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Get an overview of this hotelSuburban Vari-Voula-Vouliagmeni hotel in Vouliagmeni with free breakfast
Popular property highlights
Located in Vouliagmeni, this hotel is 0.7 mi (1.2 km) from Kavouri Beach and 2 mi (3.2 km) from Voula Beach. Glyfada Marina and Glyfada Golf Club of Athens are also within 6 mi (10 km).
Hotel Features
This hotel features a restaurant, an outdoor pool, and a bar/lounge. Free buffet breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Additionally, a poolside bar, a coffee shop/café, and a 24-hour business center are onsite.
Room Amenities
All 100 soundproofed rooms feature free WiFi and room service. Guests will also find furnished balconies, satellite TV, and refrigerators.
Guest Highlights
- Spotless guestrooms
- Good location
- Beach
- Pool
- WiFi
- Helpful staff
Amarilia Hotel
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Dining options at the hotel include a restaurant and a coffee shop/café. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the hotel's bars, which include a poolside bar and a bar/lounge. A complimentary breakfast is offered each morning. Wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary.
Business amenities at this 4-star property consist of a 24-hour business center, limo/town car service, and meeting rooms. Event facilities measure 4628 square feet (430 square meters). This business-friendly hotel also offers an outdoor pool, tour/ticket assistance, and multilingual staff. Limited complimentary onsite parking is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
- Outdoor seasonal pool
- Poolside bar
- Concierge services
- Free breakfast
- Coffee shop or café
- Bar/lounge
- 24-hour front desk
- Multilingual staff
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Television in common areas
- Elevator/lift
- Restaurant
- Wedding services
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Express check-out
- Free WiFi
- Free wired Internet
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Luggage storage
- Total number of rooms - 100
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Number of floors - 7
- Meeting rooms 3
- Parking (limited spaces)
- Free self parking
- Year Built 1989
- 24-hour business center
- Conference space size (feet) - 4628
- Conference space size (meters) - 430
- Outdoor pool
- Express check-in
- Pool umbrellas
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Number of meeting rooms - 4
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Garden
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Soundproofed rooms
- Laundry facilities
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Refrigerator
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Free self parking, Parking (limited spaces)
Room Amenities
- Premium bedding
- Furnished balcony
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Air conditioning
- Phone
- Refrigerator
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Bathtub or shower
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Satellite TV service
- Free WiFi
- Soundproofed rooms
- Room service (limited hours)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Desk
Where to Eat
A complimentary buffet breakfast is served each morning between 7 AM and 10 AM.
Artemis - Overlooking the garden, this restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the hotel include an outdoor pool.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Water skiing nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- No pets or service animals allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
- The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.
Hotel Name
- Amarilia
- Amarilia Hotel
- Amarilia Hotel Vari-Voula-Vouliagmeni
- Amarilia Vari-Voula-Vouliagmeni
- Hotel Amarilia
We should mention
Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 500, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation. No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property.


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Google Analytics Mobile Apps: A Review
A little while ago, Google Analytics announced the release of an official mobile app for Google Analytics – finally! Although the app is currently only available on Android devices, it's nice to see Google offering a Google-branded solution. I'm an iPhone user, so I'll be waiting to see if they ever launch an iOS version – in the meantime I'll have to stick to apps for iPhone that were developed by very talented third party developers, also reviewed below.
Google Analytics by Google (Android)
The new app has a slick, easy-to-use interface and has a fair amount of customization available, but still ultimately limited in what data you can see and what comes "out of the box." Granted this is really an app meant for fast check-ins, to give users a quick, high-level overview of how their overall traffic is doing. With a fair amount of tweaking the settings you can still get something that gives you a quick update on specific campaigns, but who wants to fiddle around with settings for that long? It would be great to see dashboards already set up in the tool for site performance, organic trends, paid performance, etc.
Google Analytics real time in the official Google Android app is a nice feature, and could make for a fun gadget at conferences! You can monitor how many people at the conference check out your site after a day of handing out business cards.
Here's the Google Analytics default dashboard in the Android app. This is where I feel the tool is really lacking – all you get out of the box is daily unique visitors and daily goal conversion rate. I added bounce rate for this screenshot, and I believe you can add more metrics and advanced segments/filters even to help customize (which is definitely a nice feature) but it would be nice to see more data without having to invest the time setting something up, like the traditional "out of the box" dashboard for Google Analytics.
Seeing automatic and custom alerts in the mobile app was a smart add, and unique to the Google branded app. This makes a lot of sense for doing those quick mobile check-ins!
Analytic by Applidium (iPhone)
Analytic has some definite advantages over the Google app for sheer amount of data available without additional setup, but is lacking in that the main dashboard allows for no real interaction (unlike the other reports in the app, which are impressive) and the app's reports can only be customized by date range.
This is Analytic's somewhat underwhelming dashboard. Although arguably better than Google's default mobile dashboard, Google still wins overall because you can at least customize their app's dashboard. The inability to click on trend lines and blue text (which I connote with links in normal browsing) is frustrating.
The visitors dashboard introduces a pretty sexy feature – see those top ten lists? You can actually scroll those lists individually to your heart's content, you aren't limited with just the top ten in the app. Smart!
Analytic's traffic sources dashboard is extremely satisfying, this is really the depth of detail that I want from a Google Analytics app. A+, Applidium!
Fast Analytics by Fast Fwd Multimedia Ltd. (iPhone)
This one is my absolute favorite, my only wish for this app is that it had more visuals like the other two apps. This app is entirely data focused, which is great for my OCD brain but every good analyst knows you need to present data as text, numbers and visuals in order to translate to the widest range of audiences. There is also no real ability to customize the data that you see. That being said, I love this app, it has a great amount of information available at your finger tips!
The Fast Analytics dashboard. As I said earlier, trend lines or some visuals would be helpful on this report but it is at least clean and easy to read. Switching date ranges is a little finicky as well, you can't set a custom date range but if you swipe the report left and right you can access pre-set reports for yesterday, last 7 days, last 30 days and last year. This is true on all reports in Fast Analytics.
Here is the traffic report in Fast Analytics. Like Analytic, you can scroll forever in this report, so there is a nice breadth of data. I also like that it includes the raw number as well as the percent of total traffic. Clicking on the arrows to the right takes you to the referring site.
And finally, the keywords report in Fast Analytics. You can scroll forever here too. Clicking the arrows on the right takes you to a Google search for that keyword so you can get a feel for its rank, however since ranking algorithms on mobile devices differ from rank on desktops I'm not sure how accurate it is to be looking at rank this way. Still, could be handy as a starting point.
Fast Analytics also gives you a similar dashboard for browsers (including a slick dropdown for browser versions) and a Countries report, although you can't break it down by region/state.
Do you have a favorite Google Analytics app? Let us know!

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The Spike smells fall. The shelves at Walgreens are stocked with candy corn, and every intersection in town is blocked with big, ugly signs advertising big, ugly candidates. It's almost Election Day.
One of the most obvious by-products of the Clean Elections law is that the big, ugly signs are smaller than in years past -- and uglier. Makes sense. Candidates have less to spend. Not so in the federal races, where campaign finance reform is still a myth, and money pours like Snickers bars into plastic pumpkins.
Here in Arizona, incumbent congressional candidate J.D. Hayworth has the biggest pumpkin by far this year. As a member of the powerful Ways and Means Committee -- The Spike's pretty sure that "powerful" is actually an official part of the committee's name -- Hayworth is a champion fund raiser. At last count, he'd raised $1,274,870, plus another $217,271 raised through his own political action committee, TEAM PAC.
Fund raising is hard work, so The Spike's got to wonder why J.D. bothers. Let's face it. The Republican could have spent the election season on the couch and probably still walked away with the race. Democrat Craig Columbus, his opponent, is really smart, and a more-than-worthy candidate -- which, as anyone who's ever voted in an election in this state knows, practically disqualifies him on the spot. The poor guy's only scraped up $306,756.
The political gossips in town say J.D. is raising cash in anticipation of a run for the Senate in 2004, if John McCain really can be wrested out of his seat. But after looking at J.D.'s expenditure reports for the current campaign season, The Spike's not so sure. Maybe J.D.'s just raising money so he can spend it.
On his wife, for one thing.
Mary Hayworth of Cave Creek is pulling down about $2,000 a month from the payroll of TEAM PAC, J.D.'s political action committee. Nice work if you can get it. And not completely unheard of, amazingly.
"It never looks good to pay your spouse from campaign funds, but it's legal as long as they're actually doing work. I don't think it happens too much [probably because it's not exactly great PR at election time], but it does happen," Larry Makinson, a longtime campaign finance guru, tells The Spike.
That just made The Spike more curious. Thanks to some data postings by the folks at the Center for Responsive Politics in Washington, D.C. (Makinson's a senior fellow with CRP), The Spike was able to compare Hayworth's spending habits with those of Columbus. The most recent information only covers spending through September 30, but it gives The Spike a pretty good idea of what it's like to run a campaign when you're Big Foot -- and what it's like to run a campaign on a shoestring. For purposes of comparison, Hayworth's personal campaign and PAC funds were combined. Columbus doesn't have a PAC. All numbers mentioned here are minimums, since candidates aren't required to itemize expenses under $200.
There are no Columbus family members on Craig's payroll. In fact, the payroll is pretty slim. Columbus has paid $5,822 in payroll taxes. Hayworth, meanwhile, has shelled out $75,523.
And Hayworth's employees are apparently pretty chatty. Phone bills for the Hayworth campaign (and remember, most of this is before J.D. even had an opponent, since he was unopposed in the primary) top out at $36,540. Get a new calling plan, J.D.! Columbus doesn't itemize his phone bills on his expenditure reports, but he estimates he's spent about $3,600.
J.D. -- or someone on his campaign -- spent $161 on an airplane phone call. Not surprising, since the campaign has spent $30,995 on air travel. Columbus on air travel: $1,057.
When he's not airborne, J.D.'s clearly burning up the Post-it notes. The campaign has spent $10,245 on office supplies. Columbus? $4,459.
J.D. spent $4,234 on a campaign photographer; Columbus, $250.
The Hayworth campaign staff has been enjoying monthly deliveries of Sierra Springs water -- almost $500 worth, total. Craig Columbus serves tap water.
Craig Columbus is so broke, his expenditure reports were a yawn. It's hard to part with change when you've dumped it in the piggy yourself, like Columbus has. But The Spike learned a lot more about the Hayworth campaign. J.D. throws fund raisers at the Ritz in D.C., but at La Quinta in Flagstaff. He clearly spares no expense, in either case -- the campaign blew $1,145 at the Y-Knot Party Shoppe in Tempe.
Everyone eats well, too. There were several fund-raising trips to Mastro's steak house listed on the reports -- $11,571 worth, plus another $1,316 at Outback. Better watch it, Mr. Congressman -- you'll raise more cholesterol than money. Campaign meetings at Ajo Al's Mexican restaurant are apparently a tradition as well. Santa Hayworth even buys his campaign elves Christmas gifts -- at See's Candies and T.J. Maxx. (Whoops -- hope he didn't try to pass those T.J. Maxx bargains off as Saks Fifth Avenue.) Everyone on the Hayworth campaign is also well-dressed. J.D. spent $2,323 on campaign tee shirts. The biggest shocker? They're well-read: The campaign shelled out $881 for "political books."
The Spike is considering applying for a job on the Hayworth campaign. After all, how much actual work could there be? Sounds like just a lot of shopping. The Spike can do that. And then next month, Hayworth will sail to victory yet again -- and then the month after that, everyone will get a Christmas gift.
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The Spike had many questions about Congressman Hayworth's expenditure reports -- starting with Mary Hayworth's campaign responsibilities -- but, alas, several calls to Chad Willems, the campaign's finance director, went unreturned.
Willems must be busy spending that $95,591 he's been paid by his generous boss.
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text: Intro Hi All, I'd like to start by highlighting that this is my first ever write-up so please be kind! I've added titles to the sections so people whom don't want my life story can skip ahead to the parts they are interested in! This project started when I first purchased my A3 almost a year ago after just a few weeks of proudly driving my new toy about I had a car accident.. well not so much an accident as another driver not turning a corner properly and hitting the front of my car.. luckily it was just a bit of paint work and one headlight damaged but when I looked at the prices of a replacement headlight in comparison to some fleabay ones it made more sense to swap both for brandnew! I opted for some fancy ones with the A4 style DRL as mine being a 07 didnât have DRL L well the lights were purchased, fitted, coded within a week and I was very pleased with my LEDâs making the car look like a much newer A3⦠right up until I turned on the headlight and a horrible yellow light filled the headlight and ruined the crisp white look of my LEDâs.. this will not do! So I purchased a HID kit.. big mistake.. ok take two I purchased some Osram Nightbreakers and to be honest I was disappointed they didnât look white at all.. I then moved onto some Philips Diamond white which are fantastic! And so it beginsâ¦. Well after a month or so of driving around with the Philips DWâs I noticed that when I have the light switch set to off and the lights are running on DRL (Scandinavian) the dipped bulbs are on but on a very low voltage and are yellow.. Yuck! I began looking into what I can do to swap these out.. well HID isnât an option so what about LED? That would match the crisp white look Iâm after! The R8âs use it so why not me? After doing some research I found that Hella and Osram are both working on kits to make a LED headlight bulb retrofit unfortunately I could not find these for purchase so I began looking at alternatives.. The Kit After looking around on the internet for a while I found a kit which looked like it might be powerful enough to run as a functional headlight and not just for display! (like most led headlight bulbs) This kit is from this website:LED Headligh H7 50W 360 INTERNATIONAL GROUP LTD After talking with the seller for a while the kit was ordered and I was supplied with a tracking number. 5 days later the kit had made its way from China to Germany and finally to me in the UK here is the kit as it arrived. The kit consist of a low voltage driver, the bulb and a fan to keep the bulb cool as LEDâs on this scale will produce heat. I was advised to purchase a âcanbus kitâ to allow the bulbs to work properly in the car.. this extra is not necessary its simply a HID relay kit to stop the wiper motor from blowing (more on this later) The Installation Not much to report on this really! Installation took less than 30 minutes, as a precaution I I disconnected my wiper motor for testing. Iâve labelled the kit below with the connections to show where they go. I was able to install the entire bulb and driver into the headlight however because of the fan you need to leave the back cover off. I intend to drill a small hole in the back of the headlight to allow the fan to vent I will use a dust filter to prevent the headlight from getting dirty. When the kit was connected to the wiring loom I did a quick dry run to see what it looked like Off On As you can see itâs a brilliant âpureâ white colour which I think looks fantastic! Testing So now we are all connected itâs time to run some tests.. first can I use my wipers.. in short yes you can! It works perfectly no faulty wipers at all and even better the high beams and all other bulbs work which if you have installed a HID kit before you will know that the high beams do not work instead the flicker and look **** so this is a major bonus! So what about the range? Well I left a halogen light bulb in the car and took it for a spin to see if the LED can provide enough light to drive with, being Kent I soon found myself a dark country lane to do my evil deeds.. I mean test the bulb. The bulb provided illumination almost as far as my diamond white bulb Here is a photo showing the projected light on the ground. Annoyingly the camera I am using was unable to capture the distance of the light travelled but I can assure you it is the same distance as my halogen. I changed both bulbs over to the LED and again ran the same tests nothing blown everything working so I then went for another drive. I found that under the orange street lights the LED white disappeared but if there was a slight shadow the street light could not get the LED filled it and illuminated it properly! On an unlit road or against other cars the LED light is powerful and you can clearly see the road ahead! The End Well guys I hope this has been helpful and given you food for thought! I would like to say at this point that I am not suggesting everyone goes out and buys these bulbs as they are technically illegal much in the same way aftermarket HIDâs are illegal so if you do purchase and fit these you do so at your own risk and I bare no responsibility! Link to a HID Thread highlighting the issues they cause: http://www.audi-sport.net/vb/a3-s3-...ut-aftermarket-headlights-hid-conversion.html


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What do you think of this? This is a Music Video we did called "Booty Pop" by Albert. Albert is a 6 year old rapper from South Florida. Since the age of 4 he has been playing piano and singing.
No stranger to the spot light this kid has "swag". If you liked the song please click here to buy it on iTunes: Thanks for all the support!!! Stay tuned for more to come!
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PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC) today announced that BISSELL is using PTC Windchill® to enable digital collaboration and product development across its entire engineering organization worldwide. The company's strategic alignment around PTC Windchill has allowed BISSELL to improve sharing and coordination of product information between its global design teams and manufacturing partners. This has allowed the company to evolve its internal communications, external relationships with suppliers and customers, its business focus and its core product line development goals. Since 1876, BISSELL has been developing cleaning tools designed to keep customers' living environments up to the highest standards. Over the years, the company has been at the forefront of product development innovation, with everything from the original carpet sweeper, to shampoos and carpet deep cleaners with built-in heaters. As the industry's business model has changed, BISSELL has maintained its leadership position by evolving across multiple fronts including the expansion to global business, external partner collaboration, a transparent Bill of Materials (BOM) and continuous cost reduction. "Early on we recognized that a unified, consistent view of all product data would be imperative to meeting our innovation, quality and accuracy goals. PTC Windchill makes this happen with its robust PLM environment," said Roger Johnson, VP, Product Design and Engineering, BISSELL. "Where digital collaboration was once optional, now it is mandatory in the global engineering enterprise. As the core of our product development platform, PTC Windchill has allowed us to improve our workflow and process automation, doubling our throughput and facilitating global expansion." And while all of BISSELL's six global research and development centers rely on PTC Windchill, other functions in the organization are taking advantage of the solution as well. Multiple disciplines across the enterprise are now collaborating digitally – including professionals from purchasing, testing, quality and analysis, as well as external manufacturing partners around the world. This collaboration has resulted in a unified, consistent view of all product data and has transformed the way the company functions and focuses, allowing for global business project teams, consumer-driven attribute focus and increased on-time project completion.
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Walking Buses Gain Speed
Walking to school combats obesity and increases student concentration, according to a Danish study released last year. Children who walk or bike to school performed better on tasks demanding concentration, such as solving puzzles, than those who traveled by car or bus, the researchers found.
However, students are walking to school far less than in the past, says a report from the federally funded National Center for Safe Routes to School, an organization that assists states and communities in implementing safe walking or biking to school programs. In 1969, 48 percent of children age 5 to 14 usually walked or biked to school, compared to just 13 percent in 2009, the report states.
With this in mind, districts are increasingly encouraging students to get moving. As of 2011, over 10,000 schools received grants from the Safe Routes to School program to promote student walking and biking to school. And last fall, over 4,200 schools participated in international Walk to School Day, sponsored by the program. "You're teaching the children about well-being—not just in the educational setting, but in taking care of your body," says Kelli Tuttle, the head physical education teacher in Sioux City (Iowa) Community School District, which implemented a week-long walking school bus program for the first time in early May. Students met at a designated start point, and walked to school together with adult volunteers. "Educating the whole child means they need to have those physical skills as well, and it definitely has an impact on learning and development," Tuttle says.
The district received a state Department of Public Health grant of $2,425 per school, to go toward promotional signs and permission slips, background checks for volunteers who walk the route, and incentives for students who choose to walk, such as water bottles and stickers.
Parents who usually drive their children to school could drop them off in a designated point about two miles from school to join in the walk. Students who live more than two miles away from school and take the bus were not affected, but could join in the walk if parents chose to drop them off. "It's not only for physical activity, but social interaction for kids and parents in the neighborhood," Tuttle says. She said parents connected and planned to create walking groups for their kids after the weeklong event was done.
More at www.saferoutesinfo.org.


text: Vendeur: discountedtoyou (26.253) 99.9%, Lieu où se trouve: Hereford, Lieu de livraison: Americas, Europe, Asia, AU, Numéro de l'objet: 152081068381 Water Type: Marine, Water Temperature: Tropical, Item Subtype: LIVE Plants, Les Détails: PLEASE NOTE - the main item image shows mostly the Caulerpa Prolifera, but other species are visibile in the backround. These other species are also available (see my other listings) but this auction is specifically for the Caulerpa Prolifra on its own. If you are searching for this then you probably already know the benefits that this plant can bring to your aquarium, but for the sake of those who don't, Caulerpa is a macro algae plant for marine environments that use the waste products of the fish as their source of nutrients, in exactly the same way as Chaetomorpha does. By growing this in your tank you will reduce your nitrate and phosphate levels, and create a much healthier environment for fish and corals to thrive in. It should also allow you to leave slightly longer between water changes, so will also save you quite a lot of money on salt in the long run! We grow this in conjunction with Chaetomorpha in the sump of our marine system for optimum water quality, and we also have this other macro algae available for sale under item number 161634204565 should you wish to purchase both together. This plant seems to grow best under bulbs with a colour temperature of around 6700k and they also benefit from a day/night cycle. We now grow this under 500w LED grow lights due to the size of the system (3,000+ litres) but so long as the colour temperature of the bulb is right then it will grow with much smaller laps, depending on the size of your tank and the level of your nutrients available for export. You will be sent a minimum of 100ml of this algae that is measured in a glass pot, and it will then be packed flat in a sealed post bag, then double packed inside a padded jiffy bag. As the envelope will fit through the letter box, it ensures that your order can still be delivered by the postman in the event of you not being at home to answer the door, thus reducing the chances of it sitting in the sorting office for long periods of time. Please be aware that by flattening this algae for transit it will appear much smaller than 100ml but we can happily provide photographic proof should you not be convinced of our sizing! We have successfully sent this plant all over Europe and after a bit of trial and error we have discovered that it is much better to send it without water in a damp bag than in a sealed pot of water, so please be wary of other sellers that send it out in this way (as I am sure that one of our customers in Sweden will vouch for when they opened a pot of putrid smelling rotten plant, but luckily we sent some in the usual way too and that survived without any problems!) We run a full time eBay business and we work Mon - Saturday so we can pack orders up to around 4:45pm to be sent the same day via 1st Class post to increase the chance of survival. This is a very resilient plant though and does very well in transit, but in case of any problems then we will happily send more out upon seeing proof of the dead plants.


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Gid Dobbins
Gid Dobbins, Jr, 71, of Fort Worth, died Monday, July 21, 2014. Funeral services were held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, July 27,
2014 at New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church. Burial was in the Bethlehem AME Church Cemetery. Gid was born Nov. 26, 1942 in La Grange the son of Gid and Sadie (East) Dobbins. Gid married Josephine Keeling on Dec. 26, 1964.
Gid was employed as a Truck Driver at Taylor Mac Fats Trucking Co. Gid is survived by his wife; mother; one daughter, Tonya Dobbins; two sons, Tyrone and Gid Dobbins all of Fort Worth; four sisters, Pearlie Mae Brooks, of Houston; Loraine Smith of Atlanta, Ga.; Girlene Grayson of La Grange; Laverne Faulson of Austin; one brother, Earl Dobbins of Houston; God-daughter, Lisa Maroney of Fort Worth; and nine grandchildren. Gid was preceded in death by his father, one brother and five sisters. Tommy Taylor Funeral Home of La Grange was in charge of arrangements
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Pharmacists offer tips on safe storage, disposal of medicine
Posted June 5, 2014
Prescriptions and over-the-counter medications from the pharmacy don't last forever, and it's easy to forget how long is too long to use them.
Pharmacist Mike James says it's a good idea to go through your medicine cabinet every six months and pull out medicines that are past their expiration date.
He says many people think they're still good, "but you don't know whether or not you're going to get a 100 percent effect of your medication."
Many doctors' offices and pharmacies donate expired medications overseas to developing nations that would not otherwise have them.
"So, they go to use that medication with the understanding that it may not be 100 percent potent," James said.
Pharmacists say consumers need to look at the labels of medications while in the pharmacy – much like looking at food labels while grocery shopping – to determine the ingredients, warnings and expiration date.
WRAL health expert Dr. Allen Mask says the Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency recommend that medications not be flushed or simply tossed in the trash because of concerns about the collective impact on water quality. Old medicines can be mixed with coffee grounds or cat litter or put in a sealed container before disposal.
Local sanitation departments also offer "Take Back" programs, allowing the public to bring unused drugs to a central location for disposal.
Mask says proper storage of medicines is also important because environmental conditions can cause the medication to degrade and be less effective. Most medications should not be refrigerated. But some, such as insulin, can be.
Don't leave medications in a car. Most require normal room temperature.
Light can also degrade a medication, so keep it in a dark place and away from heat.


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Katy Perry "warns" men not to fall in love with her on her new track 'Dark Horse' which was voted by fans to have an early release ahead of her fourthcoming studio album 'Prism'.
The 'Roar' singer said the hip-hop inspired pop track, featuring rapper Juicy J carries "witchy and dark" themes after fans chose the song over 'Walking on Air' to have an early release via Twitter last week.
The single will be released in full on September 17, ahead of her fourth studio album 'Prism'.
After her 'roaring' performance under the Brooklyn Bridge to close out the 2013 VMA's, she gave her fans a taste of what's to come on her album, and has now revealed what we can expect from the new song.
Katy has said her new track 'Dark Horse' is a warning to men to 'not fall in love with her' (Photo:WENN)
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Report from the Field by Irshad Shaikh, MD, PhD, MPH
I had just returned back to Nairobi, my duty station, after attending a conference in Amman, Jordan when I received the orders for immediate deployment to Pakistan from our Regional Advisor (RA) for Emergency and Humanitarian Action (EHA) in the Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (EMRO) of the World Health Organization.
I arrived in Pakistan within the first 24 hours of the disaster and the immediate task assigned by the RA (who himself had arrived as well) was to establish and get up and running a Health Emergency Operations Center (HEOC), in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health of Pakistan (MoH), to serve as a control and command center for planning and operations in the health sector. With excellent cooperation and assistance from the MoH, the Operations Center was established and operational by early morning of October 10. WHO had initiated mobilization of relevant experts from EMRO, headquarters and all other regions and in a show of solidarity; and more and more staff were volunteering their services for deployment.
As reports from the field started trickling in, it quickly became apparent that the health care delivery systems in affected areas had collapsed from a variety of reasons, ranging from physical damage to unavailability of health manpower; this latter both because of access constraints to sites as well as mortality and injuries among health workers. Coupled with the expected exponential surge in demand for trauma and surgical care and other ailments among the affectees/vulnerable subgroups, the supply deficit looked very ominous.
Thus, the next top priority for us (in WHO), in consultation with MoH, was to establish alternate ways to deliver health services (primarily surgical, medical and public health) and to mobilize tens of national surgeons, general duty medical officers, and public health specialists from other parts of the country to shoulder core functions in such a complex emergency.
Again, one of the tasks assigned to me was to explore the possibility of massive deployments with academic institutions having commensurate capacities. The presence of another senior Hopkins faculty, Gregory Pappas, MD, PhD, chair, Community Health Sciences (CHS) at Aga Khan University, came in very handy and we were able to arrange for mobilization of the required staff from CHS.
A parallel concern was to immediately establish an active surveillance system to capture and monitor cases of concern—Tetanus, Cholera, Pneumonia, etc.—and to have the capacity to investigate any reported outbreaks at the field level in affected areas Here again, because of CHS's proactive stance, we were able to bring in experienced field epidemiologists to lead a team of surveillance officers seconded by the MoH. My job during the first 72 hours in this area, in collaboration with two other WHO epidemiologists, was to plan and design the necessary tools and impart training to the first batch of public health specialists mobilized for field deployments. It should be said that the disease surveillance and response team has also been supported by one other seasoned Hopkins faculty member, Aamir Khan, MD, PhD.
As more and more WHO colleagues have arrived and positioned themselves in the field, the joint WHO/MoH field operations have grown rapidly and now we have self-sustaining hubs in all major town and district HQs in the affected areas.
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When on holiday in a new place, it can be tricky to know what to eat. You want to try the local cuisine but aren't keen on running the risk of an impromptu bush tucker trial instead of the hearty dinner you were hoping for. But while it's one thing to be confronted with a steaming bowl of cow's stomach (guatita in Spanish, if you were wondering...), its a whole other world when the main course has a place on the endangered list. Savvy travellers need to keep their wits about them if they want to fill their bellies and do it responsibly.
The bushmeat crisis
It may come as a surprise to many that bushmeat is still a problem yet it was only a few years ago that Nairobis hugely popular The Carnivore restaurant stopped serving giraffe. As much as this may appeal to some travellers intent on sharing quirky food stories, it is indicative of a wider problem. While some antelope species, such as kudu, springbok and oryx (gemsbok) are arguably far more sustainable than their farmed counterparts (when hunted within agreed quotas), other bushmeat is a massive issue in various parts of Africa particularly Central and West Africa, with Cameroon experiencing one of the most severe poaching crises in the world. Even large primates including chimpanzees and gorillas can be spotted for sale in Cameroon's markets, and local extinctions of particularly vulnerable species are beginning to occur. According to the
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One of the greatest contributors to the expansion of Africas bushmeat trade is the opening up of large tracts of forest in Central and West Africa by logging and mining companies. New logging roads destroy critical habitat and allow commercial hunters to penetrate further into the forests. In addition, some logging companies found that the cheapest, most easily available source of food for their workers is meat from the jungle. Some pay commercial hunters to supply their workers. By the time the timber has been harvested, most of the animals in the area have been killed.
The trade in bushmeat does not just jeopardise wildlife populations; it poses a real threat to human health. Increasing levels of contact with wildlife result in an increased risk of animal-derived diseases including HIV, monkey pox (similar to smallpox) and Ebola. An additional tragedy is the orphaned animals that are the by-product of the trade, which may be sold on as pets or kept until they are big enough to eat.
If the illegal, unsustainable and inhumane bushmeat trade is not stopped, many endangered species including chimpanzees, bonobos and eastern lowland gorillas will become extinct within 20 years. As a traveller, you can do your bit to help curb this unsustainable use of wildlife by avoiding bushmeat and by signing up to BCTFs
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In China, it's not just bush wildlife that's at risk sharks have long been a delicacy. Well, their fins have; the rest of the shark is thrown back into the sea to die. While this was once practised on a relatively sustainable scale, as China's population grows and becomes wealthier, the food of Emperors is now becoming popular with the masses. This is not only decimating shark populations, but as sharks are apex predators threatening whole marine ecosystems; an incredible 100 million sharks are hunted every year to support the hunger for this wasteful foodstuff.
Three sharks are being killed every second so people can use their fins to make shark fin soup. Shark fin itself is tasteless, it just provides a gelatinous bulk for the soup which is flavoured with chicken or other stock. Many people, especially the consumers, are unaware of the suffering that finning causes.
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You dont have to travel halfway round the world to find unethical wildlife on the menu: whale meat is served in Norway and Iceland, as well as in Japan, Greenland, Alaska and the Faroe Islands. Its a tricky topic; traditional Inuit communities in Alaska and Greenland have practised whale hunting for centuries, it is a deeply traditional part of their culture and the numbers taken are small enough to be sustainable (in addition every part of the whale is traditionally used from the blubber to the baleen). However, when the meat is sold to visiting tourists it becomes a commodity rather than a cultural trait, and growing tourist numbers results in a higher demand for whale meat certainly not sustainable.
In Norway, Iceland and Japan, however, there is no such dilemma: these countries defy the global moratorium on commercial whaling and between them kill over a thousand whales each year. As ever, tourism can increase demand; steer clear of any restaurant with whale meat on the menu.
Bluefin tuna
Its not just exotic species that are threatened by our eating habits the humble tuna is suffering too. Bluefin tuna is an endangered species, yet is considered a delicacy, especially for sushi and sashimi. Single fish can grow to up to two metres and command prices of hundreds of thousands of dollars a huge reward for skilled fishermen. European stocks are believed to be on the verge of extinction. It doesnt matter how delicious this fish may be, please avoid it at home and abroad.
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The debate about bluefin tuna and the issues with shark fin soup highlight a common problem with unethically sourced and over-consumed wildlife that consumers only care about the cutest animals being rescued from the plate. Its no coincidence that activists fail to gain traction in their campaigns for the less photogenic wildlife. But lets face it; restaurants encouraging you to tuck into a bluefin steak might as well be tempting you with a panda kebab.
As with any issue plaguing the responsible traveller, eating responsibly on holiday is about keeping informed and being discerning refuse that shark fin soup and say no to bushmeat. Proving that there is no demand among tourist consumers for unethically sourced food is one of the best ways to create change in tourism, and keep that nasty taste out of your mouth.
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Gary Stuard hopes Interfaith Environmental Alliance will educate congregations, mobilize faith communities around conservation
A gay parishioner at St. Thomas the Apostle Episcopal Church in Dallas has launched a nonprofit organization aimed at getting churches involved in environmental issues, from changing their light fixtures to advocating legislation to combat global warming.
Gary Stuard, who joined the heavily LGBT Episcopal parish on Inwood Road last year, said the goal of the Interfaith Environmental Alliance is two-fold.
First, he said, the group can help congregations "green" themselves by educating them about things like energy conservation, community gardens and recycling.
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"All religious communities need to address this, because this is the moral crisis of our century, and it may be the ultimate test," Stuard said of climate change.
"If we don't step up to the plate, then what's the use of religion?
"Even though I have faith in God, I don't' think God is going to magically pop in and save our hides," he added. "It's up to us."
Stuard said the alliance, currently in the process of obtaining tax-exempt status, is the only organization of its kind in Texas and one of the few faith-based groups dedicated to environmental issues nationally.
So far, he said, about 25 congregations from various denominations have signed on — including about 10 in both Dallas and Fort Worth and a handful in Waco.
Stuard acknowledges that getting the alliance going has been a challenge, partly because conservative congregations in Texas tend to dismiss scientific truths about climate change.
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"We have to do this," he said. "If you can do it here, you can do it anywhere. The key is to reach those who have a better chance of hearing it, and get them hooked in."
Stuard hopes to eventually develop a strong grassroots base that can be mobilized to influence lawmakers in Austin and Washington when key legislation comes up.
"The history is they've probably heard very, very little from religious folks," Stuard said. "But if they start hearing from Baptists and Jews and Catholics and Lutherans and Presbyterians raising holy hell, then maybe they'll start taking it a little bit more seriously."
Stuard, who lives in the Lakewood Heights area of Dallas with his partner of five years, works as a research coordinator at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
A former Buddhist monk, Stuard said the idea for the alliance was born from his belief that nothing exists separately from anything else, and that ecology is fundamental to everything.
"Humanity is not separate from nature," he said. "Humanity is part of nature."
Raised near Houston in a conservative Independent Bible Church, Stuard said he harbored a lot of anger and guilt.
After studying philosophy and social work at the University of Houston, he joined a monastery in France for four years in the mid-1990s, but later received a "calling" to return to the U.S. —and Christianity.
"My life's journey has been interfaith," he said.
Stuard said he's known he was gay since he was 13 but didn't come out until he was 27. He also said his experience as a gay man has helped shape his environmental advocacy.
"I know what injustice feels like," he said. "I know what it means to feel less than human. Compassion is not an abstract concept to me."
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The video is easily live viewed and played back on PC or Mobile device
Model: ~Smoke Detector/ None of the original functions of the Smoke Detector works.
Camera: ~1/2.7" 2 Megapixel CMOS Sensor, Lens Focal length= 4.37 mm, Aperture=F2.0
Quality: ~Full HD 1080P
Minimum Lux (light): ~0.5
•16:9 - 1920 x 1080 @ 15fps, 1280 x 720 @ 30fps, 800 x 450, 640 x360, 480 x 270, 320 x 176, 176 x 144 @ 30fps
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Recording Mode: Motion Detection
Storage Mode: Build in 32GB SD/HCSD Cards
Sizes Supported: 32GB, 64GB
Recording Length: 10 seconds – 2 minutes per clip or per motion
Recording Cycle: Auto-Recycle (deletes oldest clip)
Recording Capacity: Recording with motion detect on, In most environments the DVR will record between 2-4 days per 32GB).
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The camera includes 802.11n wireless for fast and easy integration into your existing network environment. Wireless N allows you to stream high-quality video to remote sites and mobile devices. A Site Survey feature also allows you to view and connect to nearby wireless networks with ease. The camera also includes a standard Ethernet port for connections to traditional wired networks.
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The camera has integrated video motion detection (Option as well as a passive infrared sensor) for advanced motion detection capabilities. Motion-triggered images or video can be automatically uploaded, emailed or stored using the integrated microSD card slot.
E-PTZ For Surveying Regions Of Interest:
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The included IP camera surveillance software is a comprehensive surveillance system designed to centrally manage multiple IP cameras. Supporting up to 32 IP cameras, The Software is compatible with all current SecureGaurd IP cameras and offers digital monitoring and recording capabilities of video, audio, and events for various security applications. The software is included free of charge with the Camera.
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Akira~~from togainu no chi!!! D: i had been wanted to play tis game but i can't find any eng or chinese scanlations...;_; So..H...
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im a shiki fan myself XD I saw the book in a store translated in english not too long ago actuallyO_o Nice drawing!
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Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women, and obese women are up to 60% more likely to develop cancer as compared to healthy-weight women. A new study found that up to a third of breast cancers in Western countries could be avoided if women ate less and exercised more.
This is wonderful news, and has important implications for human health. Will women take the advice to heart and start eating less and exercising more?
Fat chance.
Two-thirds of American adults are overweight-more of them women than men-yet fewer than one-quarter are dieting. In 2004, the Centers for Disease Control found that women eat over 300 more calories a day than they did in 1971. Fewer than one-third of Americans get regular exercise.
Most Americans, including women, are fat and happy. Of course everyone would love to cut their cancer risk by one-third-unless it means skipping that extra scoop of ice cream, or jogging three times a week. Reducing cancer risk isn't that important. Until you get it.
As Associated Press reporter Maria Cheng noted, there is a reluctance on the part of many doctors to make too much of this study: "Any discussion of weight and breast cancer is considered sensitive because some may misconstrue that as the medical establishment blaming women for their disease."
That's right: there is an institutionalized "fat taboo," in which some fear that if women (most of whom are overweight) are (truthfully) told that they can reduce their risk of cancer by slimming down will blame themselves if they get cancer. Some activists are also concerned that encouraging overweight women to lose weight will somehow lead to an epidemic of anorexia. The reasoning goes that it may be better to just pretend that there's nothing women can do to reduce their risk of cancer than to tell them to slim down and get in shape. Of course, this advice cuts both ways: If women (or men, for that matter) are told that they can cut their risk of cancer by as much as a third, it means they are empowered to do something, to take charge of their own health.
No one should be "blamed" for getting a disease, but nor is it a good idea to simply ignore the person's lifestyle choices that greatly increase their chances of getting that disease. If a person chooses an unhealthy lifestyle (smoking, poor diet, lack of exercise, etc.), doctors should not be shy about warning them the risks they are assuming.
As Cheng noted, some breast cancer groups agree: "Karen Benn, a spokeswoman for Europa Donna, a patient-focused breast cancer group, said it was impossible to ignore the increasingly stronger links between lifestyle and breast cancer. 'If we know there are healthier choices, we can't not recommend them just because people might misinterpret the advice and feel guilty,' she said. 'If we are going to prevent breast cancer, then this message needs to get out, particularly to younger women.'"
Personally I find the idea that women need to be treated like children insulting; I believe women are smart enough that they can handle the knowledge that they have a significant amount of control over their chances of developing cancer. Knowledge is power, and if, in the process of saving lives, some women get their feelings hurt because they are told to lose weight and get fit (or feel guilty if they don't), then too bad.


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Jessica Rabbit is a fictional cartoon character in the 1988 film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit." Aside from her revealing red sequined dress, Jessica Rabbit is most famous for her sexy hairstyle, loosely based on the 1940s peekaboo bang hairstyle favored by Hollywood actresses such as Veronica Lake. During the film she has only one hairstyle in which her red hair is worn down and in loose, tousled waves.
The Jessica Rabbit hairstyle features long hair that falls just below the bust area. The hair is sectioned into a straight side parting, and one side of the hair falls softly over an eye to produce a sexy, sultry look. The hair has a lot of volume, particularly around the back of the head, and it is tousled into soft, flowing waves with a slight undercurl at the end of the hair.
Jessica's hair is a bright, bold, fiery red color that could be described as vampire, vermilion or fire truck red. The hair color is anything but natural, so you can achieve the look at home only by bleaching the hair blond and then dyeing it bright red or by using a synthetic wig.
Jessica Rabbit's hair falls slightly shorter at the front but is of equal length at the back. If you want to mimic her hairstyle, go for a blunt cut with light feathering at the front. The hair should be freshly cut and immaculately styled.
Fun Facts
Many celebrities have copied the Jessica Rabbit hairstyle. During a VH1 "Diva Salute" performance, pop superstar Katie Perry wowed the crowds with a red sequined Jessica Rabbit dress and hairstyle, though she stuck with her natural black hair color. Pop princess Rihanna also channeled Jessica Rabbit's style in a photo shoot, and actress Christina Hendrix is often touted as a real-life Jessica Rabbit, thanks to her curvaceous figure, feminine features and fiery red hair.


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Haile Kifer, age 18, of Little Falls, MN, died Thursday, November 22, 2012. Funeral Services will be held at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, December 1, 2012 at Living Hope Assembly of God Church in Little Falls, MN, with Rev. Keith Thompson, Pastor John Adams, officiating. Visitation will be held from 4:00 – 8:00 p.m. Friday, November 30th at Emblom-Brenny Funeral Service with a prayer service at 7:00 p.m.
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In response to my accounts of the many trials, tribulations, and sometimes high cost of trying to get my wireless gear working smoothly, several ZDNet readers suggested that I consider the old tortoise and hare trick. "Try a slower connection," they told me. "Use your cell phone as a regular modem."
Instead of trying one of the expensive, high speed 2.5G or 3G networks that overpromise and underdeliver on performance, readers suggested, I should connect my PC to my cell phone and dial in to my ISP --- just as I would over a standard modem. Since the connection looks like a voice call to my cell service provider (Nextel), the cost is usually nothing because I rarely use all the minutes on my voice plan anyway. The downside is that a data call over a wireless voice line is going to be very slow compared to the speeds attained with one of the higher speed wireless WANs based on CDMA 1xRTT or GPRS technologies.
Cost savings aside, advocates of this approach argue that you're better off trading speed for stability (rather than the other way around) --- provided, of course, that you're not using performance-sensitive applications. For example, browsing the Web at 19.2 kbps (the typical connection speed you get over a wireless voice line) is downright painful.
Another argument for this approach is that having a slower but more reliable option available to you might make for a good backup plan in the event that your higher speed solution (should you have one) isn't working when you desperately need to connect.
With so many people telling me to keep it simple, and with Ositech recommending its special USB-based PC-to-cell phone connector, I decided to give it a go. Things did not go well.
Using Ositech's USB Cellular Data Cable with Cell Phone Charger requires the installation of special software that takes advantage of one of the connector's unique features. Since it is USB-based, and USB can act as a power source to any USB-device, the phone can use the connector to draw power from the computer in addition to handling serial modem communications. Now, if your notebook is running off of its battery, you might want to throttle back the power draw . Ositech provides a management applet that allows you to make adjustments to the power provision capability
I had to run the installation several times before it completed successfully. On each of the unsuccessful attempts, the installation software refused to proceed until it detected the presence of my Nextel i95cl phone. On about the fourth try, Windows detected the phone and the software installation completed.
With the software and the phone both ready, I attempted to complete data connection via iPASS, my dial-up ISP. But a strange thing started to happen. Every time I tried to connect the phone to the computer, the signal strength (displayed in bars) would drop by about 50 percent. A two- or three-bar signal would drop to zero or a "No Service" indication on the phone, and a five-bar signal would drop to somewhere between one and three bars.
The problem had Ositech's technical support stumped. The more I experimented, the more I suspected that the presence of my notebook computer --- a 366 MHz IBM ThinkPad 570 --- was wreaking havoc with the cellular signal. Just holding the phone next to the ThinkPad without using the connector at all caused a precipitous drop in signal strength. Then, with Ositech's connector plugged into my USB port, I didn't even have to plug the other end into the phone to reproduce the interference. The cable started acting like an antenna; simply waving it by the phone caused the signal to drop.
Unfortunately, my first choice of test environments (my house) gets only two or three bars from the Nextel network. The electrical interference problem made the entire wireless setup useless from my home. Determined to get a connection, I hopped in my car and, with my notebook in the passenger seat, I drove around until I found a solid five-bar signal. As I expected, plugging the cable in (or just putting it near the phone) caused the five bars to drop to two--still enough to make a connection.
From iPASS' dial-up networking client, I changed modems to "Standard Wireless Modem" and dialed a local point of presence (POP). Within about 45 seconds, Windows' dial-up networking utility indicated that I was connected at 19.2 kbps and the iPASS client let me know that I had been authenticated on the network --proving that some data was getting through.
But that's where the party ended. The phone displayed no visible signs that it was in use by the computer, and I was unable to get anything to work at 19.2 kbps. I tried the Web, FTP, and even simply pinging a couple of IP addresses that I know to be alive. Hey, it's just ping. Everything timed out. Ositech's explanation for this is that not all ISPs support connections as slow as 19.2 kbps. I checked with iPASS and they were pretty sure that their POPs supported 19.2 kbps, but, as of this writing, they had not gotten back to me with a definitive answer.
So, in true plug-and-pray fashion, another good wireless idea bites the dust. I'm still not sure why. With respect to the electrical interference problem, Ositech claims that their connector passed all the FCC requirements. On the other hand, the technician I spoke to said I was the only one he knew of who was trying the connector with a Nextel phone. Apparently, Ositech has enjoyed great success with other phones.
Would I have found success with another phone? Perhaps. But this latest chapter in my woeful wireless saga serves as a reminder of the challenges facing users of new technology, especially in the wireless space. We've come a long way since 2400 baud modems and phone couplers, but early adopters may still need to plug and pray before things work smoothly.
Coming up
Wireless that Works: Stay tuned for the first in a year-long series of Webcasts that lays out the wireless landscape now and looks at where it's headed, so you can better understand how to chart your course. During our first Webcast, which debuts February 24, a camera crew follows me around a trade show as I attempt to do my job without wires.


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Although Dragonwing has now closed its tentmaking operations, you'll still be able to get my book, The Pavilion Book, although no longer directly from me. These vendors will be happy to provide you with copies:
The print version of The Pavilion Book has returned to Amazon, this time in a print-on-demand format at the same price as before. Information can be found here. The book is also available as an eBook from Amazon; you can find it here. and the price of the eBook has been reduced to $10.00 to put in in line with other electronic publications.
More information on The Pavilion Book can be found by clicking here.
The scheduled release of this book is November 12, where it will be released in both paperback and e-book form. More information can be found by clicking this link.


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PRAIRIE VIEW – Gloria J. Mosby, communications program director for Prairie View A&M University's College of Agriculture and Human Sciences, retired Jan. 31 after 32 years of service.
Mosby started her career at Prairie View A&M in the Cooperative Extension Program, the educational outreach unit for the college. During her tenure, Mosby served as program assistant in communications, communications specialist and program director.
Her responsibilities included developing and editing written documents and giving overall direction to the communications unit to publicize Extension and college efforts to the citizens of Texas, clientele, funders and appropriate legislative entities. Under her leadership, the Prairie View A&M Cooperative Extension Program developed its brand slogan, "Meeting Needs, Changing Lives."
During her tenure, the communications staff expanded from one person to five. Today the College of Agriculture and Human Sciences, which includes the departments of agriculture, nutrition and human ecology, the Cooperative Agricultural Research Center and the Cooperative Extension Program, is marketed via print, broadcast, podcasts, online and social media and an information technology unit.
In addition to her work at Prairie View, Mosby held several positions in national organizations, serving as chair and co-chair of the Association of Extension Administrators Marketing and Communications Team and chair of the Southern Region Program Leadership Network Executive Committee. She also held the positions of secretary, vice-president and president of the Journal of Extension board of directors. She received distinguished service awards for outstanding leadership from the Cooperative Extension Program and an Outstanding Service Award for impact writing from the Association of Extension Administrators.
One of the highlights of her career was serving as co-principal investigator for a grant to conduct a first-of-its-kind national training, "Media Relations Made Easy," held in Little Rock, Ark. in 2008 for all 1890 land-grant university communicators.
A native of Baltimore, Md., Mosby received a bachelor of arts degree in English from Morgan State College and a master of science degree in rural sociology from Texas A&M University. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Yaounde, Cameroon, Central West Africa, where she received a postgraduate degree in French and African literature.
Prior to working at Prairie View A&M University, she was a communications assistant for Opportunities Industrialization Centers International in Philadelphia, Pa.
Mosby plans to continue writing, editing and working in business with her husband, Harry C. Mosby Jr.


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At Last… Reflections on historic moment in the nation's capital
As I sat on the Lincoln Memorial that cold January day, when the first African American president took the oath of office, I was inspired to ask, "If this is possible, what else can we achieve as a people and as a nation?"
For some odd reason, no one was near me. I sat with my legs dangling off the edge of the monument as history was made. The jumbotron clearly showed Aretha in "that hat." The enormity of the moment struck me when I remembered something my son said: "Papa, you know it's over when the fat lady sings."
"The poet's words were deeply meaningful, but the stanza I remember was her reference to the "hands that picked cotton and lettuce."
My memory is spotty and incomplete. Emotions tend to cloud my thinking. The controversy over the participation of the conservative preacher seemed overblown after listening to his thoughtful invocation. The poet's words were deeply meaningful, but the stanza I remember was her reference to the "hands that picked cotton and lettuce." My personal highlight reel continues with a feeling of beauty inspired by the classical music performance. Then the oath of office was bungled by two men, who happen to be in my own age group, standing on the national stage at a historic moment. And, just as I might do, they blew the simplest recitation of the program, as the Chief Justice stumbled on the constitutionally mandated oath of office, while Obama's eyes twinkled with "oops."
I listened carefully to the president's well-crafted speech for any lines that history might note. I also listened because the next day I was scheduled to respond at the Carnegie Library before an audience of peers and professionals. I wanted to be profound and informed as I offered an analysis of what had occurred. Speculation on the new President's first One Hundred Days seemed appropriate.
But before I could take notes, the crowd of 2 million had hushed. The stillness reminded me of church. President Obama spoke to Muslims, Christians, conservatives and liberals. He spoke to citizens in their living rooms and to the world. It felt like a new day had dawned. But my tears did not come until Rev. Lowery gave the benediction. My reaction was, "Did he just say what I thought he said?" I knew it would be understood by African Americans. He recited the first stanza of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" or as it was called when I was a child, "The Negro National Anthem."
Lift every voice and sing,
till earth and Heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise, high as the listening skies,
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun,
Let us march on till victory is won.
It was totally appropriate. That song represents the hope of black people for decades and centuries. It is a hope embodied in President Barack Obama. But would he live up to such high expectations? What will his first One Hundred Days include? At the time, no one could answer these questions. We could, though, see that this would be like no other White House. The inaugural balls lasted through much of the night. At each one the President and First Lady seemed to fit smoothly into their new roles. People were wowed and cameras flashed. But Beyonce said it best, "At Last . . ." as Barack and Michelle danced.


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Zambrano on point as Cubs blank 'Stros
Zambrano on point in Cubs victory
"I don't think I'm the only ace here," Zambrano said. "[It's] not about one guy on this team. It's about 25 guys on this team, and we all stay together and we all support each other."
That was evident in Friday's 6-0 win over the Houston Astros, which gave the Cubs a 13-4 record in their last 17 games. Their 23-12 record since June 3 is the best in the National League.
On Friday, it was Zambrano (11-7) who led the way.
Big Z gave up three hits while striking out seven over 6 2/3 scoreless innings, and became the National League's first 11-game winner. He also added an RBI single, and is now 6-2 with a 1.55 ERA since June 6.
"He's in that groove right now where he gives you a chance to win everytime he's out there," manager Lou Piniella said. "Anytime your No. 1 starter picks it up like he has, it gives you a big lift as a team."
Zambrano's teammates were not shy about the pitcher's role on the team.
"What you're seeing now is just the talent coming out, pitching the way he's supposed to pitch, and knowing that if we want to win, if we want to do anything, it's going through Zambrano," Cliff Floyd said. "At the end of the day, having him in our rotation alleviates a lot of problems."
One of those problems is the Cubs' recent lack of home runs. Friday's game was the 10th straight in which they were homerless, the longest such drought since July of 1988. The last time the Cubs went 11 games or more without a home run was when they went 15 games without a long ball, from July 15-28, 1978.
Despite the power outage, the Cubs have been finding ways to win.
"The biggest key is scoring runs, that's the name of the game," Derrek Lee said. "So if you do it with a single, double or home run, it doesn't really matter. A home run does make it easier to score some runs quicker, but we're getting the job done without the home run right now."
The Cubs took a 3-0 lead in the fourth, thanks in part to the Astros committing two errors on the same play. Floyd led off with a single, advanced to third on Mark DeRosa's single, and scored on Jacque Jones' sacrifice fly to left.
Then came the wackiness. With DeRosa at second, Geovany Soto, who was recalled from Triple-A Iowa on Friday, hit a hard grounder to third baseman Mike Lamb. Lamb's throw to first got by Lance Berkman, and DeRosa advanced 90 feet. Berkman then tried to pick off DeRosa, who had overrun third, but his throw sailed into the stands, which allowed DeRosa to score and advanced Soto to third. Soto scored the next at-bat on one of Zambrano's two singles.
The errors were two of a season-high four committed by the Astros, who had no answers for Zambrano.
"It's not like we came out against somebody's No. 5 starter and were shut out," Berkman said. "You're facing probably the guy with the best stuff in the National League on a day that the wind's blowing straight in here at Wrigley Field, where you're not going to get any base hits on the ground and there's going to be no base hits in the air.
"You're pretty much going to have to hit line drives and he doesn't walk many guys," Berkman said, "so we certainly are disappointed that we lost and we played some sloppy defense which is never good."
The Cubs loaded the bases in the sixth, and Chad Qualls walked Aramis Ramirez to make it 4-0.
Zambrano was pitching well through the sixth, not allowing a runner in scoring position. But in the seventh, he ran into some trouble. Zambrano gave up a single to Carlos Lee and walks to Mark Loretta and Luke Scott before being pulled by Piniella. Carlos Marmol came in and induced Eric Munson to fly out to end the inning and preserve Zambrano's shutout.
Lee gave the Cubs a cushion with a two-run double in the eighth. The hit was the closest the team got to a home run all day.
"We put six runs on the board today, we got really good pitching, we played a good defensive game," Piniella said. "We didn't need the home run ball today. Hopefully, when we do need it, it will come."
Marc Zarefsky is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.