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- Ourin no Honoo - A Flame of Yellow Phosphorus
Ourin no Honoo
|Original / Romaji Lyrics
|English Translation
Tsumibukaki kono mi wo yakitsukusu
Burns this sinful body away to nothing
Okane ga hitsuyou datta
"MACCHI wo katte kuremasen ka?"
Furimuite mo kurenai
Get a loaf of bread
"Won't you buy some matches?"
People wouldn't turn around for me
Samusa ni mi wo furuwasete ita
Wazuka na nukumori wo motomete
MACCHI no sentan ni hi wo tomoshita
My body trembled in the cold
Asking for a little warmth
I lit a fire at the tip of a match
Nee misete shifuku no tsuisou
Ourin ga umidasu honoo
Atatamete kono mi to kokoro wo
Hey, charm me with a recollection of absolute bliss
The yellow phosphorus creates a flame which
Warms up this body and soul
Urenokori no kodoku
A loneliness over the unsold items
Chichi wa nani mo tabesasete kurenai
Samusa mo kuufuku mo mou iya da
Chichi no matsu wagaya ni hi wo tomoshita
My father won't let me eat anything
There's just no way I'm going to be cold and hungry
I lit my house on fire with my father waiting inside
Nee moete iku sen no kunou
Yakeochita ie kara mochidashita
KOIN de hitotsu PAN wo katta
Come on, burn with anguish a thousand-fold
Because I burned down the house I was brought up in
I bought a loaf of bread with some coins
Shibari tsukerareta karada
Shokei nin ga watashi no ashimoto ni
Hi wo tomoshita
My body is bound
At my feet, the executioner
Lit a fire
Sore sae mo yurusarenakatta
Ourin ga umidasu honoo
Yakitsukusu kono mi to kokoro wo
They couldn't even allow that
The yellow phosphorus creates a flame which
Burns this body and soul away to nothing
Yellow phosphorus is the same as white.... I couldn't decide which to use, so I just chose yellow since it reminds me of a flame :p
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Outstanding experience, from 2 persons!
Access to historical monuments closed to the public and taste some of the most famous Sion wines with a Valais selection of cold cuts.
CHF 59.- per person
Tuesday to Sunday
Buy our vouchers and discover the old town of Sion through our discovery walk and 4 gourmet stops.
Adults CHF 39.-
Children CHF 29.-
One of the oldest town in Switzerland!
Accompanied by a passionate and fascinating guide, discover the city of Sion with its 7'000 years of history and its monuments closed to the public.
From CHF 150.-
The sound and light show dedicated to "Jean-Sébastien Bach" offers a panorama of instrumental and vocal masterpieces by the famous German composer in the medieval setting of Valère and Tourbillon castles.
The Sion - Fête du Goût Association is pleased to announce the 18th edition of the most gourmet event in the capital of Valais.

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ATLANTA – February 22, 2019 – NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) today announced it has acquired BEC, Colorado's leading provider of Hospitality Point-of-Sale (POS) Technology based in Denver. The acquisition complements NCR's existing presence and expands coverage within the Western US.
BEC was an NCR reseller for 23 years. NCR will now directly manage more than 2600 sites through this acquisition, including large customers Qdoba, Snooze Eatery and Punch Bowl Social. All former BEC employees have accepted positions in NCR.
"We're enhancing our ability to take care of our customers each and every day and expanding our overall Hospitality portfolio. This expansion builds on our proven strategy for NCR Hospitality and our commitment to the small-medium business segment, furthering our ability to provide value added payments solutions," said NCR President and Chief Executive Officer, Michael D. Hayford.
This acquisition, combined with significant incremental investment in Aloha R&D and NCR's continuing commitment to its channel partners, builds on a proven strategy for NCR Hospitality and its commitment to the small-medium business segment.
BEC is now a part of 14 NCR Local Offices. Local Offices provide NCR Hospitality the perfect balance of a local presence close to their customers.
"BEC has always focused on taking great care of our customers, delivering innovative solutions, and expanding our market reach," said Audrey Borski, President, BEC. "We have found an amazing team at NCR that complements our values and have confidence in NCR's long-term strategy and market opportunities."
About NCR Corporation
NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) is a leading software- and services-led enterprise provider in the financial, retail, hospitality, telecom and technology industries. NCR is headquartered in Atlanta, Ga., with 34,000 employees and does business in 180 countries. NCR is a trademark of NCR Corporation in the United States and other countries.
Website: www.ncr.com
Twitter: @NCRCorporation
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LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/ncr-corporation
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/ncrcorporation
News Media Contact:
Tim Henschel
NCR Corporation
Investor Contact:
Michael Nelson
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Dueling Piano & Tapas NightJanuary 30 2020 | 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
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Combine two sharp-witted, incredibly talented musicians with 2 pianos, and a roomful guests, you will have a blast at KITARO for an evening of high energy, funny, unforgettable entertainment. Go ahead, request your favorite song, loudly sing along, clap along, bounce up and down in your seat.
Ticket holder will enjoy 20% off all items under Tapas Menu.


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Look here. Look at this video above. Consume it.
This is why you bought Kinect - aside from Kinectimals. After mysteriously trademarking "Fus Ro Dah" yesterday, Bethesda announced today via press release that its 2011 Game of the Year will soon enjoy Kinect voice command support for the Xbox 360 version.
"Adding a new dimension to Skyrim's gameplay, the Kinect for Xbox 360 integration offers Voice Commands throughout the game including Dragon Shouts, Hotkey Equipping, Follower Commands, and all Menus (Items, Magic, Map, Barter, Container, Favorites, and Skills). With Voice Commands, quickly create and load saves during gameplay and access menus and inventories. Skyrim's Kinect for Xbox 360 Support also adds new functionality including special map functions, additional hotkey options, and the ability to sort inventory items by name, weight, and value."Now when you shout at your TV in the comfort of your living room, it's not just because you picked up a wooden bowl. No word yet on when Kinect will be ready to help you slay dragons but rest assured OMNIpixel is on it.
The announcement of voice commands is another piece of Skyrim content from the game jam video that was shown during Bethesda's D.I.C.E. presentation. And while we're on the subject, why don't we revisit that video and see what else they might have cooking:
Even though you should watch the video, here's a giant, unnecessary list for reference:
- Seasonal Foliage
- Flow-based Water Shader
- Spears
- Kill Cams for magic and ranged combat (check!)
- Stealth enhancements such as water arrows and assassin's vision
- Paralysis runes
- Dungeon enhancements like hanging structures and moving platforms
- Water currents in dungeons
- Dark dungeons
- New follower commands for combat style, training, distance, equipment, etc.
- Set favorites for followers
- Adoption
- Build your own home
- Spell combinations
- Goblins
- High Level Draugr
- Waygate fast travel
- Epic new mounts
- Mounted combat
- Dragon mounts (!!!)
- Soulbug familiar
- Kinect Shouts (check!)
- Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (check! I think)
- Enhanced Underwater Visuals (check!)
- Snow footprints
- Verlet surfaces for non-rigid objects
- Ice & Fire Arrows
- Werebear
- Lycanthropy Perk Tree
- Vampire feeding
- Become a flying Vampire Lord
- Vampire imp minions
- Mudcrab animation tweaks
- Giant Mudcrab (!!?)
What would you like to see Bethesda bring to the land of Skyrim next? Let us know in the comments, yo.
VIA: Kotaku
SOURCE: Bethesda Softworks
VIA: Kotaku
SOURCE: Bethesda Softworks


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The Student Centre in Pilestredet (P52) and Service Centre at Kjeller
The following services are offered:
- Application and admission
- General student counselling
- Semester registration
- IT support for students
- Directions
- Buying print quotas
- Assistance for international students
Student ID card (information will be available soon). Student ID app
Additional services offered at the Service Centre at Kjeller
The Service Centre at Kjeller offers the same services as in Pilestredet. In addition you may:
- Order general confirmations relating to your progress of study
- Submit certificate of good conduct
- Submit examination answer papers
General information relating to examinations.
The Information Centres at the faculties
The information Centres provide guidance relating to:
- Study programmes at the faculties
- How to complete the study programme
- Confirmations and transcript of records
- Submitting certificate of good conduct
- Examinations and practical training
- Postponed start of studies, part-time studies or leave of absence
- Recognition of former education
- Individual adaptation of studies
- Student exchange
Application and admission
The Service Centres may provide you with information on admission requirements and how to apply for study programmes and courses at OsloMet.
- Reading rooms (information will be available soon)
- Map and directions for campus Pilestredet with Mazemap (mazemap.com)
- Maps and directions for campus Kjeller (mazemap.com)
- Student ID card/Access card (information will be available soon)
- Lecture schedules


text: The lawyer for social media giant Facebook has admitted the company should have done more to pick up on Russia-linked meddling in last year's US election but emphasised that it represented a very small portion of News Feed content. Twitter and Google also faced questioning at a senate hearing into Moscow's alleged cyber influence on the vote. Senators were eager to find out when the companies became aware that content linked to the Kremlin was appearing on their platforms, and what could be done to stop it from happening again. Al Jazeera's Shihab Rattansi reports from Washington, DC. Facebook Twitter Google Politics United States


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I love money. I do. I love the shoes it buys me, the school it affords for my children and the comfortable feeling of a paycheck coming in every month. I am not rich but I am certainly not poor. I am a spender. Paul is a saver. We are both givers in our own ways.
Paul gives with his hands. He is the craftsman. He is the snow shoveler for our elderly neighbors. He is the man drawing back the curtain during my children's Winter Concert. He believes and serves as if he is God's hands.
I give money (ours, so technically he gives money too) and advocate with my words. That's how I roll. When I see someone doing something good, I can't help but talk about it.
I started this year with the goal of becoming a sacrificial giver. Someone who gives until it hurts and then gives some more. I have already donated more money than I have year to date, than last year but it didn't hurt. Less than 5% of my earnings go to charity. The rest I spend on bills, coffee in coffee shops, shoes (oh, glorious shoes) and school tuition. That is not a complete list or a rating system of my priorities.
I should mention that right before Christmas, Noel (Pastor at Riverview Church) gave a sermon on giving. The hows, whys and what nots. I was moved. So much so that I emailed him a virtual high five. I never do that. Ever!
I want to give like that. Why. Because Jesus said so. Because the example of how he loved makes me aspire to be like him.
After the service everyone who attended was given the gift of a book called Money – God or Gift by Jamie Munsonhttp://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=m0bdd-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B00481JN6Y&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr. He is one of the Pastors at a little church called Mars Hill that rocks the microphone…via podcast for me.
I approached the book haughtily. I give. I work for a non profit. I donate things unused. What could they teach me?
I am silly.
The first chapter of this $5 book has me wanting more sacrifice and less entitlement. A sin I am so very guilty of. See bad childhood which excuses me from ever having to sacrifice or generally suffer for the rest of my life. Yeah, we all know that is not how life works.
I have not determined what that will look like for me. I italicized and bolded so that you would know that I am talking about me. It is personal and not a line in the sand. I will be praying about this….let's see what happens.
By the way, I am in no way unaware of my lessons in gratitude from One Thousand Gifts falling in perfect steps with this book.
Questions from chapter 1:
Which column (gratitude or greed) most accurately describes your life? Where in your life are you prone to grumbling? What is your gut-level response to the call to giving?


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Area Events
Bobby Valentine's Sports Academy has clinics being offered for players age 5 to High School age and will range in offerings from Pitching to Hitting and then also BVSA is offering "All-Purpose" Clinics. Limited enrollment available. For more info email email@example.com or call 203-968-2872.
Babe Ruth Baseball of Stamford will be having winter workouts at Stamford High School. The workouts are on Sundays starting on January 17th through March 7th. The first session starts at 10 a.m. The second session starts at noon. Open to ages 12 years old to 17 years old. It is open to all baseball groups in all of the surrounding areas with indoor facilities and batting cages. These clinics including pitching, batting and fielding drills helping with all aspects of the game. For further information and sign-ups visit BabeRuthbaseballofStamford.com.
Karl Avdek and Steve Hine of the Steve Hine School of Baseball in Orange are available for private instruction and clinics for all aspects of the game at all levels. Call (203) 357-0228 for times and information or email email@example.com Steve Hine School of Baseball is a completely stocked baseball facility with tunnels and space available for "cage rental" for team and individual practice. Call (203) 298-0516 for info. Or visit www.stevehinebaseball.com.
Perfect Game Baseball offers high end private lessons for all aspects of the game at all levels. Lessons are $70 for a full hour, by appointment. Call (203) 357-0228.
I.S.T. Baseball Headquarters has programs are open to players ages 3 years old to 12 years old. Private and small group instruction is available seven days a week for all ages. Speed, agility, and strength programs for ages 11-13 and the Elite program for high school players is available online. Softball skills clinic (kindergarden thru 5th grade) is underway. For more information, please email Glenn Katz at firstname.lastname@example.com or visit www.integratedsportstraining.com. I.S.T. Baseball Headquarters is hiring qualified coaches for spring baseball teams and winter clinics. If you are interested in coaching please email email@example.com. 2010 Winter Pro Baseball Clinic registration is now open. Clinics are for players in grades K-5th and focus on complete baseball skills development. Clinics take place at I.S.T.'s indoor facility located on 25 Van Zant St. Norwalk. Clinics start the week of January 4 and run for 10 weeks. Each 10-week session costs $275. Private instruction available as well. Pro staff includes: Dennis Accomando: Atlanta Braves, Mike Diaz: Houston Astros, Tyrone Kingwood: Detroit Tigers, Terrence Engels: Washington Nats, Doug Vroman: Washington Nats. For registration forms, e-mail email@example.com or visit www.integratedsportstraining.com. Also, registration for a new Zumba Fitness class is underway. For more info, e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Blue Jays baseball club will hold its 7th annual exhibition series near Cooperstown, NY for high school varsities in spring of 2010. There are also tourneys for summer teams ages 13, 14U, 15U, 16U and 18U. Night games are possible. Interested coaches can call Harvey Sandig at 631-650-5759 or e-mail Cooperstown firstname.lastname@example.com with open dates.
Baseball U New England will be conducting its Winter Workouts/tryouts for their 2010 Summer Developmental Teams at The Ct Sportsplex In North Branford. Workouts/tryouts will be conducted by The Baseball U New England Teaching Staff and are for high school age players only. The program will begin on January 3rd and will run for six consecutive Sundays from 11am-2pm and conclude on February 7th. For info or to register, Visit www.Baseballunewengland.com or call 203 258 7136.
New England Baseball Academy is accepting Registration for the 2009/2010 Baseball/Softball Winter Hitting League. Sessions are now thru Dec 31, 2009 and Jan 1 through Feb 28, 2010. Register for one or both. 8 -12 year old division play weeknight evenings. 13 U - Middle school and High school division plays on Sunday afternoon. $125 per session for non-NEBA members and $100 per session for NEBA members. Discounted when registering for both sessions. Teams consist of 4 players - groups with two teams - 8 players can pick weeknight evening and time of your choice. Individual players welcome - register early to ensure team placement. NEBA is located at 235 Meriden Rd., Waterbury. Exit 23 off Rte 84. For more info visit www.newenglandbaseball.com or call 203-756-6322.
The 8th Annual Bobby Valentine Celebrity Wine & Food Experience, to benefit the Mickey Lione Jr. Fund, will be Monday January 11 from 6 -to-9 p.m. at Hyatt Regency at 1800 East Putnam Ave. in Greenwich. Celebrities from the sports world will combine with a fabulous selection of wines and foods from Fairfield County's finest restaurants. There will be a live and silent auction with a raffle for a 2010 BMW 128i Convertible. Tickets are $150 per person or $450 for four. For reservations or raffle tickets, please e-mail email@example.com.
Basketball clinic on Sat. December 19th from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at Hall Neighborhood House, 52 George Pipkin Way, in Bridgeport. From 10 a.m.-11:30 a.m., clinic on shooting, ball handling, passing and defense. Then from 11:45 a.m. to 1p.m., game featuring Future Stars vs. Kings Kids of the East End of Bridgeport. Aaron Daniels to coach Kings Kids. Grades 5,6 and 7,8. Tuition $39, first 20 players to sign up only! Call Frank at 203-367-1673.
A new basketball program for players of all abilities has started at Stamford's Cloonan Middle School. The Unified Sports program marks the first collaboration between the Stamford Youth Foundation and Abilis Inc., the nonprofit service provider for people with developmental disabilities in the Stamford-Greenwich area. Unified Sports is a Special Olympics program affiliated with the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) (www.casiac.org/ciacunifiedsports). The Stamford Unified Sports program will pair middle- and high-school athletes with developmental disabilities with volunteers who may or may not have a disability. Players will have weekly practice sessions and also compete against Unified Sports teams from other towns, culminating in a March tournament. There is no fee to participate. Practices will be held on Mondays from 2:30 to 4 p.m. at Cloonan Middle School. Players, volunteers and coaches will be notified of the schedule once it is finalized. To register, players and volunteers should contact Monica Schlessinger-Smyth of Abilis at (203) 629-1880 x336 or email email@example.com.
Ridgefield High School is accepting applications for the following Spring 2010 Season coaching positions: Head Coach: Freshman Girls Lacrosse. Head Coach: Girls Swimming. Head Coach Boys Swimming. Two assistant girls softball coaches in Spring 2010. Successful coaching candidates will hold a valid Connecticut Teaching Certificate, Coaching Permit or be eligible for a Temporary Emergency Coaching Permit. Candidates must successfully complete or have completed both standard first aid and CPR training. Stipends for these positions are per the Ridgefield Public Schools Teachers Contract. Email resume to Carl Charles, AD: firstname.lastname@example.com, Phone: 203-438-3785, ext. 1010.
Trinity Catholic High School has an opening for a varsity boys tennis coach. Anyone interested can contact athletic director Tracy Nichols at 322-3401, extension 17.
The MJF College Football Recruiting Elite Football Camp is set for Sat. December 19 at Goodsports USA in Wall, N.J. For top high school/ college caliber football players grades 9-11, this is a skills focused camp. All instructors, including Notre Dame and Pittsburgh Steeler great Terry Hanratty, are former college or pro football players. In-depth scouting reports go directly to college football coaches in Division I, I-AA, Div. 2 and NAIA. There are two 2-hour field sessions as well as two classroom seminars. The cost is $150. Checks are payable to Michael Fenske, 103 Rock Spring Rd., Unit 1, Stamford, Ct. 06906. Visit http://mjf-collegefootballrecruiting.com.
The Sterling Farms Women's Golf League is seeking new members for its 2010 season. Members can either join the 9-hole or 18-hole group. Tournament play is on Tuesday mornings with preferred tee times. The 18-holers have the option to play Tuesdays or weekends. There is no obligation to play every week and one does not have to be a Stamford resident to joining. For more information call Ceil at (203) 322-4025 or check out the Web site at: www.sfwgc.org.
The Hubbard Heights Women's Golf Association is seeking members for 2010. Memberships are available for 9 and 18 holes and working women. Contact Lynn Mottolese at 468-8838, Dot Grady at 357-1578 or Des McMurdo at 323-9799 for more info.
Anyone interested in signing up for the 2010 Sterling Farms Men's Golf Club can do so by going to www.sfmensclub.com or they can sign up in person at the Sterling Farms Pro Shop. The fee is $65 for regular membership and $55 for senior (62 and older) and junior (ages 12-17) members.
CT LAX and 2009 FCIAC Girls Lacrosse Coach of the Year, Kristin Wood, will be holding tryouts December 19th, & 20th for the CT Lax Girls Lacrosse Elite Middle School Club Team at The Academy of Sports in Stamford. The tryouts are for current elite girls lacrosse players in 5th, 6th, 7th, or 8th grade. For exact times, to register, and directions please visit www.ctlaxcamps.com. If you have any questions please contact Coach Wood at 203-984-2203 or email@example.com.
The Stamford CARE Team is holding its 2010 free Ice Fishing Class in conjunction with the Derby CARE team at the Kellogg Nature Center in Derby on Jan. 9, 2010 from 10 a.m. to noon. To register or for more info call 203-734-2513. Or call Al Gahris at 203-881-0534.
The Norwalk Museum, located at 41 North Main Street in "the Old City Hall" building in South Norwalk, has a Sports in Norwalk exhibit into January of 2010. The entrance is now on Marshall Street.
Any girls who are Stamford residents of any age and ice hockey skill level who would like the opportunity to play ice hockey in the Stamford High School system should send an email to:firstname.lastname@example.com . Please include your name, address, current school and age and experience level. We need to show a sufficient number of girls who are interested in order to petition the Stamford Board of Education for a Stamford public high school girls' ice hockey team. (Our target start date is the 2010/11 season.).
The Stamford Youth Soccer League (SYSL) has announced that for the second straight year it will be offering $1500 scholarships to two students (one male and one female) who are currently in their 2nd, 3rd or 4th year of college. To be eligible, the student must have participated in the SYSL at some point and also be able to demonstrate how they "given back" to the Stamford community and SYSL. For further details, visit SYSL's website at www.stamfordsoccer.org.
The Connecticut Sports Writers' Alliance is accepting applications from high school seniors for the seventh annual Bohdan Kolinsky Memorial Journalism Scholarship. The award is $1,000. Applications must be received by Jan. 25, 2010. Named for a longtime scholastic sports editor of the Hartford Courant who died in 2003, the Kolinsky Scholarship supports college study leading to a career in sports journalism. The scholarship is renewable annually and at increasing amounts if the student meets certain standards. Grants over four years may total $6,500. Every applicant must submit a completed application form, a personal history, an essay, academic transcripts and test scores, a letter of reference and three published samples of his or her writing. Details and forms are available at www.ctsportswriters.org. The winner will be honored at the Alliance's Gold Key dinner April 25 at the Aqua Turf, Southington.
Shippan Racquet Club on Harbor Drive in Stamford has openings in its Winter Tennis Programs for players of all ages and abilities. Junior tennis activities include Pee Wee Tennis for children ages 4-5; a QuickStart program for children ages 6-10; a Junior Clinic for children ages 7-16; and an Advanced Training Program, including match play, for players ages 8-17. Adult tennis programs include small group lessons, cardio workouts, women's and men's round-robin leagues and private lessons. Nine pros are on staff to offer their expertise on lighted tennis courts in a fun environment. For more information, please call 203-323-3129 or visit www.shippanracquet.com.
Kings Highway Tennis Club in Darien has openings in its Winter Tennis Programs for players of all ages and abilities. Junior tennis activities include Pee Wee Tennis for children ages 4-5; a QuickStart program for children ages 6-10; a Junior Clinic for children ages 7-16; and an Advanced Training Program, including match play, for players ages 8-17. Adult tennis programs include small group lessons, cardio workouts, women's and men's round-robin leagues and private lessons. Kings Highway Tennis Club, at 98 Old Kings Highway North, offers six tournament grade hard courts and some of the best instruction available in Fairfield County from an international group of teachers. For more information, please call 203-655-8769 or visit www.kingshwytennis.com.
The Darien High girls volleyball program is accepting proceeds and working with the Virginia-based Side-Out Foundation -- a 501(c)3non-profit organization -- in allocating donations and grants toward the fight against breast cancer. To donate online please visit http://home.att.net/~coachylarue/volleyball/.
Greenwich Parks and Recreation Dept. announces that the Registration for the Co Ed Volleyball League. The league is will run from Oct 2009 - Feb 2010. All games will be played at Western Middle School on Tuesday, or Thursday evenings. All residents 16 years of age or older that live in Greenwich can enter a team, as well as employees of Corporations that reside in Greenwich. The cost to enter a team is $300. For more info call Frank Gabriele, at 622-7821 or visit www.greenwichct.org
To be included in the upcoming events, send information to The Advocate, Sports Department, 9 Riverbend Drive South, Building 9A, Stamford, CT. 06907 or fax to 964-2345 or e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com. Items should include a telephone number for verification.


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The more cynical consumer might see the Better Business Bureau as a strange place for a cable lifer to wind up. But Sheryl Charleston, formerly general manager of advertising sales at Time Warner Cable's San Diego system, disagrees.
"It's not something that I had as a career focus," said Charleston, who recently took the reins as CEO of the BBB's San Diego chapter. "Nor do I think cable is a bad place to be. I think you'll find that ethics are an issue in every business, at some level, and that's what the BBB tries to promote."
A Nebraska native, the 39-year-old Charleston entered the media business on the talent side in her home town of North Platte. She worked as a disc jockey at age 14 and was on the air as a TV reporter by 16. But Charleston found the management track to be more family friendly, and signed on with Cox Communications Inc.'s Omaha system in 1990. She moved to Cox San Diego in 1997, and jumped across town to Time Warner in 2002.
She said much of what she learned in local cable ad sales is transferable to her new role. "The business grew and changed so quickly, from a very small organization in terms of advertising to a very large, prevalent and stable major media organization," she noted. "I saw and worked with all levels of business, from large corporations to small mom-and-pops."
She said she expects that background with businesses of all sizes to prove helpful in her new role of promoting ethnical business standards and spearheading consumer-education efforts. Married and with five children (ranging in age from 12 to 26), Charlesworth keeps very busy on the recreational front. She pilots both small airplanes and hot-air balloons and recently completed her first triathlon. She also serves as a mentor to a couple of foster children, she said.


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Wingman Wallet
Regular price $20.00
A night on the town or those that prefer a minimalist approach. The wingman wallet is a great way of carrying the essentials, with plenty of room for cash, cards, and receipts.
- Minimalist Design
- Multi Color Options
- Add initials to make great groomsmen gifts!


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AIDA opens first school in the Philippines financed by donations
May 24, 2019 /3BL Media/ — On May 9, 2019, AIDA Cruises celebrated the inauguration of the first school in Cebu, Philippines, built with donations from the AIDA Cruise & Help initiative. Felix Eichhorn, President AIDA Cruises, symbolically cut the ribbon in front of the building and opened the newly built classrooms for around 40 children.
"As a cruise company, we want to share our success and help to improve living conditions in poor countries. Our goal is to enable as many children and young people as possible to attend school and thus improve their prospects for the future", explains Felix Eichhorn.
AIDA Cruise & Help will be the umbrella for all future charitable projects of the cruise company. The projects will focus particularly on the sustainable improvement of future prospects for children and young people in threshold and developing countries as well as on social and cultural projects both regionally and internationally.
There is a strong connection with many of these regions, on the one hand because they are home to many AIDA crewmembers, on the other hand because our ships with the smiling lips travel to these regions. That is why AIDA Cruises has chosen Cebu-City, in the northeast of the island Cebu, as the location for its first school. Partner in this charity project is the Reiner Meutsch Foundation FLY & HELP.
Within the scope of various charity events aboard the AIDA fleet and ashore, AIDA Cruises was able to collect over 200,000 euros within just a few month. Regular campaigns in favor of AIDA Cruise & Help aboard and ashore will follow. 100 percent of the donations will go to charitable organizations.
More information about AIDA Cruise & Help, specific activities and possibilities to get involved and donate are bundled on the website www.aida.de/cruiseandhelp.
Rostock, May 23, 2019


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Tuesday, September 29, 2015
One World Religion Seen Taking Major Step Forward As Petrus Romanus Proclaims Cross Of Jesus Christ "A Failure"
The closing event for Pope Francis followed his Mass in "Francisville," which the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia renamed the city during mass, at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Peter and Paul. It was quite boring compared to his appearance in New York at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan for the evening prayer, where he delivered pretty shocking words, stating with no shame to his flock that: "We need to remember that we are followers of Jesus Christ and his life, humanly speaking, ended in failure, the failure of the cross." These words have of course outraged most true Christians around the world who cannot imagine Christianity without the value of the cross, which symbolizes the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus for mankind. It's impossible for a Christian of any denomination to imagine the very essence of their faith being discussed in this way, let alone by the Pope. The fact that blood was shed on the cross by Jesus for the ultimate self-sacrifice that could help rid mankind of all sins is one of those essentials of the Faith that should never be questioned. The mainstream media persists with their undying affection for Pope Francis, never commenting on this outrageous statement. So why is the Jesuit Pope putting the sacrifice of the cross into question? The answer is to gradually prepare us for "One World Religion," where no symbol will prevail over the other in the name of ecumenism.
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The United Nations 2030 Agenda decoded
(NaturalNews) This week, Michael Snyder published an important article entitled The 2030 Agenda: This Month The UN Launches A Blueprint For A New World Order With The Help Of The Pope.
That article references this UN "2030 Agenda" document that pushes a blueprint for so-called "sustainable development" around the world.
This document describes nothing less than a global government takeover of every nation across the planet. The "goals" of this document are nothing more than code words for a corporate-government fascist agenda that will imprison humanity in a devastating cycle of poverty while enriching the world's most powerful globalist corporations like Monsanto and DuPont.
In the interests of helping wake up humanity, I've decided to translate the 17 points of this 2030 agenda so that readers everywhere can understand what this document is really calling for. To perform this translation, you have to understand how globalists disguise their monopolistic agendas in "feel good" language.
Here's the point-by-point translation. Notice carefully that nowhere does this document state that "achieving human freedom" is one of its goals. Nor does it explain HOW these goals are to be achieved. As you'll see here, every single point in this UN agenda is to be achieved through centralized government control and totalitarian mandates that resemble communism.
Translation of the UN's "2030 Agenda blueprint for globalist government" (controlled by corporate interests)Goal 1) End poverty in all its forms everywhere
Translation: Put everyone on government welfare, food stamps, housing subsidies and handouts that make them obedient slaves to global government. Never allow people upward mobility to help themselves. Instead, teach mass victimization and obedience to a government that provides monthly "allowance" money for basic essentials like food and medicine. Label it "ending poverty."
Goal 2) End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
Translation: Invade the entire planet with GMOs and Monsanto's patented seeds while increasing the use of deadly herbicides under the false claim of "increased output" of food crops. Engineer genetically modified plants to boost specific vitamin chemicals while having no idea of the long-term consequences of genetic pollution or cross-species genetic experiments carried out openly in a fragile ecosystem.
Goal 3) Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
Translation: Mandate 100+ vaccines for all children and adults at gunpoint, threatening parents with arrest and imprisonment if they refuse to cooperate. Push heavy medication use on children and teens while rolling out "screening" programs. Call mass medication "prevention" programs and claim they improve the health of citizens.
Goal 4) Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
Translation: Push a false history and a dumbed-down education under "Common Core" education standards that produce obedient workers rather than independent thinkers. Never let people learn real history, or else they might realize they don't want to repeat it.
Goal 5) Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Translation: Criminalize Christianity, marginalize heterosexuality, demonize males and promote the LGBT agenda everywhere. The real goal is never "equality" but rather the marginalization and shaming of anyone who expresses any male characteristics whatsoever. The ultimate goal is to feminize society, creating widespread acceptance of "gentle obedience" along with the self-weakening ideas of communal property and "sharing" everything. Because only male energy has the strength to rise up against oppression and fight for human rights, the suppression of male energy is key to keeping the population in a state of eternal acquiescence.
Goal 6) Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
Translation: Allow powerful corporations to seize control of the world's water supplies and charge monopoly prices to "build new water delivery infrastructure" that "ensures availability."
Goal 7) Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
Translation: Penalize coal, gas and oil while pushing doomed-to-fail "green" energy subsidies to brain-dead startups headed by friends of the White House who all go bankrupt in five years or less. The green startups make for impressive speeches and media coverage, but because these companies are led by corrupt idiots rather than capable entrepreneurs, they always go broke. (And the media hopes you don't remember all the fanfare surrounding their original launch.)
Goal 8) Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
Translation: Regulate small business out of existence with government-mandated minimum wages that bankrupt entire sectors of the economy. Force employers to meet hiring quotas of LGBT workers while mandating wage tiers under a centrally planned work economy dictated by the government. Destroy free market economics and deny permits and licenses to those companies that don't obey government dictates.
Goal 9) Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
Translation: Put nations into extreme debt with the World Bank, spending debt money to hire corrupt American corporations to build large-scale infrastructure projects that trap developing nations in an endless spiral of debt. See the book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins to understand the details of how this scheme has been repeated countless times over the last several decades.
Goal 10) Reduce inequality within and among countries
Translation: Punish the rich, the entrepreneurs and the innovators, confiscating nearly all gains by those who choose to work and excel. Redistribute the confiscated wealth to the masses of non-working human parasites that feed off a productive economy while contributing nothing to it... all while screaming about "equality!"
Goal 11) Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
Translation: Ban all gun ownership by private citizens, concentrating guns into the hands of obedient government enforcers who rule over an unarmed, enslaved class of impoverished workers. Criminalize living in most rural areas by instituting Hunger Games-style "protected areas" which the government will claim are owned by "the People" even though no people are allowed to live there. Force all humans into densely packed, tightly controlled cities where they are under 24/7 surveillance and subject to easy manipulation by government.
Goal 12) Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Translation: Begin levying punitive taxes on the consumption of fossil fuels and electricity, forcing people to live under conditions of worsening standards of living that increasingly resemble Third World conditions. Use social influence campaigns in TV, movies and social media to shame people who use gasoline, water or electricity, establishing a social construct of ninnies and tattlers who rat out their neighbors in exchange for food credit rewards.
Goal 13) Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
Translation: Set energy consumption quotas on each human being and start punishing or even criminalizing "lifestyle decisions" that exceed energy usage limits set by governments. Institute total surveillance of individuals in order to track and calculate their energy consumption. Penalize private vehicle ownership and force the masses onto public transit, where TSA grunts and facial recognition cameras can monitor and record the movement of every person in society, like a scene ripped right out of Minority Report.
Goal 14) Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
Translation: Ban most ocean fishing, plunging the food supply into an extreme shortage and causing runaway food price inflation that puts even more people into economic desperation. Criminalize the operation of private fishing vessels and place all ocean fishing operations under the control of government central planning. Only allow favored corporations to conduct ocean fishing operations (and make this decision based entirely on which corporations give the most campaign contributions to corrupt lawmakers).
Goal 15) Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
Translation: Roll out Agenda 21 and force humans off the land and into controlled cities. Criminalize private land ownership, including ranches and agricultural tracts. Tightly control all agriculture through a corporate-corrupted government bureaucracy whose policies are determined almost entirely by Monsanto while being rubber-stamped by the USDA. Ban woodstoves, rainwater collection and home gardening in order to criminalize self-reliance and force total dependence on government.
Goal 16) Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
Translation: Grant legal immunity to illegal aliens and "protected" minority groups, which will be free to engage in any illegal activity -- including openly calling for the mass murder of police officers -- because they are the new protected class in society. "Inclusive institutions" means granting favorable tax structures and government grants to corporations that hire LGBT workers or whatever groups are currently in favor with the central planners in government. Use the IRS and other federal agencies to selectively punish unfavorable groups with punitive audits and regulatory harassment, all while ignoring the criminal activities of favored corporations that are friends of the political elite.
Goal 17) Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
Translation: Enact global trade mandates that override national laws while granting unrestricted imperialism powers to companies like Monsanto, Dow Chemical, RJ Reynolds, Coca-Cola and Merck. Pass global trade pacts that bypass a nation's lawmakers and override intellectual property laws to make sure the world's most powerful corporations maintain total monopolies over drugs, seeds, chemicals and technology. Nullify national laws and demand total global obedience to trade agreements authored by powerful corporations and rubber-stamped by the UN.
Total enslavement of the planet by 2030As the UN document says, "We commit ourselves to working tirelessly for the full implementation of this Agenda by 2030."
If you read the full document and can read beyond the fluffery and public relations phrases, you'll quickly realize that this UN agenda is going to be forced upon all the citizens of the world through the invocation of government coercion. Nowhere does this document state that the rights of the individual will be protected. Nor does it even acknowledge the existence of human rights granted to individuals by the Creator. Even the so-called "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" utterly denies individuals the right to self defense, the right to medical choice and the right to parental control over their own children.
The UN is planning nothing less than a global government tyranny that enslaves all of humanity while calling the scheme "sustainable development" and "equality."
1984 has finally arrived. And of course it's all being rolled out under the fraudulent label of "progress."
Credit to Natural News
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/051058_2030_Agenda_United_Nations_global_enslavement.html#ixzz3n8Wf743X
U.S. post-Christian population soars in 2015
Even though 78 percent of Americans are self-proclaimed "Christians," the latest Barna Poll gives a clear indicator that Christianity is losing its grip across the country.
"While the United States remains shaped by Christianity, the faith's influence — particularly as a force in American politics and culture — is slowly waning," the Barna Group reports from its recent study. "An increasing number of religiously unaffiliated, a steady drop in church attendance, the recent Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage, and the growing tension over religious freedoms all point to a larger secularizing trend sweeping across the nation."
America might house the world's largest Christian population, but research shows that the country founded upon biblical principles more than two centuries ago is actually in the midst of transitioning into a "post-Christian" nation from coast to coast.
Christianity gaged by fact, not self-perception
Statistics tallied by Barna researchers over a seven-year period from nearly 61,000 interviews exposes the "irreligion" setting in on U.S. cities.
One major finding reveals that from 2013─2015, the number of "post-Christian" Americans rose ever closer to 50 percent. But what exactly does "post-Christian" mean?
Wanting to find the ultimate spiritual thermometer of Americans' faith, the Barna Group set out to get a better idea about the true faith of the population by looking for a number of key faith indicators determined by both practice and belief. To do this, researchers used 15 metrics to measure factoring in participants' lack of Christian identity, belief and practice in their daily lives. In order to qualify as "post-Christian," individuals in the study needed to meet nine (60 percent) of the 15 criteria below … and the "highly post-Christian" designation was met by individuals meeting 12 (80 percent) of the following factors:
- Do not believe in God
- Identify as atheist or agnostic
- Disagree that faith is important in their lives
- Have not prayed to God (in the last year)
- Have never made a commitment to Jesus
- Disagree the Bible is accurate
- Have not donated money to a church (in the last year)
- Have not attended a Christian church (in the last year)
- Agree that Jesus committed sins
- Do not feel a responsibility to "share their faith"
- Have not read the Bible (in the last week)
- Have not volunteered at church (in the last week)
- Have not attended Sunday school (in the last week)
- Have not attended religious small group (in the last week)
- Do not participate in a house church (in the last year)
And the survey says …
Barna researchers are confident that their exhaustive analysis more accurately portrays where Americans stand when it comes to living out and identifying with their faith.
"These kinds of questions — compared to ticking the "Christian" box in a census — get beyond how people loosely identify themselves (affiliation), and get to the core of what people actuallybelieve and how they behave as a result of their belief (practice)," Barna's research team contends. "These indicators give a much more accurate picture of belief in America."
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What is Apple's mysterious new 'eye' emoji?
Apple is poised to introduce a whole host of new emoji when it releases iOS 9.1 later this year, but one symbol in particular is generating a lot of interest.
The icon looks like an eye inside a speech bubble and it was spotted by Jeremy Burge, founder of Emojipedia.
What's more intriguing is that the symbol has been specifically designed by the tech firm and is not an official addition from the Unicode Consortium, the organisation that manages emoji.
The icon looks like an eye inside a speech bubble and it was spotted by Jeremy Burge, founder of Emojipedia. He posted an image of the emoji on his personal Tumblr blog and Twitter (pictured) and asked readers to suggest what they think it could relate to
Mr Burge posted an image of the emoji on his personal Tumblr blog and asked readers to suggest what they think it could relate to.
He said: 'To a casual observer, this appears to be just another emoji - one of many planned for the iOS 9.1 emoji update.
'But the strange thing about this character (which Apple calls "eye in speech bubble") is that it's not a standard Unicode addition.
'It can't be found in Unicode 1.1, or any other version right through to the Unicode 9.0 candidates.'
The Tumblr blog was posted to Reddit, as well as being shared widely on Twitter, and the most popular suggestion was that it would be used to represent Apple's own iMessage feature.
However, it is unlikely Apple would add the symbol to the emoji keyboard and not introduce it more widely if it did refer to such a significant iOS feature such as iMessage.
Other suggestions were more unusual, with some Reddit users even comparing the icon to the symbol of the Illuminati.
This was an 18th-century secret society, set up by Adam Weishaupt in Bavaria, which consisted of influential and wealthy intellectuals.
It opposed the Roman Catholic Church's control over and sought to 'enlighten' people's minds.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3251992/What-Apple-s-mysterious-new-eye-emoji-Suggestions-range-icon-iMessages-sign-Illuminati.html#ixzz3n5USHKT3
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Security operatives have arrested three suspects in connection to the brutal murder of a family of five in Kyanamukaaka Sub-county in Masaka.
By Vision Reporter
Security operatives have arrested three suspects in connection to the brutal murder of a family of five in Kyanamukaaka Sub-county in Masaka.
Southern regional Police spokesperson Noah Serunjogi identified the suspects in custody as Yazid Muto, 32 and Yasin Matovu both Tabliqs.
Police also arrested Wilson Mugambe, a close friend to the deceased.
"This horrible incident has led to the arrest of two suspects but Police sniffer dogs failed to locate the suspects as residents had already trampled at the scene," Sserunjogi said.
He said Mugambe had resisted arrest claiming he was innocent, but was later subdued.
Last week thugs raided the home of George William Ssenteza, 25, in Kitafali Village, Kyanamukaaka and butchered him along with his wife Ruth Nakate and their three children Phiona Nalumansi,8, Emmanuel Ssenteza, 4 and an unidentified one-year old boy.
Preliminary investigations showed that the family's death could have been connected to land wrangles since nothing of the deceased's property was taken by the assailants.
A spate of horrifying murders has recently rocked Masaka. On September 31, a woman, Christine Nakafeero , 53, and her son Hakim Kato, 17, a primary seven pupil, both residents of Kyesiiga village in Kyanamukaaka Sub-county were slaughtered in their house.
Three arrested over Masaka family massacre


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Fun at home activity
Create a collection of rock stories and a basket.
This activity was inspired by the Warakurna exhibition.
Questions to start you thinking
- What happens in your day-to-day life?
- Do you keep a diary of events that have happened to you?
- Have you ever written a book with just pictures?
Children and their families were invited to create a collection of rock stories in our July 2013 'Rock stories' Discovery Space school holiday program. Warakurna features stories of amazing and everyday events in the lives of a group of Western Desert artists, as revealed through the symbols in their artworks.
Children can tell their stories by drawing symbols on rocks and then arranging them to tell a story, like a picture book. It's fun to mix up the rocks and make up another story. In this activity, we also make bowls to hold the rocks, inspired by the raffia works and baskets in the Warakurna exhibition.
Activity sheet and basket template
Discovery Space Rock stories activity (PDF 730kb)
What you need
For the rock stories:
- about six rocks, though you can use less or more. The rocks should be relatively smooth and about five centimetres long. Please make sure you collect the rocks from around your place and not from a protected area.
- chalk pens, textas or paint.
For the basket:
- A4-size cardboard that can go through a printer, or plain white paper, for the basket template
- printer
- scissors
- wool, string or raffia
- textas or crayons to decorate
- hole puncher (single punch is best if you have one).
What to do: video
Watch this video to start you thinking about how you might tell your story through a series of symbols on rocks.
What to do: text and images
1. Wash and dry the rocks.
2. Think about a story that you would like to illustrate and how you would tell this story with a few hand-drawn symbols. You might like to practise your drawings on paper first.
3. On each rock, draw your symbols using the chalk pens, textas or paints, and then arrange them together to tell your story.
4. If you mix them up can you make up another story. Try your rocks with someone else to see if they can make up a story.
Example: You could draw a house, clouds and a sun, a boy, a bed, a girl, a bicycle, a dog and a park.
Story: A brother and sister wake up on a bright and sunny day. They decided to ride their bicycle and walk their dog to the park and play on the swing set and slide
5. Once you have finished drawing on your rocks, ask an adult to help you print the Rock stories basket template on to an A4 piece of paper or cardboard.
6. Cut out the basket template along the black lines. You might like to ask an adult to help you if you find this tricky. Remember: be careful with scissors, they can be sharp! This is how the template should look once you have finished cutting:
7. Use the hole-punch to punch holes where the black dots are printed. An adult might be able to help if you find this tricky.
8. Fold each section of the basket template in towards the centre.
9. Once you have finished punching the holes around the outside of the basket, decorate it with the wool, string or raffia and textas or crayons. Weave the wool and string in and out around the base. You can repeat many layers to decorate it a little or a lot.
10. Continue colouring and weaving until you feel your basket is finished and ready for your rock stories.
Share your creation
If you would like to share your creation with us, send a photo to: firstname.lastname@example.com and we will add it to the National Museum's Flickr stream, where you can see other crafty creations from our Discovery Space.
Discovery Space
All of our fun at home activities are based on Discovery Space school holiday activities and are developed for kids to do at home if they can't come to the Museum. Check out what kids thought of our activities at the Museum.


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Women of the Word
WOW offers Bible studies in the fall, winter, spring and summer.
During the school year, we offer large group/small group studies on Thursday mornings and evenings. During the summer, we offer studies on Wednesday evenings.
Child care is provided for the Thursday morning sessions. We love seeing new faces and welcome all newcomers to Signal Mountain Presbyterian Church and the community at large.
Women's Circles
Women's Circles are small groups of women who meet together once a month from September through June for Bible study, friendship and service.
If you would like to belong to a circle, please contact Laurel Niemeyer by email or at (423) 886-9343. She'll help you find a place that's just right for you. There are morning and evening groups to choose from.


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Four ways technology is changing sports marketing3 min read . Updated: 09 Mar 2017, 05:11 AM IST
Sports fans are so much more than traditional consumers. Marketing to them requires a very different mindset from marketing to a typical consumer
Sports fans are so much more than traditional consumers. Marketing to them requires a very different mindset from marketing to a typical consumer
When making typical purchase decisions, like buying Diwali gifts for the family, my behaviour for the most part tends to be rational. I look at the perceived benefits versus the costs incurred and then decide. When it comes to making any decision as a sports fan, though, rationality gets tossed out the window.
How else would I explain sitting in the exact same position all day while watching V.V.S. Laxman and Rahul Dravid lead India's famous fightback at Eden Gardens, or making sure I always have my favourite jersey on during certain matches? Sports fans are so much more than traditional consumers; sport is passion and is sometimes linked to our very sense of identity. And marketing to these sports fans requires a very different mindset from marketing to a typical consumer. New-age technology is changing the way in which leagues, teams, broadcasters and brands are tapping into this avidity to create compelling fan experiences. Here are four emerging technology trends that are changing the way marketers can excite and engage sports fans.
Data-driven storytelling: Technology, ranging from optical tracking to wearables, is giving us data like never before. The National Basketball Association has been using SportVU tracking across all its venues since 2013; the National Football League is adding a sensor inside its football; and teams in several other leagues ranging from the English Premier League and the National Hockey League are using wearable technology to improve player conditioning and performance. All this technology gives us access to newer and richer data points—distance run by players, algorithms to capture exact player movements, peak speeds and much more. While this data can help with player selection and strategies, it will also be used to tell stories, and marketers should look for opportunities to give unique insights to sports fans.
Virtual reality (VR): Sport is one of the natural playgrounds to experiment with VR and create money-can't-buy experiences for fans right in their living rooms. From broadcasters experimenting with VR during the 2016 Olympics and US leagues trying it during live games to surround content that allows fans to get up close with their stars, this hot technology is already changing the way sports fans experience games. Though there are some areas which need to be worked upon to ensure VR is reaching the masses, it is clear that this will become a significant form of content consumption in future.
Fan engagement at scale on social media: Simpler technological innovations on social media can help drive fan engagement on a massive scale. Take the International Cricket Council, for instance, which allowed fans to collect virtual trump cards on Twitter using the hashtag #WorldT20Heroes. Through use of technology and algorithms to power automated responses, these virtual cards achieved massive reach with over half a million tweets. Other brands have been using technology to power unique first-of-its-kind innovations to excite fans. The Indian Super League, for instance, had its Facebook cover photo automatically update whenever there was a change in score in a match during Season 1. The best part is these nifty little innovations help brands reach millions of fans that are already on social channels.
Sports stadiums going digital: Globally, we are seeing "smart" arenas come to the forefront with high speed Wi-Fi, giving spectators a seamless in-stadium experience. Fans can use their phones to make their arena experience much easier—scan tickets, locate their seats, order food and more. Going forward, they will be able to do a lot more. Think in-venue live polls and quizzes, interaction with athletes and getting unique second-screen content! Beyond that, stadiums themselves will get larger. Fans from around the world can feel a part of the experience by being able to send their wishes on digital signage or even viewing a game "at the stadium" through interactive video technology.
There has never been a better time to be a sports fan. Technology is giving fans the ability to experience the game like never before and stakeholders are willing to invest to make this happen now. Now it's about figuring out what position I need to stand in with my VR headset on to make sure it helps India win the game. Technology may change the way the game is seen but a sports fan's irrationality will always stay the same.
Arvind Iyengar is chief executive of Sportz Interactive.
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I went to court to support Matt in his hearing. It hurt to see him in scrubs and shackles. I hope the court will do the right thing and get him the help he needs. He was diagnosed with PTSD after two tours in Irag, and for whatever reason didn't get the counseling he needs. He ended up in custody after a standoff with SWAT last week. The Matt that was arrested is not the Matt I know. I will continue to pray for him and do all I can to help him and his family, which doesn't feel like much.
Today Mom showed me how to index records from www.familysearchindexing.com. I indexed 42 names in just a few minutes. This is something that I've wanted to do for several months, and I finally took the time to learn. I felt like what I was doing will make an impact on someone's life soon. I want to continue doing this to help the genealogy cause.
We played in the snow cave again before we crushed it. Our yard isn't fenced and Mom gave me a hard time about the access to the cave. We let everyone take a turn and jumping on top to try and crush it. The cave was stronger than I expected. Raven's friend Mikah did the most damage. I'm sure this will become an annual event.


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Easy Low-Cost Christmas Projects
Pinecone Ornaments
Take a stroll through the neighborhood and collect a few fall pinecones and pine needles. Arrange this free foliage in glass ornaments, bowls, and hurricane vases for a fragrant and festive look. Match the display to your other holiday decorations by adding a few colored ornaments or tinsel to the mix.
Budget project price: $2
Paper Christmas Tree Display
Transform holiday scrapbook paper into a jolly display when you use this easy to cut and fold template. For a custom Christmas countdown calendar, print and attach numbers to a series of 25 paper trees and display them along a mantel. Fill the trees with candy for a charming party favor.
Budget project price: $3
Alien Spaceship Craft
A recycled plastic tomato container is the base of this out-of-this-world ornament craft.
Budget project price: $3
Glitter Ornaments
Adorn basic ornaments with glitter. For simple designs, use a paintbrush to apply glue directly to the ornament, and then sprinkle with glitter. If you want to try a more detailed design and aren't comfortable applying glue by hand, punch a snowflake, Christmas tree, or other shape out of cardstock using a holiday-theme paper punch. Apply glue to the punch-out and stamp it on the ornament. Finish with glitter.
Editor's Tip: Sprinkle glitter over a tray for easy cleanup.
Budget project price: $2.50
Felt-Wrapped Wreath
Wrap a foam wreath frame with strips of felt in varying widths and colors. To create the berries, cut a long, thin strip of red felt with pinking shears and roll it into a circle. Secure with fabric glue, and attach to leaves cut from green felt. For a more traditional look, skip the orange and turquoise strips.
Budget project price: $7
Paper Punch Holiday Card
Use leftover scraps of holiday paper to create one-of-a-kind Christmas cards. Punch through a series of coordinating holiday papers with a paper punch. Arrange the paper confetti on a solid-color sheet into a Christmas tree, wreath, or other simple holiday design. When the design is dry, attach it to cardstock. If you want bigger circles (or other shapes), check your local crafts store for creative punches.
Budget project price: $2
Cupcake Wrapper Gift Wrap
Personalize your gifts with cupcake wrappers. Fold a series of green wrappers into a Christmas tree, and afix to the top of a package. Or nest a group of holiday-theme wrappers to create a frilly starburst. Pair your wrapper art with simple gift wrap so your creation takes center stage. Bonus: You can buy a huge roll of kraft paper for the price of a couple small rolls of department store wrapping paper.
Budget project price: $6
Picture Frame Wreath
Recycle an old picture frame as a holiday wreath that would look great on your door.
Budget project price: $2
Egg Carton Flower
Save the egg cartons from your holiday baking to create this charming flower. Cut out the egg cups and paint them red or your desired color. Cut leaf shapes from the flat part of the box and paint green. Accessorize with glitter, bells, or tinsel. Hang on your Christmas tree, or make a whole dozen and use them to adorn an empty wreath or garland.
Budget project price: $2
Family Photo Garland
Take a trip down memory lane with a homemade photo garland. Drape the nostalgic garland across a mantel or shelf by clipping old snapshots to a piece of festive ribbon. Start with the great-great grandparents at one end of the garland and progress to the youngest generation.
Budget project price: $2
String Tree Craft
Forget the fridge! Spotlighting sweet holiday cards on a festive board gives them the "tree-t-ment" they deserve. First staple neutral fabric to the back of an old corkboard. Then, using colorful string and a couple dozen gold pins, create a tree shape suitable for showing off.
Budget project price: $4
Cardboard Christmas Trees
Have Santa-ready kiddos? Spare the expensive breakables and try these classic cardboard trees on for size. With a so-easy template and only two materials required, these pretty satin-edged trees are just the touch your sprightly home needs.
Budget project price: $4
Green Gallery Frames
Scour garage sales and consignment shops for old frames. Spray-paint them all to match, and hang them gallery-style for a fun, fresh holiday look. Accessorize with garland or ornaments for a little extra Christmas spirit.
Budget project price: $10
Snowman Craft Made with Wooden Balls
You can make a whole snowman family with wooden balls and spools, plus a few crafting scraps. Here's how!
Golden Memo Frame
Cheer up your entryway with a dazzling "dipped" frame. Start by spray-painting the bottom of an old white frame ritzy gold, using painters tape to keep lines clean and crisp. Staple colorful strings of pom-poms to the back of the frame, including one or two happy memos made of simple felt paper and puff paint.
Budget project price: $8
Hanging Countdown Christmas Calendar
Can't wait for Christmas? Neither can we! Count down the days with a homemade calendar. Fallen birch branches tied with number-stamped muslin bags help create this fresh outdoor spin. Use strong yarn or skinny rope to assemble and hang.
Budget project price: $15
Fa-La-La Garland
Make your fireplace or a blank wall sing with these homemade ornaments. Trace the outside of different-size embroidery hoops onto a roll of canvas. Cut out the circles and paint them with green chalkboard paint; let dry. Place the painted circles in the hoops and add hanging ribbon. Use chalk to write a festive refrain.
Budget project price: $13
Chalkboard Phrase Decoration
Bring festive cheer to your home with a playful message written in chalk. Just paint the back of an antique picture frame with black chalkboard paint, then write your favorite phrase.
Budget project price: $3
Postcard Ornaments
Add a natural vibe to this year's Christmas tree with vintage postcards. This is a botanical print, but any image you find will do the trick. Use a hole punch to create a hole at the top, thread a ribbon through, and hang.
Budget project price: $1
Make an Ombre Glittered Vase
Transform a plain glass cylinder into a sparkling centerpiece with just a couple supplies. Simply pick your favorite holiday color scheme and get started!
Budget project price: $9
Candy-Jar Mantel Decor
Turn your mantelpiece into a festive display of sweet treats. Choose your holiday color scheme, and fill clear glass containers with color-coordinated candies. If you don't have a mantel, set the display on a tabletop or anywhere you want an added dose of color.
Budget project price: $10
Green-Theme Christmas Crafts
Bring the winter hues inside with crafts decked in rustic evergreens and snowy whites. Spray-paint pinecones gathered from your backyard, then nestle them in mini ceramic pots. (Coffee mugs also make cheap, cute vases.) Set them next to a frame showcasing your favorite felt reindeer on a backdrop of green fabric.
Budget project price: $6
Peppermint Candy Christmas Wreath
Looking for a Christmas craft to make as a family? Try this sweet peppermint candy wreath! Glue flat peppermints (you'll need about 250 for a 10-inch wreath) in close, neat rows to a white foam wreath. Glue small cinnamon candies in the gaps. Add a ribbon, and hang on the front door or a wall peg.
Budget project price: $15
Pinecone Chair Decorations
Bring the beauty of a wintry landscape into your home with pinecones and a blue, silver, and white palette. Brush white paint on the tips of pinecones, glue them to velvet ribbon, and secure to the backs of your dining room chairs with adhesive plastic hooks.
Budget project price: $7
Wreath-and-Candle Table Topper
Add a natural, festive feel to your coffee table with this easy display. Encircle a candle of your choice with store-bought faux greenery -- that's it!
Budget project price: $5
Snowflake Table Decor
Looking for chic (but cheap!) table decor? Use our downloadable snowflake pattern -- just place it at the folded napkin corner, trace it, and cut out the design.
Budget project price: $4
Festive Holiday Pillow
Brighten your living space by dressing up a plain pillow for the holiday season. To make, cut a holiday shape, such as a tree or star, from felt or burlap. Secure to the pillow by wrapping red and white yarn repeatedly around the pattern and pillow.
Budget project price: $6
Easy Ribbon Cabinet Flourish
Dress cabinet doors and windows with a flourish of ribbon -- a useful, inexpensive Christmas decorating trim to keep on hand. Crisscross lengths of ribbon inside a glass pane, stretching from corner to corner. Tape or tack ribbon in place, and adhere a paper medallion where the ribbons cross.
Budget project price: $2
Outdoor Holiday Luminarias
Turn paper bags into dramatic luminarias by cutting out your own designs with a crafts knife, hole punch, and scissors. Fill the bottom with sand, and drop in a tea light to bring your walkway to life at dusk. (Use battery-powered votives for a safe display.)
Budget project price: $8


text: When I was a young student, I only listened to foreign music, mainly rock music and hard rock. Then I surprised myself by discovering ethnic music. Now I like to listen to music from different places, and in many situations. Even when you work, some ethnic music calms the nerves.


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While I don't always follow the script, I do believe that the lessons have been vetted and shown to be well thought out. I like the script as a starting point and I like having a model to work with. I especially like the common misconceptions and the suggested questions that could be posed to students.
Here are two of the most recent lessons that I have used in my classroom.
Defining lines by points, slopes, and equations
My favorite part of many of these lessons is the collaborative section. This lesson contains a matching activity where various information is missing from some of the pairs. Students can more easily match the pairs with all the information given and then expand their understanding by completing the missing facts for the other matches. Students must really understand the meaning of slope to complete the task.
This particular lesson contains a card sort where students see multiple solutions and representations of lines. The card sort again has some matches with incomplete information for students to add in.


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It's a girl for Russell Wilson and Ciara
Florence Anthony | 5/5/2017, 4:40 p.m.
Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson and his sexy songstress wife Ciara are now proud parents of a baby girl, Sienna Princess Wilson. The couple announced the birth of their daughter Friday, April 28, the same night as the NFL Draft. Sienna weighed 7 pounds, 13 ounces at birth. The coosome twosome got married the summer of 2016 in England and announced they were expecting a child together the following fall. Sienna is the 28-year-old Wilson's first child. Ciara is also mother to 3-year-old son Future Zahir Wilburn, with former flame, rapper Future.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Tamron Hall has signed with WME. The agency will work with the former "Today" star on strategic opportunities involving TV and digital content, as well as speaking engagements and brand partnerships, among other areas. The news comes exactly three months after Hall exited NBC's "Today." She had co-anchored the morning show's 9 a.m. hour for three years, in addition to hosting her own daily MSNBC show, "MNSBC Live with Tamron Hall." Hall's abrupt decision was met with backlash, most notably from the National Association of Black Journalists, which accused NBC of "whitewashing."
The National Action Network, founded by civil rights leader the Rev. Al Sharpton, held its annual National Convention from April 26 to April 29 at the Sheraton Times Square in New York, where the country's most influential voices, including former attorney General Eric Holder and Senator Bernie Sanders, weighed in on critical issues, such as voting rights, criminal justice reform, immigration, health care, education, corporate responsibility, economic equity and more in the Trump era. Among the highlights of the convention was an award given to Jennifer Jones Austin, CEO and executive director of Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies and a NAN board member, for her tireless work around eradicating poverty. She received her honor during a luncheon in the name of her father, the late Rev. Dr. William A. Jones Luncheon, an annual NAN event recognizing those in the faith-based sector who have paved the way in social justice and civil rights.
All of New York is still buzzing about the dazzling display of Black Woman Magic at the Greater New York Chapter of the Links Incorporated Annual Women of Distinction Spirit Awards Luncheon and Fashion Show held at Chelsea Piers. Nearly 900 of the Big Apple's best and brightest were in attendance as the ladies of greater New York presented an event that honored an array of accomplished women from the worlds of education, philanthropy, high finance and beauty. Among the honorees were Marilyn F. Booker, managing director and head of Urban Markets Group Morgan Stanley; Miko Branch, co-founder and CEO, Miss Jessie's LLC; Dr. Paula Johnson, 14th president of Wellesley College; and, Henri G. Moore, global leader for philanthropy and education and president of the DuPont Pioneer Foundation. A major highlight of the event was a breathtaking fashion show featuring designs by Tracey Reese, Kevan Hall and Erica Walcott. Fashion icons Pat Cleveland, Alva Chinn and Norma Jean Darden from the legendary "Battle of Versailles" were on hand lending their own special glamour to the event.


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Australians' love of cruising shows no signs of abating with more cruise ships visiting Australia than ever before, passenger expenditure up and cruise lines delivering $1.9 billion in direct expenditure in 2014/15.
According to the latest Cruise Down Under annual Economic Impact Report, cruise ships visiting Australia delivered an estimated total economic output of $3.3 billion in the 2014/15 period, a 5.3% increase on 2013/14. The economic impact of cruise ship visits to Australia is the aggregation of all international passenger and crew expenditure and cruise ship expenditure at each port visited by a cruise ship.
CDU is the peak cruise body in Australia and has been compiling the Economic Impact Assessment for 11 years to better understand the size, growth and economic significance of the industry to the Australian economy to assist with future planning and strategy.
A total of 46 cruise ships visited Australia in 2014/15 with a total of 31 ports visited across Australia.
There were 876 port visits, up from 773 in 2013/14 and 2.4 million passenger days in port, up from 1.9 million passenger days.
Passengers and crew continue to spend, with passenger spend sitting at $903 million (up from $678 million) and crew spend at $87 million (up from $71 million in the previous period).
Passenger and crew capacity on cruise ships has also shown an increase with 68,134 passenger capacity in 2014/15, up from 63,263, and crew capacity up from 28,061 to 29,582.
The only real change was in total port-related expenditure due to falls in bunker or fuel costs over the year, from an estimated $938 million down to $792 million. However this was good news for the cruise lines.
All indicators point to a growth curve going forward, with eight new ships to visit Australian ports in the coming year including Holland America's Noordam, Princess Cruises' Golden Princess, RCI's Explorer of the Seas, P&O's Pacific Eden and Pacific Aria, Costa's Costa Luminosa, Azamara's Azamara Quest and Ponant's Le Soleal.
P&O Cruises will bring five of their ships into Sydney on 25 November for a Five Ship Spectacle and RCI's Ovation of the Seas' – the largest ship to ever cruise Australian waters - will kick off a maiden season for Australia and New Zealand in the 2016/17 season.
Jill Abel, Chief Executive Officer of CDU said: "The figures show that Australian cruising is continuing to be a growth industry, with strong economic benefits for all involved and positive signs that Australian ports still feature highly on cruise line itineraries."
The 2014/15 study was undertaken by AEC Group for CDU.


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Tories must deliver at least "tiny" elected element to Lords or lose boundary changes, Cameron tells 1922 meeting
By Tim Montgomerie
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The Prime Minister has just addressed the 1922 meeting of Tory MPs - his final opportunity to address them before the summer recess. I'm told he got a warm if not rapturous reception and, in return, spoke candidly without bluster. More peers were present than for some time... Can't think why!
The top line is that he promised to launch "one more" push for Lords reform. If we don't give the Lib Dems even a "tiny" elected element to the Upper House we will lose other constitutional changes, he warned. By other constitutional changes he means boundary changes. If we can't deliver that element the Coalition will need to move on swiftly to other things but there will be a price for the Conservatives in losing the boundary review, he implied.
Looking forward the Tories needed, he said, to focus on three things: (1) the Coalition's awful inheritance (he said the British people were fair-minded and will be fair to Government if it keeps country safe from the global economic storm); (2) our values, especially social mobility/ aspiration and compassion - as most illustrated by the Gove and IDS reforms; and (3) that Labour, not UKIP or the LibDems were the Tory enemy. He has instructed ministers to go after Labour over the summer and autumn. Father of House Peter Tapsell in questions rebuked David Cameron in his unique style. Labour are opponents, not enemies, he said. Debate in the Commons had become far too personal, Sir Peter added.
Interestingly the PM began by paying handsome tribute to the Chief Whip, Patrick McLoughlin and gave him a big hug. My cynical/ realistic sources interpreted this as a sign that Mr McLoughlin's seven year period of service would not survive the post-Olympics reshuffle.


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Nov 29, 2007
Important Stuff
I'll be sending out Christmas cards soon. If you'd like one, would you please send me your address? My e-mail is: firstname.lastname@example.com
Important Item #2:
Tonight D said "I expect our boys to be Samurai Warriors by the time we leave Japan".
Important Item #3:
Exactly two weeks ago, my wallet and D's work bag were stolen from our car while it was parked in Boston Common. (The automatic door locker doesn't always work.) Today we got both back because Doug decided--four days after the fact--to file a police report (despite me saying it was hopeless).
The only things missing: Ibuprofen (they left the bottle), a few random gift cards from my wallet and D's I-pod. They left D's key's, (which included home, office, hospital, and two cars) his check book, and all of my credit cards and drivers license. (And temple recommend, library card, discount cards, YMCA card, etc.)
Can I just tell you what a huge relief and blessing it was to get everything back? Yes, I can: HUGE!!!
Important Item #4:
D put up Christmas lights tonight.
Important Item #5:
Don't be greedy. Four is enough.
Nov 26, 2007
his (famous in blogging circles) wife, and their adorable little girl left yesterday after a fun filled Thanksgiving weekend.
And I'm sad.
Because now I have to get back to real life which includes far fewer yummy breakfasts and much more domestic drudgery.
And because I found that Laura and I have LOTS in common just by virtue of being married to very similar brothers. (Plus we're both super smart and witty and humble.)
So it's really good to talk to her!
And because little Eden is so beautiful and provided endless hours of entertainment for all of us.
And because my boys had so much fun having them here.And because Dave did the dishes.
Nov 24, 2007
Nov 13, 2007
Sam was watching Playhouse Disney's Little Einsteins which I love. So no problem. But about a minute after I sat down it ended and something new started. Something horrible. Big problem. I'm stranded on the Lazy-Boy (nursing a tiny lazy boy) and the remote is out of Sam's reach. I felt my eyes start to bleed, but there was nothing to be done. I had to watch...
Have you ever seen Doodlebops? It's one of the shows my kids aren't allowed to watch because it lacks artistic appeal...and it's obnoxious. Oh, and because if you're prone to seizures, I'm pretty sure the acid-trip-inspired set will trigger one instantly.
What's that you say? You like this show?* No, no you don't. You don't like it. Because although Moe, Deedee, and Rooney all have skin painted different colors, and even though they all dance around with instruments and pretend to play, and even though they sing peppy, obnoxious songs, this show has no redeeming value.
Need a little more convincing? This is the chorus of one of their songs that I had to hear repeated about 58 times to a pseudo hip-hop beat:
You're my heeeeero, and
you're my frieeeeeeeeend,
and I'll look up to you
again and again...
Enough said.
Don't even get me started on "Yo Gabba Gabba".
*Also, don't trust your kid's opinion. Kids eat their own boogers.
Nov 12, 2007
Eye Candy
Nov 5, 2007
Hooray for BOOKS!
Nov 2, 2007
Book Review
The Gift of Pain by Philip Yancey and Dr. Paul Brand
Have you ever read one of those books where you want to read every other paragraph out loud to whomever happens to be in the room? Where the whole time you're reading it you think, "Oh, I wish this, and this, and this person would read this!?!?" or "Why isn't this required reading for every college student on the planet?" This is one of those books. It's non-fiction but reads as easily as a novel (which is rare). My friend Ginger let me borrow her copy and I'm glad I did. Now Doug is reading it and he likes it too. Two thumbs way up!
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Takes place in Afghanistan and the Bay area. One area I know little about, one I know lots about. I'll admit, I checked this out a few months ago, started it, got to a pivotal but extremely disturbing scene, and stopped reading.
Then was told by 20(ish) people (Diane) that it's the best book ever and I MUST finish it. So I checked it out again and finished it this time. I have to say, I have mixed emotions! Don't get me wrong, it's an excellent book with excellent writing. But it's also really sad and really depressing at times.
So I'm in an argument with myself about whether or not I like it and I can't decide. Because I don't like sad stories, but some sad stories need to be told and sometimes I need to hear them to be shaken out of my complacency. So I'm withholding judgement. You'll have to read it and tell me what you think. In the mean time, I will recommend The Story of My Life: An Afghan Girl on the Other Side of the Sky by Farah Amedi without reservation.
Happy Reading!


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BlackBerry is a company that has had a bumpy road the past few years. Although known for its loyal followers, BlackBerry's overall success has not been that great in terms of selling smartphones. However, the recent spat between BlackBerry and T-Mobile is not good for either company.
The roots of the problem probably go back to a perceived lack of success on the part of BlackBerry. In 2013, the company was fourth in smartphone market share, coming in at less than two percent. In terms of total number of devices sold, it came in at over 18 million.
While BlackBerry has struggled somewhat in selling physical devices, there is some cause for optimism. Most of the optimism is centered around BlackBerry Messenger (BBM). Facebook's recent purchase of messaging app WhatsApp gives some hope that BBM can also be successful. The idea is apparently that more attention will be drawn to the usefulness of mobile messaging apps. BlackBerry's recent boost in shares has been attributed to the WhatsApp deal.
It is difficult to predict if WhatsApp's success will have any long-term benefits for the competing BBM. For one thing, WhatsApp has substantially more users than BBM. According to a Forbes article, BlackBerry Messenger has around 80 million users, while WhatsApp boasts 450 million.
The apparent problems for BlackBerry have continued in the form of a recent spat with service provider T-Mobile. T-Mobile made an offer to BlackBerry users to trade in their old devices and get $200 towards an upgrade. The problem is that participants in this program are not restricted to another BlackBerry when they get a newer phone. They could potentially get a different brand altogether.
While T-Mobile's strategy is probably meant simply to get people to switch carriers, it has been met with outrage by BlackBerry. John Chen, CEO of BlackBerry, recently wrote a blog post expressing his frustration. One of his main concerns was that T-Mobile did not clear the promotional idea with BlackBerry before it was proposed to the public. He also expressed his gratitude to loyal BlackBerry users, and hinted at an offer to BlackBerry users who are on the T-Mobile network.
T-Mobile, on the other hand, responded by talking about the importance of customer choice. Of course, having options and not being tied down are certainly advantages. More consumer choice is generally a good thing. Nevertheless, it is easy to see why John Chen might be annoyed.
It is hard to determine which side (if any) is in the right in this controversy. The feud between BlackBerry and T-Mobile is probably bad for both companies. For one thing, it is never a good idea to alienate a business partner, even if unintentionally.
BlackBerry does not need anymore negative attention, and it certainly would not want its T-Mobile users to switch to a different device. On the other hand, T-Mobile risks angering some of its users. It does not really need negative publicity either.
It is not very realistic to expect the two companies to "just play nice." They both have a stake in the current controversy. Still, the feud between BlackBerry and T-Mobile is a negative for both companies. It is probably in the best interests of both sides for this public relations mess to get cleaned up as soon as possible.
Editorial By Zach Kirkman


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John Hinckley, Jr.
It was John Hinckley, Jr.'s assassination attempt on President Reagan outside the Washington Hilton in 1981 that ignited a change in the U.S.'s way of thinking about how a person's insanity is evaluated and determined in the eyes of the law. Hinckley was tried and found not guilty by reason of insanity in 1982 and confined to a psychiatric hospital. The verdict stunned the country -- a poll at the time found 76 percent of Americans felt Hinckley should have been convicted and incarcerated -- and more than 40 bills went before Congress in an effort to put an end to the insanity defense [source: Lilienfeld].
The insanity defense was not abolished, though, and the Comprehensive Crime Control Act (CCCA) was passed in 1984. Under the mental health provisions in the CCCA, a defendant must prove that because of mental illness or mental defect he did not have the cognitive or moral ability to comprehend his criminal acts at the time of the crime. The competency of the defendant must be determined (including competency to stand trial, to plead guilty or no contest, and to waive counsel, as well as competency at sentencing and during appeal), and sentencing is to be determined under the included Insanity Defense Reform Act, which sets sentencing guidelines intended to protect mentally ill criminals.