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iOS 6.0 Causes CDN Overages
Chris Rhoden posted on Wednesday, November 14th, 2012 | iPad, iPhone, Mobile | 26 Comments
We received a report from the folks at This American Life of extremely high bills from their CDN for the month of October. It is our belief after researching the problem that this is caused by bugs in the iOS 6 Audio Playback frameworks resulting in files being downloaded multiple times – this could result in dramatic overage charges for both content distributers and data plan customers.
We had seen a pretty intense spike in traffic on 99% Invisible and The Moth (both of which we host) last month, and had a pretty good idea of the when the spike began as a result. At the time, we had chalked the rather extreme increase in bandwidth (seen below) to the release of Apple's new Podcast app, which featured 99% Invisible prominently at release. We figured that Apple had brought 99% Invisible and The Moth some new subscribers, and were pretty happy once we had battened the hatches a bit.
But when we heard from This American Life that they were seeing an order of magnitude increase in their bandwidth usage, we needed to ensure that there wasn't a problem with our apps that was causing unusual download behavior. Based on our research, it looks like the issue is iOS 6.
The Behavior
To begin, we wanted to know if there was a way that we could differentiate traffic originating from one of our apps from traffic originating from other apps. Because we are using the AV Foundation framework, it turned out that we couldn't (the User Agent String is the OS Standard one, not app specific). We were able to see that the version of iOS was 6.0 but not the name of the app playing the audio. However, the Apache logs we looked at suggested something unusual. In the following screenshot, the file being downloaded is 8614457 bytes long.
What you can see is that the first 2 bytes of the file (in most cases, this will be ID, as in ID3) are downloaded in one request and then what appears to be the file being downloaded multiple times on iOS 6 and only once on iOS 5. (This appears to be an artifact of the way that Apache logs range requests, and we have reason to believe that the file was not downloaded many complete times, but there are still clearly problems.)
Following this, we set up a proxy so that we could watch requests as they were coming from the app. The player appears to get into a state where it makes multiple requests per second and closes them rapidly. Because the ranges of these requests seem to overlap and the requests themselves each carry some overhead, this causes a single download of an MP3 to use significantly more bandwidth than in iOS 5. In one case, the playback of a single 30MB episode caused the transfer of over 100MB of data.
We saw this behavior start after a period of behaving correctly (in some cases behaving correctly for about 5 minutes before the issue appeared) in both our own apps and the Apple Podcast app. We were able to reproduce the issue with several podcasts in the Podcast app, including podcasts using Limelight and Akamai CDNs. We have been unable to reproduce the issue using iOS 5 or using iOS 6.0.1, but there are still many people using iOS 6.0.0. We believe that this issue, combined with the bug causing the phone to behave as though it is connected to WiFi even when it is not, could account for the significant data overages reported with the release of iOS 6.
The strangest bit of behavior happens when the ranges on these requests reach the end of the file. We were able to consistently see that when the file has completed downloading, it begins downloading again from the beginning of the file and continues for as long as one is streaming the file. This means that, for as long as one is listening to audio being streamed with iOS 6, it is using significant amounts of data. Watch the range headers in this video, which is monitoring the HTTP activity of the stock Podcast app (v1.1.2) on iOS 6.0.0 playing back an episode of This Week in Tech. The file finishes buffering and is completely downloaded at around 0:36.
There appears to be a system-wide problem with the AV Foundation framework in iOS 6.0.0, resulting in significantly higher data costs to iPhone users and internet distributors. Users who have not done so should immediately upgrade iOS 6.0.0 devices to iOS 6.0.1, which we can confirm appears to fix the issue on Wifi. While some carriers are offering concessions to customers who may have been affected by this problem, Apple does not appear to have acknowledged the specific issue. The release notes for iOS 6.0.1 mention a change related to Wifi (likely referring to the problem with devices that reported that they were connected to Wifi while connected to 3G and LTE networks), which may be related to the change which fixed this issue.
Our tests did not cover 3g or LTE data, as we relied on connecting to Wifi to perform them. Because of the server logs we have access to, it appears that this issue exists over mobile broadband as well.
Exploring The Depths Of KCRW Music Mine: Part One
Daniel Gross posted on Monday, September 19th, 2011 | iPad, KCRW, Mobile | No Comments
KCRW Music Mine launched recently to rave reviews. The free iPad app is the result of a collaboration between KCRW, RoundArch and PRX, which led the project and development efforts. Music Mine pushes the limits of the tablet platform to create a truly unique music discovery experience. Daniel Gross interviews Matt MacDonald, PRX's Director of Project Management, about the app.
What can Music Mine do?
The app is a iPad music player that opens up to a grid of 100 songs from artists that played on KCRW shows in the last week. What the app does is highlight these tracks that have been hand-picked by a KCRW DJ who wanted you to hear it. You might find odd pairings, maybe TV on the Radio right next to the newest Jeff Bridges country song. What they have in common is that these are all great songs that were picked by humans with taste and a point of view, not selected by an algorithm. The app lets you explore each of these artists in greater depth and we use software to add supporting songs, videos, photos, bios and blog posts.
How did it all get started?
We started talking with KCRW in the summer of 2010 about building an iPad app. PRX has been doing iOS development since late 2008 with apps including the Public Radio Player for iPhone and This American Life app for iPhone, iPad and Android. So we knew we could make this project ambitious.
As a public radio station, KCRW produces a ton of content. But we wanted to build an app tightly focused on their music. Anil Dewan at KCRW helped us understand their online music identity. But given the existing competition facing KCRW and listening platforms, we were asking: how the heck do we stand out and differentiate ourselves?
And? What makes Music Mine so different from other apps?
The biggest difference is Music Mine's human touch. Other music apps like Pandora, Discover, Spotify or Last.fm are designed to provide access to every song and every artist in their huge catalogs. When you're listening to Wilco, say, those apps use an algorithm to automatically recommend the next 5 or 6 'related' artists. KCRW has a huge and diverse catalog but we wanted to amplify and highlight the work that the DJs do by narrowing what you should be listening to.
The user interactions in the app have an attitude and a point of view like the KCRW DJs. One goal for us was to encourage, musical exploration and delight so some of our interaction decisions basically force you to try out music that you might not be familiar with. We made sure to encourage that by not adding features like search or sorting and filtering tools. We also could have directly presented the underlying ordered list that backs the grid layout but we felt that doing so would have made you less likely to try out new songs and that you might only search and tap those you know.
So you want an app with people behind it – but you still want to take advantage of technology, right? What do you need to do that?
Yep, we definitely want to use technology to help us out here. Our office is in Harvard Square, and the local tech scene here is pretty amazing. One of the companies we'd wanted to work with for a long time was The Echo Nest over in Somerville. When we started dreaming up the Music Mine idea we went straight to them.
The Echo Nest provides APIs that allow us to request a ton of information about artists and songs, found audio, video, relevant blog posts, bios and photos. We knew that merging the KCRW playlists with Echo Nest data sources would give us the ability to create a unique window into the KCRW music universe. Rebecca Nesson here at PRX led the effort to merge the data sources from KCRW and Echo Nest. While each of the songs available in the grid is initially picked by a human, PRX wrote software to help narrow down the thousands of tracks that could be available to the 100 available on the grid.
How did the project evolve as you built and rebuilt the product?
A big question early in the project was: should the primary experience for how people listen in the app be focused on the long, multi-hour DJ sets, or center on playback of individual tracks? PRX and RoundArch interviewed people specifically about what they might want in a music discovery app from KCRW and after hearing from them we decided to focus the experience on track-by-track selection. That decision proved challenging and mid-way through the project there was a point where we really had to consider ditching the track-by-track access and move back to a DJ set focused app.
The sub-views in the app like the artist photo, song, video, bio, blog pages came together pretty quickly and didn't change much over the project but the home view, the grid, was definitely an area where we iterated on ideas for a long time. Yeah — that took a really long time. We might have had 8 or 10 significant tweaks to the layout and presentation. But I think all the time we spent iterating on the ideas really paid off in the execution.
How do you feel about it? Is there anything you'd improve or add?
Well…no. Actually, I'm really happy with it. I just re-read the original product vision and I think we've really held true to that over the last ten or so months.
The KCRW iPad Experience project will focus on creating an iPad experience that quickly engages target users by leveraging KCRW's unique style, taste and hand picked music. In addition, tight conceptual focus and appealing interaction models will aid in driving long-term user engagement.
People that we interviewed about what they might want in an music discovery app said they wanted us to make good music important to them, help them find new good music and improve their awareness. We've done that. People wanted us to connect them with great new artists, and help them learn more about music and artists they're already familiar with. I think we've done that too.
What's next from the PRX team?
I'm really excited about an iPhone project that we're working on with a very popular public radio show. I feel like we're developing a unique way to help people interact and connect with the show. We're pushing the device's capabilities, coming up with new interactions that can surprise and delight people.
Any last thoughts?
People talk about software as engineering, and it's partially that, but it's also a craft. This kind of work is like building a beautiful piece of furniture. When it's done poorly, you end up with a cheap nothing that you throw away. But when it's done well, you'll never see all the work that went into it. Sometimes that means a lack of appreciation for the thought and care that was put in.
Devin Chalmers, Rebecca Nesson and Andrew Kuklewicz are top-notch developers, maybe the best people I've ever worked with. But even with the best people working together, it requires time and freedom to explore and do it right. We could have finished a long time ago if we'd done it poorly. Instead, we came up with something that we're proud of, KCRW is happy with, and it seems so are the people using it.
Part Two
Coming up: Rebecca Nesson and Devin Chalmers will be digging into other more technical aspects of the KCRW Music Mine app, perspective transformations on scroll views, knob-twiddly stuff to tweak behavior and how we had to figure out layouts of a 4×6 grid in both portrait and landscape modes.
iPhone Radio Apps Are Not Banned
Andrew Kuklewicz posted on Saturday, November 27th, 2010 | iPad, iPhone, Mobile | 8 Comments
Lance Venta of Radio Insight is following up on the possibility that AirKast may also have been banned as well. In the AirKast store where 277 apps are listed, the latest new release is dated 10/30. (Coincidentally, their last app was for 'KNUE', which is a station I grew up listening to in Tyler, TX.)
This would be a big deal, both because they have so many apps, but also because they have significant commercial partnerships (e.g. ESPN, Triton, Radio One which "primarily targets African-American and urban consumers" in 15 markets with 53 stations, Salem Communications "targeting audiences interested in Christian and family-themed content and conservative values" with 94 stations, Bonneville International with 26 stations, Citadel Broadcasting comprised of "165 FM stations and 58 AM stations", & NextMedia with 33 stations.
I've started compiling a list of other providers possibly hit by this when I started this post; time to go back and see who else might have been affected by the policy. Statements from Apple specify that apps in a station's own store should continue to be approved, but it will be interesting to watch the white-label app sellers' stores, and see if they can add more station apps.
For example, Jacobs Media (with 249 apps in its store) has not had a new app in their own store since 11/10 (though as Lance pointed out to me, they have had updates as recently as 11/24). They have probably taken to putting all new apps in individual station stores in accordance with Apple's policies (which they were previously doing with some station apps anyway).
For customers of white label app providers, in effect the price just went up by $100/year, as they now have to buy their own iOS Developer Account rather then riding on the app creator's. For DJB Apps, with a price of $199.99 (1 platform, 1 station app), adding another $100 for Apple is not a minor difference.
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We've been asked by a number of partners and acquaintances to weigh in on the recent controversy started by Jim Barcus's letter to the editor in Radio Magazine.
The jist of the letter it that Apple rejected 10 of his iPhone apps because they no longer accept single stream/station apps:
On Nov. 10, 2010, we had 10 radio station apps rejected by Apple because Apple says "single station app are the same as a FART app and represent spam in the iTunes store" and Apple "will no longer approve any more radio station apps unless there are hundreds of stations on the same app."
He does not identify a particular source at Apple (few can or do), or cite an official notification from them (such as the reason(s) that would be included in a rejection), but adds:
We have talked to many Apple reps about this, but they appear to have a script that they all read from saying that a single station app is not an enriching end user experience.
While this particular letter has engendered remarkable response (as it seems intended to do), the tale of a developer rejected is a common one. In fact, Brian Stormont had a similar odd rejection back in April (emphasis is mine):
Today I received the oddest rejection from Apple for a pair of iPhone apps I had submitted for two different radio stations. Apple rejected the apps with the explanation that they were of a similar "Family of radio applications" and "should be packaged in a single application using In App Purchase".
I replied to Apple explaining how combining the two apps is not an option, but I haven't yet heard back. I'm hopeful this isn't the start of a new policy on Apple's part prohibiting apps for individual radio stations.
UPDATE 4/13/2010: The two apps have now been approved, although I never received any clarification from Apple regarding my inquiry. The apps just suddenly became approved. Best I can assume is the original reviewer had made a mistake.
A point of interest is that this precedes Apple's 9/9/2010 statement which accompanied the first set of official and public approval guidelines for the app store. This document makes clear that "We have over 250,000 apps in the App Store. We don't need any more Fart apps. If your app doesn't do something useful or provide some form of lasting entertainment, it may not be accepted.", and shortly thereafter a point that perhaps Barcus missed, "If your app is rejected, we have a Review Board that you can appeal to. If you run to the press and trash us, it never helps."
As with Barcus, Brian Stormont expressed (more skeptically) the fear that Apple is trying to cut down on the sheer number of radio apps, and instead focusing on aggregation apps that play an uncounted number of stations, as iTunes does for streams on OS X, or an actual radio does for broadcast.
If this were to happen, and Apple were to enforce a no single station apps policy, it would be immensely troubling to say the least.
The thing is, you shouldn't believe it.
The app store right now is flush with single station apps, including many featured in 'What's Hot' (such as 'WMBR' and 'RadioU'), and 'New and Noteworthy' ('TuneLab Radio' appears as #7).
Surely if this were truly a blanket policy they would be rejecting these apps, not featuring them in such coveted spots.
There must be more to this, some of which came out when Trevor Long of your tech life also spoke with Apple:
I've spoken with Apple, as have several developers and the situation, while not crystal clear, is certainly very clear on principal. There is no 'ban' on Single station Apps.
My own summary is that App developers submitting identical apps with just a logo/stream change under their own developer accounts are not looked well upon. (and if you take the time to download a few of this chap's apps, you'll see how uninspiring they are, and similar too)
However, if a station has an app developed, and submitted under their own name, it should breeze through.
Likewise, if an individual or group create an app that links to a single station stream or show, it might face some hurdles.
From a station owner perspective I think that's a good thing – but, from Apples point of view, good on them for 'encouraging' the development of rich apps with a user experience that is more than 'just a stream' – in the end, if it was 'just a stream' the industry won't survive!
Moral of this story for Radio stations – be creative, own the rights, own the application submission.
Confirming this account and adding further detail is a translation of another conversation with Apple representatives:
Translation from German article in Radioszene.de:
Faster than expected, Apple has reacted in a telephone call from german radio organization VPRT, This is a summary of the call:
"Apple will not delete any radio apps or prohibit access of radio apps to Apple Store. Apple suggests that every radio station makes their own developer account (79 Euro) and uploads their apps in there themselves. The apps can be developed by third parties (White label solutions). New and the apps in the future will be handled as so far. Apple confirmed, that several identical apps -which are provided from ONE developer account- will no more be accepted. (Comment: there has been some cases in the near past where a developer has submited hundred identical apps into the store). This rule is also applying to newspapers and other industries. If the app will be uploaded by the radio station this is no problem. Radio stations can also upload more than one app on their own developer account".
Consistent with these posts, other radio app creators as or more prolific than Barcus have made it known they are not experiencing systematic rejections, nor are aware of any policy changes:
Claiming that Barcus is wrong, Paul Jacobs, VP/GM Jacobs Media/jacAPPS, tells RBR-TVBR that he's been able to build radio station apps since Nov. 10: "Since that date, we have had apps for radio stations accepted as new as well as upgrades. And we are not alone. I invite you to go to the iTunes App Store and go into the "free" apps portion of the Music section. There you will see examples of dozens of radio stations – domestic, international, and Internet – that have been accepted and/or upgraded since November 10."
Battle of the screen shots?
Jacobs even sent us a screen shot proving it. There were at least five radio stations — both AM and FM –with apps listed post-Nov. 10. Now, not to make any rash judgments here, but Barcus also sent RBR-TVBR a similar image, indicating the opposite was true.
Neither screen shots has been made public, but I have found results consistent with Paul Jacobs claim in my own perusal of the app store (I'll leave this to you for homework).
UPDATE 11/27 12:05 PM: RBR.com has posted the screen shots. The one of the entire app store, sent by Jacobs, clearly shows many new radio apps. Barcus sent in list of apps by Jacobs Media (not what Jacobs invited users to look at), who has not published a new app since Nov 10. I have seen many Jacobs apps submitted in individual station accounts, so I tend to believe the Jacob's claim that they have apps approved since the 10th, just not ones in their seller account.
Barcus's letter seems aimed at causing uproar, positioning this as a conflict between Apple and the whole of radio. It now seems to be a more specific policy that has been applied to him (and perhaps other, less vocal, sellers).
It is unfortunate that other outlets, such as The Register and other sites added their voices to this uproar, and have yet to post corrections.
UPDATE 11/28: The Register and Martin Bryant from The Next Web have both updated their stories (thanks for the link Martin). The Register received a statement from Apple:
"There are many unique radio apps on the App Store and we look forward to approving many more," reads a statement from an Apple spokesman sent to The Register. "One developer has attempted to spam the app store with hundreds of variations of essentially the same radio app and that is against our guidelines."
This makes the 3rd communication from Apple confirming that this is an issue regarding a single developer, and a particular type of activity that Apple has previously described as a reason for app rejection (i.e. 'spamming').
As others have found Trevor's post, they have reported this as a developer's sour grapes rather than a draconian policy against radio, as Lance Venta did in Radio Insight, or in the corrected piece by Steve Safran in Lost Remote. That's a wonderful retraction Mr. Safran; gracefully done, and with good humor – it ought to increase your readership (I know it did by at least one).
As the app store has reached a population of hundreds of thousands, Apple has been raising the bar on approvals, and you should expect this to continue as even more flock to the growing iOS platform. The best way to get your own apps approved it to start by providing apps people actually want (rich functionality and crafted interfaces). From there, you need to consider many factors in getting your apps approved, not to mention adopted, but that is the subject of my next post…
Useful OmniGraffle stencils and templates for iPhone and iPad
Matt MacDonald posted on Tuesday, October 19th, 2010 | iPad, iPhone, Mobile, Wireframes | 1 Comment
I've been using OmniGraffle Pro for most of my iPhone and iPad wireframe jobs. I love the product, simple and easy to use. One of the things that I dig the most about it is the vibrant stencil and template community at http://graffletopia.com/. There are a number of stencils and templates that you can find out on the internet. The two that I've found to be most useful over the past few months are:
They are well thought out and I've been able to find and modify just about any component I've needed.
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A 33-year-old convicted killer is facing execution for fatally shooting an off-duty Houston police sergeant.
Anthony Haynes is set to die Thursday evening in Huntsville for the death of Kent Kincaid 14 years ago. The officer and his wife were about a block from their Houston-area home and headed to meet some friends at a sports bar when an object from a passing pickup truck cracked their vehicle's windshield.
Kincaid drove up alongside the truck and both vehicles pulled over. He got out, told the people in the pickup he was a police officer and was reaching to produce his ID when Haynes pulled a gun and shot him in the head.
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Medal of Honor recipient Clarence Sasser was welcomed back to the Texas A&M University campus Thursday where his medal will be on permanent display in the school's Memorial Student Center (MSC).
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Bonnie Bell Carter, 92, of Lake Park died on Saturday, February 02, 2013 at the Langdale Hospice House following a lengthy illness. She was born on March 23, 1920 in Echols County to the late Arthur Herbert and Lula Lightsey Hughes. She was a homemaker and a member of Sardis Baptist Church.
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Preseason fall practices are over. It's now time for Appalachian State to focus on the 2013 season and the Mountaineers' first foe, Montana.
The Mountaineers held a final scrimmage at soggy Kidd Brewer Stadium Saturday in front of a Fan Fest crowd of an estimated 4,500. The scrimmage, played in a light, but constant rainstorm, produced just three touchdowns and a field goal for an App State offense that moved the ball well at times, but struggled to hang on to the football.
"This whole week has been really nice," Mountaineers coach Scott Satterfield said. "I thought we were going to get some rain toward the middle of the week and then it showed up today."
Satterfield would have rather seen a clear day, but also said that the Mountaineers have to be prepared to play in inclement weather. Kidd Brewer Stadium is usually due for at least one game when the weather is bad, and Satterfield feels the Mountaineers have to be prepared for it, especially when it comes to ball security.
The Mountaineers' offense turned the ball over four times, but also rolled up 486 yards of total offense. Appalachian State's defense also forced five three-and-outs, including the first two offensive series of the 93-play scrimmage.
"As much rain that we've had here in the High Country, we may have a game or two in this weather, so it's always good to get out and participate in the rain like this," Satterfield said. "We put the ball on the ground tonight. Really, our guys have taken good care of the ball throughout the whole camp. Tonight we put the ball down more so, and that probably due to the weather."
It didn't seem to have too much effect on Appalachian State's passing game, at least when it came to touchdowns. All three of the Mountaineers' TDs were scored through the air.
Backup quarterback Kameron Bryant tossed a 10-yard touchdown to Sean Price and a 26 yarder to Simms McElfresh. Starting quarterback Jamal Londry-Jackson's screen pass to freshman running back Marcus Cox, who raced 63 yards for a touchdown.
"We ran the play, I caught the ball and I saw green," Cox said. "Sean Price had a really nice block. This is the second time we've scored on this play. Sean Price had a nice block downfield and the offensive line really sold the screen."
Eric Davidson led the Mountaineers in running with 104 yards on 10 carries. Bobo Beathard caught five passes for 59 yards.
Defensively, the Mountaineers forced five fumbles and recovered three. App State's Tyrell Brown picked off a pass late in the scrimmage and returned it 55 yards before being stopped from scoring a touchdown.
Lee Wright, another freshman, led the Mountaineers with seven tackles. Deuce Robinson, Tashion Singleton and Stephen Burns all notched a sack, and the Mountaineers had eight tackles for a loss.
"I guess going against an offense all fall camp, you kind of pick up on a couple of their calls or whatever," Robinson said. "It's the same with them. They can kind of read our defenses, which is probably easy after going up against us."
Satterfield blamed fatigue, in part, for the Mountaineers' sloppy play on offense.
"It's been a long two weeks for our guys," Satterfield said. "Two weeks ago Friday is when we started this thing and we've been going pretty much non-stop, including two-a-days. The guys fought through it, but I though they looked heavy-legged."
Several players were held out of the scrimmage for various injuries. Wide receiver Malachi Jones (knee), kicker Drew Stewart (foot), offensive lineman Davante Harris (ankle), tight end Josh Anding (head), kicker Mark Powell (leg), defensive back Doug Middleton (head), tackle Tyson Fernandez (head), linebacker Karl Anderson (head), guard Ian Bernard (head), quarterback Kalik Barnes (head), defensive back Brandon Pinckney (leg), and running back Ricky Fergerson (foot) are all listed day-to-day and should be ready to play at Montana on Aug. 31.
Defensive back Chris Starks (knee) is likely to be out several weeks.


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Awaiting the birth of a child takes a lot of preparation and a lot of needed supplies. One of which, as every parent knows, is diapers.
As part of its "Project Layette," Glen Ellyn Junior Woman's Club members will answer the call as they donate diapers and other baby items to Teen Parent Connection this Thursday during a member's only meeting.
Teen Parent Connection is a Glen Ellyn-based nonprofit which educates clients ages 12 -22 about the responsibilities of teenage pregnancy by providing long-term assistance to adolescent parents via programs focusing on self-esteem development, parenting skills and self-sufficiency. Sites are located in Carol Stream, Naperville, Clarendon Hills, Addison, Villa Park and West Chicago.
Created in 1948, the Glen Ellyn Junior Woman's Club is an organization where members are dedicated in improving their community. The club lends support other community groups such as the Glen Ellyn Food Pantry and the Wheaton-based organizations DuPage PADS and The People's Resource Center.
La Sridhar, a club member and a board member of Teen Parent Connection, said members step up to the plate every time. The club has been doing this particular project since 2003.
"We usually have about 30 people coming so you have about 30 to 35 boxes of diapers, which is huge for Teen Parent Connection," Sridhar said.
She said she is also impressed when speakers, who benefitted from the help of Teen Parent Connection, share their experiences with club members.
"They're all young ladies who are 15, 16 and 17 years old," she said. "To see them come up there and talk with us, I'm thinking to myself 'What was I doing at their age?' It's just amazing to see their strength."
The club will also raise proceeds for community organizations at its annual spring flower sale. Items available will include geraniums, begonias, impatiens, petunias and potted herbs. Sridhar said that Teen Parent Connection will be the primary beneficiary of the sale which runs until Friday, April 15.
"The club has been involved with many charities in the local area, and Teen Parent was one of them," Sridhar said. "Since it is a women's organization with a lot of energy for supporting and empowering our teens and helping them build a sustaining life, that resonated with all our members."
Teen Parent Connection was created by a maternal child health nurse from Hinsdale Hospital, according to Becky Beilfuss, the organization's executive director. The organization expanded to include pregnancy prevention programs for youth and teenagers, group services and home visitation. There is also a program where clients receive help from doulas—specially trained women who are not clinicians, but provide information, education and support concerning pregnancy and planning for labor and delivery.
Besides dispensing parenting information, Beilfuss added that the organization also encourages young parents to become self-sufficient by completing high school and attending college or trade school.
"We have a very high rate of success with getting parents back into school to complete their high school education, as well as delaying subsequent pregnancies," she said. "We have very high immunization rates among our babies. More importantly, we have less than two percent of our babies become victims of child abuse or neglect. That's huge for us. Last year, we served 495 young parents and their children and served over 13,000 students with our prevention program."
Beilfuss is grateful for the club's help.
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With Black Friday 2012 approaching, and already underway for some stores and websites, those hot toy lists will mean big business once again. It will be a fierce battle between Toys R Us, Walmart and Amazon, who have each put out their own lists of the top toys to get as gifts for kids each year.
The LeapPad2, brand new Furby (pictured), and Eagle Talon Castle are just a few of the toys making the rounds on the latest editions of those lists. A report from Reuters.com indicates that last year, toy sales went well over $21 billion, with the holiday season contributing the most to those sales. Due to those huge numbers, the three retailers above continue to battle over getting customers to buy the toys they are promoting.
The Toys R Us Fabulous 15 toys list has become a very popular list each year. This year's list has items like the Monster High High School set, Imaginext Eagle Talon Castle, and Little People toys including Disney's Princesses. While some may believe the list is totally made by Toys R Us expert staff just pouring over which toys are best, some of the top manufacturers in the toy industry, including Mattel, actually submit their specific toys they would want to see included on the lists. It's even noted by one VP from Mattel that this is part of their annual marketing plans.
However, it's also noted by that same VP, that just getting on a list, and getting people buzzing about your toy is the main thing. As for the decision to buy, it comes down to the kids and their parents. Parents have the tough task of choosing to buy what their kids are asking for, or what's on those hot toy lists. Grandparents tend to just go by the lists, while parents are being pressured by kids, who are pressured by the ads they see on TV or elsewhere. So it would seem the most important way to get kids asking for your toys is to just make sure they are being shown off to them as much as possible.
Still, the various toy lists and rankings seem to provide some help to those who may need it, in terms of finding age-appropriate toys that fit their budgets. It seems the toys are getting more expensive each year, and in some cases harder to find. Just as an example, the Furby in specific colors sells for as much as $74 on Amazon.com website, due to the fact it's become a rarity in stores. With that in mind, it may be smarter to just get the item your kids are asking for, rather than paying extra. That is, unless they asked for a purple Furby this year.
Do you rely on the hot toy lists when buying gifts for children, their own wishlists, or just get what you think are the best gifts for them?
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I got a press release reminding me not long ago that Soulforce, the gay rights group that does in-your-face confrontations on Christian college campuses, is making the rounds again this spring. The Equality Rides, as they are called, target colleges that Soulforce feels are discriminatory towards gays. The two or three dozen Riders are gay and straight students, some of them from the very colleges targeted.
Soulforce got lots of coverage, such as this Christianity Today piece, when it first started these unsolicited visits in 2006. Colleges have reacted in varying ways, from forbidding Soulforce to step foot on their campuses to inviting them to speak at forums and welcoming them in individual homes. The visits have also shown an increasing rift on homosexuality between young and older evangelicals, as pointed out here.
Today, Soulforce is at Bellhaven University in Jackson, Miss. After Easter, the bus will show up at several Texas campuses, including Baylor University. A schedule is here.
Certainly there is some debate among evangelicals over this topic, with ex-gays weighing in on one side saying that change is possible and others saying that homosexuals don't choose their orientation.
As for the college visits, a lot of these campuses have been more hospitable than other groups would have. What if Jews for Jesus had done forced visits to America's majority Jewish campuses? What if tea party activists had shown up several thousand strong at UC-Berkley and had a sit-in? Would the folks at, say, Brandeis, Yeshiva University or any state school in California given these folks a chance to speak, much less welcome them into their homes?
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Republican Rep. Vern Buchanan, a self-made Florida millionaire, is only in his third term in Congress, but he already is in charge of fundraising for the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, and he sits on the powerful House Ways and Means committee.
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The jury in the trial of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards is deliberating six counts stemming from allegations that he accepted illegal campaign contributions, falsified documents and conspired to receive and conceal the contributions. The maximum sentence if convicted on all six counts would be 30 years in prison and a $1.5 million fine.
Jurors were set to begin deliberations Friday in the corruption trial of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards.
While John Edwards' lawyers have not yet made a decision whether to put the former presidential candidate on the stand in his corruption trial, Edwards' oldest daughter, Cate, is expected to testify this week, possibly as early as Tuesday.
Political analyst Gloria Borger talks to Wolf Blitzer about John Edwards' parallel life, revealed in his criminal trial.
With primary season over, the race for president -- and the race for cash -- is about to heat up.
A bungled break-in, Deep Throat, a defiant President Richard Nixon declaring, "I am not a crook."
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CNN's Jessica Yellin profiles two Karl Rove-founded outside spending groups focused on unseating President Obama.
Are American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS comparable to labor unions and MoveOn.org? Democratic activists scoff at the question. But Steven Law, Crossroads' CEO, says yes.
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As Americans read about the flood of private money that is going into the current presidential campaign, most can't help but shake their heads in disgust about how our democracy functions.
This election season, the term "Super PAC" has escaped from the obscure world of campaign finance lawyers to emerge on the front pages of major newspapers and political websites. Super PACs are political organizations that can take unlimited sums from individuals, corporations and labor unions to spend in support of, or opposition to, federal candidates. To do so legally, a Super PAC must avoid certain forms of coordination with candidates.
Remember the little box you can check off on your federal tax return to donate three dollars to pay for presidential campaigns? House Republicans voted that in this era of e-mailing or texting campaign contributions, it's time to get rid of the federal program, and remove taxpayer money from presidential elections and political conventions.
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The Federal Election Commission votes 6-0 for John Edwards to pay back $2.3M from his 2008 campaign.
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The Supreme Court has tossed out an Arizona law that provides extra taxpayer-funded support for office seekers who have been outspent by privately funded opponents or by independent political groups.
The former presidential candidate pleads not guilty to charges in alleged mistress cover-up
The former presidential candidate is accused of using political donations to cover up his affair and love child
Former Sen. John Edwards is indicted on felony charges for allegedly giving campaign funds to his mistress.
Former Democratic vice presidential nominee and two-time presidential candidate John Edwards pleaded not guilty Friday to conspiracy and campaign law violations, acknowledging that he had "done wrong," but denying that he broke the law.
College football's Bowl Championship Series says it will fine the Fiesta Bowl $1 million and impose other sanctions after the bowl reported that it had, among other things, reimbursed employees for political contributions they made allegedly at bowl leaders' encouragement.
Then Sen. Barack Obama announced his White House bid in February, 2007 before a crowd in chilly Springfield, Illinois.
With a short video on BarackObama.com, the sitting president of the United States has launched his bid for re-election.
The Supreme Court's conservative majority appeared to hold the cards Monday in a key campaign finance reform case involving an Arizona election law that would provide matching funds to underfunded candidates. The justices could continue a recent legal trend and strike down another effort at government restrictions on election spending.
A liberal reform group has asked the Justice Department to investigate allegations of conflict of interest by Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.
With the mid-term elections looming, the Supreme Court on Monday turned away from the opportunity to further loosen campaign finance restrictions, this time over disclosure of donors.
President Obama has recently blasted the influx of money from undisclosed donors flowing into the midterm campaigns. He repeated a claim, which major media outlets have not been able to substantiate, that foreign funds may have been used in the United States.
The Senate will vote Thursday on whether to take up a hot-button campaign finance reform bill.
Senate Republicans narrowly block a Democrat-backed campaign finance disclosure bill. CNN's Rick Sanchez reports.
Senate Republicans narrowly blocked Democratic campaign finance disclosure legislation in the Senate Tuesday after raising concerns the bill would curb freedom of speech and tilt campaign spending in favor of the Democrats.
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When President Obama threw out the first pitch at the Washington Nationals' season opener on Monday, he kicked off not only a new baseball season but also a new round of fundraisers at Nationals Park.
The U.S. Supreme Court's stunning campaign-finance ruling last month -- finding that the "government may not suppress political speech on the basis of the speaker's corporate identity" -- triggered passionate reactions from critics, extending even to an unprecedented, point-counterpoint exchange during the State of the Union address between President Barack Obama and one of the five justices who signed it. In this article we'll aim to depressurize the debate and explain what all the fuss is about.
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Conan O'Brien The flame-haired comedian has signed a deal with NBC to walk away from "The Tonight Show." The Wall Street Journal reported that the pact -- some $45 million for O'Brien and his staff -- contains a "non-disparagement clause" for both O'Brien and the network, which means they can't say nasty things about each other in public.
The Supreme Court has given big business, unions and nonprofits more power to spend freely in federal elections, a major turnaround that threatens a century of government efforts to regulate the power of corporations to bankroll American politics.
The Supreme Court heard new arguments Wednesday in a dramatic case that started with a movie attacking Hillary Clinton -- but that could have far-reaching implications for U.S. elections.
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Critics ask why taxpayers are footing the bill for big political conventions. CNN's Drew Griffin reports.
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The Supreme Court has struck down a provision of a federal campaign finance law that allowed opponents of wealthy candidates to exceed strict campaign spending limits.
Sen. McCain targets Sen. Obama's decision on public financing during a visit to the flood zone in Iowa Thursday.
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Puerto Rican Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila and 12 associates face criminal charges related to the financing of three of Acevedo's campaigns, according to a federal indictment unsealed Thursday.
Sen. Barack Obama raised $55 million in February, his campaign reported Thursday, setting a record for political fundraising in one month.
Sen. John McCain's campaign said the Republican presidential hopeful has the "constitutional right" to opt out of the public election funds program.
DNC Chairman Howard Dean accuses GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain of skirting election laws.
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Lawyers for Sen. Larry Craig asked a Minnesota appeals court Tuesday to allow him to withdraw his guilty plea stemming from his June arrest in a public bathroom sex sting, citing a "grave procedural flaw."
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In its 14th year and with over 28 million copies sold, Madden NFL Football once again proves its status as the undisputed leader in authentic NFL football simulation. With a primary focus on in-game graphics, incredible depth, visual presentation, and tournament tested gameplay, this season Madden NFL 2004 continues to demonstrate why it s the definitive interactive sports gaming experience. New features include revolutionary Playmaker Control that lets gamers adjust on the fly just as NFL players do, deep Owner Mode options and more!
Madden NFL 2004 is a Sports/Football video game for PlayStation 2 developed and published by EA Sports on August 12, 2003. It's rated Everyone by the ESRB and 90 of our users have voted it 4.0 out of 5 stars.
Our newest cheats for Madden NFL 2004 were added December 30, 2005. We also have the game available on PlayStation, Xbox, PC, Game Boy Advance, GameCube, in addition to PS2.
Go to the "2 Minute Drill", pick a team with a nice HB(or runningback) such as the Rams, Chiefs, Bengals, etc. Pick a defensive team with weak ratings suck as the Claymores or the Dragons. After picking the plays, run the ball with your HB and make easy touchdowns for even easier tokens.
When your the home team on defense, be a middle linebacker and press L3 (left anolog stick) If you do it correct the player will raise his hands and the crowd will get louder.
First go to My Madden. Then open up the options. Click on Gameplay Options. Set the skill level to All- Madden. Then go to A.I. and turn all CPU skills all the way down and all human skills all the way up. (In franchise mode, if you sim the cpu will do really bad, actually, both of them.) Then play a game with the Patriots or the Raiders or a good team and face the Claymores. When you play, the CPU will be really bad and you will be really good. Do long runs and hard stuff and the CPU will not be able to block too many. Since the skill level is All- Madden, you get more tokens for completing tasks. When you finish your game, go to My Madden and Madden Cards. Buy new packs until you have 0 coins left. You should get some good cards.
When you get to the off-season, save before rookie scouting. Then go back and simulate past "sign rookie draft picks". Go to rosters, then view rosters. Go to NFL as the team, and see who is best rookie at each position. Write down the names of the rookies you like, thier rating, and when they were drafted(so when you decide who you wanna draft and when, you'll know if he'll be there). Exit the franchise but DO NOT save. Go back and you can draft the best player in the draft!(works best if u have the first pick)
In franchise mode before you play your 1st regular season game, go to game play settings, go to franchise and turn off the trade deadline. Play your 16 regular games. On the start of of the 17th game go check to see which team has the worst record. Trade your picks for theirs, then go to games settings, on franchise turn back on the trade deadline. Play your last game and you will always get the 1st pick in the draft everytime.
Go to Creat a player and type in the name Jim Kelly in the first and last name spots. Then creat the player. Now you can play with Jim Kelly.
If you pay attention to the backdrop behind one of the endzones (I saw this at Seahawk Stadium) you will see an advertisment for NFL Street.
If you are running in for a touchdown and no defender is nearby, 5 to 10 yards or more behind you. Hold either L1, L2, R1, or R2 to showboat your way into the endzone. Instead of doing a juke or stiff arm it will do 1 of 4 different high steps. There may be more but I don't know the button combos yet. If the defenders are too close to you, you will just do the normal stiff arm or juke.
This play is for people who just wanna laugh. Pick a play on offense, then right after you've made your decision, repeatedly press the square button and the QB will look like he's walkin like a chicken!
Right after you make a touch down, press the O button and make him spike the ball.
If you have Bill Callahan's defensive playbook, goto Nickle formation and scroll down until you find "Middle Blitz". Select that play and shift your LBs and your linemen inside. You should get a sack 90% of the time.
Send a player in motion, if a defensive man follows him, then the corners are probably playing man to man coverage. Remember that the safties may have zone and a LB could cover a WR. (Should be an easy completion)
When scrollin through menus, you can change the music that is playin by pressing and holding square, and pressing L1 or R1.
To get easy money in Owner Mode, you must be in the regular season. Go to set prices. Put all prices up to the highest they can go when to league average in green and/or the lowest when it's red. Then you can get the max amount and still have fans come and buy things at your statium.
When on defense, pick the 4-3. Find the "Man Buzz" play. Flip the play until the blitzing outside linebacker is blitzing on a side where there are no TEs, and preferably no RBs. Shift your D-Line and LBs to the outside. Your outside LB should get to the QB cleanly, and make the sack.
This tip will only work for your home games: Start a game and then save it. Next, quit and go all the way out to the main menu. Load your saved game, finish it, and you will double your income for that game. if you have good fan support throughout the season, you should easily net over $100 million for the season.
Before the trading deadline, check the standings. Trade all of your draft picks with the team or teams with the worst record at the time. You're #1 for their #1, etc. You just might end up with the first pick in the next draft.
This hint helped me get gold in the All-Madden RB Ground Attack drill (it works better in the easier levels though). Run without sprinting until your FB picks up a block. Then, just as the linebacker or safety is getting to you, cut back the other way and sprint to the endzone, avoiding your pursuer. This will either get you a touchdown or 5-10 yard, depending on the difficultly level and timing.
Start a Franchise Mode. Create a profile. Start doing good plays like get a 30 yard pass touch down, or get 3 sacks with on player, and stuff like that. To view what you can do, go to options, madden cards and you can see in there. Every time you do one of those, you get Madden coins and when you have enough, you can buy a pack of Madden cards. You can trade them, sell them, or best of all use them. Some are cheat cards like NEVER GET SACKED IN THE 1ST QUARTER. If you use that card, the other team will try to sack you but they will just bounce off.
Chose a Exhibition Game, or a season game. If you chose exhibition, play against Arizona or Dallas. If you are in a season, play the 1st game that your team is playing. Make sure the skill level is on ROOKIE. Choose a team that has a good HB (half back) like SL Rams, Dalls Cowboys, or washington redskins. When the game starts, make sure your kicking first (if you arent then oh well it will still work) pause the game, go to settings and put EASY PLAY on. Choose to kick a onside. Put the arrow all the way over and kick it the softest you can. The defence will always recover. Then turn easy play off. Pick the play Off Tackel (its in Split Backs) and do it tell you make a touchdown. Do it over and over tell the game is over and you should have over 100 points.
Press R1 or L1 to change years. If you did it correctly it will say different years.
To Have a Created Player for cheap in Franchise mode (to stay under the Salary Cap) do the following: First, Create the player but DO NOT touch his attributes. Then sign the player for seven (7) years( or how ever long you want). Last go back to Create-a-Player and Put his attributes as high as you want.
First, make sure you have bought at least one pack of Madden Cards. Then find the card for the contest winner Kevin Baker. Play the card and go sign him for seven years (or how ever long you want). Now, go to Create-A-Player and select K.Baker. Finally raise his attributes as high as you want. You now have a Cheap Super QB for 7 years.
By pressing circle on the play call screen, you can make quick substitutions to line up your stronger players against weaker opposing players.
Get Gold in Mini-Camp challenges to unlock Madden Cards. Cards directly relate to the challenges you complete. For instance, getting a Gold in the Ground Attack challenge will unlock the Priest Holmes Card. Make sure you get Golds on all of the difficulty levels to collect all of the cards.
Successfully complete the Game Situation in Mini-Camp to unlock a Cheerleader/Pump Up Crowd Madden Card. The team who you complete the challenge with is the Cheerleader/Pump Up Card you will unlock.
Run through all of the plays in your playbook in Football 101 to get a nice amount of easy tokens.
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The former Montgomery Mill building at the corner of the northeast corner of Routes 159 and 140 in Windsor Locks is being sold through a tax foreclosure auction at noon on September 10 at the site.
Town officials said in addition to owing back taxes, the owners owe the town for costs related to two separate fires at the property. A judge has approved the foreclosure action, officials said.
The redevelopment of the property is part of town officials's hopes to revitalize Windsor Locks' downtown. Those plans also include relocating the commuter train station back to downtown.
First Selectman Steven N. Wawruck Jr. said the empty building has been a nuisance for a number of years, in addition to fires, there have been break-ins of people trying to strip materials from the property. Wawruck said hopefully there are buyers waiting in the wings for the property.
"The building could be developed and fit nicely into our plans for redevelopment in the Main Street area," Wawruck said.
Anyone who wants to participate in the bidding must register with the Committee prior to the auction and present for the Committee's examination a certified or bank check made payable to the bidder in the amount of $90,000. The property is being sold "as is" subject to no contingencies whatsoever.
A foreclosure sale had been set in February but the owners of the property were able to get an extension from a judge.
An appraisal secured by the town valued the property at $900,000. A court order appraisal valued the property at $1 million. Town officials said it appears there is enough equity in the property to cover the owners outstanding liabilities to Windsor Locks.
The property includes three contigous parcels of approximately 3.38 acres of residential- zoned land with two buildings plus a detached garage comprising about 255,446 square feet of mill structure.
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Montgomery Mill Building To Be Sold at Foreclosure Auction
The empty building has been deteriorating for years and has been the scene of fires and break ins.
The former Montgomery Mill building at the corner of the northeast corner of Routes 159 and 140 in Windsor Locks is being sold through a tax foreclosure auction at noon on September 10 at the site.