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This nine-week series explores the relationship between embedded neurological patterns that determine our identity and the pure consciousness of an inner observer. The observer-object relationship is a cornerstone of mystical teaching that highlights our ability to internally recognize-and learn to relax-subjective inner filters that obscure objective reality.
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Pension funded status rose nearly two percentage points to over 71% in June after falling dramatically in April and May, BNY Mellon reported Thursday.
Funded status rose to 71.6% thanks to strong equity markets, according to BNY Mellon. Markets in the United States rose 3.9% and developed international markets rose 7%. These improvements led to an increase of 2.7% in typical corporate pension assets.
Liabilities rose 0.1%, while the Aa corporate discount rate remained at 3.98%.
Funded status fell to its lowest level since BNY Mellon Asset Management began tracking this data in 2006 in September 2011, when funded status dropped to 70.1% from 78% the month before.
Public pensions have been doing relatively well also. The U.S. Census Bureau reported in June that public pensions had their largest earnings on record in the first quarter of 2012, earning $179.2 billion and pushing total holdings and investments up 5.6% from the fourth quarter, to $2.8 trillion.

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Partnership Blends Science and English Proficiency
California district teams up with museum
Dark window coverings block any sunlight from filtering into Gennifer Caven's 3rd grade classroom here in California's Sonoma Valley, but small lights can be seen flickering throughout the room. Groups of two or three students huddle together at their desks, taking turns using miniature flashlights to illuminate tiny figurines and wooden blocks on white paper. When the lights hit the sides of propped-up manila file folders, shadows appear.
These pupils at El Verano Elementary School aren't just learning the science behind shadows, they're also improving their English-language skills. Their instruction is part of a federally funded collaborative project between the 4,600-student Sonoma district and the Exploratorium, a science museum in San Francisco.
Circling the room, Ms. Caven prompts students to see what happens when they move the light source "closer" or "farther" away and how they can make the shadow "bigger" or "smaller." She asks them to jot down their findings in their science journals.
As shadows, small plastic horses suddenly grow twice their size; toothpicks stuck into balls of clay turn into terrestrial creatures.
"There's no screaming in science," Ms. Caven says to the excited children as they change the sizes and shapes of their shadows.
As the release of the Next Generation Science Standards draws near, hands-on, inquiry-based methods of science instruction like those taught in Sonoma are becoming more common. Yet its use of science to teach English is a novel approach—one that offers significant potential for other districts to replicate, some educators say, especially as the number of English-language learners rises.
"Science can be a nexus for learning English for ELLs because it provides a natural setting to learn a language," said Okhee Lee, a professor of childhood education at New York University and a researcher on English-learners and science. "Engaging ELLs in these practices merits special attention, because such engagement can support both science learning and language learning, but unfortunately, instruction in U.S. classrooms has not tended to bridge the two."
Symbiotic Relationship
Before 2008, the school system in Sonoma Valley, a 17-mile-long area 45 minutes north of San Francisco, encountered a challenge districts elsewhere have faced: No Child Left Behind-induced pressure to teach and test English/language arts and math meant science instruction in elementary schools fell by the wayside.
When science was taught, it was textbook-based or hands-off, rather than the hands-on practices that leading science educators say are necessary to build students' deeper knowledge of the discipline, said Superintendent Louann Carlomagno, a former science teacher herself.
The Vadasz Family Foundation and the Sonoma Valley Education Foundation, two local philanthropies, wanted to do something to improve the quality of elementary science instruction and reached out to the Exploratorium—renowned for its science professional-development offerings and curriculum support for educators.
But the funders didn't stop there. The district's large and growing population of English-language learners also needed support, they felt, and wondered if there was a way to combine improvement goals.
The birthplace of the California wine industry, Sonoma Valley is home to a diverse range of residents, not only the wealthy. Many students are from poor families; 59 percent qualify for free or reduced-price meals. And a slight majority, 51 percent, are English-learners. Those numbers have increased in recent years.
Many of the students' parents work at the nearly 100 wineries in the valley, or the hotels and restaurants that support the 1 million or so tourists who visit each year, Ms. Carlomagno said.
While the Exploratorium had worked with schools and teachers to improve science instruction using inquiry-based methods in the past, melding language instruction into science instruction was new territory, said Lynn Rankin, the director of the museum's Institute for Inquiry, which runs the project.
The institute consulted with experts on English-language instruction on best practices for language development, and determined which were most relevant to infuse into best science-teaching practices.
A pilot project was launched in 2008 at El Verano Elementary—the elementary school with the highest percentage of ELLs and the highest rate of poverty in the district—with three teachers and a few lessons. Two years later, the Exploratorium was successful in winning a federal Investing in Innovation, or i3, five-year grant for some $3 million (and $600,000 in matching funds) to expand the project to all five of the district's elementary schools.
In many schools, language development is taught in isolation or as a pullout program where students are removed from class, often from science or social studies classes, putting the students involved at a "double disadvantage" for understanding science, Ms. Rankin said.
"There seems to be the misperception that children have to have a certain level of language proficiency to understand science, but we have a different view," she added. "Science provides a perfect opportunity for language development," she said, "because students want to make sense of their experiences and communicate their ideas. Science instead provides a context for learning language."
To date, 60 teachers have been trained in the method of instruction and 12 lesson plans have been developed for K-5, two per grade. Museum staff members regularly visit the schools and observe, and they provide monthly professional-development workshops. Each summer, teachers attend several daylong sessions to hone their skills.
Improved Test Scores
Victoria Silberman's 1st graders sit on a brightly colored carpet, staring attentively at the whiteboard.
"Where have you seen worms?" asks Ms. Silberman.
In my backyard, in the garden, in the dirt, her pupils respond. She writes those words on the board.
"What do worms need?" she asks.
Dirt. Shelter. Water. Food.
On a recent day, pupils first learn the words to talk about the long brown-and-gray earthworms slithering in Petri dishes on their desks before they're allowed to observe them. Seeing, hearing, and discussing the science helps them with the vocabulary to label drawings in their science journals and talk about what they and their partners find examining the worms when the full class reconvenes.
But the language learned in Sonoma's science lessons flourishes mostly by students' need to use it when they see and touch the natural world through in-class experiments, teachers say. That almost artful integration of language instruction into science makes students unaware they are actually learning; they just want to talk about what they experience.
Initiatives like the Sonoma Valley and Exploratorium project can be successful conduits to learning language because all children are naturally curious and want to know the words behind the objects, say educators and researchers.
The Sonoma approach offers potential because language is essential to the inquiry-based-science processes of experimentation, discussion, and argumentation—some of the very principles emphasized in the Next Generation Science Standards, said Michael Lach, the director of STEM Policy and Strategic Initiatives at the University of Chicago. He is a former head of STEM—or science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—policy and strategic initiatives at the U.S. Department of Education.
"While science instruction is still about knowing the parts of a flower or the formulas for electromagnetism, it's now also about creating an argument based on evidence from the natural world," he said.
The Sonoma-Exploratorium lessons emphasize student collaboration with peers in small groups to answer teacher-generated questions, as well as framing their own. The conversation and "science talk" helps build students' confidence in their English ability that they use when the class discusses findings and draws conclusions.
While an independent evaluation of the program's impact on students and teachers is in the works by Iverness Research Inc. and the Lawrence Hall of Science, both San Francisco Bay Area-based research organizations, some teachers here say the effect on students is readily apparent. In addition to improving students' knowledge of science and the English language, the instruction has also fueled their interest in science, especially when they have the language ability to discuss what they learn and find.
In 2008, 37 percent of El Verano's 5th graders tested "proficient" in science on state standardized tests; by 2011, that number had risen to 49 percent. (California only requires students be tested in science in 5th grade.) Performance on the state's English-language-proficiency tests has also steadily improved.
Parent Involvement
Minimal science instruction in elementary schools has remained a problem in California, as in other states. Only one in five classrooms teaches science daily, a national survey of math and science instruction recently found. And in California, WestEd, a nonprofit research organization based in San Francisco, found 40 percent of the state's elementary teachers spent 60 minutes or less on science instruction a week. Eighty-five percent of teachers also reported having received no science professional development within the past three years.
Administrators cite testing pressures for reading and math, and limited resources for teacher training as the biggest obstacles to science instruction.
But collaborations between schools and community partners, such as the Exploratorium, the Science Museum of Minnesota, and the American Museum of Natural History in New York, have helped alleviate some of those problems.
Since the start of the Sonoma Valley project at El Verano Elementary, Principal Maite Iturri said parents have approached her with comments like, "I didn't know my child talked so much" or, one mentioned, "My child is suddenly asking a lot of 'why' questions."
"I knew we had to start explaining what we were doing here," she said, referring to parent workshops, in English and Spanish, the school launched to teach parents the same science the students learn in school so they can help their children at home.
Ms. Iturri hopes the Exploratorium project will also change student attitudes and future plans.
"When I was in school, I was actually afraid of science. … Science was not really encouraged or even an option for girls to pursue," she said. "I want all my kids not to be afraid of science and to feel confident to go into a science field. I don't want the doors closed for anyone."
Vol. 32, Issue 26, Pages 10-11Published in Print: March 27, 2013, as Partnership Combines Science Instruction and English Learning
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Date: January 20, 2021
Time: 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST
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The Health & Wellness Committee's mission is to promote health and wellness throughout the Crestview Area. The committee focuses on monthly blood pressure and blood sugar checks offered to chamber members at the monthly breakfast meetings, an annual community wide health fair, and support of various health related opportunities throughout the year. Members of the committee do not have to be in a health related field; just have an interest in promoting health for themselves and others. Part of our monthly meeting is to have a time to 'Meet Your Doctor' where we have a local physician visit and allow members to meet them, ask questions, and learn about their practice.


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Get a little dirty
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All thugs go to heaven but no cats above me
[Hook: Sample]
"—time for this realness"
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Fly like I'm gone in a cape
Rebel I, try blocking my pace
Get rocked in your face
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As the album's closer, it draws together the themes, comic book motifs, and elaborate lyricism embodied in the character "Czarface." According to this interview with Inspectah Deck and Esoteric on Hip Hop DX, Czarface is "supposed to be a hero to save Hip Hop" and "represents the three of us when we're on the mic and doing damage."
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The Sony Xperia TX has a unique arc-style design, but offers little in the way of innovative or new features.
Design & display
Sony and Sony Ericsson before it has had limited success in the Android market, but the company certainly knows how to design a smartphone. The Xperia TX features Sony's almost iconic arc-style design, also seen on the previous Sony Xperia S. The design is simple yet elegant and features a flat front with a curved back in an arc-like shape. This unique shape immediately sets the Xperia TX apart from rival models and also makes the phone comfortable and easy to hold. The shape fits nicely in your hands and especially lends itself to one-handed use, though it annoyingly rocks from side to side when placed on a flat surface like a desk or table.
Weighing 127g and measuring 8.6mm thick at its thickest point, the Sony Xperia TX compares relatively favourably against the competition when it comes to dimensions. The top, bottom, back and sides of the Xperia TX feature a matte-style plastic finish that is very kind to fingerprints, though the same can't be said about the front of the handset which quickly becomes a glossy fingerprint magnet. The slightly raised, glossy edges surrounding the front are a nice touch and we also like the chrome strip that runs along the edges.
Oddly, Sony has positioned the small power key on the left side of the Xperia TX, towards the top. This layout significantly favours left-handed users over right handed ones. The only other buttons on the handset are a volume rocker and a dedicated camera key, both on the right side. We found the volume rocker a little too small, making it easy to accidentally press the wrong key, while the camera button is positioned a little too close to the bottom of the phone. The standard micro-USB port is positioned on the right side, which doesn't play nicely with in-car cradles (now a legal requirement in New South Wales).
Further, while we like its weight and ergonomics, the Xperia TX's plastic design doesn't feel as premium as we'd expect it to, especially given this is supposed to be James Bond's weapon of choice. It's a nice design but not one we could see any 00 agent using on a daily basis.
Perhaps the best feature of the Sony Xperia TX is its 4.6in display, which has a 720p resolution of 1280x720. It's bright, clear and displays very sharp text with no visible aberrations. It also has excellent sunlight legibility outdoors. We found it brighter than a Google Nexus 4 when compared side-by-side. The colours on the Xperia TX also appear more vibrant than its LG counterpart, though sometimes at the expense of oversaturation. The Xperia TX can't display the same deep blacks as the Nexus 4, though.
The 4.6in screen is shorter in width than the likes of the Nexus 4 and the Samsung Galaxy S III and this makes Xperia TX easier to hold and use single-handedly. We also like Sony's abolishment of physical shortcut keys. Instead, the Xperia TX uses on-screen back, home and multitasking buttons just like Google's stock Android user interface. These keys are responsive and change orientation when the phone is rotated into landscape mode.
Software & performance
The Sony Xperia TX initially comes with Google's 4.0 'Ice Cream Sandwich' version of Android, though Sony has promised an upgrade to the latest 'Jelly Bean' version in early 2013. The company has a very questionable track record when it comes to Android updates, so we can only hope it delivers on its promise as soon as possible.
The lack of the latest version of Android isn't a huge downside as the Xperia TX provides a pleasing user experience. It has five home screens for live widgets (though these annoyingly can't be removed or more added), a main menu that can quickly arrange apps in various orders, including most used and recently installed, and a lockscreen where new messages and missed calls can be opened directly by swiping them. The look and feel hasn't changed too much from Sony's previous Android phones, but the UI is relatively smooth and fast. We didn't experience any notable lag or slowdown during basic tasks.
The Xperia TX has a few new UI features. We like the toggles in the notifications window which allow you to activate sound profiles, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and mobile data, though we'd have appreciated the ability to edit these. The "small apps" feature is also notable, allowing you to open basic pop-up apps like a calculator, timer, post-it notes and a voice recorder. These apps can sit on top of other apps allowing you to, for example, browse the Web or type a message with the calculator sitting on screen. Third-party developers can create further small apps, but at the time of review there was only two available in the Google Play Store.
We've been critical of Sony preloading its phones with bloatware, but the Xperia TX comes with a few apps we appreciate. The Walkman music player has a number of sound enhancement settings along with an attractive and clean interface. The new gallery app (called album) can sort image and video files by date or geotagged coordinates on a map and ties into the look and feel of Sony's UI overlay. We also like the Smart Connect app, which allows you to set rules when accessories are connected or at preselected times. As an example, you can set the phone to launch the Walkman app and immediately begin playing a certain music track whenever you connect your headphones. Other pre-loaded apps such as PlayNow, Timescape and Sony Select are simply a waste of space but they can easily uninstalled or disabled from the app menu in settings if you wish.
The Sony Xperia TX comes preloaded with Sony's music streaming service, Music Unlimited. For $12.99 per month it allows subscribers full access to Sony's music catalogue, which currently boasts "millions" of licensed songs from major record labels including Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI Music.
One thing we wish Sony didn't change was the on-screen keyboard. It's functional and also has handy, Swype like functionality that allows you to draw over letters in a single motion to type words. However, it's word prediction isn't as accurate as Google's stock ICS keyboard and there's no option to switch to that keyboard. The spacebar also becomes too small when you switch on "extra" comma and full stop keys, which are a must.
Camera & battery life
The Sony Xperia TX comes with a 13-megapixel camera with single-LED flash and there's also a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera for video calls. The rear camera takes decent quality images with notable detail levels and reasonable colour reproduction, but it works far better in outdoor lighting than indoors. Most our our indoor test shots suffered from excessive image noise and often appeared dull and dark. The Xperia TX's camera also records full HD 1080p video, though it is hard to keep a steady hand in order to avoid unstable recording.
One notable camera feature is the camera app itself, which is fast and functional. It takes little over a second to open the app from the lock screen (by pressing and holding the physical camera button) and the app itself has plenty of settings to tinker with including smile detection and a panorama mode. The camera key also works well and allows you to focus your shots with a steady hand. We did notice, however, that when you switch the camera to the maximum 13-megapixels (it's set to 10 by default) it takes almost a second longer to open from the lock screen.
The Sony Xperia TX isn't a 4G smartphone so it only works on Australian 3G networks. With most rival models now supporting 4G connectivity as a standard feature, this is a disappointing omission.
The Sony Xperia TX has a 1750mAh battery which does seem a little low for a device with a 4.6in display. We found battery life a little below average and struggled to push the phone through a full day of use. If you're a less frequent user you may be able to get closer to a full day of use, but the Xperia TX isn't going to win any awards for power consumption. The battery is removable and replaceable though, so users worried about power can easily purchase a second battery.
The Sony Xperia TX sells through Vodafone in Australia.


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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) The NCAA said Thursday it has no immediate plans to spend the $12 million already paid to it as part of the sanctions against Penn State over its handling of child sex abuse allegations against former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.
The fate of that money - and the rest of the $60 million Penn State owes the NCAA - is the subject of two legal challenges, one from a state lawmaker and the other from Pennsylvania's governor.
On Wednesday, a Pennsylvania judge put on hold state Sen. Jake Corman's request for an injunction barring the NCAA from spending the money. Corman asked for the injunction request to be put on hold, indicating the filing had the support of the NCAA.
NCAA spokesman Bob Williams said the organization has not been negotiating with Corman, either about spending the $12 million or the larger lawsuit, and called his lawsuit groundless.
Corman, a Republican who represents State College and chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee, sued the NCAA two weeks ago, arguing the NCAA's plans to spend $60 million over five years from Penn State runs afoul of his oversight role in state spending. The state contributed $214 million this year to Penn State, which has a $4.3 billion budget.
``We believe the senator's lawsuit is without basis, and we intend to proceed with the litigation,'' Williams said. ``As we've explained to the senator's lawyers in our discussions, no funds will be disbursed until a third party administrator is appointed, and until that time the funds are held in an independent account not controlled by the NCAA.''
Corman's request to put on hold his injunction said the NCAA informed him ``that for multiple reasons it has no intention to disburse or otherwise dissipate said funds in the immediate future,'' and agreed to give Corman two months' notice if that changes.
At a convention in Grapevine, Texas, NCAA president Mark Emmert disputed Corman's statement that the NCAA has been negotiating over the lawsuit and said his organization will never see the money or decide where it is spent.
``A group of presidents and others are setting up the framework by which all that will happen,'' Emmert said. ``As they set that up and get it all in place, then indeed that group can make a decision to dispense money.''
Commonwealth Court Judge Keith Quigley's order put Corman's application for an injunction on hold unless Corman seeks to reactivate it.
Also Wednesday, Corman introduced a narrowly focused bill, the Institution of Higher Education Consent Decree Endowment Act, which would determine how matters such as Penn State's are handled. Corman's office said he believes it would also apply to the NCAA-Penn State consent agreement.
The act's primary provision is that fine money must go into a custodial trust in the state treasury, and the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency would distribute the money in the state for child sexual abuse prevention or to help victims.
The NCAA also is defending a federal antitrust lawsuit filed Jan. 2 by Gov. Tom Corbett that seeks to have the $60 million fine and other penalties against the university thrown out. There have not yet been any additional substantive filings in that case.
Penn State and the NCAA entered into the agreement in July, following Sandusky's conviction on 45 counts of child sexual abuse. The former assistant football coach is serving a 30- to 60-year state prison sentence but maintains his innocence.
AP sports writer Stephen Hawkins contributed to this story from Grapevine, Texas.


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Gina DePalma's Guide To Rome Sweets
Editor's note: Over on Serious Eats: NY, we've heard from chefs and food personalities about their favorite neighborhood eats. Now it's time to answer that age-old question: What's for dessert? Having started with Paris pastry extraordinaire, David Lebovitz, we're zipping down to the land of dolce: Rome.
The first time I ate at Babbo, I was so full after my main course that I briefly considered skipping dessert. Thank God I didn't, because the confection that arrived was so delicious that I not only ate every morsel on my plate, but tried to steal my dining companion's, too. Of course this was many years ago, and since then pastry chef Gina DePalma has picked up top honors from everyone from Bon Appetit to the James Beard Foundation.
Whether finding inspiration her first book, Dolce Italiano, or her ever-changing dessert menu, Gina has logged quite a few hours on the Roman sweets scene.
"The Roman sweet tooth may seem more nuanced in comparison to other European cities, and even other Italian cities such as Torino, Naples and Palermo," Gina explains. "But trust me, this is a town humming with sugary activity. The traditions run deep, and opinions are staunch." Here are some of her favorite places to indulge in dolci tipici alla Romana.
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Biscotti: Keep in mind biscotti means cookies in Italian—all cookies, not just the oblong, twice-baked slices we've assigned to the word. The absolute best biscotti in all of Rome are found at Biscottificio Innocenti (Via della Luce, 21), a humble family-run shop in Trastevere. Classic Roman torte and crostate are offered too, but the impressive array of cookies will suck you in and make you a believer. Step beyond the plastic, 50's era beaded curtain and you'll spot the classic, crunchy Roman tozzetti, rich baci di dama, soft, pine nut-studded pignolati, thin, crisp lingue di gatto, chunky brutti ma buoni, and dozens of other varieties piled on trays atop the store's retired, charmingly retro baking equipment. Whether jam-filled, nut-laden, chocolate-swirled or sugar-dusted, they're all absolutely scrumptious.
Torta di Mele: Antico Forno Roscioli has been baking bread and sweets at Via dei Chiavari, 34, since 1824. I'll never forget a significant encounter that I had in 2004, when I stopped to gaze into the windowed kitchen and saw a tray of piping hot apple cakes being removed from the oven and arranged on the ledge to cool. I've been buying and devouring Roscioli's moist, tender Torta di Mele ever since. They also make a soft apple crostata, with a cake-like double crust, that is simply divine. The bakery has been remodeled since my first visit and the window from the bakery kitchen onto the street is gone, but I have a snapshot from that first moment hanging above my desk to remind me of one of my favorite Roman treats.
Crostata di Visciole: There's plenty to love at Forno Campo de' Fiori, in the northwest corner of the Piazza Campo de' Fiori, 22, but I'm partial to their crostata di visciole. It's unquestionably one of the iconic sweets of Rome and the entire region of Lazio. Visciole are native wild cherries with a deep red color and intense, almost musky flavor. The classic crostata is simple enough—a tender crust with a jam-like filling and a lattice top—but it is the details that make the Forno's version superlative. The buttery flavor of the pasta frolla rises above all others, the cherry marmellata is the correct balance of sour and sweet, and, most importantly, the filling-to-crust ratio is perfectly achieved. Go for the famous pizza bianca, but stay for the crostata di visciole.
Pasticcini: Pasticcini means little or individual pastries, and the pasticceria that makes the best is yet another huge point of contention among Roman residents and visitors alike. Dolce Maniera in Prati, at Via Barletta, 27 offers some of the best in the city. This bustling spot is open 24/7, so everything is impeccably fresh. Follow the crowd milling on foot and the logjam of idling cars to descend a spiral staircase from the sidewalk. The subterranean space overflows with every imaginable cream or ricotta-filled treat: chocolate glazed bigne (puffs), tiny sweet brioches spread with Nutella, rum soaked babas, mini glazed cornetti, and rows of maritozzi (little oval buns stuffed with a rainbow of cream fillings that are a unique Roman specialty.) My other favorite spot is Pasticceria Regoli, Via dello Statuto, 60, on the Esquilline Hill. Also famed for their maritozzi, they are the place to be during the season for crostatine alle fragoline—little custard tarts studded with tiny wild strawberries that are foraged from the Roman countryside. They also make tender, flaky pasta sfoglia filled with sweet ricotta.
Gelato: Gelato is one of those Italian treats that non-Italians tend to self-consciously over-think and argue about on blogs and message boards—which takes all the fun out of a leisurely evening stroll with a cone. I'm a peace-loving gelato pacifist; I honestly love it all, and I've indulged at numerous, fine gelaterie throughout Rome, but these are the spots that I return to again and again. Let the arguments begin!
Gelateria dei Gracchi, at Via dei Gracchi, 272, in Prati is phenomenal. The shop is simple, functional, and almost sparse, but the flavors are explosive—especially the pistachio and fragoline (wild strawberry). In Trastevere, I adore Fior di Luna, Via della Lungaretta, 96. A tiny spot, but dedicated to only using fair trade and organic ingredients. The chocolate flavors are to die for. And finally, at multiple locations around town, I love to pop into CiuriCiuri, which specializes in Sicilian pastry and gelato. The flavors are bright and refreshing and the service is very friendly.
Chocolates and Candies: Confetteria Moriondo e Gariglio, Via Pie' di Marmo, 22, can trace its roots back to Torino, where the first shop was opened in 1850. When the Italian monarchy moved to Rome—the new capital of the unified Italian state—in 1886, the shop moved with them. The current location is tucked between the Basilica of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva and the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj, in the heart of the Centro Storico. Today, every confection turned out at this elegant yet friendly shop is handmade—from fine chocolates and pralines to glistening fruit jellies, from incredibly detailed marzipan sweets to the truly sublime marrone canditi (candied chestnuts). Each purchase is exquisitely packaged, a luxurious reminder of life's past pleasures in the face of modern economic austerity.
Granita al Caffè: On a sweltering summer day in Rome, nothing refreshes like a Granita al Caffè from Tazza D'Oro, Via degli Orfani, 84 near the Pantheon. It should be noted that it isn't really complete unless ordered "con panna", or with a huge dollop of loosely whipped cream. The cream sits under and on top of sweetened Tazza D'Oro espresso that has been frozen into slushy crystals. The iciness refreshes you and the small jolt of caffeine is what will get you through to the other side of whatever bad decision brought you out into the inferno that is Rome when it sizzles.
Torrone "Tipo Romano": Pasticceria Valzani, Via del Moro 37, in Trastevere takes particular pride in their authentic, classic Roman offerings, including mostaccioli, pangiallo, panpepato, as well as the best Torta Sacher in town. I visit for their entirely unique, Roman version of torrone. The soft, fluffy, nut-studded nougat candy is shaped into slender logs, then coated with a variety of embellishments such as pistachios, pignoli, sugar pearls, or my favorite: a layer of dark chocolate that plays perfectly against the honeyed sweetness of the nougat. The result is a torrone that melts in your mouth instead of breaking your jaw. Don't leave the vintage shop without a few of Valzani's special diavoletti for the road: chocolates laced with hot red pepper.
Confetti: The sugared almonds known as confetti are a staple at Italian weddings and celebrations, but there is no need to limit your consumption to nuptials, baptisms, or graduations. A visit to I Confetti di Rosemarie, Largo Arenula, 20, is like stepping into an haute couture salon, complete with glimpses of pave gems and glittering gold leaf. Choose your packaging, from a simple silk pouch to a hand painted porcelain box, then select from the breathtakingly beautiful offerings: traditional candy-coated almonds, bon bons filled chocolate, nougatine, and fruit with flavors like sambuca, wild cherry, and bergamot. The staff is warm and genuinely helpful at this gorgeous shop in the heart of the Ghetto.
Ciambelline al Vino: Ciambella in Italian means "ring," and in dolci terms, it can refer to anything from a cake to a doughnut. In this case, ciambelline al vino is a very particular Roman biscuit made with either red or white wine, (usually the local Frascati), and flavored with anise seed. The yeast dough is shaped into a rustic ring shape; traditionally the ends are joined but not pressed together, with one end overlapping the other. The rings are coated with a glistening sheen of granulated sugar and baked until golden. These are natural dunkers for a cup of coffee or tea, or, even better, into a glass of sweet wine. I think the city's best are found at Antico Forno Roscioli, (see above) and Panificio Beti, Via del Vascello 46, in Monteverde Vecchio. Beti makes variations of ciambelline beyond the traditional red or white wine, flavoring them with limoncello, orange or walnut.
Millefoglie: The classic dessert of pastry cream layered with crisp sheets of puff pastry goes by a multitude of names around the world, but I am convinced that nobody does it better than the Italians (sorry, France). And in Rome, there is only one place to find the ultimate millefoglie, and that is at Pasticceria Cavaletti, Via Nemorense 179/181. This small, family pastry shop turns out hundreds of their feather-light millefoglie cakes every week, and they don't mess with individual portions. From a 7-inch round to a square to serve fifty, the cakes keep their mile-high shape until they meet your knife, which should be serrated and wielded with great care. Inside the cake is impossible lightness, contained in both the cloud-like cream and crispy pastry that really does look like a thousand leaves. Quite simply, it will ruin you for all others.
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Hi Jonathan,
I mainly develop custom drawn controls in VB and use the API rather than VB
in most of the drawing routines and use pointers for sorting strings and
objects for some extra speed. What are the main areas in C++ that are
quicker than in VB as they both use the same compiler and why. Also is an
API function in C++ likely any quicker than in VB. I could see strings being
a bit faster if not explicitly converted from a BStr early on.


text: Matt Correa Matt Correa Malaga Matt Correa is a music producer, DJ and sound engineer with a career spanning approximately 20 years. Since his first release 10 years ago on Playing Cards Records, he has accumulated more than 40 references in album, singles and remixes, including albums of his own. Matt spent almost a decade living in Madrid; learning, working and being heavily involved in Madrid's thriving music scene, where he made significant progress in his career. During, that period he had the opportunity to work with an array of musical genres and prominent producers of the scene, such as: Abel Ramos, Jose De Mara and DJ Bee, Matt's productions have been spun and recommended in DJ charts by likes of Roger Sanchez, Sander Van Dorrn, Judle Jules, Black And Jones and Paul Van Dyk. Parallel to music production and DJ residences, Matt has diversified into a number of other areas within the industry, working also as a live sound engineer, sound schoolteacher and broadcaster. In 2011, Matt returned to the Costa Del Sol to dedicate his mind, body and soul to his biggest project to date – his own record label: Guerilla Records. Residing in Malaga, Guerilla Records has continued to flourish and prosper. Despite this, matt continues to edit for labels such as Adaptation or La Musique Fantastique due to his passion and enthusiasm for what he does. Matt remains faithful to his radio program: Free Radio Show. A two-hour weekly program where he exhibits industry trends through his unique perspective. In addition to that, he writes for Inzona Magazine in the Electronic music section. As a DJ his career has always been very fruitful. Since 2011, he has been the resident for the summer season @ Cappuccino Grand Café Marbella, where he can be found spinning Lounge, Chill Out and Deep House sounds. Currently, Matt has become more focused on the dance floor, using House as a platform from which to develop new sounds that coincide with the latest trends, for example, Nu-Disco, Deep House and Tech House. Yet, Matt always stays true to his roots, never overstepping the commercial line, always maintaining a seriousness and sophistication but always fun and very danceable!


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For whatever reason, Transport Canada wont recognize the superior training that the military gives their members for any civilian BWK qualifications.
I too would cut the NAVRES budget by 3 million after seeing the quality of leadership and lack of dedication of the 24 NRDs.
I called their office to book a test and the dummies on the other end of the line does not know what a maneuvering board is! What a reject!
So which is it?
You can be a seasoned .... MARS Officer....and they still don't give a crap about that.
Professional in many fields are tested on regularly basis such as when renewing license. Thus, it doesn't surprise me that a qualified MARS officer might need to pass professional exam. However, I am surprised that the federal doesn't recognize in a way or an other your MARS qualification.Can anyone else confirm that ?
There are provisions in "The Examination and Certification of Seafarers - TP 2293 E" published by Transport Canada for equivalencies of MARS Officer training and various NCM courses.Chapter 2 - sec 7 - Table IV lists the MARS relevant training equivalencieshttp://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/marinesafety/tp-tp2293-chapter2-77.htmChapter 3, under "Ranks and Ratings" has information regarding NCM training.I am no expert, but I have documented my time and relevant courses. This was the advice given to me by MARS Offices senior to myself. Best of luck!
The other reason "may" be by analogy with getting a gun license; if you don't do "their" course, you deprive them of the course and testing fees.While I actually have no interest in getting a civilian firearms license, I cringe at some to the things I hear about the "saftey" course. there is no way (ever) that I will consider looking down the barrel of a weapon to ensure it is "clear" (even a muzzel loader); yet you must do this to pass their test....
While I actually have no interest in getting a civilian firearms license, I cringe at some to the things I hear about the "saftey" course. there is no way (ever) that I will consider looking down the barrel of a weapon to ensure it is "clear" (even a muzzel loader); yet you must do this to pass their test....
Slight tangent: on my PAL and RPAL courses, you had to drop a cleaning rod down the muzzle and see it protrude into the breach.
Sorry to keep tangenting.... I'm pretty sure you're supposed to clear chamber, drop mag, then put that 90 degree plexiglass thingie in there to refract the light down the barrel. This is only to ensure there's no barrel blockage, and since you've just cleared the chamber (and the chamber needs to be clear to insert the light thingie), it should be fine.
I cannot say for certain who's training, from a purely trade point of view, is superior as I have never sailled on the civilian side. We 'train' (and I mean continually) within the trade (stoker) right up to the rank of CPO2 which equates typically to about 20+ years service. I suppose the experience garnered is the kind of stuff that no school could ever teach. We train to the degree that if any piece of equipment were to 'take a bullet', we should be able to make it operational again. Unfortunately, we (figuratively) shoot ourselves in the feet way too often and make the impossible a reality. My personal motto - Everyone in the uniform (Navy) is responsible to ensure those grey things slip quietly in and out of harbour - How we do that is not taught nor is it in any 'rule' book. I might add here-This tends to drive the CM (Configuration Management) and LCMM (Life Cycle Management) people batty! I have been part of many converstions following along something like -...." Q-Why is there a pickle jar being used as a lubricator for the air start on an MWM generator? - A-Because the $1000 part was unavail when we were 300 miles south of Greenland in sea state 6 you f***ing w***!" --- Look....I am getting all 'excited' again!!!As for TC not accepting the quals - Yes, it is an insult but so are many other things in life I no longer take personal offence to.
I've never served on a navy ship, but based on my experience on civillian ships, I'm guessing any training the navy provides is leaps and bounds ahead of civillian training... both in initial training and ongoing skills maintenance... the fact that transport canada doesn't recognize quals is an insult... even basic things, like an MED...
Pusser,You sound like you might have some insight....how's the sea day counting going???Mildly curious...NS


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Kenya banned the import and distribution of genetically modified foods in November 2012, but the retraction of a scientific study and food insecurity in rural areas could cause a rethink
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Kenyan government may be pushed into reconsidering its hardline stance on genetically modified (GM) foods, as the technology appears to be winning support from farmers struggling to deal with climate stresses.
Between 2009 and 2012, Kenya's National Biosafety Authority (NBA) allowed humanitarian agencies to import GM products to be distributed as food aid during the drought season.
But in November 2012, the government slapped a ban on GM products following the publication of a study in the Food and Chemical Toxicology journal alleging that GM maize caused cancerous tumours in mice.
There are signs that Kenya may now be preparing to revise its stance on GM foods again, since the study by French scientist Gilles-Eric Séralini et al was retracted by the journal in November 2013.
The Kenyan government is not opposed to biotechnology, Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Felix Kosgey told Thomson Reuters Foundation last month on the sidelines of the launch of the African Plant Breeding Academy at the World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF) in Nairobi.
Kosgey described the retraction of the Seralini report as "good for Africa", underlining that the continent needs to understand which technologies are useful and which are harmful. "Kenya will continue adopting the good traits in GMOs (genetically modified organisms) and discard the bad ones," he said.
For now, the sale, distribution or consumption of GM products remains illegal in Kenya, according to an NBA spokesperson.
Since it was set up in 2009, the NBA approved 27 applications of GM products for importation and cross-border movement into East Africa through Kenya, but these activities were suspended in 2012.
However, the government has continued to fund biotechnology research, including on GMOs, through the National Council for Science and Technology.
Meanwhile, civic leaders in arid parts of the country are encouraging farmers to start growing GM crops in an effort to shore up the rural food basket.
Charles Waturu of the state-backed Bt cotton project at Kari Thika - which is conducting confined field trials on a transgenic cotton variety due to be released to farmers in 2014 - said there is a growing appetite for GM crops in Kenya's driest counties because of their potential to improve food security.
Changes in how local administrations work outside Nairobi may also provide clues as to why GMOs seem to be gathering support in rural areas.
Under Kenya's new constitution, introduced in August 2010, county governments can bring in their own legislation to push forward local development agendas and raise levies.
This has enabled some agriculturally productive regions to take advantage of drier areas by charging taxes on the distance food is transported, explained Odenda Lumumba, national coordinator for the Kenya Land Alliance.
Another side-effect of devolution is that more Kenyans are choosing to invest in their own counties, Lumumba noted. This is boosting rural populations and putting pressure on arable land due to competition between property developers and farmers.
It is also causing disruption to the rural food chain. Poor Kenyans must foot the additional cost of more expensive food or invent new ways to feed themselves, Lumumba said.
"Genetically modified crops can be a game changer in reducing food insecurity because they have higher yields," said Margaret Karembu of the International Service for the Acquisition of Agriculture Biotechnology.
According to Karembu, over 3.8 million Kenyans are chronically malnourished, while more than 15 million face hunger from time to time. GM crops can increase yields by 15 to 25 percent per acre compared to conventional varieties, she noted.
Said Silim, regional director for Eastern and Southern Africa at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), said researchers are striving to improve crop yields, including through the use of GM techniques. "But the technologies should be safe," he stressed.
By no means all Kenyans are yet convinced of the benefits of GM crops.
Organic farmer Justus Lavi from Kilome village in lower eastern Kenya is afraid they could destroy indigenous farming. "What arid Kenya needs are technologies such as water harvesting to feed rural agriculture," he said.
Others like Wanjiru Kamau of the Kenya Biodiversity Coalition (KBioC) insist there is no evidence showing GM crops increase yields, while warning they could foster the emergence of super-pests.
GMOs also carry environmental risks such as a loss of biodiversity, and the possibility of contaminating the food chain, Kamau added.
"Global competition for market share is the driver behind GMOs - not to really address food insecurity," she said.
For now, it remains unclear whether the pro- or anti-GM camp will win out in Kenya. But as peasant farmers find it tougher to feed their families, the lure of GM crops appears to be growing in poorer rural areas at least.
Kagondu Njagi is an environmental writer based in Nairobi.
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Here are just a few of the shots I took at the 2013 Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne.
I didn't take too many shots this year at the GP than I usually come home with, but I've been slowly working on all of the hot areas of Albert Park to come up with some nice pics.
Once again, I'm being über nice and giving these files to you in quite a large file size so you can have a nice background for your computer!
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November 15, 2010
More information on the recent sighting off the coast of California has once again confirmed the unidentified flying object as a missile.
Sean Hannity of FOX News interviewed a panel of three guests on November 11, 2010 in regards to what their conclusions were pertaining to the mystery sighting last monday off of California's coast.
Sean Hannity began the interview by saying that the official statement by the Pentagon is that the object was a plane, and that he was willing to entertain that assertion.
However, Retired Airforce Lt. General Tom Mcinerney, with no reservations stated that this object was clearly a missile saying:
"Well first of all, I do not agree with the assertion Sean. And your question is, we should get a definitive answer. You're absolutely correct. Look, this is not an airplane because of the plume, and the way you see that plume. Airplanes do not con at sea level or 5000 ft like that. I spent 35 yrs flying fighters, and I never saw an airplane con like that. That is a missile – it's launched from a submarine, and you can see it go through a correction course, and then it gives a very smooth trajectory meaning that the guidance system has now kicked in, it's going at about a 45 degrees away from you that's why you're not seeing a lot of vertical velocity."
When Sean interrupted Lt. Mcinerney, asking " are you 100% certain? Mcinerney answered with 100% conviction:
"Sean… I've watched that film 10 times, I've watched 15 other Trident films, SM 3.. Standard missile threes, and T Lam launches…. I am absolutely certain that that is not an aircraft."
This statement by Lt. General Mcinerney appears to agree with the report by Wayne Madsen where he reports that missile experts say the plume was definitely from a missile, (most likely a JL-2 ICBM) and that it was probably launched from a Chinese Jin class submarine.
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text: boone Posted March 28, 2002 This obituary was in the Herald-Leader newspaper (Lexington, Ky)Ernest W. Ripy Jr. retired vice president of Austin Nichols Distilling Co. in Anderson County, died Monday at Hospice Care Center at St. Joseph Hospital in Lexington. He was 89 and lived on South Main Street in Lawrenceburg.Mr. Ripy, a Master Distiller, retired as vice president of Austin Nichols in 1978 after 42 years in the bourbon industry.He began his career at his family's Ripy Brothers Distillery in Anderson County. His father, Ernest Whitney Ripy, was instrumental in starting the distillery after Prohibition ended. Mr. Ripy's grandfather, Thomas B. Ripy, also was a distiller, as was his great-grandfather, James P. Ripy, who came to Kentucky from County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.Ripy Brothers Distillery changed hands over the years. Now Austin Nichols Distilling Co., it produces Wild Turkey bourbon whiskey.Mr. Ripy was born in Lawrenceburg and graduated from Lawrenceburg High School in 1931. He was thought to be Anderson County's first Eagle Scout, having received that honor at age 15. He graduated from Purdue University in 1935 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army.In the Army from 1941 to 1945, Mr. Ripy served with the 45th Field Artillery Battalion in the 8th Infantry. He received a Bronze Star for bravery. He also received a Silver Star for courage after twice leading his men out of heavy gunfire in April 1945 in Germany. Mr. Ripy retired as a colonel in the Army Reserve in 1973.He also was a genealogist and enjoyed golf, basketball, football and traveling.Survivors include his wife, Nita Frazier Ripy; four daughters, Ann Ripy Hochstrasser, Madeline Ripy Prewitt, and June Ripy Whisman, all fo Fort Lauderdale, Fla. and Sallie Ripy Crawford of Lawrenceburg; nine grandchildren' and 10 great-grandchildren.Services will be at 3 p.m. Thursday at Lawrenceburg First Christian Church, Visitation will be after 1 p.m. Thursday at the church. Contributions are suggested to Hospice of the Bluegrass, Lawrenceburg First Christian Church or one's favorite charity. Ritchie-Peach-Todd funeral Home in Lawrenceburg is in charge of the arrangements. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Prince Harry will attend the ninth annual WellChild Awards on September 11.
The 28-year-old is to be guest of honour at the ceremony which will take place at the Dorchester Hotel. The awards recognise the courage of children coping with serious illnesses and those who help and support them.
"The WellChild Awards event is a fantastic celebration of the very deserving winners in all categories and Prince Harry's attendance makes the evening even more special for them," revealed WellChild executive Colin Dyer.
Harry, who the charity's patron, attended the event last year and made a speech to honour the evening's winners.
"All of you – children, families, nurses, doctors, carers, volunteers – are quite frankly too remarkable for me adequately to describe with mere words," the Prince said.
In July, Prince Harry became an uncle for the first time after the birth of brother Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge's first child, Prince George.
William and Kate introduced their newborn to Harry at Kensington Palace just a day after leaving the Lindo Wing. The new uncle revealed the mini monarch-to-be was "crying his eyes out" when he met him, but added it was "fantastic to have another addition to the family."
Speaking of his mission as an uncle, Harry said: "To make sure he has a good upbringing, and keep him out of harm's way and to make sure he has fun."
"The rest I'll leave to the parents," he added.
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'Mad Men' Vincent Kartheiser finds a new role
NEW YORK -- To find their Mr. Darcy, the Guthrie Theater in Minnesota has turned to a Mad Man.
Vincent Kartheiser, who plays the malcontent Pete Campbell on AMC's "Mad Men," will star this summer in a new Guthrie production of "Pride and Prejudice" as the brooding hero of Jane Austen's most famous novel.
"It's interesting playing a character that people have such strong feelings about before I've even begun playing him," he said Friday by phone from Los Angeles. "I don't have a lot of experience playing famous characters and it's an interesting expectation that lays on my head."
Kartheiser is a native of Minneapolis and first appeared at the Guthrie in 1986 at age 7 as Tiny Tim in "A Christmas Carol." He returned to play small roles in the company's 1990 productions of "Henry V" and "Henry IV."
"I think my biggest scene I was being carried around dead," he joked.
His film credits include "Untamed Heart" with Marisa Tomei, and "Little Big League," "The Indian in the Cupboard," "Crime and Punishment in Suburbia" and 2011's thriller "In Time."
Kartheiser has often dipped in and out of theater projects, most recently playing the lead in the world premiere of "The Death of the Novel" at the San Jose Repertory Theatre last year. In 2005, he was in New York at the Cherry Lane Theatre in "Slag Heap."
"I started returning to the stage in my late 20s to get back in touch with my roots and to challenge myself," he said. "It really is our medium."
"Pride and Prejudice," which will be directed by the Guthrie's leader Joe Dowling, will play from July 6-Aug. 31. It will mark the 200th anniversary of the publication of Austen's novel which has been adapted into films, miniseries and even a Broadway musical.
The Guthrie did "Pride and Prejudice" in the 2003-2004 season with an adaptation by James Maxwell which was revised by Alan Stanford. This new version has been adapted for the stage by Simon Reade.
Set in late 18th-century England, "Pride and Prejudice" concerns Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, who try to find wealthy husbands for their five daughters. At its heart, it is a love story between Elizabeth Bennet and Darcy, an aloof, unmarried wealthy landowner seen by many as having as excessive pride. Who will play Elizabeth has not been revealed.
In real life, Kartheiser is engaged to "Gilmore Girls" alum Alexis Bledel, who appeared on the show as the mentally unstable mistress of Kartheiser's character. He wouldn't reveal if a date for the wedding has been made.
"I wouldn't tell you even if I could," he said.


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Pantech and AT&T have a history of making some pretty reliable phones, including the Pantech Crossover and the Pantech Laser. In the Pantech Pocket, you see Pantech's easy-to-use Android Gingerbread skin, HSPA+ 4G speeds, and a good-quality 5-megapixel camera, all for a very reasonable $50. In an interesting twist, however, the Pocket's standout trait--its wider, shorter build--is also its Achilles' heel, since the dimensions make it awkward to grip with smaller hands. Video quality will bum out budding videographers.
A black phone with a textured, slightly rubberized finish coating the phone's rim and back, the Pocket immediately stands out for its short, squat, rounded build. Even though its 4.52-inch height makes it no more vertically challenged than the iPhone 4S and the Samsung Transform Ultra, the handset's 3-inch waistline is much ampler than most. At 0.44 inch thick, the phone steers clear of bulkiness, and at 4.4 ounces, it's light without being flyaway.
What makes the Pocket more pocket-filling than most is the 3:4 ratio of its 4-inch touch screen. This translates into an SVGA, or super-VGA, resolution of 600x800 pixels (there's support for 16 million colors.) The screen itself is bright and colorful for the size, and graphics look smooth, not jagged or pixelated.
Pantech bestowed the Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system on the Pocket, then added its own touches. While there's nothing we haven't seen before from other manufacturers, Pantech's take is fairly intuitive and easy to use. The lock screen shows a circle surrounded by "spokes" of icons, each one representing an app you can open right from the lock screen. They lead to the browser, the call log, e-mail, the music player, the messaging app, and the home screen. The center of the ring conveys your battery status.
Pantech's custom interface also gives the Pocket seven customizable home screens and a pull-down navigation menu with quick access to system settings like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, sound profiles, and the alarm. There are also stylized onscreen navigation buttons for the dial pad, texting menu, browser, and app tray. One nice perk is that the extra-wide screen also begets an extra-wide virtual keyboard. Swype is installed, but isn't selected by default.
Getting back to the design, you'll find four physical buttons below the display. They call up the menu, home, back, and search. They rise above the surface and are responsive, but are a little too narrow for my tastes. On the right spine sits the Micro-USB charging port. The volume rocker is on the left, and up top are the 3.5mm headset jack and the power button. I wish Pantech had been less thrifty with the button's size. I wouldn't call it uncomfortable, but a larger or shapelier button might feel better under the fingertips.
The camera lens on the back belongs to a 5-megapixel lens, but note that there's no flash. Behind the back cover there's the microSD card slot, which comes filled with a 2GB SD card for storing apps and multimedia.
An Android Gingerbread phone, the Pocket is already equipped with Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth. There's built-in support for as many contacts as your memory can support, and standards like personalized ringtones, calling groups, and photo ID. Text and multimedia messaging are also routine, as is support for multiple types of e-mail inboxes, including your corporate work address.
The Pocket has essential apps like your calendar, clock, a calculator, a browser, and a basic music player. It happens to be fully stocked with over three full pages of apps--a bonus or detriment, depending on your take--so you'll also find a compass, a measurement converter, a document viewer, an RSS reader, a memo pad, and a weather app.
Google loads up all its Android devices with apps for Google services, so you'll be able to access maps, turn-by-turn voice navigation, Places, and YouTube, among others. Facebook, Twitter, Amazon Kindle, and City ID are also in residence, as well as a sketch pad, a PC connector, a stocks app, and a voice memo app.
AT&T also gets into the game with its customary installations: Navigator, Family Map, U-verse Live TV (streaming content for $10 per month), YPmobile (Yellow Pages), AT&T Address Book, AT&T Code Scanner, and MyAT&T. Whew!
When it comes to photos, the Pocket's 5-megapixel camera proved to be a handy sidekick, taking some crisp, clear outdoor shots with good color representation. Indoor photos presented more of a challenge, especially since the camera lacks a flash. Colors were flatter, details were more blunted, and focus was harder to achieve. Still, it's a serviceable shooter, and fine for the camera's price, though I think that had Pantech put in more resources, it'd be even better.


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SCSO: 2nd suspect in custody following stabbing, golf club attack
Spartanburg County deputies have arrested a second suspect wanted in connection with a stabbing and golf club attack on February 18, according to Master Deputy Kevin Bobo.
Jason Bishop was arrested Tuesday after being spotted by deputies at the intersection of East Main Street and Bonanza Drive.
Michael Ham was arrested last Wednesday.
Deputies were called to the Caroline Inn and Suites on Hospitality Drive around 8:40 p.m. Feb. 18 about a stabbing.
According to an incident report, a woman at the hotel told deputies her child's father, later identified as Jason Bishop, came into the room she was in and started choking her to the point she passed out.
The commotion caught the attention of other residents at the motel. Bill Jo Upton said she called 911.
"We was in there watching a movie on our DVD. I just heard someone out there running out there hollering help," Upton told WYFF. "She hollered, like, two times and I looked out the door and she was just shaking and holding her neck. She was saying that her old man was trying to strangle her."
The woman told deputies another man in the room helped get Bishop to stop choking her, the report said.
According to the report, the woman went to another room to get a cigarette and at some point Bishop and another man, later identified as Michael Ham, came into the room and started hitting a man with a golf club and stabbing him with a knife.
The report said the woman was able to get out of the room, but then Bishop and Ham chased her around the motel.
According to the report, the woman had scratches and bruises on her neck.
The man who was stabbed told deputies he was just trying to help the woman by letting her in the room and did not know Bishop or Ham.
The man was taken to Spartanburg Regional Medical Center where he received 22 staples for his stab wound.
Deputies said Bishop and Perry left the motel in an older damaged burgundy or tan Ford Explorer.
Lt. Tony Ivey said Bishop was arrested last year in connection with the death of his father, Vaughn Eugene Bishop. Ivey said the charge was later dropped because the autopsy revealed Bishop died from a heart attack.
"(Jason Bishop) is showing through his actions -- at least these two incidents here -- that he does have a propensity for violence and he's not afraid to get into a physical confrontation with someone -- be it a man or a woman," Ivey said.


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Why Mobile Advertising Is Such a Headache for Marketers
For marketers, though, there's a big difference between mobile advertising and the desktop kind. The term refers to an ecosystem created by Apple for the iPhone in 2007 that has since evolved to include tablets and may in time creep onto the desktop as well. This is an environment in which marketers are deprived of most of their favorite tools from desktop computing. Moreover, mobile isn't one thing, but a bunch of potential screens and situations within a category that right now comprises just 5% of all digital ad spending, by revenues.
Add it all up and mobile advertising is a big headache for marketers. Among the issues:
No Behavioral Targeting
In the desktop environment, advertisers are able to target potential customers based on profiles developed using cookies. Generally, the more sites you visit, the more cookies you collect and the more advertisers can draw a composite sketch of you. Though there are numerous privacy concerns, doing so will in theory result in exposure to more relevant ads.
However, thanks to Apple's decision not to allow for third-party cookies in the original iPhone, most iOS users can't be tracked this way. (First-party cookies are OK on iOS. If you visit nytimes.com, The New York Times will be able to identify you, but its advertisers won't unless you visit their websites.) Google's Android platform was modeled after iOS, but according to Mahi de Silva, executive VP of consumer mobile at Opera Software, some advertisers are starting to figure out how to deploy third-party cookies via Android. De Silva adds that "third-party cookie tracking on Android is far from being reliable."
Goodbye Rich Media Ads
On the desktop, it's assumed that your connection to the Internet is steady and comes in at a reasonable speed, but on a mobile device, you could be using anything from Wi-Fi to LTE to 3G and those connections can vary greatly in quality. For advertisers, that means the rich media ad they had hoped to deploy on mobile might come across as an error message on certain devices.
Another challenge for rich media ads is the lack of support for Adobe Flash. Thanks to Steve Jobs, who opposed Flash for its proprietary nature and its drain on battery life, Flash is not an an option for mobile advertising, even on Android.
Though HTML 5 has emerged as a viable alternative to Flash, de Silva says that smaller screens are a challenge for rich media ads. "Just shrinking the ad 60% doesn't work," he says. Meanwhile, alternative rich-media ad formats on mobile, like Apple's iAd, haven't yet lived up to the initial hype.
Fewer 'Live' Readers
For magazines and newspapers, the advent of tablets has presented an opportunity to reboot themselves. However, readers often aren't accessing their content the way they did on the web. In particular, many readers have gotten into the habit of downloading their magazine or newspaper and then reading it later, often on the train, where there's no Wi-Fi connection.
That again makes rich media ads less of an option since they slow the overall download speed and can't be updated on the fly. But it also means that the ads are more like print than digital. When you read an ad on a preloaded edition of that day's Wall Street Journal for instance, you can't click on the ad to get more information. For marketers looking to add some social media engagement to their ads, it's a step back.
Not everyone has gotten the memo, though. The following Best Buy ad appeared in a recent issue of The Wall Street Journal for the iPad. If you saw the ad and didn't have access to Wi-Fi, you'd have no way of of accessing the "buy now" prompt.
Another major difference between mobile computing and the more traditional kind is the use of apps. In mid-2011, for the first time consumers began spending more time on mobile apps, which is great for makers of apps, but another challenge for advertisers. Though there's some encouraging data about app-vertising, it's still so new that, unless they're dealing with Facebook, Twitter or Zynga, marketers, though there are third parties, including Appssavvy, that also place ads on apps.
However, the web-based model of advertising is quickly going out the window. Stefan Weitz, Senior Director at Bing, says that he believes that 40% of searches will be done via apps by 2015.
Marketers and publishers can debate how relevant the click-through-rate is for desktop advertising, but at least it's something of a standard. In mobile, there's no comparable metric. Clark Fredrickson, VP of communications for eMarketer, says one issue is that mobile publishers make the plausible case that mobile marketing drives in-store purchases. "That's obviously problematic" says Fredrickson, who notes that proving a mobile ad prompted a purchase is much more difficult on mobile than on desktop, where there's often a clickstream leading to a final online purchase.
Multiple Platforms
Finally, there's the amorphous nature of "mobile" once again. Smartphone or tablet? Android or iOS? iPhone 4S or iPhone 5? iPad or iPad Mini? "You have to make sure landing pages they're optimized for each" says Fredrickson.
Complicating matters further, consumers exhibit very different mindsets on tablets vs. smartphones. "Tablets are becoming content-consumption devices," says Greg Stuart, CEO of the Mobile Marketing Association. "A phone tends to be more about task orientation, like 'I need to find a restaurant now.'"
That's why Jeff Lanctot, global chief media officer of digital agency Razorfish, advocates a multi-screen strategy rather than one that addresses "mobile" per se.
Unfortunately, most a lot of marketers don't see it that way, instead viewing mobile as a small subset of a bigger category that is itself laden with frustratingly small sub-sets. "There are still too many marketers who are managing mobile in a silo," Lanctot says. "But Microsoft's unifying the UI across all screens sends a message to marketers that breaking down the mobile silos makes sense."
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Dave Johnson
Major: Peace Studies
Focus: Social Science
Discovering peace studies late in his college career, Dave explored many of his academic passions, such as political science and economics, thus creating a firm foundation in the social sciences. When Dave finally committed to peace studies, he was given the resources to critically review his beliefs and effectively incorporate various areas of study.
"I really enjoyed studying economics, political science and sociology, but in my mind, it didn't make sense to just study one field. The track I chose allowed me to integrate different areas of study that are complementary, but not often tangibly connected."
During his time at St. John's, Dave traveled from the southern-most tip of South America—Tierra del Fuego—to Minnesota, on bike. "Peace studies allowed me to articulate a lot of the phenomena I saw along the way. It required me to do a lot of quantitative and qualitative work and it challenged me to critically evaluate systems, structures and theories that I experienced and learned about. Moreover my peace studies education took a very human approach to the social sciences; it helped me look at the sciences in terms of human costs and benefits."
Blending his experiences, education and enthusiasm together, Dave currently works with The SHARE Foundation as the U.S. Director of Grassroots Organizing. SHARE is a nonprofit organization that works to support historically marginalized sectors of the El Salvadoran rural sectors.
"I have to say that peace studies majors are the most satisfied alumni I know. They have a real sense of purpose and cherish the relationship they have between their work and the impact it has on the broader community and world."


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Dynasylan® SILBOND® HT-28A
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Dynasylan® SILBOND® HT-28A can be used, as delivered, to make inorganic zinc-rich primers for the marine and industrial coatings industries. The degree of hydrolysis and acidity have been optimized for the required reactivity and sufficient storage stability. The hydrolysis and condensation has been started during the production of the binder. Through a shift in the pH this process is accelerated. This shift is achieved by addition of fillers, pigments, additive, or through the evaporation of solvent or exposure to atmospheric moisture. The resulting silicic acid gel cures rapidly at ambient temperatures in air. The process of curing can be accelerated through the addition of alkali catalysts.


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Remember when the Marlins were a trendy playoff pick? New stadium, new manager, big payroll, etc. Maybe it's because the Red Sox exist, but people are forgetting just what an astonishing failure Miami's 2012 has been.
To recap briefly: fancy new taxpayer-funded stadium that couldn't even draw beyond the first homestand. Ozzie Guillen suspended for pro-Castro comments. Crappy Showtime reality show. Miserable clubhouse. Feuds with media. Obscene team photo. Home run kineti-sculpture.
And yesterday, Heath Bell talked some smack about his manager. From a spot on WQAM in Miami, here's the money quote:
"It's hard to respect a guy that doesn't tell you the truth or doesn't tell you face-to-face," Bell said. "There's probably reasons why."
This, as you might have guessed, quickly became A Thing. (Not because Miamians are taking sides; I think they hate each guy equally. They'd be happy locking Bell and Guillen in a room to work out their differences—and not letting them out until both have starved to death.) So today Bell met with the Miami beat writers to walk things back a little. The Palm Beach Post has the transcript, and you should read the whole thing. It's painful.
The news peg is probably "Bell says his words were taken out of context," but forget that. We'd like to focus on how Bell said he smoothed things over with Ozzie Guillen:
"I called him last night. I told him what I was feeling. I told him sorry for the comments."
This was not strictly true. Ironically, for a guy complaining about a lack of face-to-face communication, Bell never actually spoke with Guillen. Joe Capozzi of the Post followed up with Guillen, and Guillen revealed that he didn't even know Bell had tried to apologize.
Miami also held a closed-door meeting today. I hope, when the history of spectacularly unlikable teams that went down in flames is written, the Marlins aren't left out.


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Friday, April 20, 2007
Orient Surprise?
Holy Catfights Batmann… Can you imagine the media drubbing that'll occur if Danica actually manages to win this event? Of course I'm certain that the "Red Menace" and "Peskey" squads will have something to say about the matter.
Then again what will either of the IRL's feline duo fortune cookies say? Or perhaps Danica won't wish to read her tea leafs as she may throw another TANTRUM if things DON'T go her way…
Yet contrary to popular belief, I'll be busy watching the Champ Car race on ESPN this Sunday at 12 PM (Pacific) which hopefully won't be another "Hamburgular" run-away…
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Tomas I think I will win an IndyCar race before Danica does. Now you say, "Dan, you will never win a race" Well EXACTLY my point. She can not drive in dirty air. Alot of GUYS can not as well so she can take solace in that. I am so SICK OF DANICA MANIA THAT I COULD PUKE.She is no better than Sarah Fisher in my book. Perhaps Milk and Donuts or whatever her name is will burst on to the scene in KC and DanicaMania will die DannyReplyDelete
I guess that I find the Danica mania "bemusing" as she has yet to win a race. But she did manage to outqualify Sam Hornish Jr. in Motegi where they're all running laps over 200mph... And I think I'd rather have Danica or Sarah running side by side with me then Milka who'll be "racing" or is that moveable chicane next week in KC.


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Since the early '50s, the Pilgrim Jubilee Singers have used their hard, rockin' gospel music as a powerful means of testifying their faith, love, and charitable hope that humanity will find a way to bring itself closer to the kingdom of heaven. Over its long history, the group has undergone numerous personnel changes. The first incarnation originated in the 1940s on the Mississippi Delta by Elgie and Theopholis Graham, but the most famous version of the Pilgrim Jubilees began in Chicago, 1952, when younger Graham brothers Clay and Cleve resurrected the group. Since then, these two have remained the group's spiritual and musical core. While growing up in Mississippi, all four Graham brothers were trained to sing. It was Theopholis who left the first group to live in Chicago; the rest of his brothers followed in 1951, and all four briefly sang in the group. The Pilgrim Jubilees toured quite a bit (when not working their day jobs, which for the Graham brothers meant working in their separate barber shops), and this proved too much for the older brothers, who gradually dropped out. Shortly thereafter, Clay and Cleve invited baritone Major Roberson and lead singer Percy Clark (both from Mississippi) to join. They also took on guitarist Richard Crume and bassist Roosevelt English, and began recording; through the 1950s, they released sides and albums for assorted labels, including Peacock, Chance, and Nashboro. Soon after signing to Peacock in 1960, the band gained national exposure with their label debut, "Stretch Out." Its success allowed the Pilgrim Jubilees to finally go professional. Crume eventually left the group to join the Soul Stirrers, but the other three have remained together and carried on into the '90s. ~ Sandra Brennan~ Rovi


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Konerko sets out on farewell season
Retiring captain hopes to keep focus on field, enjoy final big league tour
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- The opening question to Adam Dunn, as he stood outside the White Sox Camelback Ranch clubhouse Thursday morning, dealt with personal emotions surrounding Paul Konerko's last Spring Training.
Dunn paused for a second, chuckled and then deferred the question until later in the interview.
"First one out of the gate, my last Spring Training with Paul Konerko," Dunn said. "I can't answer that. It's got to be like Question 3."
There was a little bit of playful sarcasm thrown in by Dunn, a friend and teammate of Konerko's. Dunn even went as far as to start a Spring Training rumor about not being convinced Konerko will be done after '14.
Konerko would disagree with that particular Dunn guess.
Thursday morning marked Konerko's opening interview of his last Spring Training. It's a process Konerko discussed after announcing prior to the Winter Meetings in December his decision to come back for a 16th and final year with the White Sox. He had a similar conversation during SoxFest at the end of January.
But even though Thursday simply marked the first full-squad workout, and the first Cactus League game remains eight days away, there seemed to be more of a finality to the last run of the man referred to as "King" by his teammates. It's a part-time playing, full-time mentoring role Konerko stands ready for, but it's not an end game Konerko is studying quite yet.
"I've played a long time, but I've never gone through a season where you know, 'OK this is the end of it,'" the soon-to-be 38-year-old Konerko said as part of his 18-minute interview. "So how that all unfolds and how you feel at different moments, you'll just have to wait and see.
"I'll try to give as honest answers and be as upfront with it as I can as we go. But I can't possibly answer how I'm going to feel in June or August. It's tough for me. I don't know. It's the first time I'm going through this and the last time.
"I definitely have some thoughts on things as far as stuff you want to take in along the way that's alongside the baseball stuff," Konerko said. "But just stuff you know, 'OK, this is the last time I'm going to do this and I need to take advantage of it.' I have some thoughts on that kind of stuff, but nothing that's going to get in the way of doing the job."
What is Konerko's on-field job exactly, a question that has been talked about since December? Basically whatever manager Robin Ventura asks.
He figures to go against left-handers at first base or designated hitter. He'll get starts from time to time against tough right-handers or when Jose Abreu needs a break. There's no way Konerko would have considered coming back if he wasn't prepared for a little bit of anything and everything.
As for that mentoring part of the job, Konerko has been playing that role since becoming an established part of the White Sox. He already has taken a more proactive approach during the offseason.
Micah Johnson spoke at SoxFest concerning the impromptu guidance Konerko provided during the hitters' mini-camp in mid-January, describing the extra work Konerko put in with top hitting prospect Courtney Hawkins. Adam Eaton explained Thursday that Konerko had invited him to his Scottsdale home three or four times to hit at Konerko's batting cage, and Eaton referred to that individual work with sort of a baseball "father figure" as an honor.
"You know what, it's all business. He's very analytical," said Eaton of Konerko's guidance. "He dissects a lot of small things and, like I said, it has shown throughout his career."
When asked if a player such as Konerko can provide valuable guidance to young players, Eaton took about two seconds to respond.
"Oh my gosh, yeah," Eaton said. "You just see a guy and how he goes about his business with passion and from an analytical standpoint. You can watch that and not talk to him at all and learn from it."
"He's always been very analytical," White Sox second baseman Gordon Beckham said of Konerko. "He's very thoughtful in everything he does, which is a really good thing when you're talking about somebody who can manage a clubhouse. To go along with that, he's practical and he's a good guy and people want him around. So it will be good."
Beckham stated that Konerko deserved a victory lap and the game deserved having Konerko around for that victory lap. Konerko quipped that while he appreciates the sentiment and doesn't want to hurt anybody's feelings, the farewell tour idea was on the con side of his reasons for coming back.
Much like Konerko's goals every season when he was more of a featured performer, Konerko wants to play baseball in this last season. Play baseball and certainly talk about it a little, as well, as Dunn pointed out when finally getting to the topic of Konerko's finish.
"I'm not going to miss being in the cage with him. I won't miss that. I won't miss sitting, talking, an hour after batting practice about how he stinks and how he does this and how he does that," Dunn said with a wry smile.
"A lot of people can talk about this or that, but when you have a guy who actually won a World Series and had such a good career, it's easier to stand in front of some things and show how it's done," said Dunn. "He's a special guy."


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Modria Wants You to Settle Your Workplace Problems (and Even Patent Disputes) Online
As anyone who's ever gotten wrapped up in an online-commenting flame war knows, the Internet doesn't have the best reputation for resolving disputes. Too often, the discussion doesn't stray far from "I'm right!" versus "No, I am!"
But conflicts arise online all the time, as Colin Rule knows. The "online dispute guy," as his coworkers once called him, cut his tech teeth at eBay and PayPal, where he led the group that stepped in when buyers and sellers clashed.
Now, Rule has spun off from eBay to become the CEO of Modria, one of a slew of organizations trying to solve more and more types of disputes online. Modria launched Monday with $1.25 million in seed funding, with The Wall Street Journal also reporting that the company is seeking about $4 million in its Series A round.
Online dispute resolution may sound like a snoozer, but it's actually needed. In theory, companies such as Modria would take pressure off the courts to get disputes resolved faster and with less need for old-school legal paperwork. That means a cheaper, faster route to peace of mind for businesses, particularly those that live or die with their customer's trust.
(And no, you don't have much of a choice in the matter. In the aftermath of the Supreme Court case AT&T v. Concepcion, corporations can legally put arbitration clauses into those Terms of Service that no one ever reads; that means they have the highest court's blessing to keep customer disputes out of the judicial system entirely.)
Modria is licensing code from eBay — which he compares to a "big brother," since the two companies are independent but friendly — and applying what he learned there to other types of problems for clients around the world.
While most of eBay's problems were simple misunderstandings over, for example, when purchased items had to be delivered, Rule said his "Lego block" model can be applied to everything ranging from workplace difficulties to problems with your cellphone bill to Silicon Valley's new favorite sport of patent disputes.
There are, Rule said, four blocks that can be combined in different ways depending on how significant the problem is: Diagnosing a dispute (which can be done through a simple questionnaire), negotiating (which software can also take care of), mediating (for which you need an impartial human or group to help) and arbitration (which leads to some sort of resolution outside of the courts that both sides have agreed to accept).
Modria's corporate clients pay a subscription fee to use a customized version of the site's suite of tools. But for personal affairs, Modria lets anyone use a one-size-fits-all version of those tools for free.
The customized versions of the tools include specific questionnaires and the ability to upload attachments as "evidence" for one side or the other. Paying clients like telecom companies can even build rules into the negotiating software, so that customers can't haggle below a certain level with the computer.
However, there are some disputes that can't yet be tackled online. Rule said Modria couldn't help Craigslist because the site makes sellers anonymous and doesn't require them to report what actually happened as the result of a cash transaction. He said it is still possible, though, for the parties to remain confidential in an online dispute, just so long as both come to the table.


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