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Plum-Raspberry Ice
This prettily colored ice has a pleasant tartness and is a breeze to make.
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Diabetes appropriate | Low calorie | Low carbohydrate | Low cholesterol | Low saturated fat | Low sodium | Heart healthy | Healthy weight | Gluten free |View Our Nutrition Guidelines »
- 2 plums, peeled and chopped
- 1/3 cup dry white wine
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1/4 cup frozen apple-grape-raspberry concentrate, thawed
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 1/4 cup water
- Place all ingredients in a blender or food processor and puree until smooth. Freeze in an ice cream maker following manufacturer's instructions.
Per serving: 82 calories; 0 g fat (0 g sat, 0 g mono); 0 mg cholesterol; 17 g carbohydrates; 1 g protein; 0 g fiber; 11 mg sodium; 72 mg potassium.
Carbohydrate Servings: 1
Exchanges: 1 fruit
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The Insect Company - Oddities and rarities
Island Chronicles -- "Welcoming Dance,"
Karl Schroeder's Permanence wins the Aurora Award!
Permanence is Karl's second novel, and it's brilliant -- at its core is a massive, hard-sf conceit: that because tool-use expends more energy than adaptation (i.e., when confronted with a marsh, it's easier to be a marsh-bird than to figure out how to drain it), that over time, all the races of the universe will use genetic engineering to adapt themselves to their habitats and so become nonsentient. Layered on top of that are braided adventure stories, religious cults, and a kind of intellectual property imperialism driven by smart dust and twisted by lightspeed lags. This is the kind of book that changes you, and he deserved the hell out of this award.
Suburbia makes you fat
All other factors being equal, each extra degree of sprawl meant extra weight, less walking, and a little more high blood pressure, he concluded. Someone living in the most sprawling county - Geauga County outside Cleveland - would weigh 6.3 pounds more than if that same person lived in the most compact area, Manhattan.Link Discuss (via Futurismic)
Ping Pong in The Matrix
Female Baghdad blogger
The Myth: Iraqis, prior to occupation, lived in little beige tents set up on the sides of little dirt roads all over Baghdad. The men and boys would ride to school on their camels, donkeys and goats. These schools were larger versions of the home units and for every 100 students, there was one turban-wearing teacher who taught the boys rudimentary math (to count the flock) and reading. Girls and women sat at home, in black burkas, making bread and taking care of 10-12 children.Link Discuss (via William Gibson)
Teslar Watch: Tinfoil beanie for your wrist
"There is not a chance in the world that (these types of devices) will do anything but lighten your wallet," said John Moulder, a professor of radiation oncology at the Medical College of Wisconsin, who said he's seen a slew of products that claim to do the same thing, including radio-frequency-proof lingerie.Link Discuss
Harezi first developed the Teslar chip in 1986 to help people with extreme sensitivity to electricity, from televisions to vacuum cleaners. She said the "environmentally handicapped" people who wore the watch were able to resume their lives.
Sterling on Open Cultures
Logically - indeed, free-software geeks are the most logical hippies in the whole wide world - the revolution is at hand. Why should anybody pay for software? What do you get for your money besides shrink-wrap licenses, potential lawsuits, DRM cuffs around both wrists, and a cloud of viruses? "Property relations" are blocking social and technical progress. Secure computing and digital rights management are coercive regimes that would make George Orwell blush. The free market is a tissue of political fiction as brittle as an Eastern European regime. With open source code on tap, the software trade will collapse under its own weight.Link Discuss
Prisoners' Inventions: MacGuyver meets the prison system
Robert Anton Wilson for Governor
My party, the Guns and Dope Party, invites extremists of both right and left to unite behind our shared goals of:I haven't been this excited about politics since RU Sirius ran for President! Link Discuss
1. Get those pointy-headed Washington bureaucrats off our backs and off our fronts too!
2. Guns for everybody who wants them; no guns for those who don't want them
3. Drugs for everybody who wants them; no drugs for those who don't want them
4. Freedom of choice, free love,free speech, free Internet and free beer
5. California secession -- Keep the anti-gun and anti-dope fanatics on the Eastern side of the Rockies
6. Lotsa wild parties every night by gun-toting dopers
7. Animal protection -- Support your right to keep and arm bears
More position papers will follow; we know at least 69 good positions.
My WorldCon reading, tomorrow at 5PM
Trish gathered her staff in the board room and wrote the following in glowing letters on the wall with her fingertip, leaving the text in her expressive schoolmarm's handwriting rather than converting it to some sterile font: "First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win."Link Discuss
Her staff, all five of them, chuckled softly. "Recognize it?" she asked, looking round at them.
"Pee-Wee Herman?" said the grassroots guy, who was so young it ached to look at him, but who could fire a cannonload of email into any congressional office on 12 hours' notice. He never stopped joking.
The lawyer cocked an eyebrow at him and stroked her moustache, a distinctive gesture that you could see in any number of courtv archives of famous civil-rights battles, typically just before she unloaded both barrels at the jury-box and set one or another of her many precedents. "It's Martin Luther King, right?"
"Close," Trish said.
"Geronimo," guessed the paralegal, who probably wasn't going to work out after all, being something of a giant flake who spent more time on the phone to her girlfriend than filing papers and looking up precedents.
"Nope," Trish said, looking at the other two staffers -- the office manager and the media guy -- who shrugged and shook their heads. "It's Gandhi," she said.
They all went, "Ohhhh," except the grassroots guy, who crossed to the wall and used his fingertip to add, "And then they assassinate you."
"I'm too tough to die," the lawyer said. "And you're all too young. So I think we're safe."
Danny on the Beeb's Creative Archive
The BBC, in theory, shouldn't care how many times you share a copy of, say, Dixon of Dock Green. On the contrary, it should thank you. You're taking the hard work - and cost - out of distributing the works you have already paid for with your licence fee. So not only does the BBC not need to care about Napster and other file-sharing systems - it can actively take advantage of them. Distributing content in this way does not reduce the BBC's income, but it can reduce its costs. Copy protection devices and clampdowns on internet copying just get in the way of the BBC's mission.Link Discuss
Of course, simply allowing anyone to download and copy the BBC's output has its problems. While broadcasts are free, the BBC makes money selling DVDs and tapes of its work, and reselling to other countries. Not a great deal of money - less than 5% of the £3bn it receives in licence fees - but some.
Fair and Balanced, the play
Fair & Balanced is a scathing satirical attack on Fox News Channel and its claim of ownership to the words "fair and balanced." Playwright Brian Flemming, who co-wrote the Off-Broadway smash hit Bat Boy: The Musical, penned this dark one-act comedy in which "Fair" and "Balanced" are characters—they are prisoners held in an underground dungeon, and every night at 8 p.m. a foul character named "Bill O'Reilly" comes down into the dungeon to torture them.Link Discuss (Thanks, Brian!)
2D animation's last days at Disney
Eisner has expressed interest in reanimating Disney's classic 2-D features in 3-D.Link Discuss (Thanks, Greg!)
A computerized Pinocchio, anyone? (In fact, much of the 3-D character animation for Walt Disney World's upcoming Mickey's PhilharMagic was so bad—in particular Ariel from The Little Mermaid—it had to be reanimated by 2-D animators, then transferred into the computer.) The tens of millions of dollars lost on Treasure Planet are fresh on Disney's mind—and executives are bracing for the worst with next spring's Home on the Range.
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God began our conversation by clearing something up. Some of George W. Bush's friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial. But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. "THAT WORKED FOR EVERYONE ELSE," God said.Link Discuss
"What about Tilden?" I asked, referring to the 1876 debacle.
"QUIET!" God snapped. God was angry.
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Sequel to Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom on Salon
I don't really write sequels. More than half the point of writing sf is thinking up new worlds, and sequels involve revisiting places I've left behind.
But this is different. A couple years ago, right after I sold the novel, I wrote a short-story set in the same world as the book, but a century or more later. It's a parable about Napster, and it's called Truncat, and today, Salon has published it. And you can read it for free.
First, Adrian got on the subway, opting to go deadhead for a faster load-time. He stepped into the sparkling cryochamber at the Downsview Station, conjured a helmet-mounted display (HUD) against his field of vision, and granted permission to be frozen. The next thing he knew, he was thawing out on the Union Station platform, pressed belly-to-butt with a couple thousand other commuters who'd opted for the same treatment. In India, where this kind of convenience-freezing was even more prevalent, Mohan had observed that the reason their generation was small for their age was that they spent so much of it in cold-sleep, conserving space in transit. Adrian might've been 18, but he figured that he'd spent at least one cumulative year frozen.Link Discuss
Adrian shuffled through the crowd and up the stairs to the steady-temp surface, peeling off the routing sticker that the cryo had stuck to his shoulder. His tummy was still rumbling, so he popped the sticker in his mouth and chewed until it had dissolved, savoring the steaky flavor and the burst of calories. The guy who'd figured out edible routing tags had Whuffie to spare: Adrian's mom knew someone who knew someone who knew him, and she said that he had an entire subaquatic palace to rattle around in.
A clamor of swallowing noises filled his ears, as the crowd subvocalized, carrying on conversations with distant friends. Adrian basked in the warm, simulated sunlight emanating from the dome overhead. He was going outside of the dome in a matter of minutes, and he had a sneaking suspicion that he was going to be plenty cold soon enough. He patted his little rucksack and made sure he had his cowl with him.
Emerging Tech 3 call for participation
Interfaces and Services: Sherlock, Watson, and Dashboard; micro-content viewers and RSS; laptop, palmtop, hiptop, and cellphone interfaces; web services.Link Discuss
Social Software Software: for describing and exploring social connections, FOAF (friend-of-a-friend networks), Flash Mobs, MeetUp, and related applications.
Untethered: WiFi, Bluetooth, and cellular networks; Rendezvous, SMS, and ad hoc networking; Symbian and J2ME mobile development environments.
Location: GPS/GIS technologies and devices, location based services, navigational devices, geospacial annotation tools, and visualization software.
Hardware Hardware: hacks and mobile devices, sensor arrays, RFID tags, TinyOS, and sub-micro computing.
Business Models: Who is putting a stake in the ground and attempting to build the new applications, network, and online culture -- and how are they doing it?
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Lam Vi Quoc negotiates his scooter through Ho Chi Minh City's relentless stream of pedal traffic and hangs a right down a crowded alley. He climbs the steep wooden stairs of the tiny house he shares with nine family members, passing by his mother, who is stooped on the floor of the second level preparing lunch. He ascends another set of even steeper steps to the third level and settles on a stool at a small desk, pushing aside the rolled-up mat he sleeps on with one of his brothers. To the smell of a chicken roasting on a grill in the alley and the clang of the next-door neighbor's metalworking operation, Lam turns on his Pentium 4 PC, and soon the screen displays Lecture 2 of Laboratory in Software Engineering, a course taught each semester on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Here," he says, pointing at the screen. "This is where I got the idea to use decoupling as a way of integrating two programs."Link Discuss
CAPPSII relaunched -- who needs the Constitution when you're fightin' air terrorism?
CAPPS II testing has been restarted.Link Discuss
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Cheaper By the Dozen appreciated
My memories of "Cheaper by the Dozen" remained happy over the years, but it was with a measure of apprehension that I opened the book recently. The books of one's childhood rarely age well into one's late adulthood, no matter how affectionate (and dim) one's memories may be. Yes, I love C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower novels as much now as I did when I was a boy, but those are the rare exceptions; mostly the literary pleasures of childhood and adolescence are best left undisturbed in later years.Link Discuss (Thanks, Paul!)
So it is a joy to report that "Cheaper by the Dozen" still reads remarkably well. It is not a work of literature and no claims will be made for it as such. It is about American family life at a time (the 1910s and 1920s) now so impossibly distant that today's teenage reader may be unable to connect with it. Yet families are families, then as now, and I like to think that young readers would respond to the Gilbreth family's joys and sorrows just as I and millions of other, older readers have.
The prose in "Cheaper by the Dozen" is unadorned and matter of fact, and its organizational structure is a bit difficult to detect, but what matters most is that it is a touching family portrait that also happens to be very, very funny. Paterfamilias Gilbreth is, to paraphrase the Reader's Digest, one of the most unforgettable characters you'll ever meet. His wife was by any standards a remarkable woman, but in the book her role is mainly that of mother and helpmeet. Yes, at a time when a female college graduate was still something of a rarity, she accumulated a bunch of degrees -- when she and Frank married one newspaper wrote, "Although a graduate of the University of California, the bride is nonetheless an extremely attractive young woman" -- but in these pages the limelight only occasionally falls on her.
Wired News: Burning Man never gets old
"The important thing about Burning Man is that it is the most experiential phenomenon I can think of," says [Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder John Perry Barlow, who has been making the yearly pilgrimage since 1997]. "It can't be turned into data in any useful way. You can't informatize it by blogging it, filming it or taking pictures of it, because so much of it can't be translated into information."Link, Discuss
Burning Man volunteer Jim Graham isn't fazed when he hears the event derided by some as "Girls Gone Wild" with extra helpings of sand and drugs. "Any time someone makes that kind of generalization, I say 'Yeah! It's exactly like that,' and smile. In the beginning, I came for the spectacle. Now, I come back for the opportunity to interact with so many people who possess such mind-boggling creativity."
Sometimes first-time attendees get a little too mind-boggled. "One crew from Israel last year wanted to do a 24-hour falafel camp," Graham recalls. "I said, 'Guys, maybe you should just do it around dinnertime.' They became such a hit, they were all wiped out by the third day. It's still a temporary city of 30,000 in the middle of nowhere, so there are practical considerations. Bikes get stolen, people get in fights over how loud the trance music is, someone still has to coordinate port-a-potties. But it's like nothing else."
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Neal Stephenson in Wired
For the most part, Snow Crash turned out to be a failed prediction. People have shown limited interest in immersive 3-D technology, so I think it worked better as a novel than as a prognostication. But it provided a reasonable, coherent picture of a particular kind of entertainment technology. That sort of vision is valuable to engineers. Because of the way institutions work, an engineer ends up working on one part of a system but doesn't get to stand back and see the big picture. When engineering types speak highly of some science fiction writer, usually it's not because that person predicted the future. Rather, it's because he or she put together disparate ideas into a coherent vision that could be used as a road map by the people who are actually deploying such a technology.Link Discuss

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It was the morning alarm in his mobile phone that saved the life of a passenger in the luxury bus that caught fire in Mahbubnagar two days ago, killing 45 persons.
Hafeez set the alarm at 5 a.m. so that he could wake up for the morning prayer. "His mobile phone alarm rang and near simultaneously the bus also caught fire. He rose before the blaze engulfed the bus and jumped out. Since he was at seat No. 1, he could escape easily. The panicked passenger reportedly fled the spot, the police said.
Police on Thursday recovered a mangalasutra made of gold, a cross made of gold and six gold rings from the burnt bus.
Silver articles weighing nearly 12 kilos and another ingot of sliver weighing a kilo were also recovered from the spot. Blood samples of 41 members of the families of the victims were collected on Thursday for DNA profiling.
The blood sample of another person hailing from Rajasthan would be collected on Friday.
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Banana' and click on the name to find out.Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. ~George Eliot
July 6th, 2013 07:57 AM #8
Bloodrayne is a name that has been on the name cloud for awhile, probably the most of the more unusual names.Raquel-22 year old who loves names, books, and languages
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Yep, PPs have explained why. But it saddens me that ridiculous (Bloodrayne, Banana), made up (Jazzlyn) and old shorthand (Wm, Thos, Chas) names have made it into the NB database when there are many other names, usually ethnic (Welsh, Scottish, Cornish, Turkish etc), which are actually given to hundreds of children and they don't get a look in. This is why BtN is usually my go-to for names and name meanings :/
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- Jan 22, 2013Avoid solid food, stick to liquids preferably no fruit juices even. Herbal water is fine. There is not much fancy footwork in fasting.
There is no need for a guru to advise you on fasting. Fasting is pratised in various religions, in groups or singly. They are even practised by people who have rejected religion. It's good for the body and good for the spirit and you can do it without a guru and save a few bucks in the process.
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Mahesh Bhatt and his wife Soni Razdan will participate in the dance celebrity show, 'Nach Baliye'. As per report, the seventh season of the dance show will see the graceful couple hitting the dance floor. To be produced by producer Ekta Kapoor, the couple will feature on some episodes only.
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Soil mix for dracaena without perlite
Looking for a soil mix to plant my dracaena in that doesnt contain perlite. Any suggestions?
Hey Fandog,
It's difficult finding soils that don't contain Perlite. Of course, the two main soil sellers here are Miracle Gro, Hyponex,, and a few off-brands.
Hyponex has very little Perlite, if any. It's a rich, black soil, that actually needs additional mediums for drainage purposes.
Mind if I ask why you're looking for a non-perlite medium? If you'd rather not explain, it's okay. :)
Which Dracaena do you have? Toni
Fandog - Soils that support little to no perched water (water that won't drain from that soggy layer of soil at the bottom of the pot after a good watering) offer significantly facilitate your ability to offer your plants a root environment that allows the plant to grow to its potential. Soils that support significant amounts of perched water are always going to limit the plant's potential - it's unavoidable.
Since the volume of perched water a soil holds is closely correlated to the size of the particles that make up your soil, we can see that chunky soils that are comprised mainly of large particles and large air spaces, and contain few fine particles offer your plants the best opportunities to grow to their potential.
2 parts of screened pine bark
1 part of screened Turface or calcined DE
2 tsp garden lime/gallon of soil
would make an excellent soil. Here is what the pine bark should look like:
After it's made, the soil would look something like this:
except that where you see perlite, there would be Turface or DE in its place.
Trying to amend a soil primarily made of fine particles won't work. Your soil needs to be BASED on large particles, not on small particles. Even if you mixed an equal measure of perlite or other coarse material with peat or other water-retentive soil, the fine particles surround the larger particles, negating the effort insofar as aeration and drainage is concerned. Some materials, when added top soils, can reduce o/a water retention (like perlite), but unless perlite comprises >75% of the o/a soil mix, it is ineffectual at increasing drainage or aeration. To visualize this concept, think about how much aeration there is in a pint of BBs. Add a half pint of sand so the mix is 2 parts BBs and 1 part sand, and you've destroyed aeration and introduced a soggy layer of soil at the bottom of the jar (even if it had a hole in it). That's why you simply can't effectively amend soils comprised primarily of fine particles.
This is what I grow all my houseplants in.
It makes growing super easy, and you don't need to worry about over-watering or the several issues that come as baggage when using water-retentive soils.
Let me know if you're interested in learning more about soils and container growing in general. You can make some significant steps forward in a short time if you'd like to invest a little time to gain an understanding of a few simple concepts.
I read somwhere that perlite has flouride in it. I have a dracaena marginata that has spots on the leaves and brown tips and my water comes from a well so theres no chlorine or flouride. The cause is either a watering problem, too much sun or a disease. Its not that bad i just have to get to the bottom of this.
Im very interested. Should have paid more attention in my soil science class years ago that at the time i thought was boring. What are your thoughts on vermiculite? I did start using clay pots almost exclusively to improve aeration and drainage.
Here is an embedded link that will take you to a thread that gives a basic overview of what you can do to make growing a lot easier and avoid the common pitfalls that regularly bring growers to the forum with requests for help reversing the effects of mostly soil-related issues. Most issues can be traced back to an inappropriate soil that has left plants weakened and vulnerable, even to things like insects, diseases, and spoiled foliage. If you can get the soil right and supply light intensity that suits the plant, you're over the hump and on the downhill side.
After getting a look at the basics and a feel for the direction I would nudge you in, you can follow this embedded link to a thread that goes into much greater detail that should help you gain an understanding of the concept that governs things like aeration, drainage, and water retention. Gaining that understanding almost certainly represents the largest single step forward a container gardener can take at any one time. A healthy root system is an essential prerequisite to a healthy plant because a healthy plant is impossible w/o a healthy root system.
Have fun, and ask lots of questions. There are plenty of growers who will be willing to help you, after already having embraced the concept and put it to work for themselves.
Have a good weekend.
I bought a couple of small bags of vermiculite about 20 years ago. I still have all but 1 or 2 small scoops of it left (that's all I've used of it in 20 years). In most soils, vermiculite increases water retention, and most growers using premade soils that are based on peat, compost, composted forest products, or other similar very small particles and come from a bag 'ready to use', already have much more inherent water retention to deal with than plants prefer.
Technically, you can't improve drainage or aeration by changing pot materials from say plastic to clay. You do potentially improve soil gas exchange, which is a significant plus, and which also helps the soil to dry down faster, which is also a plus. Drainage and aeration are most affected by the sizes and the gradient mix of the sizes of the soil particles.
Perlite's fluoride content IS a consideration, but its impact on sensitive plants can be reduced considerably by screening out the fines (over aluminum insect screening) and thoroughly rinsing the perlite before using it. Commercial growers limit the effects of fluoridic compounds in part by making sure media pH is >6.5 to limit its solubility, and by keeping ambient (and thus soil) temperatures below 90*. The higher temperatures increase transpiration rates, and in doing so increase the uptake of potentially toxic compounds.
More often than not, fluoridic compounds are blamed for what more rightly should be laid at the feet of EC/TDS (fertility or dissolved solids levels) levels that are higher than the plant favors (or even boron toxicity). MOST often, these unfavorably high levels are the result of using soils that can't be watered properly w/o risking excessive saturation of the soil and its effect on root function. Watering in sips to guard against a soggy soil leaves the grower in a predicament. Do I water correctly (to flush accumulating salts from the soil) and risk impaired root function or root rot setting in, or do I water in little sips to avoid the root issues and suffer the steady build-up of salts that are very often the real culprit as being causal of spoiled foliage.
You can bring along nice looking plants by using soils that allow you to water freely at will (to regularly flush the soil of accumulating salts) with no concern for adverse effects on root function, and by fertilizing frequently at low doses to keep fertility levels low.


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In our TRANSFORM e-magazine series we focus on the different needs of different vertical industries, like Government and E-Health for the first two issues, and now the media sector for the third installment.
This third issue will be headlined by an interview with the technology leadership team of the Guardian Newspaper in the UK, the guys powering their very popular online site. We`ll profile their adoption of and future strategy for Cloud.
What this highlights is that although these are very different industries, at the computing layer they have pretty common requirements and benefits they can enjoy from Cloud systems.
Adaptability is one critical benefit, the 'elastic' nature of Cloud services meaning their underlying supply of infrastructure can scale up and down dynamically in response to demand. This is just the first small step of increasingly autonomic systems, a key evolutionary factor for innovators to tap into.
The Digital Economy – Enabling Smart Content
The approach I have in mind for the CCN to achieve it`s goals, for Canada to become a world leader in the global field of Cloud Computing is quite simple, and it reinforces the role these IT evolutions will play in setting a Digital Economy strategy.
This is based on identifying the major trends driving the tech industry globally, like Cloud but also key areas like the Semantic Web and also AI (Artificial Intelligence), and understand how we might localize related innovation projects here.
One key foundation for a Digital Economy strategy is of course the Digital Media industry.
For example this Digital Economy response from Microsoft covers the foundations of infrastructure, skills and also key areas like copyright, the mix of tools and policies needed to enable Canadians to produce and participate in more online content and transactions.
Similarly while we are still waiting for the government to publish a formal Digital Economy strategy it's worthwhile to note that other public sector bodies have already done so, as well as their being various industry experts.
Most notably the Cultural Human Resources Council produced this Technology Roadmap to help develop a skills initiative in this sector. I believe it mostly went ignored.
Naturally it has a big focus on skills development but there is also some pretty potent technology ideas in there, including 'Virtual Commercialization Institutes' and micro-payment commerce systems.
The Singularity: The Smart Cloud is Out to Get You
The role of Cloud Computing, and the future direction of its evolution, can be seen in one way by how it will support and enable these trends, in particular how it will become "smarter".
Google has recognized this trend and is growing their ambitions for the role they will play in this evolution, recruiting world renowned Artificial Intelligence futurist Ray Kurzweil, who plans to create a mind at Google.
The Singularity is the name given to the idea of the emergence of a self-aware AI and has been a popular topic for some years now. Indeed it was ten years ago I suggested it was the ultimate conclusion to where Cloud is headed, although hopefully we won't see this include the launch of Skynet… wait, why is my toaster eyeing me like that..
These may seem fanciful notions but actually the application of AI principles to IT infrastructure and e-business applications is a practical science and is going to be a massive, massive growth market, and the potential for it demonstrated by how it will be applied at multiple layers: Content, applications and infrastructure.
For example "smart content" – In this web 2.0 era an article we publish may find itself syndicated between many different web sites. How might it adapt as it finds itself in different contexts, perhaps showing different ads and feeding these revenues back to the original author.
Smart agents will become very popular in e-commerce, where they can do your online shopping comparisons for you, and at the infrastructure layer they will have a key role to play in the evolution of 'Cloud Service Brokerage'. Indeed agents function exactly as brokers, and so we'll see them becoming a core component part of autonomic procurement across multiple Cloud providers.
These are the types of capabilities that will arise from foundations like a micro-payments and so the CHRC roadmap can be seen to be a really quite insightful piece that should be a very active resource helping support grow a Canadian tech industry.
The fact it's not is part of the challenge we're setting out to address via the CCN and our Digital Economy focus. We will also start to showcase leading innovators and Canadian start-ups and in this field, organized via our Smart Cloud tag, and use this as a catalyst to encourage related innovation collaborations across government, academia and business.
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Wearable technology was dominant at this year's International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) , and MWC was no exception to this trend. New versions of favorites, such as the Samsung Gear (three new products were released: the Gear 2, the Gear 2 Neo and the Gear Fit), shared the limelight with new wearables like Pebble Time Steel (the new premium version of the company's previously released smartwatch) and the LG Watch Urbane. The most dramatic difference at MWC was an emphasis on presenting wearables as fashion accessories and moving away from the original clunky technology associated with t...
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JACKSON — Attorney General Jim Hood may be busy today while House members debate a bill to limit his powers.
The House bumped up its meeting time from the usual 2 p.m. to 10 a.m., when Hood is likely to be arguing against former Gov. Haley Barbour's pardons at the state Supreme Court. The House doesn't plan to meet tomorrow, so the morning start could allow lawmakers to go home for the weekend earlier today, but Hood said the move is part of a campaign against him.
The bill would allow statewide elected officials and agency heads to hire attorneys with state money whenever they find Hood's office has a conflict or can't effectively represent them. It would mandate all contracts with outside lawyers worth $100,000 or more be posted.
Hood, the only elected statewide Democrat, says the bill is unconstitutional and driven by Republican partisanship.
House Speaker Philip Gunn, R-Clinton, the bill's primary sponsor, said yesterday that the measure is needed, and is not a punitive measure. "I do know the proposals presented by a number of people were much more severe than this," Gunn said.
Hood had asked House Judiciary A Committee chairman Mark Baker, R-Brandon, for a chance to speak against the bill before a House committee Tuesday, but Baker turned down Hood's request for a formal public hearing.
Hood said the earlier meeting time shows part of a continued effort to cut him out of debate.
"Now they do not want me to even be at the Capitol during the floor debate," he said in a statement. "It is clear that Chairman Baker and Speaker Gunn are afraid some of the new House members would not vote for the bill, if I got a chance to address them. They are afraid of having to debate me."
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BEIJING (AFP) - China should exact a "heavy price" from North Korea if it carries out a planned nuclear test, state-run media said on Wednesday, in an unusually strongly-worded call for action by Pyongyang's closest ally.
Beijing, which has stressed calm and restraint as its unpredictable neighbour prepares to conduct its third nuclear test, has tended to avoid punitive measures against it, partly for fear of provoking regional instability.
"If North Korea insists on a third nuclear test despite attempts to dissuade it, it must pay a heavy price. The assistance it will be able to receive from China should be reduced," the Global Times said in an editorial.
"China is never afraid of Pyongyang," it said. "If Pyongyang gets tough with China, China should strike back hard, even at the cost of deteriorating bilateral relations.
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Weirdly, no Seattle acts—out of the 47 booked—will be playing at this year's Pitchfork Music Festival, happening July 13-15 at Chicago's Union Park... although ex-Seattleite and Stranger Genius award recipient Lars Finberg will be playing with Thee Oh Sees on July 15. If you're a Seattle musician and feel slighted by this turn of events, vent in the comments section. If you don't give a fuck, feel good about yourself.
By the way, renowned Canadian electronic musician Tim Hecker, who's performing July 13, will be recording his next album in Seattle this summer with Master Musicians of Bukkake member Randall Dunn (who's also produced Sunn O))), Earth, Secret Chiefs 3, Cave Singers, and many others). This summit meeting of great sonic minds likely will yield something extraordinary.
Pitchfork Music Festival schedule after the cut.
FRIDAY, JULY 13 - gates at 3pm
8:30 (GREEN) Feist
8:20 (BLUE) Purity Ring
7:20 (RED) Dirty Projectors
7:15 (BLUE) Clams Casino
6:25 (GREEN) Big K.R.I.T.
6:15 (BLUE) Japandroids
5:30 (RED) A$AP Rocky
5:15 (BLUE) Tim Hecker
4:35 (GREEN) The Olivia Tremor Control
4:15 (BLUE) Willis Earl Beal
3:30 (RED) Lower Dens
3:20 (BLUE) Outer Minds
SATURDAY, JULY 14 - gates at 12pm
8:40 (BLUE) Grimes
8:30 (GREEN) Godspeed You! Black Emperor
7:40 (BLUE) Danny Brown
7:25 (RED) Hot Chip
6:45 (BLUE) Chromatics
6:15 (GREEN) Sleigh Bells
5:45 (BLUE) Schoolboy Q
5:15 (RED) Wild Flag
4:45 (BLUE) Nicolas Jaar
4:15 (GREEN) Flying Lotus
3:45 (BLUE) Youth Lagoon
3:20 (RED) Cults
2:50 (BLUE) Liturgy
2:30 (GREEN) Atlas Sound
1:55 (BLUE) Lotus Plaza
1:45 (RED) Cloud Nothings
1:00 (BLUE) The Atlas Moth
1:00 (GREEN) The Psychic Paramount
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7:40 (BLUE) The Field
7:25 (RED) Beach House
6:45 (BLUE) King Krule
6:15 (GREEN) AraabMuzik
5:45 (BLUE) Oneohtrix Point Never
5:15 (RED) Chavez
4:45 (BLUE) Kendrick Lamar
4:15 (GREEN) Real Estate
3:45 (BLUE) The Men
3:20 (RED) Ty Segall
2:50 (BLUE) Thee Oh Sees
2:30 (GREEN) Iceage
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NEW YORK (AP) - Nielsen says NBC can toast its final golden week of Olympics coverage, which again gave it the seven most-watched prime-time telecasts. And there was a bonus: An eighth broadcast from Sochi on Sunday also landed in last week's Top 10.
Monday was NBC's biggest night, seen by more than 23 million viewers to be the week's No. 1 program.
The least-followed night of coverage, Saturday, placed seventh for the week.
"Sochi Gold," aired prior to Sunday's closing ceremonies, ranked ninth.
In eighth place was AMC's "The Walking Dead," with 13 million viewers.
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DS12 and I are currently reading the 4th book - we really enjoy them. The first one was a little tough to get into and a little confusing at first. But, once we pushed back that, we really enjoyed them. Accurate on not, we love reading books that include our favorite vacation destination. We had a lot of fun on our 2010 vacation pretending that the dolls on Small World were coming to life and imaging the dungeons in Pirates. Silly, I know, but we had a good time.
That must be in one of the books I haven't read yet. That will sure confuse kids/adults if they think they can take the monorail to DHS.
For the people that don't like the Kingdom Keepers series have you read Peter and the Starcatchers? or the Never Land series?
I read the first one in a day, I enjoyed the whimsical idea and the fact they're running around the Magic Kingdom after dark. I tried to read it like the age group it was written for, but I honestly disliked the book with a passion.
I'm a cast member, I live and work in the Magic Kingdom. The whole time during the book the only thing I wanted to give him was a map. It was like he went to the parks on a vacation, thought it would be a great idea for a book and he took the keys to the kingdom tour, and then wrote the book. He seemed to forget about cast members until the last few chapters (he kept calling them employees or workers. No. Stop.). Then he described the tunnels. Okay fine, but the characters? Really? That made me want to cry. The trash system was accurate, except for the fact a human being can't fit into it, much less have a choreographed fight in it.
They take a monorail to DHS in the first book(I think), I couldn't figure out what they were doing until like a chapter later.
Lets just say I spent the whole book either angry or confused, but sadly I may read the rest just to see if they get better.
i am an avid reader of YA books, but I didn't enjoy this series. I want to try the first one agina, in case I'd like it better the second time.
I agree with the poster that wrote about Jim Dale. He is the reason I am hooked on audio books!! Love his voice!!!
I've only read the first book, but I absolutely love it!
I have read all four books and I love them. Hopping for a fifth one!
I'm 14 and I love disney. No matter how stupid it is for a high schooler to love it. I love the Kingdom Keepers. It takes all the parks in WDW except for the water parks and turn then in to more of a dream and magic. I have all four Kingdom Keepers' books and I read them over 15 times a year. I love seeing all the attractions that I love in the book. Their like hidden Mickey's. The 3rd one is the longest and coolest. I wished the 4th one was a little longer. Also when their'll a 5th one I hope it takes place on one of the cruise ships. I give it 5 out of 5 Mickeys.
Yeah i have read its fourth book and i I absolutely love it.
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Here are A Few Projects to Share
I dug out a few of my older class projects to share with y'all. I really need to get busy painting and sewing...craft show season is almost here and I have no inventory YIKES...I mainly have handmade purses and accessories in my booth but I always add some of my painted projects too :) Ohhh I painted the ornaments last week...wouldn't ya know I forgot to drill the holes first silly me :( I need to paint some more little ornaments as I plan to have a little tree in my booth again this year. It's been a few years since I've had it in there.
This is done on a piece of matte board. I couldn't find a wood surface the size of the pattern and didn't really want to spend an arm and leg to purchase one so while my friend and I were in and art supply store I noticed all sorts of these cut outs they had from cutting cutting mats for pictures. They were all colors, sizes, shapes and textures and VERY inexpensive. I thought...heck..no harm in trying it...I sealed it first then basecoated it. It took several coats, this one was originally brown and had almost a "canvas" texture. It worked really well. Only problem is finding a frame for it if that is what you want...or a hanger...i think you could glue one on...but I really like it on an easel. I also painted the back which took several coats because it's kind of plastic-y...but it could be spray painted. (again with the novel LOL)
I think this might have been the second project we painted after my friend and I joined the painting group. I did mine on a wooden plate there were lots of different surfaces chosen for this project.
One of the ladies in our group got these chairs for free. She donated one to each of us to paint on all we had to do was sand the back to prep them as they did have varnish on them...some people said they wanted to recover the seat so it would match the colors in the painting better...I don't know what I'll do...it is really in good condition.
These little guys were inspired by a free pattern from Susan Kelly's site. I reduced them a lot to fit on the little hearts and she used stencils for her snowflake background and the swirls in the scarfs...I didn't have any stencils like that (and especially any that small) so I just did it "my way".
That's it for now. Let's see what everyone else is working on or has done in the past. You know we LOVE looking :)
Happy Painting,
Thanks for posting pics of so many projects Diane. I'm smiling back at those cute little snowman expressions! ;o) Isn't it great that we can enlarge/reduce or even use just parts of patterns to create the design we need for our projects? You did that very well on these.
Your hummingbird and kitty are nice too--not easy projects for beginners either! Kudos to you for such a good painting job on your first projects.
Thanks Luvs, I love painting ornaments. I haven't painted any in some time but I think this year I will have a little tree full in my craft show booth again. They always did well for me. For the last several years a good seller has been painted ice skates...my best seller are two very primitive snowman designs. Nothing fancy but they are cute and can be kept up all through the winter since they are not "Christmas". I couldn't keep up with the orders for them for a while, but some other people are painting skates now so it is slowing down for me but I got a good 4 years out of it and am still doing ok. Thing for me is I like painting on the little skates and they are getting really hard to find. I have lots of the bigger ones.
The hummingbird and the kitty are NOT my favorites. They were class projects and while I have been painting for a LOT of years the kitty is my first "realistic" animal project. It is not a project I would pick on my own but I'll paint any project we do in class, I always learn something. The hummingbird was the same thing. One of the ladies wanted to paint that project...I didn't "love" the hummingbird in the picture when she showed it to us but hey...there is always something to learn...that's one reason I didn't want to spend a lot of money on a surface.
Happy Painting,
It's so wonderful that you are posting so many projects. I hope you get everthing ready for your craft show. I love the kitty. You captured that look, like he's watching something. I bet your ornaments will sell well at the show. I have several of Susan Kelly's books and she is a great artist. I always enjoy painting her patterns.
Your humming bird, chair and snowmen are also adorable so keep posting for us to enjoy. You paint on alot of different surfaces and I'm getting better at trying new surfaces. I have an old coffee pot that I'd like to paint something on but keep putting it off. I want to start on the old suitcase just need to take time. I'm never sure if I want flowers or a scene of something. Just call me the Procrastinator. haha
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Thanks Punk, I do paint on a lot of surfaces. I have and old coffee pot around here somewhere that I have an Annie and "friend" painted on. I'll try to dig that up and post it. I also have a teapot that I painted a winter scene on (I think...it's been so long since I've seen it) if I can find that one I'll post a picture of it too. I aslo did an old teapot that i kind of "winged" old salt box houses, sheep, trees...I sold that one on Ebay years ago but I might still have a picture of it somewhere. I love painting on "stuff" LOL I don't paint too many flowers. I have little suitcase that I painted a Pam Grady design on, that I keep my 100's floppy disks that have my pictures. My old Sony digital camera takes those disks and while I love that camera it sure is out of "style" now.
My motto is if it doesn't move paint it LOL
Happy Painting,
Hey, Punk, you can't be the Procrastinator--I already resemble that title! LOL My hardest part is deciding what to paint and what to paint it on. Once those parts of the decision are made, the rest is easy.
Diane, I'm glad you are doing well at your shows. I did one show with a friend but didn't really enjoy it. I got lots of nice compliments and some inquiries about special orders but I just never feel my painting is "professional" enough for selling! At the last craft show I attended, I was surprized to see lots of more primitive pieces again. Some are so simple and yet so darn cute. Be sure to let us know how your shows go and what kinds of items seem to be popular, okay?
Luvs, craft shows have slowed down soooo much. A few years ago I switched from selling my painted stuff to selling purses and accessories. About 2 years ago I got an embroidery machine so I started adding some of machine embroidery. Those have been my "main" booth set up for about 7 years now and I always have a few painted pieces like my skates and a few other things mixed in to my display. I would love to go back to full time painting for shows but there was so many decorative painters trying to sell their work not many of us were making money. If you had original designs you could do pretty well...but mostly I can't draw anything...I can adapt things but not draw from scratch...I need a pattern to start from. Now it is getting to be the same way with purses. When I first started I was the only purse vendor at most shows now there are a lot of us. I just hope the shows start doing well again. I can remember doing shows when you could make a living at it (and that's when I did painted wood, yard signs, small furniture like benches, shelving, etc...my husband used to cut all my wood for me and we were sooooo busy we used to have our lumber delivered to our home. Ahhhh to see those times again :) I'll try to keep my eyes open and let you know what is selling. I have a friend who sells painted items at shows, but I'm not sure how many shows she will be doing this year as her husband is not in good health.
Your work is certainly professional enough to sell. You never know what people are looking for. Often times a piece I don't like or don't think is well done will be one of the first to sell...one I think will sell first I still have at the end of the day.
Happy Painting,


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With Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kyle Busch officially settled in with new teams for next year, the two biggest pieces in the free-agent carousel have finally stepped off the merry-go-round. But just because those marquee names no longer appear on the market doesn't mean that Silly Season shows any signs of slowing down. There's still several top rides available for next year, including spots with Dale Earnhardt Inc., Richard Childress Racing, and the Wood Brothers, among others.
Someone needs to step in and fill each of those cars for 2008, making this the perfect time to be a driver scrambling to find a new home. Where will NASCAR's free agents end up? Let's open up the crystal ball and try to play matchmaker, hooking drivers up with a ride that seems to make sense for them:
J.J. Yeley. Part of NASCAR's sensational sophomore class of '06, Yeley hasn't done nearly as well as counterparts Denny Hamlin, Clint Bowyer and Martin Truex Jr. 64 starts into his Nextel Cup career, Yeley has just one top-5 finish to his credit -- second at Lowe's this May after a fuel mileage gamble -- and has struggled to put points on the board while driving the No. 18 Interstate Batteries Chevy. A driver known for wrecking race cars, Yeley's DNF's in that department have improved -- down from six to three this season -- but back-to-back accidents at Chicagoland and Indianapolis likely sealed his fate with Joe Gibbs Racing, leading to Kyle Busch's introduction as Yeley's replacement on Tuesday.
Still, the former USAC Silver Crown champ should be smiling about his future. He's still considered a wheelman with plenty of potential, and as the youngest experienced free agent left at 30-years-old, that gives Yeley a real advantage. Already, Childress, DEI, and Bill Davis Racing all have contacted his agent and expressed a strong desire for Yeley to join their programs, making the wounds of leaving one of NASCAR's top teams a little easier to handle.
In the end, the best fit for Yeley may be with an organization where he can grow outside of the spotlight. The legendary Wood Brothers team is looking for a younger driver they can build a future around, and although Yeley's been a Chevrolet man his whole career, moving from a high-powered three-car team to a smaller place where Yeley can hone his skills may be the best possible scenario for his future. The team also could likely offer a qualifying exemption for the first five races of '08, giving Yeley a sense of relief to start off next year, rather than a sense of panic with a new team.
Jeremy Mayfield. After the year Mayfield's had with Bill Davis Racing -- failing to qualify for 13 of 22 races -- it's easy to forget this veteran has two Chase appearances and five career victories to his credit. That makes the 38-year-old an appealing proposition, as he's proven through years in top-flight equipment with both Roger Penske and Ray Evernham that he can get the job done.
That type of veteran experience is exactly what DEI is looking for in the wake of being spurned by Kyle Busch. After being fairly convinced the 22-year-old was ready to fill out their roster, his "no" vote to join the four-car team leaves them back at square one, making the race to replace Dale Earnhardt Jr. a wide open affair. If Mayfield can check his attitude at the door -- he's been known to be a volatile personality at times -- he is the best possible option remaining, at least statistically, to sell to potential sponsors on the No. 8. There are other drivers he'll need to contend with -- the team is still trying hard to pry Greg Biffle from his Roush Racing contract -- but don't count Mayfield out to sneak through the back door at DEI, which would offer a much-needed bright spot to the nightmare of his current season.
Joe Nemechek. After years of bouncing from ride to ride, Nemechek felt like he had found a home with Ginn Racing -- formerly MB2 Motorsports -- where the 44-year-old had spent the last three-and-a-half years of a long, fruitful Cup career. So it had to be a bitter pill when the veteran was left on the street after a buyout ... er, merger of Ginn Racing with DEI. With four wins by way of four different car owners through the years -- Rick Hendrick among those on that list -- there's no question Nemechek is both talented and versatile enough to settle into any program still available. The problem simply is his age -- there aren't many sponsors out there willing and able to add a guy with just a handful of years left in his career.
Which brings us to the No. 36 Bill Davis Racing Toyota. With a sponsor in 360 OTC that was already content to associate with 38-year-old Mayfield, it's a team where a "young gun" isn't necessary for sponsorship dollars, and a program that's accustomed to hiring veterans to fill its seats. In addition, "Front Row" Joe is known to be a good qualifier, an appealing prospect for a program that has failed to make the first four races of the current season with Mayfield. With his team's future on the line, Davis is wary to make the same mistake twice -- making Nemechek's qualifying strength an attractive option for him for '08.
Kenny Wallace. The newest face on the free-agent playing field, Walla comes to the market after making just 10 of 22 races with the single-car No. 78 team, ending a streak in which he's missed eight of his last 10 attempts. One of the few drivers for whom age is never an issue, Wallace is a sponsor's dream -- there's a reason he won the fan vote for the Nextel All-Star Challenge this season -- as his comedic nature and warm personality have made him both an on-track favorite and on-air star over at the SPEED network.
But Wallace has struggled to be more than a super sub for the sport's top racing programs. Despite filling in at DEI, Roush Racing and Robert Yates Racing over the years, Wallace has just six top-5 finishes in 337 career starts to go along with a zero in the wins column.
But the stats sheet didn't stop fellow sponsor's dream Michael Waltrip from landing with powerhouse DEI in '01, and a similar opportunity could be waiting for Wallace. Richard Childress Racing is looking for someone to jump into its new fourth car and get the program up to speed quickly, and Wallace could be their man. In-house candidate Scott Wimmer and Yeley have been targeted as younger solutions, but Childress isn't beyond asking a veteran to be a part of his team, having recently asked Kenny's older brother Rusty if he would consider unretiring from his TV analyst role for next season. Although the older Wallace turned him down, there's still another guy with that same last name available; and after driving Childress' Busch Series car this season at Gateway, Wallace has a chance to put himself in play for the best ride of his Cup career.
Sterling Marlin. At 50-years-old and in the midst of his final full season on tour, the Tennessee driver was the second veteran cast aside during the DEI-Ginn Racing merger. Claiming he's wary of the way Darrell Waltrip ended his career driving second-rate equipment, the two-time Daytona 500 winner supposedly won't accept anything less than a top-notch ride in the series. However, that hasn't stopped him from stepping into the small-time No. 78 team for Bristol, opening up an opportunity that could see Marlin drive their car for several more races next season.
Looking ahead, Marlin would surely like the same type of situation Mark Martin has with DEI -- sharing a ride with an up-and-coming youngster, allowing him to pick and choose the races he wants to run in top-notch equipment. But with just one top-10 finish in his last 62 Cup starts, that type of scenario will be difficult to come by for Marlin -- and if he wants to keep racing on the Nextel Cup level, opportunities like the No. 78 are likely the best -- and only -- fit for his future.
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Question about Ficus elastica leaves
Doing my semi-weekly scale patrol on my Ficus I discovered spots around the base of the leaf, on the underside of the petiole. This has appeared on multiple leaves, and at first I thought the semi moist (to the touch when disturbed) and maybe a little sticky might have been some form of egg mass for something I'd not yet seem?
On closer inspection the spot (and there is only one per leave on the petiole underside) the spot wipes away and leaves a brighter green spot.
I tried inspecting with the web-microscope (cheesy Celestron I can't hate enough) to see if the weird spots contain individual eggs within it?
Or if they are some sort of petiole nectary I've not seen on a houseplant before (I beginning to suspect this option)?
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I was seduced by the 'quite' high-spec camera and bluetooth at a very reasonable price, but it was a very bad choice.
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3. You have to use one of the rediculous in-built 'text notification' tones and these last for several seconds. What's wrong with a simple 'bleep bleep'? I have it set to 'silent' when a text arrives because the tones are just embarrasing!
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