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August 15, 2013
By Angus Shaw
Associated Press
Zimbabwe's longtime President Robert Mugabe said Tuesday his party won "a resounding mandate" from voters to complete a sweeping black empowerment program to take over foreign and white-owned assets.
Mugabe said the program in Zimbabwe, widely criticized by Western countries, will be "pursued to its successful conclusion."
Outgoing Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, 61, is challenging the results of the July 31 election and alleges widespread vote rigging that gave Mugabe, 89, and his ZANU-PF party a commanding victory.
Addressing military parades on the annual Defense Forces holiday, Mugabe said voters ended an unwieldy coalition with Tsvangirai's opposition that was formed after the last violent and disputed elections in 2008.
Mugabe said the vote showed confidence in his party and its drive for "total economic emancipation" for prosperity and jobs.
"I extend my hearty congratulations to all of you for showing our foreign detractors our destiny lies in our hands," Mugabe said, speaking at the main sports stadium in Harare where the parades and parachuting displays, gymnastics and a soccer match between the uniformed services of Zimbabwe and regional ally Tanzania were held.
In his first public appearance since the election on the Heroes' Day holiday Monday, honoring guerrillas in the war the led to independence in 1980, Mugabe described his rivals as an enemy he disposed of in the election "like garbage."
On Tuesday he called them "some misguided fellow countrymen" who received backing from hostile Western nations and followed a regime-change agenda to oust him.
Tsvangirai's party had called for reforms to the military and police it has blamed for state orchestrated violence in the past.
"What they call security sector reform is when the enemy's aim is to dilute the efficiency of the Zimbabwe Defense Forces," Mugabe said. "We appeal to all Zimbabweans to resist the enemy's strategies and renewed advances by our erstwhile colonizers."
Britain, the former colonial power, and the United States have questioned whether the results of the July 31 poll represent a free and fair vote.
Mugabe, who for the first time this year inspected the parades from an open military jeep instead of walking through the ranks, said Britain has opposed black empowerment since 2000 when thousands of white farmers were forced to surrender their land.
Critics of the program say it disrupted Zimbabwe's agriculture-based economy, shut down industries and scared away foreign investment in mining and other businesses where owners were required to yield 51 percent control to blacks.
Mugabe, however, said empowerment succeeded in creating jobs and economic growth in other African countries in the post-colonial era where it had not drawn the same condemnation as in Zimbabwe.
In its election manifesto, Mugabe's party vowed to take control of the last 1,138 foreign and white-owned businesses in the country.
"This policy beneficial to indigenous Zimbabweans will be taken to its successful conclusion" under a new ZANU-PF government, Mugabe said.
Tsvangirai and leaders of his Movement for Democratic Change campaigned for liberalization the economy to attract Western investors. They stayed away from Tuesday's parades and Monday's ceremonies at a national cemetery outside Harare.
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
Michelle Obama is making a cameo appearance in a video for a hip-hop song recorded to encourage kids from minority groups to take care of their bodies.
The song, "Everybody," is one of 19 on an album called "Songs for a Healthier America," set for release next month. The album is being produced by Hip Hop Public Health and the Partnership for a Healthier America, both of which support the first lady's "Let's Move" anti-childhood obesity campaign. Statistics show higher rates of overweight and obesity among black and Latino children.
In the video, Mrs. Obama talks briefly about launching "Let's Move" and people's doubts about whether it will make a difference.
The song itself is sung by rapper Doug E. Fresh, along with Jordin Sparks, Dr. Oz and others.
By Travis Loller
A Tennessee judge's decision to change a baby's first name from Messiah to Martin is drawing strong reactions from people who believe the judge overstepped her powers and those who think parents' creativity should have some limits.
Thousands of people have commented online about the judge's order since WBIR-TV published its story over the weekend. Many of them said Child Support Magistrate Lu Ann Ballew went too far, but not all.
"I agree 100 percent that we only have one messiah and that's Jesus Christ," said Edith Wood, a resident of Cocke County in eastern Tennessee, where the boy lives. The mostly rural county is located in the Appalachian foothills and encompasses part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Wood said a cousin called from Atlanta and asked her to find the judge and take her out to dinner. Telephone calls to Ballew from The Associated Press rang unanswered Monday, and her voicemail was full.
The hubbub started when the boy's mother sought an order to establish paternity. It included a request for the judge to determine the child's last name.
When Ballew heard Messiah's first name, she decided it should be changed, too, saying the child could face problems with the name Messiah.
The name on his birth certificate was Messiah DeShawn Martin. The judge changed it to Martin DeShawn McCullough, giving the boy his father's last name while replacing Messiah with his mother's surname.
"The word messiah is a title, and it's a title that has only been earned by one person, and that one person is Jesus Christ," she told WBIR-TV in an interview from her office, which had a ceramic figurine of Joseph and Mary with baby Jesus on her desk. A copy of the Ten Commandments hung on the wall.
While Messiah may not be a traditional English name, it is becoming more popular. Messiah was No. 4 among the fastest-rising baby names in 2012, just ahead of King but behind Major at No. 1, according to the Social Security Administration's annual list of popular baby names.
And other religious names are very common, such as Mohammed in Islamic culture and Jesus (pronounced Heh-SOOS') in Hispanic culture.
Asked about the name Jesus, Ballew said it was not relevant to the current case.
A number of countries have rules about what are acceptable baby names. In Iceland earlier this year, a girl won a court battle to legally use the name given to her by her mother. Blaer means "light breeze" in Icelandic, but it was deemed to be not a proper feminine name by authorities, who referred to her in government documents as "Girl."
Hedy Weinberg, director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee, said the U.S. is different because of the First Amendment.
"Parents, not the government, have the right to name a child," she said. "The judge cannot impose her faith on those who come into her courtroom."
The ACLU has offered to help the parents fight the decision.
Laura Wattenberg, the founder of babynamewizard.com, said she has been using the name Messiah as an example of changing baby names.
"The percentage of kids getting names we think of as normal is shrinking," Wattenberg said. "Today, Paisley is more common than Mary."
Messiah Ramkissoon, a spoken word poet based in New York City, said people sometimes assume his name is a stage name. But he said the name simply represents a messenger and doesn't refer exclusively to Jesus. He added that many people are named Emanuel, which means "God is with us" and is another term used for Jesus in the Bible.
The baby's mother, Jaleesa Martin, told WBIR-TV she chose the name Messiah because she likes the way it sounds and thinks it goes well with the names of her other two sons, Micah and Mason. She said she's appealing the decision and in the meantime will still call her son Messiah.
"I never intended on that — naming my son Messiah because it means God," she said. "And I didn't think a judge could make me change my baby's name because of her religious beliefs."
By Peter Orsi
Fidel Castro turned 87 behind closed doors Tuesday, with official tributes reminding Cubans that the clock is ticking on his revolutionary generation's grip on power.
Castro stepped down as president following a near-fatal illness in 2006, and his successor, younger brother Raul, has said that his current term ending in 2018 will be his last, ostensibly ending nearly six decades of rule by the brothers.
Openly acknowledging to Cubans that change was inevitable, Raul Castro in February named Miguel Diaz-Canel, 53, as his deputy and heir apparent.
"You never talked about it until Raul said it recently. It was like something taboo," Rey Nunez, a 42-year-old driver, said of generational leadership change. "But I think the institutions in this country are solid for whatever comes afterward."
Fidel Castro has made only a couple of public appearances this year, and last month he skipped celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the Cuban Revolution that were attended by several allied heads of state.
He last was seen pictured with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in late July. In April he paid an emotional visit to a Havana school where he invited staffers to listen to a song eulogizing friend and ally Hugo Chavez, who died of cancer the previous month.
There's no evidence that Castro's health is in immediate danger, though his advancing age is evident in the images published through official channels.
"When you see Fidel now, you realize the calendar is irreversible," said Dayren Silva, a 53-year-old mechanic. "Sometimes I'm very worried that the day he closes his eyes definitively it could be a debacle here, because the situation is so difficult that I don't think Cubans can take it anymore."
Raul Castro is in the middle of social and economic reforms that have expanded independent small-business activity and eased travel restrictions, among other things, though some criticize them as half-measures.
Paul Webster Hare, a lecturer in international relations at Boston University and British ambassador to Cuba from 2001 to 2004, said while it seems clear that Raul Castro is firmly in charge, Fidel's presence acts as a brake on the pace of change.
"I think they're struggling now to find a way of articulating where Cuba will be in five, ten years' time," Hare said, "and I think quite a lot of that is due to Fidel clocking up another year in his innings."
In Miami, where recurring rumors of Castro's purported demise have sparked celebrations in the past, there was neither festivity nor protest.
"I don't know why he's still alive," said Ahmed Medina, 28, who left Cuba when he was 7. His family once owned a successful transportation company but lost it after the 1959 revolution.
"To me, he's dead or dying," Medina said.
By Freddie Allen
NNPA Washington Correspondent
After openly weeping and apologizing for his behavior, former U.S. Rep. Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. was sentenced to 2 ½ years in federal prison on Wednesday for using $750,000 in campaign funds for personal use.
"Your honor, throughout this process I've asked the government and the court to hold me and only me accountable for my actions," Jackson told U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson. He said, "I am the example for the whole Congress. I understand that. I didn't separate my personal life from my political activities, and I couldn't have been more wrong."
He also said, "I misled the American people, I misled the House of Representatives." Dabbing his eyes with tissues, he said, "I was wrong and I do not fault anyone."
As the younger Jackson delivered his statement, his father, Jesse Jackson, Sr., sat in the first row listening as tears ran down his cheeks and his mother, Jacqueline, donned sunglasses for much of the proceedings.
Jackson's wife, Sandra, a former Chicago alderwoman, was sentenced to a year in prison and will have to serve all 12 months. She must also repay $22,000 taken from her own campaign account for alderwoman. Family members wept when she was sentenced.
Based on time off for good behavior, Jackson, Jr. could be released after completing 25.5 months. In addition, Jackson, Jr. must perform 500 hours of community service.
Because the couple has two children, aged 13 and 9, they will serve time consecutively, with the husband entering prison first. Prosecutors had asked that Jackson Jr. be sentenced to four years in prison and his wife 18 months.
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said that Jackson treated campaign funds as "a personal piggy bank."
The judge acknowledged that in the past lawmakers , were more loose with the use of campaign funds, but Jackson's actions far exceeded even those limits.
"There may be blurred lines for Congress to follow when their lives are political, this case did not come near those areas," she told Jackson, Jr., who represented Chicago's South Side for 17 years, "This was a knowing, organized joint misconduct that was repeated over many years."
Jackson, Jr., once a rising political star and the oldest son of civil rights leader Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., pleaded guilty to conspiracy, making false statements, mail fraud and wire fraud. His wife Sandra was charged with filing false tax returns.
According to the federal information filed in federal court, Jackson knowingly misspent campaign funds from about August 2005 through July 2012. It said Jackson and his wife conspired to "enrich themselves by engaging in a conspiracy and a scheme to defraud in which they used funds donated to the Campaign for their own personal benefit."
Prosecutors said among the unauthorized spending was a $43,350 gold-plated Rolex watch for Jackson, Jr., more than $22,000 in Michael Jackson memorabilia, $11,130 for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. memorabilia, $10,105 for Bruce Lee memorabilia, $9,587.64 worth of children's furniture shipped from New Jersey to the couple's Washington home, a $5,000 football signed by American presidents, $2,775 on Jimi Hendrix memorabilia, $2,200 for Malcolm X memorabilia, a $1,500 black and red cashmere cape, and a $1,200 mink reversible parka.
Reid Weingarten, Jackson Jr.'s attorney, sought to minimize his client's action, saying Jackson did not victimize helpless widows or operate a Ponzi scheme.
However, Matt Graves, an assistant U.S. attorney, called Jackson's crimes "staggering." He noted that the couple had earned nearly $350,000 in 2011.
Graves spoke of Jackson being "wasted talent" who had participated in one of the largest violations of federal campaign laws. Graves even belittled Jackson's bipolar disorder, saying there was no medical evidence presented in court to support that claim.
The judge agreed, noting that there was evidence to show that the purchases were made during a bipolar episode and that none of the extravagant items were returned. The judge called evidence provided to support the defense's bipolar disorder claim "thin."
Reading from a prepared statement, Sandi Jackson cried and said. "My heart breaks every day with the pain this has caused my babies."
But the judge reminded her, "It's not the government that put your children in this position."
She recommended assigning the former congressman to a minimum-security federal prison camp in Montgomery, Ala., or a low-security facility near Raleigh, N.C. She recommended that Sandra Jackson be sent to a similar facility in Florida. However, the Bureau of Prisons will make the final decision.
"The judge rendered a sentence that we're satisfied was fair," said Weingarten after learning Jackson's fate. "The system worked well."
Weingarten continued: "We fully believe that our client, Jesse Jackson, Jr. is going to have another important chapter in his life. He will come back out, and we believe, that he will do great things."
Jackson, Jr. said he hoped his wife can earn enough money to support the family while he is prison.
""When I get back, I'll take on that burden," he said. "By then, I hope my children will be old enough that the pain I caused will be easier to bear."
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Unions, representing their employees, negotiate with the employer for the benefit of the employees. When big business refuses to negotiate, the employees go on strike to get the employer back to the negotiating table.
In government, the Republicans (union for a minority of U.S. citizens) are trying to negotiate a contract (budget) with the Democrats (big business) but the Democrats refuse to negotiate and the president would rather dictate than negotiate. Thus, the result is a strike (government shutdown).
The majority want a balanced budget and a plan to pay down the debt. Why won't the Democrats and the president negotiate such plan? The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) benefits those who do not have insurance at the expense of all others. But this is not the main issue in balancing the budget. Congress has had five years to produce a full year's budget and has yet to do so.
Just as unions are not solely to blame for a strike, neither the Republicans nor the Democrats are solely to blame for the government shutdown. In fact, they are all to blame equally with President Obama.
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A 28-year-old prison inmate who says he just now realized he was circumcised is suing the hospital that performed the procedure over all the good sex he says he never got to have.
A 28-year-old prison inmate in South Dakota who managed only recently to realize he was circumcised wants his foreskin back.
Convicted kidnapper Dean Cochrun is suing the hospital that circumcised him, blaming the age-old procedure — and not, say, his being in prison — for his lackluster sex life, The Associated Press reported.
"I was recently made aware of the fact that I had been [circumcised] and that... I was robbed of sensitivity during sexual intercourse as well as the sense of security and well-being I am entitled to in my person," he said in the suit.
He claims in the suit he filed Friday that 28 years ago, a doctor at then-named Sanford Hospital, where he was born, misled his mother into thinking the circumcision was medically necessary.
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Here's the latest rate reduction news for my electric utility: http://www.accessnorthga.com/detail.php?n=254865
At home, at work or on the road, energy writer Thomas Content keeps you current as you adapt to changes in the world of energy, climate change and efforts to build a greener economy.
Madison utility's profit up 12% on rate hike, heat wave
Hot summer weather and an electric rate hike helped boost sales and net income in the third quarter for the parent company of Madison utility Madison Gas & Electric Co.
MGE Energy Inc. said Tuesday it posted earnings of $23.6 million, or $1.02 a share, compared with $21 million, or 91 cents a share, in the same period last year.
During the quarter, residential electricity use rose 5.1%, mainly because of heavy air conditioning use in July. The average temperature in July was 79.7 degrees, which was nearly 3 degrees higher than July 2011 and nearly 8 degrees above normal. Electricity use by business and industrial customers fell in the quarter.
Utility revenues rose 3.4% to $118 million, aided by a 5.6% rate hike that went into effect in January.
MG&E is seeking a 5.8% rate hike for 2013 that state regulators are expected to decide in the coming weeks. Any increase could be offset somewhat by lower fuel costs the utility is experiencing for fuel burned in its power plants.
Through Sept. 30, MG&E said it has collected an extra $5.9 million from customers in fuel costs that will be returned to customers at some point.
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Why was a rate hike approved in the first place with natural gas rates having plummeted? I live in north GA and enjoy pretty stable rates, in fact, going down again for the second time during 2012 because more revenue from high demand during the summer has increased the income significantly. Our electric utility is, through its lower rates, giving users a break instead of taking higher margins. The biggest difference here is that most of our electric utilities are cooperatives with income above expenses going to members (users) through future rate reductions. That's a nice arrangement for members.
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Generally it's because you don't know how the law around utility rates works in Wisconsin. The law in Wisconsin has a fuel clause that has an annual true-up for amounts outside a band. Your utility gets to change rates much easier both up and down. If natural gas prices go up, your electric rates will rise more quickly than those rates for public utilities in Wisconsin will. If natural gas prices go down like they are now, your electric rates will fall more quickly than those rates for public utilities in Wisconsin will.
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Bills quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick pooh-poohed any suggestion injury has been a reason for his poor production in recent weeks. Fitzpatrick took a hard shot to the ribs in the game against Washington on Oct. 30. He was on the injury report the next game, against the Jets, for a "chest" injury. He has not been on the injury report any week since or missed any practice time.
Asked how long the hit by Washington's London Flether affected him, Fitzpatrick said: "However long I showed up on the injury report. I'm good to go now, though."
Asked if he broke a rib at any point, Fitzpatrick said no.
Fitzpatrick has not been wearing any extra padding in the locker room or at practice since after the Jets game, and he has not appeared to be wearing any extra protection in games, either. Furthermore, his passes haven't shown any particular lack of zip; lack of good decision-making, at times, but not lack of zip.
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Route 22A crash update: One dead, 32 injured in bus / truck crashFebruary 22,2014Brent Curtis / Staff Photo
One man was killed in a crash on Route 22A in West Haven Friday night.WEST HAVEN - A New Jersey bus driver died after a collision with tractor-trailer on Route 22A and 32 bus passengers were sent to hospitals for treatment, according to the Vermont State Police.
Bus driver Darnell Hannah, 59, from Millstone N.J., died as a result of his injuries, police said.
Police said the crash happened on Route 22A in West Haven near the bottom of Long Hill around 8 p.m.
Police said the tractor-trailer unit attached to the truck driven by Haroon Kalid, 34, from Scotrun, Pa,, jackknifed and stopped on Route 22A while the commercial bus, which was transporting 32 people, was traveling north. The bus crested the hill, lost control and ultimately struck the trailer unit after hitting the guard rails.
Hannah was pinned within the bus and critically injured, according to police.
Two passengers sustained moderate injuries and the remaining passengers all sustained minor injuries. Eight patients were taken to Porter Hospital in
Middlebury and 24 patients, including Kalid were taken to Rutland Regional Medical Center.
No information was available on Saturday morning about the extent of Kalid's injuries or his condition.
The road was closed for several hours, and was traffic rerouted, while patients were transported to local hospitals and emergency personnel cleared the vehicles from the scene.
Traffic was rerouted at Route 73 in Orwell, to the north, and to Route 4 in Fair Haven, to the south of the crash.
The Vermont State Police treated this as a mass casualty incident, receiving assistance from West Haven Fire Department, Fair Haven Fire and Rescue, Poultney Fire and Rescue, Rutland Regional Ambulance, Orwell Fire and First Response, Benson First Response, Granville Rescue, Wallingford Rescue, Fair Haven Police Department, Castleton Police Department, the Department of Motor Vehicles, the Vermont Division of Emergency Management and Homeland Security and the Vermont State Police Crash Reconstruction Team.
The roads were ice-covered at the time of the crash. Police believe the road conditions were a contributing factor.
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By Sarah Hogsed
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After a suppression hearing Friday morning, a Madison Circuit judge ruled that two Berea police officers acted within the bounds of law when they approached two men who had reportedly spilled pills on the ground outside Walmart.
On Sept. 13, 2012, James Young, 36, and Donnie Marcum, 54, were found to be in possession of methamphetamine along with several items used in to make the illegal drug, according to a Berea police report.
Marcum later was indicted by a Madison County grand jury on charges of manufacturing methamphetamine, first-degree possession of a controlled substance and first-degree persistent felony offender, which means he had previously been convicted of a felony.
The PFO enhances the manufacturing methamphetamine charge, which normally carries a sentence of 10 to 20 years in prison. If convicted, Marcum faces 20 to 50 years or life in prison.
Young could serve up to 20 years in prison if he is found guilty because he does not have a prior felony conviction.
At issue during the hearing, brought about by a motion from Marcum's attorney Tim Despotes, was whether the two Berea police officers had probable cause to approach Marcum and Young's vehicle and ask for their ID. If Judge William G. Clouse had ruled they did not have a legal basis to approach the truck, then evidence they found afterward would not be admissible.
"Is spilling pills a crime?" Despotes asked the hearing's sole witness, BPD Detective Daniel McGuire.
Despotes said items the anonymous caller saw spill onto the ground could easily have been Tic Tac mints or Flintstone vitamins.
"Being clumsy is not a crime," Despotes said.
McGuire testified that an anonymous caller had phoned BPD Capt. Ken Clark and said two men were seen in the Berea Walmart parking lot who had dropped pills on the ground. Clark then contacted dispatch, and McGuire and another officer were sent to investigate.
The officers were able to find a vehicle that matched the description and license plate provided by the caller. The truck was unoccupied, so the officers waited for the men to return.
McGuire said the call about the pills led him to believe the driver could be intoxicated, so he and the officer approached the men when they returned to the truck.
"(McGuire) can't do his job as a police officer and let people get in vehicles possibly impaired," Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Tom Smith said.
McGuire said the men were noticeably observant of their surroundings and had their "heads on a swivel," which also made him suspicious.
The men gave police permission to search them and their vehicles. McGuire also said he noticed that Young was so nervous he was shaking when he handed the officer his driver's license.
The officers found plastic bags with white residue on Young, which later was determined to be meth. Marcum had a vial with bags of meth inside, according to the BPD report.
Inside the car, the officers reported finding a stripped lithium battery and two boxes of Sudafed, items commonly used in the manufacture of methamphetamine.
Clouse said one of the standards he must use to form his judgement was whether the officer's testimony seemed "genuine and believable."
He said McGuire's testimony did meet that standard.
Based on the totality of factors – the anonymous call, the description of the vehicle and license plate, and the unusually observant and nervous behavior of the men – the officers did have probable cause to approach Young and Marcum, the judge ruled.
The officers had "every right" to walk up to the parked truck and ask for ID, Clouse said.
Marcum and Young are set to stand trial Nov. 4. Neither defendant was present for the suppression hearing.
Sarah Hogsed can be reached at email@example.com or 624-6694.


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The man had a wound to the stomach that was not life threatening. He was taken to the hospital, but would not cooperate with police. His name has not been released.
"I heard two shots go off and sounded like clearly, shot of a Glock 9," said neighborhood resident Kody Kaiser. "Normally this neighborhood is pretty quiet, this ain't regular down here, kind of scary."
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Weekend Read: What Microsoft Screwed Up in WP8; And What Needs to be Fixed
The guys over at WPSauce.com have published a pretty interesting article about the honest shortcomings of WP8; and what features/things need to be added/fixed for it to be taken seriously; and honestly I agree with every item on that list (plus a few of my own). Here're a couple of points they made; but be sure to check out the full list over HERE:
Lack of Notification Center: I remember during Mango release, I was constantly on twitter chatting with MS devs and asking them for a notification center and they gave the standard reply that you will still get if you ask the Redmond folks "Live tile IS the notification center – you get all the updates and information / notification on your homescreen". Fair enough but am I supposed to sit blankly at the screen every second of the day or wait 30 minutes for a tile to be updated or better yet wait for a push notification to come and decide to pick between a sip of coffee or clicking on the notification before it goes to a never to be discovered black hole? The answer is simple: Get us a notification center immediately. This is 2013 and the supposed no.3 mobile ecosystem doesn't have a notification center boggles me and there are reports suggesting that Microsoft is working on one so hopefully we'll see it soon. What is intriguing to me is how Microsoft will bring notification center into the UX. Right now, w/o the notification center – just like wp7 – I am not paying for push notification applications and my WhatsApp and Facebook application is sorta useless when I get a lot of notifications so it's kinda pointless at this moment. What about apps on pinned on screen? What about notifications for those apps? Yeah, no two thoughts on need of Notification Center hopefully.
Me Tile: Me Tile was probably last updated when Windows 95 was released. Not really but I don't even understand why there's this amazing utility is sitting on my homescreen that I use all the time isn't being updated to it's full potential. I am a heavy twitter user and there's no auto "Reply to all" for tweets (this should be by default btw and would be done in matter of minutes but who cares, right?) which means I have to go to a twitter client and do it. This destroys the purpose of the Me tile twitter integration mechanism. Another thing that I would love is auto complete and of course, a favorite button on the application which is probably the least time consuming task and if you think it doesn't matter – then let me tell you, it's the small things that matter and this statement will become even more important when Google and Apple release their new OS this year. There's no escape but to make both large level and small level changes. Second problem with Me tile is the lack of friend tagging during check in. So basic but not implemented. I have to open the Facebook app for it which is great but then again – half baked and mostly useless. I know Me tile is for glancing at notifications but it should do more than just that. It has incredible potential, it's fast and I would love to see MS upgrade it in next version.
The upgrade:- So I upgraded from Windows Phone 7 to Windows Phone 8 last week and the upgrade was pretty good as expected but there was one critical problem : my installed apps. Just like every other OS all your app purchases and installed apps are linked to your account so when you switch devices you can fetch your applications and use on your new device – as simple as that. Windows Phone does that too but with a little twist that made me give up using this feature. WP8 doesn't allow you (still) to download and install all the applications at once so instead you have to go to every single one of them and click on the download button on the website. Extremely frustrating and I didn't bother with it after some time. This needs to be fixed.
The elusive search button: Okay, this is where my fellow rabid MS and WP fanboys are going to rip me apart but let me be honest about it. Bing sucks. It's decent for media queries but it's just bad when compared to Google results. Microsoft should offer a choice to bind search key to a search engine of user's choice. I know it's a bad Bing business decision but I am confident it will be a great decision from consumer point of view and consequently for WP. Search button could be a bit more useful, it's a big darn button on your phone, right? I know some of you have been asking for it since ages but a lot of people apparently like Bing so giving users an option shouldn't be a bad thing. Search button can also be used for universal search (long press search button for universal search?) which is another BIG feature missing from Windows Phone 8.
You can check out the full article here:
But while we're on the subject here are a couple more of items that I think Microsoft dropped the ball on:
1- Voice dictation, where is it? Ever other OS (including the newly launched BB10) has it; why don't we? Android has gone a step further and given us offline dictation; while all we have is the the option to dictate text messages (which BTW cuts off halfway through every sentence).
2- A proper music player- one of the idiotic changes in WP8 from WP7 is the music player for some reason now it decides NOT to remember your player preference (mainly to shuffle playlists); meaning every-time I have to select shuffle when i start a new playlist, it's 2013; why isn't there a :set as default"
4- A true voice assistant- let's face it, Microsoft tell me is a JOKE; it's nothing in the league of Siri; and I blame MSFT. Why not buy Ask ziggy and implement into the system like any normal person would.
3-A new Killer feature- It hurts me to say this but WP no longer has a killer feature, Android has Google Now, amongst some other cool OEM customization Apple has Apps and reliability. WP had the "the people hub" as an awesome feature; but it's no longer unique, BB have done the same except made it look a million times nicer (and more functional). Instead of adding something killer in WP8 it seems the engineers spent their time fine tuning some stuff no-one has ever used (and probably won't)- rather than finding a way to make it cool again,
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Let me add another one is to fast forward a movie using a bar instead of holding the next button….
Are you serious about people hub beeing unique? It might be ok for those who only use facebook, twitter and wlm, but for everything else the N9 and even the N900 is the better choice. MS should allow to add any social network / messenger of my choice and not only those 3. Same about search engines
A nice addition to N9 would have been to have the feed behind a contact as well. Ie having emails, tweets etc filtered behind a person a bit like in the feed view.
That's an idea worth communicating to the Sailfish(Jolla) community.
I could have a check eg, if the TMO question/idea list has it.
Im quite sure that this was planned to be in Meltemi. If they had the target to have most data in one database, this would have been relatively easy to accomplish.
"I could have a check e.g, if the TMO question/idea list has it."
Yes please do that! Here:
BB10 has that , just saying ..
si por fin lo sabia bing es una mierda
if you knew End Bing sucks
they've been busy putting wp on the nt kernel. that's why they didn't add anything and the os was released so late. they slaved on it till the last possible minute, changing things under the hood.things need to change now. and i hope nokia makes some damn changes to the os like they said they have the right to. i don't mean ui changes, but add features and shit. they own nearly 80% of the wp pie. they should act like it and start making changes based on their own needs
wp central has an article on this too
Lets see what Microsoft does next. Will the next update be a incremental one? Or new features will be introduced? I hope all will be revealed on mwc.
At the risk of repeating myself , MS and Nokia simply don`t have the luxury of time . One dangerous competitor has already been released ( BB10 ) and others r coming …
search button as it works now is a joke and also I agree with every word you wrote.
It was actually kind of decent in 7.0, but someone high up at MS meddled to make it all Bing. Now if MS could integrate Bing as the branded desktop search in Windows 8, then they could actually keep it Bing branded and have a useful universal search.
@Aliqudsi: I hope you are joking? Don't you know that resizable tiles are the killer feature WP8? Don't you remember Joe Belfiore talking an entire hour about that amazing feature during the launch of Lumia WP8? :/
But you are right and even MS knows it. But the thing is, I really don't feel/believe that MS is trying to push the boundaries of WP8 with killer features. Like Joe Belfiore said; MS is trying to tick all the boxes. Boxes which where created by other OSs.
BTW; Nokia is actually the one who is doing killer features for WP8 at the moment…
yeah maps
So true. And that's why I'm starting to grow increasingly impatient for the MS contract to end. WTF MS, no FM radio, no HDMI, USB OTG, 1080p, sleeping screen, gesture unlock? Then I must be downright dreaming about an FM transmitter right?
I'll tell you what. Place a notification centre (with at least N9-like functionality), make that search button trigger multitasking view and change its logo, put an RGB led under the Windows logo so that it glows in the system theme, allow at least a custom camera UI, implement said HW + SW features and give Nokia at least some more credit when it comes to your piss-poor market performance.
Or let Nokia fork the source code and build their own WP OS. Maybe they do know how to build a better one, after all.
Oh and while you're at it, give manufacturers the possibility to use on-screen buttons. And I wanted to write, 'place a notification centre left of the live tiles and allow loop scrolling'.
No, they shouldn't let Nokia fork the source and build their own WP OS – we have been told time and again that Nokia is completely incompetent when writing software, especially on the system level, which is why they had to throw away most of their software and embrace Microsoft's solution.
Are you saying that such notions were pure FADs?
To be honest, I actually believe Nokia's engineers were and still are pretty clever. They have always had more or less far-reaching views as far as technology is concerned. Look at the innovations that have been brewing in the R&D labs for years such as Series 90 in 2003, Maemo in 2005, PureView, the flexible display phone, graphene and sh*t loads of standard-essential patents.
What the problem was is the management system, which got increasingly bloated and arrogant and as such prevented meaningful communication between teams. Had there been concerted, unhindered efforts in 2005 or even 2007, as I've said before, we would today be rightfully enjoying our Harmattan-powered smartphones with 41 MP PureView, Nokia Maps, Sleeping Screen etc etc* and a more adaptable OS (which BTW was easier to port Android and iOS games to, OpenGL vs DirectX).
* AND that damned white notification LED, I just love how you almost can't tell where it is when off
OMG I agree with you :D, But things were geting way better in nokia, and then Elop nuked everything, and transferred its future to a company that surfers from the same problems that nokia did, but worse is no were as pressed as Nokia was to solve them.
In Microsoft they also believe they can do no wrong, in MS they also have a management system, which got increasingly bloated and arrogant. "windows 8 does not sell because manufactures suck".
I will grant that for that last 2 quarters it as become to late for nokia to do anything else than hope for the best and some miracle, but I don't think that will append.
Nokia might survive as a dumb phone manufacturer and grow from there in the future, but I believe the WP experiment is one of the worse examples of management incompetence ever.
Letting Nokia fork it would be the worst idea of all. Other than that, I half agree with you.
A Notification Centre like on the N9 would be just fine. I always thought WP8 would have had more of an Nokia influence.
I feel sorry for WP users my N9 has none of these problems it is simply perfect .
BB10 is amazing and definitely superior to this crap platform (WP). nokia is dead again by their own ideas. how fu*cked up is that?.
you all still believe in Elop and his bulls*hit ?
He should go now ! and apologize to all users for the shi*t he did.
I get too angry when i think what the N9 could have been if this fu**cker had not murdered meego
Everybody agrees N9 is great, but it ain't an ecosystem dude! You understand the difference right? One single great phone is not enough to compete, really.
" But It Is not an ecosystem , dude! " .
I make you a question why is not an ecosystem ?
why do not you ask to Elop ?
he prevented the creation of an ecosystem around MeeGo .
the N9 would not be the only phone that would be sold , also the N950 , and a tablet . everything was ready for the N9 was a great success. dalvik ( ACL ) is a great example Calligra and more applications that were locked in a state of development , thanks to Elop and his announcement of murdering MeeGo
i think this ecosystem stuf is all BS any way, far more important is how compatible is it with other systems, how much will work will it be for team under app Z to port it to platform a b and c. Will it require a complete rewrite or are segments of my application portable.
The n9 was for more compatible will the rest of the landscape than what WP is.
And I can say that developers will feel more attracted to MeeGo; Microsoft on the other hand scares away the developers.
Nokia had a large community of developers behind MeeGo, ( maemo.org ) and what nokia did? spit in their faces.
I 'm surprised that even with the crap that Nokia has made to this community , they continue developing applications for the N9 , excellent applications.
Wazapp is better than the official app for Windows Phone , even better than the android and iOS
Soundwave is great!
CuteTube is amazing !
Emumaster is the best emulator ever created for any platform .
Qtweak , is like a thousand applications in one
Filecase , a file manager with all services cloud storage in one.
HomeScreenSetting , another Swiss army knife .
Rocket , Fmobi .
and I can go on, there are many quality applications . that's the power of community .
that's the power that nokia let go .
that power is that android has , and that 's why android is the best selling system these days.
Yup , there were , according to an MNB article last year by Michael Faro-Tusino , that at the time of Meego`s canning , there were 5 successor Meego phones schelduled for late 2011/ early 2012 release !
How dare you complain about those minor omissions (if you can call them even omissions, who in the world needs those?) when they dedicated their time to bring you such hugely important and dealbreaking features like the Kid's Corner, Wallet and My Family?
Microsoft obviously have their priorities set in order which is why their system is a stellar success. Imagine they actually listened to the public and provided what a bunch of John-don't-know-anything-Does deemed important? Oh, the horror, they might actually end up with an epic failure of system, you know, like Android…
Now your argument is that people shouldn't differentiate? Hypocrite.
Where did I say that? There is differentiation, and then there is differentiation for the sake of differentiation – and Microsoft has been doing too much of the latter. I mean, Microsoft can start producing bikes, that would differentiate them quite a bit from all other mobile OS developers, but wouldn't help them with their mobile OS whatsoever.
There are things we came to expect from a mobile OS that are just missing from Microsoft's offer and those things are, whether you like it or not, deemed very important by the market. If you don't believe me, please enlighten me – why is Microsoft utterly unsuccessful with their endeavor in the mobile arena? Why did they have far more success when they actually followed some of the industry's standards before they performed a salto mortale with their idea of differentiation – iOS-like business model with Android-like device spread / manufacturer support and glaring feature omissions with extremely polarizing Fisher Price-like UI – something nobody was asking for in the first place?
Again, differentiation for the sake of differentiation obviously doesn't work. But I'm not worried about Microsoft, what gets on my tits is the fact they'll drag Nokia under the ice in the process. Much to the delight of the likes such as yourself.
This article is sums up M$'s approach to the mobile market since forever.
They have always been late to market or come up with half-baked operating systems. It seemed Nokia might have some say in WP but as things are panning out we can see M$ do everything with Nokia's input severely restricted.
Nokia's own OSes had middle-management issues but those engineers in there had talent to get good work going. As CEO Elop's responsibility is to safeguard Nokia's interests and while he cut of fat he has gone too far into the bone.
A core team of the best Espoo has to offer would fix WP into shape well but sadly most of those capable to do so left.
M$ were aiming for an iOS-esque model for OS and now they are stuck with something that has many issues and lacks a number of things. Did anybody realize once they try to add features like in WP8, they open themselves up to more performance losses as Jay's post yesterday shows.
All in all the WP strategy has been quite a mess and is pretty close to being a failure from the commercial point of view for Nokia (if it isn't already so).
It is a failure from a commercial, product bland HR sense (Nokia's best and most ambitious employees leave to places where they control the OS, leaving Nokia as a hollowed out shell. Which I guess is all Elop thinks Nokia can be…another OEM.
Yup have to agree , WP8 has major issues that must be fixed NOW , if they expect to compete …
pathetic , with u !
Major? No. Room for improvement. Yes.
"Major? No. Room for improvement. Yes"
Why doesn't the same sensible logic for the Meego OS?
Yesa major , at least for me , but then , I`m all about the functionality to get stuff done …
Even if you ask me, all I gat to say is WP with tiles is a pure joke
Nobody did.
For podcasts the default player suggests using the store, and atleast I can't find any podcasts there. This kind of shit is exactly what makes people angry; it is ALMOST good, but not well enough implemented to not piss users off.
Ali', it's obvious WP isn't for you. The "killer features" IS the fact that you don't need to piss-fart around for hours making irrelevant and unnecessary changes to the phones UI.
In terms of features, are you kidding us ?
1. A flawless Mail client out of the box
2. Office Hub (Lync, Onenote, and Sharepoint are invaluable features for some)
3. Turn-by-turn-voice guided OFFLINE NAVIGATION
4. kid's Corner
5. A smooth user interface that doesn't lag
6. Proper ecosystem integration between your PC, Tablet and Phone (granted it still has a long way to go)
7. One of the best web browsing experiences currently available on any smartphone
8. People Hub (which you rightly pointed out)
9. "Point, Shoot, Share"
10. Rooms and Groups
These are 10 features I've rattled off the top of my head.
WP8 isn't perfect, not by a long shot, but having experienced the other ecosystems it is definitely not as bad as it's made out to be.
1 are you saying others don't have that? BB10 has that way better.
2 for some is correct
3 correct but hardly Microsoft credit and soon not exclusively.
4 Bb10 has that but in a true useful way.
5 so does everybody else on recent enough hardware
7 if not mistaken it has one of the worst scores in html5….btw Bb10 has the best and still has flash.
8 9 10. Depends if you like that sort of implementation but most platforms have something like that.
Must agree !
4. kid's Corner
Really, has anyone EVER used this? Even parents?
It's very funny, when you wrote about "Proper ecosystem integration between your PC, Tablet and Phone ". When I use my android or symbian phone I can connect directly to my computer or my NAS server. It's impossible in WP. I'm talking about NAS with smb, computers with WinXP and Win7. WP is example of the worst implementation of the ecosystem integration I ever seen (ios is also piece of shit, but most apps integrates with dropbox)
These are not show stoppers, and only minor quibbles in my opinion. If this is the worst of it then not bad really.
And there is nothing wrong with Bing search (l get that it is cool/hip to use Google only).
I agree with the WP Store part in regards to compatibility between WP7 and 8, but I think either a proper filter or a note at the side indicating WP7 or 8 compatibility should be enough. Not to mention the responsibility of the developers to code the WP7 apps to work on WP8 and vice versa.
Also agree with the wider availability of features like XBox Live, Music, etc. worldwide and the multitasking part. VPN is understandable, though China is starting to crack down on it recently so for those who are living or working there will be in for a headache if they're trying to access Facebook, Twitter or other sites barred by the Great Firewall.
The rest just come across as nitpicking or not really a deal breaker to me, especially FM Radio, lockscreen, etc.
Aside from that, I really hope that Nokia Drive for both WP7 and 8 allows you to backup your favourites in the cloud when signed in to your Nokia account. Wonder why this wasn't implemented until now, but I digress as this is Nokia's issue, not Microsoft.
Question: "Weekend Read: What Microsoft Screwed Up in WP8; And What Needs to be Fixed"
Answer : Nokia
You, sir, won the internet today.
Windows Phone OS is a true piece of trash!
Microsoft rebuilt the whole underpinning of the OS. It was all part of the plan. First build a new user experience over the same underpinnings as Windows Mobile 6.5 (because otherwise they'd be totally dead in the market). Then keep the user experience and migrate the underpinnings to something not braindead. Otherwise, WindowsPhone would have launched in mid-2012, not early 2010.
There wasn't enough time to improve the userland this time. This means that WP8 is stuck in 2010.
I've got the Lumia 920. I've got tons of music video that have been sync over to phone. The flagship phone doesn't have a video playlist resulting in me having to select videos to play manually. Unlike in music playlist, the video doesn't play under lock screen so I can't hear the audio from the music video. Current YouTube download apps that's available in market place cant download videos into the native wp8 video hub & sync to PC.
Unlike wp7, there is no dlna app to share content with my smart tv. Although Nokia said the app is coming, it should have been there from day one….
So much for the integration hype…
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The Mankato Free Press
---- — Arts Center of St. Peter — "Departures," new works by Cameron A. Jarvis and Betsy Ruth Byers through Sept. 8 at 315 S. Minnesota Ave., St. Peter. Reception 2-4 p.m. Sept. 7. Hours: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 1-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Blue Earth County Library, Mankato — Boy Scouts and Girls Scouts memorabilia displayed this month at 100 E. Main St. Exhibit may be viewed during library hours: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
Blue Earth County Historical Society's Heritage Center — Paintings by Craig Groe through September at 415 Cherry St., Mankato. Hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.
Centennial Student Union Gallery — Works by Dave Bassey Monday through Sept. 11 at Minnesota State University, lower level of CSU. Reception Sept. 9. Hours: Open during student union hours.
Conkling Gallery — Paintings by MSU faculty member Brian Frink Monday through Sept. 11 at MSU in 139 Nelson Hall. Reception Sept. 9. Hours: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Brown County Historical Society Museum — Wanda Gag 120th Birthday Exhibit through November at 2 N. Broadway, New Ulm. Hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
Emy Frentz Gallery — Leigh Johnson's "Patterns and Rhythms in Nature" through Sept. 18 at 523 S. Second St. Reception 5-8 p.m. today. Hours: Noon to 4 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday and 4-8 p.m. Thursday.
North Mankato Taylor Library — Mankato artist Margie Larson's plein air paintings through Aug. 30 at 1001 Belgrade Ave. Exhibit may be viewed during library hours: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
The 410 Project — "Pride of the Family" illustrations by James Hohenstein through Sunday at 523 S. Front St. Hours 2-6 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and 1-4 p.m. Sunday.
Waseca Art Center — Furniture and wood designs by Mark Buley through Aug. 31 and paintings by Judith Forster Monson through Sept. 7 at 200 State Street North. Hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.


text: Beulah M. Johnson Grimm, 91, passed away peacefully at her home March 29, 2013 in Cary. Mrs. Grimm had been a resident of Cary since 1995. She was a member of Genesis United Methodist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, Claude L. Grimm, her sister Bernice Baker, of Middleport, OH, and her two brothers, Lester Johnson of Parkersburg, WV, and Lynford Johnson of Winter Haven, FL. Mrs. Grimm is survived by her six children, Michael P. (Georgina) Grimm and Joseph L. (Valerie) Grimm of Naples, FL, Steven J. Grimm of Jonesboro, GA, Jeffrey B. (Elizabeth) Grimm of Asheville, NC, Mary Ann (Roger) Windon and Scott B. (Ellen) Grimm of Cary, NC, fourteen grandchildren, twenty-one great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren. A memorial service will be held at Genesis United Methodist Church in Cary on Saturday, April 6, 2013 at 2:00 PM. Internment will be in Evergreen Cemetery in Letart, WV. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to Genesis United Methodist Church Children's Ministries or to Hospice of Wake County.


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GENEVA — Nervous about a nearby Ashtabula County sheriff's deputy, a 24-year-old Geneva woman walked up to a Circle K clerk and handed her a hypodermic needle, Geneva police reports show.
The woman, who has yet to be charged in the incident, was shopping at the convenience store on Route 534 last week when she saw a deputy enter the store.
"As soon as she saw the deputy come into the store, (she) asked the clerk to dispose of a hypodermic needle," responding officer Geneva Police Sgt. Joseph Webb said.
The clerk refused to take the needle from the woman and then told the deputy about the possible drug abuse instrument, police reports show.
"The deputy asked (the suspect) about the needle, and first she denied it," Webb said. "She stated that she had 'gotten her act together' and didn't do drugs anymore."
During the impromptu questioning, the needle dropped from the suspect's jean shorts and fell to the ground, police reports show.
The deputy searched the woman's pockets and purse and didn't find any narcotics, Webb said.
"The deputy disposed of the needle and a family member came and picked (the suspect) up," he said.


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When lawmakers worked out a compromise on a bill to provide transparency to special taxing districts, they trumpeted it as an example of bipartisan cooperation.
But Sen. Damon Thayer, R-Georgetown, wanted to give local governments veto power over the districts' tax rates, and he plans to try again next year.
Reaction from county officials so far is less than enthusiastic, although muted.
Most supported the original bill as sponsored by House Speaker Greg Stumbo, D-Prestonsburg, and pushed by auditor Adam Edelen. It provided accountability but no additional role for local legislative bodies.
"Most local officials preferred the original version of House Bill 1," said LaRue County Judge-Executive Tommy Turner. "The amended version actually somewhat clouds transparency."
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County officials say the new Linn County Juvenile Courthouse in Cedar Rapids will have to be elevated four feet to protect it from flooding.
The building will be built on a site about four blocks from the Cedar River.
The county's construction services manager, Garth Fagerbakke, said Monday that about four feet of fill will be needed to lift the building to an acceptable elevation.
Surveyors found in the last few weeks that flooding at the site reached a little higher than officials previously thought, increasing how much fill is needed.
Fagerbakke wants the building to be a foot above the 2008 flood level, about four feet higher than the current site.
The building will be 23,000 square feet.


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By Rita Hart
Special to the Herald
Bills are starting to move more quickly through subcommittees now as the Senate and House face upcoming deadlines in passing legislation through the committee process.
In the Education committee, we passed a bill that will expand worker-training programs and provide funding for adult basic education.
We talk a lot about how we sometimes need to give our fellow citizens a hand up instead of a handout.
This legislation does just that; it helps low-skill adult workers obtain postsecondary credentials and skills required for employment. I am hopeful that we can get this bill passed into law this session.
It is one of the most important things we can do right now to help the Iowa economy grow.
Also in the Education committee, I have been working with my colleagues to study the governor's reform package and a bill that the House has passed in order to develop legislation that will help schools increase student achievement. This is a big job, as we try to find a consensus on the many aspects of improving education.
A large group of Clinton County and Scott County health professionals arrived at the Statehouse on Feb. 27 to advocate for the expansion of affordable health care to more Iowans.
This has been a topic of much concern recently, as the governor says he is unwilling to expand Medicaid. I enjoyed seeing so many familiar faces and am impressed by their dedication to their profession and the health of the people they serve. Thanks to them for coming, asking important questions and making clear why they believe that expanding Medicare is the right thing to do.
Thank you to all who e-mail and call. Your input is important to me as I continue to learn every day about the issues that are of concern to you.
Contact me at email@example.com or at (563) 210-1252. Also, please consider subscribing to my newsletter at www.senate.iowa.gov/senator/hart.
Upcoming public forums
• Saturday, March 9
9 a.m.
Clinton Legislative Coffee
At the Clinton Area Chamber of Commerce, 721 S. Second St.
• Saturday, March 9
11 a.m.
DeWitt Legislative Coffee
Sponsored by the DeWitt Development and DeWitt Chamber
At the DeWitt Community Center
• Friday, March 22
Iowa Legislative Lunch
Sponsored by the Quad City Chamber
At the Clarion Hotel and Conference Center, 5202 Brady Street, Davenport
• Saturday, March 23
10:30 a.m.
Scott County Legislative Forum
Sponsored by AAUW, BPW, Farm Bureau and Great River Uniserv Unit
At Mississippi Bend AEA, 729 21st St., Bettendorf
Sen. Rita Hart, represents Clinton County and northern Scott Count in the Iowa Senate.


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Dawn Burleigh
The Orange Leader
ORANGE — Fire hurts.
The Fire Hurts, Red Cross helps campaign is an effort to raise funds to assist the Red Cross in providing assistance to families affected by a fire.
National Fire Prevention week is October 7 - 13, 2012.
Volunteers from the Orange County Chapter of the American Red Cross will leave their homes in the middle of the night to help a family who has just lost their home in a fire.
"The furthest I have gone on a Fire Call is Newton," Disaster Action Team Captain Tina Wise said. "Usually the calls are within Orange County."
The Orange Chapter covers Angelina, Nacagdoches, San Augustine, Sabine, Newton counties as well as Orange County.
A reorganization of the American Red Cross means Executive Director Sharon Tyler is over the Texas Gulf Coast Region which includes the Beaumont and Orange Chapters and includes a total of nine counties.
The Orange office has one paid employee and relies on volunteers such as Tina Wise and her daughter, Kristin, to answer phones, go on fire calls, organize, or maintain vehicles.
Hurricane Isaac required the chapter to open two shelters at area churches to host the 400 Red Cross volunteers from around the world until they could be deployed to the disaster area to help the families in need.
"The churches were wonderful," Tina said.
The Red Cross is not just about helping in the time of disaster but also is showing support and caring within the community.
The organization is currently involved in the Texas Gulf Coast Region Military Support Project.
A team is collecting comfort items for troops stationed along the remote outposts in Afghanistan. The project ends Oct. 12, 2012 and is in need of many items as well as assistance in packaging the care packages for shipping.
The group is also preparing for Senior Cheer. Volunteers and students will give cards, cookies and a handmade stocking to residents of area nursing homes.
To volunteer with the American Red Cross go to redcross.org and enter ones zip code, fill out an application.


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Ottumwa Courier
---- — Thank you for your recent story on foster care.
I am a former foster child that was in the system for 20 years and in my experience, foster care has two sides. There is the side you portrayed, but the other side if not a bed of roses.
I lived in five different foster homes, and only one of them was good to me. Through the 20 years of foster care, I have had my nose broken and was abused.
I think the whole system needs some work done. I was taken away from my parents because of a genetic illness that does not allow me to gain weight.
In my opinion, the state should keep siblings together. I have five sisters and four brothers, and I only know one of them.
I was born as Junior Coram and would like my siblings back.
Jon Kuecker


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If you're the stereotypical "technical" or "business" founder of a startup, partnering with a designer co-founder can give you an important advantage and help you achieve early success. Let's talk about the characteristics of designer founders, scenarios where design is particularly important, and how to spot designer founders in the wild.
Characteristics of a great designer founder
Designers come from diverse backgrounds and contribute to startups as employees, freelancers, and consultants. A rare few — highly skilled, driven, and equipped for uncertainty — are fit to be founders.
The shape and definition of this rare person is still loose, but there are emerging examples where designer founders have built valuable companies around compelling and high-quality products: YouTube, Flickr, Slideshare, Etsy, Kickstarter, AirBnB, Typekit, and Path to name a few.
In lieu of a clear definition, I'd like to propose a few important characteristics and point to research and writing that make the case for each of these.
In A Software Design Manifesto, Mitch Kapor argues that the most important social evolution within computing professions would be to create a role for the software designer as a champion of user experience. He defines a designer as someone who stands with a foot firmly in two worlds — the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes — and brings the two together. Although over 15 years old, Kapor's argument holds strong to this day. Designers need engineering skills and technical understanding so they can continue to stand with feet in both worlds.
Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston includes 30 interviews with founders of companies ranging from Apple to PayPal. In her stories you see re-occurring traits across successful founders, for example: relentless determination, ability to overcome rejection, adaptability, craftsmanship, a passion to change the world (not just make money), and resourcefulness. Designer founders need to absorb the characteristics of great founders from other disciplines.
A third important characteristic in designer founders is innovative design thinking. The Innovator's DNA includes interviews with more than a hundred inventors of revolutionary products and services like Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Salesforce.com's Marc Benioff. Here we learn that innovators are much more likely to question, observe, network, and experiment compared to typical executives. "One's ability to generate innovative ideas is not merely a function of the mind, but also a function of behaviors." Designer founders must be experts in practicing innovative design thinking behaviors — not just pushing pixels.
Taken together, these behaviors — acting as a multi-disciplinary champion of the user experience, demonstrating characteristics of great founders from other disciplines, and practicing innovative design thinking behaviors — start to show us the shape and template for highly successful designer founders.
When a designer founder can be an especially important addition to your team
Designers can make important contributions to nearly every kind of product or team, but here are some situations when a designer founder can be an especially important addition to your team.
The first is the market you are entering. Serious structural changes in certain markets mean consumer expectations for product experience have risen. Music is a great example: devices evolved from Discman to iPod to iPhone; applications matured from Napster to iTunes to Spotify; and the technical barriers to publishing music have dropped dramatically. As a result, competition has increased — this means the user experience of a new music startup has to be significantly better to stand out in a crowded market. TJ Zark's work with 955 Dreams' History of Jazz and Band of the Day are great examples of high-quality apps that have created value by redefining mobile music experiences.
Also consider your team and leadership. Who can hold a strong point-of-view on product design and drive the team to prioritize design? To cite the Steve Jobs biography: "In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers." Steve consistently (ruthlessly at times) pushed Apple to simply. To realize his vision he worked closely with Jony Ive, who led the design studio that housed radical integration between designers, engineers, and the manufacturing team. Steve had the vision, but I bet Jony was a key unsung hero — driving the team and iterating through nitty-gritty details to actually make great products. Consider if you need someone like Jony Ive on your founding team.
Partnering with a designer founder also makes sense if you view design and user experience as core competencies of your company — they can help you attract the talent to realize that vision. Great designers attract other great designers, just as great engineers attract other great engineers. Designer founders also help create the environment where great designers can thrive. They know that many people on their team make design decisions regardless of title. Designer founders that model and teach others innovative design thinking behaviors will foster a long-term culture of design.
Finally, consider the situation where you can competently create products but you're not quite sure what to build — especially when you're pivoting, developing a new product, or expanding your user base beyond "people like you." A designer founder can help empathize with users, identify the right problems to solve, and target the use-cases that best address your goals for the company. Great designers do this in a number of ways, including observing and interviewing users (hopefully modeling this behavior for the whole company).
If you're wondering whether to work with a designer founder, here are some questions to ask:
- Is the bar high for design among your potential competitors?
- Are you having difficulty executing great product design?
- Do you need another leader capable of recruiting, managing a design team and fostering a culture of design?
- Is your company going through an uncertain phase of new product development?
If you answer yes to all of these questions, partnering with a designer founder might make sense.
Despite all the plusses, a designer founder will not magically solve all your problems! Many companies will succeed without designer founders and many will fail with them. There are plenty of outside factors that influence success — the composition of the founding team is just one of the variables.
How to spot potential designer founders in the wild
The successful designer founders we've seen are consistently multidisciplinary — they have the full range of skills necessary to make decisions about product design and work with a development team to execute on those decisions. Their skills range from user research, to interaction design, to information architecture, to communication design, to writing. They may not be experts in all areas, but they can "wear all the hats" in the early days of a startup and attract specialists when needed.
Designer founders also understand the technology commonly used to build software products and the business methods used to market and evaluate those products. As a designer, design skills are important — but as a founder, technology and business skills are critical to lead not only product design but an entire company.
Beyond skills, we can categorize designer founders by the type and extent of their experience. We've started interviewing designer founders for our book, and a few categories are becoming clear:
- Designer founders with "raw talent," like David Karp, Rob Kalin, Akshay Kothari, Joe Gebbia, and Kyle Bragger. These designer founders are young and accumulated limited design experience before launching their startups.
- "Successful startup offspring," like Jason Putorti, Michael Karnjanaprakorn, and Mike Krieger. These designers worked for startups and achieved significant success (either in user numbers or financial outcomes) before founding their own companies.
- "Consultant converts," like Ryan Freitas, Lane Becker, Rashmi Sinha, Alexa Andrzejewski, Charles Adler, Brian Chesky and Chad Jennings. These designer founders were successful as a consultants before starting companies.
- "Platform alumni," like Chad Hurley, Dave Morin, Christina Brodbeck, Garry Tan, and Marcos Weskamp. These designers worked on major platforms and used those experiences as launching pads for founding their current ventures.
- "Serial entrepreneurs," like Jeff Veen, Jack Dorsey, Caterina Fake, Stewart Butterfield, Zach Klein, and Brian Witlin. These designers have founded multiple startups; some have achieved multiple exits.
(Of course we realize these categories can apply to all founders, not just those with design backgrounds. These are not mutually exclusive; in fact, some designers fit into multiple categories. We'll showcase more interesting patterns as we continue our research and interviews. If you're interested in learning more, consider contributing to our non-profit book about designer founders on Kickstarter.)
Inspired by Dean Kamen — A nation gets what it celebrates. By highlighting and celebrating the contributions of designer founders, we hope to inspire more entrepreneurial designers to create companies of lasting value.
Join us in the comments to share your thoughts. How can we encourage and enable more entrepreneurial designers to start companies?


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ALBANY — The state recently marked the one-year anniversary of the Missing Adult Alert system, celebrating its success in helping law-enforcement officers find individuals who have gone missing.
The system operates similar to Amber Alerts and is used when a person who is 18 or older and diagnosed with a cognitive brain disorder, like dementia and autism, or mental impairment, is reported missing and deemed to be at risk for harm.
Since the program went live for the first time, the Missing Persons Clearinghouse at the State Division of Criminal Justice Services has issued 21 alerts, Deputy Director of Public Information Janine Kava said in a statement.
Law-enforcement officials credited the system with helping to locate seven adults from among those reports who were reported missing in their communities.
"Time is of the essence when anyone goes missing, but it is particularly critical when individuals who are unable to care for themselves because of a cognitive impairment or brain disorder wander away from home," Deputy Secretary for Public Safety Elizabeth Glazer said in a statement.
"This system allows law enforcement to mobilize the public and other agencies to assist in the search, increasing the odds that these individuals will be quickly located and reunited with their families."
About 800 officers from across the state attended training this past spring to get accustomed to the using the system effectively, and the clearinghouse is sponsoring a second training course devoted to search-and-rescue tactics.
Locally, Plattsburgh City Police Capt. Michael Branch said officers from his department attended the system training, though they have not yet had call to utilize it.
The Clinton County Sheriff's Office is familiar with the system, according to Lt. Paul Rissetto, but he said they use a procedure called A Child Is Missing when an alert is necessary, as it can be enacted more quickly and has proven effective in locating missing persons.