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Reconstruction and Clarification (Update)
Robert P. Imbelli October 6, 2013 - 7:52am
In my reflection on Pope Francis' interview with Father Spadaro, I remarked that it be best interpreted under the genre of "conversation," rather than "interview." The same was even more true of the "interview" with Signore Scalfari. But, even at its first appearance, I wondered how it had been recorded by Scalfari – did he bring an aide? (clearly not); did he use a recorder? (none was mentioned); is he adept at short hand? (even while discoursing on the "fabric of being").
Now it appears that it was not recorded at all, but reconstructed after the fact by the octagenarian (though very astute) editor.
John Page, in a comment below, called our attention to the new information. Since his comment is on an old post, I provide the link here.
I confess to finding the modus procedendi rather strange. Stranger still is that the "interview" with Scalfari is presented on the Vatican website under the category of "speeches!"
Actually less an "update" than a warm "recommendation." John Allen linked to an interview between Father Thomas Rosica and Monsignor Dario Viganò, the director of Vatican Television. The interview recounts the "transformation" that Viganò discerned in Francis after his moment of prayer before he went on to the Loggia.
But the whole interview is fascinating and Viganò speaks some of the purest Italian I'v heard in a long time (though Rosica is no slouch!). There are English subtitles.
Viganò speaks of the crucial role of images in filming Benedict's departure from the Vatican and Francis' appearance on the Loggia. At the very end he makes, in response to a question, an interesting comparison between the two Popes.
Here are twenty-seven very worthwhile minutes of breaking good.
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It's not really how you do an interview--especially when it's with the pope! But, while it appears Scalfari flubbed some details about Francis's post-election doubts, Vatican spokesman Frederico Lombardi, SJ, said that the pope "does not dispute" what appears in the interview. Indeed, Francis approved the text before it was published.
In other words, no one should dismiss the interview because Scalfari failed to record it as it occurred.
He should write written responses to presubmitted questions before the interview takes place, a la Nabokov.
I thought it was obvious that I was talking about Scalfari's method.
So what if Scalfari has an agenda? You don't? I don't? The pope is no fool.
I ignore lots of things, and can't respond to every comment on the blog.
"Cosi cambierò la chiesa" ("How I will change the church") was the headline, not a quote from the interview. It was presented as a summary of the pope's agenda as set out in the subsequent article, and used the very unfortunate Italian practice of using quotation marks. But those familiar with Italian journalism would know that was the case and would take it into account or explain that to readers.
Those familiar with the often deplorable practices of Italian journalism would also not be too shocked at Scalfari not using a recorder or taking notes and then presenting it as a Q&A in direct quotations. Still, this was an egregious, absurd way to conduct such an interview, even for La Repubblica. In the U.S., his career would have ended in ignominy. (Or he would become the next Bob Woodward.) In Italy he is the toast of the tabloids.
The other question of course is why no one on the pope's side recorded it!
Still, the pope did not dispute the contents of the interview, and the obvious problem with the post-election sequence of events was the focus of the Vatican's clarifications, not the other much more substantial comments. The pope's remarks to Scalfari were consistent with everything else he has said elsewhere.
So it is what it is. The reaction to all this by the church's Old Guard is fascinating: they are always trying to highlight ostensible problems in translation, relialibility, or downplay remarks as "off-the-cuff" and therefore almost inconsequential.
Bob, it seems to me that's where the real "hermeneutic of suspicion" seem to be directed these days -- toward the pope from the right.
I'd also note that I don't think Francis shares your suspicion about Scalfari (an avowed atheist). He seems eager to engage him, and trust in his good will. And it seemed to be returned in kind -- Scalfari reproduced (reconstructed) Francis' own arguments against his unbelief, and Scalfari ended with a very positive assessment of Francis.
It will be interesting to see if they meet again, as the pope indicated he wanted to do. This time with tape recorders I hope!
Tape recorders can destroy the dynamics and make the conversatio more stilted; people may be more self-conscious. As long as pope Francis reviewed it and approved it before publication, I don't think that it is problematic for the journalist to reconstruct the conversation from memory.
What concerns me more than Scalfari's method, questionable in itself, is his lack of disclosure. Based on all my years in journalism, he was duty-bound to make it crystal clear, front and center, that this was his "reconstruction." The fact that he did not more than calls into question the integrity of the "interview," it calls into question the integrity of the author. That's unfortunate.
"All my years in journalism." You said this once before, and when you were asked what kind of journalism, and where you practice it, you demurred, saying something like, "Oh, I didn't mean that I actually work in journalism." What gives?
Truman Capote claimed that he wrote all of the quotes in In Cold Blood from memory. Studs Terkel told all and sundry that his fumble-fingered efforts to set up his tape recorder -- usually requiring help from the interviewee -- loosened up both interviewer and the interviewee. I never used a tape recorder except at times when we planned to run the interview verbatim. Others I know use it whenever they can. Everyone has had the experience of getting the headline news from the interviewee after the interviewer closed his notebook.
Before we slam Italian journalistic practices, we should reflect on FoxNews and the seeping of its "techniques" into other U.S. media.
Tom Blackburn wrote, "Everyone has had the experience of getting the headline news from the interviewee after the interviewer closed his notebook."
Couldn't agree with you more.
So, I guess the "I" in "How I will change the church" referred to Scalfari, not Francis? How could we have been so obtuse as not to know of this "very unfortunate Italian practice?" Note to self: Read with askance anything written by an Italian not named Imbelli or Alighieri.
I ignore lots of things, and can't respond to every comment on the blog.
Oh, Grant, you're much too self-effacing. Or is it just my comments that always seem to arouse your interest so? As far as your question to me, I think if you read my comments again, very carefully, you'll have your answer. If not, let me know, and I will remove all trace of subtlety.
Abe, I would very much reject the idea of having the pope respond to presubmitted and vetted questions. B16 started doing that for his in-flight "press conferences," which were very deceptive in their practices. (Pretending to call on journalists who were in fact pre-selected and answering questions that reporter hadn't even submitted. Just weird.) Francis, like JP2 in the early days, seems to want real interaction which can produce genuine insights and conversation. The conservative allergy to this form of papal pronouncement I think stems from the high (nose-bleed) view of the papacy, where every utterance could be construed as infallible, and every utterance was therefore carefully vetted to sound like the catechism.
Claire: Using a tape recorder for a conversation like this is not unusual at all, and in fact is to be expected. When you are doing a reported Q&A with a world leader, you record it. Or at least you take notes. This isn't a matter of interviewing someone with no experience of media. The pope does not seem like one to be discomfited by the presence of a microphone. And they are much more discreet than the old days. Just turn on your smartphone!
BTW, John Allen has a similar take:
As does John Thavis.
The recent uproar over the so-called "mystical" experience of Pope Francis brought back to my mind the time when it was announced "Habemus papam" and Pope Francis first appeared on the balcony after he was elected. I remember being somewhat confused by his demeanor. After giving several very unobtrusive blessings to the crowd, he just stood there looking out at them for close to a minute. I wondered if he was convinced that he was up to the job. (I also thought: This is not going to be a very interesting papacy!!!) Then his face changed as he said to the crowd: "Buonasera." It was awesome.
A few minutes ago I went to the YouTube video of the event and saw a close-up of his face and, as he looked out at the crowd, I detected a calm, peaceful smile on his face that I had not noticed last March. Could this have been part of his mystical acceptance time?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J2uBWXoX68 (1:30)
After viewing this event again I have another opinion of his minute of silence before speaking to the crowd. Could it be that he was showing his respect for them?
Then I thought, "Hmm, I wonder what happened when Benedict was announced?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C41EYAxieK8 (7:22)
What a contrast!
Benedict came out on the balcony arms outstretched, big smile on his face, and then hands clasped and raised over his head in some sort of gesture that I cannot understand, most probably one that has meaning for the Italians. (Hopefully, not a victory gesture.) He continued those gestures for close to two minutes before speaking.
A great deal of human communication is only approximate, and we expect it to be that way.. If you ask me, "What time is dinner?" and I say, "6:15" you don't expect that answer to be exact. But making up things out of whole cloth is another matter. If you ask, "What's for dinner?" and I reply, "Soup, salad, steak, and chocolae mousse" knowing very well there is no dessert, then that is a another matter.
Lack of total accuracy is often good enough for normal conversation, but when the point of a sentence is not entirely consistent with the facts, or, worse, when the speaker invents something and offers it as fact, that't another matter. I must say that at times Pope Francis himself in an effort to make a point clearly sometimes seems to overstates the point. He ends up just being inconsistent or otherwise confusing.
If I understand this post correctly Eugenio Scalfari, a well-educated, highly experienced fellow who defines himself as an atheist in matters of formal religion and Pope Francis, sometimes referred to as the Vicar of Christ, had a conversation or interview or chat or something. And when it was done there seemed to be some ambiguity in the minds by those who were not in attendance concerning what they really meant or said or thought or something. Who could have seen that coming?
Two people who have both struggled mightily in their own ways to be responsible and truthful to themselves and the rest of us got together and talked. And their profoundly different views of the foundations of reality did not prevent them from chatting politely and usefully. They moved to the high ground together. Could there possibly be a pretty clear, useful lesson there rather than a source of confusion?
All onterviews should be like those of suspects in cop tv shows .... video-taped :)
What a shame. Now all those who are dedicated to parsing the Pope's words will be unable to do so. But all is not lost. They can simply deny that any of it is valid except for what they like, and attribute whatever they don't like to the villianous atheist interviewer!
As far as I am concerned, if Pope Francis does not contest this report of the interview, if he read it and approved it before it was published, that means it is a fair account of what was said.
Sure, one can say he didn't read it over carefully enough to spot a discrepency about what room he was in when he had that moment of "light" after the shock of being elected. But when someone reviews a transcript of a recording it's possible to miss things too. It's not fatal, or even very important what room he was in.
If he saw something that raised a red flag, that was a misinterpretation of what he really thinks, don't you think he would say so?
One could say he didn't speak carefully enough. But you could say that even if you had a recording. Those who do not like what the Pope says are already very busy telling the world that he really meant to say something else. They are not detained by his actual words. We have quite a bit on videotape, and that hasn't stopped people from spinning it away from what was said.
Also, not to put too fine a point on it, but recordings can be doctored, notes can be selective. Who is going to prove that he actually said those things in a one-to-one interview, with or without a recording? The only assurance you have is his own word, the Pope's word. That ought to be enough.
Sorry, but I think there are people (like the source that Grant linked to above) who are grasping at this opportunity to negate a very favorable public event, because it does not correspond to their own views of what the Pope should have said.
I feel we are getting the view of the Scribes in the Gospels who are scandalized by the freedom of Jesus in dealing directly with sinners and who are zealous over jots and tittles but have little care for the souls of those who are not reached by the prescriptions of the Law.
Get a recording! Prove that he said those things!
Oh, if only there was a videotape of the scene of the woman caught in adultery... we'd have found out that Jesus couldn't possibly have let her off like that!
Bob, I am grateful that you have not descended to the level of dismissing the interview.
And I like your suggestion that there might be a category of "Conversations."
Is "speeches" the same thing as "allocutions"? I believe the category of "allocution" is used as a grab bag for anything that doesn't fall into one of the other formal categories.
One more item, which I did not mention in my comment above. Usually, the details of time and place are objective anchors in facts that can be checked, and this helps us to be confident about the report. But recall that the item of factual discrepency arose when the Pope was describing a spiritual experience at a moment of extremely high emotional and spiritual intensity. He may be the one who didn't remember the details accurately.
Nevertheless, oral history, as we all know from Biblical studies, can succeed in passing on the most important content while not getting all "the facts" straight.
Rita, thank you for mentioning this - "Nevertheless, oral history, as we all know from Biblical studies, can succeed in passing on the most important content while not getting all "the facts" straight."
How interesting that so many are so very upset about the fact that the journalist reported from memory. He apparently got the meaning right, since the pope approved publication. I am wondering why this is - what so upsets those who are upset about this?
And how many of those who are upset about a small detail in an interview that was written by one of those who took part in the conversation (is that better than "interview"?) shortly after it took place are similarly upset about the possible inaccuracies in the gospels and letters of the New Testament. They report words attributed to Jesus as quotes and provide accounts of his actions and movements and companions. These "reports" were written decades after Jesus' death, by writers of whom at least one and perhaps more were not present at any of the events they reported on. At least one and maybe more of the evangelists did not personally know Jesus. Nor of course did Paul. I suspect that none of those who wrote the NT worked from transcripts or archived TV footage either.
I forgot to add that I have read that most modern biblical scholars do not believe that any of the evangelists could have known Jesus personally and that none of the stories in the gospels are eyewitness accounts. I am not a biblical scholar, so I cannot judge the accuracy of this claim, but it seems reasonable to me.
Bob, I still don't understand the concern over these papal remarks. The pope certainly seems to know what he is doing, he has delivered the remarks -- again and again, in his daily morning homilies, inflight press conferences, interviews like this one and the one with Civilta' Cattolica. These are the pope's words, his feelings, his beliefs. Why can't we take them at face value? Remarks from John Paul II and Benedict (who gave book-length interviews) were trumpeted and cited and no one seemed to have concerns like these.
I seriously doubt the pope is keeping himself up at night worrying about how to best categorize his interviews on the Vatican website--which is barely navigable.
Just wanted to pick up on, and develop, a point that's been made here.
Rita Ferrone said, "As far as I am concerned, if Pope Francis does not contest this report of the interview, if he read it and approved it before it was published, that means it is a fair account of what was said."
David Gibson wrote, "I still don't understand the concern over these papal remarks. The pope certainly seems to know what he is doing, he has delivered the remarks … again and again…"
And now a friend sends me this in an email: "L'Osservatore Romano re-printed the entire 'interview' or conversation between Scalfari and Francis. Now why would they do that if they didn't think it represented the pope's true thinking?"
Here's the link:
Msgr Dario Vigano indulges in the most saccharine mystificatory papolatry, feeding the faithful unnourishing bonbons.
Helen, I looked at much of the two links you posted -- the initial enthusiasm when Ratzinger's name was announced was much greater than that which greeted the unknown Bergoglio and the reason Ratzinger did not speak for so long was that the crowds were roaring (with help form the Communio e liberazione claque). The display of John Paul II's coat of arms made his entrance all the more spectacular, and of course he is a more handsome man than Bergoglio. He smiled more confidently then than at any subsequent moment in his 8 year pontificate.
That Cardinal Bergoglio immediately accepted his election to the papacy is from overwhelming evidence beyond dispute. That Dottor Eugenio Scalfari says otherwise seems to me more than just a trifling nuance. What else then did he possibly "mis-remember"? But I like Father Lombardi's approach, "This after all is'nt Denzinger-Schonmetzer."
But maybe Ludwig von Pastor! (That smile sign thing.)
Why wouldn't we think so already? Why do we have to hope so? The man has already proved himself a skilled communicator. How long will the brow-furrowers wonder whether this pope really knows what he's doing? How long will it be before he has "grown into" his office? He is not Benedict. While he sudied theology in Germany, Francis's way of thinking doesn't seem terribly Teutonic. When he has something he wants to communicate to his people, to the world, he doesn't feel the need to pass it through the relevent dicasteries.
Well..."out of care for the office." Never has so much been conveyed in so few words. You may be the master communicator here, Bob!
The fearfulness that Francis has generated in the church establishment is fascinating, but again, to be comparative, where was this hand-wringing and brow-furrowing when it came to Benedict, e.g.?
He never "grew into the office," but presided over a disastrous series of missteps, and then resigned. Yet the narrative line from the Old Guard is that he was undone by the media and others. Benedict's fan club defends Regensberg, which could be construed as a new form of papal communication, I suppose. A lecture from his old university post. And he wrote three books on the historical Jesus! What is that all about? He noted that they weren't magisterial pronouncements, but still -- he was the pope. And now, dressed as pope and bearing the title, he writes an open letter to an Italian atheist engaging him in verbal combat (and dialogue).
That is an entirely new form of papl or semi-papal communication. What weight to give it all? My answer is that I think we can figure it out pretty easily without the edifice of the church collpasing like a house of cards, as another well-known pope put it.
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Yes, indeed, the cheering of the crowd was much more exuberant for Benedict than for Francis. Name recognition does have its benefits.
I hope that I am not distracting from the discussion of the facts about the "mystical experience" of Francis but I am astounded when I view the tape of Benedict's introduction as pope to the people of Rome and the world. It is so out of character. He reminds me of a Kentucky Derby winner coming out of the starting gate. (Hope I am not offending Benedict lovers.)
By contrast the demeanor of Francis in the first few minutes before he spoke on the balcony was so profound and deeply personal. The facts about when or where he accepted his election may be a problem but I see his actions on the balcony as the time when it became a reality for him.
I gather that the emerging rule among the anti-brow-furrowers is that only journalists can judge journalism and if journalists declare "nihil obstat" in regard to Scalfari's formulations the rest of us should defer to their obviously superior professional judgment.
Patrick Molloy, nobody has said anything remotely like what you are claiming is the "emerging rule."
BTW, Sandro Magister, who has emerged as the paladin of the nervous Old Guard, reproduces -- with affirmation -- an essay by Pietro deMarco that has been circulating in recent days, a pointed critique of Francis' new form of "magisterium" by interview:
Me, I'm not so bothered by it, as you can tell from my comments above.
But I would also note that this is not just about the pope's remarks -- it is about his actions, his deeds. They reflect and complement each other. Just a day or two after releasing his "first" encyclical, written with Ratzinger, Francis traveled to the island of Lampedusa for that moving mass in memory of the refugees who are still being lost at sea. That was, poetically but rightly, called his true "first encyclical." And it was not about the words as much as the image of a pope going without fanfare to a remote island to celebrate Mass using the humblest vessels.
That was, poetically but rightly, called his true "first encyclical."
I would also recommend this CNA story on the history of papal interviews. Some very helpful background:
Vatican City, Oct 6, 2013 / 06:56 am (CNA/EWTN News).- While it has drawn much attention, the interview Pope Francis gave to the prominent Italian journalist Eugenio Scalfari is not the first of its kind in the history of the Church, but part of a tradition stretching back to "Good Pope John."
The first interview ever given by a Pope to a "secular" newspaper was that John XXIII gave to the prominent Italian journalist Indro Montanelli in 1959, published in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera on March 29 of that year.
It was Pope John XXIII himself who made the first move, asking his personal secretary Loris Capovilla to inform Corriere della Sera chief editor Mario Missiroli that he wanted to give an interview to a journalist "outside of the Catholic circle."
Missiroli asked Montanelli, his paper's most important columnist, to conduct the interview, preferring him to the official Vatican analyst Silvio Negro. Montanelli, an agnostic, was unfamiliar with the world of the Church, but nonetheless had a lively conversation with the Pope.
John XXIII spoke candidly at that time about some of his private opinions, including his low esteem for Pope Pius X, who had been canonized some years before. He also announced to Montanelli that he intended to call an ecumenical council, but the journalist did not grasp the importance of that detail, giving it little attention in his article.
John XXIII's successor, Pope Paul VI, gave an interview to the Italian Vaticanista Alberto Cavallari in 1965, which was published Oct. 4 of that year, again in Corriere della Sera.
Paul VI was very outspoken, addressing the problem of the lack of faith, explaining that "the need of the Church to open up" comes from the fact that "millions of people do belong to any religious faith anymore."
Bob, good news -- you don't need a label, just a diagnosis: PTSD, or Pope Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Pat Archbold has it, and explains the symptoms:
I worry not for the Church's survival or the Catholicity of the Pope, but for the souls entrusted to her care. I worry that the spirit of the times can overwhelm the truth contained in the Pope's rhetoric, even if that is not what he intended. It has happened before.
I worry because those most encouraged by the Pope's word and style are those most vehemently opposed to the Church and her mission. I worry that Pope Francis, like Pope Paul VI, may look back on his pontificate and wonder what went wrong.
I worry because the Pope's chosen methods of impromptu communication lends itself to use by the spirit of the times that seeks only justification of its contrary will. I worry that this can happen all over again. I worry because souls are at stake.
Creepy article, David. And creepy comments beneath.
Creepy? Right, Gerelyn, but more than that.
To use a legitimate disorder caused by such things as war experiences, rape, childhood abuse, to name a few causes as an analogy for Mr. Archbold's intense fear of what this pope is doing and saying about where our Church needs to be is unconscionable.
PTSD theapies usually involve finding ways of coping with the disorder. I suggest that he read or reread the Beatitiudes and Matthew 25:31-46 or, better yet, that he go and work in a soup kitchen.
Agree, Helen, that it's waay worse than creepy.
I just hope Francis is being well protected.
Calling the the pope's remarks in these interviews "careless" strikes me as rather bold, even if he did the human thing and admitted his imperfections.
Speaking truth to power, are we? Exhilarating. And yet, it's one thing to say, "I wish your formulations had been more precise," and quite another to say, "and therefore I deem them careless."
Could you put that into English, please?


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Over the period of few weeks I have been trying to play with asp.net 2.0 controls. As most of asp.net 2.0 beginners know there are almost no working examples and tutorials available for beta release and honestly I haven't found people working on asp.net 2.0 so far as much as I expected.
Now the real thing started when I decided to pick up some pace and started using Microsoft visual studio 2005 asp.net 2.0 instead of VS's prior version.Among so many new tools the one which I found really fascinating in asp.net 2.0 is TreeView control, the reason is; I have been creating TreeViews on JavaScript and had really tough time integrating them with server requests/responses.
Introduction of TreeView Control
A tree view control displays a hierarchical list of items using lines to connect related items in a hierarchy. Each item consists of a label and an optional bitmap. Windows Explorer uses a tree view control to display directories. It displays a tree structure, or menu, that users can traverse to get to different pages in your site. A node that contains child nodes can be expanded or collapsed by clicking on it.
You can use ASP.NET site Navigation features to provide a consistent way for users to navigate your site. A simple solution is to include hyperlinks that allow users to jump to other pages, presenting the hyperlinks in a list or a navigation menu. However, as your site grows, and as you move pages around in the site, it quickly becomes difficult to manage all of the links.
To create a consistent, easily managed navigation solution for your site, you can use ASP.NET site navigation TreeView control.Fig: 1.0
Note: you can manually populate this control by, 1) Clicking on TreeView control.2) Right click à Edit Nodes3) Under 'Nodes' heading there are two buttons, to add Parent and child nodes respectively.
Lets do some work now!
Now that we have pretty clear understanding of TreeView control, we will quickly move on and integrate this control with our site.
Step 1
Create two database tables ParentTable and ChildTable, having 2 columns each.
ParentTable à [ParentName , ParentId (as PK)]ChildTable à [ChildName , ParentId (as FK)]
Note: you can use any database, in our example we will use Microsoft SQL server.
Fig. 2.0
Step 2
Now that we have created our tables, open Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and create and Asp.net 2.0 WebForm.
Note: You can do this by clicking File menu and then New web site.While creating the new page do not uncheck Place code in separate file checkbox.
Step 3
Add the following LOC (Line of code) at the start of your programs along with other using keywords.
using System.Data.SqlClient;
Step 4
Place a TreeView control on your WebForm.
Note: Do not change its name, for simplicity we will use the default name TreeView1.
Now double click your page, point to Page_Load event and write fill_Tree();
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { fill_Tree(); }
Do not worry, we will use this function in next step.
Step 5
Now the real thing starts. In this step we will populate our TreeView1 control using our two tables ParentTable and ChildTable.Create a function fill_Tree()
void fill_Tree()
{/** Fill the treeview control Root Nodes From Parent Table* and child nodes from ChildTables*/
/** Create an SQL Connection to connect to you our database*/
SqlConnection SqlCon = new SqlConnection("server=D_hameed;uid=sa;pwd=airforce;database=test");
/** Query the database*/
SqlCommand SqlCmd = new SqlCommand("Select * from ParentTable",SqlCon);
/**Define and Populate the SQL DataReader*/
SqlDataReader Sdr = SqlCmd.ExecuteReader();
/** Dispose the SQL Command to release resources*/
SqlCmd.Dispose ();
/** Initialize the string ParentNode.* We are going to populate this string array with our ParentTable Records* and then we will use this string array to populate our TreeView1 Control with parent records*/
string[,] ParentNode = new string[100, 2];
/** Initialize an int variable from string array index*/
int count = 0;
/** Now populate the string array using our SQL Datareader Sdr.
* Please Correct Code Formatting if you are pasting this code in your application.*/
while (Sdr.Read()){ParentNode[count, 0] = Sdr.GetValue(Sdr.GetOrdinal("ParentID")).ToString();ParentNode[count++, 1] = Sdr.GetValue(Sdr.GetOrdinal("ParentName")).ToString();
/** Close the SQL datareader to release resources*/
/** Now once the array is filled with [Parentid,ParentName]* start a loop to find its child module.* We will use the same [count] variable to loop through ChildTable* to find out the number of child associated with ParentTable.*/
for (int loop = 0; loop < count; loop++)
/** First create a TreeView1 node with ParentName and than* add ChildName to that node*/
TreeNode root = new TreeNode(); root.Text = ParentNode[loop, 1]; root.Target = "_blank";
/** Give the url of your page*/
root.NavigateUrl = "mypage.aspx";
/** Now that we have [ParentId] in our array we can find out child modules
* Please Correct Code Formatting if you are pasting this code in your application.
SqlCommand Module_SqlCmd = new SqlCommand("Select * from ChildTable where ParentId =" + ParentNode[loop, 0], SqlCon);
SqlDataReader Module_Sdr = Module_SqlCmd.ExecuteReader();
while (Module_Sdr.Read()) {
// Add children module to the root node
TreeNode child = new TreeNode();
child.Text = Module_Sdr.GetValue(Module_Sdr.GetOrdinal("ChildName")).ToString();
child.Target = "_blank";
child.NavigateUrl = "your_page_Url.aspx";
// Add root node to TreeView TreeView1.Nodes.Add(root);
/** By Default, when you populate TreeView Control programmatically, it expends all nodes.*/ TreeView1.CollapseAll(); SqlCon.Close();
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As Vermonters grapple with the pros and cons of industrial wind power, many of their questions may be answered by studying the track record of northern New York wind projects.
This area has been host to hundreds of turbines for nearly five years. The wind resource of northern Vermont is very close to that of northern New York. We can certainly expect nearly the same performance from turbines in both locations. I have tracked four northern New York projects since their inception with a comprehensive study centered on the Noble Chateaugay project, which has 71 GE 1.5 SLE turbines and is capacity-rated at 106.5 megawatts. The capacity rating is the maximum sustained output of the project.
The actual annual output of the Chateaugay was only 23 megawatts, giving an efficiency (capacity factor ) of 21.6 percent. The other northern New York projects had similar capacity factors. This is quite far removed from the 30 percent to 35 percent commonly predicted by wind developers.
All northern New York wind projects had more than 1,200 hours annually that they produced no electricity at all (thats the equivalent of 50 24-hour days) or 14 percent of the time with zero generation. It appears wind developers notoriously inflate expected capacity factors to entice investors and increase chances of permitting approvals.
Both Vesta and GE turbines have a manufacturers life expectancy rating of 20 years, yet no northern New York wind project is on track to sell enough electricity in 20 years to pay for itself. There are few locations in the Northeast that have a sufficient wind resource to support a viable wind generating project; not only are area winds light compared to the Midwest, but they have a huge problem of being very intermittent.
Wind power can never supply a steady base-load power, nor can it supply reliable and predictable electricity in any amount. This is especially true in marginal wind areas like New York and Vermont. Large-scale power storage is only a future dream, so a huge influx of wind power only increases its inefficiency.
Vermonters must look carefully at the current rush to cover their ridgelines with giant industrial wind turbines. Wind advocates, including Gov. Peter Shumlin, claim Vermont must switch to wind power in order to avoid another Hurricane Irene.
If this wasnt so serious, it would be laughable. Irene originated in the Caribbean, so I find it hard to believe that a few wind turbines on Lowell Mountain can stop a major storm forming in the Caribbean. If storms of Irenes ilk are caused by climate change, then Vermonts electrical generation is a very minor concern, since 96 percent of its carbon dioxide is caused by heating and transportation. It might make more sense for Vermonters to concentrate on conservation and energy efficiency rather than destroy their ridgelines with inefficient wind turbines.
An in-depth study done by the prestigious Pacific Research Institute found that a wind project needed to have a capacity factor of 35 percent before it could erase its carbon footprint within its life expectancy. Manufacture, transport and construction of a wind project produces huge amounts of carbon dioxide emissions; for example, just moving a single turbine across northern New York produces nearly five tons of carbon dioxide.
Even if Vermont wind projects produced less emissions, little reduction would occur since most of Vermonts electricity comes from hydro and nuclear, both already emission free.
A driving force behind the Shumlin administrations strong support of wind power seems to be the desire to destroy Vermont Yankee. The fact of the matter is that it would take more than 1,000 3-megawatt wind turbines to produce the average output of Yankee, and that output would be erratic and unpredictable.
Since Vermont electrical generation produces an infinitesimal part of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions, there is no way they have any measurable effect on climate change.
The Lowell Mountain project is interesting in that Green Mountain Power claims its 21 three-megawatt turbines will produce an annual average of 20 megawatts. This would mean a capacity factor of approximately 32 percent, rather unbelievable for a Northeast installation. I fear the people of Vermont are being sold a bill of goods not unlike what happened in northern New York.
Other considerations in the northern New York wind projects were changes in the rural ambiance of the landscape, a major factor for Vermonters as ridgelines are scalped and bulldozed. Here in northern New York woodlot and meadow scenery gave way to an industrial array of 500-foot turbines. The landowners who were near turbine sites found their property values decreasing. Studies in New York, Texas, Wisconsin, the United Kingdom and Ontario all agree that sites in view of turbines less than a mile away lost 20 percent to 50 percent of their value once they were installed. Additionally, we have had cases of ill health caused by neighboring turbines, a condition known as wind turbine syndrome and verified by medical professionals worldwide. A further negative effect that wind developers in northern New York have generally denied is the death of birds and bats due to wind turbines. It has been alleged that some projects have employees who scour the areas around turbines and remove carcasses, thus literally knowing where the bodies are buried.
Vermonters should remember that once their ridgelines are dynamited, bulldozed and covered with giant wind turbines they will never be reclaimed.
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Maintenance, repair and operations[1] (MRO) or maintenance, repair, and overhaul involves fixing any sort of mechanical, plumbing or electrical device should it become out of order or broken (known as repair, unscheduled, or casualty maintenance). It also includes performing routine actions which keep the device in working order (known as scheduled maintenance) or prevent trouble from arising (preventive maintenance). MRO may be defined as, "All actions which have the objective of retaining or restoring an item in or to a state in which it can perform its required function. The actions include the combination of all technical and corresponding administrative, managerial, and supervision actions." [2]
MRO operations can be categorised by whether the product remains the property of the customer, i.e. a service is being offered, or whether the product is bought by the reprocessing organisation and sold to any customer wishing to make the purchase (Guadette, 2002). In the former case it may be a backshop operation within a larger organization or smaller operation.
The former of these represents a closed loop supply chain and usually has the scope of maintenance, repair or overhaul of the product. The latter of the categorisations is an open loop supply chain and is typified by refurbishment and remanufacture. The main characteristic of the closed loop system is that the demand for a product is matched with the supply of a used product. Neglecting asset write-offs and exceptional activities the total population of the product between the customer and the service provider remains constant.
In telecommunication, commercial real estate and engineering in general, the term maintenance has the following meanings:
- Any activity – such as tests, measurements, replacements, adjustments and repairs — intended to retain or restore a functional unit in or to a specified state in which the unit can perform its required functions.[3]
- For material — all action taken to retain material in a serviceable condition or to restore it to serviceability. It includes inspection, testing, servicing, classification as to serviceability, repair, rebuilding, and reclamation.[3]
- For material — all supply and repair action taken to keep a force in condition to carry out its mission.[3]
- For material — the routine recurring work required to keep a facility (plant, building, structure, ground facility, utility system, or other real property) in such condition that it may be continuously used, at its original or designed capacity and efficiency for its intended purpose.[3]
Manufacturers and Industrial Supply Companies often refer to MRO as opposed to Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM). OEM includes any activity related to the direct manufacture of goods, where MRO refers to any maintenance and repair activity to keep a manufacturing plant running.
Industrial supply companies can generally be sorted into two types:
- the ones who cater to the MRO market generally carry a broad range of items such as fasteners, conveyors, cleaning goods, plumbing, and tools to keep a plant running.
- OEM supply companies generally provide a smaller range of goods in much larger quantities with much lower prices, selling materials that will be regularly consumed in the manufacturing process to create the finished item.
Maintenance types[edit]
Generally speaking, there are three types of maintenance in use:
- Preventive maintenance, where equipment is maintained before break down occurs. This type of maintenance has many different variations and is subject of various researches to determine best and most efficient way to maintain equipment. Recent studies have shown that Preventive maintenance is effective in preventing age related failures of the equipment. For random failure patterns which amount to 80% of the failure patterns, condition monitoring proves to be effective.
- Operational maintenance, where equipment is maintained in using.
- Corrective maintenance, where equipment is maintained after break down. This maintenance is often most expensive because worn equipment can damage other parts and cause multiple damages.
Preventive maintenance[edit]
Preventive maintenance is maintenance performed in an attempt to avoid failures, unnecessary production loss and safety violations.
The effectiveness of a preventive maintenance schedule depends on the RCM analysis which it was based on, and the ground rules used for cost-effectivity.[4]
Corrective maintenance[edit]
Corrective maintenance is probably the most commonly used approach, but it is easy to see its limitations. When equipment fails, it often leads to downtime in production. In most cases, this is costly business. Also, if the equipment needs to be replaced, the cost of replacing it alone can be substantial. It is also important to consider health, safety and environment (HSE) issues related to malfunctioning equipment.
Corrective maintenance can be defined as the maintenance which is required when an item has failed or worn out, to bring it back to working order. Corrective maintenance is carried out on all items where the consequences of failure or wearing out are not significant and the cost of this maintenance is much greater than preventive maintenance.
Corrective maintenance is the program focused on the regular task that will maintain all the critical machinery and the system in optimum operating conditions. The major objectives of the program are to 1.Eliminating breakdown 2.Eliminating deviation 3.Eliminating unnecessary repairs 4.Optimize all the critical planned system
Reliability centered maintenance[edit]
Reliability centered maintenance is an engineering framework that enables the definition of a complete maintenance regime. It regards maintenance as the means to maintain the functions a user may require of machinery in a defined operating context. As a discipline it enables machinery stakeholders to monitor, assess, predict and generally understand the working of their physical assets. This is embodied in the initial part of the RCM process which is to identify the operating context of the machinery, and write a Failure Mode Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA). The second part of the analysis is to apply the "RCM logic", which helps determine the appropriate maintenance tasks for the identified failure modes in the FMECA. Once the logic is complete for all elements in the FMECA, the resulting list of maintenance is "packaged", so that the periodicities of the tasks are rationalised to be called up in work packages; it is important not to destroy the applicability of maintenance in this phase. Lastly, RCM is kept live throughout the "in-service" life of machinery, where the effectiveness of the maintenance is kept under constant review and adjusted in light of the experience gained.
MRO software[edit]
In many organizations because of the number of devices or products that need to be maintained or the complexity of systems, there is a need to manage the information with software packages. This is particularly the case in aerospace (e.g. airline fleets), military installations, large plants (e.g. manufacturing, power generation, petrochemical) and ships.
These software tools help engineers and technicians in increasing the system availability and reducing costs and repair times as well as reducing material supply time and increasing material availability by improving supply chain communication.
As MRO involves working with an organization's products, resources, suppliers and customers, MRO packages have to interface with many enterprise business software systems (PLM, EAM, ERP, SCM, CRM).
One of the functions of such software is the configuration of bills of materials or BOMs, taking the component parts list from engineering (eBOM) and manufacturing (mBOM) and updating it from "as designed" through "as built", "as delivered", "as maintained", and "as used".
Another function is project planning logistics, for example identifying the critical path on the list of tasks to be carried out (inspection, diagnosis, locate/order parts and service) to calculate turnaround times (TAT).
Other tasks that software can perform:
- Planning operations,
- Managing execution of events,
- Management of assets (parts, tools and equipment inventories),
- Knowledge-base data on:
- Maintenance service history,
- Serial numbered parts,
- Reliability data: MTBF, MTTB (mean time to breakdown), MTBR (mean time between removals),
- Maintenance and repair documentation and best practices,
- Warranty/guarantee documents.
Many of these tasks are addressed in computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS). Data standards have been developed around these activities, most notably EAMXML and MIMOSA.
Goods and services[edit]
MRO goods are typically defined as any goods used in the creation of a product but not in the final product itself. Examples include:
- The machinery used to make a product
- Spare parts for the machinery that creates the product
- Items used to maintain the facility in which the product is made
See also[edit]
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Look up repair or revamping in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
- Aircraft maintenance
- Auto maintenance
- Darning
- Delta TechOps
- Design for repair
- Logistics center
- Maintainability
- Product Lifecycle Management
- Reliability centered maintenance (RCM)
- Reliability engineering
- Remanufacturing
- Scheduled maintenance
- Total productive maintenance
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- ^ European Federation of National Maintenance Societies
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Apple supposedly cuts orders for iPhone 5 components
Apple has supposedly cut orders for iPhone 5 components, including screens by roughly half. This according to two people familiar with the matter, one of whom also said other component orders had also been cut. Apple apparently notified the suppliers last month, (both?) of the people said. Juro Osawa of the Wall Street Journal claims that it's because people aren't buying enough iPhones.
The move indicates that sales of the new iPhone haven't been as strong as previously anticipated and demand may be waning. It comes as the company has been facing greater challenges from Samsung Electronics Co. and other makers of smartphones powered by Google Inc.'s Android operating system.
The rest of the article races through Apple vs. Android market share numbers, and careers around any profit share mention, before heaping more praise on Samsung, mentioning the realities of the panel market, and then slamming strait into a reminder that Apple will report earnings later this month.
Apple no-commented, of course.
The Wall Street Journal generally has a good track record when it comes to Apple rumors. However, rumors of Apple cutting orders, both true and fabricated, come along every year. Sometimes people want to manipulate stock. Sometimes companies want to leak bad news to soften its impact. Sometimes deals fall through or business realities change. Sometimes new products are coming that cause a down-shift in old ones. And sometimes good data gets interpreted wrong. What if half their orders are still more than 2012 levels? Does the context change then? Without numbers, real numbers, it's flying blind.
Wall Street (the actual financial district, not the Journal) is wacky when it comes to Apple, punishing them for among the highest profits in the world, while rewarding companies that have barely if ever turned a profit. In the meantime we have AT&T and Verizon in the U.S. pre-announcing record smartphone sales, and Verizon reporting a higher iPhone mix than ever before.
Apple will report their earnings at the end of January, and they may or may not exceed Apple's own forecasts and/or the Street's forecasts, but the guidance the guidance they give for Q2 2013 will be telling, and the conference call that follows will almost certainly have Apple's CEO and CFO, Tim Cook and Peter Oppenheimer, there to answer questions.
Until then we have a person and a half of unknown affiliation telling the Wall Street Journal that the iPhone 5 isn't as in demand as Apple thought it would be, and that's about it.
Update: Reuters, in a Nikkei-based article echoing the WSJ, pegs the change as down from 65 million iPhones. Apple sold 35 million in Q2 2012, and 18.65 million in Q2 2011. Given the maturity and competition in the market, it's tough to see how, absent a major new deal, Apple could expect to once again double their orders in the post-holiday quarter. Makes the kind of sense that doesn't.
Source: Wall Street Journal, Reuters
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Apple supposedly cuts orders for iPhone 5 components
WSJ same as BI and SAI are payed by Hedge Funds for those kind of" Reports" very well... all they want is to sell tons of PUTS(sells options) and load tons of dirt cheap CALLS(buy options)... do not let them full you around... DUDES... Apple will report it's best QTR in history with over 60Bio in revenue... with over 30Mio iPads and over 30Mio iPhones... later this months !!!
Not an expert here, but I think this is partly the result of iPhone buyers wanting their iPhone as soon as it is released. Demand appears inflated because of the huge pre-order numbers and sales at launch that don't really say anything about demand for the rest of the year. I think this phenomenon is unique to the iPhone because EVERYONE knows when it's being launched, whether we are buying or not - the same hype, and concentration of demand at launch, is not there with other phones.
This is the result of an iterative product (while sexy) did not bring a whole lot new to the table. That's why there will continue to be a hoard of 4 and 4S owners waiting for a substantially new form factor. As Rene mentioned in previous articles, the 4 and 4S still have the specs to be good phones.
I wouldn't call the iPhone 5 an iterative update. Maybe on the software side from 5.0 to 6.0 I'd agree, but the iPhone 5 made everything better than an already industry leading iPhone 4 and 4s design. The display is hands down better, the processor is still unmatched (and what apple did with the A6 is phenomenal considering it is manually clocked and no one in the industry is attempting this due to cost and other factors, the hardware is lighter, stronger, thinner, and better looking, the size (while subjective) is larger and (at least to me) seems to be a perfect size, LTE (which is the best radio I've used hands down when it comes to Verizon LTE As it never drops coverage whether using hotspot or just the phone), and much better performance. I'd say that apple completely made everything better from the 4s to the 5. If you look at other manufacturers like Samsung the difference between the Gs2 and GS3 was iterative while the iPhone 5 made huge strides in the hardware department. Yes it is still very much an iPhone p, but it easily surpassed the already great 4s in every spec. Now if we could just see the same with the software then we would be talking. I didn't think I needed the iPhone 5 and it was the first in awhile that I didn't update very early in the product cycle, but now having it I can easily tell the huge improvements in this device over the 4s. Apple does this like no other hardware company in the world.
Isn't it a bit early for Apple to cut orders for parts? Sounds like stock manipulation to me. iPhone 4 owners were do a contract upgrade and bought the iPhone 5. iPhone 4S owners weren't due a contract upgrade in 2012 and therefore, didn't buy the iPhone 5 (unless they just felt the "needed" it for some reason. If history is any benchmark, this year's iPhone 5S will be little more than a same design, camera upgraded, Siri with new tricks, faster CPU, possibly more memory, iPhone 5S. That may be enough to attract Fanbois and fangirls, but if that's it, it won't likely attract new customers or convince any fandroids to jump ship.
Well rumors were that they were going to use a different screen tech in the next iphone so if that is the case it makes sense to cut the orders for the old screens used on the iphone 5. Same with the internal components since even if it was a 5s that is released it most likely would have a different/newer processor/internals.
I have a sneaking suspicion that this may correlate to the Tim Cook / China Mobile meetings recently. If this rumor is true (which there's no reason right now for it not to be perceived so), I think that Apple was anticipating China Mobile to come on board after Tim Cook met with them, recently. Apple would want to put the iPhone 5 into the hands of as many China Mobile customers as they possibly could on launch day, and in the coming months. I would suspect that this means that the negotiations didn't quite go as planned.
That's just my thought.... and I'm sure I will have plenty of readers tear this hypothesis apart, and pepper it with unnecessary derogatory comments. So have fun guys!
I'm sure ATT's decision not to let iPhone owners already under contract to buy at the subsidized price had and impact on sales as well.
I'm not issuing a value judgement about the fairness or appropriateness of this market decision. This is just the first time ATT has done this and it surely has had an impact on sales.
A lot of 4S users are still locked in and won't be released until spring. At that point I at least will wait for iPhone 6
So Wall Street is not "punishing" Apple for high profits. Stock prices consider both current performance and growth potential. Wall Street is setting its price based on Apple's cash strategies.
Apple often chooses not to pay dividends, or to pay small dividends. Typically, a company makes that choice when they want to husband their cash in order to finance future growth, so despite Apple's size Wall Street treats Apple more like a growth stock than a large company stock when setting its price. In that light, any reports (like this one) that may negatively impact Apple's growth are going to slam their stock more than they might another large company that pays hefty dividends.
So Wall Street has not been "wacky." What they have been, however, is wrong. When Wall Street "punishes" Apple, they are in effect saying "your behavior says you expect massive growth, and we do not believe you can hit that target." And, from their point of view, it makes sense. Rarely have we had a publicly traded company of this size act like a growth company, and *never* we ever had a company this size post such consistently large growth rates. In such virgin territory, Wall Street is going to err on the side of caution. If you disagree, you still have a chance to make a nice chunk of change :)
I am still loving my iPhone 4. Pre-ordered it when it came out to Verizon back in Feb 2011. While I am on Verizon with unlimited data...I really do not want to lose it to get the 5 with LTE. That's one reason why I don't care to upgrade to the 5. Another thing mentioned in comments above is about the form factor. While I HATE the form factor of the 4 and on (loved the 3gs and older), the 5 still doesn't make me change my mind. Hello same form?? And I don't care if the design works- lets make better. No people want different. Or at least I do. Speaking of the 5 and form factor....longer phone? No thanks. I think a wider phone would fit my hand pretty well if we had a wider screen. Developers cry about having to change their ways? Well it's iOS I think people will change it up since there is a ton of users getting their apps. Most people use the phone with two hands more than most of the time. 4.5 inch is not the end of the world, but that should really be the max of a phone...at least that's what iPhone should do. They need a NEW form factor for sure. That's what I am waiting for. They also need to remove that stupid home button and just make it touch. Any reason why it can't be touch?? It needs a new look. It just does. But they also need to bang out a really powerful new OS experience. While keeping it legit and easy to use for everybody, they need to add different ways things open or like Rene pointed out last night and I was drooling over it, was when we get notifications and we are in an app, why can't we stay on the same app and just have a little space to do something and just get it done and easily just get back into what we were doing? They need something drastic for the iPhone. If they are about hardware and making an OS work great, then change the OS experience to be not as annoying. It's a smartphone for a reason. Remember An iPod, A Phone and an Internet Communicator-Repeat?? Well how about OS, User, Love? Ok that was off but you get what I am saying. I think the addition of an SD slot would help. Surprise us Apple! Think Surprise. I think that will get more people to use them. Yes they have many products that cost a fortune, but this is the mobile space we are talking about. We take them with us everywhere. People will look to other things that will be the new and better and Apple will just fall back because of the way they do things. Maybe it was feasible back in the day, but they seriously need to wake up and smell the apple because they will be turned into applesauce if they don't get their phone whipped up into something worth buzzing about. Can't wait to see what's in store for iOS 7 and the new iPhone! And let's see if this new team at Apple can give us what we want and bake us some apple pie instead of apple crisp. Now I want some pie.
Apple is pulling a blackberry here, lack of innovation of your UI is the death of any device company. Left blackberry when they were sinking for Apple now Apple doing the same stagnation effect, no wonder most of my iPhone converted buds are now leaving for android.. Wake up Apple!!!!! iOS is brilliantly user friendly and easy to use but after many year has become boring especially with all your restrictions. Update it and set it free!!!
The markets seem to think that things may be changing now. RIM will be launching their all new os BB10 in 2 weeks and on the back of that RIMM shares surged by 10.25% today. By comparison AAPL shares fell by 3.57%.
True Apple fans are more than happy with the release of every iOS device, why? Because we all know what these devices have to offer. We all know that our mobile operating system won't crash on us after a certain period of time, we know that technical support is at hand and face to face when we need it, we know that everything we need for our daily productivity works and works well on our iOS device. You can yearn for something "new" all you want, that's great, but personally I've never been one to follow trends. I don't care what specs are on the newest [other] devices, because I'm content with what device I use daily. Find what works for you and stick to it, stop trying to follow the "newest" trend.
I will have to disagree on certain things you said:
"we all know that our mobile operating system won't crash on us after a certain period time" - not entirely true. Hell, you don't need a 3 year 3GS to see it, I've had OS issues even on the iPhone 5.
2nd, while true in some cases, it's not necessarily about following trends. Actually, Im almost positive that the vast majority of the average joe, bought the iPhone because "it's whats in." Hell, I've ran into people that don't even know how to use an iPhone or have much need for it. The excuse?? "It just look really nice." how much more trendy can a materialistic item get?? I got the iPhone in 2008 because I knew back then the potential of the device and the possibilities it has to offer. iPhone OS 3 began to prove that, IMO. However, the release of the iOS is what started to made me feel like Apple was falling behind. Forget that the iPhone 5 has a similar design (it's more like an iPhone 4/4S makeover IMO), but the fact that iOS 6 offered something that did not Wow me and the features it bought, I have yet to use. This is just me though.
Also, while I believe that ALL mobile OS may suffer this issue, the lacks of themes is what really has me bored with iOS, hence still a need for Jailbreak. Almost everyone I know with an iPhone is amused with the ways I theme and tweak my phone (such as Voice notifications and the Ayecon theme), and wish they could do the same without having to Jailbreak.
Now I'm not saying that iOS is filled with major flaws, but for anyone to say there isn't flaws is probably as the Internet trolls say "sipping on the Kool-aid" or whatever, or may actually really be fine with it, who knows. It's not about following trends, it really is about wanting something new. If it really is about trends, and the iPhone is a trend, then Apple MAY need to brace itself a bit.
Again, this is just base of my observation and everyday experience, so others will have different experience than me. The OS may not have any issues, but it's definitely boring as s***.


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Early that morning Irving, Texas-based Hostess Brands Inc. announced it was going out of business due to an ongoing strike by its bakers' union. The store along E. Casino Road is expected to close.
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Bobby smiled and hid behind his mother, but whispered to her that the Donettes were his favorite.
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- Regular Plus Last features a larger toe box to make the forefoot more comfortable for a rider with wider feet
- Morpho Cage A.M. is a medial holding cage made with anti-stretch Air Mesh and Suprell-Tech microfiber, guaranteeing a secure, long-lasting closure of the upper for more stability, more power transmission and more comfort during your ride
- Removable Hi-Vent Insole offers maximum ventilation, 100% waterproof performance, plus ergonomic support in EVA and anti-stretch fabric on the heel area
- Pre-molded, ergonomic TPU heel cup for better heel containment
- Reflex inserts add excellent visibility at night and in adverse weather
- Performance Closure system with aluminum, micrometric buckle and large release button offers 4 different adjustment positions for maximum performance and comfort
- V-Fit Adjust strap allows for a customized fit and removes pressure from your instep
Diadora X-Country 2 MTB Shoes
- closure/straps:
- 1 Ratchet/1 Velcro
- cleat compatibility:
- 2-bolt
- material (sole/upper):
- Nylon/Fiberglass/TPU; Suprell Microfiber/Air Mesh
- toe spikes:
- Compatible (Included)
- weight:
- 740g/pair (size 43)
- rating:
- 4