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Offensive lineman Donell Stanley of Latta had planned to take last week to set up his official visits. Instead, Stanley decided not to take any official visits.
He said he's ready to make his decision and is close to doing so. Stanley has narrowed his choices to South Carolina, Alabama and North Carolina. He has visited each unofficially and has gathered enough information from those visits to make his decision, which is expected within the next two weeks.
Stanley has not publicly stated a favorite throughout his recruiting, but it's become apparent that USC has made the strongest push for him. Gamecocks offensive line coach Shawn Elliott was at Stanley's game last week.
USC is looking to add immediate depth to the offensive line and has offered two junior college tackles.
The Gamecocks went back in on a player they recruited for the 2011 class but did not land — Jordan Prestwood (6-6, 310), a native of Tampa, Fla., who attends Arizona Western JC. He was a tight end coming out of high school but has grown into a much sought-after offensive tackle. He signed with Florida State in 2011 but later transferred to Notre Dame. He left South Bend, Ind., and eventually landed in Yuma. Florida State, Auburn, Mississippi, California and San Diego State have also offered.
Chad Mavety (6-5, 320) of Nassau JC, N.Y., also picked up an offer from USC last week. Like Prestwood, Mavety is a highly recruited JUCO target. Ohio State, Florida State and Alabama are among other schools who have offered him.
In other recruiting news:
Wide receiver Braxton Berrios of Raleigh has set an announcement date for Oct. 12 at noon. He has taken official visits to USC, Miami and Oregon, and is scheduled to visit Tennessee on Oct. 5.
Defensive lineman Cory Thomas of McCalla, Ala., has Clemson, Mississippi State, Florida, Florida State and Tennessee as his top five. He plans to take official visits to each of those schools. Thomas also plans to attend the Clemson-Florida State game, but said that this would not be his official visit to the Upstate. Clemson assistant Marion Hobby has kept in contact with Thomas and paid a recent visit to McCalla for a game. Thomas has been to Auburn and Tennessee for games. He's not claiming a favorite.
Former Lexington High RB Kevin Miller (5-8, 160) was one of the state's leading rushers in 2011 as he helped lead the Wildcats to the Class AAAA playoffs. He rushed for 1,700 yards and 25 touchdowns that season. He has since taken his talents to nearby Gray Military Academy in Columbia, where three games into this season he's averaging 150 rushing yards per game. Schools are starting to notice Miller again, and his coach said Clemson is one taking a look.
"Clemson is pretty serious," coach Rod Lorick said. "Kevin is one of those dashing, darting tailbacks who kind of reminds you of C.J. Spiller. He's got that kind of speed."
Talking to coach Robbie Caldwell and coach Jeff Scott up there, there is some interest there. Kevin really likes the school, and I believe he really wants to go to the Upstate. He really fits that high tempo, quick spread offense of Clemson. I think it would be a good fit." Lorick added that Miller has dedicated himself into become a major college prospect. "He's gotten bigger, faster, stronger and he has all the intangibles that any Division I university looks for. Kevin Miller is going to be a great pickup for whoever decides to go after this young man. Clemson has spoken a lot about Kevin." There have been no offers yet for Miller, but Lorick expects that to change as Miller begins to take some visits. "Come November, he's going to have a lot of offers."
Florida has been one of the three favorites of DE Michael Barnett of Woodland, and he was at The Swamp for the Tennessee game earlier in the season. That game was the third college game Barnett has ever attended. The first was the Georgia-Clemson game earlier this season. Barnett was also at USC for the Vanderbilt game. Right now Barnett is holding with his top three of Virginia Tech, Florida and Florida State in that order, and he said Clemson is creeping up but has not cracked his top three. He also talked with Florida State and plans to get there for a game. He also plans to return to Clemson for a game.
DB Tyreik Lyles of Byrnes committed to Wofford last week.
USC basketball coach Frank Martin was back in Jacksonville recently to check on 6-7 Dante Buford, according to Arlington Country Day coach Rex Morgan. And he's expecting USC back to see Buford on Oct. 3. Morgan said Martin has made it clear to him and Buford what he thinks of the player. "He's their No. 1 guy at that position, so he said it's imperative they get him," Morgan said. "He said it's important to him." Morgan said Buford, a native of Simpsonville, still isn't tipping his hand. "He's enjoying being recruited a little bit," the coach said. "I think he likes everybody. Does he want to stay close to home and play in state or go outside?" Buford is set with three official visits for sure. He will go to Oklahoma on Oct. 4 and Miami on Oct. 11. And he is set to visit USC on Nov. 1. He is also scheduled to visit Oklahoma State and Southern Cal, but Morgan is not sure he will take those two trips. Morgan said Martin also remains interested in 6-9 Ledamian Keys, though Keys is partial to DePaul right now.
Donte Grantham (6-8) of Hargrave Prep, Va., should have his decision this week, his coach said Thursday, and that decision is down to Clemson and Michigan. Grantham, the West Virginia player of the year last season, made an unofficial visit to Clemson this past Saturday and was also in for the Georgia football game. He took an official visit to Clemson last spring. He made official visits to Michigan and Cincinnati as well. Clemson recruiter Steve Smith visited Grantham on Tuesday, and Tigers head coach Brad Brownell has made several stops by the school. "They've done a great job recruiting him," said Hargrave coach AW Hamilton. "I wouldn't be surprised if he chooses either one. Clemson has been recruiting him the longest. I'm impressed with those guys." As of Thursday, Grantham was still working on the decision. "He's still going back and forth," his coach said. Hamilton said Grantham is an excellent outside shooter who is very skilled and handles the basketball well.
Shortstop Madison Stokes (6-3, 195) of AC Flora last week committed to USC for the 2014 class. Stokes had been committed to The Citadel. Clemson and North Carolina were two other schools he considered before choosing the Gamecocks. Stokes helped lead Flora to the Class AAA state championship last season. Stokes joins his Falcon teammate 2B Everett Eynon as Gamecocks commitments and gives USC 13 pledges for the 2014 class.
Outfielder KJ Bryant of Wade Hampton, who committed to USC last year for the 2014 class, has flipped to Clemson. Bryant batted over .400 each of the past two seasons and is considered the top outfielder prospect in the state for his class. He's the Tigers eighth commitment for the 2014 class.
Bryant is one of four 2014 USC commitments no longer committed to the Gamecocks. OF DJ Burt of Fuquay-Varina, N.C., is now committed to N.C. State. SS Seth Lancaster of Hanahan is now a Coastal Carolina commitment, and LHP Nate Matheson of Virginia is now committed to Old Dominion.


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Six weeks and counting for the Niagara hockey team.
The Purple Eagles (10-3-4, 9-0-1 in Atlantic Hockey) earned a No. 18 ranking in the latest USCHO.com Division I poll, the sixth straight week Niagara has been in the national rankings. NU remains ranked after seeing its nation leading 12-game unbeaten streak end last Saturday with a 3-0 loss at Bowling Green.
The Purple Eagles host Air Force at 7 p.m. Saturday at Dwyer Arena, looking to extend their home ice unbeaten streak to 14 games.

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A drink created by Coca Cola to satisfy a different market. Unfortunately, Citra did not perform as expected and SURGE accomplished instead. Citra and SURGE are now very well and are in the progress of being saved.
Let's save SURGE and/or Citra!
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Better AF than 6D? TBH i dont see much a difference with this new cam compared to old models ^^
Are the T4i and T5i bodies exactly the same??
i'm pretty sure there were some hardcore canon fanboys saying something about them being innovative just a day or two ago....where are they now?this release is an all time low, even for canon. There is literally nothing here to remark upon. They could've at least made the SL1 the new rebel and said they made it smaller.both of these new releases are exactly the same level of blah. don't they at least want to try to compete with the new D7100?
Quote from: hermes84 on March 21, 2013, 11:00:31 AMAre the T4i and T5i bodies exactly the same??It looks like the SL1 might be positioned to take over the Rebel line. If the SL1 sells well, I wouldn't be surprised if all future Rebels are sized like the SL1.
Definitely the same old sensor technology (higher ISO shots)...http://web.canon.jp/imaging/eosd/samples/eos100d/


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Cheryl Peake: 30th March 1966 - 12th June 2013
Just saw on Lorna Brown's Facebook profile that English Pairs skater Cheryl Peake died yesterday!
To make sure this was right, I hunted down the profile of Andrew Naylor (Cheryl's skating partner), and unfortunately, it was on there too:
Cheryl Peake and Andrew Naylor were the dominant force in British Pairs Skating for most of the late 80's/early 90's. In that time they won the British Senior Pairs Championships 7 years in succession, from 1986 to 1992.
This earned them regular appearances at the European Championships from 1986 to 1992, and every year they finished in the top 10. Their best results were 5th place in 1987 and 1989 (the champions both those years being Larisa Selezneva and Oleg Makarov).
They also competed at the World Championships from 1986 to 1991 and, with the exception of 1990 (when Catherine Barker and Michael Aldred represented Britain instead), every year they finished between 9th and 12th. Their best result was 9th place in 1987 (the champions that year being Ekaterina Gordeeva and the much-missed Sergei Grinkov).
In 1988, they competed in the Winter Olympics in Calgary, finishing 12th in both programmes, and 12th overall! I just had a look on YouTube, and here is a video of their Short Programme from Calgary.
Other videos I found are their Free Skate from the 1986 Skate America, and their Free Skate from the 1988 Skate America. There is also a video of them doing an exhibition in St. Ivel in 1987, but I should warn you that the quality of this particular video is not great.
Cheryl and Andrew retired from competitive skating in 1992. I am afraid I do not know what has been happening with either of them in the intervening years until now.
My thoughts go out to Cheryl's family and friends.


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When noted New Urbanist architect Andres Duany last spoke in Charleston, he praised this city for having some of the nation's most beautiful affordable housing.
The Gateway Development
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9 new single-family homes
4 renovated homes divided into 12 rental units
The 12 rental units are designed for lower-income persons, defined as those earning 65 percent or less of the area's median income. A two-bedroom unit, plus utilities, will go for about $880 a month.
One of the nine new single-family homes was sold at a more affordable price, about $175,000, both because it's smaller and because of other nonprofit subsidies.
$1.92 million is the city's net investment here.
$1.2 million was recouped by selling the rental units to the Charleston Housing Authority.
$700,000 was the city's net subsidy.
The city's new Gateway development, a series of four home renovations and nine new homes right where Interstate 26 becomes the Septima P. Clark Crosstown Expressway, should only bolster that reputation.
This project, so complicated and frustrating at first, would wind up being just as successful and beautiful in the end.
The city of Charleston began acquiring property here a few decades ago, when it was largely a blighted area stung by the noisy effects of Crosstown traffic. It bought the large Victorian home whose double piazza matched the curve in the street, and it repaired it so its lean no longer threatened the house next door.
A generation later, the same house was bought by the Department of Transportation for the Ravenel Bridge. The city wouldn't let the state tear it down, and it was moved back a little from a new highway ramp.
Still, the city bought it back, acquired three other older vacant homes nearby and tried to figure out what to do next, as the homes stood empty and in growing need of repair. Three had suffered fire damage.
The city's goals for the site included: preserving the buildings; creating more affordable housing; and strengthening the neighborhood.
The only problem? No one was particularly interested in helping, as the city sought proposals for three times with no luck. Developers and contractors were interested but couldn't make the numbers work.
Then it tried a fourth time. As last week's dedication, Charleston Housing and Community Development director Geona Shaw Johnson said, "Thank you, Mayor Riley, for not letting me give up."
The city was able to strike a deal with Ecovest Development LLC, a private real estate company that specializes, according to its website, in urban infill and "troubled land acquisition."
The city would pay Ecovest to restore the four historic homes and convert them into rental units, which the city then sold to the Charleston Housing Authority for $1.2 million.
That deal not only made the project work but also will ensure these 12 rental units will remain relatively affordable for as long as the authority and city want.
Authority President Don Cameron said the units should all be full by Christmas time.
"To do affordable housing is not easy," he added. "You have to be kind of like a bulldog. You can't let go of that bone."
The city then sold the remaining land for $225,000, and Ecovest could build nine homes there, eight that it could sell at market rate and one that would sell for a more affordable ($175,000, after subsidies) price.
Architect Julia Martin oversaw the renovations and designed the infill homes, which don't copy the stylistic elements of the older homes but still blend with them as far as materials (everything is mostly wood), shapes and massing.
The new homes were a more potentially profitable part than the renovations, so the city insisted that the renovations be done first, or at the same time, which is what happened.
Ironically, the very thing that makes this a less-than optimal neighborhood — the nearby expressway — is also what makes this renovation so important, as tens of thousands of people, mostly in cars, pass by it every day.
Most wandering the curving Engel Street today, from Carolina and King streets will see only new or newly renovated homes. They likely will have no clue that some are dedicated as affordable housing while others can be sold at market rates.
"The wonderful part is it's seamless," Johnson said. "You can't tell them apart, which is what I love."
This feel-good story also extends to the street name, which recently was changed to honor Joseph Engel, one of the Charleston area's last living Holocaust survivors.
He attended last weeks' ceremony and was moved by the honor.
"I never thought I would live to see things like this happening to me," he said.
So a once-blighted and derelict corner of the city, one threatened by a new highway, has become an attractive and thriving corner.
"This is a diverse neighborhood," Westside neighborhood president Arthur Lawrence said. "Now, we have a problem in this neighborhood, and it's a good problem.
"Everyone wants to move in."
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Happy Fat Tuesday -- Mardi Gras party begins at Universal
Theme park promises Bourbon Street style food, fun
UPDATED 9:10 AM EST Feb 12, 2013
Universal Orlando's party planners are promising Bourbon Street style food and fun during their annual Mardi Gras celebration. It runs through April 20.
The theme park gave WESH 2's Aixa Diaz a preview of all the festivities on Fat Tuesday. Watch the videos below for a look at what you can expect at this year's event.
Universal cooks up New Orleans fare for Mardi Gras
How to throw Mardi Gras beads properly at Universal
Universal Mardi Gras offers something for everyone
For more on Universal's Mardi Gras, visit universalorlando.com.
Lineup: Matchbox20, Demi Lovato to preform at Universal's Mardi Gras
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Innovative glyphs from the age of hot metal printing gave way to digital counterparts when Nicolas Oikonomidès, Dumbarton Oaks advisor in sigillography, oversaw the development of Sealshort, the world's first font for Byzantine inscriptions. His Collection of Dated Byzantine Lead Seals, published in 1986, was intended, in part, to begin a scholarly conversation about using letterforms to date and classify seals. Through the 1990s, Glenn Ruby, Publications Manager from 1980 until 2004, helped develop other specialized Byzantine inscription fonts, most notably Athena (Sealshort's successor), which has been used by many publishers around the world.
The multiplication of specialized fonts, their confused keyboard layouts, their uneven design, and their incompatibility with Unicode standards motivated Joel Kalvesmaki, Byzantine managing editor at Dumbarton Oaks, to begin work on Athena Ruby in 2010. Designed by Tiro Typeworks as idealized representations of inscriptions found in the geographical area of the Byzantine empire, from approximately 325 to 1453, the more-than seven hundred glyphs provide in a single ensemble all the major letters and variants, ligatures, and decoration. Unicode-compliant and built upon advanced OpenType features, Athena Ruby is suited to a broad range of print and digital publications, from simple, single-author projects to complex ones involving multiple authors and computer platforms.
The principle characteristics of the design are a subtle flaring of stems and a slight contrast between the weight of vertical and horizontal strokes. In curved forms, this contrast translates into a slightly angled nib movement. Where curved strokes meet straight strokes, the curves are tapered to avoid ink gain or the perception of greater weight in the join. Corners are softened by rounding, and terminals are either concave or slightly swelled. These features give warmth to the design, and are also suggestive of the character of many of the seals and coins which either through the process of their manufacture or through wearing are quite "soft."
Dumbarton Oaks is making the font available to the public for free under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
The formal, public unveiling of the font is reserved for this spring, after the stylesheets for the Dumbarton Oaks website are customized to exemplify the advanced features of the font. But anyone can join beta testers and install a pre-publication version of the font. Simply join the Google group for Athena Ruby and follow the instructions.]]>


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Raspberry Pi projects and hacks for everyone
7 favorite Raspberry Pi projects
Having recently co-authored a book about building things with the Raspberry Pi (Raspberry Pi Hacks), I've spent a lot of the last couple of years talking about this credit-card-sized Linux computer and seeing fun things people have used it for.
Originally designed for education, the Raspberry Pi was inspired by 1981's BBC Micro, also created for education. But when it was released, what makers saw was a very small computer, perfect for putting in all kinds of projects due to the abilities it has crammed into such a small space. Here are a few of my favorites:
1. Encase it in Lego
One of the first things most people want for their Pis is a case, and there are plenty of them on the market. But Lego bricks give you the opportunity to build anything you want! Should your Pi be baking in a Lego oven? How about a tiny TARDIS? Brian Gillespie built this Raspberry Pi Command Center, which he describes as "fully OSHA, ISO 9001, ASME, IEEE and Sarbanes-Oxley compliant." This adorable home for a Pi named the Pihaus.
2. Play video games
There are a lot of options here. You could simply install some Linux-friendly games or emulators. You could use it as your own Steam machine. There's this teeny tiny arcade machine or a cocktail cabinet-style video game machine.
3. Automate your house
This is the promise of The Jetsons, right? Automate your pet feeder. Keep the yard a little greener by automating the sprinklers. Turn off the lights without getting up. But, my favorite overlays the Star Trek LCARS interface into a multi-functional home automation system.
4. Win your geek girl's love forever
This may be my absolute favorite of all. Lingxiang Xiang built this Pi-powered R2-D2 who is bilingual with facial recognition abilities in addition to motion and distance detection, audio record, and playback.
5. Take photos from the sky
Many groups, including NC Nearspace, have found that the Pi is incredibly well-suited to near-space photography payloads. It has SD storage for all the photos and video, GPIO for the accelerometer, gyroscope and various sensors, the ability to send live video out, and an accessory camera made for the device.
6. Turn the Pi into a radio
This is a great project to introduce kids to both how FM radio works ("well, kids, back in our day, there was no Sirius or Spotify or playlists on your phone...") as well as some introductory electronics and programming. The original instructions for PiFM are pretty simple, but you may want to grab this rewrite, which uses less CPU.
7. Monitor your homebrew
Gotta keep an eye on your fermentation! BrewPi takes care of it for you, logging and controlling temperature and giving you a web interface to keep an eye on it all.
View the complete collection of Open Hardware Week articles.
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I've had a number of ideas for using the Pi, just haven't gotten around to implementing them fully yet. Compared to some of these, too, it appears rather mundane but what the hey! It's educational! :)
Thanks for sharing all these cool Raspberry Pi projects.
The Pi radio is my favorite:
The elegant simplicity of adding a short wire to the GPIO port, and then do the rest of the magic with software.
There is a lot to be learned from the PiFM project !
I also like the idea of having FM of your own.
Also i have a college project this semester to demonstrate the PiFM for my community radio project .
Do reply if someone is working towards this project in the coming time.
The picture used at the top is a prototype board, not a production Raspberry Pi. See http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/RaspberryPi.jpg
I would love to use the Raspberry Pi for a home automation project. You can use something called a 'Razberry' (a daughter board) and a Z Stick to interface with Z-Wave products which are great for DIY and use your Pi for the brain of the system. Unfortunately I don't have either the time or the money right now, but I'm sure I'll do it eventually.
Raspberry PI could be the Touch screen POS.
We (YoungPOS) just completed the Touch screen POS (Point of Sales) with Raspberry PI. We call it Raspberry POS and it could connect to Receipt Printer, Kitchen Printer, Barcode Scanner and Magnetic Stripe Reader (MSR). It is really full POS system for Restaurant and Retails. We could share this project to everybody who interested in POS solutions.
You could visit us at www.facebook.com/raspberrypipos to see these pictures/videos or you could share some information.
An open source point of sale that costs 50% cheaper that proprietary alternatives based on Odoo point of sale: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/opensource-your-shop
Hi Ruth,
Really disappointed!
Just read the Raspberry Pi Hacks: Tips & Tools for Making Things with the Inexpensive. There is a section relating to the Touchscreen that is basically lifted from my blog www.markamc.co.uk, with no reference or citation made. You even provide links to my google drive. Such a shame since I spend many hours developing this solution and providing support, your readers could have benefited from its continually updated content.
I hope the rest of the books content is original, if not, at least cited!


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SHENANDOAH JUNCTION -The Jefferson High School Theatre Department will present "Storytelling" at 6 p.m. Friday. This one-hour performance of some classic stories performed by shadow puppets. A unique twist on the usual telling of stories. These tales have been adapted by theatre students and shadow puppets have been created to assist in the telling of each story. Stories included are: "The Giving Tree," "Amelia Bedelia," "Yertle the Turtle" and many others. Admission is $1.
For more information, call 304-725-8491 or by email firstname.lastname@example.com
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HEDGESVILLE -The Hedgesville High School Theatre 2, 3 and 4 classes will present an evening of one-act plays for the public at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday. The Theatre II students will be performing "Twisting Carol" by Jonathan Dorf. This is a delightful spoof of the Dickens A Christmas Carol. The Theatre III and IV students will present the one-act show, "Emotional Baggage" by Lindsay Price. "Baggage" is billed as a play without words. Admission is $5 per person.
For more information, call the high school at 754-3354, ext. 3141.
'Nutcracker' to be held over weekend
SHEPHERDSTOWN - The Shepherdstown School of Dance announces its 6th annual "Nutcracker" performance at 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Frank Arts Center at Shepherd University. The performance coincides with Christmas in Shepherdstown festivities.
Two professional dancers will also be gracing the stage, including Kitty Clarke, contemporary modern dancer and founder of Goose Route Arts Collaborative, as Mouse King. Playing the part of the Cavalier will be Jordan Nelson of Chicago, who has trained with the Ballet Chicago, interned with royal ballet, and is a dancer for the Suzanne Ferrell Dance Company.
Tickets are available at Shepherdstown School of Dance and Encore Apparel in Motion in Shepherdstown and are $13 in advance and $18 after Dec. 7. A portion of ticket sales will benefit Shepherdstown Elementary School and Shepherdstown Middle School PTA groups.
For more information about classes or performance schedules, visit the Shepherdstown School of Dance website at www.shepherdstownschoolofdance.com or call (304) 876-8277.
Conservatory announces lineup
WINCHESTER, Va. - The Shenandoah Conservatory at Shenandoah University has announced its 2012-13 season.
All performances will be held at 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday; at 2:30 and 8 p.m. Saturday; and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday.
The following will be performed in the Ohrstrom-Bryant Theater:
Feb. 28 to March 3, 2013: "In the Woods."
The following will be performed in the Glaize Studio Theater:
Jan 17-20, 2013: "The Spitfire Grill;"
Feb. 14-17: "Henry IV Part 1;"
April 4-7: "Summer & Smoke."
For more information or tickets, call 540-665-4569 or visit www.ConservatoryPerforms.org.
'Way Off'
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FREDERICK, Md. - The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre and Children's Theatre presents its productions:
To Dec. 29: "Clara and the Nutcracker Prince;"
To Dec. 29: "Season's Greetings; An Empire Christmas;"
Jan. 11 to March 9: "Steel Magnolias;"
Jan. 19 to March 9: Disney's "Aladdin;"
March 22 to June 1: "9 to 5, The Musical;"
April 6 to July 28: Disney's "Cinderella."
Shows run every Friday and Saturday evening, with some Sunday evening performances, as well as select Saturday and Sunday matinee performances.
For more information, call the box office at 301-662-6600 or visit www.wayoffbroadway.com.
The MET announces shows
FREDERICK, Md. - The Maryland Ensemble Theater will present the following productions:
Today to Dec. 30: "It's A Wonderful Life, A Live Radio Play;"
Feb. 7 to March 3: "The Glass Menagerie;"
April 4-28: "Finally Heard, Feminine of an Uncivil War."
For more information or tickets, call the MET Box Office at 301-694-4744.
Wayside Theatre announces slate
MIDDLETOWN, Va. - The Wayside Theatre will present the following performances:
To Dec. 23: "Glory Bea! A Shenandoah Christmas Story;"
Jan. 26, 2013, to March 9: "Good Ol' Girls."
For more information or tickets, call 540-869-1776 or visit www.waysidetheatre.org.
Little Theatre to perform 'Opus'
WINCHESTER, Va. - The Winchester Little Theatre will present the following performances:
Jan. 11-20: "Opus."
For more information or tickets, call 540-662-3331 or visit www.wltonline.org.
Apollo announces upcoming events
MARTINSBURG - The Apollo Civic Theatre will present the following productions:
Friday to Sunday and Dec. 14 to 16: "Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!)"
Jan. 18 to 20, 25 to 27: "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
March 8 to 10, 15 to 17: "High School Reunion, the Musical"
May 10 to 12, 17 to 19: "Hello Dolly."
Reserve tickets by emailing at email@example.com or by calling the Box Office at 304-263-6766.
Old Opera House announces season
CHARLES TOWN - The Old Opera House will present the following productions:
Today to Sunday and Dec. 13 to 16: "Scrooge."
2013 season includes: "Suite Surrender," "Duck Hunter Shoots Angel," "Honus and Me," "Legally Blonde," "Murder Among Friends," and "Shrek."
For more information or tickets, call 304-725-4420 or visit www.oldoperahouse.org.
The Maryland
Theatre slate given
HAGERSTOWN, Md. - The Maryland Theatre, 21 S. Potomac St., has announced the following events:
Saturday and Sunday: "The Nutcracker;"
Dec. 13: Cornell Cunter's Coasters, Marvelettes, Marshak's Platters;
Dec. 15 and 16: Maryland Symphony Orchestra presents "Home for the Holidays;"
Dec. 23: The Hagerstown Municipal Band with the Barbara Ingram Wind Band;
Feb. 1: Who's Band: The Ultimate Michael Jackson Tribute Band;
Feb. 2: Chris MacDonald's Memories of Elvis in Concert;
For more information or tickets, call 301-790-3500 or visit www.mdtheatre.org
Weinberg Center
events planned
FREDERICK, Md. - The Weinberg Center for the Arts, 20 W. Patrick St., has announced the following lineup:
Friday to Sunday: "The Nutcracker;"
Dec. 13-16: "A Christmas Carol;"
Dec. 20: 18th annual Messiah Sing-Along;
For more information or tickets, call 301-600-2828 or visit www.weinbergcenter.org.
- From staff reports


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Thermo Fisher Scientific reported mostly strong results for the fourth quarter and all of last year, while projecting even healthier 2014 results—helped by the planned $15.8 billion acquisition of Life Technologies and its debt, in a deal the company expects could close as soon as next month.
"Our excellent performance in 2013 positions us well for the year ahead," Marc N. Casper, Thermo's president and CEO, said in a statement. "We look forward to successfully integrating Life Technologies and fully leveraging our depth of capabilities to create value for our customers and achieve our goals for growth in 2014."
Speaking this morning in the company's quarterly earnings call with analysts, Casper said the integration of Life Technologies is in its homestretch, with its final hurdle being approval by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC): "We believe we're close, and expect to complete the transaction very shortly."
In a reflection of the company's optimism, Casper said that Thermo had incorporated Life Technologies results that assumed an "early" February close date for the deal into its full-year 2014 guidance to investors. Also, the company said it will continue most Life Technologies operations into a fourth operating segment, to which it will shift some existing biopharma-focused operations.
However, Thermo will make $275 million in cost cuts or "synergies" over three years.
The lab equipment giant finished the fourth quarter of 2013 with a 9% dip in net income, which fell to $342.1 million or 92 cents per share, from $376.4 million or $1.04 per share a year earlier. The dip came despite a 6% increase in revenue, to a record-high $3.47 billion, with Thermo noting that last year's results were buoyed by a tax rate change in an undisclosed foreign jurisdiction. The company, however, trumpeted adjusted net income excluding special charges that rose 9% over Q4 2012, to $530.3 million, and a record-high adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of $1.43, up 5% from a year earlier.
For all of 2013, Thermo generated net income of $1.27 billion, up 9.7% from 2012, on revenue that rose 5% year-over-year to $13.09 billion. Adjusted earnings per share grew 10%, to $5.42.
Casper attributed Thermo's revenue growth to improved market conditions affecting two business segments—industrial and applied, and healthcare and diagnostics—as many business customers released funding for projects delayed for much of 2013, and as demand grew for chromatography systems used in environmental and food safety applications.
Demand was also strong, Casper said, for healthcare diagnostics, particularly in Asia but with improved growth in western Europe as well. Even the U.S. results showed some improvement, as healthcare customers stepped up their use of the equipment toward year's end.
In the biopharma segment, Casper said, "We had an exceptional performance and grew by more than 10% in the quarter, with particularly strong results across our clinical trials logistics, bioprocess production, and laboratory products businesses."
But the academic and government customer segment in Q4 saw a decline "in the low single digits," Casper said. That appears to reflect continuing tight spending, bookended by the March across-the-board federal budget cut or sequestration and the October federal government shutdown.
For 2014, Thermo Fisher is projecting a jump in adjusted earnings per share of between 24% and 27%, to a range of $6.70 per share to $6.90 per share. Revenues are expected to rise between 27% and 29% over 2013, to between $16.63 billion and $16.83 billion.
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the time of day when you really know you stayed up too long.
person 1: oh shit... i stayed up till 3 am doing my term paper.
hot female: fuck off
Person 2: i stayed up till 4 am doing my paper.
hot female: slacker! marry me!
hot female: fuck off
Person 2: i stayed up till 4 am doing my paper.
hot female: slacker! marry me!
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Can you define these popular missing words?
The time people normally notice after spending an entire night playing video games.
I started playing terraria at 10 and all the sudden it's 4am, where the fuck did all that time go?
โดย Alexouther 21 กรกฎาคม 2011
When you have to poop, but do it exactly at 4 in the morning. Usually when someone outside of your family or someone you are not used to, stays at your house/vice versa and you don't want to drop a deuce while they are awake
"Man! I missed my 4 am"
โดย Atomictaco 12 มีนาคม 2015
the time right now
its 4am.... we should probably get to sleep
โดย boredchicks 30 กรกฎาคม 2010
A term with many meanings. 4 am is the time of day when shit goes down. The 4 horsemen cook their eggs, eat thier cake, pass the teapot, and cockslap bitches at 4 am. It is a time of utter chaos often resulting in wetness.
4 o'clock am.
Justyna got 4am'ed in the face.
C"mon guys Time to fuck shit up, its 4am!!!
Justyna got 4am'ed in the face.
C"mon guys Time to fuck shit up, its 4am!!!
โดย Sh0rt3e 17 มีนาคม 2005
The point at which tomorrow will officially suck if you have to be conscious before 2pm for any reason. Which, sadly, most do.
*rolls over in bed and checks the time* "Ugh, I haven't slept at all and it's 4am. Tomorrow is already a bad day." (Although technically it's already tomorrow. It doesn't feel that way at 4am.)
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To, in what is commonly a sudden outburst cause great wreckage to yours or someone else's home. Commonly involving the throwing of CDs and DVDs, spilling of soda, throwing of food, and breaking of valuables. When unplanned the event is a great stress reliever. A planned 4:00 A.M. is much less fun. DOES NOT NEED TO OCCUR AT 4:00 A.M.! Only the first one occured at this time; hence the name.
"Hey, let's go have a 4 A.M.! We can play frisbee with beef patties and crack eggs over eachothers' heads! It would also be fun to throw my guitar around, make hail storms with ice cubes, and break valuable objects my parents bought with their hard-earned money!
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Rumination Technology Helps Dairy Farmers Keep Transition Cows Healthy
Rumination Technology Helps Dairy Farmers Keep Transition Cows Healthy
Daily reports help identify cows that need attention before visual observations
can detect health challenges.
"It was always a guess as to how the fresh cows were doing," Karl Funk, co-owner of Funk's Midway Dairy in New Munich, Minnesota, says of his dairy's transition cow program prior to investing in the Heatime® HR Tag system from SCR Dairy. "Most (cows) are healthy, but you're always watching," he adds.
When Karl and his family learned about the Heatime system, it became quickly apparent the technology would promptly allow the dairy to overcome this challenge—with improved cow health as the benefit.
The system allows dairy producers to track rumination, in addition to activity monitoring, enabling dairy management teams to see deviations from normal activity. Rumination is an indicator of a properly functioning rumen, and an excellent gauge of animal health. Dairy producers, veterinarians and nutritionists have long relied on cud chewing as a key monitor of dairy cow health, but until now, rumination hasn't been an easy parameter to track.
Since the system has been integrated into the Funk's 600-cow dairy, transition cow management has been streamlined—and more effective. At 3 a.m. an employee goes over the rumination report to determine which cows need attention. "Instead of spending time eyeballing all the cows, we go straight to those one or two cows that need attention," says Funk.
"Rumination offers an early window for diagnosis since a drop in rumination time frequently precedes any drop in milk production, and often occurs before physical symptoms appear," says Tom Breunig, U.S. general manager for SCR Dairy, based in Madison, Wis. This means dairy producers can monitor rumination time to anticipate potential health concerns before visual signs arise.
Impact on Cow Heath
According to research1 that followed cows from dry off through 150 days in milk, rumination tends to decrease in the last two weeks before calving, drops suddenly at calving and then rapidly increases postpartum. About a week after calving cows usually reach normal daily rumination time, which stays relatively stable for the remainder of the lactation. Any deviation from a cow's "normal" trend is flagged and can indicate the need to evaluate potential health issues.
Monitoring rumination trends also enables dairy producers to assess a cow's responses when an intervention has been made. This information helps to determine when she returns to "normal" more quickly than is otherwise possible. That's because responses often occur in the cow long before the human eye can detect what's really happening. And having this information at your fingertips can impact management protocols and actions in a positive way.
"We realized we were over treating about half of our mastitis cases," notes Funk. "Also, before the SCR system was in place, we would drench cows with ketosis twice a day for two weeks. Now, in the second week, we usually drench only once a day and sometimes the system tells us they're healthy enough to not need further treating."
Impact on Financial Performance
Rumination monitoring also pays off financially. The actionable information the Funks gain from their SCR system returns money-saving insights:
• Pharmaceutical costs for severe mastitis cases are down 33%
• Ketosis drench costs are down 30%
• Faster fresh cow observation frees up time for other management activities, saving an estimated $2,200 annually
"If cow health is important to you, the rumination monitoring makes the system pay for itself—and that's without even considering the heat activity part," Funk concludes.
About SCR Dairy
Building on over 35 years of meaningful innovation, SCR Dairy is the leading pioneer of Cow and Milking Intelligence. Monitoring millions of cows worldwide, our data-driven solutions are trusted by successful dairy farmers to deliver the insights and analytics needed to optimize the productivity of every cow. Improving efficiency and driving growth, we help to ensure a secure and prosperous future for their farms and families. To learn more about SCR Dairy, visit www.SCRDairy.com


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"Yes! Yes! Yes!"
Those thunderous chants may still be reverberating off the walls at Key Arena in Seattle, Wash., where thousands of fans cheered wildly for WWE favorite Daniel Bryan at last week's Monday Night Raw event.
The show of support was unplanned and unrehearsed, occurring at a pivotal point when WWE executive Triple H was pushing the "historic" showdown between John Cena and Randy Orton at the company's TLC pay-per-view.
But something special happened to shift the hard-sell focus on the pay-per-view to a message that the WWE Universe has been trying to send the promotion for the past several months.
The Universe likes Daniel Bryan. Not a little, but a lot.
Enough, in fact, to join forces at WWE events and voice unwavering support for a performer these fans feel should be carrying the gold.
Although Monday night's show was held only a hundred miles from Bryan's hometown of Aberdeen, the company couldn't have anticipated the deafening applause he received in the all-important final segment of the show.
Give credit, though, to Cena, who masterfully helped shift direction to Bryan, worked him into his "go-home" promo and even turned the ever-present Cena "boo birds" into cheering fanatics who threatened to break another Seattle noise record.
It was a risky audible, but one that paid off.
That's how you make new stars in the business or, in Bryan's case, make current stars even bigger stars.
Spontaneous moments like that are rare, and ever rarer is a group of performers who can change gears at that special moment's notice and craft it into something that will be memorable for days, months and sometimes even years to come.
Bryan, Cena and Triple H all accomplished just that, assisted by a group of former world champions on hand for a ceremony that turned out to be quite unforgettable despite veering wildly off the rails.
The segment and the show's final 15 minutes were filled with action and intrigue that planted seeds leading all the way up to next year's Wrestlemania 30.
Can't be denied
Bryan, who as "American Dragon" Bryan Danielson was a multi-time champion in the Ring of Honor promotion, has proved again and again that, despite his slightly unorthodox demeanor, the Shawn Michaels protege can connect with his fans on a personal and emotional level.
The problem is that WWE higher-ups, while acknowledging Bryan's superior ability in the ring and connection with his loyal fan base, just don't feel that Bryan has the "look" of a WWE heavyweight champion or the kind of drawing power that pushes PPV buyrates or TV ratings.
Maybe that's because they made him grow a beard a la "Duck Dynasty" that earned him the less-than-appealing "Goat Face" moniker. Once he embraced that image, however, Bryan's popularity increased even more.
It seems that no matter what they do to the likable performer, or how they position him on the show, Bryan finds a way to shine.
The fact that he didn't fit the mold of Vince McMahon's typical WWE superstar was even used as part of an angle.
When WWE creative put Bryan in a gimmick comedy team with Kane called Team Hell No, he quickly emerged as the star of the duo, proving that he could project an entertaining personality as well as an amazing ring repertoire.
Kane (Glenn Jacobs), who was among the performers in the ring Monday night when the fans burst into "Yes! Yes! Yes!" chants, has been one of Bryan's biggest boosters.
"I am an enormous fan of Daniel Bryan. I think he's the best technical wrestler we have on the roster," he said in an interview earlier this year. "He's also been able to make a connection with our fans which not many people are able to do. It doesn't matter whether people are booing him or cheering him, he always gets one of the best reactions of the night."
Kane's far from his only supporter. Bryan dominated the fan voting at Monday night's Slammys by either winning or playing a role in six awards - the biggest being WWE's "Superstar of the Year" honor. This year's event also set a record with 1.64 million votes via the WWE app, an increase of 180 percent from last year's record-setting awards show.
While the 32-year-old Bryan has held the WWE heavyweight title two separate times, he hasn't held the championship for one full day during those two reigns.
But none of that mattered Monday night when thousands of fans made sure they were heard on live TV.
They spoke loud and clear.
What's "best for business" just might be Daniel Bryan.
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quote: You can have a longer growing season and the precipitation is... get ready for it... rain instead of snow.
quote: "Snow is much more effective than rain in delivering water to these forests," said Monson. "If a warmer climate brings more rain, this won't offset the carbon uptake potential being lost due to declining snowpacks."
quote: Argh! I hate this attitude. "I've thought about it for a whole 3 seconds, and I can't figure out how rain would be any different than snow. This proves that their whole study is flawed and the researchers are stupid, because it's impossible that there might be something which I didn't think of in my whole entire three seconds of thinking about it. Revel in my genius."


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Krina Alizond-114 is metahuman, descended from the robots that once served humanity. She's on a journey to the water-world of Shin-Tethys to find her sister Ana. But her trip is interrupted when pirates capture her ship. Their leader, the enigmatic Count Rudi, suspects that there's more to Krina's search than meets the eye.
He's correct: Krina and Ana each possess half of the fabled Atlantis Carnet, a lost financial instrument of unbelievable value—capable of bringing down entire civilizations. Krina doesn't know that Count Rudi suspects her motives, so she accepts his offer to get her to Shin-Tethys in exchange for an introduction to Ana.
And what neither of them suspects is that a ruthless body-double assassin has stalked Krina across the galaxy, ready to take the Carnet once it is whole—and leave no witnesses alive to tell the tale…
"Where Charles Stross goes today, the rest of science fiction will follow tomorrow."—Gardner Dozois
"Stross sizzles with ideas."—The Denver Post
"Charles Stross may be the science fiction field's most exciting writer."—SFRevu
"A new kind of future requires a new breed of guide—someone like Stross."—Popular Science
"The act of creation seems to come easily to Charles Stross…[He] is peerless at dreaming up devices that could conceivably exist in six, sixty, or six hundred years' time."—The New York Times
"Stross's brand of gonzo techno-speculation makes hallucinogens obsolete."—Cory Doctorow, New York Times bestselling author of Pirate Cinema
I'm writing this essay to confess to a minor personality flaw: I'm the grown–up version of the annoying kid with the desk behind you who, whenever your teacher handed down a statement of fact, would stick his hand up and ask, "why?"
I can't resist the urge to sneak a peek behind the curtain. Show me a glitzy science fiction setting and I have to go and check the tire pressure and check the oil: I can't simply take it on trust that it works. And so …
For many years (decades even) I've been troubled by much of the rhetoric associated with space travel and space colonization. "The Earth's too vulnerable to disaster –– we can't keep all our eggs in one basket," is a familiar refrain. Or … "we've got to move off–Earth and colonise space!" Yes well, but why? And who's going to pay for it? "Manifest destiny" pays no bills. Where did the whole space colonization shtick in SF come from, and why?
One answer is, I think, that SF is essentially the literature of the progressive enlightenment project: fiction about change and the causes of change. The progressive project has been running since the early 18th century, and we are all part of it: even the far–right Tea Partiers are as much products of the Scottish Enlightenment as the most doctrinaire Maoists. For a period of around 80 years, from roughly 1710 through 1790, the capital of Protestant thought, from Edinburgh to Boston, (and later revolutionary France) were swept by new dissenting philosophies that embraced the scientific method, the early formulations of modern economics and history, and the idea that things would get progressively better over time. When the enlightenment hit North America it became inextricably entangled with the founding ideology of a new revolutionary republic, which in turn embarked on a project of westward colonization. And so, in North American SF, the idea of colonial expansion became wrapped up with dreams of change and progress to the point where they're hard to separate.
But. But. But.
The actual experience of human space travel has brought a rude awakening from the daydreams of golden age SF. Space is hostile: human life cannot exist anywhere beyond our thin caul of atmosphere without extreme technological assistance. The solar system is vast, vast beyond belief. Let's use east–to–west coast travel across the United States as a distance yardstick: so you want to go to the moon? Fine: multiply the distance from New York to Los Angeles by two orders of magnitude –– a factor of 100. Want to proceed on to Mars? You need to multiply the Earth/Moon distance by another two orders of magnitude. The outer solar system? Stack another couple of zeros. Alpha Centauri? Two zeros won't cut it: you need another four! And so on. It doesn't get any easier …
So. Humans can't survive off–Earth, and the distances are insane enough to defeat any rational economic model for funding mining or settlement. What are we left with? Is there no hope for interstellar colonization?
As it happens, I think there is a loop–hole. It's a small one, and we'll need to take drastic measures to slip through it, but I'm not ruling out interstellar expansion …
The first step is to modify our bodies. If Humanity 1.0 is incapable of surviving solar flares, exposure to vacuum, and space voyages lasting decades or centuries, we need to design an improved Humanity 2.0: ruggedized, robotized, able to hibernate between the stars and survive on molecular feedstock and electricity. (I took a stab at this in my earlier novel, "Saturn's Children", where for various reasons our species had unwittingly designed into our own successors the necessary traits for survival in the solar system.)
But even if we posit new model humanity with bodies that can survive in space, that still leaves the essential conundrum of interstellar expansion: who's going to pay for it?
There's no conceivable payback for interstellar colonies if you look at their economics through the prism of conventional cost accounting. Our accounts are balanced quarterly or annually, on a cycle that would be familiar to a Sumerian temple clerk or a bronze age subsistence farmer. The scale of interstellar travel demands planning on a period of centuries or millennia! Nor is there any commodity is valuable enough to be worth shipping physically across the gulf between stars. It might be undertaken as a religious imperative –– religion doesn't have to balance the books –– but religious pilgrimages don't support an economy very well. We'd need a whole new approach to make sense of it …
In a slower–than–light universe (where the fastest anyone travels is just barely fast enough to crawl from Earth to Proxima Centauri in half a millennium), we'll need new and bizarre ways of thinking about value, and debt, and investment in order to have a hope of building an interstellar polity. And where there is debt and value and investment there is someone trying to lend money at interest, and someone else trying make a fast buck by bending the rules. In other words, high finance and crime.
Welcome to "Neptune's Brood", possibly the first novel about interstellar banking fraud …


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Rage and love, those consuming emotions felt with a particularly acute pang in youth, all but burn up the stage in "American Idiot," the thrillingly raucous and gorgeously wrought Broadway musical adapted from the blockbuster pop-punk album by Green Day.
Pop on Broadway, sure. But punk? Yes, indeed, and served straight up, with each sneering lyric and snarling riff in place. A stately old pile steps from the tourist-clogged Times Square might seem a strange place for the music of Green Day, and for theater this blunt, bold and aggressive in its attitude. Not to mention loud. But from the moment the curtain rises on a panorama of baleful youngsters at the venerable St. James Theater, where the show opened on Tuesday night, it's clear that these kids are going to make themselves at home, even if it means tearing up the place in the process.
Which they do, figuratively speaking. "American Idiot," directed by Michael Mayer and performed with galvanizing intensity by a terrific cast, detonates a fierce aesthetic charge in this ho-hum Broadway season. A pulsating portrait of wasted youth that invokes all the standard genre conventions — bring on the sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, please! — only to transcend them through the power of its music and the artistry of its execution, the show is as invigorating and ultimately as moving as anything I've seen on Broadway this season. Or maybe for a few seasons past.
Burning with rage and love, and knowing how and when to express them, are two different things, of course. The young men we meet in the first minutes of "American Idiot" are too callow and sullen and restless — too young, basically — to channel their emotions constructively. The show opens with a glorious 20-minute temper tantrum kicked off by the title song.
"Don't want to be an American idiot!" shouts one of the gang. The song's signature electric guitar riff slashes through the air, echoing the testy challenge of the cry. A sharp eight-piece band, led by the conductor Carmel Dean, is arrayed around the stage, providing a sonic frame for the action. The simple but spectacular set, designed by Christine Jones, suggests an epically scaled dive club, its looming walls papered in punk posters and pimpled by television screens, on which frenzied video collages flicker throughout the show. (They're the witty work of Darrel Maloney.)
Who's the American idiot being referred to? Well, as that curtain slowly rose, we heard the familiar voice of George W. Bush break through a haze of television chatter: "Either you are with us, or with the terrorists." That kind of talk could bring out the heedless rebel in any kid, particularly one who is already feeling itchy at the lack of prospects in his dreary suburban burg.
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Concept gives iOS icons the Live Tile treatment
0. phoneArena 02 Nov 2012, 01:37 posted on
It is no secret that the user experience and design of iOS on the iPhone and other "i-devices" is dated...
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1. Lift_Off (Posts: 152; Member since: 04 Apr 2012)
This would be awesome! Very clean looking too. Looks alot like WP8 though but I guess its supposed to
9. anywherehome (Posts: 971; Member since: 13 Dec 2011)
no! never! Google has to sue Apple if IT uses widgets!!!
no way iOS will become a real smartphone not just with icons!
iOS will become exact copy of Android soon like he has already been stealing all the time, see the facts: goo.gl/0rnAF
40. nwright94 (unregistered)
I'm pretty sure androids open sourced nature prevents them from suing people over widgets. Windows 7 had widgets and technically iOS has "widgets" in the notification screen. If google could sue apple over UI design features, they would've been sued awhile ago for the notifications.
46. anywherehome (Posts: 971; Member since: 13 Dec 2011)
Im joking....I know the "widgets" from Vista :)
But open source doesnt mean it can not be patented ;)
50. rudlie (Posts: 205; Member since: 13 Mar 2012)
Widget already exists for along time, even windows vista has the desktop widgets. Mac os x has desktop widgets. Stop claim the widget display is android's. You are morrons, hahahaha
51. anywherehome (Posts: 971; Member since: 13 Dec 2011)
Can you read? Read previous comment ;)
21. darac (Posts: 2156; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
It doesn't look anything like WP and entirely like widgets on android
55. XPERIA-KNIGHT (unregistered)
yep thats about right...........you would have to, once again, be a blind fool to believe this looks like wp tiles and even if it did.......wouldnt that give microsoft the right to .....what is that word im looking for? ........Sue?
29. MeoCao (unregistered)
Live tile is just a gimmick:
1. You have to look at the screen all the time to get the information b-c the information appears on the screen only briefly.
2. You have constantly jumping from page to page to check with live tiles' updates and hope you don't miss anything in between.
3. You need a great memory to remember all the bits of information.
4. You can't act on the information from live tiles.
So you can see that live tiles are virtually useless and what is the point to use the system anywhere?
34. JamesHunt (Posts: 37; Member since: 01 Oct 2012)
For you everything about WP is a gimmick.. atleast your recent comments suggests that.. i have never owned an android device before , so i cannot comment on those widgets. but yeah i own lumia 800 , so yeah live tiles are useful for me. I do believe that microsoft should give us a bit more control over the content shown.
39. lubba (Posts: 1313; Member since: 17 Jan 2011)
I'd say it's not a gimmick. Live tile is only in its infancy. There's alot of potential. You just have to imagine the possibilities. Two things I look forward too are in video tiles and 3D.
2. Savage (unregistered)
This would absolutely kill Android.
Oh, and bring customization too. Apple should hire him.
3. dickwyn (Posts: 621; Member since: 07 May 2012)
yeah this is just some simple customization. android phones can do more diverse things
4. Savage (unregistered)
Haha, they should make iOS more and more similar to what Androids offer. That will probably save iOS.
13. abdane (Posts: 494; Member since: 07 Oct 2011)
they should, but they won't... because if they do, say " Hi " to lag everywhere in iOS !
31. Aeires (unregistered)
You just nailed Apple's greatest hurdle, it's easy to make an OS fast and smooth with it's limited, but when you start to really open it up, speed issues become a problem. Up until now, Apple has never had to deal with that, let's see how a hardware designer figures that out.
37. Kronic (banned) (Posts: 321; Member since: 11 Sep 2012)
Save ios? They are already doing great! There are only two good OSs ios and android
47. anywherehome (Posts: 971; Member since: 13 Dec 2011)
If Apple wipe 5 year gap in innovation.....maybe but improbable .... :)
53. aahmed215 (Posts: 165; Member since: 18 Jun 2012)
So if Apple makes iOS more like Android, it will kill Android? Do you understand what tradeoffs are? The closer iOS gets to Android, the more it loses its special advantages. And to be able to compete with Android, it will need a boost in hardware, which will drive the price of the phone even further up (or lose the very high margins).
5. OptimusOne (Posts: 694; Member since: 22 May 2012)
i like it
6. Goldeneye (Posts: 419; Member since: 22 Jan 2011)
Pure innovation, so impressed! how nobody thought about this before???
Microsoft and Google, don't even think about it, your asses will get sued!
7. Savage (unregistered)
Too bad, they already have it.
11. ZeusOne (Posts: 3; Member since: 02 Nov 2012)
Microsoft did LIVE TILES first and Google did Widgets first...and when some company combines both and uses it...it's called INNOVATION!
17. Astro551 (Posts: 46; Member since: 18 Dec 2011)
sarcasm no?
48. Goldeneye (Posts: 419; Member since: 22 Jan 2011)
Yeap and aperently a bunch thought I was serious lol.
27. nobelset (Posts: 270; Member since: 17 Oct 2012)
You sound like those brain washed people in the movies. I like that, keeps me laughing my ass off.
8. wendygarett (unregistered)
Nice but...
Isn't this called 'steal'??
I think apple can do better than that lol
33. someones4 (Posts: 625; Member since: 16 Sep 2012)
Poor wendy...so naive.
This IS the best Apple can do....The worse they can do is to sue everyone including irrelevant companies... Oh..Too late
41. someones4 (Posts: 625; Member since: 16 Sep 2012)
Sorry if i hurt your feelings, Wendy :) Peace.
10. someones4 (Posts: 625; Member since: 16 Sep 2012)
THIEVES!!! BANDITS!!! THIS IS ROBBERY. Apple is just asking for it now.
and aren't those live tiles basically larger widgets? albeit more functional and customizable
12. ediedade (Posts: 6; Member since: 03 Jan 2012)
Apple the copycat
14. pikapowerize (banned) (Posts: 1869; Member since: 03 May 2012)
if this will happen... i think buying the next iPhone (iPhone 6? 5S?) with iOS 7.... apple might not be called stagnant and redundant... coz all the iOS version -- all the same!! nothing's new with its looks!
but if this will happen.. it will make the next iPhone/iPad/iPad mini worth to buy!
15. JamesHunt (Posts: 37; Member since: 01 Oct 2012)
No offence to anyone, but after watching WP8 in action ,everything else looks outdated. It may not be the best, but yeah its great..!
16. xfire99 (Posts: 829; Member since: 14 Mar 2012)
Only missing S-Pen and the name iCopy and iSteal.
Pure innovation by Google, erhmm...Samsung...errrrr Apple it's. The only company that can make revolutionary devices with pure retina display experience. *cough* *cough*
30. someones4 (Posts: 625; Member since: 16 Sep 2012)
you forgot the large iSh**p attached to the phone.
18. Meeii (Posts: 10; Member since: 30 Oct 2012)
Microsoft do it - Ugly! Just plain bad! Can't stand tiles!
Apple do it - innovation, so impressed! Best thing ever done!
20. darac (Posts: 2156; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
Man, android already has exactly this.
Also, live tiles are completely generic looking
19. darac (Posts: 2156; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
How is this in any way different than automatically resizeable Widgets on android??!?
23. JamesHunt (Posts: 37; Member since: 01 Oct 2012)
Ya we have to see it as an inspiration from Android. But apple does not believe in showing itself "inspired" by others.
22. JamesHunt (Posts: 37; Member since: 01 Oct 2012)
Evolution is great ! but bragging about your evolution and terming it as revolution is not the right way. If apple does take ideas from other places ,its good for overall competition,but as we know apple will brag about its self proclaimed innovation.
24. spiderpig2894 (Posts: 588; Member since: 10 Jan 2012)
tsk. Look at Apple fans, they say widgets are not so important in Android now they say THIS IS INNOVATION! whatever! It is like we don't need big screens like Android now they are saying WOW! 4 INCH SCREEN IN IPHONE IS INNOVATIVE! -______-
25. amozhi (Posts: 130; Member since: 23 Oct 2012)
Revolutionary concept...Apple please patent it and then sue google and samsung for copying it.
35. someones4 (Posts: 625; Member since: 16 Sep 2012)
Is it sarcasm? You people should really start marking sarcasm posts. Really hard to tell.
26. angelesmec (unregistered)
It would be better if Apple will just stick with the current iOS design as of the moment just add a few improvements but not live tiles or widgets alike.
45. GeekMovement (Posts: 2156; Member since: 09 Sep 2011)
More like it would be better if Apple just sticks with their "famous rows of icons." They gotta be too proud of their invention to ditch it and start thinking about copying other platforms.
32. Aeires (unregistered)
Lol, it's just an artist's concept. This doesn't mean Apple is going to do this.
36. darkkjedii (Posts: 21274; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)
This is a concept, it has nothing to do with apple.
38. Captain_Doug (Posts: 997; Member since: 10 Feb 2012)
These are more like widgets. You can't interact with live tiles.
42. nghtwng68 (Posts: 92; Member since: 26 Nov 2009)
Would definitely update iOS into the present in mobile OS platforms.
The static grid of icons on multiple pages is old. Even Nokia Belle is more interesting than iOS right now, but a merger of widgets and live tiles would be great for multi-tasking on iOS.
44. GeekMovement (Posts: 2156; Member since: 09 Sep 2011)
Where's gallito and myx? Mark my words:
APPLE IS SECRETLY ENVYING ANDROID and they're going to take any measures to get closer.
49. santijosanchez (Posts: 12; Member since: 04 Oct 2012)
to whoever wrote this, those aren't live tiles, those are WIDGETS
52. napsterO6 (Posts: 18; Member since: 25 Jun 2012)
if it happens..... then iphone can make it upto the top !!


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The Belgian Court of Appeals ruled this week that Google is infringing the copyrights of Belgian newspapers by linking to and posting portions of the articles on Google news. Google must remove all articles and photos from Belgian newspapers in French and German or face a fine of 20,000 euros per day.
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A real backward step and another sign how some of the traditional news outlets are struggling. I am a firm believer of market forces and want to see firms that don't want search engines aggregating content simply opting out (paywalls / banning robots) while others, pleased for the increased exposure and traffic, embrace the inevitable changes.
Yeah, let Google filter out/remove all references to Belgian Press, or better charge them for the privilege of receiving traffic from Google. Its not only in the interests of the consumers but even more so for the publishers to get listed in in Google searches.
If the newspapers don't want to appear in Google News, they just need to block Google in their robots.txt files. (Google it if you don't know about robots.txt).
The fact that they have not is proof that this is just grandstanding and/or a money grab... In other words, they _do_ want to appear in Google News, and this lawsuit is just to obtain attention or money.
Never used Google News myself, but when I tried this morning, I found very brief snippets, clear attribution to the source, and a link to the source content provider. I don't see the problem ... though I don't see any (C) notices either.
I guess this would be a problem when the entire (source) article is only 250 words or so. And for Internet readers who have the attention span of a housefly and don't click links. Of course, if those online news sources had their stront together, they'd have interstitial ads intercept users coming from Google, then redirect to the content after their site had made the Belgian equivalent of the "cha-ching" sound.
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