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Burlington�s new police chief will be sworn in by Alamance County Chief District Court Judge Jim Roberson on Tuesday afternoon at Burlington Police Department headquarters.
J. Jeffrey Smythe, 48, was hired at the beginning of April after a four-month search that yielded a field of six finalists from among 53 applicants from across the nation. His first day on the job is technically Wednesday, the same day Smythe�s predecessor, Mike Williams, retires after 26 years with the department, the last five as chief.
Assistant Chief Chris Verdeck said Smythe was in town Monday settling in, and requested that a more formal swearing-in ceremony take place later in May, after the rest of his family arrives in Burlington from Arizona. Smythe and his wife, Kimberly, have three children, Christopher, 22; Hayley, 15; and Jacquelin, 10.
Smythe has been in law enforcement for 27 years, and began as a dispatcher for the Arizona State University Police before he was offered a spot in the police academy and became a sworn officer in 1986. Smythe spent 1987 and 1988 working undercover in narcotics enforcement with the DEA, while at the university.
In 1989, Smythe became a �road cop� with the Scottsdale Police Department in Arizona and worked undercover in narcotics enforcement with the Drug Enforcement Administration�s taskforce.
Smythe spent five years as chief in Show Low, Ariz., overseeing a department with 32 sworn officers, 12 civilians and 25 uniformed senior patrol members. He�ll oversee 125 sworn officers and 44 civilians at the Burlington Police Department.
Williams announced his retirement in late 2012. He said several factors contributed to his decision, but most importantly, he wants to be with his wife and help homeschool their three children.
Williams first joined Burlington police in 1986 as a patrol officer and served six years in the Patrol Division, then served in Vice/Narcotics, Criminal Investigations, Special Operations, Internal Affairs, Administration, was a member and eventually commander of the Special Response Team, and was an academy instructor before being appointed chief of police on Aug. 1, 2007.
He replaced then-chief Mike Gauldin, who also retired.


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PRX's Rekha Murthy was recently invited to add her thoughts to the Station Resource Group's (SRG) collection of short essays on how to "widen the use and deepen the value of public radio's service." SRG is putting the finishing touches on Grow the Audience – an important and much-anticipated research initiative funded by CPB. You can read more about the full project and download more of the preliminary reports and essays here.
Download the PDF of Rekha's essay, excerpted here.
Distribution as Promotion
Setting public radio objects in motion
by Rekha Murthy
Public Radio Exchange (PRX)
Six years ago, I left NPR to work with Web and mobile media. Now I'm back in public
radio, with Public Radio Exchange, and I think of that time away as a really long aircheck.
I'm no longer the listener I used to produce for at All Things Considered: terrestrial
broadcast is only a fraction of a listening experience that has become fragmented and
dynamic. I stream station and show feeds from across the country, catching Morning
Edition on KCRW when I oversleep on a snowy morning, and sticking around for sunny
weather reports and Morning Becomes Eclectic. My browser's bookmarks include On the
Media, Studio 360, This American Life, and All Songs Considered. I download podcasts like
World Cafe, alt.NPR, and The World Technology Podcast. I tend to listen to All Things
Considered by scanning the online rundowns and streaming only what grabs my interest.
Even when I do use my radio receiver, I'll then go to the Web to email a good story or
episode to friends and post the link on a social bookmarking site. The Web is where I find
new listening, too.
This experience of fragmentation and recombination forms the basis of how I think about
growing the public radio audience.
Break Public Radio Down to Build It Back Up
Public radio is often talked about as a single entity. In some ways – such as mission and
standards – it is, and we should continue to raise public awareness at the entity level.
However, there's another kind of outreach that has great potential in today's fragmented
media landscape, one that wields public radio objects, not just categories or entities. …

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text: The Mayflower brought the group of English settlers now known as the Pilgrims to North America. Leaving England in the fall of 1620, the Pilgrims were attempting to land near the mouth of the Hudson River, but instead ended up in Cape Cod Harbor. Plymouth, the colony established there by the Pilgrims in 1621, became the first permanent European settlement in New England. The story of the Pilgrims and their harvest feast has since become one of best-known in American history, but you may not know it as well as you think. Discover the facts behind these well-known Thanksgiving myths!


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Politicians and the local residents' group have condemned a sectarian attack outside a hotel in Templepatrick village.
A 16-year-old was assaulted in the car park of premises on the Antrim Road at around 1 a.m. on Tuesday, July 2, after being attacked by a gang of four men.
The teenager sustained a fractured cheekbone and had two teeth knocked out.
Alliance councilor for the area, Alan Lawther, said that there was "no place in our society" for such attacks.
[Source: Antrim Guardian]
Talented dancers Shane McKeever, from Crossmaglen, and Laura Carville, from Middletown, will be traveling to the Kaohsiung in China this September to represent Ireland in the World DanceSport Games.
Shane and Laura will be carrying the Irish flag alongside the top ballroom and Latin dancers from all over the world. The pair, who will compete separately in the line dance section, are the only dancers from Ireland competing in the World DanceSport Games.
Both dancers scooped medals in the qualifying World Country and Line DanceSport Federation (W.C.L.D.S.F.) Games in Nashville in January this year, with Shane winning gold and Laura winning a silver medal.
[Source: Examiner Newspaper]
Carlow's local representatives have voted in favor of gay marriage, even though eight councilors abstained from the vote and one councilor actively voted against it.
Clr. William Paton proposed a notice of motion at the last meeting of Carlow County Council, calling for his fellow councilors to support "full marriage equality for all citizens, regardless of race, religion or sexuality", on behalf of the Labour Party.
"We had a full, open and honest debate about it and I'm particularly pleased that the motion received support from across the parties. They didn't vote according to party lines," Clr. William Paton told the Nationalist.
[Source: Carlow Nationalist]
The Office of Public Works has indicated that five former Garda (police) stations, now vacant properties under its control will be considered for sale on the open market if no other purpose is found for them.
The O.P.W. currently has five vacant properties listed for Cavan. These are all former Garda stations in Bawnboy, Finea, Stradone, Tullyvin and Redhills, the latter of which is not yet closed but is due to be fully decommissioned later this year.
Some of the vacant state-owned properties comprise of the recently closed Garda stations the O.P.W. say "are no longer required for operational reasons."
[Source: The Anglo Celt]
Clare County Council has had to fork out almost $9 million in insurance claims taken against the local authority during the past five years. This equates to an average weekly payout of $34,091.
The figures were revealed at this month's county council meeting following a request from Councilor Michael Hillery concerning the number of insurance claims made against the council over the last five years.
Anne Haugh, director of Services for Transportation, Environment and Water, in a written report, stated in 2008 there were 73 claims resulting in $1.2 million being paid out. The following year 76 claims were made and the payout came to $1.7 million.
In 2010, $3 million was paid after 96 claims were processed while in 2011, $1.7 million was paid on 119 claims. Last year there were 89 claims and $1.2 million handed over.
[Source: Clare Champion]
For one Cork man, the incentive of getting to see his team Manchester United play was all he needed to help him overcome cancer. Tom Ryan, who was diagnosed with having Hodgkin's Lymphoma five years ago, was given just six months to live when he was 22. He was then offered the chance to go watch his boyhood heroes Manchester United play, and that was the key encouragement he needed, says Tom.
"I was introduced to Dave O'Connor, who owns Suit Distributors in Cork, through family about a year ago. He had heard about my battle with cancer and that I was a huge [Manchester United] fan and he said he wanted to do something for me.
"I got a soccer ball which had been signed by the team, a letter from Sir Alex Ferguson and a program which had been signed by various former players such as Bryan Robson also."
He then got to see them play and meet some of the team which made his year.
[Source: Cork Independent]
Campaigner and member of Ireland's Council of State, Ruairí McKiernan, is gathering information from people he meets on his tour before speaking at the MacGill Summer School in Glenties on July 29 and 30.
Having traveled up the west coast since July 1, taking in Connemara, Inishbofin Island, Westport, Croagh Patrick, Achill Island, Belmullet, Sligo, Ballyshannon, Letterkenny, Ruairi arrived in Derry last Thursday morning.
"Derry is looking amazing at the moment and there's such a great atmosphere around the city. The people are so friendly and welcoming and it is great to see such pride in what is truly a wonderful and special city," he said.
He said the city had "transformed" since he last visited five years ago. "The mood is really fantastic, it look to have really turned a corner. From talking to the people, the City of Culture has given an injection of hope to Derry at the right time."
[Source: Derry Journal]
Armed raiders targeted An Grianan Hotel in Burt in the early hours of Thursday morning.
Three men entered the premises at approximately 2:45 a.m.
One of the gang was armed with a shotgun, which they used to threaten a night porter who was on duty at the hotel.
The assailants targeted a safe and also took money from the hotel bar before leaving the scene with a significant sum of cash.
[Source: Donegal Democrat]
The recently opened Tesco Extra store on the edge of Newry City has been placed on the market for a whopping $41.3 million. The store, which opened in June, is described by the property selling agents, C.B.R.E., as the dominant supermarket in the area.
Site developer Turkington Holdings has put the property on the market with institutional buyers such as pension funds expected to snap it up.
The 93,000 sq. ft. building, which includes a car park with 531 spaces, is let to Tesco for 25 years at an income of around $2.4 million per year.
[Source: Examiner Newspaper]
The father of tragic Lynsey O'Brien, who fell to her death from a cruise ship, has died suddenly.
Paul O'Brien (42) was found dead, reportedly at his business premises in Ballymount.
It is understood that he contacted a family member two weekends ago who alerted the emergency services.
The father-of-four had been struggling to cope with the trauma of losing Lynsey (15) on a dream holiday trip onboard a cruise.
[Source: Evening Herald]
Flagship store Dowlers, of East Bridge Street, is to cease their operations in Enniskillen, while clothing shop, Too, is another to fall victim to the economic downturn. The losses to the High Street follow hot on the heels of Wesley Elliott, which will cease its clothing retail business and specialize now solely in curtains and soft furnishings.
Drew Wigham, manager of Dowlers, explained that the Enniskillen business had become financially unviable and unfortunately the store had to close.
"It was just becoming more and more difficult to keep the business alive and we eventually reached the point when we had to close. The rates and everything else just became a phenomenal burden in the present economic climate."
[Source: Fermanagh Herald]
A young Galway man has collected the winnings on a lottery ticket bought in May
The man, who wishes to remain private, popped into the National Lottery office last Thursday to collect his $652,000 top prize winnings, which he won on the Daily Million Plus draw on Monday, May 13.
He purchased the $9.80 Quick Pick plus ticket in Peter Kelly's, Ballinasloe.
It was his first time to play Daily Million Plus, and he plans to share his winnings with his family and possibly purchase a new car.
[Source: Galway Bay FM]
Kerry Group has broken ground on its $130 million Global Technology and Innovation Centre, which will employ 900 people when fully commissioned in 2016.
Located on a 28-acre site in the Millennium Business Park, Naas, County Kildare, the new Europe Middle East and Asia center will give customers access to Kerry's technologies, scientific research, innovation and applications expertise across food, beverage and pharmaceutical markets.
There are 200 people already working in the interim facilities adjacent to the site. The campus will accommodate 800 people by year-end 2014, plus a further 100 in 2016. Some 600 construction workers are currently on-site.
[Source: Irish Examiner]
A man has been released and a file is being sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions following a drugs seizure in County Kildare.
The 19-year-old man was arrested after heroin and cannabis herb were seized at a house in St. Patrick's Park, Celbridge.
The seizure has an estimated street value of up to $157,000.
[Source: RTE News]
Rumors are rife that Kilkenny officially sold out of paddling pools last Thursday afternoon, on foot of a record increase in demand in recent days.
The stunning weather has seen overheated punters flocking to shops in search of something in which to have a splash and cool off, but leaving empty-handed. Temperatures soared last week, with last Wednesday the hottest, and popular water amenities such as the Weir, Bishop's Meadows and Graignamanagh have seen huge numbers turning up for a swim.
But anyone hoping to dip their toe without leaving home will have to come up with a new plan, as paddling pools are now a rare and elusive commodity. Argos on High Street has also confirmed it is sold out of pools of all sizes.
[Source: Kilkenny People]
A Portarlington beauty spot has been targeted by illegal dumping in recent weeks.
A vast quantity of P.V.C. casings for copper wire was found dumped in Corrig, much to the disappointment of the local Tidy Towns Committee, Dirty Old Towns, local residents and businesses.
Chairperson of the local Lions Club, Willie Murphy expressed his disgust at the dumping.
"The picturesque beauty spot and jewel of Corrig, Portarlington has recently been the target of dumpers. The beautiful hill with its vast array of different trees overlooking Portarlington Town which has the Carrick Tower dating back to the 1700s has not been spared from these mindless selfish littering menaces," Willie Murphy said.
[Source: Leinster Express]
Dublin dad Patrick Lynch says "someone could have died" at Butler's Marina, Carrick following a life jacket fiasco with an ambulance crew.
Patrick and family were on their boat travelling to Carrick-on-Shannon on Saturday morning, July 6, when his son had a seizure.
They docked at Butler's Marina and called 999, Patrick told the operator he was on a boat, they told him to place his son into the recovery position and wait for the ambulance.
But the ambulance crew said they could not go on the boat without life jackets due to "health and safety regulations." Mr. Lynch offered to them life jackets, but they refused.
[Source: Leitrim Observer]
Limerick jockey Brian Toomey remains in an induced coma following surgery on Sunday, July 7, to reduce swelling and resultant pressure on his brain.
The Croom man was admitted to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee on Thursday, July 4, with serious head injuries following a fall from the Lisa Harrison-trained Solway Dandy at Perth.
Lisa Hancock, C.E.O. of the Injured Jockeys Fund, issued an update on Monday that read: "Brian Toomey underwent surgery yesterday to reduce swelling and resultant pressure on his brain.
"The surgery went well and Brian remains in a stable condition in an induced coma. It is anticipated he will be kept sedated for the next few days as his progress continues to be monitored."
[Source: Limerick Leader]
An Ardagh family had a lucky escape on Sunday morning, July 7, after a car crashed into their house.
A well-known Ardagh couple, Mary and Peter Whitney of Croshea, was asleep in the early hours of Sunday morning when a car careered off the main Ballymahon/Athlone Road and struck their home causing severe damage to both car and house.
Miraculously no one was hurt in the crash and the driver walked away from the vehicle.
[Source: Longford Leader]
A man accused of a rape over 30 years ago, appeared before Dundalk District Court two weeks ago.
The 49-year-old – who cannot be named due to reporting restrictions – is also charged with indecent assault.
The offenses, which relate to a female, are alleged to have occurred at a location in County Louth on a date unknown between June 1 and August 31, 1982.
[Source: Dundalk Democrat]
Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Enda Kenny has described the killing of two elderly brothers in Castlebar as an "act of savagery."
The bodies of the two men, aged 70 and 68, were discovered at their home on New Antrim Street in the town shortly after 7 a.m. last Wednesday morning. The men have been named locally as Tom and Jack Blaine.
While their deaths have been described as "suspicious," Gardaí (police) are awaiting the results of a postmortem and an examination at the scene by State Pathologist Marie Cassidy before deciding whether it will be a murder inquiry.
However, it has been reported locally that the brothers were beaten to death, and Enda Kenny's statement describing a "brutal and savage murder of two men that I knew well" also points in this direction.
[Source: The Mayo News]
Trim man Tony Rochford is vowing to continue his hunger strike protest against the Local Property Tax and is now on his 25th day without food.
Mr. Rochford, from Steeple Manor, said he is not feeling too bad but is "getting weaker by the day" and is suffering from low blood pressure. He began his protest on June 17, and spent from Monday, July 1, to Sunday, July 7, in Dublin protesting outside the Dail (Irish Assembly) and at O'Connell Street; but returned to his Trim home on Sunday evening as he had become very weak, He declared outside the Garden of Remembrance that he does not want medical intervention if he should go into a coma.
[Source: Meath Chronicle]
Monaghan, Wexford and Donegal have the highest per-capita number of tax defaulters, analysis of revenue data over a five-year period has found.
Monaghan recorded the highest number of tax defaulters between the start of 2008 and the end of 2012, with 1.19 cases for every 1,000 adults living in the county.
This compared to a national average of just 0.55 cases per 1,000 adults over the period.
[Source: Irish Times]
The co-owner of a school bus that crashed in Offaly six years ago, causing the death of a teenager, has received a suspended jail sentence for an offense of failing to maintain the bus.
The bus lost control and flipped over on a bog road just outside Clara, County Offaly on April 4, 2006 when the back axle came away.
School boy Michael White (15) died as a result of "catastrophic injuries" suffered in the crash.
Raymond McKeown (61), a co-owner of Clara Cabs, River Street, Clara had pleaded not guilty to three counts of failing to maintain the 1989 Mercedes bus, one of which say this failure led to the death of Michael White on April 4, 2006.
[Source: Irish Times]
Ireland sizzled in mercury-melting temperatures again last Wednesday as records were smashed for the third day in a row.
Parks and beaches across the country were packed as people scrambled to take advantage of the Mediterranean climate.
Newly-crowned Miss Irish Sun Sinead Duffy (23) sizzled as she topped up her tan at Shankill Beach in Dublin.
And the good news was that the scorching weather stayed for the weekend.
A Met Eireann forecaster explained: "It's a combination of the very warm air mass from tropical regions and long periods of sunshine every day making the temperatures exceptionally high."
Mount Dillon in County Roscommon was the hottest place in Ireland last Tuesday, and the sweltering 86 degree Fahrenheit recorded at the weather station topped the previous day's record.
[Source: Irish Sun]
Two people have been arrested after a man (56) was stabbed to death at a flat in Ballybough in Dublin's north inner city.
The man, who is originally from County Sligo, was drinking with a group in the flat when he was stabbed at about 5:10 p.m.
He was taken to the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital with serious stab wounds.
He was pronounced dead at about 8:45pm last Thursday evening.
[Source: Irish Times]
Cashel is set to lose out in the process of merging north and south Tipperary, according to South Tipperary and Cashel Town Councilors.
South Tipperary Manager Billy McEvoy said it was a "difficult process" trying to merge a county of 158,000 people with 9 local authorities. The new structure will see Cashel merged with Tipperary Town, with a large part of its hinterland moved into the Carrick-on-Suir area.
Clr. Michael Fitzgerald said the implementation team "had totally ignored the towns of Cashel and Templemore." "The people of Cashel deserve better representation."
Clr. Tom Wood said this "is anything but fair."
[Source: Tipperary Star]
The former P.S.N.I. station in Coalisland appears set to be turned into townhouses, the Courier can reveal.
Plans to convert the former station in the center of the town into 19 new properties, believed to be townhouses, are mentioned in the District Housing Plan & Local Housing Strategy for the Dungannon area.
According to the document, the plans are listed under the new build schemes programmed in the borough over the next three years.
[Source: Tyrone Courier]
The mayor of Dungarvan has welcomed a major $10.5 million investment for the GlaxoSmithKline plant in Dungarvan.
Speaking at Waterford County Council's monthly meeting, the mayor, Clr. Damien Geoghegan, said he was thrilled to hear that approval had been given for the $10.5 million capital investment into the local plant, which will see the facility expand to include a new packaging line producing 100 percent recyclable material.
[Source: Waterford News & Star]
A highly-dangerous algal growth in Lough Ennell, which can kill dogs within an hour and cause a rash or eye infections in humans, has led Westmeath County Council to ban bathing at all areas of the lake.
There is, as of last Thursday, a total ban on swimming – and also on allowing dogs and other animals enter the waters of the lake.
The "blue-green algae" has developed as a result of the non-turbulence of the water, the presence of nutrients in the lake, and the arrival of the hot weather.
[Source: Westmeath Examiner]
A Wexford man who was convicted by a jury of raping his son's 18-year-old girlfriend has had his conviction overturned on appeal.
The Court of Criminal Appeal last Monday morning quashed the conviction of the 49-year-old man, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the now 25-year-old woman.
He was jailed for seven years by Mr. Justice Patrick McCarthy in June 2011, having been convicted by a Central Criminal Court jury the preceding April of raping and sexually assaulting the girl.
[Source: Wexford Echo]
Greystones commuters are being unfairly treated compared to fellow travelers in Bray when it comes to prices for using the Dart, the Dáil (Irish Assembly) has heard.
Fine Gael T.D. Simon Harris hit out at the pricing structure for the service and said Greystones travelers paid 66 percent more than Bray Dart users ($12.57 compared to $7.59) for a return trip to Pearse Street Station in Dublin for going one extra stop.
The Wicklow T.D. said a pledge had been made to make the pricing structure more equitable but 10 years after the Dart service was extended to Greystones, this was minimal.
[Source: Irish Times]


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SoMa, short for South of Market, is an area of downtown San Francisco south of Market Street and northeast of the Mission District. It is San Francisco's urban renewal district, bordered roughly by Market Street on the northwest, the 101 Freeway (from Market Street to I-80) and 16th Street (from 101 to the San Francisco Bay) on the south, and the San Francisco Bay on the east.
Once home to warehouses and dilapidated Victorian houses, SoMa saw an artistic and club culture revival in the 1980s. By the time of the Internet boom of the 1990s, the "live-work" buildings of this area had become prime real estate, and the artists and musicians who had made it cool could no longer afford the sky-high rentals.
With the burst of the dot.com bubble, SoMa has become somewhat more affordable, but has also lost many of the businesses that made the area attractive during the boom. Some of the best clubs are still in SoMa, but a taxi is recommended for getting around, especially after dark as some areas are still a bit dangerous.
Get in
Being at the San Francisco end of the Bay Bridge and the heart of San Francisco's public transit network, there are extensive transit options to this district.
By rail
Caltrain [71], a commuter rail line between San Jose and San Francisco, terminates at the Caltrain station at 4th & King Streets.
Bordered by Market Street on its northwest side, SoMa is within easy walking distance of all MUNI Metro [72] lines and the several BART [73] lines which run under Market Street. Running on Market Street is the F-Line Streetcar which stops frequently on its route from the Castro to the Ferry Building, then north on the Embarcadero to Fisherman's Wharf.
Additionally, the MUNI Metro T-Third and N-Judah lines emerge from the Market Street subway and travel through the SoMa district, stopping at a few places along the Embarcadero south of Market, including AT&T Park. The N line stops at the Caltrain station, while the T line continues south down 3rd Street into Southeast San Francisco.
By bus
MUNI [74] offers extensive bus service through SoMa, with nearly every street having a bus line of some sort. Routes 10-Townsend, 20-Columbus, 30-Stockton, 45-Union/Stockton and 47-Van Ness are the best bets for getting down from the neighborhoods to the north, like Chinatown and Fisherman's Wharf. Routes 1-California, 5-Fulton, 6-Parnassus, 38-Geary and 71-Haight-Noriega are some of the best for getting in from eastern neighborhoods like The Avenues, while routes 9-San Bruno, 12-Folsom/Pacific, 14-Mission, 26-Valencia and 27-Bryant come up from Southern San Francisco through the Mission district.
Nearly all intercity bus service into San Francisco runs into SoMa, including Greyhound [75], MUNI, and various other Bay Area transit services (AC Transit [76], samTrans [77], Golden Gate Transit [78], and WestCAT [79]). Due to the current reconstruction of the Transbay Terminal, all this service currently goes to the Transbay Temporary Terminal [80] at Main and Howard Streets. Facilities are minimal, with bus bays for Bay Area service on the Howard Street side of the terminal and on the streets surrounding the site, and Greyhound service on the Folsom Street side of the terminal.
By car
The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, which is part of Interstate Highway 80, offers a direct connection from the cities of the East Bay area (such as Oakland) to SoMa. After getting into San Francisco, any of the first three exits (Fremont/Folsom, 5th Street, 8th Street) will lead you into SoMa before I-80 terminates at US-101.
From the south, there are two freeways running into SoMa: I-280 dead ends near the Caltrain Station - stay in the right lanes to get onto 6th Street, or stay in the left lanes to get onto King Street and past the Caltrain Station and AT&T Park. US-101 comes up from the south to merge into I-80, where you can get off onto I-80 and take one of the two eastbound exits into SoMa, or stay on US-101 (stay in the left lanes) and exit at 9th Street or Mission Street before the freeway terminates at Market Street (US-101 continues north as Van Ness Avenue).
SoMa is also well-connected to other San Francisco neighborhoods by surface streets. From the north, The Embarcadero is the best one for getting down from Fisherman's Wharf, while Van Ness Avenue is the best for getting from the Golden Gate area. Between those two are a number of other major thoroughfares, such as Montgomery, Stockton and Hyde Streets, which will also do nicely. From the south and southwest, 3rd Street, Mission Street and Market Street all work well.
Parking here, as anywhere else in San Francisco, can be a challenge, but there a number of parking garages in the district, including a large one at Mission between Fifth and Fourth streets for the Moscone Center. People driving to a Giants game are advised to park at the large parking lot along 3rd Street just south of AT&T Park, just across the canal.
By boat
Two ferry companies offer special ferry service to Giants home games at AT&T Park: Golden Gate Ferry [81] from Larkspur, and Alameda Oakland Ferry [82] from Alameda and Oakland.
In addition to the numerous restaurants listed below, there are also food courts in the Metreon and the San Francisco Shopping Center, both of which are large and offer a variety of restaurants; although in the case of the Metreon, be sure to avoid the food court during lunch hours of any major convention, when the lines for each restaurant will get very long.
Many of San Francisco's best dance clubs are in SoMa.


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It was signed by "the committee for the Keren Kayemeth Lclsrael (JNF)," one testament thai in {h<? small town, Zionism and the JNF had bean very much in the hearts of the people, When I arrived with Youth Aliyah in Erctz Yisrael in 1939. 1 met Leah, a true pioneer The rest of my family Had perished in Poland The fttOS! important part of the March of the Living took place on Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. All 5,000 participants gathered to re-jreat? the lasi march that thousands of victims of TOjjJJ cruelty were forced to make frpm. Auschwitz to Birkenau. Wearing identical bluejackets with a while Magen David on the t ack, we assembled behind banners Showing organizations and countries of origin. Many carr/ins Israeli We^iient-'y movcif forward on the cwi, dreary, drizzly day, a giant wave of" Mu_ nnh white, finally reaching the site of the deteriorating cremaio- ■ na. -Dignitaries from Israel and other countries conducted a moving eererriony. We sang ••Hstikvah," 5.000 voices blending together, it was for trw a moment of overwhelming sorrow, my young companions comforted me and gave me'strength, [ knew that once we arrived in- Israel, once we stepped "me'afelah 1'or gadol"" — from "darkness to 3 great light" — ca^h <?ro; of ih? teenagers would leam the most vigorous response io anti- Semitism and assimilation Israel, our Jewish homeland1. And so ii was As soon as we (Ande-d in Israel, it was _s if an enormous weight had been lifted from Our hearts. The highlight of our stay was the JNF tree-planting ceremony in which all the March of Living participants took part, on Yom Hazikaron, the memorial day for the soldiers who died in defense of Israel. In groups of 900, the youngsters descended the mountainside, armed with saplings, to find small holes, each marked with a small flag. On behalf of the /WK group, Oabi Mfir- Uvi recited the'prayer for the planiing of trees, and we performed the great miuvaii of creating no* life in the soil of Israel. Moshe Rivlin. JN£ world chairman, delivered a moving address lo the >oimg people, welcoming their pnr- ucioauott in.tfw* rM-;motion of Eretz Ymra^, Jtis planting was not easy; aespiW th? pm-dvg tig|?, the soil was rocky. It took more digging and additional effort to secure each sapling in the ground. It gave us a better appreciation of JNFs monumental aohievemeiils m transforming the barren iand and of ihe challenges that are still ahead. 1 Throughout Israel, we passed mountainsides covered with Forests, marveled at green fields, delighted in the waters of the Kinneret, admired new housing sites for olim, and even participated in a dig at Beit Ouvrin. And in all these places I could proudly point Out: this is the work of the From trees to afcftsult-it. from bringing water to all corners of the land to preparing the land for new communities, even to digging into our past — JNF is there! When we reached Ben-Gur- ion Airport for our departure, many of the youngsters in the JNF group shed tears. Israel had awakened in those youngsters a strOrtg emotional response which witi make them more conscious of their hcfi- litfit* anil ihejj" responsibilities as Jewfjas they grow in adulthood. I h vis indeed a journey from darkness to light! Esther Adler is an cducs' fl-fl_/tOnsu/fanf in (he JNF DClttrmiC/it of Education.
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Frozen's Josh Gad Welcomes Baby Daughter with Wife Ida Darvish!
Josh Gad and his wife Ida Darvish have welcomed a newborn baby girl into the world!
"Well, it's official. I am a daddy again. And my wife deserves an award for her incredible strength and amazing demeanor. #luckiest-man" the 32-year-old Frozen actor wrote on his Twitter account in the early morning hours of Tuesday (February 18).
Josh and Ida have been married since 2008, and have a daughter named Ava.
"We have another little girl on the way. It's going to be a household full of estrogen." Josh told GMA late last year.
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Couldn't find a current thread and with this next system coming through I figured it was time.
Checked out Cold Stream Canyon over the weekend. A few line we in but very thin (less than 1" in places). Had to be on the ice before 0900, water running behind it by 0930 and ice starting to detach by 1030. After this week I would guess that it should be good to go.
Anything else starting to form up?
I'm off of work until Jan 6. If you need a partner let me know.


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BOSTON — Paul Pierce scored 22 of his 27 points in the second half and the Boston Celtics snapped a two-game losing streak by beating the Oklahoma City Thunder 108-100 on Friday night.
BOSTON — Paul Pierce scored 22 of his 27 points in the second half and the Boston Celtics snapped a two-game losing streak by beating the Oklahoma City Thunder 108-100 on Friday night.
Kevin Garnett had 18 points and nine rebounds for the Celtics, who led by 14 in the second half and held on after the Thunder cut it to three points with under 2 minutes remaining. Rajon Rondo had 16 assists and eight rebounds for Boston.
Kevin Durant scored 29 for Oklahoma City, which lost for just the second time in its last 10 games. Russell Westbrook had 26 points, eight assists and seven rebounds, and Serge Ibaka added 17 points and 13 rebounds.
Boston led 84-70 on Pierce's 3-pointer with just under 10 minutes left, but the Thunder cut it to six, 93-87, thanks in part to a 3-pointer from Durant and a dunk from Ibaka.
It was 101-89 when Westbrook made a pair of free throws and Durant hit a 3-pointer, then they each added a pair of free throws to cut the deficit to three points.
But Durant missed a 3-pointer that could have tied it, and then Garnett's free throws gave Boston back a cushion. Jason Terry hit a 3-pointer with 37 seconds left to clinch it.
Kendrick Perkins had five points and nine rebounds in his second game in Boston since he was traded to Oklahoma City by the team he helped win the 2008 NBA championship. Jeff Green, the only remaining player on the Celtics from that deal, scored 17 points off the bench.
The Celtics trailed by seven points after one quarter but took a 48-45 lead into the half. They quickly expanded it to eight thanks to three straight baskets from Pierce, including a 3-pointer that made it 55-47 just 1:18 into the third quarter.
It got as high as nine points before the Thunder came within two, 66-64 with Garnett and Pierce on the bench. But Garnett came back into the game and Boston scored the next 11 points before Kevin Martin made a free throw with 2 seconds left in the third to make it 77-65.
Pierce hit a 3 to make it 84-70 with 9:52 to play, Boston's biggest lead of the game.


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Scoot needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 99 designs submitted by 23 freelance designers.
SuperProtein - Protein just got better
SuperProtein is a new protein supplement company starting with one product - 'Equilibrium' with more products to be introduced in the future. I'm looking for a logo that will help build a strong brand in the very competitive protein supplement market.
Protein just got better
Beginner to intermediate level gym users (not professional body builders)
25 - 44 year old males and females (70% males 30% females)
Distinctive cool and edgy
Quite solid lettering
Metallic/white/grey/brushed metal colour (but please be creative)
I'd like the 2 words (Super & Protein) as 2 different colours or different shades of the same colour
Nothing cheesy like a Super Man logo
The slogan 'Protein just got better' underneath the name
I like the following logos:
EAS - http://www.eas.com (distinctive, friendly and not cheesy)
Blackberry (Friendly font)
Max's SuperWhey (a little too strong and cheesy but it's a good example of how I like the slogan underneath the name)
I'd like a full colour version and a flat one colour version (full colour to be slightly 3D/embossed for the website and products and a flat, one colour version for simple business cards, letter heads etc)
I'd like SuperProtein all in one word and sentence case (SuperProtein)
A SuperProtein emblem design is not essential but if you come up with one that I like then I'd like to see it
I'm open to new ideas (uppercase version - SUPER PROTEIN and also Super and Protein as two separate words on top of each other rather than all one word - in sentence case or uppercase) and different colours so please feel free to come up with your own ideas away from the brief
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Winter activewear: stay warm in these outdoor outfits
Now that the cold weather has well and truly hit, it's time to update your beloved activewear wardrobe with all the essentials to get you through your winter workouts. Layering is key – you may start your morning jog off shivering, but by the end you'll be thankful that you can take a layer or two off to cool down a bit. If you are hiking in a public area or want to get a bite after a workout, it's not a crime to want to have a well-coordinated outfit. Here's some winter activewear inspo to make it happen.
Pretty in pink
Pictured above, top to bottom: P.E. Nation Moneyball sweatshirt from David Jones, P.E Nation Vault crop from David Jones, H&M cap
, P.E Nation First Innings leggings from David Jones, Nike women's running Dri-FIT tank top, Wittner Allie sneakers.
All the right layers
Pictured above, top to bottom: Seed Heritage Cheetah leggings, Seed Heritage Cheetah crop, Icebreaker Boreal hand warmers, Lorna Jane Iconic water bottle, Kathmandu Flinders top, Humphrey Law socks from David Jones, Skechers Gorun Mojo shoes.
Keep it simple
Pictured above, top to bottom: Seed Heritage windcheater, Bonds Ultimate Comfort socks, Seed Heritage Iconic gym bag, Nike Sculpt Hyper training tights, Seed Heritage drink bottle, Seed Heritage Performance hair pack, Bonds Studio tee, Nike Flex 2017 running shoes, Lorna Jane My Workout gym towel.


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Feb. 18, 2006
The Lady Bisons won their first game in the War Eagle Classic Saturday morning beating Middle Tennessee State University 9-3 at Auburn University in Auburn, Ala.
It was their first victory in three games in the War Eagle Classic.
"We're playing a little young right now," said Lipscomb coach Kristin Peck. "Our numbers are a little low. We are learning a lot about ourselves. If we can fight through these things early in the season it is going make us more mentally tough for conference play. If that happens, it will all be worth it."
In the first inning the Lady Bisons wasted little time getting on the scoreboard with three runs. With two outs Heather Collins singled to left field to score Niki Bails who had walked. Collins went to second on a wild pitch. Jessica Wilson hit her first home run of the season, a two-run shot to left field.
"Jessica's home run was big for us," said Peck. "We move her to No. 5 in the order and she responded. She really hit the ball well."
The Lady Bisons struck again in the fifth inning after two outs. Bails reached base on an infield single to shortstop. Julia Davidson was safe on an error by the second baseman. Collins singled to right center sending Bails and Davidson across the plate. Jessica Wilson singled to left. Alysha Forsythe doubled to left field scoring Collins. Sara Meek doubled to left center to push Wilson and Forsythe home.
Collins picked up another RBI in the sixth when she singled to center field to score Bails. Collins finished the game with three hits and four RBI in four trips to the plate. She also scored twice. Wilson and Forsythe also had multiple-hit performances with two each.
Middle Tennessee scored all three of its runs in the third inning. A 1 ½-hour rain delay may have been the difference for the Lady Bisons.
"When they decided to put the tarp on the field MTSU had scored three runs and had a runner on second base. There was a full count on the batter at the plate. We had made a couple of errors and let them tie the game so we were a little down. We went inside and go warm and came out with more of a focus. We were much more relaxed."
Meek, 2-3, picked up the win for the Lady Bisons scattering seven hits and giving up only one earned run. She struck out seven and walked five.
"It has been frustrating for Sara because she has pitched well enough to win every game," said Peck. "We just had not been scoring any runs for her. When we came back from the rain delay we really hit the ball well."
The Lady Bisons are 2-5. Middle Tennessee is 0-4.


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Hi Everyone, I hope all is good.
I'm Sally, decompressed 2001 at age 55. I had just gotten my B.A. degree from the San Francisco Academy of Art in Computer Arts specializing in Visual Effects and Maya 3D modeling was also certified in Discreet. I am a fine artist. More than anything I wanted to go to New Zealand to work on Lord of the Rings. The chiari awoke after a work comp neck and back injury and I had a choice of brain decompression or death. I didn't bounce after the surgery and lost everything. Mine was the first chiari work comp case in California. SS had a 41 year work history on me starting at age 14. I was placed on SS disability.
My chiari journey has been horrible--I won't pull any punches for newbies. Each of you will be attacked differently as your body valiantly fights the chiari monster. Hopefully, you have the lightest of symptoms and a good life. I've posted about exercises I thot would help you. Swimming with a snorkel so you don't hyperextend your head; and what worked for me was walking and running thru the swim lane using sponge weights at the same time for my arms. I can walk well holding onto a grocery cart. The manager of the store still hasn't figured out I am doing laps in the grocery store with the cart to strengthen my legs. It is hard for me to walk without vomiting so I use my bicycle and my friends do not want me on a bicycle. Stationery bike doesn't work for me.
I am trying to live on my own as long as I can.
However, on July 1, 2016, I was jumped from behind by an older well dressed man in broad daylight at a business in front of others 30 ft. away but were oblivious to what was happening. I really didn't know I was in danger until it was over. He ripped my shoulder rotators, whipped me forward then back which should have killed me, and ended with a sexual act. One of the very weird things I have with chiari is I don't feel pain, i.e., if I break my ribs I only know because it is hard to breathe. It is a blessing and a curse. My arm just hung without pain. When I got to the doc he immediately went into action ordering orthopedics, neurology, counseling and p.t.-- not because of my arm but because I said I was having trouble holding up my head--the first chiari symptom I had felt 15 years earlier.
I knew I was hurt bad but didn't know how bad because of the chiari covering up the pain. To shorten this story, I had rejected all surgeons. A new neurologist came onboard and referred me to a neurosurgeon (and neurologist), Dr. Westra in Ventura CA, outside the Kaiser system. The MRI showed my spinal cord nearly severed at C4/C5 from the attack. I had bone spurs and arthritis in addition. Surgery was Feb. 23rd. To get to C4/C5, my throat was cut. I ran into a complication of hematomas at the throat slice and could not swallow and it was an emergency. A few days later I encountered pain in my jaw which I could not handle. The pain went up to both ears. A dentist said a cracked abscessed molar was causing the extreme pain. Paramedics were called as I was stroking from the intensity of the pain.
My doctors' and my game plan with chiari was always to keep the pain level down as much as possible so I wouldn't stroke.
The hospital released me--not smart since I was turning to the pain cycle again and stroke danger. The other treatment would have been to keep me hospitalized pumping morphine into me. My son researched chiari and solved what was happening. When C4-C6 is messed with, chiari attacks the jaw and other areas. News to me. I had neglected to tell my doctor in August that I had become hoarse, another symptom of chiari/C4 and the attack.
So I am asking for help if any chiarian has info about chiari and C4-C6. Is it possible to stay this condition? Why does the chiari attack the jaw? I am stable this moment but still in danger. Kaiser has me quiet--I am to do nothing--while muscle relaxants and pain killers are pushed into me. I know watermelon is the only melon whose sugar relaxes muscles and that will be my quest today to help open my throat.
It turned out the dentist was wrong, there was no abscessed molar.


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Ah, another month has flown by. A summary of my February crafty pursuits:
Clearly February was all about accessories!
Gift knitting + cables = good matchI made Tim a pair of Dashing mitts (with added fingers) for Valentine's day - raveled. I'm fairly certain I messed up the cable placement on one of them but honestly, he doesn't mind and so I'm not obsessing about it... much. I made some fairly heavy modifications to the pattern, adding fingers and using a gusset for the thumb. I also made Tim's dad a Habitat hat for his birthday - raveled. I loved the Habitat pattern - it took me a while to get back into the swing of cables, but it was such a well written pattern that it was fun to knit. Both the mitts & the hat were using up leftover Debbie Bliss Cashmerino Aran. That yarn, which definitely has a few issues, is hands down the best yarn for cables that I've ever used. The cables just POP because of how the yarn is constructed.
Two pairs of socks!I finally knit myself a pair of Malabrigo socks, using some yarn I received as a Christmas gift from Tim (the solis colorway, if you're wondering). The sock pattern is the Summer 2008 Sock from Wendy Johnson - raveled - a super simple lace pattern. I'm not terribly fond of how badly the finished knit biases, but the socks fit fine and are perfectly comfortable to wear. I also knit myself a pair of Leyburn socks in some Yarn Pirate merino/tencel yarn - raveled. For the first time ever, I put the in-progress sock on and discovered that it wouldn't fit over my heel. The stitch pattern is incredibly non-stretchy and, when paired with an inherently less stretchy yarn (due to the tencel), there were fit issues. I made some modifications (see description in ravelry) and now they're perfect. Possibly my favorite hand knit socks ever.
Spin, spin, spinI was a spinning fool during February. My wheel and I have finally become good friends :) The blue/brown yarn is some lovely merino from Enchanted Knoll (raveled), spun up in January and turned into a 3-ply using Navajo plying in February. I love love love this yarn. Thinking of appropriate pattern ideas. Perhaps a hat? FYI, Enchanted Knoll has some lovely hand-dyed yarns in addition to fiber. The pink/brown yarn is part of my Wooly Wonders club shipment from A Verb for Keeping Warm (raveled). I love having the opportunity to spin all different kinds of wool fibers from the club. This particular fiber is Finn. The Finn fiber came in two different complementary colors & it's been fun seeing how different club members have spun this yarn. I decided to keep the two colors separate. I'm brewing up a special project involving this yarn plus several other months of club fiber. Not giving away the details yet though!!! I'm currently working my way through some Blue Face Leicester and also some Targhee - no photos yet though.
psRemember this handspun hat & mini-cowl that I finished back in late December/early January? Tim's mom's birthday is also in February, so that was her gift. Not strictly a February craft project, we'll call it a bonus project :)
Next up?March is, of course, Malabrigo March! I'm participating in a month-long KAL with other members of the Malabrigo Junkies group on ravelry. I've got lots of projects planned - probably more than I can possibly finish. Regardless, expect lots of Malabrigo goodness for the month of March. Also, I need to get my sewing room cleaned up a bit - tons of great sewing projects out there, lots of fabric in my fabric stash, just a messy room keeping me from working on it.
Hope February has been a good crafty month for you!


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Exclusive! Katie Holmes Talks!
You know the image of the Katie Holmes we always see on the red carpet: hair over one eye, tall and slim, wearing couture and looking very Posh Spice? Well, scratch that. The Katie Holmes who bounds into the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel looks more Dawson's Creek than Fashion Week. Not a smidge of makeup, short hair tucked behind her ears, gray cardigan over white blouse, fitted black trousers.
Not to say she's the same Joey Potter we fell in love with more than 10 years ago. Having effortlessly morphed from a girl from a big Ohio family into the globe-hopping wife of the planet's hugest star, Tom Cruise, she's on a tear workwise: The actress recently finished a Broadway run of Arthur Miller's All My Sons—never missing a performance, scoring good reviews—and is about to start filming the comedy The Extra Man, with Kevin Kline. Quickly, Katie is on her way to becoming an American icon, for her gracious working-mom flair—and, OK, for her clothes (she stars in a Miu Miu campaign and is trying her hand at designing, too).
When we meet, the lounge is bustling with deal makers (it's Grammys week). But despite the distractions and BlackBerry texts from Tom as he flies back from Mexico ("He's still on the plane," says Katie), the usually very private half of arguably America's most-tabloided-to-death couple settles right in and opens up.
GLAMOUR: So Katie, this is Glamour's seventieth- anniversary issue, and we're celebrating important American women. But I'd like to know, who are your icons?
KATIE HOLMES: Growing up, I always had my dreams set on being an actor, so I looked up to Julia Roberts, Audrey Hepburn. I also look up to Kate Winslet and Renée [Zellweger] and Cate Blanchett…and Diane Keaton—she's a genius. I think it's very inspiring to see these women attack such complex roles.
GLAMOUR: What about friends and family?
KATIE HOLMES: I don't know how my mom did it, raising all five of us. I have three sisters and three sisters-in-law; I have learned from them. I'm inspired by them.
GLAMOUR: You once said that your mother told you, of her life as a mom, "I didn't sleep for 15 years."
KATIE HOLMES: I don't know if she's even getting any sleep now! My sisters and brother and I call her: "Mom, what do you think of this?" "Mom, what do I do?"
GLAMOUR: Still, you've come into your own. In a recent interview you said, "I'm a bit wiser." How?
KATIE HOLMES: Well, becoming a mother has been the most amazing experience—in an instant you become strong. You have to be a little bit wiser; it's the most important job in the world.
GLAMOUR: Did it scare you at all? The responsibility?
KATIE HOLMES: Of course. During the first couple of days [with Suri], we would just sleep right next to her to make sure she was breathing. And I was constantly learning on the job, but Tom was very helpful and supportive.
GLAMOUR: You are very protective of your family. You've said a couple of times [in response to various rumors about her relationship with Cruise, a practicing Scientologist, and speculation that Suri didn't exist] that all of the gossip is "not OK."
KATIE HOLMES: Some of the stuff [people said] was such absolutely horrible things to say about a child. It was so uncalled for and so disgusting. Enough is enough.
GLAMOUR: Did Tom ever say, "Don't worry about it" [since he was more used to media scrutiny]?
KATIE HOLMES: Yes. We were changing diapers. He said, "I don't want you to get upset." And I said, "Well, I am upset." So we approached it together. But I definitely felt like—as a woman, as the mother of Suri—I want to handle this! My mom is very strong, and if anyone ever said anything about any of us, she would be, "Excuse me? That's my family!"
GLAMOUR: As you know, the rumor right now is that you are pregnant!
KATIE HOLMES: Well, I'm not pregnant right now.
GLAMOUR: The people who print stuff like that…if you could say something to them, what would it be?
KATIE HOLMES: Sometimes I think I would say, "Why don't you come over and have dinner? See what there is to see."
GLAMOUR: And what would they see? What's a day in the life of Katie, Tom and Suri?
KATIE HOLMES: We're all together. We like to be together, so we use the house for our [business] meetings. [We] play Yahtzee, board games, Scrabble. We grill; have pool parties. We play "The Three Little Pigs" and Suri is the Big Bad Wolf. [Tom] reads storybooks to Suri, and we all laugh. When a good song comes on, he'll break out in a dance. We'll watch movies in bed—recently Madagascar and Cinderella, for Suri. We really have a good time.
GLAMOUR: Who cooks? You or Tom?
KATIE HOLMES: I don't really cook that much—eventually I will. I do make cupcakes. And [Tom] makes his pasta carbonara for me. He knows exactly how to do it: a pinch of this, a pinch of that. He has a recipe, but he also kind of [improvises] by himself. You have to do the egg at a certain time. He did it once when we were camping.
GLAMOUR: The media's had this perception that you were going to be overwhelmed by Tom's life. Did you ever think that perception was off or did you just not pay attention to it?
KATIE HOLMES: From an early age I knew that I wanted to be in this business. So I did everything I could to get here, and when I met Tom, I knew in an instant that we were going to be together, that we were going to get married. He does have a very big life. And you know, we just do it. And, as a woman, you make that transition from being single to [being] a partner. I have a teammate, and it's like, we're going to make this work.
GLAMOUR: There's a 16-year age difference between you and Tom. But it seems to not be a big deal…
KATIE HOLMES: It was never a concern. I know one would think, Now, how is that? But really, we both like to work, we both like our families. It's being there, being supportive, being an ear. It's not so much, "Do you think I should do this?" It's "What do you think of it?"
GLAMOUR: What would you tell our readers about what your husband's really like?
KATIE HOLMES: He loves women; he was raised with sisters. He's strong and intelligent and very, very funny. For my thirtieth birthday he couldn't be in New York [where she was doing her play]. So he organized the whole audience at that show to sing "Happy Birthday" to me, and then he had a cake rolled out on the stage. But he's not a dreamer—he just does it. He'll say, "I think I like that movie," and the next day, "I'm going to make that movie!"
GLAMOUR: You knew you wanted to marry Tom when you were a little girl, right?
KATIE HOLMES: Yes. When Top Gun came out, my sisters were like, "Oh, my God, Top Gun! Tom Cruise!" And I very confidently said, "I'm going to marry him one day." It wasn't like, How do I get to Tom Cruise? It was just: I think I'm going to marry him. Why not? He'll like me. I'm fun.
GLAMOUR: And then when you met him at a business meeting in 2005 and…
KATIE HOLMES: We both knew.
GLAMOUR: Your whole experience is a wonderful affirmation of having a dream and having it come true. What is the one thing you've learned from all of this?
KATIE HOLMES: It's true. Definitely trust yourself. Work hard. Be honest with yourself. And life can be joyful. It is joyful. Just give it your all and it's all going to work out.
GLAMOUR: And Suri, does she know that she has famous parents?
KATIE HOLMES: She does. [If] Tom or I are on TV, we'll watch it. And when we were in New York, we would see a lot of Valkyrie posters. She goes, "Look! There's Valkyrie movie!"
GLAMOUR: Who is she more like?
KATIE HOLMES: You know, I see glimpses of Tom and me in her. She's really such a special girl—strong and funny. She's her own person. She has a great sense of humor.
GLAMOUR: You're coming up on your third wedding anniversary. Where do you want to spend it?
KATIE HOLMES: In Rome, where we got married. It was one of the first places we went together.
GLAMOUR: Rome is so beautiful. Now, moving from love to work: Tell me about the experience of doing a play every night on Broadway.
KATIE HOLMES: I always wanted to do theater. And that experience was better than I could have ever imagined. It was fascinating because your performance changes every night. You're learning different things about the play and your character. It was great to have Suri come—she couldn't come every night, but she came a lot during the week. To have my family there was icing on the cake.
GLAMOUR: What's next for you? What's The Extra Man about?
KATIE HOLMES: It's a very New York story. Kevin Kline plays a man who takes socialites to parties. I play a character named Mary who works at an environmental magazine and is trying to change the world one day at a time.
GLAMOUR: What other roles would you like to play?
KATIE HOLMES: I want to do it all. Bad girl, good girl, complicated girl. Aren't we all complicated? And I like all different genres: comedies, dramas, action, musicals. I'm taking jazz and ballet lessons.
GLAMOUR: So is there any one role?
KATIE HOLMES: I love South Pacific. I just saw that. That would be a great role. And I'm constantly reading books. I just read one by Sophie Kinsella, who wrote Confessions of a Shopaholic. She's funny!
GLAMOUR: She'll be happy to hear that— there go her Amazon numbers! And what's this about a clothing line?
KATIE HOLMES: My friend Jeanne Yang and I have been working together. She's got twin girls about six years old, and we both grew up with mothers who sewed. We started about a year ago, sketching different things, trying to find comfortable clothing for our daughters that is also pretty and cute. We just started, and we've played around with doing things for women as well.
GLAMOUR: Now you do have that big life.
KATIE HOLMES: That's where I am: My purse is full of Color Wonder [for Suri], scripts and calendars. I feel really, really lucky. And you know what? I feel the best response [to all those tabloid stories] is just going about my life: enjoying life, making movies, being a good mom and a good wife, and focusing on that. Because if you're doing well, what can they say?
Glamour senior contributing editor Sheila Weller is author of the book Girls Like Us.


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Am i right in thinking that you have to pay for NAV 2002 definition updates?
If so, do you still have to pay even if you get the updates off demo CD's?
grr, i never had to pay for updates on my Mac...
You only have to "resubscribe" to the NAV LiveUpdate service after one year of definitions. If you don't want to pay after that year, I suggest you find a free AntiVirus scanner which has free updates. If you search through the archives, there have been many mentioned. I just upgrade to the newest version of NAV each year, so that I don't have to pay extra for new definitions, because with each upgrade you get another year of LiveUpdate service. Hope that helps.
Yes, you do have to pay for the subscription to the LiveUpdate, but if you manually search and install the dat files. You can technically update your DAT files without charge, and I correct?
Here is a link to the Symantec Update section:
Update stuff
I believe that before an Intelligent Updater download can be installed , either you must be entitled to free updates ( 1 year) or a valid subscription must be in place.
No getting around it with Nortons. however, you might want to take a look at www.grisoft.com and their totally free AVG anti-virus product. Free updates, hueristic scanning, a plugin for OE....a full featured product without a doubt. I have used both Nortons and Macafees products in the past, but have been most satisfied with AVG. It has been my AV of choice for 3+ years now, and I'm yet to find anything better. For more feedback, check out an earlier thread of mine... http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=231734 ...I hope this helps.
It isn't paranoia when you KNOW they're out to get you...
Any version of NAV i've see has had a year free of updates when you install it, so the easy way around having to pay for definition updates would to be just reinstall every year, of course making sure you get rid of all files and reg entries. But since Norton also comes out with a new version every year, I would just get the new version with the updates included each year, since it's rather close to the same price.
OK I might be wrong here but we are talking about the LIve Update feature of NAV. Symantec allows you do DL any and all update to your AntiVirus software for free from their website. http://www.sarc.com but the Live Up-date feature only works on the subscription basis for a year with the "consumer" products. But you can still update the defs.... I have one version where Live Update is broken (just havent fixed it) and I just DL the def and let the intelligent updater update the def on the system...
My other Computer is a 4000 node Beowulf Custer
I don't think we are talking big bucks here anyway, are we? When I subscribed for another year of updates with my NAV 2000, I paid a whole three dollars. I have since purchased Norton System Works, so got NAV 2001 on that and the year's updates to virus definitions haven't yet expired. So I really don't know what the cost is with the 2002, but would be surprised if it was enough to get too steamed up about.
NAV updates cost $US9.95 after the "free" period runs out. You can get signature updates without paying but you won't be able to get software updates without a new subscription.
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Hart homers twice as Mariners win home opener
SEATTLE -- Corey Hart clubbed two home runs to rally the Mariners to a 5-3 victory over the Angels on Tuesday's Opening Night at Safeco Field, though the win was dampened by an injury that sidelined starting pitcher James Paxton.
Paxton held a 4-3 lead in the top of the sixth when the promising rookie southpaw was taken out of the game with what preliminary reports indicated was a strained lat muscle behind his left shoulder.View Full Game Coverage
SEATTLE -- Corey Hart clubbed two home runs to rally the Mariners to a 5-3 victory over the Angels on Tuesday's Opening Night at Safeco Field, though the win was dampened by an injury that sidelined starting pitcher James Paxton.
Paxton held a 4-3 lead in the top of the sixth when the promising rookie southpaw was taken out of the game with what preliminary reports indicated was a strained lat muscle behind his left shoulder.View Full Game Coverage
But with Hart going deep twice -- a three-run shot in the third inning and a solo blast in the seventh -- the Mariners hung on for the victory to improve to 5-2 on the season, including four straight against the Angels.
"It was unbelievable," said Hart, who was hitting .167 coming into the game after missing all of last season following a pair of microfracture knee surgeries with the Brewers. "I haven't had a whole lot of good baseball moments lately.
"So many guys have been swinging the bat well. For me, I'm just trying to find a rhythm and get something going. It was nice to do it, especially Opening Night in front of a crowd. At least they know when it's going good, it's going good for me."
Relievers Yoervis Medina, Danny Farquhar, Tom Wilhelmsen and Fernando Rodney held the Angels hitless for the final four frames to preserve Paxton's win in front of a sellout crowd of 45,661, though Rodney had to dig in to record his second save after walking the first two batters in the ninth.
Paxton, 25, is 2-0 with a 2.25 ERA this year and 5-0 with a 1.75 ERA in six Major League starts. Though Mariners officials are concerned about his situation pending an MRI exam on Wednesday, the youngster sounded optimistic after the game.
"I don't think it's going to be a big deal," Paxton said. "It's not like it's a real pain, it's just a little soreness, so we'll see what's going on tomorrow."
Hart, who signed a one-year, $6 million free-agent deal with $4.65 million in potential incentives, now has three home runs and five RBIs in five games. It was the 15th multihomer game of Hart's career, but first since Sept. 29, 2012.
"That was great," said the 32-year-old. "So many guys on this team have been chipping in, and I haven't been one of them. So it was nice to find contact tonight and be able to help out. I was getting kind of tired of watching everybody else help out."
The new designated hitter capped a four-run outburst in the third with his majestic shot to left field off Angels southpaw Hector Santiago, who is now 0-2 with a 7.71 ERA after two starts against Seattle.
That rally came after Angels catcher Chris Iannetta couldn't handle what would have been an inning-ending strikeout of Brad Miller. Instead, Miller sprinted to first to keep the frame alive, Robinson Cano walked, Justin Smoak laced an RBI single and Hart drove a sinker over the fence after fouling off a pair of 0-2 offerings.
"We gave them four outs," said Angels skipper Mike Scioscia. "He struck out Miller. I think he was trying to go away and lost it inside and Chris couldn't quite get it. And then he walks Cano and they got some big two-out hits after that. Last week in California, they really were hot with two outs and guys in scoring position and they carried it through that inning."
Hart then drove a Fernando Salas pitch over the center-field wall with two out in the seventh for a 5-3 lead and the bullpen did the rest.
"It was kind of a shock," Farquhar said of Paxton's early exit. "I looked at the board and he was at like 58 pitches and then he got pulled. That's a big hit for us. He's really good."
But the bullpen was equally good, with only four walks marring four hitless innings. Two of those walks came from Rodney, who then struck out Josh Hamilton and Howie Kendrick before getting Raul Ibanez to fly out to left. Farquhar, who threw 1 2/3 innings of key relief, said the relievers are quickly meshing.
"Man, it's exciting down there," Farquhar said. "We've got a group down there that when Corey Hart hit that home run, we went nuts. Obviously the stadium went nuts, too. It's cool. Everybody is involved and everybody is excited."
Things didn't start or end nearly as well for Paxton. The fireworks from pregame ceremonies had barely died down when the Angels provided some of their own with back-to-back first-inning homers by Albert Pujols and David Freese for a 3-0 lead.
That snapped Paxton's 16-inning scoreless streak dating back to last year, but he settled in and retired 14 straight batters before Kole Calhoun led off the sixth with a single.
Paxton then had a 1-0 count on Mike Trout when trainer Rob Nodine and manager Lloyd McClendon hustled out to the mound and removed him after a brief conversation.
Until that point, the youngster showed again what he could do when locked in.
"I was a little excited obviously with what was going on here. I just left some pitches up," he said. "When you make mistakes to hitters that good, they're going to make it hurt. I kind of calmed myself down between innings and went out there and got back to doing what I do."
Smoak went 2-for-4 with a double and his team-leading ninth RBI. He is batting .321.
Cano scored a run after walking in the third, but his six-game hitting streak came to an end with an 0-for-3 night in his home debut.
Greg Johns is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @GregJohnsMLB as well as his Mariners Musings blog.


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Crookston youth swimmers created the tiles.
Four separate tiled images that local swimmers, with the help of a grant and some artistic guidance, created for a mural that will be mounted in a hallway at the Crookston Community Swimming Pool were officially approved by the Crookston School Board this week after board members got a look at them.
Melissa Dingmann secured the grant.


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Date: Nov 05, 2009
Press Release Number: 138-2009
Performance Builds on Agency Efforts to Better Integrate the Terminal With the Community
The Port Authority will host a free performance of Chicago the Musical for residents, businesses and commuters today, November 5, from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Port Authority Bus Terminal. The musical performance will supplement recent Port Authority initiatives to better integrate the bus terminal into the local community, including the opening of a weekly Greenmarket, the opening of Blank SL8 with the Fashion Center BID and Times Square Alliance, and a variety of other community activities.
WHAT: Cast members from Chicago the Musical will conduct the first ever Broadway performance in the Port Authority Bus Terminal. The performance will help continue the Port Authority's efforts to transform the bus terminal into a major community resource.
WHERE: North Wing, Main Floor, Port Authority Bus Terminal
WHEN: Today, November 5, 5-6 p.m. Performance times at 5:15 p.m. and 5:45 p.m.
WHY: To continue the Port Authority Bus Terminal's efforts to better serve neighborhood residents, businesses and the more than 200,000 daily bus terminal customers.
Jennifer Friedberg
The Port Authority of NY & NJ


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ONU Law to host 14th Annual Diversity Forum
ONU Law's Black Law Students Association will host its 14th annual Diversity Forum in the College of Law's Moot Court Room on Wednesday, Feb. 27, at 11 a.m.
With its theme of "Back to the Future: The Past, Present and Future of Legal Practice," the panel will discuss the historically popular fields of practice while addressing present and future trends such as the market saturation of specific fields and the developing areas of practice.
The panel will consist of Judge Benjamin Logan, presiding judge of the 61st District Court of Michigan, and Judge Gershwin Drain, district judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Logan, who earned his Bachelor of Arts in accounting and history from ONU in 1968 and his juris doctorate from ONU's Pettit College of Law in 1972, practiced as an attorney for 16 years and was a senior partner at Logan and Beason. He was elected to his current position in 1988 and has served 23 years as a judge for the 61st District Court of Michigan.
In 2012, President Barack Obama appointed Drain to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Prior to his appointment, he served as judge on the Wayne County Circuit Court from 1997 to 2012, where he primarily handled civil cases. From 1987 to 1997, he served as judge for the recorder's court, exclusively handling criminal cases. In 1986, Governor James J. Blanchard appointed Drain to the 36th District Court for the City of Detroit, where he served for one year.
Drain received his undergraduate degree from Western Michigan University in 1970. In 1972, he earned his law degree from the University of Michigan. In 1991, after five years of service on the bench, he received a Master of Judicial Studies from the University of Nevada-Reno.
This panel discussion is open to the public.


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You have two or more teams, each with a flagstand, a flag, and a fort. There is another fort in the middle which contains more powerful weapons and its own flag and flagstand. The object of the game is to get the flag in the middle and the other team's. The flag in the middle looks different from the flags in the teams forts.
I did this setup with a red team vs. a blue team, with the middle fort being yellow. The neutral flag was yellow, and the team's flags were identical, being checkered victory flags.


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Everyone in this world (or mostly everyone :P) has a sense of rhythm in the music they listen to. This is the rhythm they dance to; this is the rhythm they sing out while humming the song. So our idea is to somehow enable users to be able to express this rhythm via the manner of beat boxing.
People have made a lot of fun of us (on multiple occasions) while we were completely immersed in beat boxing to our favorite song that came on the radio. This mockery was justified, since in comparison to professional beat boxers, our skills were no where near. So we decided, why not make a new game that helps novices like us learn how to beat box better! And that gave birth to BeatBox Hero!
Based on our premise and motivation, we wanted to build a software that helped users to beat box better and more than that enjoy the whole experience of beat boxing to a song (and not be mocked at!). Deriving inspiration from products such as Tap Tap Revenge and Guitar Hero, we decided to make this a game that people would love playing as well as enhance their beat boxing skills. We experimented with a few ideas and finally settled down to this one.
The Product
The product is a game. It initially allows the user to pick a song they would like to beat box to. This screen looks like
Once a song is selected the game begins. As shown below, the user sees a stream of balls coming down that symbolize beat sounds. Whenever a ball enters the end zone (the grey shaded region), the user is expected to make the sound corresponding to it. We keep a percentage count of the number of beats hit.
The system has 2 major components to it - the beat detection engine and the graphics visualization.
Beat Detection Engine
The purpose of the engine is to be able to detect which beat has been played when a person beat boxes to a song. There are 2 major problems we dealt with here
- Onset detection: The first problem is to figure out when a beat occurs given a stream of audio input. We solved this by basically checking whether the buffer crossed an energy threshold. Furthermore, since we wanted the product to be real time, we just store a small fraction of the beat and work with that so that we can in real time play the beat back.
- Beat pattern matching: Given an audio sample of a beat, we solve the problem of detecting which beat it is. We have 4 kinds of beats possible - bass, midtom, snare and hi-hat. We used audio features to be able to classify which one of the 4 a beat is. Since, the software is real time, the amount of information stored is very less and so complex features could not be used to distinguish between beat sounds. We used simple features such as Zero Crossings, Spectral Centroid and Pitch to distinguish between the beat sounds.
Graphics Visualization
This product can be tested by picking a song with known beats and recording people exactly replicating the same beat pattern in their own voice. Then, we can measure the similarity between the generated beat and the original beat
Team of Two
1. Rohan Jain (firstname.lastname@example.com)
2. Ankit Gupta (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Nov, 9: Detect general beat pattern and tempo from the user sample
Nov 16: Map different styles of notes in the user sample to different percussion instruments
Nov 21: Figure out how the choose a "start" and an "end" for a vocal beat.
Nov 30: Make UI/Visualization
Dec 7: Polish UI and general project.


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New Mexico's Senate Bill 433 died in committee when the legislature adjourned sine die on March 21, 2009.
On March 23, 2009, the Supreme Court denied certiorari without comment to Caldwell v. Caldwell, which challenged the constitutionality of the
Understanding Evolution website — a joint project of the University of California Museum of Paleontology and the National Center for Science Education.
The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) is expanding its online video presence with its new YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/NatCen4ScienceEd.
Here you'll find reports from the evolution/creationism wars—footage of contentious testimony, landmark and illuminating speeches, conference coverage, excerpts from television appearances, and presentations. In the future, look for classroom videos, tutorials for teachers, videos contributed by NCSE members, and much more.
When you visit our YouTube channel, check out a couple of key areas. At top right you'll see the latest, hot video. (In this case, executive director Dr. Genie Scott explaining evolution to the Texas Board of Education.) Below this video window you'll see the Playlist area. We've broken down our initial offerings into different categories—Genie Scott's testimony before the Texas Board of Education; the board's chairman, Don McLeroy, expounding on why evolution is false; and some light-hearted coverage of our recent Project Steve celebration.
Please explore the site, tell us what you like (and don't), and suggest improvements and changes. Send your comments to Robert Luhn at email@example.com.
With evolution sure to be a hotly debated topic at the next meeting of the Texas state board of education, with a bill just introduced in the Texas legislature aimed at restoring the contentious "strengths and weaknesses" language to the standards, and with a different bill aimed at exempting the Institute for Creation Research's graduate school from the regulations governing degree-granting institutions in Texas, there's no shortage of news from the Lone Star state.
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Rogue Wave
Asleep At Heaven's Gate
Brushfire Records
I just can't talk about Rogue Wave without mentioning my beloved British electro pop. Echo & The Bunnymen. The Stone Roses. The Jesus And Mary Chain. Sigh. So great! Anyone who's ever found something in those bands (and if you haven't, then you obviously didn't grow up all skinny, awkward, and brace-faced in 80s) will immediately be drawn to Rogue Wave. The band takes that awesome drifting space pop-a little melancholy, yet not without hope-and mixes it up with something more organic and undeniably garage rock. These folks are from San Francisco, not Manchester, after all, and that American rock legacy comes through. But front man Zach Rogue's voice is dark and luscious, not unlike a modern-day Peter Hook (New Order) or Ian McCulloch (Bunnymen). Yep, Asleep At Heaven's Gate-it's rich and dreamy, with glittering bits of verse and melody that breathe life into some of the more mundane moments.-J.S.
Scout Niblett
This Fool Can Die Now
Too Pure Records
Scout Niblett is one of those weird and wonderful leading ladies like PJ Harvey or Cat Power's Chan Marshall. Subtle isn't their strong suit, and you don't always like them-but you forgive them their indulgences because they're totally fabulous. This Fool Can Die Now is Niblett's fourth full-length, and damnit if it ain't a doozy. The vocals are, of course, an instrument unto themselves, with Niblett's disarming cry often supported by the bluesy backup vocals of Will Oldham (a.k.a. Bonnie Prince Billy). The songs drift through a dusky, minimalist world, pushed along by bare-bones drums and a wayward string section or blast of feedback. There are soaring moments and crashingly savage ones. Prepare your little heart for the journey and press "play."-J.S.
Death Rap
Koch Records
"Violent music for a violent world." According to Brooklyn-born rapper Necro, this statement sums up his lyrical content. Diamonds, rims, hoes, drugs, and drive-bys are the usual when it comes to contemporary rap music-but this is not that. It's more like a mash-up of Slick Rick's storytelling and Dr. Octagon's nastiness, all jacked up after watching slasher movies like Saw and Hostel repeatedly.
With an aggressive flow and his disturbing lisp, Necro starts off the album with a descriptive re-creation of the Manson family murders in graphic detail-and that's only the beginning. Tracks like "Evil Rules" and "Keeping It Real" are painfully infused with bad nà…-metal riffs and cheesy chorus lines like, "Blast you with the Metallica/ Rip ya head to shreds like Gallagher's sledge hammer/ You're dead like space shuttle Challenger." But there are definitely a few hits on here-"Creepy Crawl," "As Deadly As Can Be," and "Portrait Of A Death Rapper." Also, if you like this, look up Necro's previous (and arguably better) work-Gory Days or The Sexorcist.-Dustin Koop
The Collection
Chad Otterstrom's "Music ya listen to while driving from the beach back to Colorado. By yourself. Hurting." Playlist
1. Pink Floyd, "Time"
2. Eric Burdon And The Animals, "Good Times"
3. Ghostface Killah, "Save Me Dear"
4. The Allman Brothers, "Midnight Rider"
5. Mason Jennings, "Crown"
6. The Faces, "Ooh La La"
7. Wu-Tang Clan, "C.R.E.A.M."
8. The Beatles, "I'm A Loser"
9. Blue ôyster Cult, "Burnin' For You"
10. The Doobie Brothers


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Get on guest list - By pass the Regular line. Ladies free before 1130 Man Reduce.
immersive light, sensual forms and tactile details to delight and astound at every turn. Transporting guests to an innovative, multimedia universe, REBEL features theatrical lighting, video production, experiential storytelling and interactive performances, all choreographed to evolve throughout the night. With breathtaking views of the city skyline, waterfront and the dramatic 65-foot stage, wherever you are is right where you want to be.
It's time to rise up. Let the music guide you. And the moment transforms you. Every Saturday is a Revolution.


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"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2" was on the big screen, but the big event for Debra Provo was a visit by Michelle Obama.
The first lady addressed a crowd of about 800 before a showing of the latest Harry Potter film at Naval Air Station Oceana on Thursday.
"How often do you get to see the first lady?" said Provo, who lives in Virginia Beach.
The first lady visited a children's summer camp program at the base, where she pitched in creating sets for a production of "Annie" and read the book "Where the Wild Things Are." Then she made an appearance before the film showing, which was part of the "Joining...


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Happy Friday #TeamBlackBerry! Today I'm going to provide you with some tips for using a few BlackBerry® Messenger (BBM™) features you might or might not be familiar with. Simply put, I don't know what I would do without BlackBerry Messenger — I'm sure there are days I say more to my wife over BBM™ than I do face to face! Meet me after the break for some tips to further cement BBM into your life.
1. BBM Connected Apps
Many apps and games available from the BlackBerry App World™ storefront have the ability to connect to BBM. This means you can update your BBM profile, chat with your contacts from within apps, or post high scores from your favorite game to your BBM status. You can view BBM-connected apps for download by pressing the Menu Key and selecting Explore BBM Connected Apps.