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Meaningless errands take on meaning...I so live here
Since I haven't been to Israel in way too long, I thought I'd share some nostalgia with everyone and show off my Nativ thoughts! Wow, five years... Journal ExcerptsSurprisingly enough, I was quite frazzled earlier tonight, trying to make it out the door to hail a cab downtown, clutching an open backpack, my bright yellow Walkman with two tapes and broken headphones falling out of my hands, my Monica Drew keychain dangling from my mouth, and my cell phone falling out of my pocket, all in a rush to do lots of errands before the stores closed. In my humble opinion, I was the epitome of an American in Israel. Miraculously, I hailed a cab in this condition, and in my new terrific accent I asked to get to the center of town. "Kikar Tzion, b'vakasha." ("Zion Square, please.") I said, determined to never speak English again to anyone ever, tossing my bag across the backseat. Inside I asked "Kama zeh?" ("How much?") and worked eagerly to fish out the hamesh-esreh shak (fifteen shekel, or around $4) from my wallet so I wouldn't have to work to do it later. I caught the cab driver smirking at me through the rearview mirror. I couldn't help but smile back as I stopped rummaging through the lists of things to do and the poncho, letters to mail, and set of markers that were all cluttering my massive backpack of destruction. I let out a sigh, let go of my bag, and closed my eyes as I rested my head on the seat. "You are busy," he said in impressive-for-a-cab-driver English. "Where are you from?" I tried to explain to him, b'ivrit (b'vadai!), (in Hebrew (of course!)) my situation. "Ani gara baKibbutz Sa'ad akhshav, aval hashavua haba, ani gara b'Yerushalayim." ("I live on Kibbutz Sa'ad now, but the week to come I live in Jerusalem.") I paused. "Ki akhshav - like, akhshav, akhshav, hayom akhshav, ani gara b'Yerushalayim. Yesh z'man hofshi… kol hakvutza sheli." ("Because now - like, now, now, today now, I live in Jerusalem. I have free time… my whole group.") He was smiling. I felt somewhat embarrassed about my horrible Hebrew, but he looked almost proud of me, in that I had tried to speak this much. I was encouraged, and since I had forgotten to use the other six words I knew, I babbled on some more. "Aval, ani m'Boston, m'America, b'vadai." ("But, I am from Boston, from America, of course.") I became visibly calmer as he talked to me in English and let me answer in Hebrew. It was great. He was really nice. And, given my recent negative run-in with the evil, pedophilia-stricken cab driver Moshe, I was all-too-eager to have my faith in the taxi-driving breed of humanity renewed and restored. He dropped me off and I sprung forth from the cab, sense of urgency returning - ironically enough all-too-quickly - and I checked over my ever-growing list of things to do in my planner. There is absolutely no need to make anyone suffer through a play-by-play of the next few hours of my life. I mean, hello, I already did it once and essentially, I had dinner and did errands, the entire time flying solo. The point of my amazement lies not within my activities, but within the mere idea behind them. Fishing through my bag I found a key which I needed copied, and I knew right away that, across from Casa Italiana (my favorite Italian restaurant - get the ravioli in the orange tomato-basil-cream sauce, yummy) and next to the Rock Bar (drinks are weak but cheap, it's your call) there was a small opening and an old man and his two best friends sit there and do keys. I was happy to pay him a visit, since I often wave to him as I run up Yoel Solomon on my way to the ATM. From there I proceeded to King George and Jaffa to grab tweezers and isopropyl alcohol (splinters much?) at the pharmacy and to look for "The Tenth Insight" (another chapter in the cheesy "Celestine Prophecy" saga) at the Jordan Bookstore, which always seems to have good English titles (and even better Hebrew ones, not that I'd ever get any benefit from them). Next door I went into an optical center in the hopes of picking up an eyeglass repair kit, as my ultra-sketchy yellow-lensed sunglasses were in two pieces in my purse. The woman behind the counter took them from me and said "Shtay dakot, shvi" ("Two minutes, sit") while her husband fixed them. When I reached for my wallet to pay, she told me the fee - but requested that I place it in the tzedakah (charity) box she was holding, not into her hands en route to a cash register. Instead of two shak, I dropped in ten - and a hefty but totally unnecessary "Todah rabbah" ensued, as I thanked her instead for her assistance and for the opportunity to give tzedakah. Finally it was time to return to Emek Rafaim to hit my grocery store and my photo place. It's weird, having "my" places… I guess that's what my entire point of describing a night of checking off "things to do" boxes is… I remember telling my mother that the true gauge of my independence was the mere fact that I had my own dry cleaner. (Note to self: Black pants need to be dropped off in enough time to wear them Tuesday night for jazz at Ticho House!) After picking up dishwashing soap and AA batteries, I got my 20x30 enlargement of a very cute photo of pre-Shabbat cooking madness and grabbed my favorite fifteen shak (shekels, again, four bucks) delicacy - felafel and diet Coke from Adir's. Munching all the way up Hizkiyahu Hamelekh, I called back a few friends to make plans for the Israel Museum and possibly Yad Vashem (Holocaust Memorial Museum) later in the week and actually decided to forgo the cab and walk it home up Bilu and finally to Yirday Hasira, where my new key would become useful. So where am I now? I'm sitting on the balcony of the apartment I'm currently sharing with my friend Roee, looking out onto the starlit courtyard of a group of buildings. My laptop is, in a rare moment of true-to-its-name significance, resting on my lap, and I'm noshing on a Milky pudding snack and listening to the newest Lauryn Hill CD. Although you wouldn't guess me in a million years as a resident of Jerusalem - in my Gap jeans, borrowed-from-Roee AEPi t-shirt, and Nike Airs I look nothing short of a well-dressed American college kid, and with the exception of the diet Coke can having Hebrew writing and my computer being powered via the help of my 50 watt adaptor, I could be outside any urban flat - tonight, more than ever, I really began to move into my home here in Israel. It freaks out my Mom, I think, when I tell her how I could totally spend the rest of my life here, but she loves when I call, especially when I call from random stores to tell her about Purim costumes or how my voice mail message has "todah rabbah" ("Thank you very much") with a great accent. I so live here. And I could not be happier living anywhere else in the world. May we all be blessed to be able to do meaningless errands in Jerusalem soon! [Posted 4/30/03] |


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Ryeowook comes all the way to Japan to support Donghae & Eunhyuk
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Eunhyuk and Donghae Coincidentally Meet Park Hyung Sik in Japan!
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(Photo : OSEN) ZE:A"s Park Hyung Sik randomly ran into Eunhyuk and Donghae of Super Junior in the streets of Japan. Park Hyung Sik uploaded a picture of them together with the captions: "I was walking on the road wearing sunglasses when a deep voice called out my name
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By chance, Super Junior"s Eunhyuk and Donghae ran into ZE:A"s Hyungsik in Japan. Eunhyuk and Donghae were there to promote their music while Hyungsik was there for his "Three Musketeers" musical! On March 3, Eunhyuk posted on his twitter, "A real man I felt like I"ve seen before was walking somewhere far away and I saw that it was Hyungsik! To think we ran into each other like this in Japan
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Indeed a small world. Super Junior's Donghae and Eunhyuk run into ZE:A's Hyungsik in Japan. Apparently, the unexpected meeting happened while the three are strolling by themselves.Hyungsik and Eunhyuk both tweeted and uploaded the proof shot of their unexpected meeting
Donghae and Eunhyuk arrive in Shibuya for upcoming concert
Super Junior's Donghae and Eunhyuk are getting ready for their upcoming concert in Japan.These two guys recently arrived Japan to start practicing for their concerts. They saw themselves on the Shibuya billboards for "Ride Me", their latest Japanese album
Super Junior's Donghae and Eunhyuk Pose in Front of Their Own Posters
Super Junior's Donghae and Eunhyuk had the ability to soak in their popularity in Japan. On March 1, Eunhyuk posted on his Twitter, "It has come up in Shibuya, oppa." Along with the message, a subtle reference to the song "Oppa, Oppa" that was released by the Super Junior sub-unit Donghae & Eunhyuk, the singer posted three photos of Donghae and himself looking at a building
Eunhyuk and Donghae share photos from Japan
On March 1st, Eunhyuk tweeted,"Oppa in Shibuya" and uploaded along 3 new photos.The photos show Eunhyuk and Donghae standing in front of high buildings and posing happily with V signs. In particular, the thing that attracts people's attention are those oversized posters of their 1st Japanese album "Ride Me" which are hung on the buildings behind them
Super Junior's Eunhyuk and Donghae's "RIDE ME" lands on 3rd spot on Oricon Daily Chart
Super Junior's Eunhyuk and Donghae's first studio album, 'Ride Me,' ranked third on Oricon Daily Chart on its release day. On February 26th, Eunhyuk and Donghae released their album. On that the same day, it sold more than 18,000 album copies making it to land on the third spot of Oricon Daily Chart
Super Junior's Donghae and Eunhyuk's "Ride Me" reigns supreme on Oricon Daily Chart
Super Junior's Donghae and Eunhyuk's "Ride Me" reigns supreme on Oricon Daily Chart Super Junior's Donghae and Eunhyuk continue to rake in good sales and reviews on their first studio album, "Ride Me
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Super Junior's Donghae and Eunhyuk released their new Japanese album "Ride Me" on February 26 and came in no.3 on the Oricon Daily Album Chart for the first day of release.On February 27, the new album rose to no
SUJU's Donghae & Eunhyuk Ranks NO. 1 in Japan
Super Junior's unit group Donghae & Eunhyuk's Japanese album has topped the Oricon chart. The unit's first full-length album Ride Me released on February 26 ranked number one on Oricon's daily chart announced on February 27
Donghae, Nam Ji Hyun, Song Seung Hyun and Others in New Movie Project
Super Junior's Donghae, 4Minute's Nam Ji Hyun and FTISLAND's Song Seung Hyun will appear in a new movie project, "Youth Project." The project is organized by the Korea Creative Content Agency (KCCA) and aims to cultivate creativity among youths
Super Junior Donghae&Eunhyuk 'RIDE ME' Ranks Number 3 On Japan Oricon Chart
Super Junior unit group, Donghae&Eunhyuk, ranked number 3 on the Japan Oricon chart. According to Oricon, Donghae&Eunhyuk"s first official Japan album, RIDE ME, sold 18,224 copies on the first day of its release and ranked number 3 on the daily album chart
Super Junior's Donghae and Eunhyuk's 'Ride Me' stands at rank 3 on the Oricon Daily Single Chart
Super Junior's Donghae and Eunhyuk's first full-length Japanese album "Ride Me" ranked #3 on the Oricon Daily Album Chart on the first day of its release! According to the Oricon chart on February 26, "Ride Me" sold 18,224 copies on its first day of release, ranking at #3 on the Oricon Daily Album Chart
"Youth Project" casts Super Junior's Donghae, FT Island's Seunghyun, 4Minute's Nam Jihyun and more
"Youth Project" casts Super Junior's Donghae, FT Island's Seunghyun, 4Minute's Nam Jihyun and more Super Junior's Donghae, 4minute's Nam Jihyun, and FT Island's Song Seunghyun have been cast for the five episode movie "Youth Project"
Super Junior′s Donghae & Eunhyuk Take Off for Japan as Duo
preview nextview 1/5 preview nextview Eunhyuk takes off covered from head to toe Super Junior′s Donghae & Eunhyuk set off for Japan via the Gimpo International Airport on February 27. Photo credit: Newsen/An Seong Hu Eunhyuk waves to fans and photogs Super Junior′s Donghae & Eunhyuk set off for Japan via the Gimpo International Airport on February 27
SUJU Unit Donghae & Eunhyuk's First Japanese Album Ranks NO. 3
Super Junior's unit group Donghae & Eunhyuk's first full length Japanese album had a successful start by charting at number 3 on Oricon as soon as it was released. According to the Oricon chart, the unit's first full-length Japanese album Ride Me ranked number three on Oricon's daily album chart on the day of its release
Super Junior's Eunhyuk and Donghae's "RIDE ME" ranks 3rd on Oricon Daily Chart
Super Junior's Eunhyuk and Donghae's "RIDE ME" ranks 3rd on Oricon Daily Chart Super Junior's Eunhyuk and Donghae's first studio album in Japan ranked third on Oricon's charts. On February 26th, it was revealed that Eunhyuk and Donghae's first studio album "RIDE ME" sold at least 18,000 album copies, enabling them to rank third on the same day as its release
Super Junior's Donghae and Eunhyuk introduce their 1st Japanese album "Ride Me"
The first Japanese full-length album "Ride Me" of Super Junior's Donghae and Eunhyuk has just been released on February 26.In celebration of the album's release, Donghae and Eunhyuk filmed a video message introducing 13 songs in their new album including "Oppa, Oppa", "I Wanna Dance", "Hello", "Love That I Need", "Kiss Kiss Dynamite", "Let It Go", "Bari 5 !", "Android Syndrome", "Teenage Queen", "Champagne Girl", and title track "Motorcycle"
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In the wake of the Supreme Court's ruling upholding the federal health law, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon is not taking a clear stance on whether he thinks the state should take part in a voluntary expansion of its Medicaid program. The health law originally required states to raise Medicaid eligibility to about 130 percent of the federal poverty level. But the Supreme Court ruling now leaves that decision up to states. Speaking to reporters in Kansas City Monday, Nixon said he hopes to work with providers, businesses, and lawmakers to figure out what's best for Missouri.
A new report by the Missouri Foundation for Health estimates that about two-thirds of Missouri's more than 800,000 uninsured could get health insurance under the federal health care law. The county level data suggest that rural counties will benefit the most.
A panel created by the Missouri House to review the state's transportation needs met Monday afternoon in Columbia.
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Vice President Joe Biden praised Democratic U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill as a "strong, strong ally" while helping raise money for her re-election campaign.
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As if working mothers don't work hard enough, a new decision to ban telecommuting at global tech giant Yahoo! from working mother chief executive officer Marissa Meyer may make their lives even harder. Millions of mothers in the United States and around the world aided by the flexibility of technology are crossing their fingers and hoping that this company's edict is not the signal of a trend, because I believe it will mark the death of the smart mom.
Mayer recently announced a policy change in an internal memo leaked to the press saying their days of telecommuting are numbered. "Speed and quality are often sacrificed when we work from home. We need to be one Yahoo!, and that starts with physically being together."
The underlying assumption is that working from home lowers productivity, efficiency and the creativity that comes from interacting with colleagues. It is an extreme position, given that many highly productive employees will tell you that they actually get more work done at home, away from frequent interruptions and water-cooler discussions that may be fascinating in the moment but often yield little necessary information. According to a recent report published in the Monthly Labor Review, 24 percent of employed Americans report that they work at least some hours at home each week.
The Yahoo! plan goes into effect in June, just when more mothers are faced with what to do with school-age children all day long.
Balancing work and family
Recent strides in the advancement of free mobile technology such as Skype, Google Docs and more have made it easier for women to juggle being mothers while working outside the home.
By making the responsibilities of running a home, raising a family and advancing a career easier to manage (and share) wherever we are and at any time of day, the playing field is moving more in the direction of becoming level. Some women can somewhat have it all, and that is purely because technology is empowering busy working mothers and allowing for a new generation of smart moms.
A month before the birth of our first child a year ago, my husband got a fantastic new job opportunity. As a curious twist of fate, the job turned out to be in my hometown - but in Michigan - four hours away from my university position outside of Chicago. We immediately thought through if we could in fact ensure that both of our careers progressed while we moved our focus to our family.
He moved to Michigan to start the job, and the baby and I followed him a few months after. Not only did I decide to maintain my university professorship for a variety of professional reasons, but I remained chairperson of my department throughout the transition.
This was only possible with a generous paid maternity leave of more than six months and employers on both my side and my husband's side who were agreeable to making it work and embracing creative solutions. We travelled back and forth, called or Skyped in for meetings; and my husband had enough time away to be present for the birth of our child with a month's paternity leave.
Certainly, we are incredibly fortunate as most workers do not have these kinds of resources or job flexibility. But our experience suggests that employers can and should think creatively about the conditions where their workers can thrive and whether they are too narrow in their thinking about what is possible. Had our employers not made these accommodations, they may have lost a valuable employee who they had invested 10 years in developing or a new hire who had unique capabilities to help them expand.
"Job flexibility in terms of permission to work at home as well as generous leave policies and supportive supervisors and co-workers are significant factors in determining whether a mother will retain her job after childbirth."
In that sense, my experience is consistent with the analysis by the US Census Bureau that shows that job flexibility in terms of permission to work at home as well as generous leave policies and supportive supervisors and co-workers are significant factors in determining whether a mother will retain her job after childbirth.
Cellphones, tablets and other mobile technologies have become our new appendages. They are more likely to lead to employers getting more not less work out of employees as we are essentially always on call. There are certainly some disconcerting implications to our forever wired society. But perhaps in some unexpected way, these technologies are also gradually leading to an important shift in how we organise our lives that will subsequently move us farther on the road to equality for women.
Now that pieces of the second shift can be done outside of the walls of home with the right technology, new questions emerge about whether men and women can finally redefine gender roles so that "female" does not necessarily equal "grocery shopper", "play date co-ordinator" and "keeper of the family calendar".
Technology and smart moms
By the same token, many jobs that were once impossible to manage while raising a family are now more accessible to women because of the opportunity to use technology and telecommute.
The Pew Research Center reports that a whopping 87 percent of American adults have a cellphone and 45 percent have a smartphone, with operating systems that make phones much more like handheld computers. This technology is one of the few that is highly accessible to various demographic groups: 86 percent of blacks and 83 percent of Hispanics own cellphones, compared to 87 percent of whites.
Don't get me wrong. The most important forecasters of women's economic fortunes are the availability of jobs (and jobs that provide generous health care coverage and perhaps even wealth-building resources like stock options), wages that are in line with men's, affordable opportunities to gain more education, and policies that provide access to parental leave and affordable child care.
Women of all races still experience a significant pay gap relative to white men. Having a strong support system that includes a supportive partner who is an equal contributor to child-raising and home duties and/or other family members and friends who are willing to play this role is what any mother will tell you is critical to even coming close to work-family balance.
But technology helps, so it makes little sense to limit its potential to expand how and where women might work.
Personal technology is becoming widely available for the majority of working moms in many countries around the world, even those not making six-figure salaries. That is putting significant and accessible technological power in the hands of those whose employment prospects are often significantly slowed after the birth of a child. As new technologies are coupled with policies such as telecommuting opportunities, mothers in the labour market will be better positioned than ever to address both the logistical challenges and institutional impediments to work-life balance.
This could eventually help reduce the lagging disparities in income and wealth as women struggle to gain a meaningful foothold in the labour market while trying to raise a family. For smart moms, the elimination of telecommuting represents a worrisome blow to their economic prospects. I suggest we urge companies to make the smarter decision and let working mothers and fathers stay out of the office to get their jobs done.
Dr Celeste Watkins-Hayes, a Public Voices Fellow with the OpEd Project, is Associate Professor of Sociology and African American Studies and Chair of the African American Studies Department at Northwestern University. She is also a Faculty Fellow at Northwestern's Institute for Policy Research and Cells to Society: The Center on Social Disparities and Health. See more of her work here.
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Mississippi's health challenges, including access to medical care, are well documented. The Pediatric Specialty Outreach Clinics, a cooperative new partnership between the University of Mississippi Medical Center and the
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After months of conversations and visits with the Hattiesburg medical community,
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Dr. Rick Barr, Suzan B. Thames Professor and Chairman of Pediatrics, said it is the children of southern Mississippi who will ultimately benefit from this partnership.
"The pediatric specialists of Children's Healthcare of Mississippi and Batson Children's Hospital are proud to offer their services to the children of the Hattiesburg and southern Mississippi regions," Barr said. "Our mission is improving the health of all children in the state and that includes making specialty care more accessible for children who cannot easily travel to Jackson."
According to Dr. John Purvis, medical co-director of pediatric ambulatory services who is overseeing the development of the outreach clinics, the clinics also offer a valuable chance for faculty members to foster relationships with Hattiesburg-area clinicians.
"Elbow-to-elbow contact with the primary care physicians and pediatricians in their established offices and clinics is going to be very helpful in providing better health care because of an improved flow of information between us and our referring physicians," Purvis said.
"The goal is for them to be more comfortable picking up a phone and calling one of us directly and for us not to just be a name on paper."
Before initial clinic visits, letters were sent to more than 300 physicians in a 10-county area near Hattiesburg, informing them of the partnership.
"Our approach is to be cooperative, not competitive," Purvis said.
The approach seems to be working. Dr. Owen B. Evans, professor of neurology and former chair of pediatrics, is one of the specialists seeing patients in the outreach clinics. He said the collaboration of the area providers has been exceptional.
"It is an experience into reaching out to our referring physicians," Evans said. "Hopefully, we will develop procedures that will enable us to expand this program to other areas of the state."
And while Purvis echoes Evans' hope that expanded services will follow, he noted that these specialties were chosen after much deliberation.
"We inquired with the Hattiesburg Clinic physicians first," Purvis said. "We asked what they thought the community would benefit most from and then we looked at our depth in these specialties to see what we were able to send."
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I am still going to say Weather Flow even though I haven't purchased it yet. The fact that it provides an amazing home screen with weather info. and the 3 sizing livetiles are just amazing.
So the two weather app that I use right now are Weather Flow (purchasing tomorrow), and AAA Weather, the hourly weather tiles are created by it. (they need to up the resolution though) - 12-21-2012, 05:48 AM #8
none of these has a realistic HD tiles like the htc has in android , i realy miss that , the one that amazing weather has looks horrible IMO !
any Idea !!? - 12-21-2012, 09:40 AM #9
Another vote for Weather Flow. Bought it a long time ago, and love the newest update.
I like weather flow. The only addition I would like to see included would be weather maps
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The Met Office weather app if you're from the UK, it's my favourite so far.
I picked Amazing Weather and WeatherLive over Weather Flow. Tried all three. I really need to eaisly see the daily chance of rain percentage. Amazing Weather shows this on their live tiles. Weather Flow does not. I picked WeatherLive at the same time as the live tile had more information. Currently on WP8 I am just using Amazing Weather. I do wish I could customize the tile myself though.
I've tried Nokia's Weather Channel one, Amazing Weather and Weather Flow and it's a bizarre mix for me. I like the simplicity of the Nokia one but no matter what I do I can't get it to work off my actual GPS location. The Amazing Weather one has for me the best animations/visuals of any but it won't do lockscreen weather. Ideally I'd like a weather app that could tell me the weather on the lockscreen but I didn't have to replace the current Bing Maps random pic every day which I like. This is where Weather Flow comes in. Still has nice HD Visuals and while I don't find them as nice as Amazing Weather they're still good. Weather Flow also has the most useful live tile for me, telling me if it's cold or warmer than yesterday is a nice touch, but can also tell me more information if I want it. Weather Flow also drained my battery about 50% in one night so I'm not touching it until the drain there with the lockscreen is fixed.
For me the only thing I really want from a weather app is reliable information based from my current location. This way if I'm travelling I have the best weather info for where I am. WP8 seems to only let you pick up the current location based off the GPS location, and having that on all the time drains battery. On Android the weather app could tell me exactly this info using my mobile phone signal so I'm wondering why WP can't. Amazing Weather and Weather Flow do let me see what the nearest weather station's weather is which is pretty close to where I am so I suppose I'd have to edge towards one of those at the moment.
When Amazing Weather gets the lockscreen features and possibly more useful live tiles it'll win hands down but until then it's a bit of a stalemate for my needs. - 12-21-2012, 01:02 PM #17
The term "best" is a rather wide definition. What I look for the most is a good livetile, and WeatherMaster to me has the best one.
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I sort of like Weather Bug. Used it in Android days and like the depth of info it provides.
I use Weather Flow and the live tile has many options. I currently have the % chance of rain on my live tile along with 5 day forecast, and what some are calling a HD tile (as opposed to a solid color metro tile). I also have my lock screen set to current conditions with the hourly forecast.
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(April 20, 2005)
It happened one Saturday two months ago--
a sad day in the Carnoy household, indeed. No prayers were read, no speeches made, but on that day, I somberly pulled my TiVo out of its slot in my A/V rack, lifetime subscription and all, and put it out pasture--or, to be more precise, dumped it on the floor of my bedroom closet right next to where I keep my dirty laundry. As TiVos go, it was something of a classic: a first-generation Philips-made Series 1 box that I had upgraded with a second hard drive to give me 110 hours of storage. But its time had come; I'd traded up for a "free" HD set-top box/digital video recorder combo unit, a newer, sexier model from my cable company that added only another $8.95 a month to my cable bill.
Even though the move seemed like a no-brainer--and a space saver--I was a bit apprehensive about the switch. After all, I was trading my real
for a fake TiVo. I have nothing against knockoffs when it comes to overpriced Italian handbags, but technology can be a little dicey, particularly when it comes to user interfaces. TiVo is the Mac OS of the DVR world. I loved it like any TiVo evangelist does, selling it to friends
strangers. But no one was offering me a TiVo-powered HD digital video recorder for free. Heck, I couldn't even buy one if I wanted to because no cable-compatible, TiVo-powered HD recorders are currently available. (Satellite,
, cable, no.) So Windows--er, I mean, some generic DVR interface courtesy of Scientific Atlanta and Time Warner Cable--was it.
My "free" HD DVR: the Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8300HD
The HD set-top box/DVR combo unit I got is the Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8300HD. About eight months ago, Time Warner started offering the 8300's predecessor, the 8000HD. That model sported some impressive basic specs, not the least of which were dual HD tuners so that you could watch one program (high-def or standard) while recording another. Unfortunately, the 8000HD was also notoriously buggy, and it was housed in a case the size of an aircraft carrier. Senior Associate Editor John Falcone, our in-house DVR guru, was holding out for the rumored upgrade model, which promised newer software, improved features, and better overall performance. The rumors proved correct, and after he made the jump--and put it through its paces for a couple of weeks--I followed suit, trading in my standard high-def cable box for the 8300HD.
"Fake" TiVo: good enough?
Sadly, after just a few days of getting used to the new interface, I began to forget about TiVo. Yes, I did have a faint longing for the little blip noise that accompanies each button press, the slick TiVo icons, and the company's animated mascot. But the 8300HD does about 75 percent of what my old TiVo did--namely, allow me to sign up to record a show every week (Season Pass), search by keywords such as actor and director, and pause live TV. There's even a sister model of the 8300 that supports video networking within the household between multiple boxes, similar to multiroom streaming features available on TiVo and
boxes. The 8300HD even has an
HDMI output
, so with an inexpensive
, it sends a crisp, all-digital picture to my
-equipped HDTV. It's also worth mentioning that, unlike with TiVo, recording via the 8300HD doesn't affect image quality at all. That's because it records the cable provider's digital signal directly to the hard drive rather than relying on an analog connection from another external box.
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What the 8300HD can't do is go out and find me programs based on my tastes. It also doesn't list out upcoming programs as nicely as a TiVo-powered DVR would, making searches for movies more cumbersome. And my one pet peeve is that it loads only a few days worth of programming into its EPG (electronic programming guide) at a time. You can actually access to as much as 10 days' worth of data, but you have to manually scroll forward through the guide to get the extra 8 days to load into memory and, thus, become searchable. TiVo, on the other hand, always has two weeks' worth of programming loaded into its EPG. Another small downside to the 8300HD is that it's a little finicky. I've had to reboot the thing a couple of times because it wouldn't play back the shows I'd recorded. It was fine after the reboot, however.
The long and short of it is, the 8300HD isn't quite up to TiVo standards. But it does a decent job and offers significant feature upgrades over its predecessor, the 8000HD. The strides Scientific Atlanta has made in just eight months is impressive and should be of serious concern to TiVo. Yes, TiVo has cut a deal with Comcast to provide that cable giant with its boxes, and it's also announced plans for a
CableCard HD DVR
. But with those products not due until late this year and early next year, respectively, the company's left HD-enabled cable customers such as me no alternative but to look elsewhere.
The price of "free"
To call the 8300HD "free" is not really accurate, of course, because you're essentially leasing the box and paying a service fee on top of it. Total monthly cost: just shy of $17. As I said, Time Warner in New York City charges an $8.95-per-month leasing fee for a standard HD box. If none of that sounds like a bargain, it isn't, but the beauty of having the cable company "give" you a box is that you can turn it in whenever a newer, better model comes out that has improved software and features--and that seems to happening about every six to eight months.
In the fall, a few months before cable-giant Comcast will allegedly begin offering its first TiVo-powered DVRs to its customers (pricing has yet to be determined), Scientific Atlanta is scheduled to come out with an HD DVR with a built-in DVD burner. That product is called the
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The bottom line is that the landscape for digital home entertainment is quickly changing. Sure, Sony and Microsoft are after a spot below your TV with their gaming consoles. But more and more, your local cable companies--as well as satellite providers--are carving out a big chunk of living-room real estate with "free" hardware that's essentially future-proof. Satellite providers aren't quite there yet in terms of heavy subsidies on HD DVRs, but they, too, will be forced to essentially give stuff away as the competition heats up. Consider, for instance, Digeo: once thought to be approaching vaporware status after a much-ballyhooed debut at the 2003 Consumer Electronics Show, the company has announced
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Hands up if you've watched ANY Hitler parody video on YouTube in the last two/three years. Hardly a major event goes by without Hitler ranting on it, from new gadgets to even lousy soccer stars, Hitler has been the number one complainant on the Internet. From feared dictator to Internet meme, the video has given the film plenty of free publicity.
Now in case you're not sure, the clip is taken from the movie Downfall, and is owned by Constantin Film AG. In what seems to be an extremely silly move on their part, Constantin Film has decided to use a feature of YouTube which detects copyrighted material to remove the Hitler parodies.
Hello? Is anyone home in your marketing department? Look at the amount of free publicity from the clips, to the DVD sales of a film no one would have heard of. Heck, even the director of the film said he enjoyed watching the clips, and has tried to watch as many as he could.
Now to be fair, the movie is a powerful reminder of what happened in World War II and the Holocaust, and some people (including the head of film at Constantin FIlms) felt that the parodies were distasteful.
That may be, but while I find the videos funny, I can watch the scene, but I can't forget that this is Hitler. Sure he's now a comic figure, but that doesn't mean I will not forget my history lessons. I can draw the line between parody and history, and I'm sure most folks can too.
I doubt the amount of bad publicity so far will convince Constantin Film to allow the parodies back, but I'm sure folks will be able to find ways around - altering the pitch of the video slightly, or adding a 1px green line down the video will defeat the copyright detector.
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European Commission President José Manuel Barroso said the decision to cut Lisbon's rating by four notches so soon after it became the third country to receive an EU/IMF bailout was fuelling speculation in financial markets.
The cost of insuring all weaker eurozone states' debt against default rose after Moody's move, announced on Tuesday.
The euro and European shares fell, ending a seven-day stocks rally, and Portugal had to pay more to sell three-month T-bills on Wednesday.
"It seems strange that there is not a single rating agency coming from Europe. It shows there may be some bias in the markets when it comes to the evaluation of the specific issues of Europe," Barroso told reporters in the European Parliament.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble called for limits to be placed on the rating agencies' "oligopoly".
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The European Union's executive is drafting proposals to regulate rating agencies and there has been political talk, but no action so far, about creating a European agency.
Michel Barnier, the EU official in charge of regulation, said later he could examine how to suspend the rating of countries that are getting bailout funds from the EU and International Monetary Fund. These are Greece, Ireland and Portugal.
Moody's thumbs-down, coming so soon after a new centre-right Lisbon government announced austerity plans going beyond international lenders' demands, called into question the EU strategy for dealing with the eurozone sovereign debt crisis.
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A Reuters analysis last week found that Dublin may also need a second bailout because it is unlikely to grow fast enough to make the envisaged full return to market funding in 2013.
Moody's cited the EU's crisis management, and specifically the attempt to make private creditors share the burden of all future rescues as one reason for its steep downgrade.
The demand that banks and insurers share the risk is driven by growing public hostility in north European creditor nations to any further bailouts for south European states seen as having lived beyond their means.
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Rating agencies have warned they would be likely to treat any "voluntary" roll-over of Greek bonds as a distressed debt exchange and declare it, at least temporarily, to be a selective default.
French banks have offered a plan under which banks would roll over about half of Greek debt that matures in 2011-14, putting another 20% into a "guarantee fund" of zero-coupon AAA bonds, and cashing out the remaining 30%.
German Deputy Finance Minister Joerg Asmussen put Berlin's alternative proposal for a debt swap extending existing bonds' maturities by seven years back on the table on Wednesday, even though the European Central Bank has warned against it.
Asmussen also told Reuters Insider TV it was "absolutely premature" to discuss a second rescue package for Portugal and Berlin was confident the country could implement its reforms and get back on track.
"There is a new government in place so I would really suggest giving the government the time to do what the new government has promised," he said.
"We are confident they are willing and able to implement the first package and get back on track," he said.
New French Finance Minister Francois Baroin was just as dismissive of Moody's action on Portugal.
"A ratings agency's view is not going to solve the matter of tension on sovereign debt markets and the budgetary crisis," he said, adding that he trusted Portugal's new government to meet its deficit reduction target by 2013.
EU officials complain that the ratings agencies' downgrades are a self-fulfilling prophecy, making it harder for countries under assistance programmes to return to capital markets.
Underlying the debate is an increasingly prevalent view in financial markets - disputed publicly by EU governments - that Greece, and possibly also Portugal and Ireland, will have to restructure debt sooner or later and force significant losses on bondholders.
The more widespread that assumption becomes, the harder it will be to negotiate further official funding for Greece.
The International Monetary Fund board is expected to approve this week the release of a vitally needed fresh tranche of loans for Greece after eurozone finance ministers agreed on Saturday to pay their share.
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Israel's three nuclear weapons-armed German submarines are going to be sent to the Gulf as an act of deterrence to Iran. In fact, they aren't even hiding that objective. The Times Online report about this is obviously the result of a calculated leak. The hint is here:
The flotilla's commander, identified only as "Colonel O", told [...]
Israeli Nuclear-Armed Subs Off Iranian Coast
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Auburn's Gene Chizik has decided to once again start Clint Moseley at quarterback this weekend at Vanderbilt. Last night the coach said on his weekly radio show:
"It's one of those situations where at the beginning of the week you've really got to give them a good look just in terms of number of reps and who's improving, And again, Kiehl (Frazier) has kind of a little bit of a nagging injury that he's just going to have to push some work through. That's the bottom line."
So just as Moseley's nagging injury in the preseason gave the starter's job to Frazier coming out of the gate, now it's Frazier's own injury that making Moseley the default starter. Neither quarterback has looked great in the playing time they have had.
Moseley came off the bench two weeks ago against Arkansas and then started against Ole Miss. Auburn's offense still sputtered, as it had under Frazier, even though Moseley was a tad more accurate throwing the football.
The two quarterbacks' numbers to date:
Player | Att. | Comp. | Pct. | Yards | Yds/Att. | TDs | INTs |
K. Frazier | 103 | 56 | 54.4 | 664 | 6.4 | 2 | 8 |
C. Moseley | 39 | 24 | 61.5 | 275 | 7.1 | 1 | 3 |


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