme next week). This whisky was Horigami san's independent bottling for his bar's third anniversary last year.
It was distilled in 2000 at the Hanyu distillery. That, incidentally, was the last year that Hanyu made whisky. This one was matured in a hogshead and then a rum cask (no. 9800) and bottled for Zoetrope by Venture Whisky (ie. Ichiro's Malt) in 2009. A total of 263 bottles were produced. At 60.7 per cent alcohol, it definitely benefits from a few drops of water:
Nose: Quite subdued. The first smell was of honey and lemon with a bready aroma underneath. There was a very distant hint of smoke - gun barrel and matches - but that stayed firmly in the background. Perhaps I was trying to hard but I also got a rather bizarre smell of muddy knees and rugby changing rooms but I will leave that sort of spiel to Ron Manager.
In the mouth: Without water, this was quite overpowering for me: bitter and dry, with sharp grapefruit tastes dominating traces of caramel. I added water. Contrary to my expectation, the sweeter caramel actually subsided and the citric (lime) tastes continued to dominate. If often like very dry, controlled whiskies and this definitely fell into that category. It was quite linear, by which I mean that it maintained a very similar profile from nosing, through first tasting to the finish, which was shortish, with a chewing sticks bitterness.
I was tasting this Zoetrope Ichiro on one of the hotter evenings May threw at us this year and it occurred to me to try it with some ice. I don't normally go for ice with whisky, but given the very controlled profile of this whisky it seemed an experiment worth trying. It turned out to have a peppery dryness, with the struck match taste I had detected on the nose. Very clean. I poured myself another one and popped in another cube.


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BlackBerry services launched here at giffgaff last week. For £3/month, you can add the BlackBerry add-on to your goodybag giving you full access to BlackBerry Messenger and other BlackBerry services.
Commonly abbreviated BBM, BlackBerry Messenger is one of the most popular smartphone instant messaging applications in the world. It's a great way to stay in touch with your friends who also have a BlackBerry with several key benefits over text messages including being able to attach pictures to your messages and being able to see whether your message has been received and read.
In this article, we'll take a closer look at the BlackBerry Messenger service. We'll also look at some alternatives for owners of iPhone and Android smartphones such as WhatsApp, Google Talk, iMessage and Facebook Chat.
BlackBerry Messenger
BlackBerry Messenger is one of the most popular instant messaging applications in the world with around 50 million active users. It has become a popular alternative to text messaging and has several key benefits over SMS: whilst text messages are limited to 160 characters per message, BBM messages can be up to 2000 characters in length and can also include multimedia such as photos, videos and maps. One handy feature of BBM is being able to send your current location to a friend using GPS – useful when arranging a place to meet up.
In order to use BlackBerry Messenger, you'll need a BlackBerry tariff. Once logged into BBM, you'll need to add your friends via their "BlackBerry PIN". This is an 8-digit code which is uniquely linked to a BlackBerry device (even if your phone number changes, your BlackBerry PIN will never change).
BBM is only available on BlackBerry devices such as the BlackBerry Bold, BlackBerry Curve 9360 and the BlackBerry Torch. The combination of the BlackBerry's hardware keyboard with BBM's fast-paced instant messaging features (such as being able to tell whether your friends are online and when your messages have been read) have made the BlackBerry a popular device for socialites and businesspeople alike.
The downsides of BBM are that you won't be able to use it to chat to your iPhone and Android-toting friends and colleagues. This has led to the development of cross-platform alternatives such as WhatsApp and Google Talk.
WhatsApp: Cross-platform alternative on iPhone, Android and BlackBerry
WhatsApp is a cross-platform alternative to BBM available on iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and Symbian-based Nokia devices. The feature set is roughly comparable to that of BBM – like on BBM you can send messages which are longer than 160 characters and you can include photos, videos, voice memos and maps in your messages.
As well as its cross-platform availability, one benefit of WhatsApp over BBM is that it integrates into your existing phone book to find all of your friends who have WhatsApp installed. Whereas BBM users need to share their BBM PIN numbers to build up a new contact list, WhatsApp automates the entire process of building your contact list. The disadvantage of this approach is that you'll need to give out your phone number to everyone that you'd like to chat with.
WhatsApp is a 69p download for iPhone and is a free download on Android, BlackBerry and Nokia. The service is free for one year and costs $1.99/year after the first 12 months.
Google Talk: Cross-platform alternative, built into Android
Google's rival to BBM and WhatsApp comes in the form of Google Talk – the instant messaging application built in to the Android operating system. If you've got an Android-based smartphone such as the Orange San Francisco, Samsung Galaxy Note or the Galaxy Nexus, Google Talk will have automatically been set up on your phone.
Compared to BBM and WhatsApp, Google Talk is a much simpler application. Messages are purely text-based: you can't attach pictures or videos with your message. The flipside of this is that Google Talk can be used on many platforms: it's on all of the major mobile platforms, is integrated into Gmail and Google+ and can also run as a desktop client on Windows. Whilst BBM and WhatsApp only allow you to chat with friends who are on their smartphones, Google Talk also allows you to chat to your friends who are at their laptop.
Android smartphones will come with Google Talk pre-installed and phones running Android 2.3.4 or later will also be able to make video calls through Google Talk. BlackBerry owners can download the Google Talk for BlackBerry application and iPhone owners can use Google Talk through their web browser.
iMessage: Apple's instant messaging application for iPhone
iPhone and iPad owners running version 5 of the iOS operating system will have iMessage built in to the 'Messages' application. iOS will detect when you are trying to text someone with an iMessage-enabled iPhone and will automatically send an iMessage instead of a SMS text message. iMessage has many of the same features that BBM does, including group chats and being able to see when your messages have been received and read. You can also attach photos and videos to your iMessage.
iMessage can only be used on the iPhone and iPad and is not available on any other operating system.
Other Instant Messaging Applications & Your Thoughts
In this article, we've discussed the BlackBerry Messenger instant messaging/chat application and alternatives such as the cross-platform WhatsApp, Google's "Talk" application which comes with Android and Apple's iMessage service. Looking beyond these, other alternatives include Facebook Messenger (iPhone, Android and BlackBerry), ChatON (iPhone, Android and Bada) and Kik (iPhone, Android, Windows Phone and BlackBerry).
We'd like to know your thoughts on instant messaging applications. Do you use applications such as BBM, WhatsApp and Google Talk or do you prefer plain old SMS text messaging? Does instant messaging on your smartphone help you to stay in touch with your friends or do the messages become an unwelcome distraction throughout the day? Do you prefer a hardware keyboard or an on-screen software keyboard for instant messaging?
Ken Lo writes about mobile technology and the mobile industry at Ken's Tech Tips.
You forgot the ever-famous eBuddy- great IM client.
very informative, it's best to stick to sms for now i think
how do you activate bbm on a balckberry curve 8520? ive bought the add on but dont know what to do next.
Google's offering is a bit muddy now you have both Messenger in Google+ and Google Talk. They are both distinct apps and I would say Google+ Messenger is more comparable with the above apps than Google Talk.
Found this intersting
Sighhh... My poor Symbian is left out.
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Jazzy Vegetarian: A Delicious blend of food and Music!
Jazzy-licious! Laura Theodore, the Jazzy Vegetarian, blends a passion for plant-based cooking with a taste for jazz. If there's a soundtrack to vegan cuisine, well, it's gotta be jazz, with its adventurous phrasing, spicy combos and intuitive flair. Laura Theodore, the "Jazzy Vegetarian," thinks so too, and she wants everybody to know that the mingling of her two great passions is something everyone can relate to.
As if being a vegan chef and musician weren't enough, Theodore wears a number of other hats, including radio and award-winning television host, published healthy lifestyle author, and award-winning actor. That's what you might refer to as a recipe for success. In fact, Theodore's television cooking series, Jazzy Vegetarian is seen on national public television and her weekly radio show, Jazzy Vegetarian Radio, focuses on accessible, healthy, and delicious recipes, eco-chic entertaining tips, celebrity interviews, and upbeat music, all served up in an entertaining format, with a bit of fun dished out on the side! Each show features interviews with an array of eco-responsible personalities, from Best Selling Authors, Top Doctors and Nutritionists, Grammy and Emmy Award-winning Artists, to Smaller Green Business owners getting the word out about their unique and sustainable products. Jazzy Vegetarian Radio is the first of it's kind to enter the arena of talk/music/lifestyle radio, by offering an entertaining format along with viable solutions for the everyday listener.
Throughout her career, Theodore has focused a great deal of her creative energies on being a recording artist. As a singer and songwriter, Theodore has recorded six solo CDs, including her award winning disc, Tonight's the Night, and her critically acclaimed 2009 release with Joe Beck, Golden Earrings, which was included on the 52nd Grammy List in Best Jazz Vocal category. She has toured throughout the country, performing at numerous major events, such as "A Night of 100 Stars," "The Fire and Ice Ball," and "The American Film Awards."
On the culinary side, Theodore began eating "green" years ago when vegetarian recipes were difficult to come by. To rectify that, like any genuine artist, she began creating her own. Her kitchen philosophy, like her approach to jazz, is to create tasty, nutritious, vegan menu choices, suffused with flavor, flair, and her vibrant personality on the side. Her exploration into the world of vegetarian cooking and green entertaining started when Theodore partnered with Marcy Baskin, author of the seminal "Hingham Grain & Spice Cookbook." Laura also counseled with nutritionist and life extension specialist, Oz Garcia. She became intrigued with developing delicious, accessible recipes based on a diet that included vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, and non-animal proteins.
The unique hybrid of entertainment Theodore has cooked up makes good sense. The two art forms, vegan cooking and jazz musicianship, go hand in hand, and the way Theodore goes about creating these two separate but equal arts is a thing to behold. Give Theodore's artistry a listen, a taste, a thought, and see how her recipe for the good life can work for you.


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Residents of the seven-town Addison Central Supervisory Union should embrace the decision of that board to explore the feasibility of merging their resources and governance through consolidation. No possible harm can come from having an ad hoc committee explore the issues, discuss the relevant facts and engage the communities in a discussion about the future of their respective schools.
We add, however, a caution and encourage expanding the scope of the discussion.