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Hernandez says it hasn't been easy. Both her and her husband have worked temporary jobs just trying to make ends meet, but her biggest worry is keeping her kids healthy. "They need these things like vaccines. Especially for school, school is going to start soon and they need these vaccines in order to get into school," says Hernandez.
Fortunately for Hernandez, Kristen Kraus with the Junior League says, she is able to receive those vaccines for free thanks to a community wide effort. "The Junior League gets donations from the community and we also recruit volunteers to include doctors from various doctors in the community and dentists and translators who help us put on the fair," says Kraus.
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The iPhone 3GS doesn't boast a Retina Display and that's why it's feared that Apple will soon erase the 3GS from their collection. At least, that's what we think after reading a new notice sent out by Apple to all third-party iOS developers. This could well be a sign that Apple will replace the iPhone 3GS with iPhone 4, iPhone 4 with 4S and the 4S with the new and rumored iPhone 5.
Apple's message to all the third-party iOS app developers stated that all new and existing apps must have a high resolution and Retina Display compatible screenshot. The Retina Display is beautiful and is still one of the best displays till date to go on a mobile device. If Apple was planning to get rid of the old iPhone 3GS, then this is what they would begin with.
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Nairobi — Cash-strapped Telkom Kenya whose privatisation has twice floundered is losing billions of shillings in international telephone calls to a well-knit syndicate backed by government officials.
The Sunday Standard has established that an illegal call termination racket, which operates like the narcotic drug underworld, has cost the corporation, in Transport minister John Michuki's estimation, nearly Sh120 billion over the past five years.
Evidence availed to the Sunday Standard indicates that that Telkom officials are conniving with government officials and four sons of powerful politicians in the current and former administration in the racket.
The influence of the syndicate is such that the investigative government departments have been reluctant to apprehend or stop the rip off.
In August last year, Eng. Francis Wangusi, the Communication Commission of Kenya (CCK) assistant director in charge of licensing, compliance and standards, blamed some Telkom officers for abetting the fraud. CCK estimated that the Lonrho House point was capable of terminating calls worth Sh140 million per year.
Telkom's Managing Director, Michael Waweru, told the Sunday Standard that the parastatal does not have the means to track down illegal telecommunication activities. "We are just one of the many players in the market, we do not have the legal mandate to inspect other companies. That's the job of the market regulator," Waweru said, pushing the ball into CCK's court.
He, however, conceded that with over 18,000 employees, it is possible that some officers may be involved in illegal activities and promised to "catch up with all of them."
Waweru explained that it is very difficult to take action against employees who issue lines since there is nothing illegal about it.
Investigations reveal that the illegal termination of international calls started nearly a decade ago when thousands of refugees started arriving in Kenya from war-torn Somalia. In a bid to keep in touch with their relatives spread all over the world, the refugees brought in technology that enabled them to communicate at much lower rates than the costly official international calls.
The business peaked in 1999 after the split of the Kenya Post and Telecommunication Corporation (KPTC) into Postal Corporation and Telkom Kenya, which created an avenue for the creation of many international call centres. The overall effect has been an upswing in telephone charges in Kenya.
A former Telkom official said the government's reluctance to open up the telecommunication sector to private competition is a deliberate scheme to create a thriving black market for well-connected operators.
Last Tuesday, CCK officials impounded Vsat (Very Small Aperture Terminal) equipment worth over Sh40 million in Hurlingham that analysts say is just a tip of the iceberg.
Industry sources say that the Hurlingam point was an easy target since the owner is from Rift Valley and was "untouchable" in the former regime.
Other well-connected operators in the current regime have also joined the fray.
Industry sources say that officials in the current government got sucked into the lucrative trade last year after the operators kicked out their protectors in the former regime.
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Sources say that the need for "quick money" to calm current political wars may be behind the government's reluctance to stop the trade. "Telecommunication is one sector that the IMF and donors will not poke their noses into, and some people in government have realised that political power without money means nothing. They need money to survive," says a former government official who was involved in the trade before being kicked out.
Last year, the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission started what was expected to be a thorough investigation into the illegal call termination syndicate and fraud at Telkom.
Officers attached to KACC launched investigations into six contracts signed between Telkom Kenya and a number of companies to provide Internet backbone services and international call traffic termination.
The contracts between Telkom and ATC Teleports, Zanzibar Telcom, IP Planet Network, CDRI LLC, Verester and n-Tel Communications that were being blamed for creating middlemen and commissions that inflated the cost of telephone services in the country.
But before the investigations could go far, the officers were recalled to the Criminal Investigation Department and redeployed.
Mr Waweru said he was evaluating the contracts, which were signed by the previous regime.
In an incident that confirmed the high stakes of the business in May last year, CCK officials who had raided one of the major illegal international call termination centres around Ukulima House in Nairobi were nearly wiped out by the flying squad. The Vsat equipment in the area is said to a businessman linked to the unresolved Anglo Leasing scandals.
Eyewitnesses said that CCK officials first raided the premise on May 21 but were barred from entering by a Mr Mwaura who claimed that there was a meeting in progress.
On May 29, the officials went back after hi-tech detection equipment indicated that some illegal connection might have been going on around the premise.
But this time, the place was locked and the owner said that he was out of town and could not come back. The next day, May 30, eyewitnesses say, the same CCK officials came back, but the Flying Squad arrived within minutes in what appeared to have been a pre-arranged and well co-ordinated move to scuttle the operation.
Impeccable sources say that a police officer attached to the CCK saved his colleagues by identifying himself. But even after identifying themselves, the officials were turned away by the police and no inspection took place. The operator dismantled the illegal connection and only allowed inspection on June 3.
Another demonstration of the power wielded by the operators was in August when Mr Wangusi led a successful raid on Lonrho House. Industry sources say the raid annoyed top Ministry of Transport and Communication officials and the son of a senior politician who were allegedly involved in the business. They vowed to "teach Wangusi a lesson".
CCK sources say that the inspection department has since slowed down and it is not clear whether Mr Wangusi, who is out of office, has been relieved of his duties or gone on leave.
Meanwhile, as the racket persists, industry analysts are querying Ethics and Governance Permanent Secretary Mr John Githongo's silence. A telephone bureau operator who claims that he was thrown out of business by the illegal operators says his efforts to get Githongo to act on the matter have been futile.
Mr Anthony Moragwa showed the Sunday Standard numerous letters written to Mr Githongo without a response. Mr Githongo could not be reached and his office referred inquiries to a Mr Mariba who was said to be handling the matter. He did not respond to our messages the whole week.


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Nicolas John "Nick" Gibb (born 3 September 1960) is a British Conservative Party politician and Minister of State for Schools in the government of the United Kingdom. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton. Gibb served as Minister of State for Schools in the Department for Education from May 2010 until September 2012, and returned to that post in July 2014.
Early life[edit]
Nick Gibb was born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire and was educated at Bedford Modern School, Maidstone Grammar School, Roundhay School Leeds, and Thornes House School Wakefield. He then attended the College of St Hild and St Bede at the University of Durham where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Law in 1981.[1] Gibb was a member of the Federation of Conservative Students.[2] at a time when they were influenced by radical libertarian ideas.
In an interview regarding his education, Gibb spoke of how he believed Maidstone to be the best. "What was good about it was that it was rigorous" he told Teachers TV in 2006. "Every lesson was rigorous, even things like music: it was taught in the same way as chemistry." Wakefield, by contrast, was "terrible" due to its lack of rigour.[3]
Upon leaving school he took a job as a handyman in a London hotel, spending his evenings in the House of Commons watching late-night debates from the public gallery.[3]
In 1982, Gibb joined NatWest as a trainee accountant, before working on Kibbutz Merom Golam in 1983. In 1984 he joined KPMG as a chartered accountant until his election to parliament.[1] He is Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (FCA).
Political career[edit]
Gibb worked as an election agent to Cecil Parkinson at the 1987 General Election, and was the secretary of the Bethnal Green and Stepney Conservative Association in 1988, becoming its chairman the following year.
Gibb contested Stoke-on-Trent Central at the 1992 General Election but was defeated into second place some 13,420 votes behind the sitting Labour MP Mark Fisher. In 1994, Gibb was selected to contest the 1994 Rotherham by-election, caused by the death of James Boyce, held on 5 May 1994. He finished in third place, 12,263 votes behind the winner Denis MacShane.
Gibb was selected to stand as the Conservative candidate for the newly created West Sussex seat of Bognor Regis and Littlehampton at the 1997 General Election. Gibb won the seat with a majority of 7,321 and has remained the MP there since.[4] He made his maiden speech on 4 July 1997,[5] in which he spoke of the visit of King George V in 1929 to Bognor Regis to take in the sea air, hence the suffix of Regis on the town's name. He recalled also the town of Felpham which was the home of poet William Blake.
Shortly after his election, Gibb joined the opposition frontbench of William Hague when he was appointed as the spokesman on trade and industry in 1997, before joining the social security select committee later in the year. The following year, in 1998 he rejoined the frontbench as a spokesman on the treasury, moving back to trade and industry in 1999.
Gibb was reportedly involved in the faction-fight between supporters of William Hague and Michael Portillo, the then Shadow Chancellor, as a supporter of Portillo [6]
He was briefly a spokesman on environment, transport and the regions following the 2001 General Election but resigned under the leadership of Iain Duncan Smith, reportedly because he was unhappy at his new role.[7] Michael Howard brought him back to the frontbench following the Conservative Party's defeat in the 2005 General Election as a spokesman for Education and Young People. Shortly afterwards, the newly elected Conservative Party Leader, David Cameron, promoted Nick Gibb from within the Education team to shadow Minister for Schools.[4]
In the wake of the 2010 General Election and the formation of a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government, Gibb was appointed Minister of State for Schools in the new Department for Education. He left the Government at a ministerial reshuffle in September 2012, but returned to the same Department, again as a Minister of State, in July 2014.[8]
Views and controversy[edit]
Gibb is a longstanding advocate of synthetic phonics as a method of teaching children to read,[9] and is also a supporter of the motor neurone disease cause, currently being vice-chair of the All Party Motor Neurone Disease Group in parliament.[4]
Just days after being appointed as Minister for Schools in 2010, Gibb was criticised after leaked information suggested he had told officials at the Department of Education that he "would rather have a physics graduate from Oxbridge without a PGCE teaching in a school than a physics graduate from one of the rubbish universities with a PGCE".[10]
Personal life[edit]
He is the brother of Robbie Gibb, a former PR consultant who is now editor of the BBC's political programmes, The Daily Politics and (in an executive capacity) This Week.
In May 2015, Gibb came out as gay and announced his engagement to Michael Simmonds, the chief executive of the Populus polling organisation. They have been together for 29 years and are to marry later in 2015.[11][12]
- Forgotten Closed Shop: Case for Voluntary Membership of Student Unions by Nicholas Gibb and David Neil-Smith, 1985, Cleveland Press ISBN 0-948194-01-4
- Simplifying Taxes by Nick Gibb, 1987
- Duty to Repeal by Nick Gibb, 1989, Adam Smith Institute ISBN 1-870109-71-6
- Bucking the Market by Nick Gibb, 1990
- Maintaining Momentum by Nick Gibb, 1992
- ^ a b "Nick Gibb Biography". Conservative Party. Retrieved 3 June 2009.
- ^ http://conservativehome.blogs.com/torydiary/2006/07/the_federation_.html
- ^ a b Williams, Rachel (17 May 2010). "So, who is Nick Gibb?". The Guardian (London).
- ^ a b c "Nick Gibb". UK Parliament Biographies. Retrieved 3 June 2009.
- ^ "Hansard: 4 July 1997". Hansard. 4 July 1997. Retrieved 3 June 2009.
- ^ http://www.ethosjournal.com/home/item/250-an-education
- ^ Glover, Julian (18 October 2001). "Tory frontbench resignations". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 3 June 2009.
- ^ "Nick Gibb MP". Department for Education. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
- ^ "Teaching of reading to be revised". BBC News. 20 March 2006. Retrieved 3 July 2009.
- ^ Williams, Rachel (17 May 2010). "New minister Nick Gibb upsets teachers – already". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 20 May 2010.
- ^ Tan, Sylvia (6 June 2015). "UK schools minister Nick Gibb to marry secret partner of 29 years". Gay Star News. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
- ^ Watt, Nicholas (6 June 2015). "Nick Gibb, schools minister, to marry partner he kept secret for 29 years". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
External links[edit]
- Nick Gibb MP official Conservative Party profile
- Contributions in Parliament at Hansard 1803–2005
- Electoral history and profile at The Guardian
- Voting record at Public Whip
- Record in Parliament at TheyWorkForYou
- Profile at Westminster Parliamentary Record
- BBC News – Nick Gibb MP BBC profile
- Gibb presents a video on the 2011 exam results, hosted by YouTube on the Department for Education's official channel
- John Rentoul on Nick Gibb MP Ethos Journal profile
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Dr Taher Ul Qadri sahab ek bohat Bade sallallaahu alaihiwasallam hain, aur jo Huzur sallallaahu alaihiwasallam se bughz rakhta hai wo sallallaahu alaihiwasallam se bhi bughz aur dushmani rakhta hai....
Single Man Army! Wah kya kehne..Agreement Sign kardi hai Govt. Mabrook
What? in Pakistan and Indian there are hundreds of most knowledgeable scholars of Islam who are best speakers and have full knowledge of Quran and Sunnah and they know how to apply their speech to both Islam and political persons. For Tahir the pakistanis politician are more clever and more smart then Tahir, and keep many Tahirs in their pocket. Nothing will happen and he can not do anything.
dear all posters taher ul qaudri sahab is saying about only islam not india pskistan so those who want to know about islam & whatever said the prophet mohammed salAlLAHU ALIHE wassallam said listen others leave it.
Siasat become isi media pakistani are worst people fail country just imagine there is no bomb blast in his long march becoz these religious people are responsible for all blasts why indian media represented these bulshit ...siasat dont represent isi we are indian and proud to be
Please remove this type of videos
yes he is a western agent with lavish lifestyle.
Every people must watch this.
Akberuddin is in jail could be due to Allah's punishment. MIM is using Mosque, Alims to strenghten their political party. Masjid is for islamic purposes not politics. Its not allowed to talk about duniya in Masjid, while MIM is using Masjid for political reason.
They are crying about Akberuddin Owaisi not getting proper treatment. Mohd Pahelvan relatives who was injured in shooting, MIM did not allow him to get proper treatment? Was he not human being? Was he not muslim.
It could be their bad-dua that Akber is in jail today,
Tahirul Qadri is an agent of west
May Allah save muslims of Pakistan
You are asolutely right this guy is western agent he is also not religiuos , and besically he is irani Shia , if you see his four family from irani.
pakistan will never change kindly i appeal to indian muslims don't support them and i request to siasat remove this video
remove karooo ya nahin to hum samjhenge ke aap bhi choor ke sathi hai


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YIELD: Makes 12 to 16 servings
ACTIVE TIME: 2 hr
TOTAL TIME: 3 hr
Make sauce:
Drain tomatoes, reserving juice in a large bowl. Crush tomatoes with your hands and add to juice.
Cook onions in oil in pot over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until softened, about 10 minutes. Add garlic and cook, stirring occasionally, until softened, about 2 minutes. Stir in tomatoes with their juice, 4 teaspoon salt, and 1 teaspoon pepper. Simmer sauce, uncovered, stirring occasionally, until slightly thickened, 45 minutes to 1 hour. Season with salt.
Make meatballs while sauce simmers:
Cook onions in extra-virgin olive oil in a 12-inch heavy skillet over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until softened, about 10 minutes. Add garlic and cook, stirring occasionally, until softened, about 3 minutes. Transfer to a large bowl to cool.
Soak bread in milk in another bowl until soft, about 5 minutes. Firmly squeeze bread to remove excess milk, discarding milk.
Stir together cooled onion mixture, bread, eggs, parmesan, parsley, oregano, lemon zest, 51/2 teaspoon salt, and 1 1/2 teaspoon pepper until combined. Add meats to bread mixture, gently mixing with your hands until just combined (do not overmix).
Form meat mixture into about 70 (1 1/2-inch) balls with dampened hands, arranging meatballs on 2 large baking sheets or in shallow baking pans.
Heat olive or vegetable oil (1 cup) in a 12-inch heavy skillet (preferably nonstick) over medium-high heat until hot but not smoking, then brown meatballs in 4 or 5 batches (without crowding), turning frequently, about 5 minutes per batch. Return to baking sheets.
Add meatballs to sauce and gently simmer, covered, stirring occasionally, until cooked through, 20 to 30 minutes. (If pot is not large enough, divide meatballs and sauce between 2 pots.)
Prepare pasta:
Cook spaghetti in 2 batches in pasta insert in boiling salted water (3 tablespoon salt for 6 qt water) until just al dente, draining and tossing each batch with some of sauce in a large serving dish.
Serve with meatballs, remaining sauce, and grated cheese.
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Meatballs can be made and simmered in sauce 5 days ahead and chilled (covered once cool).
Meatballs with sauce can be frozen in an airtight container or heavy-duty sealable bags up to 3 months.◊


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The announcement to MSPs by Youth Employment Secretary Angela Constance was the Scottish Government's response to the Wood Commission which found that young people were not being equipped for work.
Ms Constance said: "Investing in Scotland's young workforce is key to Scotland's future economic success and tapping into all our talents through a more diverse workforce is not just the right thing to do but makes economic sense."
Labour described the plans as "modest" and called for more money for colleges.
The funding will support regional employer partnerships, designed to encourage businesses to take on more young people, and a careers advisory service.
The Government will address gender segregation and assist young disabled people and minority groups to better access training and employment programmes.


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100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong is a box set by Bon Jovi, released in 2004 (see 2004 in music) on Island Records. A collection of previously unreleased demos and B-sides, it was released to celebrate Bon Jovi's Twentieth anniversary and the milestone of the band selling 100,000,000 albums worldwide.
The box set consists of 4 CDs, and also includes a DVD of the band talking about the tracks and additional archive candid footage of the band.(Japan release has a bonus 5th cd)
The title and the cover art is a play on the 1959 Elvis Presley compilation 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong.


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text: I don't know how much more clear it can possibly be. The rules say it's OK….so who's to say someone is doing wrong? Phil Mickelson used a club that is perfectly legal and within the rules. Can anyone please explain to me how this is cheating? Besides the obvious "within the rules" argument, I have numerous problems with this whole issue.


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With Rick Scott less popular than a hangnail, they're convinced 2012 will be a banner year.
And right now, the Democratic bench has less depth than a rain puddle.
In fact, one of the potential Democratic candidates generating buzz down inHollywood was Charlie Crist … who isn't actually a Democrat.
Florida Dems are titillated at the prospect of Crist continuing his Kafkaesque transformation from Republican to independent to possibly Democrat in 2014.
It's telling that the Democrats' search for promising candidates involves recent Republicans.
Ever since Jeb Bush came onto the scene in 1998, Democrats have offered up one lackluster candidate after another.
It's like Lawton Chiles died that year … and took the party's prospects with him to the grave.
"You are absolutely right," said Democratic heavyweight John Morgan, who now employs Crist at his law firm. "If you're a Democrat, that was the day our music died."
I bet you can't even remember two of the party's last three nominees for governor.
OK, Alex Sink. But how about the guy before her in 2006?
That was Jim Davis, the guy who's platform included … zzzzzz. Sorry, I dozed off there for a minute thinking about Davis's campaign. Nice guy. Uninspiring campaign.
Before that was Bill McBride — Alex Sink's husband.
That's right. In a state with 17 million people, two of the Democratic Party's last three candidates were married to each other.
And both lost.
It must be sad when pillow talk involves comparing loss margins.
Sink was actually the best gubernatorial candidate Democrats have fielded in the past decade. She may try again in 2014. And there are a handful of other candidates with statewide potential, including former State Sen. Dan Gelber.
But the more immediate issue facing Dems is finding a slate of candidates to run with the anti-Rick Scott momentum next year.


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Fantasia Barrino: 'There Hasn't Been An Easy Part At All, Not In My Journey'
It's been nearly ten years since Fantasia Barrino made entry into the music industry as a singer, and she's still excited about the business. The entertainer recently sat down with Billboard to talk about her experience as an artist, and how she plans to do more in coming years.
"There hasn't been an easy part at all, not in my journey," explained the singer. "But I'm grateful because it made me the woman I am now. I'll be 30 on June 30. So I can say wow, I'm so glad I've touched the things I don't want to touch at 30 and done the things that I don't want to do at 30."
Barrino addressed the criticism she's received these past few months by telling media,
"Someone's always going to try and find something. At this point, however, it really doesn't matter. I'm not trying to please anyone. I just want to have peace and be able to hit the stage and sing. If you like it, thank you. If you don't, I'm sorry. I think I would go crazy if I couldn't hit the stage. It's my therapy. It's the place where I can just let loose and be free. It's also my way of giving God back the glory for giving me this gift."
When asked to describe herself now the artist said, "Fantasia then was young, green, gullible, fun. She's still fun now, but wiser." Barrino plans to release her fifth studio album in coming months.
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I can imagine it has been hard for her, she seems geniune with her life issues and how the world judged her
It hasn't been easy because she's made foolish choices.
I'm sure it's been a hard journey for her but I think she made it hard on herself by some of the foolish mistakes she has made


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Shortly afterwards, however, Æðelwealh was slain and his kingdom ravaged by the exiled West Saxon prince Caedwalla. The latter was eventually expelled by two Ealdormen named Berhthun and Andhun, who thereupon assumed the government of the kingdom. In 686 the South Saxons attacked Hlothhere, king of Kent, in support of his nephew Eadric, but soon afterwards Berhthun was killed and the kingdom subjugated for a time by Ceadwalla, who had now become king of Wessex.
Of the later South Saxon kings we have little knowledge except from occasional charters. In 692 a grant is made by a king called Noðhelm, or Nunna, to his sister, which is witnessed by another king called Watt. Nunna is described in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as the kinsman of Ine of Wessex who fought with him against Geraint, King of the Britons, in 710. According to Bede, Sussex was subject to Ine for a number of years.
There is an undated charter of Noðhelm that is witnessed by a certain Osric, without indication of rank or territory, but presumably another king, as his name is listed before, and he therefore ranked higher than, Eadberht, Bishop of Selsey, whose rank and see are also omitted. The charter can be approximately dated to some point between about 705 and 717.
Noðhelm's last surviving charter, which is dated 714 in error for 717, , is witnessed by a King Æðelstan.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that "In 722 Ealdberht fled into Surrey and Sussex, and Ine fought against the South Saxons".
A little later, Æðelberht, was King of Sussex, but he is known only from charters. The dates of Æðelberht's reign are unknown beyond the fact that he was a contemporary of Sigeferth, Bishop of Selsey from 733, as Sigeferth witnessed an undated charter of Æðelberht in which Æðelberht is styled Ethelbertus rex Sussaxonum.
After this we hear nothing more until about 765, when a grant of land is made by a king named Ealdwulf and with two other kings, Ælfwald and Oslac, as witnesses.
In 765 and 770 grants are made by a King Osmund, the latter of which was later confirmed by Offa of Mercia.
Offa also confirmed two charters of Æðelberht, and in 772 he grants land himself in Sussex, with Oswald, dux Suðsax', as a witness. It is probable that about this time Offa annexed the kingdom of Sussex, as several persons, Osmund, Ælfwald and Oslac, who had previously used the royal title, now sign with that of dux.
In the next generation, Wulfnoth Cild, Thegn of Sussex, played a prominent part in English politics. In 1009 his actions resulted in the destruction of the English fleet, and by 1011 Sussex, together with most of South East England, was in the hands of the Danes. In an early example of local government reform, the Anglo-Saxon ealdormanrys were abolished by the Danish kings and replaced a smaller number of larger earldoms. Wulfnoth Cild was the father of Godwin, who was made Earl of Wessex in 1020. His earldom included Sussex. When he died in 1053, Godwin was succeeded as Earl of Wessex (including Sussex) by his son Harold, who had previously been Earl of East Anglia.


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I have been looking at a Chromebook for quite some time now, and recently a price drop of $21 made me finally take the plunge, and so far for what it is, I have to say I am digging it.
Acer C720 Chromebook @ Amazon - $179
Why A Chromebook?
So I should begin by saying thanks to work, I have two iPads. an iPad 2 and an iPad Retina. I also own a Sony Xperia Z2 Tablet. My smartphone is currently an LG G3. I also have a 2013 Macbook Pro Retina (from work, not my own) and a dedicated gaming PC. So I have plenty of devices for doing the basics on, it is just I always miss a physical keyboard. Yep I know, one can get keyboards for their tablets, I do have a bluetooth one for my one iPad, but it is constantly losing its charge and it is small in size.
I also just like checking out new technology. In fact it is what I do for my current position of 3 years at work, so I was very intrigued by Chrome OS, so it really was just as much about seeing it in action as checking out a new toy so to speak.
However the main reason I was so intrigued by the Chromebook is I have started finally working on writing my graphic novel. For those who do not know, I am an artist. I graduated from Parsons School of Design in NYC with a degree in Illustration. I also have written on and off over the years as well (used to be on the News team here). I have wanted to combine those two passions for many, many years now but have always procrastinated doing so. I am finally going ahead and doing it, and that is why I originally picked up the Xperia Z2 tablet. I thought that would really kick start things. While it has been fantastic for the sketching side of things, the writing part, because it is a touchscreen tablet, has not been so great. Again I do realize I could get a separate bluetooth keyboard, but as I said, they need to be charged, they are a separate device which kind of defeats the purpose of a tablet to begin with IMHO, so I wanted an all in one device that made actual writing easy as could be, but that also allowed me to continue writing on whatever device I was on.
That is where a Chromebook along with Google Drive comes in. The Chromebook gives me a super easy way to write that is comfortable and quick. No waiting for boot ups, etc.
So I decided to take the plunge on this Acer. I went with it as reviews for it were pretty solid across the board. It has an Intel Celeron Haswell-micro as well, which was one of the main factors in picking it over other models.
Specifications At A Glance
- Screen Size: 11.6 inches
- Screen Resolution: 1366 x 768
- Processor: Intel Celeron 2955U 1.4 GHz (Haswell micro-architecture)
- RAM: 2 GB DDR3L SDRAM | Memory Speed: 1333.00
- Hard Drive: 16 GB SSD
- Graphics Coprocessor: Intel HD Graphics | Graphics Card Ram Size: 128 MB
- Chipset Brand: Intel
- Wireless Type: Built-in Dual Band Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n
- 1 USB 2.0 Port
- 1 USB 3.0 Port
- Average Battery Life (in hours): 8.5 hours
- 1 HDMI Port
- Weight: 2.8 Pounds
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Blue Text = Need To Know
Build Quality - Overall, Screen, Keyboard, and Touchpad
I have to say the build quality itself is about what I expected it to be for a $179 device. It is light as indicated, but it does flex every so slightly. This is clearly not a Macbook Pro, but no one should expect it to be. The keyboard itself is close to being full size. And the keys themselves feel good to the touch. Nice response to them.
As said above, the screen is 11.6 inches. The native resolution is 1366 x 768. You can actually choose one step up on the resolution, but doing so produces a not very crisp image whatsoever. The only time I would really consider changing the native display is when one is viewing videos perhaps. Even then I would probably just keep it as is on the native.
Simply put the screen is just not the best of screens. However it is more than adequate.
-.5 for the screen itself.
The touchpad is perhaps my biggest complaint with the whole thing. They have a tap to click feature on it and it seems to be way too sensitive. When I am just trying to scroll a page or move the mouse sometimes it registers as a tap instead. I tried to disable this setting completely in the Chrome OS settings itself, which definitely helped, but did not alleviate the issue entirely.
It does seem like I have to adjust how I am use to using a touchpad because of this,
Deducts -1 point from the overall score.
Chrome OS
So I went into Chrome OS not knowing much about it. I do use Chrome as my daily browser across all of my devices.
As such I am also familiar with Chrome Apps.
So this is pretty much the most important part of the Chrome OS experience. If you already use Chrome as your browser, and are familiar with the Chrome App Launcher, you have pretty much used Chrome OS. Chrome is the OS for all intents and purposes.
So I felt right at home firing it up for the first time, which it takes about 5 seconds to boot. They say 7, when I counted it was actually 5. I am sure it will change the more I add. Right away it asked me to sign into my Google account, and once I did, within about 30 seconds, everything was synced. All of my bookmarks. All of the apps I had already installed through Chrome App Launcher on my other devices. All there super quick.
It should go without saying that Chrome OS relies heavily on always being online. There are aspects that have offline functionality, however for the full experience, you need to be online.
I already know how I am going to write my graphic novel on the Chromebook, so I wanted to check out some of the other functionality I could perhaps use it for. I instantly thought of things I do on my Macbook often, and so I began testing things out.
Trying out other features I use often on my Macbook and / or Tablets
Remote Desktop To PC Upstairs.
I installed Chrome Remote Desktop first. I wanted to see how easy it was too remote in to my Gaming PC upstairs on my LAN. I had to also install the app on it. Set up a few settings and that was it. I was up and running with Remote Desktop in less than 2 minutes. So far so good.
Chromecast Integration
Next up I fired up YouTube to check out how it handled streaming videos to Chromecast. Although it took a few seconds longer to begin then it would on my Macbook Pro, once it did begin, I could not see any discernable difference between streaming videos from my ChromeBook vs. my Macbook. That was very good news to see.
With that said, casting an entire tab in chrome was definitely not as smooth of an experience as it was if I was doing it on my Macbook. In all fairness, it is not always a perfect experience on my Macbook either. But having a website open whose video does not allow for direct to Chromecast streaming so I had to have the whole browser tab cast to the Chromecast definitely produced some stuttering in the video itself. It always eventually caught up and never crashed, so that is a positive.
Finally I went to go check out Videostream, which for anyone who owns a Chromecast is an app I highly recommend if you do not already have it. Videostream lets you choose video files from anywhere on your Network to stream to the Chromecast.
Unfortunately I could not use VideoStream at all as there is a known issue that prevents it from working on the current version of Chrome OS.
-.5 deduction from the overall score, which I will take away once they sort out the issues with the current version of Chrome OS
Google Drive
Google Drive gets its own section as (imho) it is going to be a very integral part of the overall experience.
Drive integrates with other Google Apps, such as Docs, Forms, Sheets, Drawings, and the list goes on, as their answer to the Microsoft Office suite. For an online solution, and for my needs, it absolute is suffice. I am also not creating Excel documents or PPT documents with the Chromebook, so for users doing so, you may have a different experience.
However for my overall need of working on my Graphic Novel, Google Drive along with Google's "Office" apps absolutely meet my criteria.
It should be noted that just for purchasing a Chromebook, Google gives you a free 100GB upgrade for 2 years.
Now this very well could be a Catch 22 if I wound up using it as I plan to, as after the 2 years is up I will then have to pay for the service at $1.99 a month. Or perhaps the free 15 GB will be enough. I guess only time will tell, and I have 2 years to see.
Other Chrome Apps
- I installed Tweet Deck. Worked perfect.
- Installed Pocket as I have it on all of my other devices. Launches like it is an app and not just a website (although it really is just a website). Was a nice touch.
- Installed DropBox which was just a shortcut to the Dropbox Website.
- Installed Gmail Offline and checked it out. Worked great. Nice to have that option of having my email offline.
- I also installed a bunch of various other apps which I did not get time to check out all that many of them.
While there are not a ton of apps available on the Chrome Apps store, there is pretty much an app for all of the basics and even some of the not so basics.
There also does seem to be a decent amount of crap up on the store too, so I do believe it is going to be a matter of trial and error.
-.5 deduction for overall app availability and quality.
- I also installed a bunch of various other apps which I did not get time to check out all that many of them.
- I have not checked out any Games yet, but I can say I am not holding my breath on those at all and do not expect much. I think that is a realistic expectation, but perhaps I will be pleasantly surprised, and if I am, I will update this review to share that experience.
Some Photos
- I used the Chromebook with my LG G3 for putting all of these photos into this "review"
- As soon as I take a photo on my G3 it syncs with Google + Photos.
- From Google Photos I downloaded them to my Chromebook.
- I then opened them in an app called Pixlr Editor (web based photo app) and resized the resolution and also compressed them so they were smaller in size. All photos now equal 2.6 MB
- I did that for consumption, as I have Google Photos set to upload native image size, so each image alone was around 3.6 MB in size and a high resolution.
- Finally I uploaded them to DropBox for linking to from this thread.
Perhaps one can resize the photos in Google Photos, but I could not see how.
Anyway here are some shots...
Chromebook On It's Own
Keyboard Up Close
Size Comparison (Sony Xperia Z2 Tablet)
The Chromebook is just slightly larger than a XPeria Z2 Tablet (which is about the size of an iPad 2)
Screen Comparison (Sony Xperia Z2 Tablet)
As you can see there is no doubt the Xperia Tablet wins on screen. This is to be expected.
Closing Thoughts
I have to say I am very pleasantly surprised so far with the Chromebook and Chrome OS.
It has started to slow down some if I have over 10 tabs (apps) open, however it was not a huge amount, and rarely do I ever personally have that much open.
It is clearly not meant to be a full fledged laptop replacement, however I would say depending on what you use your laptop for, it could do an admirable job.
I can say this with absolute certainty. If all one needs is the basics of going online: Email, Social Media Accounts, Google Searches, etc. It is perfectly suited for these actions. In fact I will be picking my mother up one very soon as I really think it is perfect for her and her needs.
The screen and resolution of the screen is not the best, but again at this price point, that is to be expected.
Also considering what I really purchased the Chromebook for, and that is a device I can quickly pick up and write down or organize any thoughts I have for a graphic novel, it is literally perfect for that use.
I would say if you were like myself, and like using tablets but was not a big fan of not having a good physical keyboard that was not integrated with the tablet, it does the job damn good.
I will end this review by saying I did heavily consider picking up a Microsoft Surface, however once I landed on the model I thought made the most sense and added the Keyboard Cover, I was looking at over $1000 investment. So really if you compare $179 to $1000+, well there is a clear difference there. Obviously there is a clear difference as to what each system is capable of us well, but again for what I was looking for, the Chromebook made the most sense for now.
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Here is my next project's obstacle. I bought the SW Motech engine guards. The instructions looked easy enough. First, remove a bolt on each side of the bike from the plastic cover(s) at the bottom front. Then on the right side of the bike remove a hose clamp. Next remove the bolt behind the hose. It looks like a hefty bugger. Took a 19mm socket to get on it if I remember correctly. There isn't much clearance between the wrench and the bike and it felt like it was on there pretty tight. I was afraid I might ding something on the side of the bike with the wrench if I had to really but my back into getting it off. It will have to wait until I pick up a socket extension for more clearance. Probably won't find the time to touch it again until Saturday.
I don't remember if it was a 17mm or 19mm
(ETA 08-13-12: the bolts are 17mm)
but you will definitely need a short extension to get the correct leverage on it. They are extra-fine threads into aluminum, so apply steady slow pressure with enough leverage (read: a long enough bar) to break them loose. They do not have any thread-locker on them. The crankcase vent hose will be in the way, but you can push it up sufficiently to clear the socket. Did SW-Motech provide longer bolts for the guards to make up for the mounting plate thickness? If not, you may want to read my post on the Givi guards. It seems they mount in the same places, except I think that the Givi guard has a clamp to the frame tubing that the SW Motech does not have.
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reinstalling the two bolts that hold the clutch cable lower bracket and the crankcase vent hose. They do not require very much torque and you can easily strip the aluminum threads in the engine block. I have a factory service manual ordered for the bike but I have not received it yet. It would contain the torque values for the case bolts. Without knowing what the spec torque is, I would just barely snug them. They are not going to cause a leak and they are not going to fall out. The Givi instructions (which were horrible) did not supply the torque spec for either the case bolts or the engine mounting bolts. If you go too loose on either, you can always go back and correct it. If you go too high, there is often only regret.
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RALEIGH, N.C. When Army Cpl. George Hemphill returned to North Carolina from fighting in World War II, he tried to put the horrors of life as an infantryman behind him by not talking about what he had seen. That included not asking about the Purple Heart he had received and mailed home for safekeeping.
So imagine his confusion when he learned that a Florida man had purchased his medal in 2000 at an antique store in South Carolina with the hope of one day returning it to its rightful owner. And that a man in Vermont now had his Purple Heart and wanted to return it to him in a ceremony to honor his service.
"I'm just flabbergasted," said Hemphill, 90, of Union Mills. "I don't know what to think. They're just going out of their way to give it back to me. I'm just grateful to them for all the work they're doing. And the expense, it's just something. I don't know how to describe it."
Hemphill will get his Purple Heart in a ceremony Sunday afternoon at the Rutherfordton Community Center. Capt. Zachariah Fike of Burlington, Vt., who runs the nonprofit Purple Hearts Reunited, will present the award to Hemphill, along with a Bronze Star that Hemphill never knew the military had granted him.
Fike has returned 20 of the awards since he started Purple Hearts Reunited in 2009, each time either to the family members of the recipient or to a museum if no family members survived. Sunday will mark the first time he's reunited a Purple Heart with a living recipient.
"Returning these medals brings closure to the families. I absolutely love doing it," said Fike, noting donations don't nearly cover his expenses of buying the Purple Hearts and travel to present them. "I've spent quite a bit of money on this project. I would do it 10 times over because it's the right thing to do."
Hemphill received his Purple Heart after being hit by shrapnel Sept. 11, 1944, from enemy sniper fire that blinded him for three weeks. While still in a field hospital, he mailed the Purple Heart to his mother and didn't ask about it again.
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Feb. 21, 1967 L. J. ZADARNOWSKI FERTILI ZING MEANS Filed Aug. 14, 1964 .LUDW/K J. znope/vowsz/ INVENTOR.
9 AGENT United States Patent Cflficc 3,304,653 FERTILIZING MEANS Ludwik J. Zadarnowski, 528 Grace Ave., Inglewood, Calif. 90301 Filed Aug. 14, 1964, Ser. No. 389,558 6 Claims. (Cl. 47-485) The invention herein described pertains to fertilizing equipment, and more particularly to sealed devices to be completely buried in the ground or completely immersed in water for fertilizing plants that are wholly or in part below the surface of the water or the ground.
Most people, especially housewives, do not usually obtain the expected results when they attempt to fertilize potted and other plants, or plants that are placed in aquariums. If the fertilizing chemicals are dissolved in the water used on the potted plants, the plants are usually overfertilized, and when chemicals intended for fertilization are placed in the water in aquariums, the water often sours and the fish frequently die.
One object of the present invention is to supply means that will release the fertilizing chemicals over a period of several hours or days, thus obviating the aforementioned difiiculties.
Another object is to supply the chemicals in a container that may be completely buried or immersed in soil or in water.
A further object is to supply the chemicals in dry form in a container that is sealed excepting for a member that communicates both with the chemicals and the exterior of the containers and through which moisture may pass very slowly.
An additional object is to supply fertilizer-containing devices that are specifically designed either for use in water or for use in the soil.
Another object is to supply the fertilizing chemicals in a container that will embody the aforementioned features and yet be re-usable.
A further object is to supply the chemicals in a sealed container that either may be discarded after the chemicals have been completely absorbed into the surrounding soil or water or that may be left therein.
This invention possesses many other advantages, and has other objects which may be made more clearly apparent from a consideration of illustrative embodiments of the invention. For this purpose, a few such embodiments are shown in the drawings accompanying and forming part of the present specification. These forms or embodiments will now be described in detail, illustrating the general principles of the invention; but it is to be understood that this detailed description is not to be taken in a limiting sense, since the scope of the invention is best defined by the appended claims.
In the drawings:
FIGURE 1 shows a pot, partly broken away, containing soil and a completely buried embodiment of one form of the invention;
FIG. 2 is a longitudinal section of the chemical-containing fertilizing device shown embedded in the soil in FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a cross section taken on line 3-3 of FIG. 2;
FIG. 4 is a perspective view of an embodiment of my invention primarily intended for use in an aquarium;
FIG. 5 is a longitudinal section through the device of FIG. 4;
FIG. 6 shows the device of FIGS. 4 and 5 in use in an aquarium containing plants;
FIG. 7 is a perspective view of another embodiment of the invention; and
FIG. 8 is a cross section taken on line 88 of FIG. 7.
The embodiment of the invention illustrated in FIGS. 1, 2 and 3 includes a container constructed of a material 3,304,653 Patented Feb. 21, 1967 insoluble in water, the material being such that no chemical action of any kind will take place between it and such moisture as may surround it. Glass and plastic or Pyrex are suit-able for this purpose.
The chemical that is to be used, preferably in powdered form, is placed in the bottom of a vial 11 as shown at 12 with a tube 13 having a small opening 14, FIG. 3 extending therethrough.
A sealing substance 15, is then placed in the vial on top of the fertilizing chemical and surrounding the tube 13, this tube protruding above the top surface of the sealing material. This may be a capillary tube.
A substance, such as cotton, that will absorb or pass moisture therethrough, is then packed into the vial, as shown at 16 in FIGS. 2 and 3. The tube 13 extends through the sealing material 15 into the moisture-absorbent substance 16, but the top of the tube is completely covered by the moisture-absorbing material.
In using the embodiment of the invention just described, the vial 11 is. placed in the soil 18 in which the plant that is to be fertilized has already been, or will shortly be, planted. Thereafter, no fertilizing chemicals need be dissolved in the water that is periodically placed in the soil surrounding the plant, but some of the moisture from this soil gradually seeps into the moistureabsorbing material 16 in the upper portion of the vial, and a portion of it passes through the small longitudinal passageway in the tube 13 and into the chemical 12.
Slowly, over a considerable period of time, the moisture in the surrounding soil 18 will pass back and forth through the absorbent material 16 in the upper portion of the tube 13 in a two-way communication between the chemicals 12 in the bottom of the tube and the soil 18 on the outside of the tube until the chemicals within the tube finally permeate the soil 18 in the pot. In this manner, the fertilizer 12 feeds the plant in the pot at such a slow rate that overfertilization does not occur.
In the species of the invention illustrated in FIGS. 4, 5 and 6, the fertilizing chemicals 112 are placed in plastic containers, preferably tubular, of polyethylene, polyester, polypropylene or other heat-scalable material. The container 111 is closed at the bottom end 120, which is so integrally made that the container is initially watertight, or heat-sealed, at the bottom end against moisture penetration. A wick 119 extends into the fertilizing chemical 112 and passes out of the upper end of the container, which is completely sealed around and to the wick as indicated in FIGS. 4 and 5.
When this type of fertilizer-containing device is buried either in the soil or beneath the surface of the water 121 of an aquarium 122, the moisture passes from the exterior of the container through the wick 119 into the tube 111 where it absorbs some of the chemicals 112 into solution, the solution within the container 111 communicating with the water in the aquarium 122 or with the moisture in the soil surrounding the plant until such water or moisture has after a relatively long period of time absorbed the fertilizer from the tube. Plants 123 in the aquarium may be fed proper plant food in this manner without souring the water or poisoning such fish as may be in the aquarium.
The embodiment illustrated in FIGS. 7 and 8 have much in common with the previously described form. In this embodiment, the fertilizing chemicals are snugly packaged in a tube that is heat-sealed at both ends, and one or more wicks 219 are drawn, as by a needle, through the package, the resilient plastic material fitting snugly around the fibers of the wicks. it possible for the moisture from the exterior of the device to seep through the chemicals and carry some of them in solution outward through the wicks as the mois- This arrangement makes ture flows back out again in a continuous two-way communication.
Various other embodiments will readily suggest themselves to those familiar with mechanics, and parts may be omitted and replaced by other components performing the same functions, or these functions plus additional functions, and parts may be reversed or transposed and added to-all without departingfrom the broad spirit of my invention as succinctly set forth in the appended claims.
The inventor claims:
1. A combination for impregnating soil and water with fertilizing chemicals, said combination including: a vial closed at the bottom end; fertilizing chemicals in the lower portion of said vial; an elongated moisture-transmitting element having one end embedded in said chemicals; a sealing mass over said chemicals and surrounding said element; and moisture-absorbent material in said tube above said mass and surrounding the other end of said element.
2. The combination set forth in claim 1 in which said material acts as a closure for said vial.
3. The combination set forth in claim 1 in which said element is a thin tube.
4. The combination set forth in claim 1 in which said element is a wick.
5. Acombination for impregnating soil and water with fertilizing chemicals, said combination including: a tube of heat-sealable material completely sealed at its lower end; fertilizing chemicals in said tube; and a wick having its lower end embedded in said chemicals and its upper end extending from the upper end of said tube, said upper end sealed around said wick.
6. A combination for impregnating soil and water with fertilizing chemicals, said combination including: a heatsealable tube sealed at both ends; fertilizing chemicals within said tube; and at least one wick extending through said tube whereby moisture from the exterior of the tube may enter and leave said chemicals.
References Cited by the Examiner UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,971,390 8/1934 Yahres 47-48.5 2,082,712 6/1937 McIvor 43131 2,458,027 1/1949 Quist 4738.1 X 2,491,124 12/1949 Martin 4738.l X 2,931,140 4/1960 Laffier et a1. 47-48.5
ABRAHAM G. STONE, Primary Examiner.
ROBERT E. BAGWILL, Examiner.
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