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The nationwide launch of the Palm Pre today was more like a soft launch compared to the crowds that lined up to buy new iPhones, but Palm enthusiasts nonetheless gathered outside Sprint Nextel Inc. stores and other retailers in the hopes of being among the first with the highly anticipated smartphones.
For many buyers, the purchase of a Pre with its new WebOS, was a good investment in an exciting new smartphone, but also a way to support ailing Palm Inc. and even wireless carrier Sprint.
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"As an original Palm Pilot user, I want to support Palm and see them make it, but this Pre is also just a bloody cool device," said Skip Tannen of Upton, Mass. He said he liked the way it felt in his hands, and was especially impressed with the QWERTY keyboard, instead of the touchsreen on the iPhone, which he also uses.
Tannen, an IT operations engineer at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., waved his arms in victory holding his newly purchased Pre high as he left a Sprint store in Framingham, Mass, about 20 miles west of Boston. He was the first in line at 8 a.m. when the store opened, having left his home three hours earlier.
A Sprint spokesman characterized the launch in East Coast cities as "a nice flow of customers," with some stores attracting crowds of 40 to 50 people waiting to get in at 8 a.m. when many stores opened.
"Our service reps have been able to spend time with customers to set up the new Palm Pre and make sure they know how to ... use the features," said spokesman Mark Elliott.
Sprint sells the device for $200 after a $100 mail-in rebate, plus a two-year service agreement. Elliott, who was stationed at a store in lower Manhattan, said that by 11 a.m., there had been a steady line of customers at several East Coast stores he'd heard from.
In downtown Boston, there was still a line of about 15 people outside the Sprint store two hours after it had opened. According to Boston.com, the store sold out of its 55 Pres by 11 a.m. At at a Framingham Best Buy, where the $100 rebate is automatic, a store manager was waiting outside before the official opening to give Pre buyers a ticket to come back for activation at 10 a.m. He said most Best Buys only had three or four of the devices, and characterized the first day of sales as a "soft launch." At 9 a.m., he still had tickets available for two Pres.
Sprint would not say how many devices were available nationwide, although the Framingham Sprint store had sold at lease 20 Pres in the first 90 minutes, based on the number of customers seen leaving with one device. Sprint will replenish its stock, depending on when Palm makes them available, the spokesman said.
Seven successful Pre buyers who were interviewed at the Framingham store said they wanted a new smartphone with a bright screen and a hardware keyboard. Of those, four said they were willing to switch from Verizon Wireless and AT&T to do so. All of them said they had tried the iPhone, or owned one, and wanted a hardware keyboard instead of a touchscreen, finding the touchscreen hard to use.
Some had more specific interests, including learning about the Pre to consider writing applications for it that Palm would sell in its application storefront, called the App Catalog.


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LOS ANGELES (CN) – A woman claims in a Federal Court complaint that her ex-husband met her after she was hired to work at McDonald's and later pushed her into prostitution in Nevada. She blames McDonald's USA in part for the events.
Shelley Lynn sued her ex-husband, Keith Handley, his company Ivernia, and McDonald's USA, in Federal Court.
Lynn claims she was "economically and psychologically" coerced into prostitution by Handley, whose company Ivernia owns or owned McDonald's franchises. The events she describes took place roughly two decades ago.
According to the complaint, Handley hired Lynn to work as a counter person at a McDonald's in 1982 in Arroyo Grande, Calif., and they began dating in December 1985.
Included in the allegations against McDonald's, she has the ubiquitous fast food franchise works to keep unions out, offers an inferior health care plan and no pension benefits. Most employees, she says, are paid minimum wages, as was Lynn. And, she says in her complaint, "There is no affirmative action to encourage women employees and other women to purchase franchises."
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Twelve hours of freedom will cost Bowie County escapee Marques Tervon Franklin an additional criminal charge now that he is back behind bars.
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Patch readers overwhelmingly picked the , , as their favorite florist in West Cobb.
In this week's , the downtown Powder Springs business received 94 percent of the vote over the competition—three area Kroger stores.
PearTree owner Kim Kornblatt from retiring Joe and Barbara Sutton, who bought the business themselves in 1987. It first opened in 1978.
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Purdue-bound St. Charles East senior Kendall Stephens has always shown flashes of his brilliance leading up to his senior season.
If his performance in helping the Saints win their own Ron Johnson Tournament for the first time in over 30 years is any indication, he has turned those flashes into bona fide star power.
The tournament MVP scored 30 points to lead the Saints to a 61-42 win over crosstown rival St. Charles North in Saturday's tournament championship game.
"As I told Kendall yesterday, it's sort of the Kendall Stephens I've been waiting for since he got here," East coach Patrick Woods said. "I think he showed spurts of it last year, but he's had four rock-solid games. He's putting together a year where if we keep up this pace, Mr. Basketball is not out of the realm of possibility, nor is All-State. You can't even tell he's hurt. It's crazy."
Despite nursing a torn labrum in his shoulder, Stephens was brilliant against the North Stars (3-1) Saturday. He shot 9-for-16 from the field, including 4-of-7 shooting from three-point range, and hit 8-of-10 free throws en route to his 30 points. He hit a three-pointer to open the game and his driving layup gave East (4-0) a 10-1 lead at the outset. He wound up scoring 10 points in the first quarter.
"After the last three games, we've been getting confidence every game and we came out wanting to get the first punch," Stephens said. "We hit them hard with a 10-1 run. We just made sure we were patient with our offense and we did a great job of maintaining it."
Stephens had another stretch of domination in the third, scoring seven straight points on three consecutive possessions to give the Saints a 35-19 lead. But North hung around, cutting the lead to 41-32 early in the fourth quarter before East was able to right the ship and cruise to the win.
"We didn't play well at all," North coach Tom Poulin said. "We didn't run our stuff. We didn't do what we did to get us to the championship game. I guess we have to go through a game like this to learn from it and move on."
Loyola-bound senior Quinten Payne did his best to keep the North Stars afloat on a night when they shot a collective 1-for-17 from three-point range.
Payne scored a team-high 22 points. Alec Goetz added 11 for North.
Dom Adduci battled foul trouble and two sore ankles to score 10 points for East.
The Saints know the road gets no easier; their next game is against the team that handed them their worst loss a year ago, Larkin, but they also feel like they made a statement.
"It's just awesome," Stephens said. "The 1970s is the last time we won it, so it's just great to show that St. Charles East has basketball. Now we have a tradition."
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The Three-Day Fruit Flush Detox Diet was created by Jay Robb who is a clinical nutritionist with more than thirty years of experience in the field. His personal company began a line of protein powders and makes other products including a line of best-selling books. Robb also has a variety of diet plans that are marketed on his website and through online retailers and stores across the country.
The Three-Day Fruit Flush Detox Diet claims to help dieters lose up to nine pounds in just three days. According to the website, this is the perfect diet to kick start a new long term program, get ready for a special event, or break a food addiction. The diet can be downloaded as an e-book or a hard copy of the book can be ordered off the website. The 48-page e-book can be ordered for as little as $5 at the time of this review. The page on Robb's website that is dedicated to this diet program does include customer testimonials. However, we were unable to find clinical evidence cited that supports the idea that detoxifying the body through a fruit flush will help one lose weight.
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The Three-Day Fruit Flush Detox Diet consists primarily of consuming fruit, vegetables, and protein to flush out the internal system. The first day, dieters are instructed to drink a series of protein shakes and finish off the day with a large salad. The next two days consist of a piece of fruit every two hours followed by a large salad in the evening. The idea behind this diet is that toxins are flushed out of the body along with sodium which helps to reduce water retention.
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The family of a Gwinnett County student suspended for hugging a teacher said he will be allowed back in school, but he can only take classes online.
A senior at Duluth High School, Sam McNair was suspended after hugging a teacher last semester. He said it was an innocent gesture but school officials said it violated the district's sexual harassment policy.
"It's a step forward that they gave him an alternative for him to finish his education online," said his mother April McNair. "But you're still stripping him of graduating with his class, his full-blown team, going to prom, having the experience of a high school graduate."
The school district said it can not comment on cases involving students for privacy reasons.
"Mr. McNair had good intentions," said Kimani King, the family's attorney. "What he understands now is he can't just think about himself. He has to think about how his actions affect others."
King said the family is still deciding whether to take any legal action against the district.
"Is that (the suspension) going to be removed from his record?" asked April McNair. "How does it affect him long term?"
The family said their focus now is to ensure Sam McNair graduates. However, his mom said she will push the school district to offer students classes in what constitutes sexual harassment.
"Change needs to be done," said April McNair. "Change needs to come soon because Sam McNair is not the only student who may be going through this."
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Fast approaching obsolescence (it doesn't take long these days), my smarty-pants phone had something to tell me: get rid of some of those goofy pictures.
Turns out if you have too many images packed onto your phone, it can leave you with insufficient space for things like the latest operating system.
Having procrastinated the download for several weeks already, despite chiding from my children over my resistance to modern contraptions and all they supposedly know how to do — we need to let the bugs work themselves out, right? — I reluctantly set about erasing some of the 1,000-plus snapshots and videos that somehow had accumulated on my phone.
Lo and behold, a great many of them turned out to be of Olive.
I've told you about her before, probably more frequently than necessary. She's an almost-7-year-old golden retriever who shares our home, the dumbest and happiest dog ever born, as my husband likes to say. She's a keeper.
She's also more than willing to have her picture taken, and tends to scowl at the camera less consistently than do the cats, so the camera had plenty of images of her: wearing hats, wearing sunglasses, nuzzling her people and, especially, staring dolefully at the camera.
I know I should seek professional help for this. But it helped underscore for me something that was made crystal-clear in the course of a story I wrote last week. Perhaps you saw it, the piece about Ace Hunter, the Labrador retriever who shares his house with a big Naperville family and went missing on New Year's Eve, remaining lost for a week that included some of the most brutally cold temperatures we've seen in decades before he miraculously was found.
It's an amazing tale, and you can still read about it on our website, napervillesun.suntimes.com.
Incredible as that was, though, it was more than a story of a dog surviving against all odds and coming home to his best friends — even a dog with a name that sounds like it belongs to an action hero. It also was testament to the less-tangible elements that go into the things that matter the most to most of us: family and friends, neighborhood and community.
Almost immediately after Ace disappeared, a little-known network of dog people went to work, hoping to help the Hunters with the hunt. Among them was Teresa Barlow, who hangs out with Ace when his people go away on vacations, and her aunt, Peggy Moss, who works with the organization Lost Dogs Illinois.
"We were definitely concerned the whole time," Barlow said later. "Especially Monday, when it was going to be so cold out."
She was dogged in the effort, and went the extra mile in looking for Ace, who apparently had strayed some five miles along the West Branch of the DuPage River, coming to a halt near the movie theaters on Diehl Road.
Bolingbrook resident Moss — who has seen a lot of miracles in the four years she's been affiliated with the dog-finding agency and related that she was "discouraged but not hopeless" as the foreboding forecast promised a couple of truly god-awful freezing-cold days — was impressed.
"(The Hunters) did all the right things," Moss said of the search party that instantly took shape when Ace bolted off, terrified by the bang of holiday fireworks nearby. "I was amazed at my niece, how she just never gave up."
The neighbors, too, inspired awe in rallying around the Hunters and their missing pooch, helping out for days as the agonizing search went on. Even local police were in on the effort, telling Angie Hunter, the mom in Ace's house, "we're all looking for him," she said.
"All the good, all those volunteers," Hunter would say later, shaking her head. "It just amazes."
I couldn't resist snapping a few photos of the sweet and handsome Ace with my phone.
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THE South Trafford-based Elmscot Group of day nurseries and School's Out clubs, recently sent their chefs to the Vegetarian Society's Cordon Vert Cookery School.
Stephanie Molnar, co-owner of the Elmscot Group. said: "It's important to ensure we offer excellent vegetarian alternatives for children when preferred and that these meals meet nutritional guidelines.
"Alex Connell, the principal tutor at the Cordon Vert school, was able to personalise the day's training to our specific requirements.
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The Education and Outreach (E&O) Department at the Sanford Underground Research Facility at Homestake seeks to use the excitement and promise of deep underground science and engineering to inspire and prepare students, educators and an informed citizenry through a variety of programming, including:
- Surface tours, workshops and presentations onsite at Sanford Lab for school field trips, summer camps, afterschool programs and community groups
- Workshops and presentations at schools and communities around the region (and further, utilizing videoconferencing technology)
- Undergraduate and high school research internship and teacher-in-residence programs, as well as summer enrichment programs for STEM students
- Professional development workshops for inservice teachers and, in collaboration with Black Hills State University, preparation of new science teachers
- Public outreach events, such as the annual Neutrino Day Science Festival at Sanford Lab and a Communicating Science through the Arts program
The E&O Department is committed to increasing the number of students pursuing Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) careers, especially students who belong to groups historically under-represented in those fields. Sanford Lab pilot programs already are reaching out to American Indian students on reservations in the region, and providing afterschool programming to interest girls in STEM careers. The E&O Department works closely with the SURF Cultural Coordinator, KC Russell.
The newly renovated Yates Education Building on the Sanford Lab site in Lead provides facilities for groups of all sizes and offices for the Education and Communications Departments, and helps foster connections between scientists and students, educators and the general public. Current programs serve as prototypes for the planned Sanford Center for Science Education (SCSE), to be built in the future on the Lead campus.


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Eyes on the Sky – Weather as data paintings by Jed Carter
Eyes on the Sky is a process-based investigation into generative design and the weather. Jed Carter linked 64 public-access web cameras across Europe, recording the colour of the sky, at each point, at regular intervals and produced a book that collects a week of paintings where cameras paint the weather, once every hour.
I believe that most people respond more intuitively to simple colours than to the complex units of data found in weather reports and downloadable apps. My phone can instantly inform me of the current temperature outside in degrees of Celsius, but this reading tells me nothing of how warm or cold it actually feels. How warm is 18°C, exactly? Does that mean I need a jumper or a coat? We can access a multitude of different kinds of data relating to the weather, but can this information be used to create something beautiful or intuitive to read?
Webcam images were downloaded to Jed's server using a PHP script. They were then reduced to 4×3 pixels with Photoshop automated tools and then a simple C# script was used to pick out a single specified pixel from the images. The RGB value of specified pixel was noted in a text file. With the help of Richard Brauer, Processing was used to map these RGB values to geographic locations, rendering a huge sequence of colour maps of the sky. Finally, the colour paintings were then cropped & masked in Photoshop and the whole book was designed in InDesign.
Eyes on the Sky is a self-initiated project for Jed's end-of-year show at Kingston University London – 3rd year Graphic Design BA(Hons).
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U.S. stocks and Treasury prices dived Tuesday after Federal Reserve policymakers said they were worried about a slowdown in hiring and appeared to resist buying more bonds to help the economy.
The Dow Jones industrial average was down as much as 133 points after the Fed released minutes of the March meeting of its Open Market Committee. It was down 40 points before the minutes were released.
Just before the closing bell, the Dow had improved to a decline of 100 points, at 13,164. The Standard & Poor's 500 index was down 10 points to 1,410. The Nasdaq composite index dropped 14 to 3,105.
The minutes showed that policymakers were concerned hiring could slow if economic growth doesn't improve. The country added an average 245,000 jobs per month from December through February, the strongest since the Great Recession.
The Fed minutes also showed that only two of 10 voting committee members said they would support another round of bond purchases, and probably only if the economy lost momentum.
The release of the minutes reduced demand for government bonds, driving prices down and yields up. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note to 2.28 percent from 2.16 percent earlier Tuesday.
The Fed has embarked on two previous rounds of bond-buying, most recently in August 2010, to drive down long-term interest rates and encourage investors to buy stocks.
Among the other ripples in the financial markets in the first hour after the Fed's announcement:
-- The sell-off in Treasurys was broad. The price of the 30-year Treasury bond fell $2.53 per $100 invested, pushing its yield up to 3.40 percent from 3.32 percent before the Fed minutes.
-- Gold fell $38 an ounce to $1,642. The selling started shortly before the Fed minutes were released. Gold had been unchanged for most of the morning.
-- The dollar rose against the euro, also after being virtually unchanged for most of the day. The euro was down 1.1 cents against the dollar to $1.322 in afternoon trading.
Many traders were in wait-and-see mode all morning before the Fed minutes were released. Stocks drifted lower despite solid reports on auto sales and factory activity.
Orders to factories bounced back by a solid 1.3 percent in February as businesses made more long-term investments, the Commerce Department said after the market opened.
The news bolstered earlier signals that U.S. consumers are feeling confident enough in the economy to buy higher-cost items like cars after years of putting off major purchases.
Chrysler said earlier that sales of its vehicles spiked by one-third last month, making March its best month in four years. Sales were helped by the introduction of small cars from the company's Fiat brand. Ford's sales rose 5 percent, General Motors' by 12 percent.
The afternoon selling doused any enthusiasm the market carried into the week after it closed its best first quarter in more than a decade. The Dow and S&P both closed at multi-year highs Monday.
Trading volumes have been light for about two weeks in part because there has been relatively little news to move markets. Many companies are quiet ahead of earnings season, which begins in earnest next week.
The government will release its March jobs report on Friday. Economists expect that hiring slowed modestly last month after three of the best months for the labor market since the recession. The report's impact on the market might be muted because markets will be closed for the beginning of Easter weekend.
In corporate news:
-- Molson Coors Brewing Co. fell 5 percent after the company made a major investment overseas, putting up more than $3.5 billion to snap up StarBev and its nine breweries in central and eastern Europe.
-- Investment bank Morgan Stanley fell 3 percent after the Federal Reserve said a mortgage division had abused consumers in the foreclosure process. Morgan Stanley has since sold the division, Saxon Mortgage Services Inc., to Ocwen Financial Corp.
-- Home products retailer Conn's Inc. surged 16 percent after it beat analysts' profit forecasts in the fourth quarter and boosted its earnings guidance for the upcoming year.
-- Express Scripts Inc. gained another 3 percent a day after completing its $29.1 billion acquisition of Medco Health Solutions, forming the largest pharmacy benefits manager in the country. The stock is up 6 percent this week.
Daniel Wagner can be reached at www.twitter.com/wagnerreports.


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Yara Praxair to Build Air Separation Plant
October 21, 2010
Yara Praxair, a 50-50 joint venture between Praxair, Inc. and Yara International ASA, will invest in a new air separation plant to be located in Perstorp, Sweden. The plant, with a capacity of 200 tons per day, is scheduled to start up in 2012. In addition to meeting the increasing demand for oxygen, nitrogen and argon from industrial customers in southern Sweden and in Denmark, the investment will strengthen Yara Praxair's overall supply capabilities in Scandinavia. Environmental, quality, productivity and energy-efficiency benefits are the impetus behind increased use of these gases.


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GTA V Rakes In $800 Million In First 24 Hours
Posted on Wednesday, September 18 @ 12:25:15 Eastern by Alex_Osborn
To no one's surprise, Grand Theft Auto V sold a whole lot of copies on launch day--which was yesterday in case you've already forgotten--raking in a whopping $800 million in its first 24 hours.
Take-Two announced the news earlier today, noting that this marks "the highest first day retail sales of any title in the history of the company and the Grand Theft Auto series." That's quite an accomplishment if I do say so myself.
Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick went on to add:
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text: Who saw this coming? The Bills may be forced to see what they have in Brohm in week 16 due to injuries to their top 2 QBs.We'll now get to see what he's TRULY made of...so far everyone we've cut, except for maybe Sutton, has failed when given the chance to shine on other teams. Hopefully that will happen here too so we don't have to worry about "the one that got away" or something!


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From reading Ramona's posts here's what I understand.
Paul Davis got hurt. We need a fill in point guard like crazy. Who can we cut? Paul Davis. He's the only one with a non guaranteed contract. The Clippers love him but they need a PG right now and he's the odd man out (plus he's hurt so...)
Fred Jones was playing well but he got hurt too! Can't take chances keeping around a guy that might be hurt for who knows how long? Poor guy. I liked him, too. Ramona says if he gets healthy they can sign him back (to a ten day?)
The 7'1" Cheikh Samb pickup? Wow. I can only agree with CS that there must be some sort of trade on the horizon. OR OR OR OR maybe he's just a PDiddy replacement that can be waived later? Maybe Dunleavy is shuffling healthy bodies? Waive Samb when Paul Davis returns to health and pick him back up? Crazy! But who knows how bad P Diddy is hurt...
Anyhow with all the madness I'm staying calm because of what Dunleavy has done as a GM so far this year...
- Drafted Gordon - WIN WIN WIN
- Drafted Jordan - Potential WIN 50/50 on this one. Can't say he looks really bad, but can't say he looks good either. Have you seen Oden play? He doesn't impress me that much more than Jordan, so what does that say?
- Drafted Taylor - Very Potential WIN - he's looked great at times and his energy and effort are consistent
- Maggette gone - No loss, he's hurt anyway - WIN
- Elton gone - No loss, he's hurt anyway and has a 50/50 chance of getting hurt again even when he gets back - WIN
- Baron for $$ - in a major slump, but you gotta think his play can only improve (how could it get any worse? Stil better than Dickau, Knight, Richie "Where's He" Frahm or a still not even playing Livingston, right?) - MAYBE A WIN IN THE FUTURE - Was a gamble I would've taken too.
- Camby for FREE - WIN WIN WIN
- Zach for Cuttino and Thomas - Cuttino forced to retire, Tim's hurt - we get back a 30/10 guy in a week - WIN WIN WIN
- Mardy for Free - basically a throw in that's actually filling in OK for us - Minor WIN
- Somehow finds and signs Fred Jones. Obviously he got hurt but how did Dunleavy magically manage to find this guy, knowing he had the ability to help the team? He's a decent player and was making positive contributions for being thrown into the fire from day one of his signing. Amazing.
So for as much as I hate Dunleavy's offensive sets and some of his coaching decisions, I have to say he's done a great job so far this year as a GM. So who knows what he's got going on but I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Whether he trades Baron, Camby, Kaman or whomever else (except maybe Gordon) I'm going to stay positive about the future of the Clips. It's obvious this year is gone but they can build a really, really good team for next year.
If he makes another move like the Camby for Free thing, I'll be ecstatic.
If he makes another Korolev move, then I'll start the ranting - "Fire Dunleavy - Both of Them!"


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There's an interesting essay about the allure of the weird and abominable in the fiction of Lovecraft by Ann M. Pillsworth here at the Tor website. Since my partner's preparing a Greek squid and potato dish, I'm currently well in the grip of tenticular ravishment.
Anita Mason has a contribution to the long running genre debate here at the Guardian entitled "Genre fiction radiates from a literary centre". I think her attempt to constitute this supposed center self-deconstructs spectacularly, but in a manner that is instructive and worth teasing apart.
This metaphorical representation of the literary as the universal and indeterminate hub from which determinate "rule-governed" genres "radiate" does not cohere with her criteria of demarcation between the literary and the non-literary. On the one hand, the literary can be anything; is governed by no determinate rules. On the other, dense psychological characterization is necessary for the literary since, she argues, Brave New World, and Consider Phlebas fail the test of literariness due to their lack of this attribute.
Well, you can't have it both ways. Despite Mason's peremptory reading of The Drowned World, Ballard's oeuvre is famously unconcerned with character and "plot", such as it is, incidental to one of the most profoundly literary treatments of the condition of modernity in prose. Few modern novels present a more literary and unitary treatment of their subject than Crash, for example, where a brilliantly intricate chain of metaphors and symbols explore the contingency of desire in the face of technical change.
On these grounds we would also have to exclude postmodern fabulists and experimental writers such as Pynchon, Barthelme, Robb-Grillet and Christine Brooke-Rose. So Mason's Ptolemaic rhetoric of centrality is just a blind for her anthropocentrism. The universe of literature, I hope, is post-Copernican and limitless.
Accelerationism combines a transhumanist techno-optimism with a Marxist analysis of the dynamic between the relations and forces of production. Its proponents argue that under capitalism, modern technology is constrained by myopic and socially destructive goals. They argue that rather than abandoning technological modernity for illusory homeostatic Eden we should exploit and ramp up its incendiary potential in order to escape from the gravity well of market dominated resource-allocation. Like posthumanism, however, Accelerationism comes in several flavours. Benjamin Noys (who coined the term) first identified Accelerationism as a kind of overkill politics invested in freeing the machinic unconscious described in the libidinal postructuralisms of Lyotard and Deleuze from the domestication of liberal subjectivity and market mechanisms. This itinerary reaches its apogee in the work of Nick Land who lent the project a cyberpunk veneer borrowed from the writings of William Gibson and Bruce Sterling.
Land's Accelerationism aims at the extirpation of humanity in favour of an "abstract planetary intelligence rapidly constructing itself from the bricolaged fragments of former civilisations" (Srnicek and Williams 2013).
However, this mirror-shaded beta version has been remodelled and given a new emancipatory focus by writers such as Ray Brassier, Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams (Williams 2013). This "promethean" phase Accelerationism argues that technology should be reinstrumentalized towards a project of "maximal collective self-mastery".
Promethean Accelerationism certainly espouses the same tactic of exacerbating the disruptive effects of technology, but with the aim of cultivating a more autonomous collective subject. As Steven Shaviro points out in his excellent talk "An Introduction to Accelerationism", this version replicates orthodox Marxism at the level of both strategy and intellectual justification. Its vision of a rationally-ordered collectivity mediated by advanced technology seems far closer to Marx's ideas, say, than Adorno's dismal negative dialectics or the reactionary identity politics that still animates multiculturalist thinking. If technological modernity is irreversible – short of a catastrophe that would render the whole programme moot – it may be the only prospectus that has a chance of working. As Shaviro points out, an incipient accelerationist logic is already at work among communities using free and open-source software like Pd, where R&D on code modules is distributed among skilled enthusiasts rather than professional software houses (Note, that a similar community flourishes around Pd's fancier commercial cousin, MAX MSP – where supplementary external objects are written by users in C++, Java and Python).
This is a small but significant move away from manufacture dominated by market feedback. We are beginning see similar tendencies in the manufacture of durables and biotech. The era of downloadable things is upon us. In April 2013, a libertarian group calling themselves Defence Distributed announced that they would release the code for "the Liberator", a gun that can be assembled from layers of plastic in a 3 D printer (currently priced at around $ 8000). The group's spokesman, Cody Wilson, anticipates an era in which search engines will provide components "for everything from prosthetic limbs to drugs and birth-control devices".
However, the alarm that the Liberator created in global law-enforcement agencies exemplifies the first of two potential pitfalls for the Promethean accelerationist itinerary. The democratization of technology – enabled by its easy iteration from context to context – does not seem liable to increase our capacity to control its flows and applications; quite the contrary, and this becomes significant when the iterated tech is not just an Max MSP external for randomizing arrays but an offensive weapon, an engineered virus or a powerful AI program.
I've argued elsewhere that technology has no essence and no itinerary. In its modern form at least, it is counter-final. It is not in control, but it is not in anyone's control either, and the developments that appear to make a techno-insurgency conceivable are liable to ramp up its counter-finality. This, note, is a structural feature deriving from the increasing mobility of technique in modernity, not from market conditions. There is no reason to think that these issues would not be confronted by a more just world in which resources were better directed to identifiable social goods.
A second issue is also identified in Shaviro's follow up discussion over at The Pinocchio Theory: the posthuman. Using a science fiction allegory from a story by Paul De Filippo, Shaviro suggests that the posthuman could be a figure for a decentred, vital mobilization against capitalism: a line of flight which uses the technologies of capitalist domination to develop new forms of association, embodiment and life.
I think this prospectus is inspiring, but it also has moral dangers that Darian Meacham identifies in a paper forthcoming in The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy entitled 'Empathy and Alteration: The Ethical Relevance of the Phenomenological Species Concept'. Very briefly, Meacham argues that the development of technologically altered descendants of current humans might precipitate what I term a "disconnection" – the point at which some part of the human socio-technical system spins off to develop separately (Roden 2012). I've argued that disconnection is multiply realizable – or so far as we can tell. But Meacham suggests that a kind of disconnection could result if human descendants were to become sufficiently alien from us that "we" would no longer have a pre-reflective basis for empathy with them. We would no longer experience them as having our relation to the world or our intentions. Such a "phenomenological speciation" might fragment the notional universality of the human, leading to a multiverse of fissiparous and alienated clades like that envisaged in Bruce Sterling's novel Schismatrix. A still more radical disconnection might result if super-intelligent AI's went "feral". At this point, the subject of history itself becomes fissionable. It is no longer just about "us". Perhaps Land remains the most acute and intellectually consistent accelerationist after all.
Roden, David 2012. "The Disconnection Thesis." The Singularity Hypothesis: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment, Edited by Ammon Eden, Johnny Søraker, Jim Moor, and Eric Steinhart. Springer Frontiers Collection.
Srnicek, N.and Williams A (2013), #ACCELERATE MANIFESTO for an Accelerationist Politics, http://criticallegalthinking.com/2013/05/14/accelerate-manifesto-for-an-accelerationist-politics/
Sterling, Bruce. 1996. Schismatrix Plus. Ace Books.
Williams, Alex, 2013. "Escape Velocities." E-flux (46). Accessed July 11. http://worker01.e-flux.com/pdf/article_8969785.pdf.
Excellent discussion of whether it takes a mind to detect a mind from Pete Mandik here.
There is a very interesting piece by Scott Jeffery on superhero bodies and the cultural history of post/trans-humanism here.
Hadley Freeman has an engaging interview with Terminator and Avatar director James Cameron on the excellent Guardian web site.
Cameron is underrated by people who think aesthetically realized movies must be all tight-lipped introspection or (worse) draw on prestigious literary sources. Terminator, T2 and Aliens, though, are the epitome of the smart techno-thriller.
There's a wonderful montage sequence in T2 where the story of the attempt to prevent the Cyberdyne Corporation from inventing the Skynet computer which will unleash nuclear war on humanity is suspended. We see only an advancing highway at night while the disembodied voice of Sarah Connors (aka Linda Hamilton) says "The future always so clear to me had become like a black highway at night. We were in uncharted territory now, making up history as we went along". It's juxtaposition worthy of Godard or Renais. And as Freeman reminds us, Cameron's also written some of the best female parts in recent cinema.
This is part of an ongoing project whose modest goal is to nuance the understanding of humanism in posthumanist philosophy and criticism. Cartesian dualism is one of the main targets of these critiques, but differences between dualisms tend to become obscured in the rush to lay the liberal humanist subject. Here, I'm using Mike Wheeler's discussion of the Cartesian roots of mainstream cognitive science in Reconstructing the Cognitive World to distinguish between substance dualism (which nobody seems to believe) and explanatory dualism – arguably the orthodoxy in philosophy of psychology, from Kant to Fodor and beyond.
In a much-discussed passage from the fifth part of The Discourse on Method Descartes supports his dualist metaphysics with what we might call the "argument from the impossibility of artificial intelligence". He claims that no machine (i.e. a biomechanical system such as an animal body) could act in the flexible, adaptable and generally rational way that ordinary humans do:
[We] may easily conceive a machine to be so constructed that it emits vocables, and even that it emits some correspondent to the action upon it of external objects which cause a change in its organs; for example, if touched in a particular place it may demand what we wish to say to it; if in another it may cry out that it is hurt, and such like; but not that it should arrange them variously so as appositely to reply to what is said in its presence, as men of the lowest grade of intellect can do. The second test is, that although such machines might execute many things with equal or perhaps greater perfection than any of us, they would, without doubt, fail in certain others from which it could be discovered that they did not act from knowledge, but solely from the disposition of their organs: for while reason is an universal instrument that is alike available on every occasion, these organs, on the contrary, need a particular arrangement for each particular action; whence it must be morally impossible that there should exist in any machine a diversity of organs sufficient to enable it to act in all the occurrences of life, in the way in which our reason enables us to act. (Descartes 1985, 44).
To ape rationality a mechanical system would need to integrate special purpose mechanisms suited to every occasion (a "look up table" in computational terms – see Wheeler 2005, 34). Since these occasions could ramify to infinity a mechanical system that could generate reliably appropriate behaviour would require a practically infinite number of parts.
In "Theorizing Posthumanism" Neil Badmington reads this as an attempt to police an ontological blockade between the human being and the nonhuman animal. However, in a textbook deconstructive move he claims that its formulation undermines its declared intent. For by identifying the capacity for reasoning with the functional capacity for context sensitive performance, Descartes allows for the conceptual possibility of a machine so complex that it would have an arrangement for every possible occasion – in effect, running an infinite look-up table.
Descartes' anthropocentrism is thus less hygienic and secure than it might appear, for it implies that a material system with the complexity to generate flexible performances would be functionally rational. "Reason" Badmington writes "no longer capable of "distinguish[ing] us from the beasts, would meet its match, its fatal and flawless double." (Badmington 2003, 18). He then springs his coup de théâtre:
On closer inspection, in other words, there lies within Descartes's ontological hygiene a real sense in which, to take a line from one of Philip K. Dick's novels, "[l]iving and unliving things are exchanging properties" (1996, 223; emphasis in original). Between the lines of the text, the lines of humanism cross themselves (out), and the moment at which humanism insists becomes the moment at which it nonetheless desists. Quite against his will, quite against all odds, Descartes has begun to resemble Deckard, the troubled protagonist of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? … and Blade Runner … , who utterly fails to police the boundary between the real and the fake (Ibid.).
Casting Harrison Ford as Descartes is nice, but too quick. While Descartes may have had reasons to observe ontological hygiene precautions, in this passage, at least, he is attempting to motivate belief in a disembodied mind through inference to the best explanation. It is the manifest functional differences between humans and brutes that institutes the quarantine line, not the dualist ontology of extended matter and non-extended mind (Ryle's "ghost in the machine").
Descartes makes an empirical assumption about the limits of mechanical complexity in this passage (not an a priori claim about in-principle-complexity). If we think this holds, we should infer that our synapses are haunted. If we don't, we shouldn't. Badmington's deconstruction requires Descartes be saddled with the assumption that rationality is a matter of appropriate functioning rather than spooked synapses. But in that case, there is a mark of the human (or at least of the rational intellect): namely, the capacity to function like humans do.
Thus we may easily ditch substance dualism while holding that an exhaustive list of the arrangements of matter responsible for each token of appropriate behaviour could not explain the capacity for flexible and rational behaviour. For one, any such account would be too vast to afford descriptive economy. More importantly, it would miss the abstract functional facts that, by hypothesis, distinguish us from the brutes. Thus, as Wheeler argues in Reconstructing the Cognitive World: The Next Step, the rejection of substance dualism is compatible with explanatory dualism: a scientific methodology that turns away from neuroscience and biomechanics to consider the inferential processes or practices which produce intelligent, flexible and adaptable behaviour. According to this view: "flexible, intelligent action remains conceptually and theoretically independent of the scientific understanding of the agent's physical embodiment" (Wheeler 2005, 51).
Badmington, Neil (2003), "Theorizing Posthumanism", Cultural Critique 53, 10-27,
Descartes (1985) A Discourse on Method. Trans. John Veitch. London: Everyman.
Wheeler, Michael (2005) Reconstructing the Cognitive World: the Next Step. MIT Press, 2005.
Gareth Powell mentioned that he's moderating a book club discussion of Samuel R. Delaney's brilliant space opera, Nova over at SFX Magazine and asked me for my take. I'm grading essays just now but wasn't sufficiently wise to resist, so here it is:
Samuel Delany's writing has always fascinated me. On the one hand he's an extraordinarily sensual writer. His futures jangle your nerves. In the 'Star Pit' you feel his narrator's dejection at being confined within a mere galaxy – a galaxy!
But Delaney has also retooled SF to explore identity, language and social ontology. In Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand he portrays an interstellar civilization in which gender is differently coded from ours by shifting the functions of the masculine and feminine pronouns. In this post-gender world everyone is 'she' or 'a woman' regardless of sex. 'He' is reserved for any human/alien object of sexual desire. Reading Stars helps you think of gender as a mutable cultural virus rather than as destiny or "nature" . Delany thus re-engineers theories about the way language mediates thought current in Critical Theory and Poststructuralism and bodies them in an alien flesh we can regard as our own. With his path breaking exploration of queer identity this suffices to make him one of the most important (and underrated) political writers of our time.
It's been a long time since my first adolescent reading of Nova. I remember being utterly seduced by the sensory detail and complexity of its star-faring future. I didn't get the sophisticated games with language then, but the colour and difficulty of his world was unlike anything in the ascetic utopias of Asimov or Clark. Also Delany's work had none of the hideous Oxbridge-Male ennui that spoilt even the greatest of British New Wavers. It was hard SF with Starships, alien skies and cyborgs reconstructed for a poly-sexual heterotopia. Without Delaney, there'd be no Gibson, Sterling and no Iain M. Banks. He could be more important than all of those figures.
Alan Moore's graphic novel Watchmen (filmed back in 2009 by Zack Snyder) is an anti- superhero tale about super anti-heroes. Some of these 'costumed adventurers' are obsessives driven by the thrill of dressing up and breaking heads; others are co-opted by political interests or have shadowy agendas of their own. The Watchman known as 'The Comedian' is an amoral killer on a fat CIA remittance. The only one with actual superpowers, the glowing blue god Dr Manhattan, casually maintains US nuclear Hegemony, but sees humanity as a lower order of being than the inert desert of Mars.
Watchmen honours superhero tradition by sheathing these vigilantes in improbable tights and by culminating in a desperate battle to prevent a maniac killing lots of Americans. Here, though, the balletic combat is futile. As snippets of broadcast TV testify, the Americans are long dead before the first blow lands, and the architect of the plan, Ozymandias – AKA the 'Worlds Smartest Man' – is just a Watchman with a self-prescribed remit to usher in an era of global peace.
Ozymandias informs his fellow Watchmen that he has saved the world from nuclear annihilation by gulling the US and USSR into uniting against an illusory alien menace (the story is set in an alternative 1980′s during Nixon's third term). To simulate this threat convincingly, though, he has had to kill half the population of New York with a vile artificial life form.
Ozymandias seems like an obvious candidate for villain (This is a comic book after all). Yet whether this is so, turns on the solution to the classic philosophical problem of 'dirty hands'.
Ozymandias' provides a consequentialist argument for his actions. Pure consequentialists believe that actions must be judged according to the value of their outcomes. Thus if the murder of a million New Yorkers is preferable to the death of billions in a nuclear war, it is better to murder a million New Yorkers.
Once they learn that nothing can prevent the deaths, all but one of the Watchmen agree they are 'morally checkmated'.
Only Rorschach – so-called for the mutating inkblot concealing his face – contests this. He holds that some actions are intrinsically wrong and must be condemned irrespective of any beneficial outcomes they may produce (the philosophical term for this position is deontological ethics).
Who's right?
Let's assume for that Ozymandias is factually correct in believing that humanity would have been destroyed had he not acted. This is the kind of thing we might expect the World's Smartest Man to know. But Ozymandias has committed murder on the scale of a Hitler or a Pol Pot. Surely, his actions are wrong, no matter what?
So is Rorschach right?
Well, if he is, then Ozymandias should be killed or punished and the plot revealed. But Rorschach's insistence seems wrong-headed. As Dr Manhattan points out 'Exposing this plot, we destroy any chance of peace, dooming the Earth to worse destruction'.
Moore reinforces this impression by portraying Rorschach as a moral fanatic obsessed with punishment for its own sake. Ozymandias, by contrast, appears reasonable and genuinely pained by the deaths he has caused. So we seem confronted with four alternatives.
Ozymandias is right to sacrifice millions to save billions.
Or Rorschach is right.
Or they are both wrong.
Or they are both right.
The last possibility can be discounted if their positions are genuine contraries. However, there is another way of interpreting these moral claims. In his famous work, The Prince, Nicolo Machiavelli argued that canons of moral right have little place in politics. When deciding the future of a state (or a planet), we should be prepared to commit evil acts to secure the paramount goal of political order.
Machiavelli's position is a kind of consequentialism. However, he does not claim that conventionally evil acts cease to be bad when performed for worthy political ends. If judged according to the principles of public morality they are necessary and bear testimony to the prowess of a Prince (or a Superhero). But they're still wrong according to the standards of personal morality.
Thus, adopting Machiavelli's position, we can regard Ozymandias as having performed a very 'dirty' but necessary act. Both his position and Rorschach's can then be affirmed on different grounds. Is this a satisfactory resolution of the dilemma? One could object that any claim that an act is politically necessary must involve an appeal to moral grounds if it is not to be merely cynical – and Ozymandias, unlike the Comedian, is no cynic. Thus it remains troublingly uncertain whether this anti-superhero tale contains a genuine super-villain.
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Blue Jays activate righty Richmond
Toronto options reliever Hayhurst to Triple-A Las Vegas
SEATTLE -- The Blue Jays adjusted their pitching staff on Tuesday, activating right-hander Scott Richmond from the 15-day disabled list and optioning reliever Dirk Hayhurst to Triple-A Las Vegas. Richmond will rejoin Toronto's rotation and is scheduled to start on Friday in Oakland.
Richmond's return and Hayhurst's departure mean left-hander Brian Tallet, who has made 18 starts for the Jays this season, will shift back to the bullpen. Tallet moved to the rotation in April due to a wave of injuries facing the staff.
The 31-year-old Tallet, who has gone 5-6 with a 5.09 ERA in 22 appearances for the Blue Jays, already has established a career high with 109 2/3 innings. The lefty's previous career mark was 62 1/3 innings as a reliever for Toronto in 2007.
Richmond, a 29-year-old rookie and one of six first-year starters to pitch for the Jays this season, has gone 6-5 with a 3.69 ERA in 16 games for Toronto this year. Richmond, who was shelved with soreness in his right arm on July 1, will open the upcoming weekend series with the A's. Rookies Brett Cecil and Ricky Romero will have their starts pushed back to Saturday and Sunday, respectively.
Hayhurst posted a 1.72 ERA in 12 appearances for the Blue Jays, during which he struck out nine and walked eight over 15 2/3 innings.
Jordan Bastian is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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'Olympus Has Fallen' opened with a strong second-place showing in theaters this weekend.
The action thriller drew $30.5 million in ticket sales, behind the animated caveman comedy, 'The Croods,'which brought in $44.7 million.
In 'Olympus,' Gerard Butler leads the all-star cast that includes Aaron Eckhart as the president, Morgan Freeman and Angela Basset. The plot centers on North Korean terrorists taking over the White House.
Filmed in Shreveport and Bossier City in the summer of 2012, the movie brought Butler back to the area for a second time since filming the romantic comedy 'Playing the Field' with Jessica Biel. Now, he plays an ex-Secret Service agent fighting to defend the Capitol building from terrorists.
Critics are comparing the movie to Die Hard, for better or for worse, with some calling it a "rehash."
That 'Die Hard' feel was apparently intentional on the part of the movie's producers, however.
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Cisco is a young man who suffers from an enlarged heart and soon may be in need a transplant.
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"That's something I can die from any day," he said.
Cisco, as he is affectionately called by loved ones, looks healthy from the outside.
But on the inside, this 21-year-old suffers from a deadly heart disease.
"I don't understand how I have a chronic illness and I can't be covered," he said. While Cisco works full-time at a Yuma audio store, he makes too much money to qualify for AHCCCS, the Arizona Medicaid program that insures low income residents. But, he doesn't make enough money to be able to afford buying his own insurance. Each visit to a doctor costs him $3,000 out of pocket.
"Regularly I was supposed to see him every six months to a year. It depends on how he thought I was going. But just through the cuts I haven't been able to afford it to go up there," he said.
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I didn't like nm-applet and for some reason I decided to get rid of it and replace it with wicd.
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After some google searches everyone told me I needed to run the deamon "/etc/init.d/wicd". if it is running wicd will not ask for the root pass.
first I tried to add "/etc/init.d/wicd start" to rc.local. this didn't appear to run and yes I've chmoded 775 to rc.local, I assume this is suposed to make it runnable? so I added "rm -f /home/knoppix/testfile" and after next boot testfile was still there.
then I installed sysv-rc-conf but wicd was already getting started up at boot? after looking with rcconf(another tool) it turned out that knoppix-autoconfigure and another script was never run. So I'm guessing knoppix doesn't really looks at the other /init.d/ scripts and just runs knoppix-autoconfigure.
at last I had a little bit succes with /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfigure. I edited it and found some lines that started the default networking deamon. I've replaced it with wicd and sure enough, when I boot and look at "/etc/init.d/wicd status" it says wicd is running.
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If i gave a fake pass befor the fix I got a bunch of error messages about the deamon could not be started,... .
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The Cotswold Manor Grange is set within 70 acres of organic parkland. It has a lovely under-floor heated sitting room with views over a formal courtyard, and a separate farmhouse style kitchen/dining room.
The sitting room has a 40" HD TV, most bedrooms have LCD TVs and complimentary WIFI is provided. Guests have exclusive use of a hot tub, outdoor table and chairs, a BBQ set in private lawns, and shared use of games/leisure barn.
Oxford is close by, and a delightful gastro pub in walking distance. The estate is an ideal setting for family holidays, weekends away, celebrations dinners, hen/stage parties, and corporate events..
|Sleeps up to 18, 6 bedrooms
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|Nearest airport: London Heathrow 90 km, Nearest railway: Hanborough 10 km
|Family friendly
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|Pets welcome, No smoking at this property
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|Jacuzzi or hot tub, Internet access, DVD player
|Central heating, TV, CD player, Pool or snooker table, Table tennis, Games room, Wi-Fi available
|Kettle, Toaster, Iron, Hair dryer
|Clothes dryer, Dishwasher, Cooker, Microwave, Fridge, Freezer, Washing machine
|6 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms of which 2 Family bathrooms and 4 En suites
|Single beds (18), Cots (1), Dining seats for 19, Lounge seats for 19
|Linen provided, Towels provided, High chair
|Private garden, BBQ
|Wheelchair users, Secure parking
The Central England/Cotswolds region
The estate is situated in the eastern Cotswolds, close to the University City of Oxford, the River Thames, Blenheim Palace and Burford.
The estate makes an ideal base for touring the wonderful heritage of central England yet is only 60 miles west of London and within approx 1 hours drive of London Heathrow Airport. The M40 and M4 motorway are both within easy reach.
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cmdoshi24 restart your pc/laptop and restart phone i checked it for You and it is available.
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Nokia (in particular Nokia Australia) listen up. I have an N8 here in Australia and can see on the availability list that my product code 059D597 shows "Nokia Belle not available". To echo some posts here, this is just NOT good enough; this smacks of the N97 debacle of users just simply being ignored in the hope that we would go and buy a new Nokia phone - definately WILL NOT be doing that again.
Nokia, (in particular Nokia Australia), it's time to come clean and provide a detailed explanation of the reasons as to why Australia has been left out. To say that I myself (not to mention other Australian users) am throughly annoyed is an understatement. Nokia Belle has been advertised globally by Nokia that the N8-00 and other first gen Symbian^3 phones WILL get Nokia Belle; during the lead up time to this release, there was nowhere to be seen that Australia would not get Nokia Belle.
Right Nokia, now it's your turn to speak up please. And preferrably now, not next week.
Hello Nokia - anyone prepared to speak up yet??
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What About Nokia Belle For Nokia N8 ?
Product code 0599777 - Israel.
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hey. i hope someone can help me out here. when i search from my phone for an updated software it finds the update but tells me to use my computer. i connect my n8 on the pc, open the nokia suite and when i search for update it says No updates available.
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How did you gt this update. Its still not available for us .
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I live in Cyprus and it says is available but where is it? ;/
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I like it, too. However, this unit is a replacement for a nearly identical one which I shattered one bitterly cold day trying to slap some ice and snow off of it. The difference: the feeding ports of my former feeder were made of metal and unbreakable, while this unit has plastic feeding ports which will break. Maybe I read the description wrong, not noticing that the ports are plastic, I don't know. It does the job, however. The squirrells enjoy the seed tray, helping them maintain their footing while raiding the sunflower seeds so that is a plus...for them. All in all, it's a good unit, a bit overpriced, but aren't they all.
Easy to fill and is sturdy. The birds are lovin it. Sparkles in the sun and it looks quite attractive.
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