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Help with Go SMS Pro Blacklist
Friday 16th of December 2011
I put someone in the blacklist part of sms pro and now I want to go in and see if there are any messages and unblacklist. How do I do this?how to blacklist - Android Forums
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Please help with GO SMS Pro
Thursday 29th of March 2012
I am trying to accomplish two things with the settings in GO SMS Pro.1. I would like to change the notification icon that appears in the status bar when I have a new text. Is this possible? If so, step by step, where do I find this option?2. With use of the DIY theme I was able to customize my settings the way I prefer with the exception of changing the color of the conversation bubbles. Step by step, how do I access this setting so I can change the colors?Thanks!KC
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One X problem with GO SMS Pro
Saturday 12th of May 2012
Hey.I have HTC One X and im using Go SMS Pro as my standard message program, because i like that more then the stock sms on one x.But in the stock sms program, there's a picture of all of my contact's, but when i go into the Go SMS pro, there's no picture of my contact's.And i found out, that in my contact's there are 2 profiles under each person.- Google - FacebookAnd the Facebook get's the profile picture from the profil, and Google does not have a picture, so therefore it copies the picture from the Facebook.And the stock sms program can figure that out, but GO SMS pro, can't figure out taking the picture from the facebook profile, and take's the picture from the Google profile, with's means, no picture pop's up.So what do i do, to get a picture of my contacts in GO SMS pro ?.- I hope you're guys understood what im trying to say ./Morten
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Problems with Go SMS pro and my Samsung Galaxy Note 2
Friday 12th of April 2013
Hi everyone! I am new to the forum and wanted to say Hello and see if anyone has any fixes or advice about the problem I am currently having. I have read several posts related to this but not exactly the same. I had been using Go SMS pro on my note 2 for a LONG time with no issues concerning the group messaging capability. Actually it was the only messaging app I was able to get this to work on, but as of about 2 days ago this no longer works. I am getting individual texts responses to my group thread conversations. I have uninstalled and reinstalled, I have checked all the settings and nothing was changed. I just don't know what happened. Is anyone else experiencing this problem? I have e-mailed the go team to no avail, so I feel stuck. Please if I left out any information that could help let me know. Thanks.
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Issues with go sms pro and real group text messaging with iphones
Tuesday 18th of June 2013
I am starting to go crazy and my gf hates that I am wasting time with my stupid phone. Basically group MMS isint working or appears not to be working even after I have read several threads on settings and I am pretty sure I have everything set correctly. When someone sends a group mms message from an iphone I do not see one message that has all of the numbers of the people in the group like an iphone does, I see a single message from the person that origionally sent the message. I honestly cannot believe that you can't group mms message on an android phone and have it appear like a iphone so I must be doing something wrong. I just tryed using go sms pro but for some reason when a group message is sent from an iphone only the origional sender shows up, I do not get a list of all of the numbers in the group so I can't respond back to the group, I can only respond to the sender not the group and on top of that it always says downloading and either doesnt work or says it expired however some times I do get the message. Also, since the origional text was from an iphone and sent as a group
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Need help with go sms pro emoji
Thursday 08th of August 2013
I have google searched till my hair has fallen out for my problem guys so I appologize for asking as I know this has been beat to death. Problem is nothing that has worked for anyone else works for me. My wife and I have matching HTC droid phones with android 4.1 installed. Both have the latest Go sms app installed (5.21) as well as the go sms emoji plugin on both. When either of us sends the other one a text with emoji the emojis show up as question marks. Regular emoticons show up just fine. The emojis show up on the SENDERS phone just fine, but it is the person RECEIVING the text that cannot see them. I have tried settings/application settings/emoji encoding settings/ and tried both iphone/softbank as well as the go sms option. I always change each phone simultaneously. No matter which option is checked it makes no difference. I also read that emoji do not work with android. Can someone help?
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Help with Go sms pro
Saturday 31st of August 2013
I just found out that SlimBean does not send pictures at all. I searched here and XDA and all I've found is to use go sms pro. So I dl go sms pro from the app store and I feel real stupid because I can't figure out how to use the darn thing. It does not have any of my contacts from my phone and when I try and add a contact it does not save it. I tried sending a regular text and a mms but nothing goes through. I've searched here, XDA and google search for a how to but the ones I've seen show the contact list is updated already, I can't find a settings menu anywhere in go sms at all.
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help with Go SMS Pro
Tuesday 10th of September 2013
I was drawn to this app for use of the private box, but I'm having issues setting up individual notifications. It seems that the default message tones are overriding the individual notification setting. For example, for a private contact I've set up a custom notification icon, which works. And I've set up the ringtone for this private contact to be silent. These settings work fine when using the test feature. However, when I actually get a message from this private contact, the ringtone defaults to the standard whistle, instead of being silent as configured. Any suggestions?
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Why do incoming messages say they come from "unknown sender" with GO SMS Pro?
Tuesday 29th of October 2013
I've recently installed Go SMS Pro in my Samsung Galaxy S2 HD LTE. I can send messages to my contacts; however, when I receive messages from them, only "unknown sender" appears in my inbox. So I have no idea who the senders are.What should I do? Is there anything about Go SMS Pro settings that I should change or set? Please help. Thank you.
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Cannot send picture mms with Go sms Pro over LTE
Monday 20th of January 2014
ls480zuk on sprint. Go sms Pro v5.02(pre adds) and the latest v5.34 Can't send a picture mms (text) with go sms pro, but it will work with the stock messenger app. All I get is a forever blinking green arrow in go sms pro. This is by attaching the picture inside the go sms pro app. In go sms pro I tried manually entering the APN settings for MMC, MMS Proxy and MMS Port and did not make a difference. I am not sure what Profile Url or User Agent to enter in so I have not tried to modify those settings. HOWEVER, if I go into the phone settings and change mobile network mode from LTE/CDMA to just CDMA I am able to use send a picture mms with go sms pro. Anyone want to tackle this?
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Individual genome interpretation. We have a longstanding interest in personal genome interpretation1. In particular, we have been analyzing the genomes of newborns with undiagnosed disease, and using the sequencing information to correctly diagnose them—sometimes a decade before they would have received correct diagnoses otherwise (if ever)2. We are currently involved in an effort to explore whether genome sequencing at birth can be used as an effective means for newborn screening, supplementing or replacing the mass spectrometry methods currently to identify diseases that are not clinically evident but if untreated have led to severe consequences including death. We also organize the Critical Assessment of Genome Interpretation (CAGI) project3, which aims to establish and advance the state-of-the-art in genome interpretation. Our group also has an interest in genetic data sharing and privacy4.
Gene regulation by alternative splicing and nonsense-mediated mRNA decay. Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is a cellular RNA surveillance system that recognizes transcripts with premature termination codons and degrades them. We discovered large numbers of natural alternative splice forms that appear to be targets for NMD, and we have seen that this is a mode of gene regulation. All conserved members of the SR family of splice regulators have an unproductive alternative mRNA isoform targeted for NMD5. Strikingly, the splice pattern for each is conserved in mouse and always associated with an ultraconserved or highly-conserved region of perfect identity between human and mouse. Remarkably, this seems to have evolved independently in every one of the genes, suggesting that this is a natural mode of regulation. We are using RNA-Seq to explore the pervasiveness of NMD in numerous species6, and to understand its behavior, finding that 20% of expressed human genes make isoforms targeted for degradation. As part of a modENCODE consortium, we discovered the repertoire of targets for alternative splicing in the fly, as well as unexpected relationships between the development of fly and worm7-11. We are now detailing the evolution of this gene-expression regulation mechanism.
Prediction of protein function using Bayesian phylogenomics. We are awash in proteins discovered through high-throughput sequencing projects. As only a minuscule fraction of these have been experimentally characterized, computational methods are widely used for automated annotation. Unfortunately, these predictions have littered the databases with erroneous information, for a variety of reasons including the propagation of errors and the systematic flaws in BLAST and related methods. In collaboration with Michael Jordan's group, we have developed a statistical approach to predicting protein function that uses a protein family's phylogenetic tree, as the natural structure for representing protein relationships12. We overlay on this all known protein functions in the family. We use a model of function evolution to then infer the functions of all other protein functions. Even our initial implementations of this method, called SIFTER (Statistical Inference of Function Through Evolutionary Relationships) have performed better than other methods in widespread use. SIFTER was recently honored as the best-performing sequence-based method in the Critical Assessment of Function Annotation13. We are also experimentally validating the function predictions, with a focus on the Nudix family14. We are also involved in maintaining the SCOPe: Structural Classification of Proteins—extended database15, a key resource for understanding protein structure data. We analyze structural characterization efforts16.
Recent selected publications
1. Brenner SE. 2007. Common sense for our genomes. Nature 449:783-784. doi:10.1038/449783a
2. Mallott J, et al. 2013. Newborn screening for SCID identifies patients with ataxia telangiectasia. Journal of Clinical Immunology 33:540-549. doi:10.1007/s10875-012-9846-1 [PDF 445K]
3. Callaway E. 2010. Mutation-prediction software rewarded. Nature. published online. doi:10.1038/news.2010.679
4. Brenner SE. 2013. Be prepared for the big genome leak. Nature 498:139. doi:10.1038/498139a [original PDF .2M] [annotated PDF 1M] [archival commentary page]
5. Lareau LF, Inada M, Green RE, Wengrod JC, Brenner SE. 2007. Unproductive splicing of SR genes associated with highly conserved and ultraconserved DNA elements. Nature 446:926-929. doi:10.1038/nature05676 [PDF 1.3M]
6. Hansen KD, Lareau LF, Blanchette M, Green RE, Meng Q, Rehwinkel J, Gallusser FL, Izaurralde E, Rio DC, Dudoit S, Brenner SE. 2009. Genome-wide identification of alternative splice forms down-regulated by nonsense-mediated mRNA decay in Drosophila. PLoS Genetics 5:e1000525. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000525 [PDF .5M]
7. Gerstein M, et al. 2014. Comparative analysis of the transcriptome across distant species. Nature 512:445-448. doi:10.1038/nature13424 [PDF 4M]
8. Boyle A, et al. 2014. Comparative analysis of regulatory information and circuits across distant species. Nature 512:453-456. doi:10.1038/nature13668 [PDF 9.5M]
9. Li JJ, Huang H, Bickel PJ, Brenner SE. 2014. Comparison of D. melanogaster and C. elegans developmental stages, tissues, and cells by modENCODE RNA-seq data. Genome Research 24:1086-1101. doi:10.1101/gr.170100.113 [PDF 3.6M] [supplementary material 18M]
10. Graveley BR, Brooks AN, Carlson JW, Duff MO, Landolin J, Yang L, et al. 2011. The developmental transcriptome of Drosophila melanogaster. Nature 471:473-479. doi:10.1038/nature09715 [PDF 1.9M]
11. Brooks AN, Yang L, Duff MO, Hansen KD, Dudoit S, Brenner SE, Graveley BR. 2011. Conservation of an RNA regulatory map between Drosophila and mammals. Genome Research 21:193-202. doi:10.1101/gr.108662.110 [PDF .8M]
12. Engelhardt BE, Jordan MI, Srouji JR, Brenner SE. 2011. Genome-scale phylogenetic function annotation of large and diverse protein families.Genome Research 21:1969-1980. doi:10.1101/gr.104687.109 [PDF 1.2M]
13. Radivojac P, et al. 2013. A large-scale evaluation of computational protein function prediction. Nature Methods 10:221-227. doi:10.1038/nmeth.2340 [PDF 720K]
14. Xu A, Desai AM, Brenner SE, Kirsch JF. 2013. A continuous fluorescence assay for the characterization of Nudix hydrolases. Analytical Biochemistry 437:178-184. doi:10.1016/j.ab.2013.02.023 [PDF .6M]
15. Fox NK, Brenner SE, Chandonia JM. 2013. SCOPe: Structural Classification of Proteins—extended, integrating SCOP and ASTRAL data and classification of new structures. Nucleic Acids Research 42:D304-9. doi:10.1093/nar/gkt1240 [PDF 2.4M]
16. Chandonia JM, Brenner SE. 2006. The impact of structural genomics: expectations and outcomes. Science 311:347-351. doi:10.1126/science.1121018 [PDF .2M]
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Detritus, Edited by S.S. Michaels and Kate Jonez
I'm a big fan of anthologies, and always look forward to new ones. Anthologies were big in the 80s, and I have a bunch on my shelf. They seem to be making a comeback; I've been seeing a lot of calls for submissions for anthologies recently, and that's great.
Detritus is an okay anthology, not great. There are no bad stories; however, a lot of the tales are just run of the mill and don't stand out.
The first story, "Chewed Up," is by bizarro fiction writer Jeremy Shipp. As with most of the stories I've read by Jeremy, it's a little odd, a little creepy, but beautifully written. It seems like a typical love-gone-wrong story until the end when you realize it's a very sad tale.
"Ride," by Brent Michael Kelley is another story that leads you on a certain path then veers at the end. One of the shortest in the book, it's almost one of the most powerful.
"Mrs. Grainger's Animal Emporium" is the first story I've read by author Phil Hickes. Phil takes a typical story of retribution and karma and makes it interesting. The subject is nothing new, but still a fun little story to read.
If you enjoyed The Collector by John Fowles, you'll really like "Candy Lady" by Neil Davies. Reminiscent of the Fowles novel, "Candy Lady" delivers a nasty little twist at the end that really makes the story.
"Heroes and Villains" by Michael Montoure combines hoarding with comic books, and will make any fan boy collector cringe at the climax.
The last story, "The Room Beneath the Stairs" is by one of my favorite authors, Kealan Patrick Burke. Things aren't exactly as they seem at Grandma's house, and Andy, who is resentful and bored at having to visit his grandmother, will find out what creepy secret Grandma is hiding.
The rest of the stories (there are fifteen) are good, but again, they don't shine like the others. But if you collect anthologies like I do, you'll be glad it's on your shelf.
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The Rhode Island chapter sponsors an Evening Book Club, which meets throughout the year. Books are selected at the January meeting and the Book Club does not meet in August. All books are listed on the Calendar Information pages.
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The February 2012 book selection was The Lost Wife by Alyson Richman. While the Book Club was meeting here in RI, Marilyn was there, at Terezin, with 12 others from Temple Emanu-El. She wrote back to Rhode Island,
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We saw an art exhibit of drawings by all the artists that Alyson mentioned in "The Lost Wife".
Their talents were wonderful, and it's so awful that they were shipped out, instead of becoming famous. I read their names, and had the book with me. Alyson said that she was in a hair salon,
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Common sense serves here. In my home, my private office, or at a rural property under my control the firearms may be brought out, made safe, and discussed. The handgun I conceal as I go about my day outside my premises will remain concealed. They aren't to be regarded as objects to mull over. It doesn't matter whether it is at a local restaurant, gun shop, or curb side in the front seat of a vehicle.
I recently was involved in a concealed carry discussion over breakfast with some friends at a local restaurant, one of whom purchased a new Beretta 92 and was fretting about concealing it. I refrained from even positively answering whether I was carrying at that moment when I was asked to show them what I was carrying. In our small Texas town, it really wouldn't have been a big deal to unload a pistol and put it on the table for all to discuss it as nearly everyone around here has a gun of some sort on them or near by. They couldn't detect it and they didn't have any "need to know."
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Still, the e-reader promises "weeks" of battery life with video use, so that's a huge improvement over traditional screens. The Kyobo reader is a custom UI built on top Android 2.3, so we're keeping an eye out for when this thing gets rooted and loaded up with more games and such to really show off what the screen can do. The Kyobo is running on a 1 GHz Snapdragon S2, and has a 5.7" display at 1024x768. At a bit over $300, you're paying for the screen, and Qualcomm's new $1 billion Mirasol manufacturing plant.
We may not be too upset if this device doesn't make it west, but we're glad to see Mirasol hitting the market, and we'll be keeping an eye on future developments.
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1. AppleConspiracy (Posts: 636; Member since: 18 Oct 2011)
The colours look washed out probably because IMOD screens don't have traditional backlight using only reflected light instead, so when you think about RGB additive method of displaying colours without actually having backlight (that enables additive mode in the first place), but some other method, it seems possible that colours are washed out but it could also mean that colour reproduction seen on this promo video doesn't equal real-life perception.
2. som (Posts: 768; Member since: 10 Nov 2009)
Where are Apple inventions? may be just in papers and court rooms.
3. JGuinan007 (Posts: 641; Member since: 19 May 2011)
it does look washed out
4. christianqwerty (Posts: 460; Member since: 05 May 2011)
it is just me or does it look laggy...
5. AppleConspiracy (Posts: 636; Member since: 18 Oct 2011)
It's probably laggy but considering that this is non-backlight display and therefore direct competition to e-Ink screens, this is the huge improvement for e-reader purposes, miles ahead of e-Ink, enabling not just better color reproduction (as new e-ink generation also can), but actually has satisfactory refresh rate for multimedia content.
E-ink is good, but so slow that you cannot enjoy any content beyond static text and black and white photograph, so this is almost a revolution in that sense.
We could assume now that in couple of years e-readers will converge with tablets, making e-rader classification obsolete, already integrated in tablet concept.
6. UltraElectroMagneticPOP (Posts: 49; Member since: 30 Aug 2011)
"We could assume now that in couple of years e-readers will converge with tablets, making e-rader classification obsolete, already integrated in tablet concept."
I do believe in that. Just as how *with regards to majority of consumers*, pmp's and phones have converged.


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On the top left side of the keyboard are programmable macro keys and mode switch key to the right where you see the Aivia logo (which serves as a button).
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Penelope Cruz is reportedly signing on to co-star opposite Ben Stiller's dimwitted supermodel alter ego Derek Zoolander. Let's hope she has some flame retardant outfits just in case they recreate that memorable gas station scene. No details about her role has been released.
Though not confirmed, both Will Ferrell and Owen Wilson are rumored to reprise their roles as the sinister Mugatu and Zoolander's rival Hansel respectively. Justin Theroux, better known as Jennifer Aniston's handsome arm candy, wrote the script for Paramount Pictures.
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What's even better than 'blue steel' coming back is the fact Ferrell's fan favorite Mugatu is also part of the sequel. IMHO, he stole the show in the original. It'll be interesting to see if he'll still be the villain or reformed bad guy.
Justin Theroux is set to direct, with Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson returning as well. Let's hope Theroux and his massive anaconda make a cameo in the film. LOL. Are you excited about this news? Weigh in below and check out some of Mugatu's best scenes.
Ben Stiller is back for another tour as a museum security officer. Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb is the third entry in the popular franchise after 2009′s Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. Shawn Levy who directed the first two films also returns.
This time around, Stiller heads across the Pond to the British Museum's famed Egyptian wing to solve a deadly mystery. When the tablet is corroding, Larry Daley (Stiller), his son, Nick and Ahkmenrah travel to London to find Ahkmenrah's parents, as Ahkmenrah's father (Ben Kingsley) was the creator of the Tablet, where secrets will be unraveled.
Newcomers Rebel Wilson, Ben Kingsley, Dan Stevens and Rachael Harris join returning faves Robin Williams, Ricky Gervais, Steve Coogan and Patrick Gallagher. Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb opens in theaters on December 19. Check out the first trailer below.
Sounds like a wet dream come true.
NBC announced a new hour-long series titled Running Wild with Bear Grylls. The survival specialist will take celebrities into "remote and wild locations in the U.S. and around the world" for 48 hours. So far, the network has ordered six episodes.
"Running Wild allows viewers to see inside the hearts and minds of these guests in a very open, honest and vulnerable way, pushing them out of their comfort zones and seeing what they are like in real life when stripped of all the benefits of celebrity," Grylls said in a press release. "Ultimately, this show is about taking these stars on the adventure of a lifetime and being alongside them when they discover something new and empowering about themselves and their world. For me, that is always a privilege."
Hopefully for Bears, this new reality venture fares better than his last collaboration with NBC, Get Out Alive with Bear Grylls. While I extremely enjoyed that show, it was a little ratings challenged. Check out the cast below.
Keeping it real, I haven't enjoyed a Ben Stiller flick in years. I have a feeling that's all about to change with the 47-year-old's upcoming film, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Not only does he star in it, but he's also directing. The film is based on the 1939 James Thurber short story of the same name. It's set to arrive on Christmas Day.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty centers around Mitty (Stiller) a mild-mannered employee at LIFE magazine who dreams of becoming worthy of the periodical's pages. Joining Stiller in the film are Kristen Wiig, Sean Penn, Kathryn Hahn, Adam Scott and Shirley MacLaine.
It's been generating Oscar buzz and I can see why based on the film's first trailer. The gorgeous teaser puts a strong emphasis on the film's heart-soaring mood, no doubt partly due to Of Monsters and Men song "Dirty Paws" which scores the clip. Check out the stylish trailer below.
There used to be a time when Eddie Murphy and Adam Sandler could do no wrong at the box office. No matter what vehicle they starred in, it would undoubtedly become a bona fide blockbuster. But as they say, nothing lasts forever. The two veteran comedy actors find themselves on a list that no Hollywood actor wants to be on. To quote one of Murphy's movies, I'm sure he wants to be Trading Places with anyone else right now.
Also landing on the list are one-time rom-com queens Katherine Heigl and Sandra Bullock. All it takes is one box office bomb to bring down their dollar return average. Each lady had exactly that with One For The Money and All About Steve respectively. You can also add Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close to Bullock's less-than-stellar grosses. Find out below who ranks No. 1 on the list with a return of $2.30 for every dollar they were paid.
This coming January 2013 is Vanity Fair's first ever comedy issue and it's guest edited by Judd Apatow. For the issue, Apatow brought together his most talented friends and idols to contribute, write, and pose for a 19-page Mark Seliger portfolio. There are three different covers to this issue, with four different comedians looking fabulously funny on each. I've included all three of them below and you can vote for which one you like best.
This is only the third time since Graydon Carter became the editor of the magazine 20 years ago that someone has been a guest editor. The last guest editor was Bono when he guest-edited the Africa issue in July of 2007. Before that, Tom Ford guest-edited a Hollywood Portfolio in March of 2006. With the comedy genre booming these days, Carter felt like it was the perfect time for such an issue and that Judd Apatow was the perfect choice for the job.
In the first cover shown above, Jim Carrey is dressed up as Evel Knievel, Maya Rudolph is doing an ancient Egyptian like Steve Martin in his King Tut days, Will Ferrell is done up like a corny cowboy, and Amy Poehler as a 60s go-go girl. Check out the other two covers below, featuring comedians like Kristin Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, and more.
Stiller plays Evan, an overly enthusiastic Senior Manager at Costco who forms the watch group after his security guard is mysteriously murdered. Bob, an overly protective father who uses the watch to spy on his teenage daughter, is played by Vince Vaughn, who I had been getting a little sick of recently until I saw this film. He did a fantastic job and certainly got the most laughs out of me. Jonah Hill (before his weight re-gain) plays Franklin, who joins the watch after being rejected by the local police force.


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There's no one on the planet who hasn't been in a situation wherein tempers and/or emotions escalated – perhaps even dramatically – due to miscommunication or poor communication. When this has happened in your own life, you've likely looked back on it afterwards and wondered how things got so out of control. You might even have tried to determine who was to blame fr the bad communication , or perhaps you ended up pursuing avenues of explanation that resulted in self-doubt or justifications for the communication mishap and resulting behavior.
A colleague introduced me to three levels of communication that have served as a reminder that I shouldn't automatically accept everything I hear at face value. Given that I'd had a lifetime of communication by the time the colleague pointed this out, it's ironic that this idea actually sounded like a new piece of information to me. The three levels of communication explain even further why we shouldn't accept everything we hear at face value. Those levels are:
- Intention (what the person intends to say)
- Communication (what actually comes out of the person's mouth)
- Reception (how the listener interprets the message)
To better understand people's deeper motives when you're communicating, consider using the helpful tool known as Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication (NVC). Developed by 20th century American psychologist Marshall Rosenberg, NVC is a communication process that encourages its users to express needs and feelings rather than judgments and criticisms. This tool can help people to better understand his/her and others' motivations, express his/her needs more positively, and be more empathetic toward the needs and feelings of others.


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Mesa will begin testing the waters this month on a parks and recreation improvement package that could lead to the first major upgrades in the city since voters approved a bond package in 1996.
The plan involves parks various projects across the city including the historic Buckhorn Baths, expanding parks in east Mesa and making Riverview Park a signature park. The proposal could lead to Mesa asking voters to approve bonds this fall.
The proposals have traveled an unusual path before they go before residents starting May 9. Rather than being formulated by city employees, residents came up with the proposals through the city's iMesa initiative to identify transformative projects.
The city hasn't identified the cost to any of the projects, said Andrea Moore, a parks planning and development supervisor. Mesa first wants to hear more from residents to gauge their interest in the initial package.
"We're wanting to get comments on the concepts that are on paper, what people think about the specific amenities, whether those are things people support or whether they suggest changes," Moore said.
Mesa voters last approved bonds for park improvements in 1996. Voters rejected two separate bond questions in March and September of 2000. While voters passed a 2004 bond package for land acquisition, the city never went forward with the purchases.
The Mesa City Council has discussed the possibility of a November bond election, and is watching the meetings before deciding whether to place anything on the ballot.
Some city parks have had minor upgrades over the years, but Moore said the iMesa process showed residents are feeling a need to upgrade aging parks. She estimates it would take 5-7 years to complete whatever might be in a bond package. Some improvements would likely have to come in other phases and occur years later, she said.
"Considering how long it's been without a bond package like this, I don't think we'd be able to fund everything as a high priority," Moore said.
The proposals include developing an urban Riverview Park adjacent to the $99 million Chicago Cubs spring training complex that will open in 2014. Because the complex will take out park space developed with federal funds, the city is required to replace the space elsewhere in the city.
The required replacement would be developed on city-owned land at the northeast corner of Signal Butte and Elliot roads. The city envisions paths, soccer fields a dog park and other elements. The city is considering several other east Mesa parks.
The plan includes a regional aquatics center at Mesa High School, renovating Pioneer Park and creating a west Mesa regional sports complex at Kleinman park and Mesa Junior High. Also, the city is exploring an urban plaza north of City Hall, as well as irrigation, playground and lighting improvements elsewhere.
The projects are listed at www.mesaaz.gov/parksrec/Parks_Development.
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In October 2009, Chaosbahamut123 submitted the original version of Thawing Permafrost. It was a tangle of Author Avatars, Wish Fulfillment, and Plot Holes. The series spanned a total of two complete fics and one incomplete fic.Cut to April 2011, and Chaosbahamut123 (now Wandering Wordsmith) submits a rewrite of the original Thawing Permafrost. There were improvements. Lots of them.Set three years after Season I of the Rosario+Vampire manga, the plot centers around a new, British, human transfer student named Dan, who comes to Yokai Academy because he wants to study abroad and his parents refuse to fork out the money for an international college, and has no idea about the existence of monsters. There, he meets his homeroom teacher Mizore Shirayuki, who finds out that he is human after one lesson with him. After a meeting with the Chairman, Dan is offered the chance to return to the human world, or stay under Mizore's guardianship. He opts for the latter, and his adventures and mishaps snowball from there.Currently ongoing, the new series contains the old gang from Rosario+Vampire and a new cast, with some taken and developed from the original Thawing Permafrost. As of chapter thirty-five, the third story arc is finished, and Thawing Permafrost is moving into the final arc of the book.Thawing Permafrost can be found here, and a trope list in dire need of some love can be found below.
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The Cass County Board of Supervisors today (Wednesday), received a quarterly update from County Conservation Director Micah Lee. Lee said the weather has really cooperated, and allowed the Conservation Department staff to conduct a lot of tree and shrub, and other necessary cleanup work at the various county parks and recreational areas.
He said also, their Environmental Education Naturalist, Lora Schwendinger, has been busy during the past quarter. Lee says she's put on 96 programs and visited with 785 persons, from elementary-aged students, to senior citizens. Schwendinger has coordinated several workshops and events designed to educate the public about nature and the environment.
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Legislators are likely to engage in a spirited debate over what kind of bullets may be fired at doves. Last year, in uncharacteristically speedy fashion, lawmakers voted to legalize dove hunting in Iowa. But Senator Dick Dearden of Des Moines and others are upset with the Iowa Natural Resources Commission's decision to forbid hunters from using lead shot when firing at doves. "People talk about the legislature sneaking this (law) through and the reality is they snuck through that (restriction)," Dearden says. "They came through at the last minute and made the rule." The rule requires the use of steel shot for dove hunting, but a resolution that would nullify that rule is pending in both the Iowa House and the Iowa Senate. Representative Henry Rayhons, of Garner, stopped by a local gun shop last week and heard lots of complaints about steel shot.
"It's not as accurate," Rayhons says. "It's harder on the guns and it's darned near twice as expensive." Critics say animals, like ducks and eagles, die after eating the lead shot lying on the ground that didn't wind up in a bird. Dearden, a life-long hunter, accuses those opponents of using the lead-shot issue as a smoke-screen to try to derail the entire dove hunting law. "It's all about doves," Dearden says. "It has nothing to do with eagles or anything else." Dearden says he got plenty of hate mail after spearheading passage of the dove hunting law last year.
"My favorite was a woman who said: 'You're a sick old man. I hope you die while hunting mourning doves,'" Dearden says. "I emailed her back and said: 'So do I.'" Critics of lead shot say it's a danger to humans, too, who eat bird meat that's riddled with lead fragments. One study suggested lead particles have been found up to a foot and a half away, causing a greater risk of lead poisoning to humans than previously thought.
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U.S. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack is addressing concerns about his agency's plan to close 259 U-S-D-A offices, labs and other facilities. Vilsack, a former Iowa governor, told reporters in a teleconference Tuesday, that the closures are in response to Congressional budget cuts. The goal is to trim USDA expenses by $150 million a year. Vilsack said the plan involves $90 million in savings through reduced travel and supplies. The office and lab closures would account for the remaining $60 million in savings. Vilsack does not anticipate widespread layoffs as nearly 7,000 USDA employees took early retirement last year and many workers will be given the opportunity to transfer to other offices. Critics of the plan have raised concerns about the possible effect on food safety.
"I want to be very clear about this – the office closings we announced in the food safety area are about administrative personnel. They are not about inspectors," Vilsack said. "We did not deal with the inspector issue at all. We're still going to be in every single plant. The inspectors will continue to do the work that they're doing in those plants and it will have no impact whatsoever on our responsibility to ensure the safety of the food supply in the United States." In Iowa, the so-called "Blueprint for Stronger Service" would close three Farm Service Agency offices in Appanoose, Decatur and Union Counties. In addition, a Natural Resource Conservation Service office in Jefferson County would be shut down. Vilsack said public hearings will be held within 90 days in the counties where offices are to be closed.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture says it will close 259 domestic offices, labs and other facilities as part of an effort to save $150 million per year in its $145 billion budget. The plan announced Monday will affect the agency's Washington headquarters and operations in 46 states. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says in a statement that his agency must "be better stewards of the taxpayers' dollars." He says many of the offices being closed have few employees and are near other offices. It was not clear from the USDA announcement whether employees would be laid off or moved to other offices. The USDA has a broad array of programs, ranging from emergency aid for farms to grants for rural development and the program commonly known as food stamps.
Dogs would no longer be allowed in some rental cabins at Iowa state parks under a list of proposed changes compiled by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. Currently, there are no restrictions on pets in state park cabins. Sherry Arntzen, with the DNR, says they've seen an increase in complaints from renters about dogs and damage to cabins. One of the proposals would establish a nonrefundable "dog fee" for cabin or yurt renters who bring dogs.
"That would be charged for anybody who is renting one of the designated pet cabins," Arntzen said. "This would help offset the cost of extra cleaning time and materials we would need after a renter with pets vacated the cabin." The proposed fee would be $25 for a two-night stay or $50 for three or more nights. Other possible changes would set a limit of two dogs per cabin and require that dogs be put in a crate or kennel when left unattended inside the cabin or yurt. Arntzen said DNR staff would like to hear feedback from both dog owners and those renters who've raised concerns.
She notes some people have allergies or don't like the barking by dogs left unattended. "So what we're trying to do is talk with the public and see what people's feelings are. We'd like to be able to strike a balance between the two user groups that are either for it or against it," Arntzen said. Many states do not allow any pets in cabins. Dogs are currently allowed in all cabins or yurts located in 15 Iowa state parks. The proposed changes would designate some of those units as pet-free.
"We have some (parks) that would be 25-percent (dog friendly) and some at 100-percent," Arntzen said. "We want people to look at (the proposed changes) and give us their comments. Based on all of the comments we receive and additional discussion with our management team, we will look at whether or not we're going to go with what we're looking at or if we're going to modify it." The DNR has also proposed changes related to rental fees and damage deposits for state park lodge facilities. The deadline to submit comments about the proposals is January 23. A public hearing will also be held at a date yet to be determined. Arntzen said any changes wouldn't be enacted until sometime in 2013.
LINK to proposed rule changes and information on submitting comments: http://www.iowadnr.gov/Destinations/StateParksRecAreas/ProposedRuleChanges.aspx
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Most Iowans aren't complaining about the lack of snow, but weather watchers say there's rising concern about a drought in the coming months. Bryce Anderson, senior agriculture meteorologist at Data Transmission Network, says the La Nina weather pattern is bringing Iowa milder temperatures while keeping the arctic air far to the north. "The effect that we're going to see from that is a fairly dry situation through much of the wintertime," Anderson says. "We will have to watch for the possibility of severe weather becoming a little bit more of a feature as we go into the spring."
Anderson says the longer our region is lacking in significant moisture this winter, the greater the possibility of drought conditions a few months down the road. "There is some stage of drought going on over about the eastern third of Nebraska through the northwestern part of Iowa," he says. "If we don't get any moisture in late winter, then into early spring, we set ourselves up to be concerned about a drought problem going into the crop-planting season." That seems a bit unusual, considering we just came out of a year when we saw several months of severe flooding on the Missouri River. Anderson says the La Nina pattern can spark unstable weather conditions in the spring.
"La Nina can be a real storm producer and can contribute to severe weather occurrences being greater than average over the Midwest," he says. "That's going to be a feature we are going to be watching especially when we get into March and then into April as we start to change our seasons." Anderson says a dry spring could bring a vexing challenge to producers. He says we should enjoy the mild winter now and be ready for a dry, likely stormy, spring.
(Matt Kelley/Radio Iowa)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Cargill Inc. says it will invest $20 million to modernize its soybean crushing plant in Cedar Rapids and close a similar plant in Des Moines to optimize its operations in Iowa amid an overcapacity in soymeal production. The Minneapolis-based company says Thursday that 22 jobs will be eliminated when its Des Moines plant closes Feb. 4. Cargill will continue some business activities at its Des Moines site, including buying soybeans, and will still have 70 employees in the area.
Soymeal is used in livestock feeds and in some processed foods. Cargill says declining meat consumption is one of the reasons for its decision, saying it can be more competitive though its soybean crushing plants in Cedar Rapids, Sioux City and Iowa Falls.
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WOLCOTT — A Torrington man was arrested Wednesday after showing up at the Board of Education offices here and loudly complaining about its recent decision to allow a student to wear a shirt with an anti-gay expression on it, police said.
Derrell Rice, 69, of 116 Grove St. in Torrington, had originally voiced his concerns at Plymouth Center School on North Street, apparently thinking the decision had been made in that town, Wolcott Police Chief Edward Stephens said.
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