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Proteostasis Therapeutics expanded its collaboration with The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) to encompass an additional funded research project focused on biology and the testing of small molecule modulators of protein folding and trafficking for the treatment of cystic fibrosis (CF). This expansion follows the company's recently announced collaboration with the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to research, develop, and commercialize therapies to treat patients with the most common mutation of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR), Delta F508.
Working with the laboratory of William Balch, Ph.D., professor of cell biology at TSRI, scientists at Proteostasis Therapeutics have used an integrated platform composed of genomics, proteomics, functional assays, and medicinal chemistry to identify compounds that regulate key folding and trafficking pathways in the cell. To date, according to the company, these compounds have demonstrated significant efficacy in CF-specific cellular models. Under the expanded collaboration, Proteostasis Therapeutics will provide funding for this research and will have exclusive rights to license any technology originating from the research.
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Name: Brooke Niemeyer
Determination is a trait Brooke has certainly mastered. Since deciding to pursue journalism, each education and career move she has made is focused on becoming the next great journalist. After getting her start as a writer for her junior high newspaper, Brooke went on to become the editor-in-chief of her high school newspaper; interned at a radio station, two local newspapers, a TV station and an advertising agency; wrote for her college newspaper, and a volunteer for Westminster's V-Day events.
As publicity coordinator for Westminster's V-Day campaign, a global movement to stop crimes against women, Brooke generated campaign the highest amount of publicity on and off campus—she was even interviewed by a local morning radio show. This same radio show still keeps in touch with her and often features her on the show.
Brooke is at NYU now, but she says she wouldn't have wanted to go anywhere besides Westminster for her undergrad experience. "I decided to attend Westminster for various reasons," she says. "First and foremost, I wanted to attend a college where I would get the best education, especially in the field that I am hoping to have a career in."
Westminster stands out because of the intimate learning environment. "I knew I would not be a lost number," she says. "I knew that professors would be there to help and guide me through my education, and also work with me in figuring out where I want to go career-wise."
Brooke knew Westminster was different, but it wasn't until starting that she understood the Westminster experience. The college offered opportunities larger institutions were unable to.
An experience imprinted in Brooke's college memories is from freshman year. "During my first semester at Westminster, I had breakfast with a few other students and the President of the school, Michael Bassis. He asked us about ourselves and was genuinely interested in what each of us had to say."
Brooke values her Westminster experience. "College is a change to step outside your boundaries and do things you wouldn't normally do. You grow as a person through gaining new experiences and making new friends," she says. "Westminster is a place where students have an opportunity to be who they are and be accepted for the person they currently are or are becoming. There are lots of opportunities at Westminster for students to be social and involved while figuring out what your social needs are."
Though Westminster wasn't far from home, Brooke knew she would be moving out after taking a campus tour—ultimately living on campus all four years. "The atmosphere is unique to anywhere I've ever been; we're our own little community," she says. As an undergraduate, Brooke took a general approach to journalism. She majored in communication because it allowed her to explore other opportunities. In the end, she decided journalism was her destiny.
Brooke chose NYU's Reporting New York program because of its prestige, excellent professors, unbeatable location and the emphasis their journalism program offers. She is one of eight students around the world to be accepted into the specialized program—which focuses on city reporting. "This program reminds me of Westminster in that we are a small group with lots of individualized attention and the professors know our names," she says. Excited to be in New York and at her dream school, Brooke—deliberate, dedicated and determined—will surely be a success.

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ALBANY – Three Buffalo lawmakers said Wednesday that New York's plan to choose the highest bidder to produce driver's licenses with black-and-white images is unacceptable, while the state defended the company, saying that it provides the most secure product.
"If it is an overbid, [it's] unacceptable considering the problems we have with Hurricane Sandy, the devastation we see on the Eastern Seaboard," said Republican Sen. Mark J. Grisanti. "We need every penny we can get to help out the victims of Hurricane Sandy."
Sen. Timothy M. Kennedy and Assemblyman Sean M. Ryan, both Democrats, also asked for an explanation.
"New York taxpayers deserve answers when it comes to decisions over how their hard-earned dollars are spent. That's why the [Department of Motor Vehicles] needs to explain the reasons why they awarded this new contract at such a higher cost," Kennedy said.
"At a time when New York State is looking to save money wherever possible, I am shocked that the DMV would award a contract that costs taxpayers an extra $38 million," Ryan said. The DMV has tentatively selected a Canadian company for a contract that would cost $38 million more than the current vendor, according to court papers. The State Comptroller's Office is reviewing the $88.5 million contact after the apparent losing bidders filed protests and a lawsuit saying they met all the specifications with color photos but were dismissed unfairly at a cost to taxpayers.
Wednesday, the state defended its decision.
"The two losing bidders were not selected because their products were inferior with respect to document security and anti-tampering measures that are standard for licenses," state Motor Vehicles Commissioner Barbara J. Fiala said in a statement. "Since the driver's license serves as a de facto national identification card, it is extremely important that the documents we provide the citizens of New York are the most secure and least able to be altered or counterfeited.
"We are confident that the vendor we have chosen will provide the best value for the citizens of New York," Fiala said.
The driver's license contract is rebid under the federal "Real ID" measure from the Department of Homeland Security to make licenses more secure, and more states are expected to face similar contract decisions.
The Canadian company, CBN Secure Technology, is regarded as one of the leaders in the competitive industry of providers of secure government documents. Its other contracts include printing currency and passports.
The DMV chose CBN in a scoring system that put emphasis on the security of the technology.
The DMV tentatively awarded the contract to the highest bidder 10 months after New York advised the current vendor, De La Rue North America Inc., that because of "significant budgetary constraints," the state would have to reduce the cost of the contract, according to the court filings. As a result, De La Rue submitted a bid 10 percent lower for the new, eight-year contract, which ended up being nearly $38 million less than CBN's bid of $88.5 million. De La Rue, based in England, and Massachusetts-based MorphoTrustUSA, another unsuccessful bidder, want a rebid. They contend that the bidding was unfair because they didn't know the DMV was interested in the black-and-white photo technology, according to a lawsuit filed in State Supreme Court in Albany. If they did, the companies contend, they could have provided a lower cost to New York taxpayers.


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quote: As far as being religious, it usually correlates with a lower IQ level according to studies, so I would want a smarter president.
quote: correlation on IQ and religiousity
quote: With all their other qualities being the same, a religious person is inferior to a non-religious person. Simple as that.
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quote: In fact, there was a debate about that in the UK between Dawkins/Fry and the Church, where the Church convincingly lost.
quote: Science does not lose to religion in any argument based on facts by the way, and it never will by definition.
quote: However, history has shown us that overtly religious leaders have never benefited their people.
quote: Funny since most of the smartest people I know are religious and most of the ones that I know that fit the "dumb as a box of rocks" category are the non-religious ones.
quote: I am unaware of any studies performed with a sufficient level of rigor that would say one way or the other.
quote: Still there are a lot of very good aspects that Christianity can bring to people, but there also many bad aspects that causes people to believe in certain completely illogical things blindly....
quote: "Secular values under attack"? First off, secular is the opposite of "values".
quote: The greatest modern Democrat of our time was a Roman Catholic. I mean, come on. Did it hurt America one bit?
quote: But the truth is quite the opposite. Many of the values you yourself hold dear are created/established by a mainly secular document (the Constitution).
quote: I've seen many many President's come and go, and not once can I recall a time where their religious beliefs impacted anything. Certainly not me personally. But every time a Republican candidate comes along, it's the same old fear mongering tactics from the left about religion.
quote: Prejudice and bigotry takes all forms.
quote: But every time a Republican candidate comes along, it's the same old fear mongering tactics from the left about religion.
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The weekly global musical expedition is scheduled to begin on Friday, January 1, 2010 at 11:00 pm et/pt. On that night, Pink's high-flying "Funhouse" tour kicks off an itinerary packed with A-list performers set to roll out the first quarter of the new year including U2, Madonna, Lady Gaga, Green Day, Kanye West, Kelly Clarkson, Black Eyed Peas, and more. Jim Shearer, of VH1's "Top 20 Video Countdown," will present the series.
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5 Ridiculous Myths You Probably Believe About the Midwest
I grew up in the Midwest. I was born in Peoria, Illinois, and lived there until I was 19. Go Bears. From there, I moved to Madison, Wisconsin, for a few years, and then to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, for way too long before finally fleeing the region for good in 2011. You can probably tell from the wording in that last sentence that the Midwest wasn't my favorite among the places I've lived.
That said, it wasn't quite as terrible as a lot of people who've never set foot in a "flyover state" seem to think it might be. It also wasn't (and still isn't) nearly as idyllic as people who imagine the Midwest as nothing but an endless stretch of farmland might expect. That's how being in the middle works, you see.
We talk about some of the more prevalent misconceptions about life in the Midwest on this week's Unpopular Opinion podcast, where I'm joined by comics Mo Mandel (Chelsea Lately, Mo vs. The World podcast) and Jeff May (reads a lot of comic books).
Listen to it right here on the site, download it by clicking here, or check it out on iTunes and Stitcher. We kick things off by talking about one of the biggest Midwest misconceptions of all ...
#5. Crime Is Less of a Problem
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Middle America is often associated with a nerve-soothing lack of criminal activity. If you've ever expressed an opinion like this to someone who's lived there, you were probably met with a defense along the lines of "Yeah, well what about Chicago?" That's a completely valid response. People haven't taken to calling it "Chiraq" for nothing.
There were more people killed by gun violence in Chicago than American soldiers killed in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2012. Just a reminder, we were at war with Afghanistan for every single one of those years. In case you're wondering, the Windy City's total was around 5,000, while the war claimed closer to 2,000 lives during the same time.
So, the Midwest "has that going for it" when it comes to crime, so to speak. It's also worth adding to that argument that frequent "Murder Capital of the United States" contenders like St. Louis, Missouri; East St. Louis, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; and Gary, Indiana are all located in the central time zone as well.
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People are lining up to buy ($1,000) homes in Detroit!
Well, Detroit isn't, but it's still in the Midwest, so shut the fuck up, comments section. Anyway, with almost no exception, the kind of crime that causes murder rates like the ones those cities frequently experience is also the kind of crime that's pretty easy to avoid. A lot of it is gang-related violence that's contained to particular sections of the city. Once you hit those sleepy, rural areas where buildings and people are few and far between, things get a lot less terrifying, right?
Wrong. In fact, depending on where you are, it could actually be far worse. Like so many of life's other major calamities, the problem is oil.
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Watford City, North Dakota, is the new West Baltimore.
As it turns out, there's a ton of it in North Dakota. The Parshall Oil Field was discovered there in 2006 and immediately produced a glut of readily available, relatively high-paying jobs.
In a lot of ways, it's been a great thing. North Dakota currently boasts the lowest unemployment rate in the nation at a mind-blowing 2.6 percent, and its GDP is 29 percent higher than the national average. Fiscally speaking, things are good (to the tune of a $1 billion budget surplus), but in a lot of other ways, the state is falling apart.
See, a lot of those jobs that are available to almost anyone who wants them amount to not a lot more than extremely dangerous and therefore especially lucrative manual labor. For people with a lack of real-world work skills, like, say, hardened criminals, the opportunity is just too good to pass up.
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People are showing up for work faster than places of employment can be built!
So, while wealth and prosperity are on the rise, so are crime rates. We aren't talking small increases, either. In the tiny town of Watford City, whose slogan promises that it's a place where you can "live the good life" and boasts a population smaller than that of the high school I graduated from (1,700 as of the 2010 census), crime is up by motherfucking 565 percent.
It's also bleeding into neighboring states. Roosevelt County in Montana has seen an 855 percent increase in arrests since the oil boom started. It's not just bar fights and property crimes, either. The website city-data.com ranks crime rates by city on a scale of 0 to 1,000, with 1,000 being the most violent. They list the national average for violent crime in 2012 at 214.0. How does Watford City compare? A little less than 300 points higher, with a relatively insane 502.7.
"It was the kind of town where no one even bothered to lock their doors at night ..."
That number doesn't put Watford City in league with the Oaklands of the world or anything, but it does put it ahead of New York City, Los Angeles, Boston, and plenty of other famous crime movie locations. In the name of saving the best statistic for last, have a look at how Watford City compared to the national average for violent crime just five short years ago:
Hooray, progress!
Also, meth. It's always been a problem in the Midwest, and it's really a problem now that everyone in North Dakota can afford to smoke it without going broke. The drug trade in North Dakota is such that actual Mexican drug cartels have set up shop in that area. If that sounds like the kind of ghost story that authorities like to spread around to scare people without providing any real proof, direct your attention to Project Safe Bakken, a joint effort between the FBI and police in North Dakota, Montana, and Canada that's aimed at curtailing the boom in drug activity in the region. "Bakken" refers to the below-ground rock formation where the Parshall Oil Field was discovered.
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But it looks so safe already!
This might still seem like a distant problem that only impacts a small area of the country, but the Parshall Oil Field was discovered using methods we haven't always had at our disposal, and it's being used to look for oil in all sorts of Midwest areas (and possibly causing earthquakes in the process). It will work again somewhere else, and probably lots of somewhere elses after that one. If you think oil destroyed the country when we went looking for it in the Middle East, North Dakota is just a preview of how bad things are likely to get now that we're looking for it here at home.
#4. Hot Weather Is Rare
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When I lived in South Dakota, without fail, the first thing a person would ask when calling from out of state was "What's the weather like there right now?" Of course, the expected response was something relating to it being significantly colder in my part of the world, and that was usually pretty close to the truth. Indeed, winters in the Midwest are fucking horrible, and the cold and snow are everything people make them out to be and more. Also, the further north you travel, the longer winter lasts. Snow in April is not at all unusual, just like the Prince song said.
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That said, it's also hot as shit for a good part of the year. Summers in the Midwest are just as brutal as the winters. Since I've moved to Los Angeles, I honestly don't recall a single day when the temperature outside reached 100 degrees or more. It happened all the time in South Dakota. To give you an idea of how common it was, have a gander at this list of the hottest cities in America, ranked by the number of 100-degree days they experience each year. See how San Antonio, Texas, averages eight triple-digit-temperature days each year? In 2012, there were nine 100-degree days in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and all of them happened between the months of June and August. That means temperatures hit triple digits an average of once every 10 days that summer. Fuck. That.
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Sure, 2012 was an especially hot year for everyone, but summers around those parts are generally terrible, even without record-setting temperatures, mostly because it's insanely humid. Have you ever been inside a sauna? It's like that, except you're wearing clothes.
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So like this, if she was wearing a parka and a meth habit.
For further proof that weather in the Midwest isn't a nonstop parade of single-digit temperatures, check out this list of the average temperatures of 100 cities. Sioux Falls' 73-degree average in July is enough to put it ahead of seemingly warmer locales like Reno, Nevada (71.3). If you move down to areas like St. Louis, which is about as south as you can get without actually being in the South, the averages are closer to the 80s.
So, you're wrong. The weather doesn't suck in the Midwest during the winter; the weather sucks in the Midwest all year long.
#3. Everything Is Rural
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Yeah, so here is where the "What about Chicago?" defense is the only real option. Well, Chicago, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Columbus (foreshadowing alert), Detroit, Milwaukee, and plenty of other smaller but still not farm-filled cities can be found in the Midwest. Almost every state has at least one relatively urban-ish city to its credit; some of them have a lot more than you probably realize.
Take Ohio, for example. That state doesn't decide so many presidential elections for nothing. A lot of people live there. I know, I don't understand it either, but it's true. In fact, if you remove their largest cities from the argument, you're liable to run into a lot more farmland in a state like New York than you would in Ohio. Check out this population comparison between the largest cities in Ohio and New York:
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As you can see, among each respective state's next four most-populated areas, Ohio wins every time. I mean, obviously, Columbus is no New York City, though. Columbus is way more dangerous, for one thing. Here's another comparison of NYC and Columbus from a website called neighborhoodscout.com:
Again, the comedy writes itself here.
That "crime index" number in green works on a scale from 0 to 100, with 100 being the safest a city can possibly be. You'll note that, despite having one-tenth of the population of New York, you're a lot more likely to be the victim of a violent crime in Columbus, Ohio. How come John Mellencamp never sings about that kind of shit?
That's all beside the point, though, because we've already talked about crime. What really matters is this: Not everyone who lives in the state of New York can claim they reside in New York City, and once you're outside those boundaries, the rest of New York is a lot more Buffalo than Brooklyn.
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Even that's probably a little too generous. I lived in upstate New York for about six months, and it was far and away the least "urban" environment I've ever called home. Nevertheless, I guarantee you approximately 99 percent of the people who live there not only assume 100 percent of the people in Ohio live on a farm, but that it's also somehow more of a farm than the one they live on.


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Pit Bulls & Parolees: Season 4 DVD
This season, Tia faces her greatest challenge yet: rebuilding Villalobos after moving the entire operation to New Orleans. With her family, trusted parolees and a crew of new parolees by her side, unexpected challenges are met as she pulls out all the stops to run the rescue center in an entirely new environment. But no matter what struggles the team faces, the dedication to providing rescued pit bulls with safe and loving homes remains relentless.
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- Run Time: 688 Minutes
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- Studio: Discovery Channel
- DVD Release Date: July 29, 2014
- Cast: Jake, Mariah Torres, Tania Torres
- Genre: Documentary
- Color: Color
- Release Date: 2012
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He's acknowledged as perhaps the greatest rhythm guitarist in rock & roll, but
Keith Richards
is even more legendary for his near-miraculous ability to survive the most debauched excesses of the rock & roll lifestyle. His prodigious consumption of drugs and alcohol has been well documented, and would likely have destroyed anyone with a less amazing endurance level. On-stage with
the Rolling Stones
, he epitomized guitar-hero cool as the quiet, stoic alter ego to
Mick Jagger
's extroverted frontman, a widely imitated image made all the more fascinating by his tightrope-walking hedonism. Yet that part of
' mystique often overshadows his considerable musical legacy. Arguably the finest blues-based rhythm guitarist to hit rock & roll since his idol
Chuck Berry
knocked out some of the most indelible guitar riffs in history, and he did it so often and with such apparent effortlessness that it was easy to take his songwriting skills for granted. His lean, punchy, muscular sound was the result of his unerring sense of groove and intuitive use of space within songs, all of which played a major part in laying the groundwork for hard rock. Never intensely interested in soloing,
preferred to work the groove using open-chord tunings drawn from the Delta blues, and his guitars were often strung with only five strings for cleaner fingering, which made it difficult for cover bands to duplicate his distinctive sound precisely. For all his rock-star notoriety,
was perfectly happy in the confines of a group, and thus was the last
Rolling Stone
to release a side-project solo album; his 1988 solo debut appeared more than a quarter century after he co-founded the band that earned him the nickname "Mr. Rock & Roll."
was born December 18, 1943, in Dartford, Kent, on the southern outskirts of London. When he was just an infant, his family had to be temporarily evacuated from their home during the Nazi bombing campaign of 1944. In 1951, while attending primary school,
first met and befriended
, although they would be split up three years later when they moved on to different schools. By this age,
had already become interested in music, and was an especially big fan of
Roy Rogers
; in his very early adolescence, he sang in a choir that performed for the Queen herself, although he was forced to quit when his voice changed. Around that time, he became interested in American rock & roll and began playing guitar, with initial guidance from his grandfather. Behavior problems at school led to
' expulsion in 1959, but the headmaster thought he might find a niche as an artist, and
was sent to Sidcup Art School. There he met future
Pretty Things
Dick Taylor
, who at the time was playing in a blues band with
. Discovering their new mutual interest,
struck up their friendship all over again, and
joined their band not long after. Over the next couple of years, that band evolved into
the Rolling Stones
, who officially debuted on-stage in the summer of 1962 (by which time
had left school).
The rest was history -- initially a blues and R&B covers band,
the Stones
branched out into original material penned by
. The duo took some time and practice to develop into professional-quality songwriters, but by 1965 they'd hit their stride. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" made them superstars in the States as well as the U.K., boasting one of rock's all-time great guitar riffs, which
played into a tape recorder in the middle of the night and didn't recall writing when he heard the tape the next morning. With their menacing, aggressively sexual image,
the Stones
became targets for British police bent on quelling this new threat to public decency, and
suffered his first drug bust in 1967 when police raided his residence and found amphetamines in the coat pocket of
's girlfriend, singer
Marianne Faithfull
was convicted of allowing the activity on his premises and sentenced to a year in prison, but public furor over the trumped-up nature of the charges and the purely circumstantial evidence prompted a hasty reversal of the decision. The same year,
hooked up with bandmate
Brian Jones
' former girlfriend, model/actress Anita Pallenberg; although the two never officially married, they remained together (more or less) for the next 12 years, and had two children (Marlon, in 1968, and Angela, in 1972).
After the death of
Brian Jones
in 1969,
the Stones
became a more straightforward, hard-rocking outfit, and
' guitar took center stage more than ever before. By this era, he'd taken to calling himself
Keith Richard
, simply because he thought it sounded better without the
. Privately, the band was sinking further into decadence, clearly audible on its early-'70s masterpieces
Sticky Fingers
and Exile on Main St.. However,
' burgeoning heroin addiction began to affect the consistency of the band's recordings for the next few years. Additionally, he ran into more legal troubles; his French villa was the subject of a drug raid in 1972, as was his British residence the following year. (Rumors dating from this era that
had all of his blood replaced in a cleanup effort, while entertaining, were not true.) Over 1976-1977,
entered the studio for a few solo sessions, but the only result to see the light of day was the Christmas single "Run Rudolph Run" (issued in 1978). Perhaps the lack of productivity was due to the fact that
was in the middle of the most difficult period of his life.
In 1976,
' infant son Tara, his third child by Pallenberg, died suddenly; the official cause was SIDS, although unsubstantiated rumors about the couple's drug abuse playing a factor circulated as well. In early 1977,
was busted for coke, and faced the most serious charges of his life when, in Toronto, he was caught in possession of heroin. He narrowly escaped serving jail time, agreeing to perform a charity concert for the blind and enter drug rehabilitation in the United States. The scare convinced him to clean up, and when
the Stones
returned in 1978 with
Some Girls
, it was acclaimed as their strongest, most focused work in years, and helped rejuvenate their popularity as an arena rock attraction. Things went sailing along smoothly for the next few years, and
even officially married for the first time in 1983, wedding Patti Hansen, who would bear him two more daughters, Theodora and Alexandra (he and Pallenberg had finally split in 1979). However, around the same time,
the Stones
should take a new direction more in line with contemporary pop;
refused, and
embarked on a solo career that began to take priority over
the Stones
. It ignited a very public feud between the two, and rumors of
the Stones
' imminent demise swirled over the next few years. When
refused to tour behind 1986's
Dirty Work
in order to record his second solo album,
retaliated by going out on his own, forming a backing band he dubbed
the Xpensive Winos
released his first solo album,
Talk Is Cheap
, in 1988. Both critically and commercially, it was a far greater success than
Primitive Cool
. Reviews were generally quite complimentary, calling it a solid rock & roll record; plus, buoyed by the minor hit single and MTV favorite "Take It So Hard,"
Talk Is Cheap
went gold.
embarked on a supporting tour that produced the concert album
Live at the Hollywood Palladium
, released three years later, and his success convinced
to return to the fold (of course, the relative failure of his own solo venture helped). Their future thus seemingly assured,
the Stones
had their biggest success in some time with the 1989 album
Steel Wheels
and its blockbuster supporting tour. In the early '90s,
once again began working on solo projects, but this time with the understanding that nothing took precedence over
the Stones
' second studio album,
Main Offender
, was issued in 1992, and again received fairly solid notices, although it didn't get quite the same commercial exposure.
returned to
the Rolling Stones
for 1994's Voodoo Lounge and then spent the better part of the next two decades within
the Stones
' orbit as they regularly toured and sometimes recorded. After 2005's A Bigger Bang, studio work for
the Stones
slowed -- they'd polish up some outtakes for deluxe reissues of Exile on Main St. and
Some Girls
in the 2010s -- allowing
to pursue some extracurricular activities. He appeared on various records, usually ones made by his blues or rock heroes, and had a cameo as Johnny Depp's pirate father in 2007's
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
. His next big project was the publication of his weighty autobiography
in October 2010. Acclaimed as one of the best rock memoirs,
was a hit and helped shore up
' reputation as a sharp, incisive musician and raconteur. The Rolling Stones began to celebrate their 50th anniversary in 2012, playing a handful of big shows, and they continued touring into 2015. During all this,
began work on his third album, once again playing with his band the X-Pensive Winos. Entitled Crosseyed Heart, the record saw release on September 18, 2015, accompanied by the release of a documentary called
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2003: China launches Shenzhou 5, its first manned space mission. China became the third country in the world to have independent human spaceflight capability after Russia and the United States.
1999: The movie "Fight Club," starring Edward Norton, Brad Pitt and Helena Bonham Carter and directed by David Fincher, premieres in theaters. Based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk, the movie became one of the most controversial and talked-about films of 1999 and struggled at the box office, but became a cult favorite once it was released on video.
1997: The jet-propelled car ThrustSSC sets a new world land speed record, reaching a speed of 763 mph and becoming the first car to officially break the sound barrier.
1993: South Africa's President F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress President Nelson Mandela (seen here in 1992) are named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to end the apartheid system in South Africa.
1991: Clarence Thomas is confirmed as a U.S. Supreme Court justice by a 52-48 vote in the Senate, the narrowest margin for approval in more than a century.
1990: Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.
1989: Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL, passing Gordie Howe's 1,850 career points with goal to tie a game between his current team, the Los Angeles Kings, and his former team, the Edmonton Oilers, at 4-4. He would score again in overtime to give the Kings the win. By the time he retired in 1999, Gretzky had collected a total of 2,857 points in his career.
1977: "Slip Slidin' Away," by Paul Simon is released. The single, one of two new songs on the compilation album "Greatest Hits, Etc.," would become a top five hit for Simon.
1976: Democrat Walter F. Mondale and Republican Bob Dole face off at the Alley Theater in Houston for the first debate between vice-presidential nominees.
1975: Singer-songwriter Ginuwine, one of R&B's top artists during the late 1990s and early 2000s, is born Elgin Baylor Lumpkin in Washington, D.C. Some of his hit songs include "Pony," "Differences" and "In Those Jeans."
1971: Rick Nelson is booed when he performs newer, country-tinged music during a Rock 'n Roll Revival concert at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Nelson would use the experience to write the hit song "Garden Party," which would reach No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the fall of 1972 and prove to be Nelson's last Top 40 hit on the pop chart.
1969: Actor Dominic West, best known for his role as Detective Jimmy McNulty in the HBO series "The Wire," is born in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. He's also appeared in the movies "28 Days," "300," "Rock Star" and "Hannibal Rising," and in the Showtime series "The Affair."
1968: Stevie Wonder's "For Once in My Life" is released as a single. Wonder's version of the song would prove to be a top-three hit in the United States in late 1968 and early 1969.
1966: The Black Panther Party is created by Bobby Seale (left) and Huey P. Newton (right) in Oakland, California. The organization initially set forth a doctrine calling primarily for the protection of black neighborhoods from police brutality.
1966: President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a bill creating the Department of Transportation.
1965: David J. Miller burns his draft card at an anti-war rally in Manhattan staged by the Catholic Worker Movement. Three days later, Miller would become the first person arrested under a new amendment to the Selective Service Act that included criminal penalties for anybody who "knowingly destroys, knowingly mutilates" a draft card. Although the act of burning a draft card was defended as a symbolic form of free speech, the U.S. Supreme Court eventually would rule in January 1968 that the federal law was justified and that it was unrelated to the freedom of speech.
1964: Composer Cole Porter, whose musicals include "Anything Goes" and "Kiss Me, Kate," and whose numerous hit songs include "Night and Day," "I Get a Kick Out of You" and "I've Got You Under My Skin," dies of kidney failure at age 73 in Santa Monica, California.
1959: Sarah, Duchess of York, is born Sarah Margaret Ferguson in London, England.
1959: Chef, restaurateur and TV personality Emeril Lagasse, most known for his Food Network shows "Emeril Live" and "Essence of Emeril" as well as catchphrases such as "Kick it up a notch!" and "Bam!," is born in Fall River, Massachusetts.
1956: William J. Brennan Jr. receives a recess appointment to the Supreme Court of the United States by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. As the seventh longest-serving justice in Supreme Court history, he would become known for his outspoken progressive views, including opposition to the death penalty and support for abortion rights.
1955: Actress Tanya Roberts, best known for her role as Julie Rogers on the fifth and final season of "Charlie's Angels" and as Midge Pinciotti on "That '70s Show," is born under the birth name Victoria Leigh Blum in The Bronx, New York. Roberts also has starred in such movies as "The Beastmaster," "A View to a Kill" (pictured) and "Sheena."
1951: The first episode of the sitcom "I Love Lucy," starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance and William Frawley, premieres on TV. Recognized as one of the greatest sitcoms of all time, "I Love Lucy" was the most watched show in the United States in four of its six seasons, and was the first to end its run at the top of the Nielsen ratings, which it did on May 6, 1957.
1946: Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering, who founded the Gestapo and was commander-in-chief of the German Luftwaffe air force during World War II, fatally poisons himself hours before he was to have been executed.
1946: Singer-songwriter and pianist Richard Carpenter, one half of the pop duo group The Carpenters with his sister Karen Carpenter, is born in New Haven, Connecticut. The duo was best known for songs such as "(They Long to Be) Close to You," "We've Only Just Begun" and "Top of the World."
1945: Hall of Fame baseball pitcher Jim Palmer, who won three World Series titles in his 19-year career with the Baltimore Orioles, is born in New York City. Palmer, who also won three Cy Young Awards during his career, was the winningest pitcher in the majors during the 1970s with 186 wins.
1942: Actress and film director Penny Marshall, best known for playing Laverne DeFazio on the sitcom "Laverne and Shirley," is born in The Bronx, New York. Marshall is also known for directing such movies as "Big," "Awakenings" and "A League of Their Own."
1937: "To Have and Have Not" by Ernest Hemingway is published for the first time.
1937: Actress Linda Lavin, best known for playing the title character in the sitcom "Alice" from 1976 to 1985, is born in Portland, Maine.
1928: The airship Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, after its 6,168-mile, 111-hour journey from Friedrichshafen, Germany.
1924: Lee Iacocca, an American businessman known for engineering the Ford Mustang and Ford Pinto cars, and for his revival of the Chrysler Corporation in the 1980s, is born in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
1920: Novelist Mario Puzo, known for his novels about the Mafia, including "The Godfather," which he later co-adapted into the screenplay for the film by Francis Ford Coppola, is born in Manhattan, New York. He died
of heart failure at the age of 78 on July 2, 1999.
1917: Mata Hari, a Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan and accused spy born Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, is executed by firing squad in France under charges of espionage for Germany during World War I.
1888: The "From Hell" letter is sent by a person claiming to be the serial killer known as Jack the Ripper. The letter and a box containing half a human kidney are received the following day by George Lusk, then head of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, a group of local volunteers who patrolled the streets of London's Whitechapel District during the murders.
1881: Author P. G. Wodehouse, best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, is born in Guildford, Surrey, England.
1863: The Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley, which in February 1864 would become the first submarine to sink a ship, sinks during a test, killing its entire crew of eight, including its inventor, Horace L. Hunley.
1860: Grace Bedell, 11, writes a letter to presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln stating that he would look better if he would grow a beard. Lincoln would respond in a letter on Oct, 19, 1860, making no promises. However, within a month, he grew a full beard. He later met with her.
1844: German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, whose influence remains strong today within philosophy, notably in existentialism, post-modernism, and post-structuralism, is born in Röcken-bei-Lützen, Prussia.
1815: Napoleon Bonaparte begins his exile on Saint Helena in the south Atlantic Ocean more than 11,000 miles off the west coast of Africa. He would spend the rest of his life in exile before dying in 1821.
1783: Brothers Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier launch a tethered hot air balloon with Jacques-Étienne as a passenger, marking the first human ascent in a balloon.
70 B.C.: Roman poet Virgil, known for three major works of Latin literature, the "Eclogues," the "Georgics," and the epic "Aeneid," is born in Andes, Cisalpine Gaul, Roman Republic.
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Jony Ive pushing a flatter, simpler iOS design to the Apple design committee
0. phoneArena 21 Mar 2013, 16:49 posted on
It sounds like we may finally get our wish, Apple may finally update the UI of iOS. If you want to be kind, the UI on iOS is consistent; if you don't want to be kind, it's stale. Aside from the notification tray and adding a row of icons, the iOS UI hasn't really changed since the iPhone first hit the market, but it sounds like that is changing. Apparently, Jony Ive is even pushing a flatter, simpler iOS design to the Apple design committee...
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1. g2a5b0e (Posts: 3724; Member since: 08 Jun 2012)
Wait...what? It's possible to make iOS more simple than it already is? Any simpler & I doubt it will qualify for smartphone status anymore.
13. ardent1 (Posts: 2000; Member since: 16 Apr 2011)
If you ever work on an OS, you would know the software is generally bloated and full of bugs. I had a co-worker who a beta-tester for MicroSoft OS, and after a cut-off period, MS stopped fixing bugs.
Also, if you ever talk to any good programmer, i.e. when memory was scarce and expensive, they were forced to write great code. Today, with memory being so damn cheap, great code programming is a lost art.
17. JeffdaBeat (unregistered)
One big way iOS can become a bit simpler is in the look of it. One of the biggest pet peeves Apple employees in Cupertino had was the skeuomorphism in some of the apps. Some were well done while others left you wondering what faux leather had to do with finding my friends. Making these things universal throughout iOS would be an improvement. The iTunes update was a simplification as well, but not in look, but in function. There are a few new ways to look at your media, but overall, iTunes is simpler and easier to navigate. It still has the same features though.
Remember, Apple wants to appeal to as many folks as possible. They want to aim iOS at people who are frustrated with Android or Windows Phone/Windows RT. They aren't really trying to impress die hard Android fans. There is no wooing you guys :-)
But in the end, this is good news. The collaboration between software and hardware is absolutely needed. We'll see more features, more options. Maybe the friendlier environment will lead to better ideas instead of what we saw with Forstall.
Remember, simple may not mean basic function. Simple is consolidating. Making apps work with each other instead of being standalone. Simple is consistency throughout.
21. JeffdaBeat (unregistered)
Apple Insider has a pretty good write up fleshing out my point a bit more if you're interested in reading...http://appleinsider.com/articl
80. Droiddoes (unregistered)
aplle sucks donkey labia
31. Penny (Posts: 1648; Member since: 04 Feb 2011)
Don't know why people thumbed you down JeffdaBeat. Guess people don't like hearing about the fall of skeuomorphism.
I agree with you, they should be aiming for consistency one way or the other. Given what is currently popular, I would wager that they will go the flat route, as suggested by Jony Ive.
42. ZeroCide (Posts: 775; Member since: 09 Jan 2013)
IOS Sucks!!!
60. gallison83 (Posts: 10; Member since: 30 Apr 2012)
Defend your comment, please ZeroCide
73. BitterTruth (unregistered)
Bitter Truth -_-
46. JeffdaBeat (unregistered)
Meh...it's the reason I don't post all that much. It's just gotten to the point where you can't say anything good about Apple without getting thumbed down...even if it does make sense. No conversation anymore.
52. 305Bucko (Posts: 506; Member since: 07 Aug 2011)
I gave up on that a long time ago myself. I mean look at comment 42, how do you reason with ignorance?
I read your comment. I thought it was reasonable. The only problem is, like you said, you cant have a normal discussion here without some trolling all over it.
56. quakan (Posts: 1373; Member since: 02 Mar 2011)
I agree...I've always thought your posts were well written and carefully thought out and I always liked reading your take on stuff but somehow this site became littered with trolls and platform extremists that have dampened the site's overall experience...but hey what do I know.
69. gallison83 (Posts: 10; Member since: 30 Apr 2012)
I agree. Any article lately on PA that mentions Apple but doesn't mention Apple crumbling to pieces in some way leads to a massive flame war. On the flipside, when a PA article highlights a shortcoming at Apple, most of the comments start with "HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" or something like that.
82. roscuthiii (Posts: 2217; Member since: 18 Jul 2010)
Wish you posted more though. While I have my own personal preferences of OS, I try to remain open to any and all possibilities as things develop.
You always seem to deliver an even handed & well reasoned perspective on all topics Apple, even while being an Apple user... which is a rarity on internet forums given the propensity of people to associate their own worth with the worth of their chosen branding (any branding - not specifically Apple) & live vicariously through their devices.
+1 to you.
74. Aeires (unregistered)
From what I've heard out of Apple, Ive hates all the skeuomorphism so it won't be a surprise if it's reduced to a standard background across the OS. Is that what he means by "flatter?" Time will tell, as always with Apple.
22. AnTuTu (Posts: 1580; Member since: 14 Oct 2012)
Now they gonna copy Android, BB10 and WP8 platforms lolz
25. jcarrigan (unregistered)
is there any way the ui on the Iphone could get any simpler? lol
70. gallison83 (Posts: 10; Member since: 30 Apr 2012)
Is there any way that the backend of Android could become as complex as iOS? Android's strength puts most of the control of the experience in the hands of the user and leaves very little for the kernel and backend to manage. iOS does admittedly limit your experience to what can be provided in the App Store, which must be coded by Xcode on a Mac. The trade off here is overall system stability. Facebook may force close on iOS on a weekly basis for me. In my year of ownership of two iPhones I have maybe experienced two times where the entire phone rebooted. Facebook on my Android tablet was able to bring the entire tablet down with a force close until it was updated.
71. ojdidit84 (Posts: 458; Member since: 16 Jul 2011)
I'd just like to know what Android tablet you were using that could be brought to it's knees by Facebook force closing. I've had Facebook force close many a time before they made the native android app but I've never experienced even a phone or my tablet being brought down from a force close of any kind.
81. downphoenix (Posts: 3165; Member since: 19 Jun 2010)
well you're wrong about Android because a lot is actually handled on the backend by the kernal. In fact android apps dont even run native technically but through a virtual machine. This is intentional design so that if an app malfunctions it will not affect the actual OS. Of course, this isn't ALWAYS the case, but that's how its designed to be.
34. lyndon420 (Posts: 4393; Member since: 11 Jul 2012)
Well...if you want to get technical, from the carrier's standpoint, how often do you see the iphone listed under the smartphone category? You won't in Canada anyway.
35. D.Aceveda (Posts: 396; Member since: 30 Jun 2012)
Well said midnight
2. disneydad (Posts: 114; Member since: 26 Mar 2012)
So it will become more like WP?
3. MartianMe (unregistered)
no one cares anymore as long as they don't steal the widgets idea from android.
7. NE_BE (Posts: 19; Member since: 21 Mar 2013)
Half, no wait, over 70% off the people who buy android phones where i work don't know what a widget is, let alone that you can customize them...
If they wanna go simple, that won't be the direction they're going. Or at least it shouldn't be.
In my opinion widgets are small, mini, limited and thus useless versions of apps.
12. kozza3 (Posts: 698; Member since: 17 Oct 2012)
why not educate yourself on how useful widgets are and then pass that knowledge onto your customers?
55. Tuxedo (Posts: 346; Member since: 19 Mar 2013)
I'm an S3 owner, and I see why Android needs all those widgets; you need to be able to easily toggle every single radio and sensor on the device because otherwise, it'll drain the life out of the phone. On the other hand, when I had the iP4, I had almost everything ON and battery life was great. Almost as if iOS took care of it all for you. Who is the smarter phone now? I got to admit iOS did a better job as an OS than Android does on my S3. You literally need to baby this thing. And all of those comments about iOS being just an app launcher... pure ignorance. An OS is much more than a GUI. GUI is just one of the elements of an OS.
57. gallison83 (Posts: 10; Member since: 30 Apr 2012)
I totally agree with you, Tuxedo. Apple has always been minimalist on the UI but EXTREMELY complex on the backend. Most people probably don't realize that iOS is forked from OS X, where a heavy emphasis on efficiency shows through most functions. Being the hardware and software vendor means that your consumer base doesn't have to fret over things like battery life or setting features.
66. infinitemethod (Posts: 149; Member since: 04 Sep 2012)
So I guess the sg3 having over an inch more of screen real estate or it being much more powerful than an iphone 4 has nothing to do with battery drain? Talk about ignorance...
Also, ios is an app launcher os. You still cant even truly multi task with it.
68. gallison83 (Posts: 10; Member since: 30 Apr 2012)
That all depends on how you use it. That extra inch might net a better YouTube experience, but honestly multitasking is best left to something with enough horsepower and screen real estate to actually display it, like 15.6 inches, with a triple core AMD Phenom II, 8 GB of RAM and an SSD with 230/160 mbps read/write. You might have convinced me with only 3G data that multitasking was vital. With LTE data speeds, I can leave threads on my mobile processor dedicated only to the task on the screen with slight dips for an incoming message or email, then I could fly over to the next app and update on an LTE backbone within seconds. Don't bring a steak knife to the forest expecting to clear land. :P Then again, I'm a traditionalist who loves his PC and would rather work from it over a phone.
77. infinitemethod (Posts: 149; Member since: 04 Sep 2012)
I agree with you to an extent, however, I am a power user (have a Note 2) and with the ability to have two apps open at once on that display in or out of the office, I actually get a ton of work done on the device. Of course the sg3 display is smaller, it still has that functionality, which is nice!
78. Tuxedo (Posts: 346; Member since: 19 Mar 2013)
Actually, that's the interesting part; even with the screen off, it will use over half its charge overnight if you leave radios on and the phone unplugged.
Not to mention, the GS3 has a 48% higher capacity battery; that should more than make up for it, but it does not.
79. infinitemethod (Posts: 149; Member since: 04 Sep 2012)
Yeah, that's horrible. My Note 2 lasts more than a day and has very little overnight drain. Maybe 3 or 4%.
61. gallison83 (Posts: 10; Member since: 30 Apr 2012)
Aside from power users, the standard user does not use widgets. The standard user does not root. The standard user pretty much goes for things that they normally would do on their laptop. And most people never realize that you don't have to run Windows on a laptop.
4. cloud_atlas1991 (Posts: 61; Member since: 21 Dec 2012)
FLATTER and SIMPLER are tantamount to UGLIER and MORE BORING.
45. Hemlocke (unregistered)
No, it's tantamount to ditching hideous skeumorphic elements like the cassette tape player in Podcasts, or getting rid of the faux leather look in the calendar app.
59. rusticguy (Posts: 2828; Member since: 11 Aug 2012)
In short getting rid of all traces of Forstall and Steve Jobs :D
62. gallison83 (Posts: 10; Member since: 30 Apr 2012)
So I can take my Toyota Corolla and throw a huge body kit on it, ground effects, custom wheels and a Pep Boys muffler tip and make my car more interesting?
I'd rather strip the car down, remove unneeded creature comfort systems and reinforce the frame to make the car light, lean, and efficient. That's how I run my Android tablet. My Android tablet pretty much mirrors (as much as my tab can) how my iPhone is set up. Lets have some civilized conversation, now shall we?
5. jphillips63 (Posts: 221; Member since: 04 Jan 2012)
iOS is for folks who are scared of change. It may work and work well for those fan boys who thinks its the in thing but really iOS will never be anything exciting.
8. Roomaku (Posts: 278; Member since: 06 Feb 2012)
They're talking about design of the OS not functionality. I think the changes would probably include toning the "cutesie" app designs like felt in Gamecenter, and other designs that look like textures we are familiar with or represent the actual item.
Probs not something like thishttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v
9. WHoyton1 (Posts: 1635; Member since: 21 Feb 2013)
Jeez a two year old chimp could use iOS so how the gonna make it simpler!!
19. ardent1 (Posts: 2000; Member since: 16 Apr 2011)
WHoyton1 -- the GUI runs on top of the iOS. The two year chimp knows how to use iOS GUI.
Please learn to discern the difference GUI and OS. Most android bashers make the same mistake. The GUI is stale and dated, but the iOS is still robust.
11. InspectorGadget80 (unregistered)
Simpler means it still looks the same. Looks like they don't want too evolve their ios.
44. gallitoking (Posts: 4718; Member since: 17 May 2011)
so that means that Android is not a simple OS right?
49. protozeloz (Posts: 5396; Member since: 16 Sep 2010)
Actually android is quite simple, I see lots of easy to do things in there
54. rusticguy (Posts: 2828; Member since: 11 Aug 2012)
I guess it would depend on IQ. It's simpler than learning to drive a car for sure but tougher than plain walking.
58. gallison83 (Posts: 10; Member since: 30 Apr 2012)
Simpler oftentimes equals efficiency. If your GUI is pulling far less power, then you are free to optimize other processes without sacrificing battery life. Android did the same thing with Project Butter. They made things simpler in the GUI so that they could run VSYNC at 60 FPS. If VSYNC @ 60 FPS was run on ICS or Gingerbread, you probably would end up blowing your graphics cores under the stress or sacrifice your battery or sacrifice your performance on your widgets and apps.
14. ahmed_ali_yossef2010 (Posts: 164; Member since: 26 Jul 2012)
I really appreciate the designs of this man they are incredible let's see if this will work with ios
16. Fuego84 (Posts: 344; Member since: 13 May 2012)
Apple ran out of ideas and they can't steal ideas like they used to because everyone armed themselves with patents when Apple began patent trolling. They did it to themselves over a panic that Samsung would eat their market share.
20. sprockkets (Posts: 1611; Member since: 16 Jan 2012)
Oh oh, this is the groundbreaking change the stupid analyst predicted!!! It will change everything, again! (thrid time, for those counting how many times apple used that stupid meme).
84. dragonstkdgirl (Posts: 144; Member since: 07 Apr 2012)
It was only three?? Could have sworn it was more.... lol
32. Android4u (Posts: 456; Member since: 16 Aug 2012)
This new UI is going to change the damn world!!!
33. rusticguy (Posts: 2828; Member since: 11 Aug 2012)
Basically a hint that nothing much will be happening ... it will be an eye wash ...
41. ZeroCide (Posts: 775; Member since: 09 Jan 2013)
If anything happens you won't see it till iOS 8 or 9
43. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
47. Allen3697 (Posts: 86; Member since: 26 Mar 2012)
How much more simpler can it get??
50. protozeloz (Posts: 5396; Member since: 16 Sep 2010)
I think simple is such a subjective word, and iOS is just marketed as simple, when is far from being that, simple is just a word of marketing.... People think is simple because apple says so, not because its really simple to the consumer doing average stuff, and honestly it has just become a see saw of parts they have been attaching year after year...
63. rusticguy (Posts: 2828; Member since: 11 Aug 2012)
How can it be simple when to clear cache of open browser session i have to close browser (ie go to home) open Settings and then clear cache and then again go to home and fire safari. Call this simple? SIMPLE My foot.
64. protozeloz (Posts: 5396; Member since: 16 Sep 2010)
Its what I'm talking about, you can totally see how iOS is minimalist yet not simple, for starters the lockscreen
On android you have the lock screen, move the ball outwards of the circle, and it unlocks, every time the screen goes on the lock screen will "tilt" inviting the user to swipe left of right, one side for the camera, the other for widgets.
On iOS it says swipe to unlock , now for camera witch looks like a button user must swipe up, but for messages user needs to swipe right, there is no hint telling the user about it.
Another example is the keyboard, its always in caps, press randomly the caps button and tell me if you can tell if its lowercase or UPPERCASE.
And that's just the start, iOS has a forced crown, the foul king of simplicity...
67. infinitemethod (Posts: 149; Member since: 04 Sep 2012)
Excellent example! By the time tt takes me to check the weather and set an alarm for instance, I have to open 2 to 3 apps in ios. I can look at my android homescreen and have that info right there right in front of me and then make one click on clock to set an alarm. Ios is so far behind, nothing they do will change that.


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Over its 45-year history, Chicago has rarely gone a summer without doing a major tour. And 2012 will add to that streak, first with a run of headlining shows that has already begun, and then later this summer, with a co-headlining tour with the Doobie Brothers.
But one thing that appears likely to occur this summer is something that has not often been a part of Chicago's touring routine - the band will be working on new songs to be released as an album or in some other form in the not-too-distant future.
"We've started already exchanging ideas," keyboardist/singer Robert Lamm revealed in a mid-April phone interview. "I've already contributed three songs. So it's just a matter of rendering them. That's one of the things we're going to try to do on the road. We've figured out a way to do it, and that's actually a very exciting development this year."
It wasn't that long ago that any thought of doing a new album seemed pretty much dead in the water within Chicago.
Record labels were showing little interest in having the band record new original material. The group had released a grand total of two CDs of new material since 1991 (the 2006 release, "Chicago XXX," was the most recent release), if you don't count "Stone Of Sisyphus," an album originally recorded in 1993, shelved by Warner Bros. Records, and finally released in 2008.
Several band members had grown frustrated by a lack of radio stations playing new music by veteran bands and what appeared to be a general disinterest among record companies for a new Chicago CD.
With the group's touring business remaining strong, some in the group saw little point to investing the time and effort needed to make a new CD.
So what changed?
First of all, a little Christmas spirit got Chicago in the creative spirit - as in the making of last year's holiday CD, "O Christmas Three."
"It (opposition to making a new CD) changed once we had the experience of working together in the studio when we recorded the Christmas album," Lamm said.
"Everybody contributed, everybody had fun doing it. There was less dissension than in the past with previous lineups in the studio. To me there was much more openness to each other's ideas. I think the Christmas album is artistically a great (album) and it reminded us of the best way to work in the studio, which is kind of a workshop atmosphere. It reminded us that that is the way to go. So now that we've got that one project under our belts, everybody is much more enthusiastic about the prospect of recording new music."
That sort of workshop atmosphere did not exist the last time Chicago was actively recording and releasing albums. That was during the 1980s, when Chicago not only made a comeback, but saw its career hit new heights of success after it partnered with producer David Foster.
Originally, the band was known during the late 1960s and 1970s for making rocking, horn-infused music (along with the occasional ballad and
mid-tempo song). As the band worked its way through its first decade, it released nine studio albums that gave the group a long list of hits, including "25 Or 6 To 4," "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is," "Saturday In The Park," "Feelin' Stronger Every Day" and "If You Leave Me Now."
That momentum, though, was tragically interrupted in December 1978 when guitarist-singer Terry Kath died from an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound.
After seriously considering breaking up, Chicago regrouped, but struggled through the next several albums as a succession of guitarists came and went and disco and new wave became the musical trends of the day.
But things turned around with 1982's "16," a CD that featured the debut of singer-guitarist-keyboardist Bill Champlin and production and songwriting assistance from Foster. A ballad from that CD, "Hard To Say I'm Sorry," went No. 1 and started a string of five ballad-laden hit albums.
Those CDs and hit singles returned Chicago to the top of the charts, but it wasn't always a musically satisfying period for the band, particularly its horn section, which took a back seat in the softer Chicago sound. Lamm said the group also got away from the kind of collaborative album making approach that had characterized its early albums.
"I would say starting in the '80s, starting in the David Foster era, many of those albums were essentially producer driven, where it was like everybody in the band sort of waited outside the studio and waited for his number to be called to see what he was going to contribute, rather than going into the studio together playing down the various songs ideas that members had brought in and developing them and making contributions or suggestions," Lamm said. "That's really the strength of this band is that everybody is so talented and has a wealth of ideas all the time, and for all the hundreds of songs that I've written, the ones with Chicago, the ones that are the best are these songs where I was able to hear what people had to say and listen to what the contributions might be and the song becomes better.
That's what we experienced again on the Christmas album and I think going forward that's the way we're going to work."
What also has re-energized Chicago has been the arrival of keyboardist Lou Pardini, who replaced Bill Champlin in 2009.
"The band has never sounded better," Lamm said. "Lou is a complete musician and wonderful singer, so he's just an amazing player. And he's a very sweet and very professional guy. He's made all of us in the band very comfortable. ...The main thing is he's a good man and he really helps Chicago shine every night. So I think that it was really a great move. I do think we have improved as a result of him being part of the band."
Pardini and Lamm are joined in Chicago by its three original horn players - James Pankow (trombone), Walt Parazaider (flute/sax) and Lee Loughnane (trumpet) - as well as Jason Scheff (bass, vocals), Tris Imboden (drums) and Keith Howland (guitar).
And where Chicago had previously found record company interest in the band lacking, Lamm said two companies have expressed interest in releasing new Chicago music. But the band also has its own label and a website that has turned into a viable avenue for releasing new material.
"We are very comfortable with us being the record company and being kind of on our own terms, on our own schedule," Lamm said. "These are the kinds of things that occupy us on the long bus rides. We really talk these things out and make our decisions at that point."
Of course, those bus rides will be taking Chicago around the country on a co-headlining tour with the Doobie Brothers from July 11-Aug. 24.
Chicago's show will be dominated by songs that will be familiar to its audience.
"We have found that by staying with our biggest hits and maybe presenting one or two or three interesting new additions each touring year is kind of a winning formula," Lamm said. "We don't really want to go away from that at this point. ... Staying within that parameter, by and large, 90 percent of the time, is really what makes for a memorable concert."


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My Daughter Has Defected
Okay, so this is going to be the first…and last….running post to go on Loving the Bike. We're a cycling site, right? But I just had to post this fantastic piece written by my Daughter.
Kassi has decided that she would rather write about this subject because she is much more passionate about running. What's a cycling Dad to do? I know she's going to make a great marathon runner one day and I wish her all the best in anything she decides to do. So here it is…Kassi's Running post.
Loving the Run
– by Kassi
Thirsty. So, so thirsty.
Tired. Oh, so tired.
My legs.
I can't feel my legs.
The sun. It's shining so bright, so hot.
I have to stop, but promised to keep going.
I promised myself to never stop.
Left, right, left, right.
As each foot touches the ground,
I get even more tired. But I keep going.
I tell myself, "almost there…you're almost there".
Even if I'm still so, so far away.
Just when I started to believe.
To really believe…
I slowed down.
A pain in my side.
It hurts to breathe.
Then I hear the sound of cheering.
Cheering my name.
Forgetting my cramp, I run.
Run as fast as I ever have before.
"Almost there, you're almost there".
And this time, I really was almost there.
Passing people as I go.
Crossing the finish line, and still going.
I realized that I am stronger than the pain.
I won the fight.
Next time I get a pain like that,
I will cheer for myself.
And Run, Run, Run.


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Java Moss can easily be attached with thread, but that does create risks for Otocinclus catfish and other smallish suckermouth cats - I have lost small cats due their getting trapped in the thread and being killed. I no longer use thread in any tank to house such catfish.
Unless you have a significant algae coat on the glass and wood, the tank is too new to support 6 Otos. There really are best only added to mature planted tanks. Without significant green and diatom algae on the glass, plants and ornaments there will not be enough food to support them - especially that many. The small Farlowellas and the OTOs will also compete for food. I am not at all sure the tank is ready for so many specialized feeders.
To me your total stock seems quite heavy for a 45. Is the biofilter able to support that many fish in a brand new tank? That stock list is more than I would use by quite a lot.


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Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Berkeley County School District Superintendent Rodney Thompson said he disputes any claim that members of the Berkeley County School Board were not informed about a special bond that would be added to the school improvement referendum bond.
This occurred at the regularly scheduled June 24 meeting in Moncks Corner.
Board member Phillip Obie recently voiced concerns that the BCSD administration was not forthcoming with information regarding a $53 million equipment acquisition bond.
The bond is in addition to the $198 million school improvement referendum passed by voters in November. On May 28 the board passed the additional $53 million, although Obie later said he thought this was the first installment of the $198 million and not in addition to.
Obie voiced concerns that during the referendum campaign the voters were not told about the additional $53 million and he himself did not know its true nature at the May 28 meeting.
On June 24 Thompson told Obie that the equipment acquisition bond was mentioned at the July 24, 2012 meeting and presentations were made at the Jan. 10, 2012 and April 24, 2012 meetings where the estimated costs for the district's building needs was $250 million.
While minutes to the above-mentioned meetings do not mention the equipment acquisition bond, at the June 24 meeting Thompson said he gave each board member a DVD of the July 24, 2012 meeting in which he says the additional bond was discussed. The videos can be viewed on the district's website.
In minute 33 of the video Deputy Superintendent Archie Franchini's presentation begins and at minute 51 Obie asks about the equipment acquisition bond.
In minute 36 of the video, Franchini says: "Equipment and technology, as far as this is concerned, does not include furnishings, shelving, kitchen equipment, HVAC units, library shelving, Smartboards, I could go on and on, which we'll purchase with equipment acquisition financing, as a part of existing debt capacity."
The amount of $53 million nor any estimated figure for the equipment acquisition bond, however, was not mentioned at the July 24, 2012 meeting.
There is no mention of a $53 million equipment acquisition bond in the minutes for the 2012 meetings of Aug. 14, Aug. 28, Sept. 11, Sept. 25, Oct. 9 or Oct. 23, which all took place leading up to the Nov. 6 election.
"So we're going for $198 million for a bond, and we're going to fund the other $52 million through our 8 percent money," Obie said in the video of the July 24, 2012 meeting. "What impact will that $52 million have on our 8 percent money and the tax increase folks will see?"
"It won't change the tax increase folks would see," Franchini said in his response.
"Only the equipment that we purchase for the project, only the annual installment will count against our debt capacity," Thompson said in the July 24, 2012 video. "Over the length of the loan we would now be looking at a 20-year debt for this project as opposed to a 30-year debt. The taxpayers would be interested to know the way we changed the financing on this project, they would only be paying a shorter term."
At the most recent meeting Thompson cited Franchini's statements in the July 24, 2012 meeting, echoing his statements that equipment such as Smartboards would be purchased with the district's equipment acquisition financing as part of existing debt capacity.
"Whether you agree or disagree with the financing options, which the board passed without discussion in May, it is not accurate as a board member to state publicly that you did not realize equipment acquisition financing was to be used to fund a portion of the building needs in this district," Thompson said.
"I will go back and review that video," Obie said. "I'm sure Mr. Franchini said that, although as far as being very transparent with the public, I do not think we were transparent with the public when we were out there at the different venues advertising $198 million."
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