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As my heart aches from the untimely death of Robin Williams, I decided I'd tell my own story about depression. I hope it will ignite a much-needed dialogue that may help to remove the ridiculous stigma attached to those afflicted with depression.
In times of great crises we all need to feel safe and loved, enabling us to reach out and openly communicate with others about our feelings. Then, perhaps, one bad moment in somebody's life will lead to a better moment, and then another one and another. One day at a time.
Here is my story.
A few years ago I had the misfortune of waking up in terrific pain, feeling as if a knife was stabbing me from the inside out. My back and abdomen battled against each other as I cried out in agony. I stupidly withstood it, knowing that my nephew's Bar Mitzvah, an important occasion in our family, was occurring that weekend. I have no idea how I got dressed, or put on my tight stockings and skirt. I could barely move, sit or bend. Yet somehow I made it through the ceremony and reception. The next morning I finally went to the emergency room, and after six long hours in the waiting room, I was misdiagnosed and then diagnosed with kidney stones. And gallstones.
To make a very long story short, it took weeks to have two surgeries, one lithotripsy, and weeks of recuperating at home.
But worse than the pain was the dark, black cloud that constantly loomed over me. It felt as if I was imprisoned in my own body, unable to be the person I once was. I couldn't get dressed, I couldn't eat, and I had no interest in anything but the dark cloud. I began losing weight, and sat in a chair all day and stared out the window.
I thought I was losing my mind.
The guilt of not being able to care for my son that summer ate away at my heart. He stayed with different family members, and my husband filled in whenever he wasn't working. My parents would visit and bring dinner, but I couldn't rally to sit at the table to join them. The lost look on their faces still haunts me. What was happening to their daughter? How could they help me?
The answer is they couldn't help me, because I had no idea what was happening.
Then one day I was told that my hormones were completely out of whack, and because my body had endured kidney and gallstones, terrible physical pain, and an exacerbation of my Multiple Sclerosis, something I'd never experienced before was happening: depression.
My loved ones convinced me that I was not meant to have depression long-term; they were sure of that. They assured me there was no shame in reaching out for help to take care of myself, and urged me to find a qualified therapist for some "talk therapy" combined with the right medications.
They were right.
It took awhile, but I finally found a therapist I was comfortable with, and through trial and error I found the right medication. Slowly I began to crawl away from the dark and back into the light. I climbed back into my old self, and eventually weaned off the medication.
I was able to take control of my life once more.
But my life was changed forever, because I had a very small glimpse of what it's like to live with depression. There are days of horrible, unreasonable thoughts, and times when you believe your life is not worth it. The world has a dark filter on it, and everything seems difficult.
It's pure hell.
Listening to reporters talk about Robin Williams for the last few days, asking ridiculous questions such as why didn't he just snap out of it, is why we need more education and awareness about depression in our country. If you've never walked in the shoes of depression you have no idea what it feels like. Robin Williams had severe depression, and only his family and close friends know what he endured. Who are we to guess?
I wish he had found the right combination of therapy and medication, but for now let's stop the guessing and allow his family to have the privacy they deserve to grieve in peace.
I pray that Robin has finally found peace. He was pure heaven to us on earth. I hope that now he is having fun making Jonathan Winters, Johnny Carson and God laugh, and that our talented and big-hearted Genie is laughing along with them. He certainly deserves it.
National Alliance on Mental Illness
National Suicide Prevention Hotline
Need help? In the U.S., call 1-800-273-8255 for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
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Bobby put the fans at FALS into a frenzy Saturday night picking up the $10,000 victory in dramatic fashion. Starting ninth in the fifty-lap feature, he fell back to around 14th at one point early on. With green flag racing from the start, a caution would fly with twenty-six laps to go bunching the field up. After going back to green, Bobby's car came to life and he mounted a furious charge on the topside. He slid by Sheppard for fourth with 13 to go. Three laps later he powered by Moyer for third. With seven to go, he dropped down from his preferred top groove to the middle of the track and snuck by Erb down the backstretch for second. With five laps to go, he caught the leader (Pearson) and slid by him going into turns one and two. Pearson battled back into turns three and four as they ran side by side. Bobby took the lead for good as he crossed the line with four laps to go and led the rest of the way, winning by 1.6 seconds at the checkers.
"I honestly did not think we'd have a chance to win the race after starting ninth," said Pierce, who registered his second triumph of the 2016 season driving his family-owned Pierce Race Car. "I knew if I could kind of get a break we'd have a chance to win it, but I wasn't thinking we'd win that race."
"Fairbury's such a tight racetrack, and when it gets like that it's so hard to pass," Pierce said. "You have to have a lot of luck on your side. "We kind of had to just go where they weren't, but it was kind of hard when my car was so fast up top."
"It's always just great racing," Pierce said of another typically thrilling special event at Fairbury. "Whenever you can come from the fifth row and win a race, it just says a lot about the racetrack. Always fun to win at a place like Fairbury, where my Dad had so much success. I'll be looking forward to the next time we come here." -- Rocky Ragusa Photo


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You may have seen or heard the adverts on the telly and the radio, but now it's time to get all 21st century on yourself and witness some animated genius on the web!
As a sequel to the much loved shorts from the 90's, everybody's favourite plasticine wizards, Aardman, have developed a set of new characters for the Leonard Cheshire Disability Charity's ongoing 'Creature Discomforts' campaign.
The series challenges people to change the way they see disability and the characters are based on the unscripted voices of disabled people talking about the issues that affect their lives.
MCM Net produced four flash games for the viral end of the campaign, and Rubber Republic was assigned to handle seeding duties. Three of the four games have been released fortnightly since Oct. 17, with the final game set to launch on Friday, Nov. 7. The games are fun, simple to play, beautifully animated but also share the same serious message as the previous ads.
A noteworthy feature in the first game of the series, 'Flyzz' featuring Callum The Chameleon, was that it carried an 'audio only' option, making it one of the few flash games that are accessible to the blind.
As an added extra, the five top scorers from each game will win a signed portrait of their skilled protagonist. The top 20 scorers from each game will then be entered into a larger draw, standing the chance to win -- and I quote -- "a special money can't buy Aardman related prize!"
The three released games and their descriptions are as follows:
Flyzz - Help to feed Callum the blind Chameleon, by catching those pesky flies and wasps with his acute lizard instincts and his super long tongue!
Peanut Pickup - Help Millie feed the giant, restless Elephant some nuts. Make sure you don't don't try and feed him the green ones, he hates them! Also be careful of the trunk, you may be mistaken for food and picked up!
Sweetshop Sweep - Tim the one-legged Tortoise is attempting to use his crutches and his eye for physics to launch himself as far into a sweet shop as tortoise-ly possible. His sugar-hungry kids are demanding sweets and Tim is prepared to go to any lengths to get them!
Visit the Creature Discomforts site to discover more information on the characters, to see the ads in their other formats and for lots of other treats and extras.
Oh and by the way, these games are a sure fire way to impress women. I showed my girlfriend and she loved it!
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A net profit of $62 per load is the highest result achieved by mid-sized freight brokers for at least two years. That bottom line number was the product of above-average load volume and gross revenues per load. Costs were up in October, too, but a boost to load volume more than made up for the extra expenses. The gross profit margin was stable at 14.5%.
The graph below reveals that October was a record month for brokers' financial performance per load, among other metrics. They moved an average of 1,357 loads (dark blue bar) during the month, to bring in an average revenue of $1,578 (green bar) and a profit of $61.65 (orange line) per load.
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As the star of a beloved HBO series, a crusader for pay equality, and a natural at Instagram, Nicole Kidman is in the prime of her life. One more reason: Her relationship with Keith Urban can be best described by the hashtag #couplegoal, even if the pair themselves would never use the term. As hard as it may be to believe — even more so for those of a certain age range — it's been 12 years since the pair tied the knot.
In celebration of their anniversary, Kidman is opening up about how exactly she and Urban have maintained their sturdy relationship over the years. The answer is almost too impossible to believe: "We've never texted," Kidman tells Parade. Before going through the logistical hurdle of how exactly two humans engaged in a relationship and partnership have never exchanged written info in the form of a text message, Kidman has offered some kind of explanation.
"We talk all the time and we FaceTime but we just don't text because I feel like texting can be misrepresentative at times," she says, making, no doubt, a good point. Tones do get misconstrued when written out and clarifications are an essential part of communicating primarily through text message. (Just watch Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key's sketch about the nightmare of making plans via text for confirmation.) This has happened to Kidman, which is why she doesn't text Urban.
"I've had the thing where I re-read texts and I'm like, 'What does that mean?' and then read it to somebody and go, 'Can you interpret that?'," she explains. "I don't want that between my lover and I. We just do voice to voice, or skin to skin, as we always say."
This remark sparks a lot more questions than answers, though. For one, when Kidman or Urban are running late do they always take the extra time to dial each other, wait out the ring, and deliver the news to another person or a voicemail? Assuming that neither or them are able to answer the phone at any given time — they are busy, and Kidman is continually getting busier thanks to her new contract with Amazon — is their voice mailbox constantly full? Have they truly "never" texted within the past 12 years of their relationship? Or is this all just one Big Little Lie?
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Apple's (AAPL) shares slumped 12 percent Thursday, slicing more than $50 billion from its market value, as weaker-than-expected holiday iPhone sales reinforced fears that it is losing its dominance in smartphones.
Eighteen brokerages, including Barclays Capital, Mizuho Securities USA, Credit Suisse, Raymond James, Robert W. Baird & Co and Canaccord Genuity, cut their price targets on the stock by an average $132 to $612.
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A senior
I used to think that knowing yourself meant
never crying. And surely knowing yourself meant always being calm, confident, and
content, and never changing your mind. No weepy calls home would ever be made. No
friendships would ever dissolve. No big unanswered questions would ever linger like
oil on Interstate-5 after a summer rain. I thought such weaknesses would (should?)
be absent from the life of someone who knew herself. I still think this way sometimes.
I wonder how I can have moments of insight— life is a journey, don't
sweat the small stuff— one day and totally forget them the next day. Recently,
however, I have started to accept that that the practice of knowing myself can be
based on a foundation other than self-criticism.
A few weeks ago someone told me that they didn't
understand my relationship with my mom, my twin, and my home. It was a crucial moment
for me, and although, as is often the case, the insight I gained was accompanied
by some hurt, I am grateful to this person. My family unit is indeed a little hard
to understand. My mom is a true and interesting friend and reservoir of support,
but I feel a loyalty and duty to her that is not uncomplicated. My brother makes
me feel so happy and whole that sometimes I feel all my other relationships are doomed
to be unfulfilling in comparison. Being close with my mom and my brother is critically
important to me. It is going to be a part of my future and I am thankful that this
is the case. What I realized is that I feel no need to apologize for my attachments
or be modest about the love I get from my family. Yet my ongoing exploration of self
and my dreams for the future are complicated by the reality that my most fundamental
feeling of self is intertwined with these two other people. And to have someone call
that out triggered complicated reactions in me.
It made me think about how I fundamentally approach
choices and challenges in my life. Before I think in timelines, five years, ten
years, fifty years or landmarks, love, career, children, I want to let thrive the
elements of my personality that get brow-beat by my tendency to let anxious thoughts
and pressures (real or imaginary) paralyze me. At this point in life, as I play
with thoughts of my future I am absorbed by trying to practice a new way of knowing
myself. My path to success will be easier if I can be myself without feeling the
pressure of what other people need me to be, or think I should be. This does mean
I want to cut myself from how I affect other people, it just means I want to change
my perspective.
I have a friend from home who recently told
me that to this day she still says to herself, in times of crisis, "what
would Kate do?" This compliment embodies both a dimension of my vision of
success for myself and an example of how I need to change the way I process thoughts
about myself. I'm not particularly close with this friend anymore, but I
am extremely proud that I had a positive and lasting impact on her. I want to continue
to live my life in a way that my love for myself, my values, and my outlook, benefit
not only me and my personal goals but those around me. I want to be someone that
people rely on, confide in, and remember. But I want to be able to hear compliments
and celebrate good things about myself without giving in to the accompanying pressures.
The feeling that I'm eventually going to let someone down. The fear that
someone is going to find out I'm not as smart and charming as I seem. Those
are thoughts that I'd like to weed out. When someone gives me a compliment,
or says they don't understand something about me, I want to remember that
the most important thing is how I feel about myself. It seems fundamental, simple,
but it is much harder than it seems. I want to navigate success by just shifting
the way I think about choices and events in my life.
A junior
I always wanted to be perfect, because my life wasn't. Then, like now, I desired to be a ton of different things and do them well. I learned to cut scraps and sew clothes for Barbie with aspirations of being a fashion designer. I drew with dreams of being an artist. I entered poetry contest with hopes of being a poet. I did gymnastics to win a gold medal. I wanted to be good at it and I wanted to love it. I never had the concrete doctor, lawyer, and astronaut ambitions. Just wanted to do what I wanted and everyone to shut up about it.
Most third graders don't know what life is. They aren't making life decisions. They don't drive a car, pay the bills, or do the grocery shopping. Most third graders aren't recognizing a power within themselves. At eight years old, life's purpose matters very little in the scheme of recess, naps, and getting your way. Twelve years later, if you include me in a sentence categorizing me as "most" I'm afraid I must correct you. The third grade was when I realized that I was most definitely not most. As growing and thinking people, we must understand that realizations don't have to mean acceptance, and most never mean understanding, at least not initially.
In the third grade, I wanted to be challenged. I wanted to be surrounded by children as smart as I was. I wanted variety, not the same badass kids in my class. I wanted to be heard. I wanted adults to recognize that I could thing for myself. Acknowledge that I had an opinion and I knew what I liked and didn't like (green peas and mandarin oranges). I wanted to go into the library and pick up a book that I couldn't finish in ten minutes. And if I did, not be interrupted by some little boy kissing me on the cheek, therefore causing me to put down my book and go across his face with my tiny third grade hand. I wanted to wear biker shorts under the skirts that I didn't want to wear. I didn't want to be the smallest person in my class. And I definitely didn't want to be in ballet anymore.
The change I see in myself as I've gotten older is that everything happens when it's supposed to. At eight, you only know how to ask for things. You don't understand why you can't get what you want. You don't like it. At twenty, things come as they come. They also leave as they please. For the things you cannot change, you deal. For those you can change, you change. Or shut up about it.
An Ada Comstock Scholar
At one point
I lived my life according to my own rules, following my own path. No, not a path;
a stream, of water or of air; turbulent, in motion, following no standard formula
of progress, but just going. And somewhere along the way I fell from that stream
and stepped onto an established, well-worn path, paved with the desires and expectations
of countless other women. This path, call it achievement or perfection, grounded
and comforted me, as it gave me clearly defined boundaries and rules at a time in
my life when I was too exhausted to formulate them for myself.
The expectations I held myself to
were not purely goal-oriented or achievement-based. At some point I internalized
the personal characteristics that I felt I needed in order to be "good" or "functional" or "equal." Not
knowing what to say to a friend who called with a problem left me feeling useless
and unsupportive; crying at work (or ever) became a mark of weakness. My creative,
expressive, emotional self that had been "me" for 20+ years was no longer
visible, but I didn't notice its absence. I saw myself as progressing, maturing,
oblivious to the fact that I was actually restricting and deluding. As my professional
and academic achievements grew, as I racked up promotions and 4.0s and praise from
others, the personal expectations I held myself to tightened, squeezing up and out,
forming blinders that limited my vision further. Life became narrower, and I could
no longer breathe. I was having a crisis of faith in myself.
Where did my new expectations of myself
come from? Was it in trying to understand my father, who lived his entire life comfortably
confined within the structures of the military, the church, the family patriarchy?
Or was it from being exposed to too many televised superwomen: vampire slayers and
CIA double agents and teenage super sleuths, women who seamlessly blended strength
and power and finesse, kicking life's ass with their fashionable Blahniks?
Coming to Smith was like holding a
magnifying glass to the situation. Living at school, I witnessed first hand the students
whose expectations of themselves created mile-high blinders limiting their vision
only to their idealized path of success, and I started to realize how much life they
weren't aware of, weren't open to, and how precious those experiences
had been in my own life. Looking at what was around me allowed me to look inward,
allowed me to see that I had been holding myself to just as many unrealistic and
unhealthy expectations.
I'm still working on keeping
this perspective in check, and not allowing myself to feel controlled by grades or
in competition with friends who are "doing it all." I try to remember
that the only expectation I want to have of myself is to keep myself grounded in
my own definitions of success, and I can make these definitions wearing flip flops
if I want.
I'm 22 years old, a
senior in college, on the verge of being let loose in the "real" world
to become a "real" person,
and I'm not certain I want that freedom...When do I definitely start being
an adult? The structure that the education system provided me is gone and I'm
not sure what is supposed to happen and when for the rest of my life.
On the one hand, I really can't wait until I'm
financially independent and debt free, but on the other, I'm not 6 years old
anymore and owning my own house doesn't come with a definite time frame. I
can't count down the days like I did when I got my driver's license or
when I graduated from high school. Even with a payment plan for my loans I know there
will be setbacks and complications that will alter the course of my indebtedness.
It's not inconceivable that it could take me 20 years to pay off all the money!
Twenty years?! That is essentially doubling my lifetime and a time frame that I find
hard to grasp. For some reason I can reasonably comprehend the millions of years
it took mammals to evolve, but being 40 years old is a concept much more overwhelming.
So what do I have to look forward to now? How
am I supposed to measure time and achievement? I've always met the required
goals and benchmarks, but from here on out, there is no universal reference point
for time and no grand authority to let me know if I'm doing alright. My problem
with this is that for my whole life I've been waiting for someone to give
me that certificate stating to the world that I'm a real person capable of
making important, life-altering decisions, specifically of the risky or ballsy
nature. I've been waiting for the opportunity to do what I truly think I
want to do without penalty of guilt or shame. You know, that event that happens
and signifies that I am a passionate, intentional, reasonable person to be reckoned
with; the time when life stops being a process and starts fulfilling the Big Plan.
But in reality, there is no one opportunity
or event, there is no Big Plan, there are no decisions that are not potentially
life-altering. There is no universal point of reference, and no grand authority
that will give me a gold star when I make a good choice. Plus, when you really
break it down, every success and failure is relative. Who's to say that 1,000
little successes over a lifetime don't equal one big one? An achievement
for one person will not mean the same thing to another. At the end of the day,
I don't want to let Smith College or my parents or my friends have the final
word on whether or not I can be happy with myself and get a good night's
sleep (which is probably number one on the list of things I value highly). Everyone
is always going to have an opinion about what I could and should be doing with
my life whether I want to hear it or not, and I know myself well enough to know
that these weighty suggestions affect me a lot and tend to throw things out of
perspective. Do I really agree with my coworker's father who thinks I should
go into business because it is the new hot field for psychology majors? No, yet
I still spend several days and way too much energy ruling out this possibility.
Some may call it being thorough, but I can't help but worry that this behavior
is an indicator that a good deal of aimless wandering through careers is ahead
of me.
What I have to come to terms with is the fact
that while I don't exactly know what I want to be, I definitely know some
things that I don't want to be and those can be pretty powerful in forging
a path. I have some vague ideas about what it is I'm ultimately striving
to do, and I think I just have to have faith that my experiences in the following
years will illuminate some interesting opportunities as I go.
My parents don't know that
I have a girlfriend. It's not for a lack of trying. I tried to tell them over dinner
in May. My father appeared to choke while my mother thought it was a prank I was
pulling on my father. I had tried to tell them before in January when Brokeback
Mountain came out, and
once in late July. Both times my parents revealed prejudices that I wasn't aware
they held, and wish I could hide myself from again. Sometimes I wonder how much they
are hiding my girlfriend from themselves. After all, I lived with her for an entire
summer, in the same room, in the same bed.
It's not like I can come out and say "I'm
gay" as some sort of preface, or a permanent announcement. I don't identify
with that term, or any other term that I've come across to identify sexuality.
They don't seem to fit. I also don't want to hear my parents call it some sort
of phase. So I invented my own term for a while. I am a "Christine-osexual."
It's so hard for me to tell them because I feel
like it's the first time I've actually failed them. They were eventually okay with
the hair, the major, the school, the possible career. I've never gotten a grade
below a B-. I joined crew in an attempt to do something they said I couldn't, but
now I feel like if I'm not in the varsity boat during the spring semester I will
have disappointed them more than myself. They know I'm injured, but that doesn't
stop my mother, the nurse, from discussing how I will be in the "A boat." They
used to do something similar when I focused more on music, but it's faded as I've
stopped auditioning for things.
I'm not sure I can truly be successful until
I stop feeling guilty every time I do something I'm not sure they'll approve of.
I've always had to be the good girl, because "my behavior reflected my parents
and their parenting skills." I'm sure my parents made this comment because
my brother and I fought constantly when we were younger, but it haunts me to this
day. Not to mention that I've always been compared to two of my cousins, Lydia
(four months older) and Gretchen (one month older). When Lydia went through her
rebellious teen years, I was upheld as the "good" kid. With Gretchen,
it was trickier. We lived closer together, and we participated in many of the same
activities (graduating top ten in our class, played instruments, currently play
Div. III sports and attend women's colleges). I was constantly hearing our parents
discuss how "wonderful" their daughters were, when really they were trying
to say which one was better. All this competition has led me to believe that I
somehow have to uphold my family's honor: I'm so close to being even with Gretchen,
but every failure leads me closer to Lydia, which means being a "bad" girl
and letting my family down.
I wish I could escape from these expectations
and ideas but I'm not sure I really can. I'm not even sure these expectations are
even really what my parents are thinking. They could be something I've made up
based on years of accumulated offhand comments and actions. I just wish they weren't
stifling me so much.
There was a girl…let's name her Cornelia. Cornelia had a 'difficult' childhood. But she was really smart. Or so everyone told her. Cornelia was always juggling. She had some many things that went on from day to day that she never knew which way was up. So one day Cornelia figures out how she can make the craziness stop. Cornelia creates a compass. This compass tells her where she needs to go all the time. It's a pretty simple compass (because Cornelia put magnets underneath) that only ever pointed in two directions. When ever Cornelia needed to make a decision she pulled out her compass and it told her where to go. Cornelia decorated her compass with gold and gems. She protected it, carrying it around in a small pouch at her side so that it could never be lost. She never showed anyone her compass. It was her special secret.
After a long time the compass and the pouch disappeared into Cornelia's body. It traveled up her stomach into her lungs and snuggled into the crook of her heart. Cornelia loved her compass so much it became a part of her heart. And she was happy to have it close to her. Years passed. When Cornelia stopped seeing her compass, she forgot about it. And she walked around all day not even realizing when it helped her make her decisions. Sometimes she turned left when she was thinking of going right. Sometime she turned right when she was thinking of going left. After several years Cornelia started to get worried, because lately she was always turning right and she couldn't seem to make herself stop. So Cornelia went to the doctor to find out what was wrong. The doctor leaned down to listen to her heart and jumped back in surprise.
"What is that?" She exclaimed.
Cornelia giggled, "Oh, that's just my compass."
"Well that's your problem," said the doctor. "You've got a compass where your heart should be. You can't follow your heart and it's making you confused."
Cornelia was very surprised to hear this. Her compass had helped her for so long and she had treasured it. How could it be a bad thing? She asked the doctor what could she do and the doctor said they would have to take out the compass. But Cornelia was afraid. If the compass was her heart then how would she live once the doctors removed it? She left the doctors office and didn't return for months and months. She went right a lot when she wanted to go left, but she pretended not to notice. One day she saw a little girl. The girl was like Cornelia when she was young, except totally different in every way. And by the girl's side Cornelia saw a mysterious little pouch.
She walked up to the girl and asked, "What is in your pouch?"
The girl nervously replied, "Nothing."
Cornelia smiled. She wouldn't have told a grown up about her compass either. "Are you sure it's not a compass? A super special compass"
The girl shyly nodded her head.
"I have a compass too."
The girl looked Cornelia up and down. "I don't see your pouch."
Cornelia sighed. "That's the problem. I used it too much and it disappeared inside my stomach."
The girl stared at Cornelia's stomach curiously. Cornelia continued, "It's not there anymore though. It moved up and became my heart."
The girl smiled now. "You're lucky, that's a lot easier then pulling the compass out of your pouch all the time. How did you do it?"
Cornelia paused. She had left the doctor all those months ago knowing that her heart-compass was not good for. But she had been to afraid to do anything about it. What should she tell this little girl?
"Its not that great," Cornelia told the girl. "When my compass was in a pouch I could choose when to look at it. Now I have to do whatever it tells me."
"Like with parents?" The girl asked.
Cornelia laughed. "Yeah like with parents."
The girl hugged Cornelia. "I'm sorry. That doesn't sound like a lot of fun."
"That's why you have to careful with your compass. You don't want to end up like me!"
"No ma'am, I don't!" The girl blushed. "I mean—"
Cornelia laughed. "No you're right."
Then the girl checked her watch. "Oh no, I'm going to get home late and my mom will be mad at me."
The girl left then, running towards her home. As she turned the corner Cornelia saw the girl slip the pouch from her side and put it in her backpack.
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In the home land of Danilo Barthel in Germany, the last days have been buzzing with soccer talk and the world cup final between Germany and Argentina approaching while in Orlando, Florida where the Heidelberg native is taking part in the Summer League, he can easily focus on basketball, basketball and basketball. He will be able to concentrate on this big sports event on his free day on Sunday in Las Vegas when he can sit back at noon time with a Vegas Strip Dog or paella valenciana and wash it all down with some Powerade or Gatorade while enjoying some more records being done by Thomas Mueller or Miroslav Klose. However Before he could relax in Las Vegas before taking the court again, he had to take care of some last business in Orlando with his last NBA Summer League game against the Oklahoma City Thunder. Barthel competed against some well known basketball names like Andre Roberson, Mitch Mcgary or Nolan Smith, but there was one player he knew all to well about as he had lost twice last season to Michael Stockton and Ludwigsburg by not more than a combined three points in both games. In the first meeting Ludwigsburg were behind by 15 points until Americans Keaton Grant and CJ Harris pulled out their reserves and took apart the Fraport Skyliners while in Ludwigsburg, it was Coby Karl who drew a technical foul on Quantez Robertson and Adam Waleskowski that hauled down an offensive rebound and made the put back for the bitter 77-76 loss for Barthel and Frankfurt. Stockton and Barthel didn´t overly shine on the court then in Germany, but now had another chance to battle on the court as the German didn´t want to leave the court a loser against the Washington native three times in a row.
After having a DNP in the fourth game in Orlando against the Indiana Pacers, Barthel was back on the court again in a meaningless last game at the 2014 NBA Summer League in Orlando. After the Philadelphia 76ers had beaten the Memphis Grizzlies in the championship game, it was time for the last game of the day the game for seventh place between the Miami Heat and Oklahoma City Thunder. Despite some high flyer names like ex Uconn Huskie Jeremy Lamb and Steven Adams sitting out the game and Miami Heat James Ennis not playing, the game had enough highlights and the announcement of Lebron James heading home to the Cavs may have been the buzz in the Orlando Magic practice facility, but at the end of 40 minutes North Dakota native Tyler Johnson had created his own electrifying verve that had scouts and GM´s putting that name down on their note pad. The Oklahoma Thunder had the better start in the first quarter and controlled the game and even had a comfortable 10 point lead as all five Thunder starters scored and it really didn´t matter where the Kevin Durant team shot from, they were perfect making 10 of 10 shots. Miami didn´t have a healthy Shabazz Napier who had a bruised right thumb that was severely hampering his play. Barthel had some competition with Perry Jones and later Mitch Mcgary to defend. The first good offensive play was Barthel on the fast break finding Andre Dawkins for the easy lay up and assist. However this game lived from amazing highlights that started with a massive block from 6.4 guard Tyler Johnson on 6,8 Marcus Lewis. Johnson would have many more amazing plays for the ESPN Sports Center top 10 plays. What Dominique Wilkins was to the Atlanta Hawks as the human highlight film. people at Fresno State would be proud if Johnson was crowned with the mini human highlight film nickname. After a very high scoring first quarter, the Thunder had the 35-29 lead.
In the second quarter, Fraport Skyliner Danilo Barthel was on the floor from the get go and was more involved with the offense than in game three. Every second on the court will help a player gain more experience, but as a young player you are still going to make mistakes and be up and down as was the case with the Beko BBL most improved player. He started off the second quarter with a soft two handed stuff where the Miami Heat displayed fine team basketball. Barthel played very solid defense in the first few minutes as he forced a turnover and one really notices how quick the German is especially when he is showing his lateral movement getting up to trap the guards and then being like a flash of lightening and getting back into the paint. His next big play was almost programed when Jones came down on the fast break from the left and Barthel was already at the hoop and was just waiting to sky high and swat the ball away which he did into the second row. There really wasn´t much Jones could have done on that play since he had no teammates to dish the ball to. In the last minutes of the second quarter, Barthel continued to get shots, but his three pointer just wasn´t falling as they were all open three pointers. He was beat a few times on defense and even put up an air ball that Justin Hamilton caught and made a put back giving Barthel a lucky assist. Michael Stockton also came into the game and did a good job in the few minutes he was in to always be aggressive on offense with his playmaking and finding his teammates. Oklahoma had led by as much as 15 points, but Miami kept chipping away at the lead and cut the lead down to two points as the Thunder led 60-58 at the break as Mcgary made a buzzer beater bank shot. It was the highlight game for Johnson as the gym got loud when he dunked home a Dawkins miss. Dawkins had 21 points and Hamilton 15 points at halftime.
In the first few minutes of the third quarter, the game was very sloppy, but the Miami Heat were still able to shoot a very high percentage form the field at 52% and they even had the 69-66 lead. Barthel entered the game again at the 5.30 minute mark. The German did a good job rebounding the ball, but his shot continued not wanting to drop and he had a traveling call for a turnover where his pivot foot was sliding a bit. He got to the free throw line twice making three of four free throws as on one play he showed again how well he can and likes to run the floor on the fast break. Barthel stayed in the game at the start of the fourth quarter, but his misfortune continued as he couldn´t hit the ocean if he was standing right there on the beach in neighboring Sarasota. With there being no foul rule in the NBA Summer League, Barthel reached a milestone that no player playing in Europe will ever achieve not even a Baby Shaq Sofoklis Schortsanitis who can only get the five hit upon him in a 40 minute game as the German got his sixth foul and could have stayed in the game as you can keep playing. Barthel then did depart the game and Stockton came in again. Tyler Johnson wasn´t done yet either as he had that ESPN top 10 plays dancing in his mind and he had two more worthy for the countdown as he came in from the wing and dunked two handed and soon after came down on the fast break and fed Honeycutt perfectly for the hard ally-op dunk. Oklahoma kept their nerves under control in the last two minutes as Andre Roberson and J Huestis hit shots giving Oklahoma the 103-98 victory. The final stat line for Danilo Barthel was six points, four rebounds, two assists, two blocks and three turnovers on 1/7 shooting in 21 minutes. Michael Stockton had one steal, one assist and one turnover in 3.53 minutes played. Barthel was unable to get revenge on Stockton as he beat him again and now leads their head to head series 3-0. Barthel had a very productive week as he did many good things on the court, but also made mistakes. If he had hit half of his open three pointers against the Thunder, he would have ended with 15 points and had some more eye brows raised from coaches and general managers attending the games. The pace of the game is very fast and unlike in the NBA, defense does get played in the NBA Summer League, because players want to impress. The big winner of the Miami Heat squad was rookie Tyler Johnson. With his solid and spectacular play, he could land a spot in an NBA team training camp. If he doesn´t reach the NBA, he will be a very desired player in Europe. This guy could be a star in the Beko BBL. Barthel now heads off to the Sun city Las Vegas where he will play more games next week with the Miami Heat. He will hop a plane to Las Vegas and be back on the court Saturday night at 7pm against the Houston Rockets and battle players like Jabari Brown and a familiar face with Chris Kramer who has played in Germany since 2011. Barthel probably will get some shut eye on the plane ride to Las Vegas and could be dreaming about Manuel Neuer making the last save in the penalty kicks to help Germany win the 2014 World Cup or about one of the breathtaking Tyler Johnson dunks in Orlando


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It is time to invest in some new Black-owned footwear to show off, and Atlanta-based Nagast Footwear has just released two of their newest African inspired sneakers. "The U.N.I.T.Y.'s" and "The Black Powers" are products that are not only new and innovative, but that also carry a strong message of love and self-respect.
Nagast Footwear, founded by entrepreneur Tarik Edmonson, is a well-respected and renowned company known around the world for their footwear design and production. They have been designing and producing high quality and unique footwear since the year 2013 – making them true professionals in their field of work.
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As we all know by now, Governor Gretchen Whitmer issued Executive Order 2020-21 on Monday, March 23, 2020, effectively shutting down the state until at least April 13, 2020. As of the date of this writing, almost 2,300 people living in Michigan have contracted Covid-19. As we face this unprecedented health crisis, I recommend the following regarding your estate planning documents:
Have you ever considered what will happen to your assets -- your house, the contents of your bank account, etc. -- after you've passed? Many of my clients say they'd like their assets to be split between their children or to see certain funds go to charitable organizations. The only way to guarantee that your assets are distributed as you desire is to have a will.
No. One of the advantages of a trust over a will is that a trust does not have to go through probate before assets are distributed to beneficiaries. A trust is usually more expensive and complicated to set up than a will; on the other hand, it can take anywhere from 6 to 18 months (or longer) for a will to go through the probate process.
When I meet with a potential new Estate Planning client, one of the first questions I hear is, "Do I really need a will?" That question is usually followed by comments such as, "I don't have tons of money," or "If I die, my spouse will just get everything," or "If my spouse and I both die, my parents will raise our kids."
Although each situation varies, and there are many factors to consider, you may want to set up a special needs trust to provide for your child. A special needs trust may be a useful tool for a disabled individual who is receiving, or will receive, government benefits.
Blended families – those in which one or both spouses have children from a prior relationship – are becoming more and more common. Estate planning for blended families is complex, especially if one spouse is significantly older than the other, or if one spouse has much more money than the other.
For a formal, typed, will (called an "attested" will), there are three requirements that must be met for the will to be valid and enforceable:
To fund a trust means to retitle certain assets in the name of the trust. Your trust only controls those assets that are "owned" by the trust. If your trust is funded properly, the trust will control the distribution of your assets when you die; assets not owned by the trust may not be distributed as provided in the trust. A properly funded trust can also help your estate avoid probate when you die.
Yes, if certain requirements are met. In order to be valid, a handwritten, or holographic, will, must meet the following criteria:
A will (often called a Last Will and Testament) is a set of instructions that allow you to distribute your assets upon your death. You can also set up guardianship for your minor children. Once the instructions in the will have been carried out, the will ceases to exist.
While there are many factors to explore when chosing a guardian, I advise my clients to consider the following:
My boyfriend and I were together for more than 10 years, but we never married. He recently died without a will, and he never listed me as beneficiary on his life insurance and 401(k). Do I have a right to inherit a portion of his estate?
Probate is the process used to ask a judge (usually a probate court judge) to approve a decedent's will so the instructions in the will can be acted upon.
The only way to be absolutely certain that the person(s) you want to be guardian of your minor children is selected in the event that both you and your partner pass is to have a valid will in place.
Josh and Debra knew they had a lot in common when they met: love of travel and the finer things in life, ambition to distinguish themselves in their professional careers, and a desire to serve their community and those in need.
With so much to accomplish, Debra and Josh also knew when they married that having children probably wasn't in the cards, particularly since they both traveled frequently for their jobs.
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Prometheus didn't ask permission for Zeus to bring fire to the humans. It cost him dearly, as Zeus punished him in a rather vicious manner. But human beings were made infinitely better off with fire.
Art Diamond's forthcoming book, Openness to Creative Destruction (Oxford, 2019), relays this story to us precisely because he wants us to understand the great benefits that entrepreneurial innovation delivers for mankind, and how the true innovator is often despised and disrespected by the prevailing orthodox establishment.
If Prometheus had to get permission before giving fire to man, then man would have never gotten the benefits of fire. Similarly, if our entrepreneurial innovators had to get permission prior to introducing their innovations, we would still be walking around or perhaps at best riding on the backs of beasts but I doubt we would have seen the benefits of automobiles, let alone airplanes, and we would very likely not have modern conveniences such as indoor plumbing, let alone cell phones and the World Wide Web.
As Rear Admiral Grace Harper put it, it is better to ask forgiveness than to ask permission. This is particularly true when we think of who we have to ask permission from to innovate. As Michael Munger recently pointed out, we have to ask permission either from the monopoly experts of the government or from, ironically, our competitors.
Logic of Politics
This is the modern predicament. And we should always keep in mind the basic elementary logic of politics, which is to concentrate benefits on the well-organized and well-informed special interest groups in the short run and disperse the costs on the unorganized and uninformed masses in the long run, conflicts directly with the elementary logic of the market, which is to concentrate investment costs on specific decision makers and spread widely among consumers the benefits in terms of greater variety of products at lower costs.
The logic of politics runs into conflict with the logic of the market, and all the guns are on the side of politics. So unless we can effectively bind government, there will be a natural tendency to behave like Zeus: we demand that those seeking to innovate ask for permission, and when they don't we penalize them severely. But, as Michael Munger points out, this is precisely why the question of permissionless innovation is so critical in the practical affairs of human societies. How this question is answered determines whether nations are rich or poor, whether nations that are currently poor have a pathway to becoming rich, and whether those that are rich will tragically spiral their way to being poor.
Innovation is a good thing, but it does take an intricate matrix of institutions that enable individuals to translate scientific knowledge into commercially useful knowledge, not to mention to encourage the discovery of new scientific knowledge in a routine way.
Humankind for most of history existed in a stagnated state, and the human capacity to be curious and creative was limited by the need to try to survive the ruthlessness of nature and the cruelty of other humans. Yet, we humans talk and tell stories, we are capable of cooperation as well as violence, and we are able to negotiate and bargain as well as maim and murder.
Deirdre McCloskey has of course addressed these issues with her study of the bourgeois era, and so has Joel Mokyr in a series of books initiated by The Levers of Riches but continuing with The Gifts of Athena and The Enlightened Economy.
Bet on Ideas
Economic progress is, as Diamond argues, a consequence of entrepreneurial innovation, but entrepreneurship in turn is a function of a host of factors that contribute to the unbinding of the entrepreneur from asking direct permission from the authorities or from potential competitors. It is a matter of having a segment of the population willing to bet on ideas and having the commercial practices be developed so those entrepreneurs can bring those bets to life.
Diamond's book is a wonderful addition to the literature documenting with narrative tales as well as descriptive statistics how much entrepreneurial innovations improve the lives of ordinary human beings. The intent of the book is not to provide a theory of the entrepreneurial market economy, but to document the implications for the human condition of a thriving entrepreneurial culture.
In the very beginning of the book, Diamond explains about his teaching of standard economics and how after two-thirds of the class is through and he has exhausted the logic of choice, supply and demand, and the model of perfect competition, and thus the students have learned about the efficiency of the market economy, he stops and begins to talk to them about the real benefit of the market economy it is a ceaseless innovation machine. It brings more products at lower costs with a wider distribution that work better and last longer.
It brings products that do things that just a few years earlier were deemed as either too costly to provide, or nearly impossible to produce, or in some cases unimaginable.
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Again, what Diamond's book does is provide us illustrations of each of these points. But what is missing is a full-blown theory of the competitive entrepreneurial market process and how the economic forces at work bring about constant adaptation and continual adjustment to changing circumstances.
It is not enough to point to Joseph Schumpeter, I would contend; it requires more work to integrate the entrepreneurial market process into the elementary logic of market theory and the price system — work that has been done, I would also contend, by scholars such as Armen Alchian, James Buchanan, Ronald Coase, Harold Demsetz, and Israel Kirzner.
One of the great insights of economic science and economic history is that we do not have to understand in order to experience the benefits of the competitive market process and the relentless pursuit of mutual gains from trade. Markets are omnipresent in all of human life, but the way that markets are structured and the extent of the division of labor in any society is institutionally contingent.
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It's not clear if Peduto has the legal power to block Uber's return to Pittsburgh. But the mayor could certainly make Uber's life miserable if they decided to return to the city over Peduto's objections.
And Peduto's angry response points to a larger problem Uber now faces: if Uber wants to restart its self-driving car program, it's going to have to start testing somewhere. But even formerly friendly jurisdictions—like Pittsburgh, where Peduto once welcomed Uber with open arms—have soured on the company.
Uber was unable to convince Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, one of the nation's most enthusiastic advocates of self-driving cars generally, to remove a March ban on Uber's testing in the state. And while Uber has talked of returning to testing in San Francisco, the company let its license to test driverless cars in California lapse days after the Tempe crash. So when Uber is ready to resume testing its cars later this year, it might find it has nowhere to do it.
Peduto laid out stringent conditions for Uber's return
Peduto says he doesn't want Uber to return until a "full federal investigation" has been completed. He wants Uber to cap the speed of its self-driving car at 25 miles per hour—a speed that significantly reduces the odds that a crash will lead to a fatality. Peduto also wants Uber to modify its app to warn drivers of its conventional cars when they exceed the speed limit.
These are strong demands. Limiting testing to 25 miles per hour would put Uber at a disadvantage compared to competitors like Waymo and Cruise that are able to test at higher speeds in other states. And the National Transportation Safety Board, the lead agency investigating the crash, typically takes 12 to 18 months to issue its final report. So Peduto may effectively be asking Uber to keep its program suspended until mid-2019.However, Peduto may not have the legal authority to prevent Uber from resuming self-driving car testing on Pittsburgh streets—a point mayoral spokesman Timothy McNulty more or less conceded in an email to Ars Technica."PennDOT has ultimate authority over the regulation of Pennsylvania roads," McNulty wrote. "Mayor Peduto has been in two-way talks with Uber since the accident on what the city would like to see should testing resume here."
But while Peduto may not have direct legal authority over Uber's testing activities, the Pittsburgh mayor has plenty of ways to make Uber's life difficult, says legal scholar Bryant Walker Smith.
"The mayor has soft power," Smith wrote in an email. Peduto "could publicly oppose Uber's activities (at a time when Uber wants support), encourage state legislators to pass a more restrictive law (some have been upset about Uber's testing for a while), coordinate with state regulators (including the Public Utility Commission), and direct greater police enforcement with respect to all of Uber's activities. (Would you like a police officer following you around and watching for infractions?)"
Peduto has evolved from an Uber booster to an Uber critic
Wednesday saw Peduto making full use of that soft power. In addition to his press release, Peduto waged a war of words with Uber on Twitter.
"As recently as Friday, we met with [the city of Pittsburgh] to discuss in detail how we could work together to return safely to self-driving operations," Uber tweeted.
Peduto fired back:
You never responded to our requirements. You never informed us of today's announcement. You never followed up on my requirements after fatality in Arizona. Your PA lobbyist has ignored everything & instead has reached out to other electeds to cover your mistakes. Time to change! https://t.co/dIAtob9Z8O
— bill peduto (@billpeduto) May 23, 2018
It's a remarkable change in tone for a mayor who was seen as a top Uber ally just two years ago. In 2015, Pittsburgh welcomed Uber's ride-sharing service at a time when a number of other cities were resisting the ride-sharing trend. In September 2016, Uber announced that Pittsburgh would be the first location for testing its self-driving cars. Mayor Peduto was enthusiastic."You can either put up red tape or roll out the red carpet," Peduto said. "If you want to be a 21st-century laboratory for technology, you put out the carpet."
But by mid-2017, relations had become strained, with Peduto charging that Uber hadn't lived up to its lofty promises. A year later, the relationship has gotten much worse, with Peduto seeming openly hostile to the ride-sharing giant.
Uber is running out of government allies
If Peduto manages to block Uber from returning to Pittsburgh, it will put the company's self-driving car project in an extremely difficult position. The company needs somewhere to test its vehicles if it's going to get its program back on track. But none of the options Uber is considering seem especially friendly.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey suspended Uber's testing program shortly after the March crash in Tempe, Arizona, and the ban was still in effect this week. Like Peduto, Ducey began as an enthusiastic supporter of Uber's self-driving car program, urging the company to bring its cars to the state last year.
In his internal email announcing Uber's withdrawal from Arizona, Uber executive Eric Meyhofer mentioned California—particularly San Francisco and Sacramento—as the other place where Uber hoped to resume testing.But the company's license to test self-driving cars in the state expired in March, and Uber said at the time it was not planning to continue testing in the state. So if Uber wants to return to California, it will have to start the regulatory process from scratch. And the company has a long history of tensions with California regulators—Uber fled the state in late 2016 due to a regulatory dispute with state officials, only to return months later.
Uber also has a center for self-driving car technology in Toronto but hasn't announced any plans to test self-driving cars there
There are lots of other states with permissive laws for testing driverless cars, including Florida, Texas, and Nevada. But Uber could face the same basic problem wherever it goes: most state laws give officials at least some discretion in deciding which testing activity to allow. And in the wake of the March death—and increasing skepticism from regulators in Arizona, Pennsylvania, and California—regulators in other states are not going to be anxious to stick their necks out and take the risk that their jurisdiction could be the site of another Uber crash.
One possible option for Uber could be Ohio, right next door to Pennsylvania. Ohio Gov. John Kasich signed an executive order earlier this month legalizing self-driving car testing statewide. Even after the March crash in Arizona, Kasich has said he wants to make Ohio the "wild, wild west" for driverless car testing. "You'll always have to take risks," Kasich said.


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this is obviously a prototype if not a joke. this phone has play/stop buttons in two places.... uhhh pretty dumb.
I hate to say this "ng" but you have no idea what ur on about. The nokia e51 has wifi but on the active standby screen there is no such display u have to go into the menu to get the option. So it may just aswell have the same software version as the e51.
come on the n82 have xenon and this not? this is one back step!
what no XENON flash ? Oh come on NOKIA
what a fake..the phone claims to have wifi,but the active standby screen has no such wifi option..a definite fake..
A BIGGER n95 with the design of the n81 ... GENIOUS !!!
A real breaktrough ... keep inovating(copying) nokia ! :))) :D
Doesnt matter anyway i dont think this phone will be real :p
As importantly as all the raucous rants made previously, do we know if the possible new addition to the N family, N96, has the necessary lens cover re-added ? It was a disasterous design error excluding it on the N95 8GB.
Yeah, but having no external memory is a whole lot of mess, you won't be able to save as much files as you wish for, in short, it's a non-expandable crap, just imagine there's your personal desktop computer in your room without any hardware external / removable device (cd rom, writer, floppy, etc) in it except only a harddisk? it's definitely a junk! see?
I have read the comment about N95's 8GB of internal memory, saying that its' worthless, since if the phone malfunctions you will lose all data.
Dude, I have the N95 8GB and it's such a smooth phone, in regard of your concern, I would like to tell you, that the User Data part is separate from the system files, similar to your PC's partitions. you will not lose a thing, if you had to do a software update, or flash your device.
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hey dis is nokia N81.. wat rubbish.. dese days ppl tend 2 b very smart.. i dun even think nokia has evn decided 2 launch nokia N96 in the market
this is not edited@!!!!! its true........
Hmm, what is the other slider for? The first one is for the keypad right, the 2nd is for media keys, but the media keys are already in the front. I really want this phone if it isn't a fake!! Please don't be a fake!!
sonyericsson should worry about LG phones they are atleast adding something in there phones rather than introducing old age phone in a new package and same stupid walkman branding Nokia should be worried about samsung Nokia dont even bother about SE
hmm are ppl blind .. this is obviously fake and a photoshop from n81 - - wake up ppl
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mohammad....ur tirade on the n96's features cracked me the hell up man...i was laughin thru the whole thing...u have way too much time on ur hands :-P lol...i think the n96 is a pretty decent phone...the OS looks different so its possible its the new symbian...screen looks larger than the n95 so its POSSIBLE this could be a touch screen...if not then it probably has DVBH tv shizzzle on it..either way...nokia are taking a risk with this design hopefully it gets the job done
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There could be a very good photosop editor behind those pictures. But it does sound so very good, as N81 has a very good design (IMHO)and a very good sound quality. The N95-like dual slide thing may release N-Gage keys, 'cause the music buttons are on the D-pad. This new device may also have DVB-H TV receiver.If this one combined the funcitionalities of an N95(powerful and a very good camera)and of an N81(great music experience and N-Gage) it could be the perfect phone, at least almost.
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