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Guess who just became available for adoption?? Briana, the starving, injured German Shepherd mix who was found tethered in a yard back in August.
Here's what Briana was dealing with when she came to us: starvation, dehydration, flea infestation and, perhaps most horrifying, a deep neck wound from a collar left on so long it became embedded in her flesh.
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There are children that starve to death everyday in this country. Kids that are beaten everyday. And u people spend your lives saving dumb animals. U should all be ashamed!! How about spending your money and time helping at homeless shelters or battered shelters, actually helping people in this world we are blessed with. Wwjd
Thank you, ASPCA, for saving the life of and caring for beautiful Briana. There is no greater calling than caring for the voiceless animals who are often at the mercy of cruel, ignorant humans. May Briana find a wonderful home soon. May she be loved, cared for, and protected. Praise and gratitude to the ASPCA.
She is a beauty. Thank you for helping her get well. I know you all will help her find a wonderful home. Thank you so much!
God created both man and creatures with the intention that both would coexist! Unfortunately, man turns on man as much as man turn on animals. For those individuals or organizations that give a damn, whether for neglected, abused, or starving human beings or animals, take the time to say thank you. Each person has the right to believe in a cause. If you really want to be productive, the "SHAME ON ALL OF YOU" IMBECILE, perhaps you should shut your mouth and get involved in your community so you are too busy to make rude comments to the ASPCA supporters. God, if you insist on bringing religion into the equation, wants his children and creatures to be cared for equally in their time of need. It's people like you that make the world the miserable place that it is. You want to push your ideology in our faces and tell us that we're committing sin for not sharing your belief system. There's ONE God, and you're not him. You don't get to judge anyone! I'm not sure whom you believe in, but it isn't God; God doesn't believe in suffering. Clearly you do where animals are concerned. Fortunately, today's Sunday - Pray for your maker to educate you so there's one less buffoon roaming the Earth!
I will not feel any shame for showing love and compassion to a living being asking to receive it. Most animal lovers, are good to any and all in need. Compassion can define a person, wether that be towards "dumb animals," or dumb people."
Yeah coz your clearly doing so much good for the world by spending your time telling people off instead of getting off your lazy ass! Why not spend your time constructively, this is a beautiful story and the world needs more positives. Fullstop. Animal abusers are proven to abuse children, did you contrubute to stoping that? Eeek what an ignorant comment, Im ashamed for you.
Yeah coz your clearly doing so much good for the world by spending your time telling people off instead of getting off your lazy ass! Why not spend your time constructively, this is a beautiful story and the world needs more positives. Fullstop. Animal abusers are proven to abuse children, did you contrubute to stoping that? Eeek what an ignorant comment, Im ashamed for you.
What an awful person to write "Shame on all of us" just for helping poor Brianna. I work in animal rescue and I believe I am helping God's creatures, after all HE created them. We have a lot of awful people in the world who abuse and hurt animals and they need help because they don't have a voice. I have seen a lot of hard things, things I wish I would never have seen that will be forever embedded in my mind, because someone was cruel to an animal. I think the person who commented needs to get a life. Shame on YOU!!!
Why does helping animals preclude helping children?
I have adopted children, served on boards for agencies
helping children. I also rescue animals and think it is a
worthy cause. Any time suffering of any kind can be
alleviated it should be done God knows there are enough
occasions to do so. God bless you. :)


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MISENHEIMER, N.C. Pfeiffer University got back on the winning track with a 3-0 (25-17, 25-20, 25-19) sweep of Converse in womens volleyball action on Saturday afternoon in Spartanburg, SC. The Lady Falcons improve to 18-11 overall, 13-3 in conference play, with the final week of regular season action looming. Converse drops to 6-26, 2-13.
Pfeiffers Brittany Dickens (Raleigh, NC) led the way offensively with a match-high 11 kills while Jordan OBryant (Reidsville, NC) and Kristina Mordini (Freeport, IL) each had five. Vanessa Gerig (Towanda, IL) set up the Lady Falcons with 25 assists. Sophomore Kaci Markham was the defensive leader with 14 digs. Pfeiffer hit at a .310 clip in the third and final set.
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Among Onslow County's participants were Agaytha Thomas and her son, 10-year-old Micah, a fourth grader at Jacksonville Commons Elementary School.
Micah normally doesn't walk to school and really wanted to walk with his friends, his mom said.
"I thought it'd be good for him to come out and learn a little bit about safety," she said.
Micah wants to walk to school because "it's healthy, it's good to walk to school and you get to walk with kids your age and your friends," he said.
His mom said he "begged" her to participate and that he may be able to make walking to school a full-time activity next year when he's in fifth grade.
"Safety is the most important thing when we walk to school," Mike Yaniero, chief of the Jacksonville Department of Public Safety, told participants before they began their trek.
Lt. Sean Magill with the Jacksonville Police Department shared several safety tips with participants including looking both ways before crossing the street and not stopping mid-road even for untied shoes or to wait for a friend.
McGill also told parents that 20 percent of morning traffic during the school year is school-related and walking with their children to school will get both parents and children exercise and quality time.
He also reminded parents that no matter how many rules pedestrians are breaking, it is the drivers' responsibility to do what is necessary to avoid colliding with them.
The group of more than 100 students and parents left the Jacksonville Commons Recreation Center, where they gathered for breakfast biscuits from Golden Corral and safety tips, at 6:45 a.m. to walk to nearby Jacksonville Commons Elementary. Nearly 15 minutes later, they were in sight of the school with several parents continuing their walk home while pushing strollers.
Among the smiling students to arrive at the school were Ashlyn Dacosin, Nivia King, Francesca Sotto, Ryleigh Kelum and Aurea Ryba. The five girls walked to campus with Ashlyn's parents, Nicole and Robert Dacosin, and her younger sister, 5-year-old Alyssa.
Nivia said she walks to campus regularly but Wednesday was special because she got to walk with her friends.
"And our friends' parents," Nicole Dacosin added before laughing and explaining that was no longer cool in the fourth grade.
Francesca said she normally gets a ride to school, but she wanted to walk with Ashlyn and Nivea because it's fun.
Nicole Dacosin said this was the second year the family participated in Walk to School Day.
"It's hard to get up in the morning and walk," she said.
Despite the difficulty of getting up on a dreary morning, Dacosin said she liked seeing the children group together and have fun on their way to school.
And, according to her husband, it gave the group of girls a chance to wake up before getting to class — though Alyssa was dozing against a beam outside the school while her parents spoke to The Daily News.
Principal Curtis Ehmann said that the morning walk was a "great opportunity to build that sense of community and get the blood pumping" while providing safety travel-to-school ideas and allowing students to meet area police officers.
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Ehmann said that the program began at Jacksonville Commons Elementary at the suggestion of Jacksonville Police Department.
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SNOW HILL — There is just one unpaved road in town and officials would like to see it paved.
Commissioner Rosa Wilkes brought up the condition of the road — Connie Circle — during Monday night's meeting.
Mayor Dennis Liles said the town has been working with Dudley resident Robert McNeill, who owns the property and several apartments there with his wife, Betty.
"When it's raining, ride out there. Ride out and see a child get on the school bus," Liles said.
Liles motioned his hands in a zig-zag pattern as he described driving on the road when there had been a lot of rain.
Snow Hill resident Gene Riddle asked if the town will hold the owner responsible.
Liles and Town Administrator Dana Hill said the town is in the process of discussions with the owner.
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"I think it's important for everybody to recognize, too, it isn't a town street that's not being paved," Hill said.
Hill later estimated the cost to grade and pave Connie Circle to be about $150,000.
Snow Hill resident Bill Baker expressed in public comments his concern about the condition of the mobile home park on Third Street.
"There happens to be about three or four vacancies in that area right now, and it seems to me it would be an opportune time that inspections take place, as far as those houses, those mobile homes, meeting the minimum standard housing for the town of Snow Hill," Hill said.
He said the mobile homes appear as though they don't meet minimum housing standards for structural, electrical and sanitary conditions.
Another resident, David Jones, agreed with the mobile home park being an eyesore and said there may be other areas of concern.
"It's a minimum standard of living that we're trying to establish for the town of Snow Hill," Jones said. "We don't want to see anybody below minimum decent housing."
Baker also mentioned a house at 310 Third Street that appears to have multiple families living in it.
"I would ask the planning board to determine if we have an ordinance — a zoning ordinance — that allows for multi-family or boarding houses in that area," he said.
Liles said a newly-formed task force recently did an inspection around town, looking for areas that need addressing.
"What they did is, they did a walk-through," he said. "It's also being fair and it's showing each area that we got concerns for and, hopefully, that would address the issues that are a concern within that area."
The town is also beefing up its current nuisance ordinance after recently putting together a task force.
The board approved an amendment that will change the value of what is considered a junk vehicle. Town Attorney J. Brian Pridgen, of Cauley Pridgen in Kinston, Wilson and Raleigh, spoke to the board about the amendment.
"There was a change in the General Statutes within the recent past that allows municipalities to increase the dollar threshold from $100 to $500."
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OMB launches PortfolioStat to reduce commodity IT spending
Monday - 4/2/2012, 5:22am EDT
The Office of Management and Budget is launching a new effort to mine for areas of IT spending that currently few in agencies know about.
The new PortfolioStat initiative will give OMB and agency chief information officers a more complete view of where the money is going and opportunities to consolidate buying.
Steven VanRoekel, the federal CIO, said Friday his office will conduct sessions with agencies, similar to TechStat and CyberStat, to look at data to better understand where agencies are spending money on IT.
He said PortfolioStat builds on the CIO Authorities memo issued by OMB in August.
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"A lot of the challenges we have in a lot of these very, very large agencies is you'll have agencies with hundreds of thousands of employees where the CIO at the top of the org chart doesn't have the authority to control investment at the lower rungs," VanRoekel said, during a presentation at the President's Management Advisory Board meeting in Washington. "I know some CIOs who tell me they had more power when they were a branch CIO then they are now as the head CIO of the agency."
Under PortfolioStat, VanRoekel said OMB will ensure accountability across the government by making investment review boards focus on programs and not individual investments.
In the past, investment review boards were more budget focused. VanRoekel said PortfolioStat will impact the 2014 budget cycle.
"By June 15, agencies will complete a high-level survey of agency IT portfolio status and a bureau level information request for specific types of commodity IT investments that will used to baseline the maturity of agency portfolios," VanRoekel wrote in a blog post Friday. "Then, using the portfolio data gathered combined with other data available at the bureau and agency level, COOs will establish targets for commodity IT spending reductions and deadlines for meeting those targets; illustrate how investments within the IT portfolio align with the agency's mission and business functions; establish criteria for identifying wasteful, 'low-value,' or duplicative investments; and improve governance and program management utilizing best practices and, where possible, benchmarks."
VanRoekel and acting OMB Director Jeff Zients signed a memo Friday as well detailing the steps they must take to implement the portfolio-based approach.
OMB wants agencies to:
- Submit a draft plan to consolidate commodity IT by June 29
- Hold their first PortfolioStat session by July 31
- Finalize their commodity IT consolidation plans by Aug. 31
- Transition two commodity IT areas to shared services or consolidated buying through strategic sourcing by Dec. 31.
- Document lessons learned, which OMB will put together in a document and share with agencies by Feb. 2013.
OMB announced the PortfolioStat approach as part of the 2013 IT budget passback.
PortfolioStat follows several other OMB-led stat sessions, such as TechStat, AcqStat and CyberStat, where the administration is trying to use data to solve problems.
Several already are heading down a path similar to PortfolioStat. One of the most well-known examples is the Veterans Affairs Department's Program Management Accountability System (PMAS) initiative.
VA's PMAS shows how PortfolioStat could work
Under PMAS, every VA IT project is held to 3-to-6 month milestones and officials review progress reports regularly to ensure programs don't go off track.
Roger Baker, the VA's assistant secretary for information and technology and the CIO, said this approach works, in part, because he has full control over the IT budget.
Roger Baker, assistant secretary for information and technology and CIO, VA
Baker said VA's investment review board comes under the ruthless reduction task force to figure out where the agency can save money and become more efficient.
"We have in our ruthless reduction task force about 25 things along these lines-the single CPU policy, the consolidation of mobile telephone polices for services," he said. "They are all the same sort of thing that your private sector CIO to be doing for your budget. In a consolidated appropriation, you start to see CIOs who start to look at that way. That is what the PortfolioStat will start to do when you start to look at the distributed ones that way."
Baker said he put in place a policy for every computer to go to sleep at 7 p.m. and wake up at 7 a.m. because he can see every device on the network and know how much power they are using when no one is at the office.
The department expects to save as much as $24 million a year in electricity that the computers are no longer using.
In addition to power savings, VA expects to save about $100 million a year by consolidating software licenses and another $200 million annually by consolidating the number of printers in offices from taking a portfolio approach to spending.
Interior centralizing commodity IT
The Interior Department is taking a different, but aggressive approach to reigning in IT spending through something similar to PortfolioStat.
Secretary Ken Salazar created one departmentwide CIO in December 2010 and then the bureau level CIOs became assistant director for information resources (ADIR).
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David Hayes, Interior's deputy secretary, said the agency now is well on the its way to having a single enterprisewide service desk for commodity IT.
"We've decided to do this by ripping off the Band-Aid," Hayes said. "Within the last several weeks, we've had meeting with everyone of our bureau directors and [talked about] what we are looking to centralize and what we are looking to keep in the bureaus. They need some mission-specific software and capability still at the bureau level, but there is a lot of redundancy at the major level. I talked last time, we have one server for every seven employees at our department, for example."
The move to enterprisewide functions also will affect Interior employees who work on IT.
Hayes said they are looking at every IT employee and decided if they will work in the new centralized office or remain at the bureau level.
Interior also is managing its investment review program at the department level and looking at it more closely than ever before.
Connected to PortfolioStat are vendor management organizations (VMOs). VanRoekel announced last November Interior, VA, the Education Department and the Patent and Trademark Office would test this concept.
VanRoekel said using the data from PortfolioStat sessions, VMOs can help find areas of duplication or wasteful spending.
VMO saves Patent and Trademark millions
At the PTO, for example, the VMO now is the central purchasing office for commodity IT.
"The ability to modify contracts in order to track efficiencies through time and by individual has also been transformative for us. It has changed us from an approach where bills came in and said things like, 'We did something for a month and here's how much you owe us,' which is very, very difficult to then pry open and figure out how you audit it, how you ensure the work was done and you got value for it," said PTO director David Kappos. "Now with the VMO process, we literally know what every person on that contract did, every day, even down to the hour so we can tell the activity they were working on and the productivity we got from it. It makes me, and our CIO, feel more confident about the value we are getting for our spend."
He added the VMP also helped PTO reduce its spending on commercial software by $1.8 million per year, but more significantly, reduced the cost to maintain that software by $52 million annually.
Kappos said the agency was spending so much on maintenance that it was unable to do upgrades to mission systems.
PTO is hoping to reduce the amount it spends on maintenance to 40 percent of its entire IT budget. Kappos said it started at 84 percent, and now it's down to 68 percent.
The General Services Administration also is seeing savings or cost avoidance, through its VMO.
Casey Coleman, CIO, GSA
Casey Coleman, GSA's CIO, said the agency is taking a little bit of a different approach to how their VMO is working.
"The VMO has a companion team in the contracting organization," she said. "We've staffed that up and added additional contracting officers. We are now linking that commodity IT function, which over five years is $250 million, so it's a significant spend for us, to the vendor management organization. The VMO will be responsible for managing that contract, overseeing its progress and managing that vendor team by making sure at the project level we're getting the right kind of staff and we are not overpaying for those skills."
Coleman said the VMO, combined with the portfolio approach, is helping GSA avoid spending $3 million to upgrade its IT service desk. Instead, she said GSA will move those services to the cloud for a few hundred thousand dollars.
VanRoekel said PortfolioStat and VMOS are significant culture shifts. He said the goal is to create stronger partnerships between program or mission owner and the CIO's office. The CIO can't be seen as just a service provider.
VanRoekel said having people see IT as a strategic asset is the government's biggest challenge, but agencies are making progress.
Part of that culture shift, OMB is developing guidance to change the way mission software is built so it's done in a more modular way, VanRoekel said.
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Cuernavaca, Mexico: The Perfect Place to Study Spanish
Nestled in the Sierra Madre Mountains and just an hour south of one of the world's largest cities, the city of Cuernavaca reigns as the premier destination for Spanish study abroad.
Known to the world as the City of Eternal Spring, Cuernavaca boasts both the calm of perpetual temperate weather, and the lively activity of a city. The temperature is ideal for spending the day in classrooms and the nights exploring downtown.
Since the 1960s students have flocked to Cuernavaca to study Spanish and the industry has only grown in the last few decades. More than fifty language schools operate in Cuernavaca today. One of the most famous and most beautiful schools is The Center for Linguistic Multicultural Studies, a part of the Universidad Internacional. Amidst tangerine stucco walls, magenta flowers, and cool palms, this school offers Spanish immersion courses from 8 am until 5 pm.
My program, the basic immersion course, has classes until 2 pm with optional free classes afterwards for additional practice on conversation skills or work on specific grammar issues. Like the scheduled classes, these are small courses with a lot of individual attention. The Executive Program involves an additional three hours of scheduled classes a day, usually in the form of private lessons.
With stories, conversation, games, music, and even the familiar worksheet, students learn Spanish grammar for three hours every morning. After a break, the second part of the day commences with Latin American or additional grammar courses.
Beginners usually take another form of grammar classes, but as I only have a week at the Center for Linguistic Multicultural Studies, I enroll in a hodgepodge of courses from 'Mexico Today' to business. I spend the final hour of the day in conversation classes where students discuss cultural differences between Mexico and their home country.
Before arriving in Cuernavaca, I had been told this city was the "Beverly Hills of Mexico." The statement echoes in my head as soon as my car, arranged with the Center to gather me up from the Mexico City Airport, delivers me to my home for the week.
A Warm Welcome
Like much of Cuernavaca, including the Center itself, the house is tucked inside a gated community, where doormen allow entrance with a friendly smile. Inside the house there are silk Victorian chairs, a thick wooden dining set, and portraits of the family. On lemon-colored stucco walls colorful paintings reminiscent of the murals of Diego Rivera bring life into the house along with a beautiful indoor garden growing up from the ground floor.
My Mexican "mama" Esperanza Carrillo Perez welcomes me warmly and calls me 'mija' a conjunction of "mi hija" or my daughter. For a weary traveler arriving in a foreign city, being received as a part of the family is soothing. My room is equally convivial. Pink blankets with a picture of a cartoon character lie on my bed while a massive dresser and a closet have been emptied for my clothing.
Throughout the week, I realized that Mariela's seeming fluency in Spanish is augmented by her hands. She plays charades during every conversation. Eating, drinking, dancing are all acted out as she speaks so that she can be understood if she has a vocabulary lapse or is simply not sure if her verb tenses or noun choices can be comprehended. It is a gift I begin to acquire, especially for conversations with my host family.
The first time I understand a normal conversation with the family is when Adrianna points to her chest, while Esperanza sadly shakes her head, and says that Adrianna wants new ones because of her ex-boyfriend.
It takes me a minute, but I realize we are talking about implants. Soon we are all looking at pictures of this ex and I feel like I am back home with my girlfriends, having the same conversations. I still cannot understand everything, but girl talk seems to be the same in Mexico and America.
In the classes at Universidad Internacional English is forbidden. Even beginners communicate solely in Spanish. My professor Elizabeth handles this challenge gracefully. Her ability to explain complex ideas using a basic Spanish vocabulary takes incredible talent and creativity. All of the professors here have such skills and all have degrees in Education or attend university to acquire such degrees. The professors of advanced elective courses hold degrees in their specialty and it shows.
Professor José Aspe wears his long hair, and dresses in baggy pants and red sweatshirt. He conveys the brilliance of sophisticated cool, reminding me of many English teachers I studied with in college in the States.
As a teacher for Mexican students in literature for many years, he has decided to try his hand at teaching Latin American literature to students learning Spanish at the Center. We struggle for two hours to cover the entire history of Mexican literature from the religious texts of the Mayans to the poetry of the Nahuatl, and the chronicles of the conquistadors to the periods of romanticism to modernism.
Classes are relaxing. Although some students study for companies or universities and need grades, emphasis is placed upon improvement. Tests merely measure where students should be in the weeks ahead. Conversations at home with Mexican families or out in the city of Cuernavaca are the real measure of success. Understanding the family over lunch will mean more to a student than any grade.
Students descend upon Cuernavaca from all over the world. They are all ages, races, and professions. During my stay I meet an overwhelming number of American college students immersed in Mexican culture to complete Spanish minors or university requirements. However, the students in my Spanish class are a range of ages and study Spanish for different reasons.
Casey comes from college accompanied by at least eight other students. Many live in the same home together. Another classmate, Nancy, studies Spanish to bond with her Mexican husband. She spends a few weeks living with a Mexican family and a few in a hotel with her children and husband. She misses her Mexican family at the hotel.
The Center for Linguistic Multicultural Studies has special programs for children, seniors, and teens. For the benefit of all, highschoolers are generally sequestered in separate classrooms on another part of campus. Likewise seniors can join in personalized programs where they study with other seniors and generally with an older professor.
Specialized kids' classes utilize Spanish games and songs to teach children as young as five to speak a new language. Professor Alavaro Vergara individually places all students in classes based on their level and ages. Even more impressive, students in the executive program can expect to have a professor within their age range.
I learn on my first day after a conversation with one administrator that most Mexican food in America is actually Tex-Mex, the hybrid creations developed by the migrant movement of Mexicans to America over the years.
He laughs remembering a time when someone asked him, as a Mexican, to make some authentic fajitas. He explained, "I've never made fajitas before in my life." Tex-Mex generally dwarfs traditional Mexican food in size and calories. One burrito from Taco Bell might have more cheese than all of the Mexican food I consumed in a week in Cuernavaca. But I can't deny that both have their charms.
The Mexican family provides three meals a day for students. Breakfast is filling and delicious. Usually it consists of a small plate of fresh mixed fruit, often bananas and mangos or papaya, two slices of toast, juice and coffee or tea.
But the grand meal in Mexico is lunch where the family comes together to eat for hours. Throughout my week I try spicy meat and potatoes, beans, Mexican rice, tortillas wrapped in towels to hold in warmth, soup with chicken, pickles, and vegetables, and my favorite, taquitos, deep fried tacos, two filled with cheese, two with beans, and topped with chopped lettuce, tomatoes, and a splash of a saucy sour cream.
Authentic Mexican food is unbeatable and the drinks usually surpass the food. Esperanza makes fresh pineapple juice, and around town it's possible to find juice made to order from watermelon, cantaloupe, papaya and any fruit found in Mexico.
Meeting People
In Cuernavaca students can learn a lot about Mexican life. The safe enclave of the school with overflowing gardens and clear pools contrasts sharply with some neighborhoods built from corrugated steel on rocky hillsides. Around noon, many homes open up tiny corner restaurants, offering smoothies, juices, and a whole range of Mexican cuisine.
Meeting people in Cuernavaca is easy. At the school, students are eager to explore Mexico. Everyone at The Center for Linguistic Multicultural Studies is on some kind of vacation. Interaction with Mexicans enhances everything learned in grammar class and conversation courses.
Club Amigo is one such way the Center creates interactions between Mexicans and students. The Center finds Mexican students and pairs them up with a student at the Center. My housemate Mariela and her amigo go out to a movie one night. The two have been friends since their first introduction at the center.
Asking for directions is another great way to practice Spanish. I immediately get lost on my first walk, but three women (on two stops for directions) provide instructions in a clear, simple Spanish. They have patience with my faltering Spanish, and can even interpret my facial expressions when I fail to understand.
A number of students venture away from campus to take on internships. This enhances their immersion experience. By volunteering at hospitals or delving into Mexican social work, students learn about Mexico, practice Spanish, and gain credits. The program is free although students need to fund their own transportation.
Stories about visiting the orphanage in Cuernavaca tops many students lists of memorable events while at the Center. Just a few hours playing with orphans often impacts the students more than the children. Internships at orphanages, schools, businesses or even hotels and restaurants help students fulfill requirements or give professionals a way to understand Mexico while practicing Spanish.
The Executive Program
Companies from Ford to GM and BMW to Pepsi-Cola International have patronized the Executive Program at the Center for Linguistic Multicultural Studies. With an additional three hours of study, private lessons, and an executive lounge, the Executive program offers students an even faster language immersion experience.
Popular with businessmen and -women, the program is open to anyone interested in paying more for more individual attention. It is ideal for those with less time to spend in Cuernavaca and those with the energy for nine hours of Spanish a day.
This class would be beyond my grasp even in English, but there are times when I can answer my professor's questions about the best transportation for when something needs to arrive quickly and safely with a one-word answer in Spanish.
A banker from Jamaica nods throughout the class. By the end she can define a wholesaler in Spanish. The woman from Canada, a member of the executive looks a little baffled, but has new subjects to practice in her next private lesson.
Energetic Crowds
The nightlife of Cuernavaca draws students, tourists and Mexicans together for dancing, tequila and live music. Sounds of street vendors calling out "real turquoise" or "real silver" (a claim that may or may not always be true) mingle with the strumming of mariachis and the performances by locals wearing clown costumes or holding portable karaoke machines.
Clubs close at five in the morning and most nights energetic crowds remain until last call. On three consecutive nights I heard a few of the same very popular Mexican songs. Everyone excitedly sings along with these songs. They are all old favorites and by the third night I feel the same infectious joy on hearing them again. One night I find myself wrapped in the arms of my Mexican sister Yvonne, her best friend Adrianna and their friends, singing along in Spanish to these songs that I only half-understand.
On my third day I meet Diego, a Colombian working in the city who leads me around on a grand tour. We rest silently inside the Catedral de la Asuncion de Maria, the most peaceful church I have visited. The sense of peace there exceeds even the older, more famous Cathedral of Cuernavaca. Another day we stop at the Cascada de San Anton, a waterfall seemingly a million miles away from the city. Unfortunately its natural beauty is tarnished by an abundance of litter and pollution.
My Last Night
On my last night I go out for a meal with my friend Diego to El Agave, to a fairly upscale Mexican restaurant. We eat modern Mexican cuisine, spicy fried stuffed mushrooms filled with sour cream and peppers, a soup with avocado and chicken and a Mexican version of chicken cordon blue.
Stuffed, we brave an evening downpour common at the beginning of summer and head to El Tercera, an unmarked, but impossible-to-miss restaurant overlooking the central plaza. Friday night a band plays rock music, often famous songs in English. Most people flock there to savor cheap beers and snacks and to bask in its spirited atmosphere. From the square, the mariachi music drifts up as the band takes breaks.
Later, over tequila shots, we discuss everything from literature to politics in Spanish and I know I could never have managed without a week of intensive classes. Although we still have to discuss complicated issues with remedial Spanish, conversing in a new tongue offers motivation for fluency. I am overcome by a desire to improve my Spanish, to return to the Center for Linguistic Multicultural Studies, and to talk again with Yvonne, Esperanza, Elizabeth, Jose, Alvaro, and Diego and laugh at my former grammar confusion.
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iOS 5 iMessages vs. BlackBerry BBM - Fight!
How does Apple's brand new iOS 5 iMessage compare to the stalwart Blackberry BBM on BB OS 6? Check out the video above as Kevin Michaluk and Bla1ze from CrackBerry.com bring their Berrys to the table against the iPhone for a one-on-one instant messaging show down! Does BlackBerry still own the crack, or has iOS just become leader of the pack?
BBM is far more functional -- I joked it's like the FaceBook of IM with groups, comments, and more -- while iOS keeps things really simple and bundles it right into the SMS/MMS app.
They're both really snappy, both show writing and delivered states, and offer read receipts, and both are proprietary (yeah) so no cross-platforming yet. BBM is a huge lock-in on BlackBerry and might be the same on iOS.
Could this be enough to make RIM finally bring BBM to iOS? Which would you prefer?
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iOS 5 iMessages vs. BlackBerry BBM - Fight!
You're wrong about the "Read" on iOS. Turn it on from the settings.
Both. Lots of blackberry friends and lots of iOS friends.
iMessages shows read receipts if the user enables it in settings
Love the litto video clip; banter was great! Mmm BBM has it over iM. Apple are soooo struggling to keep up with the game! Folks are needing more than just LQQKs! =-)
Nope; 'twas from the heart! A 4 was my first iPhone, no way was I parting with my hard earned cash for earlier versions. Technically they were substandard and I mean well below what the rest of the Market had to offer. There's a whole plethora of annoying, lack of forethough design "flaws" and now, I'm not holding my breath that iOS 5 will crack the back of these!!! Premium price, (I paid £599 for my phone) dire OS! =-)
When I had my BB I used BBM, but not often enough for it to be a dealbreaker if any other phone didn't have it. I much prefer iOS as an overall package, and having iMessage helps to make it even more well-rounded as a platform.
Wow, congrats on using Disqus!
I have both the iPhone 4 and Blackberry Bold. As much as the iPhone is better than the Blackberry, there is no contest as far as BBM vs. iMessage. BBM is vastly superior. That's not to say that in the future, with updates, that iMessage won't surpass BBM. But, for the time being, BBM is the king of IM.
BBM has also been around for a very, very long time. iMessage is still in beta. I think that iMessage could eventually overtake BlackBerry Messenger, but it really matters with what your friends have. You can use BlackBerry Messenger all you want, but if I still have my Atrix then it means nothing, and the same applies to those with iMessage. The king of IM will be one that makes a high quality, cross-platform application.
I'm a little confused here, forgive me. What's the point exactly in iMessage? I mean, I don't get it, it's text messaging between 2 iPhones/iOS devices? Other than communication between iPhone and say iPad, what's the point?
Also, did tipb change the site? I don't get the mobile version I loved so much anymore and can't figure out how to switch it back?
I like the integration with sms, and most, if not all, of my blackberry friends have jumped ship to iPhone or Android, so it easily wins over bbm to me.
BB does have a unfied inbox option that autimatically switches to the corresponding app when you select a message, be it BBM, email, or sms. You can also assign a hardware button for quick access to BBM and assign tones. You also didn't mention that BBM lets you customize your status, lets others see what your listening to, leave your thoughts like Facebook, and can let other users know in what time zone you are in.
I just switched from BB to iPhone and I can say that I do miss the integration of messaging into the phone that BB has. So for now I resort to Pingchat since most of my friends are on BB. So definitely would love to see RIM give iPhone some love.
its not even a comparison. ios is way better. if you get a text or bbm on a berry you have to go to 2 different spots to find them. the only thing bbm had on ios is that the bbm was free well now ios is free too. bbm is just another way to text. you can use whatever its all the same sms bbm aim yahoo facebook chat whatever its all the same bbm isnt special. i love when i hear i wont give up the berry cause of bbm. its like using an 8 track tape
you got to be kidding me?
1st: BBOS 6 is better
2nd: you can change the settings to send bbm's to sms (and even going to different places isn't that hard, are you that lazy?)
3rd: bbm has never been on iOS, and it isn't free, it's included when you buy the phone (same for iOS)
4th: it might be just another way to text, but it's better: groups, broadcast, etc.
BBOS 6 != better. In reality, BBOS 6 is just 4.1/2/3 with a prettier (questionably) face.
You're not a very good troll.
DISQUS fail !
You guys are fighting for nothing, have you try whatsapp, liveprofile, they are really good but I like whatsapp more. I communicated with people around the world, also, works with iPhones, droids, blackberry and nokias. So who f.. Care about bbm, o iMessage, please give a break..
We all know that blackjunk, is a dinosaur and a soon you buy a new one and get it out of the box is already obsolete.
Think guys, AppStore, droid market, app world, they offer a bunch of different messengers.
I don't think it necessary to bring BBM to the iPhone. I think there's an app for that , no pun intended , Live Profile. I
f anything I see RIM making an application for the iPhone that allows iPhone users to message blackberry users.
I used to be a big BB guy. Had 6 over 3yrs before coming to iPhone 4. Running iOS 5 using imessage compared to bbm for basic messages yea they are pretty much the same but as far as groups, group chat for large groups of friends to all chat at same time and add photos so everyone in the group can talk about it and leave comments on it. Well imessage can't compete with it. Bbm owns groups aspect for now. Saying that bbm has had groups for sometime now. Imessage is in beta 1. So given more time I would expect it to be the same if not better adding some apple flair to it!!!
Is iMessage better than BBM? No (though it is damn good). Is it a good enough reason for a large majority of BB users that want iPhones but didn't want to lose BBM to switch? You betcha.
Considering that BBM works thoroughly device PIN on a Blackberry device, I don't ever see it going cross platform. I like that there are options like Beluga and whatsapp but don't think anything will ever replace the convenience, power, and simplicity of BBM.
I think Apple will succeed ONLY if they manage to make it where you can message friends worldwide for free. This is what makes Blackberry 'Magical', the fact I can hit up ANY friend or family memeber in any part of the world for free without ANY international charges. If Apple can somehow, have it do the the same exact fuctionality that Blackberry does, they will succeed and you know what...that's when I will switch. As much as I love RIM, they're going at a really slow pace and making some questionable decisions that has made me think wether to stay or go. I love the new phones that are gonna be coming out but by September or later timeframe- as much as technology and the Android phone companies pump out new and improved phones, that new hardware will be obsolete. RIM should have brought out dual cores on all their phones so people can switch to QNX once it came out at the very least. 1.2ghz dual core phones would of STILL rocked by september but unfortunately by then they're gonna be outdated.
blackberry sucks
not true, bbm has kept many bb users. It's easier to stay with a native app then use third party ones. There are millions of iphone users, for example all my bestfriends have iphones. Cross platform messengers don't work because people get tired of having to install the apps and registering and checking for friends on their.
You get thrills from getting messages from the opposite sex? Is it that infrequent that it happens?
When you guys send the photo did you check that both pictures have same size? i think Iphone could win it too there.
Great video thank you. You got a lot of fans in Ecuador :D
Can you turn off imessage for individual people. Just cause they have an iPhone doesn't mean I want them to have the privilege of seeing if I read their message. Also can someone explain how message is different from the iPhones group SMS feature?
I can see that the iPhone was on wifi, but was the blackberry. If not, that could have also played a role in the speed differences.
Idk I'm super stoked. The majority of texts I send are to iPhone users so for an in phone messenger service to be implemented....... That's an epic win for my phone bill each month.
I'm an iPhone 4 user but BBM still wins hands down and here's why. I could be wrong and if I am then I apologize in advance for my ignorance, but isn't a phone number required when using imessage for iphone to iphone messaging? BBM wins because among other things, a phone number isn't required. So for whatever reason you decide to give someone your pin, that's all they have in the end so they cant call your phone if you don't want em to. You control when you want to talk to them or you can just delete em and never hear from them again if you want.
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So in other words, totally comparable to simply getting an actual phone number from the opposite sex on any other phone.
Pff, BBM is push and also secure. iOS doesn't have true push on any app. This is one of the reason BIS, BES exist compared to 'just data' services for other platforms.
Besides Whatsapp filled that need for a BBM-like app just fine.
We can not yet make a real comparison as a feature in beta is used by only few people thus Apple's servers have less data to manage.http://www.technorotic.com
there is no real comparison between blackberry and iphone the iphone is more than just a phone. It is the future blackberry has cornered the kids market iphone user is a of speed efficiency and cutting edge technology. Although the also love the ease of use of the device.
The thing is, BBM is on one platform only, blackberry. But iMessage is on all of their platforms.
SO who WON , was it a TIE ????
Liveprofile is better than iMessage & BBM - it has all the good BBM qualities, simplicity of iMessage and yet is cross-platform. Only things stopping LP from taking over are: 1) resources for servers 2) bring it onto the web (e.g. remove need for BB/iPhone/Android/Nokia) 3) advertising/word-of-mouth
RIM need to take LiveProfile's approach and open it up - then Apple will need to somehow re-invent iMessage and perhaps remix iChat so to speak (which I believe used to Facetime or something?)
I know that thousand of ppl left Blackbery to use iPhone, but I don't know anybody that left iPhone to use Blackberry coz of a blood BBM.
Is like being gay, once you are, there is no regret!
Cross-platform solution: AIM/Gmail/Yahoo
Great little comparison, and yes thank you for switching to DISQUS
I use FaceTime over 3G all the time, but only because I happen to carry a wifi hotspot device (aka an Android phone) with me for laptop tethering. Works great. Granted not a solution for many. Still, I hate the Rock store and all the silly extensions it adds to the phone underneath mobilesubstrate.
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Planning a surprise party? Keeping a secret? Sending someone bank or credit card information? Just plain avoiding nosey coworkers or friends? Lucky for you, no matter what mobile device you're using or what secret you're keeping, there's an app for that. Here are a few apps for top-secret texting.
1) CoverText for iPhone: CoverText allows users to encrypt secret messages in photos and then email them to a recipient who must then open the picture in the app on their phone to decrypt the message. Read more about CoverText or watch the demo video here.
2) ArmorText for Android: ArmorText is designed to fit seamlessly into your phone's design without looking out of place and can act as a normal texting app as well. With a simple swipe of the armor switch, your message is secure. You can also control who views your texts and for how long. Find out more about ArmorText here.
3) Black SMS for iPhone: Black SMS is a somewhat labor intensive app but if you really want something kept secret, it's a good one. Simply download the app and make sure whoever you're texting in secret has the app as well. When you send a message, the text will appear as a black bubble until the recipient copies the text into Black SMS on their phone to read it. Learn more about Black SMS here.
4) TigerText for Android, Blackberry and iPhone: With TigerText, senders can choose how long they would like a text to stay on a recipient's phone after they open it, from 30 days to 60 seconds as long as both texters have the app. Believe it or not, TigerText is becoming extra popular not just for personal use but also for professional use. Doctors enjoy the fact that they can use the service to send confidential material to each other. Screenwriters like that they can share self-deleting ideas that, if made public, could ruin a concept. Learn more about TigerText here.
Soooooo many steps. Would you ever go through the trouble of sending secret texts? Which app would you use?