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The art of conversation
The art of conversation
When you see people conversing in the park or at the school gates, it seems an easy way of making contact and passing
time. But good conversation is a complex skill, involving speech, body language and listening.
writes Dr Nicola Davies
Babies have a natural ability to acquire language skills from birth, but they still
need help from adults to develop the art of conversation. It takes time to become
a competent conversation-
In the first three months, babies can respond to the sound of human voices by turning
their gaze towards the speaker and attempting to imitate what they hear. They can
recognise the voices of parents, and distinguish them from other voices. Not only
do they react differently when they hear sounds in their non-
A dramatic growth in language development occurs towards the end of the first 12
months. Although most children can only utter a few sounds by this age, they can
understand much more about communication than you might think. Most 12-
Between the age of one and two, vocabulary grows apace and children learn to understand and speak many words clearly. By four to five, they are able to listen to longer stories and can retell most of what they hear with relative accuracy.
Natural chatters
Some children are natural conversationalists. In a group of strangers, highly verbal children will quickly establish connections through talk. Most children, however, have to practice conversation. Children who are fluent conversationalists usually come from a stimulating home environment where they model parents and older siblings who are good communicators. But it isn't always the case: some children are genetically wired to excel at communicating from an early age regardless of a stimulating home environment.
Girls tend to make better conversationalists than boys: even as babies, girls make more eye contact with others and are better at detecting emotional cues. Girls also use gestures at an earlier age, such as pointing or waving hands and arms. Most girls start to speak by their first birthday, compared with 13 to 14 months for
boys, and tend to talk for longer during the toddler years. They also generally know more words than boys by about 16 months. This gender gap usually levels off by 30 months.
Talking and listening
One challenge adults face when teaching children the basics of
conversation etiquette is getting the message across that listening is just as important as talking. Children are naturally narcissistic and this extends to their conversations. But through modelling, children can learn that good conversationalists tend to do the
• Make eye contact.
• Don't interrupt.
• Don't fidget or get distracted.
• Allow for pauses.
• Make positive comments.
• Smile and nod.
Children learn much more effectively when they see and hear adults and older siblings engaged in 'good' conversation than when they are simply told about it.
Mum Johanna White (see our case study, right) says: 'When hearing either of my boys saying something which isn't quite right, I repeat what they should have said. I avoid being critical – I just let them hear the right way of putting it across. Austin always gets "he" and "she" wrong, so if he says, "When we see Sarah, where will he be?" I'll say "Where will she be?"'
From an early age, children need to learn that having conversations with peers, parents, teachers and others, are not all the same thing. By the age of six or seven, most children know there are differences in the way they speak to adults as opposed to peers. But they may need to be taught some conversation etiquette, such as that slang words aren't appropriate when
speaking to teachers.
Understanding subtexts
Children quickly develop an awareness that people don't always say what they mean. For instance, your child's friend might say, 'I want to play with you' whilst turning her back. Your child will intuitively know she doesn't really want to play through her body language. Adults can sharpen a child's ability to read and respond appropriately to body language with these simple exercises:
• Show your child pictures, depicting at least two people. Based on
body language, ask them to talk about what the people might be
saying, thinking or feeling.
• The same exercise can be done by turning off the TV sound and
asking your child to observe the body language of the actors
before discussing what they could be saying or feeling.
When doing these exercises, ask your child specific questions, such as: Are the speakers making eye contact? What emotions are they showing? Are they standing close together or moving away from one another? Activities like these can be turned into fun, education games.
'He was a whirling dervish of frustration'
Johanna White describes how she helped her son Austin, who has autism,
to overcome his early language difficulties
'Austin was diagnosed with autism when he was two-
Exchange Communication System (PECS) was something that I kept coming across. These are picture cards that help children and parents convey messages to each other. I ordered a huge consignment from eBay and started to make my own visual cards. I used the cards as a way of helping Austin to express his needs, as
well as to try and explain where we were going, what we were
doing and so on. This helped to avoid huge melt downs when he had no understanding of what to expect.'
The role of teachers
memory and allows children to anticipate phrases and words they've heard before.
Teachers who adopt an interactive reading style, where children can comment or ask questions, encourage children's conversational abilities. Another useful language development tool for the classroom is the play area – by changing it often and introducing
new props, children are encouraged to learn and use the appropriate language employed in different social environments.
How parents can help
Teaching children to become good at conversation requires time, energy and patience. Most importantly, let your child guide your approach. 'I took language and communication very much for granted until my boy came along to teach me so much more,' says Johanna.
Try these simple steps:
• Keep talking – use simple sentences, but don't stop talking to your child.
• Use concrete words – words that point to objects in the immediate environment such as 'tree' or 'dog' – as well as introducing abstract ones, such as 'remember' or 'think'.
• Speak slowly – go at a pace that matches your child's understanding and level of speech.
• Allow your child to speak – refrain from speaking on their behalf
when it's not necessary.
• Read out loud – share illustrated storybooks with your child often, and say the words out loud so they can keep track of the proper pronunciation.
When it's hard
Sometimes, communication can seem really hard and you may feel
you're facing an uphill struggle. Some children have difficulty in learning to speak clearly or understand the meanings of words and gestures, and if this is the case, they may need professional help.
If you think your child may be having problems, check out the
• Did your child walk, sit or stand at the appropriate age? Delays
in speech development might be part of a broader developmental
• Does your child primarily use gestures to communicate? They
might have hearing or speech difficulties.
• Does your child get plenty of opportunity to be around peers?
It could be that they need more stimulation.
Irritating interruptions
Practice tip: The next time your child
interrupts you, stop the conversation
immediately. Tell her to wait until you
have finished. Proceed with what you
were saying, and then praise your child or waiting without jumping in.
Be firm but gentle, and remember you will probably have to repeat this many times.
Friendly greetings
Practice tip: Pretend you are Mr
or Mrs Smith and you are meeting
your child for the first time. Talk
together about what she might say,
how she might say it, and mimic
appropriate body language. Give
your child the opportunity to
practice with you.
Joining conversations
Practice tip: Encourage your
child to join a conversation
between siblings or adults in the
family, and see how she manages.
Afterwards, commend your child
for appropriate behaviour, such as
waiting before saying something or
paying attention to others.
January/February 2015
All information is correct at time of publishing


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Samsung has packed the phone so tight with features that it's tricky to find them all. That's why we've spent hours delving into its dark places to find the best bits.
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How to set a default home screen
The Samsung Galaxy S4 lets you have up to seven home screens, however there will always be just the one that is your "default" home screen. This is the screen your phone will head to when you awaken from sleep or skip from the apps menu to the home screen.
To pick your default home screen use this tricks - pinch inward with a two-finger gesture on a home screen to zoom out and see all your current home pages. On top of each one is a little house symbol. Tap the symbol on the screen you want to be your default to select it.
How to add and remove home screens
When in the zoomed-out home screen view, you can also add and delete home screens. Hold a finger down on one of the little thumbnails until you feel a little haptic blip and drag it to the "remove" dustbin up at the top of the screen.
If you have less than seven current home screens you will also see an empty home screen placeholder with a "plus" sign on it. Tap this to add a new blank home screen.
How to add widgets to a home screen
As with virtually any Android phone, to add widgets to a home screen you just need to hold a finger down on an empty bit of home screen until a menu pops-up. One of the options within the menu is "apps and widgets". Tap on it and you'll be taken to the apps/widgets menu.
Hold a finger down on a widget to add it to a home screen. Alternatively, from the apps menu you can head right into the widgets section using the tab up top.
Using and customising Air View
Air View is a very clever application of capacitive screen technology. It lets you interact with your Galaxy S4 without even touching it. For example, you can hover a finger over a web page to get a magnified view of what you're pointing at.
There are four types of Air View functionality and you can switch them on and off in the Air View submenu that you'll find in the My Device tab of Settings.
How to take a screenshot
Indispensable to some, useless to others, the Samsung Galaxy S4 offers a screenshot function. The trick is to press and hold the power and select buttons at the same time until the screen flashes, and an image of what's on-screen will be saved to your phone's gallery.
How to kill TouchWiz without a hack
If you root your phone, you can install a completely different version of Android on it. But it's not something we recommend for beginners. If you don't get on with the Samsung interface, there's a much easier way to change things.
What you need is a Launcher app from Google Play. This slaps a new interface on the phone – and you can turn it back within the Settings menu. Top launcher apps to try include Smart Launcher, Next Launcher and Action Launcher.
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To 4G or not to 4G?
The Samsung Galaxy S4 has 4G connectivity, but is it worth using? At present, the outlay is hard to justify. EE is the only network that offers 4G connectivity at the time of writing, and there are significant core issues with the plans it offers.
To get a plan that has enough of a mobile data allowance to make 4G worthwhile is extremely expensive. 8GB a month costs £56 p/m and 20GB is £76. In our opinion, 1GB data (£41/month) is just too little to justify 4G speed. Prices will come down once more carriers get involved later this year.
Using NFC – what is it good for?
The Galaxy S4 is one of a growing number of phones with NFC, near-field communication. It has a few key uses – the most exciting being mobile payments. However, this only works in a handful of high street shops (it's used primarily for low-cost purchases too).
Realising this, Samsung has put NFC to its own uses. S Beam is Samsung's own connection standard that melds NFC and Wi-Fi Direct to make transferring items between compatible phones devices easy and quick. You'll find the NFC menu toward the bottom of the Connections tab in Settings.
What is NFC and why is it in your phone?
Using Wi-Fi Direct
Wi-Fi Direct is a kind of Wi-Fi connection that doesn't require a connection to a router – letting you transfer files between Wi-Fi Direct devices without actually having any internet connectivity. Wi-Fi Direct has been embedded across the Touchwiz in the Samsung Galaxy S4. You'll find it in the Share options of the photo gallery, for example. It looks just like a Wi-Fi symbol.
What is DLNA?
If you look through the Connections part of the Galaxy S4's Settings menu you'll find mention of "sharing over DLNA", but little talk of what it actually is. DLNA is a communications standard that uses Wi-Fi to transfer media files between devices using Samsung's AllShare media streaming tech. So if you want to send video, audio or photos to a TV wirelessly and you don't have a Samsung TV, this is the option you want. Of course, your TV (or other media device) will need to be connected to Wi-Fi and support DLNA.
What is Kies? Do I need it?
Kies is Samsung's desktop sync software, the equivalent of iTunes. The neat part is that you can use it to wirelessly sync files over your home network.
Should you use it? We don't. The Samsung Galaxy S4's internal storage shows up as a media disk drive when plugged into a computer, so it's not necessary. And it's not all that good either.
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Get rid of the annoying Samsung "whistle"
One of the dead giveaways that you're using a Samsung Galaxy phone is the irritating "whistle" notification tone that accompanies text message alerts by default. Why not be different, and less annoying, by changing to something less predictable?
You'll find the options to alter this under "default notification sound" in the Sound submenu of Settings.
Customising your notifications panel shortcuts
The Samsung Galaxy S4 gives you masses of control over which quick power options are accessible from the standard pull-down Android notifications menu. You can have up to five toggles for phone features in the bar – for things like Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.
To choose which ones you want to put in the limelight, tap the icon in the top-right of the notifications bar. This gives you the full power toggle selection. Then tap the pencil button up top to customise where these all sit. Drag up your favourites to the top to put them at your fingertips.
Set blocking mode for a good night's sleep
There are few things that are as annoying as being awoken by a bleating phone just as you're nodding off. Blocking mode is here to stop that from happening. It lets you stop your Galaxy S4 from alerting you with notifications, calls, alarms and the LED indicator during certain times (which you set).
However, you can also set certain "golden contacts" that can get through to you at all times. Trick - The locking mode has its own menu within the My Device tab of Settings.
Customising what the LED indicator does
There's a multi-colour LED indicator hidden behind the white front fascia of the Galaxy S4, and you can choose what it lights-up for. It has its own sub menu within the My Device tab of Settings. In it you'll find tick boxes to enable/disable indicators for charging, low battery, notifications and voice recording. The charging indicator is the one you're most likely to want to turn off.
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Phone calls and Contacts
Auto rejection
Have a bug-a-boo stalking you? The Samsung Galaxy S4 can be setup to automatically reject their calls. You can maintain a whole list of people to reject if you like.
To start up this list use our tip - go to the My Device tab of the Settings menu, tap Call, Call Rejection, then Auto Reject List. Here is where you pick your rejection numbers. You can also setup messages to send to "rejected" people who try to call you.
Personalised ringtones
Individual ringtones are setup not within the Call menu, but the contacts list. Tap on one of your contacts and in the menu you'll find options to set specific message tones and ringtones. There's a list of preset ones but you can also pick another sound from within your music apps (just tap "Add" at the bottom of the ringtone selection menu.)
Tackling robot auto dialler machines
The Samsung Galaxy S4 has a few tricks up its sleeve to help you tackle those super-annoying automated robot voice dialler setups – such as when you call the bank.
When tapping in a phone number, you can insert pauses to avoid having to wait for the system to witter on with the phone next to your ear. Press the menu button while dialling and you can add a 2-sec pause (they can be stacked). Of course, you need to know the system pretty well before this feature will be of much use.
How to get your contacts filled up
Using an Android phone, it's easy to get your Android-stored contacts restored to a new phone. However, if that's not enough you can also use social network apps to get your contacts book filled up with info.
The days of having to write numbers down in a notepad are long, long gone. Download the Facebook and Twitter apps (if you're on those networks) and you'll be prompted to add contacts info from them to your Galaxy S4's contacts section.
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Browsing and data
Monitor data usage
One native Android 4.2 feature that has stuck in the Galaxy S4 is the data usage monitor. You'll find it near the top of the Connections tab in Settings. It shows you the data you've used over the last month in a graph, and tells you what apps have used the most data.
You can set your own mobile data limit, and make the phone disconnect mobile data once it's used up, in order to avoid any annoying extras charges on your mobile bill.
Request Desktop Mode is a must
The Samsung web browser has a mode that forces the phone to view the desktop version of a website rather than the mobile one. In most cases, the desktop version will work better unless you have poor vision.
Five inches and 1080p resolution is more than enough for mobile websites. You'll find the Desktop view tickbox in the Settings menu, which is accessed by pressing the menu soft key when in the browser.
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Best Apps and Games
Top show-off games
Want to show off the raw power of your Galaxy S4? The best way to do so is with a high-end game. Our top recommendations include Real Racing 3, Dead Trigger and Riptide GP. The first two are free – the latter costs £1.39.
Essential Apps
After Samsung packed the Galaxy S4 with so many inbuilt features, you may not need to head straight to the Google Play app store. However, apps we found we couldn't do without include Spotify, Netflix, TuneInRadio, BBC iPlayer and BBC iPlayer Radio. And of course, the Twitter/Facebook apps.
Fun Free Games
A forte of Android is free games. Some games you have to pay for on iOS are free on Android. Top picks include Angry Birds, Angry Birds Space and the rest – but you probably know those already. Others to check out include Hill Climb Racing, Candy Crush Saga, Real Racing 3, Whale Trail Frenzy and Temple Run 2.
How to delete apps
Most of you may know this already, but you can't simply delete apps from your apps menu – holding a finger down on one just sends it to a home screen.
To get rid of an app, you need to do so from the Applications Manager of the Settings menu. It's under the More tab. Tap on an app's entry here and you'll find an uninstall option, as long as it's not a pre-installed app you can't get rid of.
Try out our selection of 50 best Android apps 2014.
Battery Life
Musing on Power Saving mode
Like most top-end phones, the Samsung Galaxy S4 has a power saving mode that throttles certain phone features in order to make the battery last as long as possible. You'll find the Power Saving Mode menu within the My Device tab of the Settings menu. In it are three tick boxes to set the CPU, screen and haptic feedback to low-power mode.
Hardcore battery-saving tactics
If you find that power saving mode still doesn't do enough for battery life, you can take things further. The top way to conserve battery is to turn off mobile data. You can do this from the notifications bar.
With this turned off, you won't get any online updates unless you're connected to a Wi-Fi network. Other tactics include switching off GPS, Bluetooth, vibration alerts, NFC and Wi-Fi. In theory they shouldn't use much power when the phone is idle, but sneaky apps may try to use them when you're not looking.
On Screen Brightness
The Samsung Galaxy S4's screen is much brighter than the Galaxy S3's. It will burn through the battery pretty quickly if maxed-out. Thankfully, the phone has a commendably flexible automatic brightness mode.
This uses an ambient light sensor on the phone's front fascia to judge how bright the screen needs to be in each situation – more ambient light means higher intensity is required. You can manually set the brightness without auto turned on, and you can also set the level of brightness within auto mode.
How to turn off all the… nonsense
The Samsung Galaxy S4 is packed with "extra" features that some of you may consider utter nonsense. Thankfully, you can disable just about all of them. Most can be flicked off from the extended power toggles in the notifications bar (access using the top-right "squares" screen icon in the notifications pulldown).
Best Android battery saving apps.
How to video multi-task
Like the Samsung Galaxy S3, the Galaxy S4 lets you pop-out any playing video to watch while you're doing other things. It stays on-screen as an overlay no matter what you're doing, until you close it down.
To do this use this tricks - go to the Samsung video player app, load up a video and press the bottom-right icon in the transport bar. You can then resize the video "postage stamp" with a two-fingered pinch gesture.
How to use multi-screen
An arguably much more useful kind of multi-tasking is multi-screen. This lets you have two apps on-screen at once, using Samsung Multiview. This is one of the more substantial extras offered by Touchwiz.
To use it, make sure Multiview is enabled in the drop down notifications power menu. Turning it on will make a little pull tab appear at the left of the screen. Tap on it and the apps drawer will appear. You can then drag these apps onto the screen. With no apps running, the app will fill the screen. Use it while already in an app and they'll share half a screen each. You can also alter how much screen real estate each gets by dragging the bar that separates them.
How to close running apps
One of the most common reasons for battery life and performance problems in Android phones is apps running in the background. The Samsung Galaxy S4 lets you close these down manually by opening them up in the Application Manager, which you'll find in the More tab of Settings.
To shut down an app, tap the Force Stop button within each app's page. Alternatively, there are apps available from Google Play that will close down all running apps in one go - just search for "task manager" in Google play and you'll find a bunch.
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Screen and Video
Best video player
The integrated video player of the Galaxy S4 is pretty nifty, able to cope with more video types than most mobile phones. However, there are even more flexible players out there.
Perhaps the most popular is MX Player. Like VLC on PCs, it's a media player that claims to be able to play everything. It's likely that a version with Galaxy S4-optimised hardware acceleration will be released soon too.
How to offset AMOLED colours
The colours of the Galaxy S4 are a little hot as standard – a little oversaturated. One of our favourite software tweaks of the phone is that you can change this. There are colour temperature/intensity modes within Settings > My Device > Display > Screen Mode. For natural-looking colours, opt for "professional photo" or "movie". They may look dull, but that's because the other settings are oversaturated.
Screen mirroring
One of the phone's neatest features is Screen Mirroring. You'll find this mode in the Connections tab of the Settings menu. It pipes whatever's on the phone's screen to another display – which will generally be a TV. It's compatible with Samsung devices equipped with AllShare and Wi-Fi Direct.
Audio and Music
Audio Adapt – check it out
The Samsung Galaxy S4 has excellent audio output – it's loud and it's clean. It also offers a truly intriguing feature called Adapt Sound. You'll find this mode in the very bottom of the Sound menu (found under the My Device tab of Settings.)
Adapt Sound gives you a hearing test, by playing tones of differing pitches and volumes to each ear. What it does it to measure how good your hearing is, and which of your ears has to "work harder" when listening. It then changes the sound accordingly.
Format Support is excellent
Samsung tends to produce phones with better audio and video format support than the competition, and the Galaxy S4 is no different. It can handle OGG, FLAC and apt-X Bluetooth streaming as well as more common formats. There's little chance you'll need a third-party media player app with this phone.
Lock screen
How to customise lock screen animation
The Samsung Galaxy S4 has one of the more OTT Android lock screens. Go near it with a finger and y default light "sparks" will fly out like some sort of kid's toy. As well as this light effect, you can choose an animated ripple within Settings > My Device > Lock screen. Alternatively, you can grow up and turn off the animation altogether.
How to customise lock screen content
You can also choose what goes on your lock screen. A "personal message" (not our personal choice), a clock, your favourite apps, a camera shortcut – and the standard app shortcuts of the standard nav bar can all be turned on and off. You'll one more find these options in Settings > My Device > Lock screen.
Enabling Swype-style continuous input
The fastest kind of mobile phone typing – for most people at least – is using a Swype-style keyboard. This lets you drag a path over the letters in a word rather than having to tap out each letter separately. The Samsung keyboard offers this style of typing, but you have to enable it manually. The tick box you need is called continuous input and you'll find it at Settings > My Device > Language Input, after pressing the "cog" icon in the Samsung Keyboard menu item.
Enabling Handwriting recognition (and when to use it)
The Samsung Galaxy S4 keyboard has integrated character recognition, which can decipher letters from your scrawls. Make sure it's turned on in the keyboard menu mentioned in the past tip, then – when using the virtual keyboard – hold a finger down on the button just to the right of the Sym key.
This brings up a menu that houses the handwriting mode, whose symbol looks like a "T" with a pen next to it. Using handwriting is only advised when you're using a stylus, as handwriting with a finger feels… weird.
How to change the keyboard
If you don't get on with the Samsung keyboard, you can install third-party ones downloaded from Google Play. The most popular of the lot is Swiftkey, which costs £2.99 – but there's a free version you can try out too (however, it's very similar to the Samsung one).
Others include Touchpal, the excellent Swype and Go Keyboard. Once downloaded, you can select different keyboards from within Settings > My Device > Language and Input. You'll find keyboard selection under the "Default" menu item.
S Health
What it can and can't do
S Health is the Samsung Galaxy S4's fitness tracker. However, it doesn't work the way you may expect. Rather than using GPS to track the routes of runs or cycling, it's a more simplistic tracker that measures your steps using the accelerometer within the phone.
The benefit of using the accelerometer rather than GPS is that it doesn't completely kill the phone's battery – so it can run in the background pretty happily. Drop the step tracker widget on the home screen and it'll count your paces throughout the day pretty effectively.
Other S Health abilities include noting down exercise (through manual input), inputting your weight over the weeks and writing down what you've eaten. It's a pretty manual affair, aside from the pace counter.
The better run trackers
If you're a runner, using a GPS-enabled run tracker is a much better solution. These will show the exact route you ran on a map and tell you how far you ran. The most popular GPS running apps include RunKeeper and MayMyRun. You'll also find GPS cycling apps on Google Play.
It's the one use for the barometer
S Health is also the one part of the Galaxy S4 that currently uses the barometer and thermometer. Yep, the phone actually has those inside its plastic bod. Go to the Comfort Level part of the app and the phone will calculate the moisture level in the air and the temperature. Useful? Absolutely not, unless you have OCD.
Using digital zoom
The Galaxy S4 has a 4x digital zoom function. It reduces the quality of the shots you'll capture but may come in handy. There are two ways to zoom in and out. You can either use the two-finger pinch gesture on the touchscreen or the volume rocker – volume up zooms in, volume down zooms out. If using zoom, we recommend turning on Anti Shake.
Top photo tips
The key to producing well-composed photos is to understand the geometry of your scene. Wonky horizons are a dead giveaway of a newbie photographer. Photos don't need to be straight all the time, but everything should be deliberate. To get horizons in order, turn on the grid overlay and use it to line-up your scene. Within the Settings menu of the camera app, click the cog tab and scroll down to Guidelines – then switch 'em on.
Using Remote viewfinder
A neat application of the Galaxy S4's Wi-Fi Direct functionality is Remote Viewfinder. This lets you use the phone to control a Samsung camera that also has Wi-Fi Direct. The most obvious current choice is the Samsung Galaxy Camera - pretty much the "smartest" camera on the market at present.
Removing stray objects
One of the most interesting-sounding photo modes of the Galaxy S4 is Eraser. This is a multi-exposure mode that is used to rub out moving objects from scenes – the typical use scenario is that you'll be taking a photo of some people, but don't want passers-by in the shot. The mode detects the errant objects and merges the shots to get rid of them. It won't work perfectly unless the phone is used with a tripod, but it's a neat trick.
Useful photo modes vs rubbish modes
The best photo modes are those that aren't based on gimmicks, but actual photographic principals. Here are the good and the bad
The good:
HDR – merges two exposures to increase detail
Panorama – takes a wide shot
Auto – automatically sets photo parameters
Best photo – a burst mode that takes multiple shots in one
The not so good:
Eraser – Takes multiple shots and lets you remove moving objects from the scene
Drama – Merges multiple exposures for funny effects
Sound & shot – Takes audio and video at the same time
Best face – lets you pick the "best face" out of multiple shots
Animated photo – creates an animated GIF where most of the image is static
These modes aren't useless, they're just gimmicky because they use "advanced" editing techniques that will generally result in lower quality snaps – primarily down to wonky auto-compositing of images.
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Bonus tips
How get the WatchON controller on your notifications barThe WatchON app of the Galaxy S4 is a nice idea – an app that lets you control your TV with your phone – but if it's not within a finger's reach it's a bit useless.
You can place the virtual WatchON remote control in your drop-down notifications bar if you like, from within the WatchON app. To do this, open up the app and tap on the menu soft key (on the phone, not the app.) Then tap Advanced, and from within this sub-menu you'll see a tick box that lets you place the remote in the notifications menu.
It takes up a whole lot of space, but it's worth using if you want your Galaxy S4 to become your main TV remote.
Altering the tone of your call signalConsistent with the Galaxy S4's approach of letting you fiddly with just about every part of the phone, you can alter the tone of phone calls. Your options are – soft, clear and an adapted sound. This gives you a mini hearing test to ascertain what will sound best to your ears. It's clever stuff.
To access these options, head to the Settings menu and tap the Call menu that sits under the My Device tab. Scroll down a bit and you'll find the Personalise Call Sound sub-menu.
Turning noise reduction on and offYou can also choose whether or not to use noise reduction – which affects the sound quality at the other end of the line, not on your side.
The Samsung Galaxy S4 has dual microphones, letting it just what sound on the line is ambient noise and what is your voice. There are few reasons to turn noise reduction off, but we have heard reports that bugs can cause it to ruin a phone call. If people are complaining about call quality, try turning it off.
To get to the NR switch, go to the Settings menu and head to the Call option under the My Device tab. Here you'll see a 'Noise Reduction' tick box.
Save battery and mobile data with the Wi-Fi TimerA very neat little efficiency-increasing feature is the Wi-Fi timer. This lets you switch Wi-Fi on and off at certain times of the day.
The most obvious use for this is to turn Wi-Fi on during the hours you're at home. It'll mean the Galaxy S4 will automatically connect to a Wi-Fi network during these hours, saving mobile data, but otherwise won't.
Switching Wi-Fi off during the hours you have no plans to use a Wi-Fi network saves battery, as it stops the phone from scanning for available networks. And if you're in a city, there'll be a whole lot of them, more-or-less everywhere.
You'll find the Wi-Fi Timer by going to Settings, hitting the Wi-Fi menu option (not the on-off slider) under the Connections tab, pressing the Menu soft key on your Galaxy S4 and hitting Advanced. Yep, it's a pretty well-hidden feature. You then set the hours you want the Wi-Fi timer to switch on Wi-Fi.
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Our football match prediction:
Getafe will be looking to make amends for a heavy 6-0 loss to Barcelona when they take on Eibar in the suburbs of Madrid. Los Azulones failed to record a win in previous four home fixtures in La Liga and they are desperate to put an end to the negative trend. Fran Escriba's troops are eager to escape the relegation zone, but Friday's game against Eibar will be anything but a walk in the park for the hosts. Los Armeros produced a fine display in a 1-1 draw with Rayo Vallecano and it has to be noted that they missed several clear-cut chances to score in the dying minutes of the game. Eibar are on a five-game winless run in the national championship, though, meaning that they would be happy with one point from Thursday's football clash in Madrid. Taking everything into account, we predict that the fans will see a close encounter at Coliseum Alfonso Perez.
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Getafe Club de Futbol is a Spanish football club from the suburb of Madrid. The club hosts it's home games in the Coliseum Alfonso Perez which holds a capacity of 17 7000 seats. The club managed to reach the Primera Division in 2004. The main club colours are blue and red. The fans of Getafe gave the club the nickname Azulones or Geta.The biggest succes of Getafe was in the season 2006/2007 where the club reached the final of the Copa del Rey which they lost 1-0 against Sevilla FC. Getafe CF played in the UEFA Cup once in 2007 where they end in the quarter finals after playing against Bayern Munich.Known players that played for Getafe in their football career are: David Silva, Raul Albiol, Aragones and Daniel Guiza.


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Kendrick Lamar's latest album good kid, m.A.A.d city is about to hit stores this month, so the promo tour is in full effect. As with any emerging rapper, Fallon's show is a most, and this time the dude gets special help from The Roots for his TV debut. Check it.
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The i5/OS blade: Confusion, then resolution
As I said in a previous post, the i5/OS blade isn't coming until next year. That is still the case, despite some confusion borne by an IBM press release.
I found out about the press release from Chris Maxcer over at the System i Network, who wrote that System i blades were coming on Nov. 30 of this year. Maxcer said he was looking around IBM's Project Big Green, which eventually led him to another press release about IBM and data center energy efficiency. Near the end of that release is this paragraph:
POWER6 processor-based Blade systems for AIX and Linux on POWER are scheduled to be available on BladeCenter H and BladeCenter HT chassis beginning November 30. A JS22 Express configuration, including 4 GB memory, a 73GB hard disk drive and BladeCenter H chassis is priced at $10,363.
There is that Nov. 30 date. Although there is a footnote tied to the date basically saying, "Don't hold us to this date," I was surprised that this date would be thrown out in a press release the same week that an IBM executive in the IBM Power Systems group told me they wouldn't be out until the first half of next year.
So I followed through to figure out which was correct, and received this email from a third-party IBM PR rep: "The i5/OS won't be available on the JS22 until the first half of next year; November 30th was a typo. I apologize for the confusion."
Hey, no problem. As long as we got it right (then or eventually), it's all good.
i5/OS on blade server not coming until next year
There was plenty of talk earlier this year that a server blade running i5/OS might be ready by the end of this year, but in conversations I had this week from IBM's Power systems group, that's not going to happen.
Scott Handy, a marketing VP in the group, said i5/OS will be available on the Power6 blade in the first half of next year, presumably around the same time Power6 System i rack servers will be ready as well. He told me that "i5/OS isn't ready yet."
There's another thing. A feature of the Power6 chip is Live Partition Mobility, which allows users to move an entire hard partition from one physical server to another without any downtime. Right now it's available on AIX and Linux. Obviously it's not available on i5/OS yet because there isn't a Power6-based server running i5/OS yet, but Handy wouldn't commit to me about whether it would be available for i5/OS, only saying that IBM is "working on it."
Vision Solutions' Lakeview acquisition apparently paying off
High availability and disaster recovery software provider Vision Solutions Inc. recently announced a significant increase in sales volume following the acquisition of Lakeview Technology.
According to the Irvine, Calif.-based company, Vision Solutions "closed more than 1,000 new sales of high availability, disaster recovery, and data management software," more than 40% of which are to new customers. That's good news for investors, but what about the people who actually use Vision's products?
In an IM conversation with iStudio400.com's John Brandt, sales is all Vision seems to be talking about. "My impression is that they are simply pushing for more sales," Brandt said. He also added that the media has not said "a word about better functionality or better service" concerning Vision post-acquisition.
Does anybody else share this opinion? Send me your rants or raves or leave us a comment here.
Web development software seeks cross-platform connections
A piece of System i web development software now has the ability to create programs that connect to Microsoft SQL Server databases and to MySQL databases on Windows, Linux and Unix platforms.
Business Computer Design International, Inc.'s WebSmart ILE v6.6 also has a new HTML editor to help programmers create applications and templates to create HTML, JavaScript and CSS files.
i5/OS V6R1: joy or annoy?
You just have to love this sub-headline from MC Press Online's article about the upcoming i5/OS V6R1: Will it be the Joy of Six (V6, that is) or the Annoy of Six?
System i hardware upgrade calculator
Timothy Prickett Morgan at IT Jungle has put together a great resource for older AS/400 and iSeries shops that are thinking about upgrading to a System i model. Heck, the resource is great for those who aren't thinking about upgrading, simply because it's always good to consider options that you didn't know you had.
And it's no surprise that IBM is trying hard to sell new hardware; judging by revenue numbers over the past two years, IBM hasn't done so well when it comes to System i hardware. At least part of that problem is the hardiness of the platform itself. We've all heard stories of System i machines sitting in corners, running for years without a hiccup. While it's a blessing for the shops where that is the case, it can be a curse for IBM: Its customers are hesitant to fix what they don't consider broken.
And so IBM has assembled a way to compare AS/400 and iSeries boxes with what it views as the ideal System i hardware upgrade. The site looks at processor performance, hardware and software maintenance, and power costs. To simplify it for you, Morgan put it in this awesome System i comparison table. Check it out. Bookmark it.
RPG's backward compatibility a mixed bag
RPG expert Paul Tuohy says the longtime programming language — whose history dates back to the days of punchcards — is anything but ancient and insists that IBM won't let it die off.
But there are problems, he said. One of them is backward compatibility. What? Being able to run an RPG program from 30 years ago on today's System i machine without having to recompile is a problem? Well, yes. Because it works, people are slow to adopt change, and are therefore not taking advantage of the new developments IBM has done with RPG.
Tuohy added that newer technologies like Java should be working in concert with RPG on the System i, not as a replacement. Tuohy suggests using Java to tweak the interface but keeping RPG to handle all the business logic, which he said it's so good at.
Database change mangement software gets upgrade
Excel Program Inventions has upgraded its Database Assistant software for the System i to include Control Language (CL) support and a feature to generate SQL for changed files.
Version 2.2 of EPI's database change management software, called Database Assistant, is available now. Its goal is to reduce the manual programming effort needed to make changes to database files and RPG applications on the System i.
Book auction to support FreeBSD
Do you use open source software on your System i? Here is an opportunity to give back to the open source community.
Tech book publisher No Starch Press is auctioning a copy of its new pub, Absolutely FreeBSD by Michael W. Lucas, to raise money for the FreeBSD Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the Unix-like FreeBSD platform. The winner of the auction receives a signed copy of "Absolute FreeBSD" and a certificate of authenticity.
The ongoing auction runs through Nov. 2, 2007. The FreeBSD Foundation is using eBay's charitable MissionFish service to provide this auction at a reduced rate.
Lawson brings 64-bit support to Unix, not i5/OS
Lawson Software is bringing 64-bit support to HP-UX and AIX on its S3 ERP software, but i5/OS folks are going to have to wait.
Lawson has quite a few S3 software users on the System i platform, and yet it's unclear when 64-bit support for i5/OS will be coming. The marketing director for Lawson told IT Jungle that it would come but didn't specify when. Lawson also plans to have 64-bit support on S3 ERP software for Windows and Solaris.


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NewBrook Fire gets new tanker
NEWFANE >> The NewBrook Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department has taken delivery of its newest major piece of firefighting apparatus, a Pierce FXP Tanker.
The truck, manufactured at the Pierce plant in Bradenton, Fla., arrived at the NewBrook fire station on Route 30 in Newfane in early July.
The new tanker is built on a Freightliner tandem-axle chassis and has a 350-horsepower Cummins ISL engine. It can carry 3000 gallons of water. It has a main pump with a capacity of 1000 gallons per minute.
Todd Lawley, NewBrook's Chief, is confident the new tanker will greatly assist the department's efforts by giving firefighters their own water supply until water can be brought from other sources. A modern tanker is an essential piece of equipment for any rural fire department.
The new tanker's cost is $275,000, some of which has been set aside from NewBrook's funds, the balance coming from a dedicated fundraising effort in the Newfane/Brookline community. The members, officers, and trustees of NewBrook wish to thank all who contributed so generously to this important purchase.
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John 4:20
"Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or a sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and their sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen."
John 4:20
"Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or a sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and their sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen."
Anyone that reads my posts knows, for the most part, I only offer these blog messages during the fall (football season), and I typically try to find something to write about that pertains to the sporting world. Well, this past Thursday (July 7th) my city (Dallas) was attacked. And since then, there has been a lot of attention given to our great city and a lot of talk regarding the attack.
Let me start by saying, on your BEST DAY you are a sinner saved by grace. Let me repeat that so that it sinks in … on any given day we are ALL sinners saved by grace, and grace alone. We are ALL humans, born into sin and NONE of us is any better than the other.
A thought occurred to me the morning after the attack … how do you think our military feel? There are men and women fighting the true enemy in the Middle East and what do you think goes thru their minds when they read and hear about what we are doing to ourselves over here in, what I still believe is the greatest country in the world? In my opinion, our actions are basically a spit in the face of our military men and women. And what do you think ISIS and the Taliban are saying about us … "they seem to be doing our work for us."
I found myself getting engrossed in the conversations regarding the Thursday night attacks and it didn't occur to me until Sunday that I was leaning on my own understanding and not taking a biblical point of view (which I always try to do). We can't lean on our own understanding and try to make sense of things. Only God can provide the answers that any one of us is seeking
Acts 17:31
"For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead."
So what is the answer? I'm not sure that there is "one" answer to any of the questions that persist today, however, I know a good place to start … God.
Each day that goes by, we seem to be separating ourselves more and more from God, so, for me, it seems to make sense that we are in such stressful times. The devil is the master of deceit.
The number of Americans who identify as Christian has fallen nearly eight percentage points in the past seven years, according to a new survey.
Pew Research Center found that 71% of Americans identified as Christian in 2014 – down from 78% in 2007.
In the same period, Americans identifying as having no religion grew from 16% to 23%..
Corinthians 6:14
"Do not be unequally yoked with non-believers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness. Or what fellowship has light with darkness."
A common phrase thrown around these days is "be real." Shoot, the name of my company is "Keepin It Real Sports." So, what does it mean to be "real?" I'm not really sure these days, however I do know that it's not hearing what you want to hear and holding that to be the truth.
The old saying, "there are two sides to every story" is a bit misleading.
There are actually three sides … there is your side, my side and in the middle lies the truth.
So, what is the "truth?"
Well, just like sides to stories, there is your truth, my truth and THE truth, which can come from only one place … only one source, the authoritative word. The bible.
So let us eat from the good book and grow in Christ, for as humans, leaning on our own understanding, we are doomed to fail.
I can hear my late grandmother in my ear now, "Manga, Manga" (which means "eat").
Romans 12:15-21
"Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate yourself with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight. Repay no evil with evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peacefully with all. Beloved, never avenge yourself, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, 'Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.' To the contrary, if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by doing so you will heap burning coals on his head. Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good."
This is a powerful passage and one that should give all something to reflect on.
With that in mind, I want to issue a challenge to anyone that reads this blog entry …
If you are a Christian, you believe in God (right).
If you believe in God then you believe in heaven, which most refer to as a "better place".
If you believe in heaven and a "better place" then you should not be fearful.
However, we are all human and, therefore, are all fearful, to a certain extent, of the unknown.
I'm afraid of snakes
So I had a woman wrap a python around my neck once
I'm afraid of heights
So I jumped out of a perfectly good plane (several times)
Police officers are (more than likely) afraid of dying, just like most, yet they wake up every morning and face their fears … day after day, after day, after day
My challenge for you is to carefully (tension is high) approach a police officer of a different race (this should not even have to be mentioned, however, given the current status of our country, I make it a point to note) and offer a kind gesture.
I don't want to define nor limit what your gesture may be … it could simply be a thank you, an offer to take them to lunch or any number of other options (please remember, they are "human beings" as well … just like you and I, and have families and loved ones … just like you and I).
Now, here is the bigger challenge (for some) … once you've offered your gesture, ask the officer his name (99% will oblige) and, regardless whether they share their name or accept your offer, then ask if there is anything you can pray for him/her regarding (again, most humans will not turn down the offer of a prayer).
I assure you, you will not only be doing a good thing, you will walk away feeling good about yourself.
And, most importantly, this is pleasing to the Lord.
Ephesians 6:10-13
"Finally, be strengthened by the Lord and by His vast strength. Put on the full armor of God so that you can stand against the tactics of the Devil. For our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world powers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens. This is why you must take up the full armor of God so that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having prepared everything, to take your stand."
I've said it before, it's time for us as Christians to "come out of the closest" and fight the good fight for Him. And our fight is with the evil in this world … the devil.
And I'll end the way I started … Please remember that on your BEST day you are a sinner saved by grace! I don't know about you but, John 4:20, which is how I started … it doesn't sit well with me having God view me as a liar. So I want to make sure I do my part to dispel that for myself and any other believer that reads this posting.
God Bless us ALL
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It might seem strange to think about healthy Christmas meals this time of year. There are ways, though, to eat a bit healthier during this time of year when food is a major focus. When we eat better, we feel and behave better too. There are lots of good alternatives to some of the unhealthy ingredients that seem to find their way into our foods this time of year.
Eating healthier can turn into a great health lesson for your children. As you pursue a more healthy lifestyle, your children can help you read labels and research why a certain food ingredient should be avoided. Start with one thing at a time and learn as much as you can about how you can all look and feel better. I've included some simple meal ideas along with tips for simple things your family can do to increase their health.
I hope you have a Merry Christmas!
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According to Julio Davalos, M.D., director of Chesapeake Urology's kidney stone program, anyone can produce kidney stones, but certain individuals are more prone to them because of hereditary factors and even lifestyle issues.
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Scots Physically attractive or appealing; pretty.
- adj. Scots Excellent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Alternative spelling of bonnie.
- n. A round and compact bed of ore, or a distinct bed, not communicating with a vein.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Handsome; beautiful; pretty; attractively lively and graceful.
- adj. Gay; merry; frolicsome; cheerful; blithe.
- n. A round and compact bed of ore, or a distinct bed, not communicating with a vein.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Beautiful; fair or pleasant to look upon; pretty; fine.
- Gay; merry; frolicsome; cheerful; blithe.
- n. In mining, a mass of ore adjacent to a vein, but not distinctly connected with it; "a great collection of ore, without any vein coming into or going from it," See carbona.
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- adj. very pleasing to the eye
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If she's clever compared with the rest of them then I pity our cousins in bonny Scotland.
See here is our ain bonny Charlie for a guard, and what better could an auld Jacobite wish for? said Kenneth, looking fondly on his wife; while their son marched past them in his Highland dress and wooden claymore by his side.
Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick, North America
He wad mak a bonny corpse; I wad like to hae the streiking and winding
'She used to be -- bonny, that is, as a button or a buckle micht be bonny.
That's the equivalent of my parents describing a girl as "bonny" when they meant she'd be better looking if she'd been hit in the face with a shovel.
"Eh, but ye wad mak a bonny munsie o 'me, Grannie, to hae me feart at the deil an' a '!
He wad mak a bonny corpse; I wad like to hae the streiking and winding o 'him. "
I am acquainted) -- equally joyous would Mr. Evans have been to have had the inspection of some of these 'bonny' songs.
An accurate, daguerrotyped portrait of a commonplace face: a carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers: but no glance of a bright, vivid physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck.
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You can bid for the Roboraptor at the Philcon TAFF auction, where it will be auctioned off to send a deserving sci-fi fan to bonny old England!
A small quantity of anything. --Dr. Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary and Supplement, 1841.
I thought this was Irish, but it's actually Scottish, which I guess is pretty close. "Bonnie lass" is fairly common phrase in Celtic music.
very pleasing to the eye (also "bonnie").


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Hey iPhone users, not enough excuses yet to abandon real life and run down your battery? Never fear, EA is here! Seems the uber-developer is readying a release of Sims 3 for the iPhone (and iPod Touch). Says TUAW:
it's set for an almost simultaneous release on PC, Mac, the iPhone and the iPod touch. The popularity of iPhone apps may have done what Mac gamers couldn't do for years: convince developers that releasing their games simultaneously on Mac and PC was worth it.
PC version set to ship June 2. No release date for the iPhone version yet, but EA claims Summer 2009.
Anyone here eager to get their Sims on?
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Helping out other people is a good thing, but having to conform and do everything for societal good is very bad. Ayn Rand was somewhat right in saying that selfishness is a good thing. For example: Ambition is considered a virtue, and it is very closely liked to selfishness if not raw selfishness. Selfishness is bad if the individual doesn't weigh the consequence of his/her selfishness. Individualism strives towards eudimonia (happiness gained through honor and contemplation), while utilitarianism strives towards pleasure. Individualism shows people the hard fact that success comes with the price of pain and struggle while utilitarianism makes a Brave New World. Utilitarianism is nihilist (loss of human purpose) because it uses pleasure and safety as an excuse of why people should not be achieving their own personal goals for eudimonia, and Individualism is a good way of combatting Nihilism. After all, if our parents say achieve your dreams, then why shouldn't we?
This isn't really a black or white, either or question. There are some instances in which individualism is much more important the common good. There are other situations where the opposite is true. I chose yes because saying "no" would mean individuality is not important at all, that is completely wrong.
I think that respecting the individual and a person's autonomy is more important than forcing everything to be for the common good. If we fail to put the rights of the individual on a pedestal, then we risk stifling the individuality that has resulted in some of history's most important discoveries and inventions.
While there does need to be some thought to the common good, the truth is that when you put the common good before individuality, you tend to make people slaves to conformity, which makes them intellectually lazy. Being that one of our most important assets is our mind, intellectual laziness seems like a bad characteristic to have to me.
The founding fathers understood the common good as those things that we share, paying a certain amount of tax for instance to help pay for those things we all share, infrastructure roads sidewalks libraries public services, these are the things we do for each other and the things that make us a civil society.
The Founders wanted the government to serve the common good. In a voting election do u want your representative voting for who they want, or the majority vote? The government should pick what is best for everyone not just a select few. You might like it if you were the select few, but if not you would be very unhappy.
We have been doing common good for years as voting and that has been a big part of america individual rights are merely permissions that can be withdrawn any time "the community" decides that it is necessary that is my reason why so al guys yes ys yes yes yes
The real reason I believe this, is because as a country we need to withhold our society as a whole and work together to make a better world. Yes everyone is important but individual rights are not as important that common good. Common good benefits everyone while individuals benefit. The Individuals need to not be selfish!
I am completely for supporting individualism, however I believe that welfare is attempting to achieve equality of opportunity which is essentially the most important thing. Free health care and free education will give most people a better start. There should be a combination of supporting the individual while supporting the needs of all people, by ensuring some sort of safety net.
As humans we naturally have a nurturing instinct, and take pride in supporting others, family and friends. By encouraging pure individualism we could be encouraging greed and reject our maternal instincts. Individuals can simply not fully sustain themselves, and there will always be a time where an individual will need to rely on the help of the common good.
No, individualism is not more important that the common good. Though individualism is very important, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one. As such, an individual's right to individualism is important, it is more important that the common good be observed and focused upon.
No, in the most important instances, individualism is not more important than the common good. Human beings gathered together into groups for a reason - because none of us can actually survive without assistance - either direct or indirect - from other people.
In this world of convenience, created by the human community, there are humans who take what they have for granted so much that they're convinced that they could actually prosper on their own, without help from others. But their very existence is due to the work, pain, and life of someone else.
Until the day comes when an individual actually builds his or her own road and manner of transport, to and from the job that they solely created and administered, in a building that they built from scratch, on land that they personally won with their own effort... that individual is a part of a community.
Refusing to acknowledge that is precisely the same as leeching off of what the human community provides without a single intention of ever paying back. And that mindset is the reason why there are so many poor people today, why wages are so low, why companies treat their employees like nothing, why politicians actually get away with using wedge issues to encourage human beings to view other human beings as undeserving even of life.
I support individualism. I'm a liberal, I can't help it. But when it comes to some things - when it comes to whether or not a human being walking around on this earth has the right to have food, shelter, education, and healthcare... well, that's when it's time to stop playing selfish individual.
Or better yet, play SMART selfish individual: because if enough of your fellow men and women sink, you will undoubtedly sink and drown with them. Because whether you want to face it or not, you live in a society, and you can't separate yourself out from your fellow human beings. You WILL be affected by what happens to your neighbor, so turn a blind eye at your own peril.
That's not to say one should completely give up their autonomy completely and became a sheep to the system. That is to say, one should cast their gaze beyond their navel and their interest. Regard the world at large and see what part of yourself you can give for the better of society.


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Facilities advisory committee recommends District 709 School Board consider three options
MORTON — Build a new junior high school. Build a new middle school. Build a new high school.
Those are the projects a facilities advisory committee will take to the District 709 School Board next month after months of meetings and tours of district schools and schools in Pekin, Dunlap, Washington and Normal.
The 18-member committee made up of parents, residents, teachers and administrators held its last meeting Thursday.
Committee members and visitors engaged in a spirited discussion for nearly 2½ hours about the three projects and the district's need for facilities improvements.
The estimated price tags for the projects, which include related work on the district's other schools, range from $88 million to $111 million.
It will be up to the School Board to decide what's needed and what can be done.
"We've taken a view from 30,000 feet of our facilities, which is what we were instructed to do," said committee chairman Mike Vlahos.
Superintendent Lindsey Hall, a committee member, agreed.
"It would be a detriment to the group's hard work for people to think they've only come up with multi-million-dollar options," Hall said.
"They're not recommending a dollar amount nor will there be a bond issue on the November ballot. These are recommendations for study."
Committee member Christopher Farris said he was stunned when he first saw the estimated costs of the projects. That's why he suggests the School Board come up with an a la carte menu of facilities options for residents to digest.
"I'd hate to see needs not met because of sticker shock," he said.
Even though the district had a record 3,905 students in 1977 and now has 2,896 students, teaching space is a problem because of state mandates, new instructional methods, technology and services offered to struggling students.
The district's enrollment is steadily growing. It has climbed a cumulative 9 percent in the last five years and studies predict a continued steady growth.
School Board member Shaun Bill said now's the time to take a hard look at the district's future.
"Think of all the advancements made in education in the last 40 years," he said. "Will we be able to handle what's coming in 2054?"
Vlahos said it's important for the School Board to take the committee's work and decide a course of action.
"We're one of the best school districts academically in Illinois," he said. "But we have facility needs and doing nothing is the first step to falling off the top of the hill."
There has been no major construction work in the district for 36 years.
A $12.5 million building bond referendum was defeated by a 67 percent to 33 percent margin in 2011.
Steve Stein can be reached at 686-3114 or email@example.com. Read his Stein Time blog on pjstar.com. Follow him on Twitter @SpartanSteve.


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I read Joe Wenderoth's superb introduction to Graham Foust's Ahsahta Press collection of 03, Leave the Room to Itself, out in the world this early afternoon before work at Launderland launderlanding.
I want to buy Joe Wenderoth a soda.
I read Joe Wenderoth's superb introduction to Graham Foust's Ahsahta Press collection of 03, Leave the Room to Itself, out in the world this early afternoon before work at Launderland launderlanding.
I didn't know. I hadn't heard the bell.
Bitch is 10.
Laura Sims/Geraldine Kim reading date has been changed to Sunday, April 9th, at 7:30 PM (eyes right).
Sadly, Zachary Schomburg posts that due to high combustion, his girders have snapped, and Octopus Magazine will remain offline and unavailable until Feb. 1.
I was at SPD this morning picking up books for the store and was delighted to see the first three Wave Books titles had just arrived: Shake by Joshua Beckman, Poem for the End of Time and Other Poems by Noelle Kocot, and Moongarden by Anthony McCann.
New print magazine, Cannibal, looking for work.
Thank you Ilya Kaminsky, Margaret Kaufman, Robert Thomas, Joseph Massey, Graham Foust, Derek Fenner, Ryan Gallagher, Anthony Hawley, Joshua Beckman, Matthew Rohrer, Michelle Tea, Ada Limón, Kaya Oakes, Cate Marvin, D. A. Powell, Tessa Rumsey, Juliana Spahr, Brian Teare, C. Dale Young, Noah Eli Gordon, Sara Veglahn, Laura Sims, Danielle Pafunda, and Geraldine Kim.
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The organization's goal is to provide a venue that affords the benefits and aesthetics of a quality small press to committed and brilliant writers, visual artists, and musicians who may not otherwise have the opportunity and freedom to display their work as they envision it.
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I was dismayed tonight to read on Gabriel Gudding's blog that his Dalkey Archive Press collection, RHODE ISLAND NOTEBOOK—originally expected this year—has been now pushed back to fall 2008.
I did it my way, which was the wrong way.
Media conglomerate News Corporation—aka Rupert Murdoch, aka Harper Collins—has launched a new fake poetry blog hosted by TypePad—which it still doesn't own, not yet—named CruelestMonth.com.
If you haven't already, for god's sake check out Brent Cunningham's drawings.
I'm running low tonight on soul coal, if I may bust out a dB's allusion without having my head bitten off.
This is one stump I made from the floor of one odd corner of our small apartment. Something like a need for so-called spring cleaning. I'd sell off half of it, but the crap I collect has no resale value. K. is patient and just as guilty, so not any crashing vibes between us. Yet. And maybe I'll find something. How wicked cool.


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The highest-caliber buildings in Buckhead and Central Perimeter are breaching rent levels that were considered unattainable just a few quarters ago. The resurgence of corporate relocations from higher-cost markets has played a role. Most companies coming from metro areas such as San Francisco and New York are not as sensitive to a $3.00 or $4.00 per SF gap between new space and second-generation buildings, and wider gaps between space in Buckhead and Downtown or Alpharetta.
However, price-sensitive law firms and general professional/business services companies are taking a closer look at areas such as Northwest and Downtown Atlanta that offer bigger block value-plays. As the rental rate gap widens, the rationale for creative adaptive re-use projects will grow. Developers who offer tenants greater efficiency options are likely to have a leg up. Some tenants will relocate and pay a higher base rent if they can save over the term of the lease due to a space that is 15% to 20% smaller than their current space.
Developers, contractors and engineers have been expanding in suburban submarkets of late:
- MacTec Inc., an engineering and consulting company, signed a five-year extension for its 57,642-SF space at 1075 Big Shanty Road in Northwest Atlanta.
- In North Fulton, engineering consultant Arseal Technologies signed a 15,194-SF lease at Northwinds Summit.
- Another North Fulton company, Amec E&I Holdings, renewed its 38,218-SF lease at 1105 Lakewood Parkway.
- Holder Construction pre-leased 55,964 SF at the Riverwood 200 building in Northwest Atlanta. Highwoods hopes to finish the 299,125-SF property in July of 2017.
In the early stages of this most recent recovery cycle (2010-2013) preference among tenants for the urban core and ex-urban Central Perimeter was much more apparent than in 2005 - 2006 when tenants took space all across the region but in suburban locations in particular. Leasing in the urban core between 2010 and 2013 totaled 14.6 MSF (39.0% of overall volume) and Central Perimeter accounted for 6.0 MSF (18.3%). Between 2003 and 2007, the urban core tallied 13.5 MSF of leasing but only accounted for 27.8% of volume as tenants preferred Central Perimeter and Suburban product.
It remains to be seen whether tenants will revert to older patterns of taking space in suburban office parks beyond the Urban core as well as the Central Perimeter, particularly as the pricing gap between suburban and urban properties widens.
As law firms and other major corporate tenants think about long-term recruiting strategy, more are factoring in the preference of millennials for an urban setting and a live/work/play environment. Tight conditions in Buckhead might give such businesses an incentive to consider a move. Some are weighing two options: follow the path of residential developers and go with in-town buildings within walking distance of nightlife, culture and abundant multi-family/condo construction; or push out to the Perimeter for higher cost savings. The extension of MARTA and development of residential and retail product along the transit system's spine could eventually alleviate some of the disadvantages of suburban product.


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One hiker dead, another critical after being found near Palm Springs
September 8, 2012 | 11:15 pm
One hiker is dead and another in critical condition from severe dehydration after they were found in a rugged canyon south of Palm Springs, the Associated Press reported.
Authorities said rangers with the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians found the two on a trail around 1:30 p.m. Saturday. The Riverside County Sheriff's Department said one hiker was pronounced dead at the scene and the other taken to a hospital.
The dead man's name was not released pending notification of relatives.
-- Julie Cart


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Erdoğan's son allegedly sent to Italy with billions in case family has to flee. HT: Bugun.
In the latest series of tweets by government whistleblower Fuat Avni, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's son Bilal has allegedly been snuck into Italy with armed guards, in the event the Erdoğan clan must flee Turkey over possible treason charges.
"Noticing that he's nearing the end of the road, [President Erdoğan] has ordered Bilal to 'quietly' leave the country in the company of armed guards. The destination for Bilal and the considerable amount of money with him is Italy," government whistleblower and Twitter phenomenon Fuat Avni revealed in a series of tweets on Monday.
Fuat Avni has been a thorn in the side of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the Justice and Development Party's (AK Party) for nearly two years now, having correctly revealed many of their top secret plans.
President Erdoğan has allegedly been worried by an internal investigation file, which establishes that he could be tried for treason – the only crime for which a Turkish president can undergo prosecution.
The investigation file implicates Erdoğan for his involvement with the Kurdish settlement process, and has prompted the president to send his son out of the country.
Avni claimed that Bilal Erdoğan flew to Italy on Sept. 27, and that the plan includes the possibility of his extended stay, allowing him to take in other family members if required.
While there, he is also expected to tend to the family's bank accounts in Switzerland and other countries, managing billions of dollars in family finances. He will be staying in the vicinity of Lake Como, near the Swiss border, giving him easy access to Swiss banks.
The family will decide whether or not Bilal will return depending on the situation that emerges from the Nov. 1 snap election. Hmmm......Latest opinion poll shows Turkey's AKP still below June election results.Read the full story here.


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It seems every segment of the business is changing in the face of current challenges, and embracing opportunities that few even had contemplated just a decade ago. But, the seedstock industry may actually be experiencing as much upheaval as any segment of the business today.
Part of it may be temporary. After all, the high-end, investor female market was rocked with the perfect storm of a global recession, genetic defects and structural changes to the industry. Perhaps that market will return with a vengeance as the economy recovers, and as producers adjust their perspective to understanding that modern technology has provided us with the tools to deal with such things quite effectively and without needless financial harm. Perhaps an improving economy will lead to a resurgence of the hobby producer who has a few registered cows and simply enjoys the challenges of the seedstock business.
I believe all those things will happen to some extent, but I also believe the seedstock industry will continue to be more commercially focused. I also believe that things like exclusivity will always add value, and that valuations will become more based upon real-world industry economics.
Certainly, it can be persuasively argued that the opposite is occurring – that the shifting of priorities and the changes in our economic structure have left the seedstock industry without a clear direction. Rising input costs, ethanol subsidies, and improved management and genetics have forever shifted some of the economic drivers in different directions.
The signals certainly are mixed: cow-calf producers faced with rising input costs are putting more emphasis on moderate mature size, efficient cows. And conditions have also increased the number of cattle being placed as yearlings to take advantage of grass gains.
All those point to a moderation of mature size if not growth in general. Conversely, tighter numbers, heavier placement weights and the need to utilize capacity is leading feedyards to take cattle to larger outweights and focus on efficiency of gain, as well as composition of gain.
These dynamics are calling for more growth, and perhaps later-maturing cattle – not exactly the same signal. Couple that with the need for more dressing percentage, and what appears to be more than a momentary blip where the Choice/Select spread is narrowing, and there isn't the clear-cut direction that we've enjoyed in the past.
While I've always felt that diversity of vision and genetics were good things — even necessary things given the variation in environment, marketing plans and management schemes — the seedstock industry may be taking a risky path. I don't refer to it heading in a lot of directions, but that it is marketing more philosophy and hype at times than real-world economic drivers.
Every segment must focus on generating sufficient income levels, but I still believe that the focus should be on creating the product that finds the optimum between our production systems and those ahead of us in the production system. Perhaps what the industry needs is not new genetic-selection tools as much as it needs ways to better measure production efficiency and value creation from a total systems approach.


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A Prepared Community is a Resilient Community
July 11, 2016 9:30 AM | Staten Island University Hospital Regina McGinn Educational Center, 475 Seaview Avenue, Staten Island, New York
The purpose of this field hearing is twofold: first it is to discover to the extent possible how the tremendous investments made, by city, state, and federal governments since Superstorm Sandy have mitigated the risk to the New York City Metropolitan Area from another extreme weather event. Are we more resilient as a community? Secondly, the hearing will feature testimony directly from the stakeholders who were both involved in the Sandy response and who will likewise be implicated in any future disaster response. How did they perceive the disaster response at the time of Sandy? How have they worked together to adapt their disaster response plans or policies based on the lessons learned since then? Are we more prepared as a community?
Responding to a disaster necessarily involves the whole of the affected community: government, both state and local, non-profits, private enterprise and other civic organizations. The two panels reflect this institutional diversity in disaster response.
Opening Statements
Rep. Dan Donovan (R-NY), Subcommittee Chairman
Opening Statement
Live Stream
Mr. Michael Byrne
Deputy Regional Administrator
Federal Emergency Management Agency, Region II
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Witness Testimony
Ms. Marion McFadden
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Grant Programs
Office of Community Planning and Development
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Witness Testimony
Mr. Daniel A. Zarrilli
Chief Resilience Officer
Office of the Mayor
City of New York, New York
Witness Testimony
Mr. Vincent M. Ignizio
Chief Executive Officer
Catholic Charities of Staten Island
Staten Island, New York
Witness Testimony
Mr. Brad Gair
Private Citizen
Witness Testimony
Ms. Donna Moravick
Executive Director
Southside Hospital
Bay Shore, New York
Witness Testimony
Ms. Kelly D. Higgs
Disaster Recovery and Resiliency Coordinator
New Jersey Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster
Witness Testimony