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Louise Story / New York Times:
Company Will Monitor Phone Calls to Tailor Ads — Companies like Google scan their e-mail users' in-boxes to deliver ads related to those messages. Will people be as willing to let a company listen in on their phone conversations to do the same? — Pudding Media, a start-up based in San Jose …
John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley: ThePudding? More like Wiretapioca
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch: ThePudding: Targeted Advertising Comes to Phone Calls
Shelly Palmer / MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer Video: MediaBytes - 09.24.07 — Click to view today's MediaBytes video.
Sam Harrelson / ReveNews Online Revenue News …: Contextual Advertising: How Far Is Too Far and What if Google Goes Evil?
Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
New service eavesdrops on Internet calls — NEW YORK - A startup has come up with a new way to make money from phone calls connected via the Internet: having software listen to the calls, then displaying ads on the callers' computer screens based on what's being talked about.
Discussion: CrunchGear, dslreports.com, Newlaunches.com, Gizmodo and The Raw Feed
Peter Ha / CrunchGear: Your VoIP Calls Are Being Tapped
Karl / dslreports.com: 'The Pudding' Listens In On VoIP - And displays context-sensitive advertisements...
Wilson Rothman / Gizmodo: VoIP: ThePudding.com Phone Service Listens to Your Calls, Makes You Watch Ads
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Today's Terrible Idea: Pudding Media — A new start-up called Pudding Media is offering free PC-based telephone calls—if users allow the company to listen in on their conversations and serve targeted ads based on what they're talking about (NYT). This is one of the worst business ideas we've heard …
Discussion: Webware.com, WebProNews, IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband, BloggingStocks and VoIP Watch
Erica Ogg / Webware.com: THE PUDDING: EAVESDROPPING TO SELL YOU STUFF
Jason Lee Miller / WebProNews: The Privacy Is In The Pudding (Or Not)
Russell Shaw / IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband: New service would display ads based on keywords you say in phone calls
Zac Bissonnette / BloggingStocks: Big brother: Company to listen in on phone calls to target ads
Andy Abramson / VoIP Watch: Henry Blodgett on Pudding
Om Malik / GigaOM:
The Mad Ad World & Cheap Calls
The Mad Ad World & Cheap Calls
Discussion: TechCrunch
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: Blyk launches ad-based mobile network
Jonathan Fildes / BBC:
'$100 laptop' to sell to public — Computer enthusiasts in the developed world will soon be able to get their hands on the so-called "$100 laptop". — The organisation behind the project has launched the "give one, get one" scheme that will allow US residents to purchase two laptops for $399 (£198).
Discussion: The Browser, Daggle, broadstuff, Between the Lines, Guardian Unlimited, Wikinomics, Mashable! and Digg
Oliverryan / The Browser: A better alternative to One Laptop per Child?
Danny Sullivan / Daggle: $100 Laptop? Don't Wait — Get Yours Now
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines: OLPC to offer two-packs to jump start sales
Jack Schofield / Guardian Unlimited: Buy one, give one away — OLPC for everyone
Dan Herman / Wikinomics: Tech solutions to under-development.
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!: $100 Laptop: Get Your Own!
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Buy a Laptop for a Child, Get Another Laptop Free — One Laptop Per Child, an ambitious project to bring computing to the developing world's children, has considerable momentum. Years of work by engineers and scientists have paid off in a pioneering low-cost machine that is light, rugged and surprisingly versatile.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Smart Mobs, IP Democracy, Memex 1.1, Digital Trends, dailywireless.org, Compiler and Slashdot
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal: Laptop Charity Seeks Help From Home Market
Marius Chitosca / Smart Mobs: "Buy a Laptop for a Child" Project going steady
Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy: One Laptop Per Child Aims for the Heart
Nick Mokey / Digital Trends: OLPC XO-1Goes On Sale to Public
Scott Gilbertson / Compiler: OLPC Laptops Available In The U.S. With "Give One Get One" Program
Carolyn Y. Johnson / Boston Globe:
Building a critical mass — One Laptop Per Child seeks consumers' help — CAMBRIDGE - With orders for its rugged XO laptop falling short of its initial goal, the One Laptop Per Child project announced today that it would let consumers in the United States and Canada buy the cute computer for a limited time.
Discussion: Telegraph Blogs, Xconomy, Digital Daily, Fast Company Now, Business Week, TeleRead and The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs
Ian Douglas / Telegraph Blogs: One Laptop Per Child and everyone else
Robert Buderi / Xconomy: Consumers Asked to Lend "$100 Laptop" Initiative A Hand
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: Uh, Thanks, Uncle Nick-That's Almost a MacBook. Did You Save the Receipt?
Chris Dannen / Fast Company Now: Ethics: A Bad Day For American Altruism
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Pownce vs Digg: Who Will Kevin Rose Back? — I've speculated previously on the growing conflict Kevin Rose has between his roles at Digg and Pownce, and now it would appear that we may finally be on the eve of Rose being forced to decide between the two. — Leah Culver, a co-founder …
Discussion: WebProNews and Mashable!
David A. Utter / WebProNews: Digg, Pownce Have Gender Issues
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!: Pownce Co-Founder Upset Over New Digg Features
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Leah Culver pownces on Digg
Leah Culver pownces on Digg
Discussion: Valleywag and Pronet Advertising
Muhammad Saleem / Pronet Advertising: Don't Spread Yourself Too Thin
James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:
We need a real handheld computer, who will build one? Apple of course — It's a great time to be a handheld PC enthusiast, not because there are so many good devices to choose from, because I don't think there are, but because public awareness of handheld PCs are at an all-time high.
Discussion: Channel 9 and GottaBeMobile.com
Warner Crocker / GottaBeMobile.com: Slip Sliding Away
Jackson West / NewTeeVee:
Rocketboom Moves to Blip.tv — Rocketboom, the popular news and entertainment show which has pioneered a number of innovations for online video programs, has chosen Blip.tv as a publishing partner. Besides taking on the duties of serving new and archived videos, Blip.tv will also be helping …
Discussion: Read/WriteWeb, Dembot, the blip.tv blog and Beet.TV
Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb: Blip Lands Deal with Rocketboom and Claims Revolution in Video Advertising
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV: Rocketboom Lands at Blip.TV
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Rocketboom Moves to Blip.tv
Rocketboom Moves to Blip.tv
Discussion: Paul Colligan's …
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Google Prepping A Second Life Competitor? — Rumors of a Google powered virtual world based on Google Earth surfaced in January; today there is word that Google may be testing their virtual world at Arizona State University (ASU). — According to Google Operating System …
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped: Google Tests "My World" Program
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: Google To Pressure Facebook To "Free" Social Data & Planning Google Earth World?
Doug Caverly / WebProNews: Google Earth Could Go After Second Life
Steve O'Hear / The Social Web: More on Google's social networking plans
Sepideh Saremi / Searchviews: Google Weekend: Open API, Social Media, and Unity Cable Rumors
Caleb Booker / Metaversed: Rumor: Google Virtual World Imminent
Bryan Alexander / Infocult: MyWorld: towards avatar-based social Google Earth
MG Siegler / ParisLemon: Google Earth To Get Virtually Social?
Mark Wallace / 3pointD.com: Google Virtual World Back in the Rumor Mill
Kristen Nicole / Mashable!: Google Earth's Social Network, Complete with Avatars?
Associated Press:
Starbucks to Give Away 50 Million Songs — SEATTLE (AP) — Starbucks Corp. plans to give away 50 million free digital songs to customers in all of its domestic coffee houses to promote a new wireless iTunes music service that's about to debut in select markets.
Discussion: Newlaunches.com, Yahoo! News, Gadget Lab, The Globe and Mail, Gizmodo and Ubergizmo
Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab: Starbucks 50 Million Song Giveaway
Mathew Ingram / The Globe and Mail: Pay $5 for a coffee, get a free song
Wilson Rothman / Gizmodo: Apple: Starbucks To Start Up iTunes Wi-Fi Store with 50 Million Free Songs
Starbucks to give away music as new service starts
Starbucks to give away music as new service starts
Discussion: Engadget, Infinite Loop and InfoWorld
Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop: Starbucks to spread 50 million pieces of iTunes love
Jeremy Kirk / InfoWorld: Virgin drops Windows Media-based music download service
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Is FeedHub the answer to information overload? — I've been playing with mSpoke's FeedHub, releasing today at the Demo Conference. I'll have a video up later today demonstrating the product. — Dan Farber has a review and info up on his ZDNet blog. — I've been interested i this topic for some time.
Discussion: Between the Lines, PodTech.net and Chuqui 3.0.1 Beta
Robert Scoble / PodTech.net: Demo of FeedHub digging through information overload
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
FeedHub Launches - Individualized RSS Feeds
FeedHub Launches - Individualized RSS Feeds
Discussion: CenterNetworks, Somewhat Frank and Mashable!
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks: DEMO: Feedhub Looks To Organize Your 'Other' Feeds
Frank Gruber / Somewhat Frank: FeedHub Personalized Feed Creator
Kristen Nicole / Mashable!: FeedHub's Personalized TechMeme
Stealing Clicks — The devil is in the data—and in this case, in the clicks. Google and third-party auditors disagree on whether click fraud—the practice of inflating pay-per-click ad fees with automatic clicking software—is at bay or on the rise. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt has dismissed click fraud as "immaterial."
Discussion: Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
Candace Lombardi / CNET News.com:
Think tank to EU: Unbundle Windows on PCs — The Globalization Institute, a Brussels-based EU think tank, has recommended the European Union require all PCs to be sold without pre-loaded operating systems such as Microsoft Windows. — There is no reason why computer operating systems …
Discussion: Michael Gartenberg, TECH.BLORGE.com and Macsimum News
Jonathan Schlaffer / TECH.BLORGE.com: Globalization Institute wants EU to unbundle Windows with PCs
Dennis Sellers / Macsimum News: Globalization Institute: 'unlock' PCs from Windows
USA Today:
Account number, name not on this credit card — NEW YORK — U.S. consumers on Monday can begin signing up for the RevolutionCard, a new kind of "plastic" designed to be unlike any other card. — Among its features: a line of credit, the ability to store up to $15,000 on the card …
Vince Veneziani / CrunchGear:
And The Halo 3 Reviews Trickle In... Tomorrow is September 25th and at midnight, hundreds of thousands of gamers will flock to stores to purchase Halo 3, the year's most anticipated title. But unlike the general mass of Halo fans, myself and others enjoy reading reviews first before plunking down $60 of our hard-earned cash.
Discussion: Tech Trader Daily and The Startup Game
Yi-Wyn Yen / The Startup Game: Halo 3 hits stores at midnight
Nick Mathiason / Observer:
Microsoft in row over lobby tactics — Microsoft is at the centre of an embarrassing row over an attempt by a lobby firm strongly linked with the Seattle computer giant to rally opposition against rival Google's proposed acqusition of internet marketing firm DoubleClick.
Discussion: All about Microsoft, BetaNews, Insider Reports Feed, paidContent.org, Microsoft News Tracker, Mashable! and Digg
David A. Utter / Insider Reports Feed: Microsoft Taps PR Firm To Thwart Google
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org: Microsoft Goes on PR Offensive on Google-DoubleClick Deal; Touts Own aQuantive Wins
David Hunter / Microsoft News Tracker: Microsoft UK lobbyist caught astroturfing against Google-DoubleClick
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!: Microsoft Lobbying Against Google-DoubleClick Deal
Dave McClure / Master of 500 Hats:
VCs & Tech Lawyers: INNOVATE, AUTOMATE, SIMPLIFY — i'll have a lot more to say about this in the future, but at the moment i just want to observe that for a group of folks who hang around startups & talk about technology & innovation all day long, most VCs & lawyers i know really need to eat some of their own [startup's] dogfood.
Discussion: Jeremy Toeman's LIVEdigitally
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Updated Leopard requirements to exclude 800MHz systems — Just weeks ahead of its public launch, Apple Inc. has updated the minimum system requirements for its next-generation Leopard operating system to exclude 800MHz PowerPC-based Macs, AppleInsider has learned.
Discussion: CrunchGear, Compiler, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo and ParisLemon
Vince Veneziani / CrunchGear: Leopard To Exclude Legacy Apple Systems?
Scott Gilbertson / Compiler: Rumor: OS X Leopard Nears Completion
Wilson Rothman / Gizmodo: Apple: 800MHz G4 Macs Are Dead to Leopard


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Q: How do I start up my aeration system for the spring?
Molly – Provo, UT
A: If your Airmax® Aeration System has been sitting idle for the past four months, it's about time to get that thing cranking again. Here's a seven-step checklist to follow when air and water temperatures start heating up this spring.
- Change Your Air Filter: Your air filter, which prevents debris from entering your air compressor, can be cleaned periodically to remove light debris – but it should be replaced every three to six months for maximum system performance and longevity.
- Check, Clean Side Intake Air Filters: Take a look at your side intake air filters on your cabinet, too, and make sure they're clean and unobstructed.
- Ensure Cabinet Fan Works: To make sure fresh air will tunnel evenly through your cabinet, flip on your fan and verify that it's working properly.
- Purge Membrane Diffuser Sticks: Though they're virtually maintenance-free, these diffuser sticks, which deliver the air bubbles to the water, should be purged and inspected before they're submerged.
- Airlines Cleared: It could still be icy in your pond, so check your airlines for ice buildup. To clear them, pour 1 cup of isopropyl alcohol through the airline running out to each plate, turn on the compressor and push through the line to free any tiny icebergs.
- Start Your Engines – Gradually: To prevent shocking your pond, follow your aeration system's initial seven-day startup procedure. On Day 1, run the system for 30 minutes and then turn it off for the rest of the day. On each day following, double the time: Day 2, run for one hour; Day 3, run for two hours; Day 4, run for four hours; and so on. On Day 7, begin running it for 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
- Pressure Check: Once your system is up and running, make sure that its pressure gauge stays within the normal range of 5 to 10 psi. An easy way to do this to mark the gauge upon initial start up and check it regularly to verify pressure has not significantly risen above or dropped below your initial reading.
Following these simple steps will guarantee a smooth start to aerating your pond this spring. If you're ever in doubt, check out your owner's manual or contact one of the experts at The Pond Guy®.
Pond Talk: Are you planning to add any fish or plants to your pond this spring?
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Roll20's virtual tabletop, Compendium, and Character Building tools are powered by HTML5 technology and run directly in your web browser. There's nothing to download or install and no messy configuration files for Game Masters or players. Want to invite someone to your game? You merely send a short link. And there's never a need to do scripting or other tedious tasks, it all just works.
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Roll20 doesn't favor one set of mechanics over another, so it can be used with a variety of games. Play D&D online (any edition), Pathfinder, Shadowrun, Savage Worlds, FATE, board games, and more. Whether you need basic dice rolls or advanced macros, turn trackers or simple markers, you'll find that Roll20 works easily with any tabletop gaming system.
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When you're playing online, you want to make sure your rolls are as fair as possible. We've gone the extra mile to enable our dice engine to be powered by a source of "true" randomness -- based on the power fluctuations of a split beam of light. If that sounds like overkill, it is -- but you'll thank us for it when you roll that critical hit. In fact, our dice are more fair than rolling in-person. Don't believe it? We've put ourselves to the test, and you can see for yourself.
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Recently I dyed my hair and it was way too dark – urgh. I have been here before. I wanted to help it along and fade the dark dye so I asked on Twitter which shampoos would work best for fading. Two were overwhelmingly recommended:
1. Vosene
2. Head & Shoulders Shampoo Original Formula
I used Head & Shoulders and yes it totally, totally does work. Within 2 washes I could see the difference – the black had started to lift and I could see a browner tinge underneath. Lovely!
However – I also wanted a SLS free option. I did a search on eBay for clarifying shampoo and found this:
Avalon Organics Clarifying Lemon Shampoo. Clarifying Shampoo's are the best for getting rid of hair dye. So was this paraben and SLS free formula any good?
Avalon Organics was a COMPLETELY random find for me – random. Luckily I love lemons too!
This product helped fade hair colour – not as much as Head & Shoulders, but it did lift some of the black. Bear in mind that clarifying shampoo isn't something most people will use all the time – it can be stripping unless you have really oily hair or use tons of products.
But another thing – this shampoo is FIERCE. Oh yes.
Most shampoos are decent or great. This one is rather amazing. It left my hair so shiny, so soft and clean.
It contains Shea Butter, Aloe, Vitamin E, Organic Lemon and more…I didn't buy the conditioner though, I usually use something more industrial strength. I paid £8 for the shampoo inc shipping on eBay. There are various stockists of this range over the internet. I will 100% buy their shampoo again, maybe a different formula like a moisturising one, as I don't want to be using clarifying shampoo every day on my dry hair.
Aqua (Water), Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice(1), Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Sodium Laurylglucosides Hydroxypropylsulfonate, Glycerin, Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate, Stearic Acid, Sodium Lauroyl Sarcosinate, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter), Citrus Medica Limonum (Lemon) Peel Oil(1), Citrus Grandis (Grapefruit) Peel Oil, Citrus Aurantifolia (Lime) Oil, Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Oil, Cedrus Atlantica Bark Oil, Litsea Cubeba Fruit Oil, Citrus Medica Limonum (Lemon) Peel Extract(1), Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Extract(1), Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Extract(1), Styrax Benzoin Resin Extract, Arginine, Bisabolol, Sodium Citrate, Sodium PCA, Panthenol, Tocopheryl Acetate, Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride, Alcohol(1), Benzyl Alcohol, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Benzoate, Citral, Limonene, Linalool.
Head & Shoulders is amazing for fading hair dye.
If you want to gently fade hair colour and a SLS free formula, try the Avalon Organics. It really was such a surprise, I was expecting typical, generic, bland organic shampoo.


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Any time a high-profile crime is committed, reporters want to start digging into the background of the suspect. It can not only reveal new insight into that individual but potentially expose failures in the system, which can serve as a guide for preventing future tragedy.
In the case of accused Maryland cannibal Alexander Kinyua, there were two main tracks to pursue: his own personal trail on social media, and his contacts with the criminal justice system and counselors at his school, Morgan State University.
Kinyua's only prior arrest had occurred just days before the killing. The Baltimore Sun pulled charging documents from court for a May 20 incident in which Kinyua was accused of beating a man with a baseball bat. Reporters also requested District Court audio of Kinyua's bail review hearing from that case in which his behavior was described as an "aberration" despite what would turn out to be a recent history of erratic behavior.
Campus police would not immediately release their report from that incident, but The Sun obtained it through sources. It showed that the weapon was not merely a Louisville Slugger but a bat wrapped in chains and barb wire. Reporters reached out to the victim in that case, who detailed the incident in his own words for a front page story.
Morgan State university police also declined to release a copy of a police report of an incident characterized by campus officials as a "destruction of property" and which had caused Kinyua to be dismissed from the ROTC program after more than two years of involvement. But The Sun again obtained a copy of a report the university wouldn't produce, showing officers had referred Kinyua for counseling and an ROTC instructor had described him as a "Virginia Tech waiting to happen" — an ominous statement that raised questions about the Morgan's response.
Earlier in the week, students had spoken to reporters and sent messages over Twitter recalling an incident in which Kinyua had made strange comments at a campuswide forum. The event was attended by the university president, police chief, and the chief judicial officer — to whom who Kinyua had been referred to after the destruction of property incident.
Reporters discovered the university had posted an edited video of the event on its web site in February, and the school was able to provide the raw footage that showed Kinyua's comments about blood sacrifices.
The university officials, as well as the school's Board of Regents, have so far declined to discuss any of the above incidents but say they are conducting a review.
For researching his online profile, the first destination was Kinyua's Facebook page, which contained various rants about ethnic cleansing, human sacrifice, and campus shootings. There were two QR codes — bar codes that unlock messages when scanned on a smart phone — but also photos of him participating in events related to his membership in the school's ROTC program and related fraternity. These provided a peek into his recent state of mind but also how, at least in the fall semester, he had appeared to be a normal student with friends who was engaged in activities on campus.


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There's more Chevy news today coming out of the big GM backgrounder in Detroit. The bowtie-badged brand today announced a multi-year agreement with Penske and IndyCar to bring professional motorsports back to the Motor City for the first time in four years.
The first Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix will be held June 1-3, 2012 at the 2.1-mile Raceway at Belle Isle Park road course.
It'll be one of four races to be held during the weekend. In addition, there'll also be:
· The Chevrolet Detroit Sports Car Challenge where Chevrolet Daytona Prototypes and Camaros will compete in the first GRAND-AM Rolex Series race held on Belle Isle
· The Cadillac V-Series Challenge at Belle Isle, where Cadillac CTS-Vs will compete in the second Pirelli World Challenge series race held on Belle Isle
· The Firestone Indy Light Series race, featuring the rising stars of open-wheel racing


text: A member of the Ya̧nomamö people at Irotatheri community in Venezuela's Amazonas state, near the Brazilian border, in September 2012. Leo Ramirez/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Leo Ramirez/AFP/Getty Images Opinion 13.7: Cosmos And Culture The Napoleon Chagnon Wars Flare Up Again In Anthropology February 28, 2013 For decades anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon has incited uproar with his claims of genetically-rooted violence among Venezuela's Ya̧nomamö Indians. Now anthropologist Marshall Sahlins has resigned from the National Academy of Sciences, citing, among other things, Chagnon's election to the body. Why all the drama?


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Hey just introducing myself. I'm Ben, I recently picked up my third MK3 supra after a year hiatus with a lifted jeep. I'm loving the innovation coming from TIP.
So I sold the Jeep and got together some money for a build for this supra. The next couple of months will be sweet. My buddies are going to be trying to teach me to drift better so we'll see how this turns out. (I've seen some of them in TIP's pictures, Kiely w/ the kouki black s14 on Work Meister's?, and Dan w/ the red s13 with abc exclusives on it?)
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as the car gets inspected and titled:
Radiator(Cause the old one leaks)
Tires(Cause it needs them...)
TIP Steering Rack Spacers
Removed Bumpstops
Welded Diff.
Wheels that fit my taste for being hella flush. I'm really feeling the Work Emo's though it'd be nice to get some old school wheels for it too.
then the rest of the money will be for events and tires next season.
Then I guess I'll get MA(...motorsports) to do a cage if I ever get good enough to actually compete.
Heres my old supra 1989 Dark Blue Metallic Hardtop 5-Speed Turbo :
And here's my new project. 1988 Pearl White Hardtop 5-speed N/A (Ugly as hell):
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Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 1:46 am
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Nice to see you on here. I recognize the name from supramania. I didn't realize you knew Kiely and those guys. You should definitely come up to a Clubloose event with them sometime next year. There's a good change I'll have the supra out, it would be nice to see more.
Looks like a nice project that you're getting started on. If you need coilovers, let me know, I make the best setup for the Mk3 available right now. At least in my unbiased opinion and I have seen no proof that proves anything else, at least in the price range of my setups is any good at all. Mine will allow you drive up from MD and have a nice comfortable ride, but are still stiff enough to make the car awesome for any drifting, road racing, etc that you're doing. It's all in the valving and how I've designed them.
Oh and I do cages too. Here's the cage I did in another MD guy's Supra.
It's similar to what my brother's car will be getting. My brother's car will be getting more for gussets and a few extra bars.
Also, what is the reason for the 240 Tein tie rod ends? Do they have the same taper as the Supra ones? I meant to check when I had my brother's car apart, but never got around to it. But I think they might be too short, the 240s use a slightly different design inner and outer and the 240 outer is a lot shorter in length than the supra outer.
Oh and definitely do something with the diff if you want to drift the car. I would suggest a welded diff at least if you can't afford a real 2-way just yet. The stock diff won't hold up for long at least based on my experience. And I had rebuilt and shimmed a stock one and it lasted through almost 2 events.
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Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 4:28 pm
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Yeah I've known Kiely for awhile now. Have you heard of his new car? It's gonna be badass.
Also, I'm an idiot for putting those 240sx tie rod kit in there. Before your steering spacers, people used the spacers in that kit to get more angle. I just forgot to take that off the list when i added your spacers.
Welded diff. is a must. I might as well just get that done soon I guess. Look forward to meeting ya at events next year!
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Looking Back At 2011
2011 is about to come to an end, and it's been an impressive year for us. We've grown more than 50% year-over-year, while the adoption of smartphones is also growing like crazy, with Android coming out on top in terms of marketshare, Windows Phone going from very small to very small, and Windows Mobile finally fading into irrelevance. And that August 2011 was probably the most eventful month in tech history…
So, let's take a look at what happened this year, from a smartphone enthusiast's standpoint. Make yourself comfortable, for it's a long read.
HTC HD2 still popular
Surprisingly, despite a slew of new Android devices released this year, none of them managed to surpass a now two-year old device, one that originally shipped with Windows Mobile, in terms of popularity and development activity here on xda-developers. It's the HTC HD2.
This was in no doubt helped by some big breakthroughs that happened just around the beginning of 2011: MAGLDR was released, allowing you to boot directly into Android and thus completely bypass Windows Mobile; a few weeks later, Windows Phone 7 was ported. But I won't go into too much detail here – I've previously written a 2,000-word essay about the story of the HTC HD2, in case you're interested.
The patent wars…
Google has certainly earned a lot of goodwill from enthusiasts by keeping Android open source. However, not only has a study found that Android is, by far, the least open among seven other open source projects including Linux, Mozilla and Symbian, but it also seems to infringe lots of patents.
The Android patent saga didn't begin this year: Apple sued HTC back in March 2010, and Oracle filed its lawsuit against Google five months later, in August. However, it was only with the aggressive suing and counter-suing between Apple and Samsung, started by the former in April 2011, that the whole thing really blew up. Dubbed as the "patent wars", they are currently being fought out in nearly two dozen lawsuits in at least ten countries all over the world, with the outcome still very much open.
…make Google buy Motorola
In August, presumably to protect Android and its hardware partners, Google surprisingly bought Motorola Mobility, which owns over 17,000 patents and has several thousand more pending, compared to the less than 1,000 patents Google holds. This led to speculation that Google might either kill off Motorola's unprofitable hardware business in order to focus on its patents, or utilize its hardware business to manufacture its own Android devices.
So far, neither has happened. In fact, it's both unclear whether Motorola's patents are really strong enough to fend off Apple, Oracle and Microsoft, and Motorola still makes its own devices, with the newest Google Nexus device actually coming from Samsung.
Android grows up…
Yes, again. Last year's Nexus S introduced us to Android 2.3 Gingerbread, originally rumored to be the major overhaul that Android 3.0 Honeycomb partially turned out to be. But Honeycomb was designed exclusively for tablets, and never gained much traction with developers or consumers – Android 4.0, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich and launched on the Galaxy Nexus, set out to change this.
It not only unified smartphone and tablet versions, but finally managed to overcome Android's biggest weakness to date: its UI, which was overly complex, inconsistent, and laggy. Ice Cream Sandwich still may not be as polished as iOS or as beautiful as Windows Phone 7, but with all of Android's other strengths, it has in many ways surpassed the competition.
…while HTC struggles
Ah, HTC, that obscure Taiwanese OEM turned billion-dollar smartphone behemoth. Its brand name is now more valuable than that of Acer, and it has had record quarter after record quarter. But not anymore – its projection for the fourth quarter is negative.
Of course, that's due in part to the highly anticipated launch of the iPhone 4S, but Samsung is still doing fine; since they introduced the Galaxy S and were chosen as the second manufacturer for a Nexus device, they've surpassed HTC both in marketshare and popularity in our forums. That's because HTC is lacking in innovation: it can neither compete with Apple in terms of industrial design, nor with Samsung in terms of specifications. Just look at the Rezound, which has similar specs to the Galaxy Nexus, but is about ten times as thick.
With smartphones going mainstream, HTC has gone mainstream. Unfortunately, without other businesses besides smartphones to bring in money, it doesn't seem too competitive right now. Hopefully, their strategy for the new year of bringing fewer, but better phones will turn them around.
Nokia goes Windows Phone…
In February, a rallying memo by Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, who previously worked for Microsoft, leaked. In the memo, he compared Nokia to a man standing on a burning platform, who had no choice but to jump into the ice-cold water to be rescued. It was a brutally honest comparison, acknowledging that Symbian simply had no chance in the smartphone market – it was the burning platform. And, a few days later at Nokia World, it turned out that Windows Phone would be the ice-cold water.
Meanwhile, Windows Phone 7 got off to a rocky start. Praised for its Metro design language, but hampered by a lack of basic features, it launched with little fanfare, and reports further indicated that retail sales persons actively pushed people away from Windows Phone to Android, telling potential customers that it was laggy and had viruses. There was a big perception problem, and sales were abysmal. Furthermore, the first update, NoDo, which, among others, brought copy-and-paste, was heavily delayed by carriers, despite the initial promise of unified and timely updates.
Things started to get better with the first big update called Mango, which bumped the version number to Windows Phone 7.5. It generally received critical acclaim, and rolled out within a few weeks in late September and early October to all devices, adding lots of improvements and new features such as multitasking. Starting in October, the second wave of Windows Phones was introduced. The spec bumps were only minor, but the devices were still big improvements over the first generation; standing out, of course, was Nokia's new Lumia 800, with its universally praised industrial design.
…and Windows 8 too
In September, at its first BUILD conference, Microsoft showed off Windows 8. It's still going to be Windows, but with a Metro-layer underneath that looks and feels very similar to Metro on Windows Phone, and will run on both x86 and ARM processors. The traditional desktop is still there, at least on x86-based machines, but relegated to the same status as other Metro apps. With further decreased system requirements, Microsoft hopes that Windows 8 can be successful on both tablets and traditional PCs, though there are doubts whether the Metro interface is really suited for regular desktops.
Whether you like it or not, you'll probably have to get accustomed to Metro, as Microsoft is fully embracing it. Even the Xbox got a Metro-style overhaul this year. Heck, we even added Windows 8 subforums.
HP kills and unkills webOS
HP stumbled big in August. Then-CEO Leo Apotheker wanted to turn HP into a enterprise software company, similar to the German SAP, which he just left. To that effect, he announced that HP would be selling off its Personal Systems Group – that is, its PC division, the biggest in the world, and the recently purchased Palm assets, including webOS. As an immediate result, the TouchPad tablets were sold off at $99, a ridiculously low price. Eventually, HP cleared all of its inventory, catapulting webOS just behind iOS in terms of tablet marketshare, easily surpassing Android. How ironic.
Ultimately, Apotheker's plan didn't work out, damaged HP, stock prices fell, and he was fired. Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman was appointed as his successor and quickly stopped the spin-off of the PSG. The decision about webOS, however, wasn't completely reversed; instead, HP decided to contribute webOS to open source, with the future remaining a very uncertain one, as I previously wrote.
Steve Jobs (1955-2011)
Besides Google's purchase of Motorola and HP's stumbling, the third big thing that happened in August was Steve Jobs resigning as CEO of Apple. Sadly, he later died in October, just before the unveiling of the iPhone 4S.
Even though we're definitely not an iPhone site, the impact Apple has made on the smartphone – and computer and music – industry is huge and, mostly, for the better. With Pixar, Steve Jobs is also resonsible for the first entirely CGI-made movie, Toy Story, which went on to revolutionize its respective industry. His genius, vision and management skills are undisputed, and we say: rest in peace, Steve Jobs.
AT&T doesn't get T-Mobile
Well, AT&T tried to buy T-Mobile, but due to strong opposition by consumer groups and antitrust regulators, eventually backed off. This may sound like good news, but since T-Mobile is still struggling financially, its parent company, Deutsche Telekom, is still looking for ways to consolidate its US business. With the purchase by AT&T failed, we'll have to wait and see what they'll do in the future.
Carrier IQ
By now, you have probably heard about Carrier IQ, a story which we helped break. A YouTube video by Trevor Eckhart, known as TrevE in the forums, showed Carrier IQ logging keystrokes, text messages, applications and basically just everything that can be logged on an HTC Android device. It was not known whether any of this data was actually sent to Carrier IQ or just stored on the phone, but considering how private that data was, you could definitely expect some transparency and clarification from Carrier IQ. However, instead of cooperating, Carrier IQ sent Eckhardt a cease-and-desist letter, which was later redacted thanks to the involvement of the EFF.
But at that point, the story had already blown up and out of control. In the end, it's perfectly legit and certainly understandable that carriers need to track their network performance, which definitely is in the interest of consumers; however, the lack of transparency and communication was pretty damning.
To give you an overview of the whole saga, I've collected and listed all articles on our portals concerning Carrier IQ, in chronological order.
- Careful What You Do On Your EVO 3D – You Are Being Watched!
- HTC's Statement Regarding CIQ Data Collection
- HTC Responds Once Again…
- Remember the CIQ Apps Found In HTC Devices? Well, There Is More And It Isn't Pretty…
- Carriers Take Cover – Privacy Notices Start Rolling Out
- The Rootkit Of All Evil – CIQ (this was the article that made this whole thing blow up)
- More on Carrier IQ
- Carrier-IQ Tries To Sue TrevE
- Carrier IQ Creeps Out Everyone
- Carrier IQ Releases a Report, FBI is Silent
- Al Franken's Pursuit of "Carrier IQ"
- EFF Releases IQIQ to Decode Carrier IQ Profiles
New portal, new admin
Finally, xda-developers has undergone some changes too. You've most definitely noticed the new look of our portal, and, if you've missed it, we also have a new portal admin since this week, Russell Holly.
So, yeah, thanks for reading this article, thanks for reading xda-developers, thanks for doing awesome stuff in the forums.
And… a happy new year from the news writer team!
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Fabric Flowers are everywhere! You can see them on stylist hats, jackets, dresses or even shoes. It is really eye catching. They may look intimidating to do-it-yourself but they are actually quick and easy to craft. You can even tailor them to suit your fashion style. And Yes! They are Fun-To-Wear.
This medium size Fabric Flowers is a great embellishments for Head Huggers or hair accesory. It is made out of 6 petal for each flower. It is a great project for those small scraps of fabrics. I used the Kanzashi technique for the center flower. Kanzashi is a Japanese craft which involves folding pieces of cloth into flower petals. It was like an Origami hair ornaments.
These fabric flowers are so adorable and it is so fun to make. I will finalized this other tutorial and template and will be posting soon. Meantime, please take a look of the Kanzashi Technique Tutorial. This is very easy to make so please give it a try and let me know how it goes. Have fun!
Step-By-Step Instructions: Round Kanzashi Petal Tutorial
This is the simplest design in the Kanzashi In Bloom book but when you mix and match this petal design with the other style like Pointed or Pleated petals, you can certainly create variety of flowers. In this tutorial, I've pressed the fabric with an iron for almost every fold to create an extra-sharp-looking petal. If you want to end up with a slightly softer look, you can omit the ironing step.
3" x 3" fabrics (8-10 pieces)
- Begin with a 3" x 3" square fabric, you can go larger square if you want.
- Fold the square in half diagonally, make sure the right side of the fabric is facing out.
- Take the right-hand corner and fold it down to meet the bottom corner.
- Do the same thing with the left-hand corner. Press the fold with your fingers.
5. Flip the whole piece, at this time you are looking at the back.
6. Take the left-hand corner and fold it in to meet the center. press the fold with your fingers.
7. Repeat with the right-hand corner. Press fold with your fingers. The two corners should meet in the center but not overlap .
8. Fold the piece in half, toward you, making sure that the two corners are inside the fold. This is the back part of the petal.
9. Turn the petal over, secure it with pins. This is how you hold your petal's shape until you are ready to assemble them into a flower
10. Trim the base of your petal, as shown. Cut straight across the petal, starting at the lowest point of the diagonal raw edge.
11.Assemble your petals and arrange them to the look you want to achieve.
12. Thread your needle with double thread. Pick up the first petal, pinch base firmly together so it would not unfold. Poke through the base leaving 1/8" away from the raw edge.
13. Pull the thread through the petal, leaving 4" tail hanging loose. String all the other petals, they should be all strung together side-by-side on the thread, facing the same way.
14. Cut the leading end of the thread to remove the needle. Tie the two ends of the thread in a surgeon's knot.
15.Taking one of the thread in each hand, pull the surgeon's knot to tighten it. Be careful not to pull the knot too tight. The flower should have a small hole in the center, with the petals arranged comfortably around it. Pull the loose ends of the thread toward the center of the flower and cut them close.
16. You can now decorate the center of your Kanzashi Flower. In this photo, I used a 2" x 2" square for the layer center.


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CollabNet has introduced CollabNet TeamForge 5.2, a successor to its CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise. This version of the company's core product contains enhancements, including new features for Subversion management, lab management. and cloud provisioning capabilities, and an Agile-ready plug-in for the Hudson continuous integration engine. CollabNet TeamForge 5.2 is available here as a free trial download.
TeamForge 5.2's role-based access control provides distributed software development teams with increased management visibility, governance, and control of mission-critical software in Subversion repositories. TeamForge 5.2 also provides granular, path-based permissions for even more flexible Subversion repository access control, enabling organizations to manage employees', partners', and contractors' access to particular code trunks or branches.
CollabNet TeamForge 5.2 provides development services to support software development in the cloud with its new lab management capabilities. This lets developers define and modify profiles and software stacks and provision these profiles on both physical and virtual build-and-test servers from any public or private cloud. Users can access servers from CollabNet's OnDemand Cloud, Amazon EC2, and their own private clouds. TeamForge 5.2 also includes Hudson's continuous integration capability, enabling Hudson users to provision and access build-and-test servers from any of these clouds.
CollabNet TeamForge 5.2 provides enhanced support for the Agile software development methodology by integrating with the Hudson continuous integration engine via a CollabNet plug-in for authentication, permissions, and automatic uploading of build results. CollabNet TeamForge also supports every other development methodology, environment, and technology, making it the most flexible and open ALM platform available. The new Hudson plug-in increases the speed and flexibility of software development, enabling developers to share build results as part of their workflow. CollabNet has contributed the plug-in as open source to the Hudson community.


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You might have heard about this cool new watch concept from Biegert & Funk of Germany first introduced at Baselworld called the QlockTwo, but now it's real and finally available.
The Concept:
Using an LED lit 110 letter grid, time is simply displayed in words in both exact and casual phrasing.
Check out more; QlockTwo W Watch from Biegert & Funk
QLOCKTWO W by Biegert & Funk - The time in words on your wrist
Biegert & Funk presents the world's first wristwatch in words
A completely new kind of wristwatch, the QLOCKTWO W. QLOCKTWO W does not show the time with hands or digits. Time is indicated on this purist watch as readable text, turning it into a statement: "It is half past nine". The square watch face has a uniform grid of 110 letters. When the stainless steel button is pressed, words light up in unexpected places which describe the time. The initially random order of the characters lends this wristwatch a mysterious aesthetic. "QLOCKTWO W makes you aware of the moment. Showing the time becomes an interesting experience for the owner," explains Andreas Funk from the design duo Biegert & Funk.
The basic shape of the QLOCKTWO W is a square. The design is minimalist and precision crafted, its form reduced to the essentials. The high-value housing made of brushed, polished or black stainless steel measures 35 x 35 mm. The watch comes with a 24 mm leather strap.
Together with the time, QLOCKTWO W also displays the calendar day or seconds. "It is operated by a single push button and could not be more simple: one push to display the time, two for the calendar day and three for the seconds," says designer Marco Biegert.
Video showing the unique display and seconds animation
ABOUT BIEGERT & FUNKThe Biegert & Funk design agency was founded by Marco Biegert and Andreas Funk and develops products, campaigns and applications. The designer duo has always been fascinated by time. While only teenagers they already had the idea of a clock that shows the time like people talk to each other. Besides their design agency, they pursued several product ideas that eventually led to developing QLOCKTWO®. When they set up clock production in a former jewellery factory they fulfilled their dream of making a product of their own which has turned into such a success story that it has surprised even themselves.
Biegert & Funk has already won many well known design awards, including the Red Dot Award, iF Product Design Award, Focus Open Award, Good Design Award Chicago, Interior Innovation Award as well as several nominations for the Designpreis Deutschland. They also won one of the coveted awards from the Type Directors Club New York. In addition, Biegert & Funk was awarded the coveted Gold Award of the Art Directors Club Europe.


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Their individual approach towards batting is radically opposite but David Warner feels that playing county cricket alongside senior West Indian batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul had helped him a lot.
Incidentally, Warner had equalled Chanderpaul's record of fourth fastest century in Test cricket scoring a ton in only 69 balls in the third Test against India. Warner claims that it's from Chanderpaul he has learnt the art of batting through the day.
"I learned this off Chanderpaul when we were at Durham," Warner was quoted as saying by 'Herald Sun'.
"He batted on the bowling machine for six hours. I said, 'This is ridiculous, how can you do this?' And he said, 'If you're going to bat for six hours in a game you might as well practise it'."
At the rate he scored his 180 in Perth, batting for six hours would taken Warner past 300. From Matraville in Sydney's eastern suburbs, Warner, 25, always had simple goals.
"When some people turn 18, they want to travel but I had no interest in that," he said. "I just wanted to work and make it in cricket."
Now his work is cricket, and he is travelling the world.It's all a far cry from the schoolkid packing supermarket shelves who was given a USD 10,000 contract as a rookie, then worked in a warehouse.
"I played a couple of one-dayers for NSW and was upgraded to a USD 30,000 contract, so I quit work to train full-time and I haven't looked back since," Warner said.Indeed, his next Cricket Australia contract is likely to approach USD 1 million a year, given he is one of the very few on the 25-man list now playing all three forms of the game at international level.
Warner still cannot believe he has become a Test cricketer via the Twenty20 slogfest.
"It's still weird to me," he said recently. "I've done it back to front. Now I have to make the most of the games as they come along."
Has there ever been a greater understatement after two remarkable centuries in his first five Tests. Despite Twenty20 cricket's helter skelter nature, Warner believes it has made him a better player.
"If I'm building an innings it's going to help me with shot selection and to be a lot more assertive as well," he said.


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The company has selected the Series / Production Class of the Classe Mini Association as it's first boat to build. We have selected Pierre Rolland to be the designer. This class of boat is designed to sail across oceans and there is currently a race from France to Brazil being done now by 89 Open 6.50's.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The Weinstein Co. says it has canceled its Los Angeles premiere of Quentin Tarantino's blood-soaked period picture "Django Unchained."
The studio said the decision was made out of respect for the victims of last Friday's school shooting in Newtown, Conn., which left 20 children, six adults and the shooter dead.
"Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the tragedy in Newtown, Conn., and in this time of national mourning we have decided to forgo our scheduled event," a spokesperson for The Weinstein Co. told USA Today Monday. "However, we will be holding a private screening for the cast and crew and their friends and families."
Set in the American South in the 19th century, the film stars Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Christoph Waltz, Samuel L. Jackson, Don Johnson, Walton Goggins, Jonah Hill and Leonardo DiCaprio. The Los Angeles premiere was to take place Tuesday.
It is to open in theaters nationwide Dec. 25.
Tarantino's other movies include "Reservoir Dogs," "Pulp Fiction," "Kill Bill" and "Inglourious Basterds."


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- Level: Intermediate
- Yield: 36 cookies
- Total: 40 min
- Prep: 15 min
- Cook: 25 min
3/4 pound unsalted butter at room temperature
1 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
3 1/2 cups flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup good raspberry preserves
Confectioners' sugar, for dusting
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, mix together the butter and sugar until they are just combined. Add the vanilla. In a medium bowl, sift together the flour and salt, then add them to the butter-and-sugar mixture. Mix on low speed until the dough starts to come together. Dump onto a surface dusted with flour and shape into a flat disk. Wrap in plastic and chill for 30 minutes.
- Roll the dough 1/4-inch thick and cut 2 3/4-inch rounds with a plain or fluted cutter. With 1/2 of the rounds, cut a hole from the middle of each round with a heart or spade shaped cutter. Place all the cookies on an ungreased baking sheet and chill for 15 minutes.
- Bake the cookies for 20 to 25 minutes, until the edges begin to brown. Allow to cool to room temperature. Spread raspberry preserves on the flat side of each solid cookie. Dust the top of the cut-out cookies with confectioners' sugar and press the flat sides together, with the raspberry preserves in the middle and the confectioners' sugar on the top.


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When Stephen Curry looks back on that summer night in 2009, he still isn't sure exactly how it happened or who decided what happened.
The history: On June 25, 2009, the Warriors used the seventh pick in the NBA draft to select Curry and change the course of the franchise.
Simple as that? No, not really.
Even now, some mystery remains about all the moving pieces and roads almost taken that night, which is why I recently spoke to Curry and several principals involved to try to reconstruct what I could.
"I'll be interested in what you can find out," Curry said last week, chuckling.
Yes, on that draft night Curry was quietly hoping to land with the New York Knicks, who had the eighth pick.
Yes, Curry should've been taken by the Minnesota Timberwolves, who had the fifth and sixth selections but bypassed him to select two other point guards — Ricky Rubio and Jonny Flynn (who no longer is in the league).
And, yes, even though the Warriors selected Curry seventh overall, he heard he was almost traded to the Phoenix Suns.
But after all that, here stands Curry, the Warriors' franchise player, an All-Star starter, and the result of the best, most fateful event in recent team history.
That almost didn't happen, several times.
"To the extent that we could control what would happen, New York was what we thought would be the best spot," Curry recalled of his camp's thinking. "So we played it that way.
"But I guess a higher power guided me to where I was supposed to be, and I ended up with the Warriors. Because who knows how it would've turned out if I went to New York?"
Or to Phoenix. Or to Minnesota.
It seems so obvious now: The Warriors were lucky enough to have Curry drop to them, and that should've been the end of it.
But had Amare Stoudemire been a little more eager to join the Warriors in a proposed trade, or if Don Nelson were a little less sure that Curry was better than Monta Ellis, or if Minnesota had drafted sensibly …
Maybe, at the time, the least likely thing was for the Warriors to get this one perfectly right.
Remember, this all was occurring at a strange intersection period of Warriors dysfunction and transition: Team president Robert Rowell and Nelson had just pushed Chris Mullin out as chief decision-maker, Nelson was holding onto what power he could, then-general manager Larry Riley was trying to solidify his role, and owner Chris Cohan was months away from putting the team up for sale.
In the next few years, almost everything about the Warriors changed — with new ownership and Curry as the standard-bearer for the new era.
"We got one right, anyway," Riley said with a laugh recently.
A lot of things had to happen for that result, though. And lot of things had to not happen.
For one, in the days before the draft, Riley and then-Phoenix G.M. Steve Kerr had put together the outlines of a major deal: If Curry got to the Warriors' slot, the Suns were offering to trade Stoudemire for the pick and a collection of veterans, including Andris Biedrins.
Nothing was finalized, but …
"I think we felt like from our side that if Steph dropped to seven, where they were picking, that we were going to get a deal done," Kerr recalled. "We had a lot of discussions, Larry and I did. Until something is approved by the league office, you can't count on it. We felt pretty good about it, though."
The potential trade was reported that night, but Curry, at home in Charlotte, N.C., didn't hear anything about it for a while.
Riley, Nelson and Rowell certainly gave Curry no indication of any pending trade when they spoke with him on the phone that night.
"It wasn't until the next morning — I was pretty new to Twitter at the time — and the next morning one person I followed had mentioned it, that the trade was supposed to happen, I guess for Amare Stoudemire," Curry said.
"My dad (former NBA player Dell Curry) was kind of telling me if it happens, it happens, there's nothing you can do it. Right now you're a Warrior, so act like it."
But how close did that deal come to happening?
What's known: The Warriors wanted a marketable big man to pair with Ellis for instant credibility, and that's what Ellis wanted, too; in fact, Ellis at the time suggested he was promised it.
Stoudemire was 26, a four-time All-Star and potentially just entering his prime.
But Stoudemire had knee problems and was on the last year of his contract. If the Warriors were going to make that deal, they would need to talk to Stoudemire.
Also, Nelson had his own plans, as always.
"All I know is that (Curry) was my guy and I wanted to draft him, thought he'd be there and he was," Nelson said recently from his Maui home.
"When Minnesota took that kid (Flynn) that wasn't very good … we knew he was going to be there."
For Riley, it was a most pleasant surprise.
"I didn't think Curry would get to us, I really didn't," Riley said. "I really thought it was going to be (Arizona power forward) Jordan Hill for a long time."
Minnesota took Rubio and Flynn, leaving Curry for the Warriors. New York ended up taking Hill eighth.
Still, there was some worry that Curry wouldn't be happy with the Warriors. He had pointedly declined to visit Oakland or work out for the Warriors.
"See, we weren't a very good team at that time," Riley said. "(Curry and his camp) actually were concerned about our team, the character of our team.
"They thought, well, if he doesn't work out for us, we might not take him. I just told (agent) Jeff Austin, 'I don't care if he works out or not, I believe in him, I'm going to draft him.' "
Curry recalled that he felt he was a good fit with the system employed by then-Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni. Curry wasn't sure how it things would work if he ended up playing alongside Ellis in the Warriors backcourt.
Curry's coolness to the Warriors didn't bother Nelson.
"No, I was actually glad because I didn't want anybody to know how high I was on him until after the draft," Nelson said.
"But Minnesota made the bed for us; that was wonderful."
At this point, Stoudemire was sending signals he didn't necessarily want to go to the Warriors, and the Warriors never spoke directly to him.
The Warriors were already worried about Ellis' mindset, and Stephen Jackson was months away from demanding a trade.
What would happen to that locker room if they added an unhappy big man with bad knees?
"It was tricky because of Amare's physical situation," Kerr said. "But we were very far down the road."
Phoenix's goal: Reset its roster by getting value for Stoudemire before he became a free agent and set up Curry as Steve Nash's understudy.
"The first time I saw him play live was in Anaheim — he was with Davidson and played UCLA in the Wooden Classic and he was magical," Kerr said of Curry.
So Phoenix kept talking to the Warriors leading up to the draft, ready to pounce if Minnesota passed on Curry.
If the Warriors could've acquired Stoudemire without giving him a maximum extension, maybe the Suns could've nudged the Warriors to pull the trigger.
"They were hopeful that we were in such a bad position that we would like Stoudemire over Curry," Riley said.
"(But) with Stoudemire's injury history and the fact that his contract was short term, that was one I never could come to grips with where I never even made a proposal to an owner on it."
Even after the draft, if Curry had squawked about coming to the Warriors, the trade idea might have been rekindled.
But Riley noted that from the moment Curry and his family came to town the day after the draft, they seemed to embrace the situation.
The trade was dead.
"From the time I saw everybody face-to-face at the facility, there was never any talk about that," Curry said of the Phoenix rumors.
"I guess it kind of showed how quickly they changed their minds when I got there."
The Warriors never called Phoenix to say the deal was off; there just was no more communication.
"In some ways it worked out fine because we had a great year, we came within a couple games of getting to the finals," Kerr said of Phoenix's ensuing 54-victory season. "It was just one of those things.
"It worked out great for the Warriors, and we came close."
Kerr resigned as president and G.M. at the end of the season in order to get back to TV work. Stoudemire left the Suns in 2010 by signing a $100 million deal with the Knicks but has struggled with knee issues.
Curry buckled down and survived his rookie year with a skeptical Ellis, who was traded in March 2012 by the Warriors' new management group.
Joe Lacob and Peter Guber took over as owners in November 2010, Nelson was dismissed, Riley was moved to the scouting department, and Lacob eventually hired Bob Myers as G.M. and Mark Jackson as coach.
Through the changeover, who held it together and signified where the Warriors wanted to go? That was always Curry, the guy they drafted and kept in 2009.
"He's a franchise player, and he wants to be there," Nelson said. "That's great, can you believe it? He wants to be there."
And, as his free agency approached, Curry wasn't thinking how he could get back home to North Carolina.
"When I signed my extension (before last season), I never thought about holding out so I could get back to Charlotte," Curry said.
"I just think branching out and seeing different parts of what was out there and being in the Bay Area and establishing a new home, that was a good prospect for me.
"I wanted to be in a spot where I feel at home."
When there were so many ways it could've gone wrong for the often-cursed Warriors, it's a miracle that it worked out like this, exactly as it should've.
Exactly when the Warriors needed Curry, he arrived. You could have bet a lot that the Warriors would've blown this one. But they didn't, not this one time.
For more, see Tim Kawakami's Talking Points at blogs.mercurynews.com/kawakami. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/timkawakami.
Warriors (31-22) at Sacramento (18-35), 7 p.m. CSNBA
Stephen Curry's textbook shooting form is a model of efficiency.
Stephen Curry poses with former NBA commissioner David Stern after being drafted by the Warriors.


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Messenger – Text and Video Chat for Free
Описание на Messenger – Text and Video Chat for Free
The Messenger app allows you to connect with your family and friends via message or call without having to pay for each message, since it works with your internet data plan. Brought to us by Facebook, with this app you can text or call your friends, create group chats and take in-app photos and videos.
This app isn't exclusive to your Facebook friends. You can also add contacts from your phone or enter the number you wish to contact to reach them. Once you have the app, you just need to login to your Facebook account and you'll be able to access all the app's features.
Create group chats by adding your friends to the same conversation and adding a group name and photo to personalised your groups and give them character. Also, you can send photos and videos without having to leave the app to record them. Just tap the photo or video button, record what you want and send it!
Messenger provides free calls to all over the world. By using WiFi you won't need to pay for each call as all the conversations are held using the internet. Please note that if you're using standard data, charges may apply.
Express yourself by using stickers, preview your media gallery without leaving the app and choose which you want to send, receive and send voice messages and use Chat Heads to keep the conversation going even if you leave the app.
Messenger also provides more features such as searching for people or groups, knowing when your message has been seen, seeing who's online and many others! Download the app now and don't miss another message!
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Kiev protests continue, resolution elusive
- President Viktor Yanukovych is in China
- The government shows no sign of yielding to protesters%27 demands
- Demonstrators vowed to continue their protests
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian government showed no sign of yielding Wednesday as thousands of people continued to rally in Kiev against the decision to freeze ties with the European Union and get closer to Russia.
With President Viktor Yanukovych out of the country on an official trip to China, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov urged the opposition to end its blockade of government buildings and warned the western regions of the country — where protest strikes were announced — that they may be left without federal funding.
Azarov survived a chaotic no-confidence vote in Parliament on Tuesday.
Law enforcement bodies have brought dozens of charges against demonstrators, and nine people remain in detention following Sunday's rally when several hundred thousand protested Yanukovych's decision and the use of force against a handful of peaceful demonstrators last month.
"We must decide all this in a calm environment. Not in the streets, but in a responsible dialogue," Azarov told a Cabinet meeting Wednesday.
Demonstrators have set up scores of tents on the square, the epicenter of protests against the Ukrainian government, and blocked several streets leading to it with tall barricades of wooden pallets and random material. Large piles of wood dot the square, fuel for fires that keep the demonstrators warm in the freezing temperatures.
"We are now defending … 46 million people. Either they will defeat us, or we will defeat them," opposition leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk told reporters.
Last month, Yanukovych's government abruptly halted preparations to sign a key political and economic agreement with the EU and focus on ties with Russia instead. Russia has used strong economic pressure to derail the deal, unwilling to lose this former part of its empire to the West.
Anger is also growing about the status of nine demonstrators who were beaten and arrested when riot police violently dispersed protesters outside the presidential administration building on Sunday. Officials have said the action was in response to provocations by the demonstrators, but supporters of the arrested say radical nationalists were responsible.
Six of those arrested are in intensive care and three others are in jail medical units, their relatives told a news conference on Wednesday and they complained the men have been denied adequate legal help.
"They didn't even allow us to send him a lawyer," said Yana Stepanova, the fiancée of Mykola Lazarovskyi, one of those in intensive care.
She said she had lost touch by telephone with him during the demonstration on Sunday, then heard from friends that riot police had routed the protesters.
Hours later, he called and "he said just two words, that he was in the hospital," she said.
Supporters of those arrested say state lawyers who had not met the defendants represented the arrested at court hearings and alleged that independent lawyers are being intimidated against taking any of the cases. The arrested face a possible seven years in prison if convicted of charges of organizing mass protests.
Nina Bolotova, whose husband Yuri was among those and beaten, sarcastically cast doubt on authorities' claim that the arrested were the organizers of the provocations.
"It's interesting to me that out of so many people, the law-enforcement agencies were able to detain the specific organizers," she said.


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Veterans bike through Vietnam to help heal wounds of war
By CHARLIE REED AND DREW BROWN | McClatchy Foreign Staff (MCT) | Published: April 19, 2014
HUE, Vietnam — Whenever Army Maj. Yancy Baer deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan — and when he came home the last time in 2009 to face the amputation of a leg — Vietnam veterans were always there to greet him and lend their support.
Baer is now returning the favor. He and six other cyclists, including three other wounded Afghanistan and Iraq war vets, completed a 320-mile journey earlier this month through the former battlefields of central Vietnam.
Their mission: to raise money for Vietnam veterans who want to return to this southeast Asian country for the first time since the war but can't afford to make the trip.
"If it wasn't for Vietnam vets standing up and lobbying for veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, I truly believe we wouldn't have the care or the warm homecoming that most of us have experienced," said Baer, 42, of Choctaw, Okla. "It's a shame their generation didn't support them the same way."
Baer lost his left leg below the knee after a noncombat injury in Iraq in 2009. He rode on the bike trip alongside Army Sgt. 1st Class Gabe Monreal, who had his left leg amputated below the knee after a firefight in Afghanistan in 2010. The two buddies met during rehabilitation at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. Baer plans to retire soon. Monreal remains on active duty.
"The Vietnam veterans are doing stuff for us all the time," said Monreal, 37, of Corpus Christi, Texas. "We are so spoiled. The support is incredible."
The cyclists, who rode on behalf of San Antonio-based Operation Comfort, raised $170,000 in corporate sponsorships and personal donations. The money will be used to send at least 25 Vietnam veterans back to the country next year.
The cyclists pedaled up and down mountains in unforgiving heat and rain, along winding roads through cities and villages, rice paddies and jungles, where the vestiges of a war that ended 40 years ago still linger.
Six days later, they ended their journey April 6 in the former imperial capital of Hue, where one of the Vietnam War's bloodiest battles was fought in 1968. They flew home from Hanoi a few days later.
Thirty riders from the United Kingdom's Help for Heroes, some of them veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, also participated in the ride.
Among the American contingent were Army Sgt. 1st Class David "Kaweka" Lau, 39, of Olympia, Wash., and Capt. Chris Rosebrock, 28, of Chicago. Their trip coincided with the day two years ago when a suicide bomber struck their foot patrol in Afghanistan, severely wounding both men. The blast killed three other American troops, five Afghan police officers, an interpreter and 11 civilians.
Lau nearly lost his right leg at the hip, but doctors managed to save it. A piece of shrapnel nicked Rosebrock's femoral artery and he almost died. In many ways, the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Vietnam are the same for those who fought in them, said Lau, who's also set to retire. Those who survive, he added, face the same gut-wrenching questions, such as "Why did I make it home?"
"It's deep. It's hard to put into words," he said. "Even though their war was 40 years before ours, to sit and talk to them, it's like talking to a guy who just fought in Afghanistan."
Despite his own traumatic experience, Rosebrock said he'd gained a deeper appreciation for the rigors that American combat troops faced in Vietnam.
"It gave me a unique perspective of what these guys fought in," he said. "Because I'm trying to get up a hill on my bike, and scouring for shade for a second, and I look across into this thick brush, and I thought, 'How did these guys fight in this?' "
John O'Connell was the only Vietnam veteran to make the ride. He served as a Marine Corps infantry lieutenant along the demilitarized zone during the bloody year of 1969. He'd never planned to return to Vietnam, but after working with today's younger veterans, he eventually changed his mind.
O'Connell taught Baer and Monreal how to surf a few years ago in California. Now they, along with Lau and Rosebrock, have helped him achieve the closure that had eluded him for decades.
"I didn't know what I was going to face here," said O'Connell, 67, a retired Los Angeles Police Department captain who lives in Shell Beach, Calif. "There were so many bad memories."
The cyclists passed through some of the places where O'Connell had fought. He remembered being with his Marines: the ones he lost, the ones who are still alive, all of whom he still loves.
"Once we got out to Khe Sanh, it really hit me," O'Connell said. "I yelled out, 'My God, I'm back home again.' "
"When we got to the Rockpile," he added — a mountain that U.S. troops had used as an artillery and observation post — "I actually felt a shot of joy in my heart."
O'Connell led a prayer near a spot where some of his men were killed 45 years ago.
"It was like a final farewell," he said, tears welling in his eyes. "I'm going away grateful for having come back to Vietnam, and I am grateful for having come back with guys like these."
Reed and Brown are McClatchy special correspondents based in Vietnam.


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Pineda inching closer to rejoining rotation
BOSTON -- Michael Pineda could be two starts away from rejoining the Yankees' big league rotation.
Pineda worked 3 1/3 scoreless innings in a Minor League rehab start for Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre against Syracuse on Sunday, scattering three hits with a walk and four strikeouts.
"He threw the ball pretty well," manager Joe Girardi said. "We're pleased with the progress that he's making and we'll take another step."
The right-hander, who has not pitched in the big leagues since April 23 because of a strained teres major muscle behind his pitching shoulder, tossed 58 pitches (37 for strikes).
Pineda's next rehab start will come on Friday for a team yet to be determined, and he will throw about 75 pitches. Girardi said that Pineda would likely make one rehab start after that, increasing to 90 pitches, and then would be considered big league ready.
"At that point, you would feel from a pitch count he's ready to join us," Girardi said.


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DUCKS at CHICAGO
Faceoff: 5 p.m., today, United Center
TV/Radio: Prime, KLAA 830-AM
Update: The Ducks on Thursday recalled left wing Emerson Etem and center David Steckel from their American Hockey League affiliate in Norfolk, Va., to bolster their lineup for the second half of an especially difficult four-game stretch. The Ducks (18-7-5) earned points in shootout losses Saturday to the San Jose Sharks and Tuesday to the Kings. They recalled Long Beach's Etem to give them a little more offensive firepower and Steckel because they're shorthanded at the center position with Mathieu Perreault (lower body) sidelined for tonight's game in Chicago and Saturday's contest in St. Louis. The Ducks defeated the Blackhawks all three times they played last season and have a four-game overall winning streak over defending Stanley Cup champion Chicago. The Blackhawks finished first overall in the Western Conference in 2012-13, and the Ducks were second. Ryan Getzlaf leads the Ducks with 32 points (14 goals, 18 assists) and Corey Perry has 31 points (16 goals, 15 assists). Patrick Kane also has 32 points (16 goals and 16 assists) for the NHL-leading Blackhawks (20-5-4).


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It might have gone unnoticed to some, but Java ME took a big leap forward a couple of weeks ago with the filing of two new JSRs:
- JSR 360: "Connected Limited Device Configuration 8" (aka CLDC 8)
- JSR 361: "Java ME Embedded Profile" (aka ME EP)
Together, these two JSRs will significantly update, enhance, and modernize the Java ME platform, and specifically small embedded Java, with a host of new features and functionality.
JSR 360 – Connected Limited Device Configuration 8
CLDC 8 is based on JSR 139 (CLDC 1.1) and updates the core Java ME VM, language support, libraries, and features to be aligned with Java SE 8. This will include:
- VM updated to comply with the JVM language specification version 2
- Support for SE 7/8 language features like Generics, Assertions, Annotations, Try-with-Resources, and more
- New libraries such as Collections, NIO subset, Logging API subset
- A consolidated and enhanced Generic Connection Framework for multi-protocol I/O
With CLDC 8, Java ME and Java SE are entering their next phase of alignment – making Java the only technology today that truly scales application development, code re-use, and tooling across the whole range of IT platforms, from small embedded to large enterprise.
JSR 361 – Java ME Embedded Profile
ME EP is based on JSR 228 (IMP-NG) and updates the specification in key areas to provide a powerful and flexible application environment for small embedded Java platforms, building on the features of CLDC 8:
- A new, lightweight component and services model
- Shared libraries
- Multi-application concurrency, inter-application communication, and event system
- Application management
- API optionality, to address low-footprint use cases
With ME EP, application developers will have a modern application environment which allows development and deployment of modular, robust, sophisticated, and footprint-optimized solutions for a wide range of embedded use cases and devices.
While these JSRs are still under development, it's clear that there are exciting new times ahead for Java ME – turning into a serious application platform while maintaining the focus on resource-constrained devices to address the expected explosion of small, smart, and connected embedded platforms.
To learn more, click on the above links for JSR 360 and JSR 361. Or review the JavaOne 2012 online presentations on the topic:
Also, for more information on JSR 360, check out Roger Brinkley's blog "A Look inside JSR 360".
And stay tuned for more in this space!
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Linfield will play an away tie against Institute in the sixth round of the Tennent's Irish Cup after defeating rivals Glentoran 2-1 in extra time at The Oval on Saturday.
The ties will be played on February 4, with cup holders Glenavon visiting Armagh City, while Danske Bank Premiership leaders Crusaders will be at home to PSNI at Seaview after sealing their passage by defeating Ards 2-0 on Saturday.
Other standout ties include Ballymena's trip to H&W Welders, while Coleraine will play Tobermore at the Showgrounds.
Portadown, victorious away to Larne in the fifth round, travel to Loughgall with Dungannon Swifts taking on Dollingstown at Stangmore Park.
Tennent's Irish Cup sixth round draw
Saturday 4 February
Armagh City v Glenavon
Dungannon Swifts v Dollingstown
Warrenpoint Town v Crewe Utd
Coleraine v Tobermore
Loughgall v Portadown
Institute v Linfield
H&W Welders v Ballymena Utd
Crusaders v PSNI


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John Mayer has undergone throat surgery to have a lesion removed from just above a vocal cord.
John Mayer has undergone throat surgery.
The 'Gravity' hitmaker has been placed on "complete vocal rest" for at least a month to help with his recovery after having a granuloma - a non-cancerous lesion that results from continuous irritation - removed from just above a vocal cord.
He revealed on his blog: "It's been a very long process in waiting to see if time was an alternative to surgery, but even given two weeks' voice rest (along with many other approaches), there was no change for the better."
The problem caused him to postpone recording on his new album, and John admits he is "dreaming" of returning to work - but planning on making the most of his time off by taking a holiday.
He added: "I should be frustrated but I can't seem to stop thinking about beautiful things... I never thought I'd be wishing I could do what I love again; I stay in at night, picking guitar parts off of records and dreaming of playing on the big stage. The only difference between now and when I was 18 is that now I have this beautiful, meaningful record waiting for me when I can sing it.
"Until then, I'm taking off. Going to travel the country, look and listen."
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Artist Leila Alvarez imagines a version of Bubblegum who has grown up to be Queen Bubblegum, but still accompanied by her favorite hero, Finn. Finn looks so serious, in the vein of a pulp barbarian. Hopefully he's still retained his childhood charms. Jake's back there, too, hanging out in his massive Jake mode—or maybe he's just put on a little weight.
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Travel Apps Focus on Booking Hotel Rooms in a Snap
In the wide world of travel, it appears hotel reservations is the low-hanging fruit of mobile applications.
In the past few weeks, Expedia has rolled out a hotel reservation application that will be the cornerstone of a much broader push into mobile. Kayak also announced it will shift its business to take hotel reservations directly, in a move toward creating a better mobile experience. Priceline's Booking.com property also has applications, and individual hotel chains like Best Western have released apps of their own.
And then there's HotelTonight.
The San Francisco-based company has an iPhone application that allows you to book last-second hotel rooms the day you are looking–for reduced prices.
HotelTonight is announcing today that it will allow users to book up to five nights at a time. It is now also available in Seattle and Miami in addition to New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington, D.C. and Boston. Dallas, Philadelphia and Atlanta will launch soon.
The one-off single-purpose applications for now appear to be standard. To be sure, they allow for easy-to-use streamlined experiences, but it's unclear whether consumers will demand a one-stop experience over time as companies get better at adding sophistication without complexity.
So far, HotelTonight has clocked 250,000 downloads in its first two months, and is encouraging more downloads by giving away a $25 credit good toward the first booking after registering.
The company was founded by Sam Shank, who is CEO. Shank, who is bankrolling the operation while they try to raise a round of capital, previously founded and was CEO of DealBase.com and CEO of TravelPost.com, which was acquired by Kayak.
HotelTonight allows people to book a room as late as 2 a.m., which is often hours later than the big aggregated sites. The company also sends its own photographers to take mobile-optimized photos, and has writers produce descriptions that include relevant information for last-minute bookers.