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Adding a volunteer or service component into your association, club, or other group event is a really easy way to promote the work of your group and make a difference at the same time.Setting: Anywhere
There may be some people who want to join you.
World Federation of Occupational Therapists (WFOT) Occupational Therapy Global Day of Service.
Ritchard Ledgerd, the World Federation of Occupational Therapists's programme coordinator for promotion & development, first had the idea to add a service element to World Occupational Therapy Day. Around the same time, fellow occupational therapist Dr. Karen Jacobs had a similar idea on how to pair promotion of the profession and volunteerism.
Each year, thousands of Occupational Therapists (OT's) participate around the world. Examples of their activities include:
Adding volunteerism into your own work can be easy to execute! Ritchard and Karen have some suggestions on how to get started:
In 2012, they reached 10,000 members of the occupational therapist community. Over 2,500 volunteers from 24 countries participated in the day of service. Online, they had over 4,000 visits to their site from 101 countries, with videos receiving 3,000 views combined.
By 2013, they were able to reach over 30,000 people in at least 25 countries. In the social media realm, they have thousands of friends and followers.
Karen's one big piece of advice is: make it easy! If it's too complex, that's a barrier for people that are already so, so busy. She also says to let people have autonomy. Give examples and ideas, then let people be.
Ritchard says not to overthink strategy. Work on social media, your logo, and other branding, then choose a date and run with it. And promote the event all year!
If you're interested in setting up volunteerism within your group's ongoing work, Karen Jacobs would love to give you advice.
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is this a protest the hero cover band or something
no, sadly that probably would have have worked better. =/
Album Rating: 3.5This is pretty good.
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i seriously thought i was the only one who knew about this band.
Album Rating: 3.0"You'll find your hand on the skip button often, or checking to see if you've accidentally hit the repeat button because of how similar everything sounds."
i hate when that happens. but i'll check this out anyway. even if it's for a few good songs. i just heard "take back the fear" and i kinda liked it.
'runaway' is still pretty good.
i absolutely adore this band, and they only live in hour from me :] i've had Population: Declining since April and it doesn't come out till the 8th LMAO
i've had this album for 2 years.
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I forgot what a solid album this was.
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A tattoo artist charged with 195 sex crimes against 15 boys and girls dating back to 2003 waived his right to a jury trial Monday in Bucks County Court.
Other charges against Walter Meyerle, 35, of Falls Township, involving an alleged plot to escape from Bucks County Prison, were severed from the trial, which is expected to last at least a week.
Meyerle is charged with assaulting the children, ages 4 to 17, after befriending them, their parents and other relatives. In the first case presented Monday, he allegedly assaulted a 15-year-old Bensalem girl and, about seven years later, allegedly assaulted her niece.
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I can tell it to sync to vsync but im not sure if that actually lowers the clocks to ONLY render at 60hertz. And for this laptop I am on windows due to (as Ive said in a other threads) overheating problems under Linux
What vsync will do is once the GPU has finished rendering the next frame (or two with triple buffer) it will stop rendering and wait. This is like the idle loop on a CPU. The clock speed stays up but the hardware is not doing any work. It is simply idling very quickly, ready to react as soon as more work comes in.
Originally posted by Zan Lynx View PostNo, it won't lower the clocks. However, the control panel tool can probably do that. At least, on mine I have options intended to overclock the card, but I can use them to turn it down too. Changing clock speeds may void your warantee but if your laptop still has a warantee you should get the overheating fixed.
I could be totally wrong on this but I think what he's saying is... He has a program (like a daemon) that is running through a loop that will keep the CPU awake and not idling 24/7. I THINK most governor's would push the CPU to max frequencies until he killed the program because it just kept going forever. And he wants a way to tell the CPU "I know this program is keeping you awake for the rest of eternity, and you cant idle because of it, but you dont need to run it at max, running at minimum is just fine."
Such as a program that just spit out "Hello World the time is $TIME" to stdout for the rest of forever, the CPU wouldnt need to run at max frequencies just because that program is keeping the system under load.
Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostSaying "faster=more energy efficient" is very narrow-minded. That is undoubtedly true, but that's only when you look at a single-instance task. For example, if you have a task running 24/7 that does not ever max out the CPU, optimizing the code for speed might in fact use up more power, because the CPU is going all-out on a task that will never end; in other words, you can't "hurry up" an infinite procedure that is already going as fast as it can. As long as the CPU doesn't get maxed out and as long as the program keeps up with it's task, I'm sure reducing instruction sets needed would help increase power efficiency.
Overall, I'm sure the end result of this is minor. But, other articles on Phoronix have shown that, for example, updates to GPU drivers can both increase performance and power efficiency on the same hardware. Who says a compiler can't do the same?
If your program is faster, it uses less instructions for the same result, and as such A LOWER PERCENTAGE OF CPU USAGE (as it is calculated as per available instructions, whose number is fixed).
Also, if you have a task that:
- must run on 100% CPU all the time
- doesn't matter what it does during this time
you can underclock your CPU so that it calculates on instruction per year, and sleep the rest of the time. You should get a pretty good efficiency like that.
Originally posted by erendorn View PostHey, "max out the CPU" doesn't mean you use 100% of each instruction instead of 50% of each instruction. It means you use 100% of instructions instead of 50% of instructions.
If your program is faster, it uses less instructions for the same result, and as such A LOWER PERCENTAGE OF CPU USAGE (as it is calculated as per available instructions, whose number is fixed).
Also, if you have a task that:
- must run on 100% CPU all the time
- doesn't matter what it does during this time
you can underclock your CPU so that it calculates on instruction per year, and sleep the rest of the time. You should get a pretty good efficiency like that.
I wish there was a way to tell the CPU (combined with thermal sensors) "Screw the frame rate, never get above xyz degrees in temperature."
A lot of games already have a frame-rate control scale that (I assume) adds a small sleep to the main game loop to slow it down, I use it in any game that has it available during the summer because my PC is way too hot.
It's possible, but using sensors would probably not be a good idea.
A lot of games already have a frame-rate control scale that (I assume) adds a small sleep to the main game loop to slow it down, I use it in any game that has it available during the summer because my PC is way too hot.
On phones..
The CPU isn't the highest power consumer, the display is. When I get the result I'm waiting for, I turn off the screen.
Here a faster CPU is a better gain than a slower with considerably better efficiency because power use isn't only about the CPU.
But with pipelining, continuous wakeup tasks can spend more power in CPU start-up than for doing their work. In those cases, an efficient core (slow = ok) seems best.
Hi everyone,
I'm a PhD student involved in the ENTRA project from the University of Bristol. I'm also sysadmin at a big UK technology news website, but we won't talk about that . I've been working on energy modelling of software applications for multi-threaded embedded systems for nearly three years and so some of my work is relevant to ENTRA, which kicked off in 2012.
Ask me anything you like - I'll answer if I can. Pre-emptively, however, a few comments on things already discussed here:
1. "Faster = more energy efficient" is of course true, by virtue of being able to do more work. So writing more performance-efficient code will, for the same data set, invariably be more energy efficient.
2. Better still, if your idle power is low enough and you can do DVFS, then race-to-idle can sometimes work in your favour. The relationship isn't that straightforward, though. The dynamic energy consumption of a CMOS device is proportional to the voltage squared, so if you need to up the voltage in order to get a higher frequency, energy consumption can rise quicker than the speed gain you get. The specifics of this behaviour, and the sweet-spots of volatge/frequency operation as well as whether dynamic or static power are dominant are dictated by the process technology's feature size as well various other fabrication options. For example, standard 45nm may have one typical static/dynamic behaviour, whereas 45nm-LP (low-power) may have a smaller static power, but you're more limited in operating frequency.
3. Considering the inefficiencies of things like displays and power supplies is important at a system level. Saving 20% of energy in some IP block within the processor is one thing, but if that block contributes to only 3% of the processor energy, which is itself only 10% of the system, you're not changing the world. That said, I work with embedded systems - they might have a network interface (sometimes), but my systems have no display.
4. Compiler optimisations for speed = compiler optimisation for energy is typically true, because of point 1. That's not to say there aren't other optimisations that specifically improve energy with no performance impact (by smoothing out unavoidable slack, for example). But that's not typically been the goal of a compiler programmer when searching for new optimisation passes.
5. ENTRA stands for ENergy TRAnsparency - it's not just about the tools providing you with optimisations, it's about helping programmers understand where the energy is going. There are programmers that care about performance, and they can profile it relatively easily and see where system time is being spent. The energy behaviour of a system in relation to the software that somebody is writing is much more difficult to get a handle on. So one of our motivators is that if we can give people more information on the energy behaviour of their program, they can start to understand how to code with energy efficiency in mind.
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By Dale Robertson | January 15, 2007
Photo By Smiley N. Pool/ChronicleEthiopians Feyisa Tusse, left, and Dire Tune came home winners in the 2007 Chevron Houston Marathon.
Photo By SMILEY N. POOL/CHRONICLEFeyisa Tusse of Ethiopia blows kisses as he runs the final 100 meters to win the men's division of the 2007 Chevron Houston Marathon.
Photo By SMILEY N. POOL/CHRONICLEDire Tune of Ethiopia wins women's division of the 2007 Chevron Houston Marathon.
Photo By Steve Ueckert/ChronicleA runner with a combination fabric and body paint top passes mile 11 of the 2007 Houston Marathon.
Photo By Steve Ueckert/ChronicleThousands of runners took part in the 2007 Houston Marathon events.
Photo By Steve Ueckert/ChronicleWheelchair competitor and race winner Saul Mendoza races during the 2007 Houston Marathon.
Photo By Steve Ueckert/ChronicleNancy Blaylock waits at mile 11 to encourage her son-in-law, one of marathon runners.
Photo By Steve Ueckert/ChronicleA runner waves to a photographer during the 2007 Houston Marathon.
Photo By Steve Ueckert/ChronicleThe first pack behind the leaders, all also elite runners, race during the 2007 Houston Marathon.
Photo By Steve Ueckert/ChronicleRunners pass mile 11 of the 2007 Houston Marathon.
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Photo By Steve Ueckert/Houston ChronicleHouston marathoners pass mile 11 in the 2007 Houston Marathon.
Photo By Steve Ueckert/ChronicleThe leaders of the marathon pass mile 11.
Photo By Steve Ueckert/ChronicleThe leaders of the 2007 Houston marathoners pass mile 11 at the intersection of South Main and University Blvd near the Texas Medical Center and Rice University. (Steve Ueckert / Chronicle)
Photo By Steve Ueckert/Houston ChronicleRunners pass mile 11 at the intersection of South Main and University Blvd near the Texas Medical Center and Rice University.
Photo By Steve Ueckert/ChronicleSally Browne cheers the 2007 Houston marathoners passing mile 11.
Photo By Steve Ueckert/ChronicleA US Marine complete with dog tags is among the 2007 Houston marathoners passing mile 11.
Photo By Steve Ueckert/ChronicleThousands of runners hit the streets for the 2007 Houston Marathon.
Photo By SMILEY N. POOL/CHRONICLERyan Hall of Mammoth Lakes, Calif., wins the men's Aramco Houston Half Marathon in an American Record time of 59:41.
Photo By SMILEY N. POOL/CHRONICLEElva Dryer of Gunnison, Colo., wins the women's Aramco Houston Half Marathon.
Photo By SMILEY N. POOL/CHRONICLERunners take off from the start line of the 2007 Chevron Houston Marathon.
Ultimately, seven runners out of some 20,000 entrants were transported to area hospitals, one from the course and six from the medical area in the George R. Brown Convention Center.
Citing privacy concerns, marathon officials said they couldn't provide names or further information, but none of the runners was believed to be dealing with serious medical problems.
Sign of the timesFeyisa Tusse's 2:11:39 marked the sixth consecutive year that the winning time improved after it had soared to Christopher Ciamarra's 2:29:27 in 2001, when the race stopped paying prize money.
Tusse became the 12th champion to beat 2:12.
That standard was bested eight times between 1982 and 1990 but just five times in the 17 years since.
The only runner to finish under 2:11 besides course-record holder Richard Kaitany (2:10:04 in 1989) was the aptly named Turbo Tumo, who ran a 2:10:34 in 1996.
Masterful performanceFiraya Sultanova-Zhdanova had to settle for the masters title this year after winning the open marathon title last year, but the 45-year-old Russian, who lives in Florida, said she felt better this time and ran a better race than she did in 2006. The problem was the competition.
Dire Tune, the new champion, is 24 years younger and ran fast enough to break the 22-year-old women's course record.
"I could not compete with the young girl," Sultanova-Zhdanova said through an interpreter. "I am very happy with my race today."
Sultanova-Zhdanova ran almost seven minutes slower than a year ago and more than 12 minutes slower than Tune.
Hall of Fame bowsSix prominent, near-legendary local running figures were the inaugural inductees into the Houston Marathon Hall of Fame at the Pasta Party at the Hilton Americas on Saturday night:
• Pete League — Founded the race in 1972 because he thought Houston needed its own marathon. He headed up the first three before starting the Bayou City Fun Run. Now an Austin resident, he still helps out with the race each year. This year, he was charged with overseeing security at the George R. Brown Convention Center.
• David Hannah — Directed the race from 1980 through 2002, a period of huge growth. In 1982, Houston became just the sixth marathon in the country to offer prize money. He also rounded up the first three title sponsors.
• James Ketelsen — The Tenneco CEO made his company become the race's first title sponsor in 1979, and it stayed on board for 17 years.
• Tom and Mary Anne McBrayer — At the first marathon in Memorial Park, it was their station wagon that marked the turnaround point on the five-loop course. Tom personally has measured every marathon course since, and both have taken on innumerable responsibilities for the race.
• Jack Lippincott — He ran his first Houston Marathon in 1975 and hasn't missed one since, good for 33 in a row after Sunday. It's the longest streak ever in the race. He also is in charge of the marathon veterans committee today.
No backing downAt first, Jennifer Faraone of Toronto, a 32-year-old mother of a 6-month-old girl, was entered in the marathon. But as Faraone was trying to regain her form after being pregnant, a heel injury struck, and she backed off to the half-marathon. Even that seemed too much after her ankle and hip started hurting, so she moved down to the 5K.
"I could either do the half nice and easy or really push the 5K," she said.
Faraone pushed hard enough. The 32-year-old Canadian won, finishing in 18:23 to beat San Antonio's Janessa Dunn by 52 seconds for her first "international" victory — i.e., outside Canada — at any distance.
"I looked at last year's winning time (19:00) and thought I could be near the top," she said, "but I didn't go out there thinking I was going to win. I'm not competitive like that."
Her personal best at the distance is 17:37, so apparently having and caring for the baby hasn't taken too much out of her. Faraone said she would like to come back next year to try the half-marathon. She admits she has lost her enthusiasm for the whole enchilada.
Jacob Phillips of Grand Prairie won the men's 5K in 15:19. He edged Houston's Luis Armenteros by 5 seconds.
Pace-setterRyan Hall established his dominance early in Sunday's Aramco Half Marathon. Fasil Bizuneh, who finished second in the race with a time of 1:02:20, said he tried to keep a pace with Hall from the start but realized quickly that it was going to be difficult.
"I felt like if I wanted to stay with him, I'd be red-lining a little bit. I didn't feel like going into debt after two miles," Bizuneh said.
Family footstepsMen's half-marathon champion Ryan Hall isn't the only successful runner in his family. Younger brother Chad, a senior at Big Bear High School in California, won his first state cross country title last fall and won a national title in December at he 2006 Foot Locker Cross Country Championships.
For aches and pains
Now that the races are over, what about all of those aches and pains?
Dr. Jack E. Jensen and the Athletic Orthopedics & Knee Center, located at 9180 Old Katy Road, Suite 200, will provide a free post-marathon Injury Assessment Clinic for runners on Tuesday (1-3 p.m.) and Wednesday (2-4 p.m.).
Appointments are available on a walk-in basis. Call 713-984-1400 for information.


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nvidia-settings & xorg.conf and multi screens
I have a computer with a quadro FX 3400 with two dvi output. I have 2 monitors with full hd resolution 1920x1080. My problem is that I have configured my xorg.conf to use the two monitors as a big desktop but it is not ok.
The first monitor is ok (1920x1080) but the second is not well recognized.
When I use nvidia-settings there is the first monitor that is at 1920x1080 but the sekond is at 640x480 and is not activate.
Moreover, for the first monitor there is a lot of resolution whereas I have only defined one resolution (1920x1080).
If someone can explain me why I have such a result with nvidia-settings and how can I resolve this problem and really use my xorg.conf ?
Thank you !
My xorg.conf:
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder26) Fri Dec 15 10:40:27 PST 2006
# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "HD"
Screen 0 "ScreenHD_0" 0 0
Screen 1 "ScreenHD_1" RightOf "ScreenHD_0"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "unix/:7100"
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "fr"
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "HD_monitor"
VendorName "Projection Design"
ModelName "Action! Model three 1080"
HorizSync 15.0 - 150.0
VertRefresh 48.0 - 190.0
ModeLine "1920x1080i" 82.620 1920 2089 2153 2448 1080 1100 1105 1125 +Hsync +Vsync interlace
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400"
Screen 0
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard1"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400"
Screen 1
Section "Screen"
Identifier "ScreenHD_0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "HD_monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1920x1080i"
Section "Screen"
Identifier "ScreenHD_1"
Device "Videocard1"
Monitor "HD_monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1920x1080i"
Re: nvidia-settings & xorg.conf and multi screens
Please start X with the following command:
startx -- -logverbose 6
and then generate and attach an nvidia-bug-report.log while the problem is present.
Re: nvidia-settings & xorg.conf and multi screens
1 Attachment(s)
Here 's the nvidia-bug-report.log : Attachment 24436
Re: nvidia-settings & xorg.conf and multi screens
I see a number of problems in your bug report.
First, the EDID for both CRTs is not getting detected:
(WW) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Unable to read EDID for display device CRT-0
(WW) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Unable to read EDID for display device CRT-1
While you don't neccesarily need the EDID for a CRT, it seems very strange that neither has one. How are you connecting the CRTs to the graphics card?
Second, if you're using multiple Device sections in xorg.conf, you need to specify the BusID in them, or the X server has no way of knowing which physical device you're referencing. This is likely the biggest problem.
Re: nvidia-settings & xorg.conf and multi screens
I can't use EDID because I use a matrix switcher (I have severals monitors). that's why edid can't be used.
For the Bus id it is true, I don't use it. I will correct it.
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Suitcase - Brown Leather, circa 1954-1966 Reg. No: SH 930732
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- Suitcase used by Phillip Law in Antarctica, circa 1954 - 1966. This is part of Museum Victoria's collection of artefacts from the post-war era of scientific exploration of Antarctica.
Phillip Law was the first Director of the Antarctic Division of the Commonwealth Department of External Affairs, now the Australian Antarctic Division of the Commonwealth Department of Environment and Heritage. Under Dr Law's Directorship Australia established a permanent presence in Antarctica.
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- This suitcase is rather large in size, and is red/brown in colour. A zip runs around the edge of the case allowing it to be closed. A lock is found in the centre of this zip. Sewn onto the lid of the case is a small section of leather that opens to reveal the name and address of the owner. Also to be found on the lid are remnants of stickers. Inside the case, there are two sets of leather straps to hold the clothes in place. The lining is made from a cream cotton. Inside the lid is a gathered section of cotton to be used as another storage area. There are two handles for carrying the case.
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But what I don't enjoy or understand is rattling the saber with the threat of leaving instead of just leaving. DAZ is a business. If they see a drop in sales, they have enough presence of mind to adapt and begin creating more content for V4 and M4. If they see that they can make more of a profit by creating Genesis content, then they will continue down that path despite what any posts in this forum state to the contrary.
Daz never used to ask Platinum Club members why they cancelled their membership, so I'm not sure how they would know why people left.
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Roger Gracie submits Trevor Prangley in the 1st round
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1/30/11 10:03 PM by CokeBoyz
smhu know that was pat rite?
1/30/11 6:03 PM by JkdSam
Firefox showed the "Roger Gracie def" on a separate line than Prangley by rear choke. You are correct.
1/30/11 4:42 PM by BJJSavate
1/30/11 4:40 PM by ghostofgibran
Because they don't say that. Roger won.
1/30/11 1:22 PM by DueceDroppin
The UKers are so pathetic. This reminds me of when Rampage was training there and they all tried to latch onto him after all of their home-growns were getting their asses beat.
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1/30/11 1:17 PM by JkdSam
The results on page 1 say Roger lost. Why are people saying Good Work to him?
1/30/11 10:14 AM by Master Bater
just the way i called it in 2 other thread on here 2 days ago haha... they are going back to the "Old Gracie" way... avoid strikes, clinch, takedown, mount, take back, RNC... simply following that game plan (and nothing else) is getting them better results, Ralek is doing the same and is also 3-0Good Work Roger... Gracie UK.
1/30/11 9:03 AM by potential_lulz
Well done Roger. Fuck you to the idiots ( on both sides of the fence) who are trying to turn this into a racewar. Just be happy for Roger and his potential in mma.
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And roger's academy is where?.........


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Flights land in UK as airports reopen across Europe; chaos not over as backlog looms
LONDON (AP) - Europe's busiest airport reopened Tuesday as air traffic across the continent lurched back to life. But the gridlock created by Iceland's volcanic ash plume was far from over: Officials said it would be weeks before all stranded travelers can be brought home.
Passengers wept with relief as flights took off from Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport, Amsterdam and elsewhere. A jetliner from Vancouver, British Columbia, was the first to land at London's Heathrow airport, the continent's busiest, since the volcano erupted last week.
British Airways said it hoped 24 other flights from the United States, Africa and Asia would land at Heathrow later in the day.
Travelers cheered as the first flights took off.
Jenny Lynn Cohen, waiting at Charles de Gaulle to travel to San Francisco, had a boarding pass but could hardly believe she was going to fly.
Police: Hospital shooter mentally ill, thought doctor had implanted chip during appendectomy
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A mentally ill gunman who killed a hospital worker and wounded two others was upset with a doctor he thought had implanted a monitoring device during an appendectomy in 2001, police said Tuesday.
Knoxville Police Chief Sterling Owen IV said gunman Abdo Ibssa (AB'-doh IHB'-sah) first entered a medical tower near Parkwest Medical Center and asked for the doctor who performed the appendectomy. After being told the doctor wasn't there, Ibssa went to another area where patients are discharged and opened fire with a revolver.
He killed himself after shooting the three women who work at the hospital on Monday, a day before his 39th birthday.
"There was less than 5 seconds from the time of the first shot until the last shot," Owen said at a news conference.
Investigators found a note at Ibssa's Knoxville apartment in which the gunman said the doctor had implanted a chip that was being used to track his movements, Owen said.
Watchdog group wants military to cancel evangelist's Pentagon appearance on prayer day
DENVER (AP) - A watchdog group objected Tuesday to an evangelist's invitation to speak at the Pentagon next month, saying his past description of Islam as "evil" offended Muslims who work for the Department of Defense and the appearance should be canceled.
Mikey Weinstein, president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, said inviting evangelist Franklin Graham to speak May 6, the National Day of Prayer, "would be like bringing someone in on national prayer day madly denigrating Christianity" or other religious groups.
It would also endanger American troops by stirring up Muslim extremists, Weinstein said.
Graham is the son of famed evangelist Billy Graham and president and CEO of both Samaritan's Purse, a Christian international relief organization in Boone, N.C., and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, in Charlotte, N.C.
He said through a spokesman that he will be a guest of the Pentagon and will speak only if he's still invited. A military spokeswoman said she was locating officials to respond to the criticism.
Unhealthy school lunches blamed for making young Americans obese and unfit for military
WASHINGTON (AP) - Too fat to fight? Many American children are so overweight from being fed french fries, pizza and other unhealthy foods at school lunchrooms that they cannot handle the physical rigors of being in the military, a group of retired officers say in a new report.
National security is threatened by the sharp rise in obesity rates for young people over the last 15 years, the group Mission: Readiness contends. Weight problems are now the leading medical reason that recruits are rejected, the group says, and thus jeopardize the military's ability to fill its ranks.
In a report released Tuesday, the group says that 9 million young adults, or 27 percent of all Americans ages 17 to 24, are too fat to join the military. The retired officers were on Capitol Hill advocating for passage of a wide-ranging nutrition bill that aims to make the nation's school lunches healthier.
The military group acknowledges that other things keep young adults out of the armed services, such as a criminal record or the lack of a high school diploma.
Although all branches of the military now meet or exceed recruitment goals, retired Navy Rear Adm. James Barnett Jr., a member of the officers group, says the obesity trend could affect that.
AP source: Obama has begun talks with potential Supreme Court nominees
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama has begun conversations with potential Supreme Court nominees, a senior administration official said Tuesday, signaling an upswing in the president's consideration of an already coalescing list of candidates.
Obama's review will throttle ahead on Wednesday morning when he meets privately with the top Democrat and Republican in the Senate along with the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the panel that will hold confirmation hearings on Obama's nominee.
The president's nomination is expected over the next few weeks.
Obama's discussions with candidates for the high court have not been formal interviews, the administration official emphasized, speaking on condition of anonymity to protect the privacy of Obama's deliberations. The official would not say whether the conversations have been held in person or by phone.
Obama is choosing a successor to Justice John Paul Stevens, who is retiring this summer after nearly 35 years on the court. Obama's choice will leave his imprint long after he leaves office, as justices have lifetime tenure and enormous power to shape American life with their interpretations of the Constitution.
Supreme Court strikes down law aimed at animal cruelty videos on free speech grounds
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court, with only one dissenting vote, on Tuesday struck down a federal ban on videos that show graphic violence against animals. The ruling cheered free speech advocates, but it raised concerns that more animals will be harmed.
The justices threw out the criminal conviction of Robert Stevens of Pittsville, Va., who was sentenced to three years in prison for videos he made about pit bull fights.
The law was enacted in 1999 to limit Internet sales of so-called crush videos, which appeal to a certain sexual fetish by showing women crushing to death small animals with their bare feet or high-heeled shoes.
The videos virtually disappeared once the measure became law, the government argued. The Bush administration used the law for the first time when it indicted Stevens in 2004.
All 50 states have laws against animal cruelty, but the federal statute targeted the videos because it has been difficult to prosecute people who take part in violence against animals with a camera rolling, but not showing their faces.
Police: Rockies president Keli McGregor dies in hotel room in Salt Lake City
DENVER (AP) - Colorado Rockies president Keli McGregor has died in a hotel room in Salt Lake City, police said Tuesday.
Detective Rick Wall said two of McGregor's associates couldn't get in touch with him and that someone entered his room at The Grand America Hotel in downtown Salt Lake City and found the 48-year-old McGregor unconscious Tuesday morning.
Police were called about 9 a.m. MDT and emergency workers arrived on the scene and were unable to revive him.
"There are no signs of foul play. ... Based on the initial investigation (police and fire officials) did not see anything suspicious," Wall said. "There is nothing suspicious. At this point it would look like it was some sort of a natural cause or something along those lines."
Wall said the investigation has been turned over to the medical examiner's office, which will determine the cause and time of death.
Colorado man loses part of his pinky finger when thief snatches iPad bag at Denver mall
DENVER (AP) - A thief's thirst for a brand new iPad cost a Colorado man not only a much-coveted device but also two-thirds of a pinky finger.
Doctors had to amputate part of Bill Jordan's left pinky after a man Thursday yanked away a bag containing an iPad that Jordan had just purchased at a Denver mall.
Jordan, 59, had the cord of the bag wrapped around his left hand when the thief "completely blind-sided" him and jerked the bag off his hand, stripping the flesh of Jordan's finger down to the bone.
"He kept pulling until something had to give, and it wound up being my finger," Jordan said in an interview Tuesday.
"There was nothing but bone showing on the whole back of the pinky," Jordan said. "The skin was just gone."
Goldman reports blowout profits of $3.3B, but legal troubles mount and stock keeps falling
NEW YORK (AP) - Goldman Sachs is still the king of Wall Street - at least when it comes to making money.
Four days after being accused by the government of fraud in the subprime mortgage mess, the big investment bank reported blowout first-quarter profits Tuesday of $3.3 billion, nearly double from the same period a year ago. But it didn't get to celebrate.
Goldman spent the day defending itself against the Securities and Exchange Commission's charges and saw its troubles mount:
- Britain's financial regulator began an investigation into the bank's London-based international operations.
- The European Commission called for tighter regulation of the complex financial investments at the heart of the SEC case.
- Investors brushed off the eye-popping earnings and sent Goldman's stock falling more than 2 percent. In the past three days, the company's market value has declined by nearly $13 billion.
Jack A. Ablin, chief investment officer at Harris Private Bank in Chicago, said he couldn't recall another time when a company reported such stellar earnings only to see its stock fall.
Cincinnati Reds pitcher Edinson Volquez suspended 50 games for banned fertility substance
CINCINNATI (AP) - Former All-Star pitcher Edinson Volquez was suspended 50 games Tuesday following a positive test for a banned fertility substance, a punishment that will cost him money but won't hurt the Cincinnati Reds' rotation.
The 26-year-old right-hander is recovering from reconstructive elbow surgery and isn't expected to rejoin the Reds until late July at the earliest. He can serve the suspension from Major League Baseball while continuing his rehabilitation at the team's spring training complex in Goodyear, Ariz.
"That's the only good thing," Reds pitcher Bronson Arroyo said. "I'm actually surprised they're letting him do that."
Volquez became the first player suspended under the major league drug program since Manny Ramirez of the Los Angeles Dodgers was penalized 50 games last May.
Volquez said in a statement he received a prescription in the Dominican Republic as part of his treatment to start a family with his wife. He said the drug was banned by MLB - four types of fertility substances are illegal under baseball rules.
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I purchased this ring hoping it would be a believable size to wear as a wedding band with my real diamond engagement ring. What I would like to know is why TSC bothers to bring on these pieces of jewelry that are supposed to be identical to real diamonds, when in fact the stones are such a large size, there is no way anyone would ever believe you could actually afford a ring like this that was real diamonds. Its very frustrating as a consumer. Why not bring on a ring that has stones half this size, that way people would actually not even question if it was real or fake (It would look like a $2000 dollar ring, unlike this which would run around $8000 if it was real diamonds). There is no way anyone would ever believe I could afford a ring with diamonds this size, since my engagement ring is only a half carat. Please, please bring some rings on your show that are a BELIEVABLE size....the platinum plate is gorgeous and the shape of the ring is nice, but the size of the actual stones are just way too big to be realistic for the average person to be able to afford.
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Dwight Howard and Deron Williams had dinner. OMG!
Dec 29, 2011, 4:55 PM EDT
This is going to get blown out of proportion, no matter how much I try to tamp it down here. Even if I tell you this kind of thing happens all the time.
Deron Williams went to dinner with Dwight Howard Wednesday night, reports the Star Ledger (via Eye on Basketball). The Nets are in Orlando to
get hammered by play the Magic Thursday.
"Since he's been in the league, every time he comes to town, we go eat dinner and just kick it," Howard said after the Magic's shootaround today. "We've been friends since the Olympics, and so we go out to eat, have a bite."
Let's not be naïve — at some point future plans and if they might play together came up. Williams may have tried to sell him on Brooklyn, they may have talked about Dallas. Heck, they may have talked about Cleveland for all we know. Okay, probably not.
But mostly they probably talked about families and hobbies and whatever else they share in common. Like their gold medals and if they want to get another one next summer. This was not high pressure recruiting and no decisions were made. They talked like friends talk.
These kinds of dinners happen all the time among players. It's really not a big deal.
What I really want to know is, what did they have to eat? Pho? Steaks? Roast duck in a nice cherry sauce? Dang, now I'm hungry.
- t16rich - Dec 29, 2011 at 5:15 PM
David Stern sentences them both to life!!! In Orlando and Jersey. Any potential trade sending one of these guys to the other team will be void by the Mr.Stern.
- therealhtj - Dec 29, 2011 at 5:55 PM
Only if it's to the Lakers.
- maestro323 - Dec 29, 2011 at 6:52 PM
I heard that they were at Texas De Brazil…
- Gordon - Dec 29, 2011 at 6:55 PM
Did Deron kiss Dwight good night too?
- efueshe - Dec 29, 2011 at 7:18 PM
Kurt I love how you incorporated Pho is one of your posts. Most definitely an LA guy.
- coopey33 - Dec 29, 2011 at 7:19 PM
Ummm I know the magic are better than the nets but to say they are going to Orlando to get hammered is kinda dumb,,, ESP cause Orlando is on the decline,,, just seemed like a weird comment
- therealhtj - Dec 29, 2011 at 9:05 PM
And the Nyets are on the rise?
- raidmagic - Dec 29, 2011 at 9:10 PM
seriously? The Nets get hammered by everyone don't they?
- dalucks - Dec 29, 2011 at 9:15 PM
Probably talking about how much money they are going to sign for in Dallas. Just as Mark Cuban to trade Lamar Odom back to the Lakers for his trade exception.
- anhdazman - Dec 30, 2011 at 5:48 AM
What the Pho?
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Of course, "Ritual" isn't exactly a "new" "Tales from the Crypt" movie. It's five years old, having been produced in 2001 as the final nail in the "Crypt" movie coffin, after the middling performances of the first two features, 1995's "Demon Knight" and 1996's "Bordello of Blood," demonstrated that the franchise's TV following didn't translate into box-office clout. Also, "Bordello of Blood" was pretty lame.
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"Ritual" feels like a contractual obligation designed to bridge the two worlds: It's a remake of
But Tourneur's film was all low-key suggestion and atmospheric dread, and that won't do for a "Tales from the Crypt" movie, so the screenplay by Rob Cohen and director Avi Nesher leans just as heavily on the shocks-and-sex mixture of
The two sources effectively cancel each other out, leaving "Ritual" somewhere between dud and dreck ... and probably explaining why it's been sitting on its distributor's shelf for half a decade. The dearth of star power in its cast couldn't have helped -- Grey's co-stars include
But if you're a completist, "Ritual" does open with two solid minutes of that wacky Crypt Keeper, as the crumbly puppet (voiced by
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RELEASE DATE: May 2, 2006
TIME: 106 minutes
DVD EXTRAS: Spanish subtitles
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Since the glory days of Earth, Wind & Fire, many groups have tried to extend upon Maurice White's classic synthesis of ethnic rhythms, salsa, soul, jazz and funk. Now, along comes Incognito, with their own suave brand of contemporary jazz/R&B. Rising from the ashes of the early 1980s British funk-jazz scene (which produced chart-toppers such as Level 42, Shakatak and Sade), Incognito is a hard grooving 12-piece ensemble featuring soaring horns, a dynamic vocal trio and a pulsing rhythm section. Taking off on the success of their two previous Verve/Forecast releases (INSIDE LIFE and TRIBES, VIBES AND SCRIBES), Incognito really gelled as a live band during their triumphant 1992 American tour, when their opening act often upstaged headliners Lee Ritenour and The Yellowjackets. Guitarist Jean Paul "Bluesy" Maunick is the creative force behind Incognito, and it was his strength of vision which kept the idea of British funk-jazz alive after the scene more or less collapsed in the mid-1980s. Maunick's writing/arranging skills were showcased on a pair of tunes he conceived for Maxi Priest's 1989 hit album, BONAFIDE, enabling him to re-tool Incognito in its present form. "Bluesy" Maunick's arranging skills are heard to particular advantage on the acid jazz groove "Deep Waters," where he sets up a lean, infectious pulse for his tale of sensual surrender, as the vocalists and rhythm players trade figures back and forth in wave after wave of warm harmonies. The resulting music is smooth, sumptuous funk. Lead vocalist Maysa Leak's horn-like fluency and effortless sense of swing contribute mightily to the group sound, which is part of Incognito's appeal: while Leak, Mark Anthoni and Sarah Brown set the melodic direction for each song, the overall effect (as on the James Brown-inspired anthem "Talkin' Loud") is of free-spirited interplay and melodic give and take--their vocal harmonies are often used as a compliment to the horn and rhythm sections.
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Where Do We Go From Here
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After some lineup tweaking, the "classic" Hanoi Rocks lineup was put in place, consisting of Monroe, guitarists Andy McCoy and Nasty Suicide, bassist Sam Yaffa, and drummer Nicholas "Razzle" Dingley. On the strength of several Euro-only indie releases (1981's Bangkok Shocks, 1982's Self Destruction Blues and Oriental Beat, plus 1983's Back to Mystery City), and European tours (as well as visits to such exotic locales as Israel and Japan), a buzz began to build. Hanoi Rocks was signed to Columbia Records soon after, as U.S. success appeared to be just around the corner -- especially after the release of 1984's Two Steps from the Move. Then came a much-publicized car accident that killed Dingley (behind the wheel was an inebriated Vince Neil) in December of 1984. Despite Monroe and company attempting to carry on with replacements, the promising Hanoi was laid to rest later the next year.
Relocating to New York City, Monroe began to pick up the pieces and embarked on a solo career. His first solo release was 1987's Nights Are so Long (a Scandinavia-/Japan-only release), which was quite Dead Boys-influenced (Monroe had befriended Stiv Bators and covered one of his solo songs, while guitarist Jimmy Zero contributed a pair of songs). An appearance in the star-studded Sun City video followed, as did a worldwide solo deal with Polygram Records. An initial plan of reissuing Nights failed to pan out, resulting in 1989's Not Fakin' It being the first domestically issued solo Monroe release. The album would go on to become Monroe's most successful stateside release (and the only one to appear on the Billboard charts), while all of Hanoi Rocks' albums were reissued on Guns N' Roses' short-lived Uzi Suicide label (Monroe also appeared on GN'R's Use Your Illusion releases and The Spaghetti Incident? ).
Many assumed that Monroe would obtain ever-elusive breakthrough success this second time around, but once more, it was not to be. A planned collaboration with ex-Billy Idol guitarist Steve Stevens failed to pan out, as it looked like Monroe had vanished. This proved not to be the case, and he continued to issue lower-profile solo releases (1992's Jerusalem Slim, 1996's Peace of Mind, 1999's Life Gets You Dirty, 2002's Take Them and Break Them, and 2003's Whatcha Want). Monroe has also sporadically reunited with his ex-Hanoi bandmates, including Yaffa, under the name Demolition 23 (1995's Demolition 23), and with McCoy as Hanoi Rocks, resulting in the 2002 release, Twelve Shots on the Rocks. ~ Greg Prato, Rovi


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One of the main upgrades to the nextiPhone's internals will be a redesigned wireless system featuring a new Qualcomm-made LTE chip, as revealed by images of a prototype iPhone 6S logic board shared by a source. As shown in the image below, the new device will include Qualcomm's MDM9635M chip, also known as the '9X35′ Gobi modem platform. This new chip promises significant performance improvements over the "9X25″ chip found inside of the current iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, capable of delivering up to twice the theoretical LTE download speeds…

The new MDM9635M chip was first introducedby Qualcomm in late 2013, nearly two years after the chip inside the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus was first announced. However, due to standard production lag times, the chip only hit the smartphone market one year ago, as the modem inside a South Korean variant on Samsung's Galaxy S5. For end users, the most important new feature from the chip will be the potential for up to 300 Mbps download speeds, doubling the 150 Mbps download speeds found in the current generation iPhone lineup. The new chip has the same 50 Mbps upload speed limit, however, and real-world performance is likely to be closer to 225Mbps or lower, depending on the cellular network.

The newer processor also is more power efficient, according to Qualcomm, which could mean improved battery life when the iPhone 6S is used for LTE functionality. We are also told that the new iPhone's motherboard is slightly narrower and more compact overall than the iPhone 6's and iPhone 6 Plus's motherboard, which could mean extra room for a modestly larger battery. Combined with iOS9's new power-saving features and low-power mode, it would make sense for Apple to also improve battery life by way of upgraded hardware.

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Qualcomm's new chip saves Apple some motherboard space due to its slightly more compact size. The "9X35″ is built using a newer 20nm production process, more condensed than the 28nm process used for the Qualcomm cellular data chip in the current iPhones. The "9X35″ new chip is Qualcomm's first built with the new production process, which leads to power efficiency and reduced heat generation. This new chip could prevent iPhones from warming up when under intense data usage.

An upgrade over the "Category 4″ chipset in the current iPhone, the new chip is in the category of "Category 6″ cellular modems due to its speed. "The Category 6 speeds enabled by the Gobi 9×35 will allow customers to enjoy blazing-fast downloads, snappier application performance due to lower network response time, and run more connectivity based applications smoothly, as well as concurrently," Qualcomm said when discussing the new chip.

It is still "backwards compatible and supports all other major cellular technologies, including DC-HSPA, EVDO Rev. B, CDMA 1x, GSM and TD-SCDMA," Qualcomm later added. The chip maker also said that the chip enables smartphone makers to "design sleeker devices without sacrificing performance, while at the same time allowing operators to increase their network capacity and efficiency," which could open up the door for slimmer iPhones in the future.

However, it does not appear that a slimmer iPhone is ready for 2015, asour earlier images indicated no easily discernible external design differences between the upcoming iPhone and the current iPhone line. In addition to more robust wireless networking and potentially improved battery life, we were told in May that the new iPhone will include a Force Touch display akin to that on the Apple Watch. We're still tracking additional iPhone 6S details this week, so stay tuned.

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We toldyou earlier this year that Snapchat was considering changing a major part of how its app works, and today the social network has officially introduced that change: viewing Snaps and Stories now works with a single tap. Previously, part of Snapchat's signature user experience included holding a finger over a Snap or Story to view it; lifting the finger meant going back to the contact list. Aside from the new Tap to View feature for Snaps and Stories, the update includes a few other changes as well…

For instance, adding friends to Snapchat is now an easier experience than before, especially among groups of Snapchat users together thanks to a new Add Nearby feature. This lets you quickly add friends around you when everyone opens the Add Nearby view.

Snapcodes, which let you add friends as well, have gained new features including the ability to attach a selfie for easier recognition and using Snapcode screenshots to add friends in Snapchat.

The new Tap to View feature should be a big deal for Snapchat users, especially with lengthier content through Stories gaining in popularity thanks to recent feature additions.

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Like many other people, I signed up for Apple Music yesterday because it was intriguing and free. Having skipped earlier subscription music services, I didn't have Spotify playlists to worry about losing or importing, and I hadn't experienced truly unlimited access to a giant music selection before. Apple Music's sign-up process turned out to be great: attractive, simple, and just personal enough to learn my tastes without feeling creepy. It's also likely to win long-term customers: sign up your family, and after 3 months, someone's going to insist on keeping Apple Music (or just forget to cancel it).
But once the sign-up process is over, Apple Music repeats a mistake that Apple made earlier this year with the Apple Watch: throwing users into the deep end of a big new pool without adequate guidance. Despite all the talk of importantly human-curated content, Apple Music is oddly and robotically silent when it should be actively guiding new customers through a brand new service. In prior years, Apple held back products until they were polished enough that anyone could use them immediately. These days, Apple releases major products with enough rough software edges that customers and reviewers are (rightfully) complaining about learning curves and unintuitive interfaces.
As of today, Apple has a new VP of User Interface Design, Alan Dye, who is taking over software-side responsibilities from Apple's vaunted design chief Jony Ive. In light of the Apple Watch and Apple Music launches, both of which were criticized for unnecessarily complex user interfaces, I'd respectfully suggest to Mr. Dye that fixing this problem should be a top priority…
Although a handful of people have claimed — often obnoxiously — that only idiots will struggle through the first two days of using an Apple Watch, the wearable device was justifiably dinged for clunky initial performance and a sub-par setup process by reviewers and users. Even if you put aside the Home screen's clutter of tiny, unlabeled circular icons, you still have glances and notifications to sort through, prune down, and figure out. Farhad Manjoo at the New York Times said it best: there's a big learning curve for the first couple of days with an Apple Watch, then something clicks, and you'll start to like or love it. It goes without saying that this wasn't Apple's style; when asked, I've explained to the (many) holdouts I know that the Apple Watch makes a bad first impression, but rapidly becomes something you don't want to take off despite its obvious limitations. Waiting for a second- or third-generation version is, in my view, as much for improved software as hardware at this point.
It's tempting to write off the rough first couple of days and focus on how good the experience later becomes, but that's not the way Apple products are supposed to work. Regardless of whether you characterize the learning curve as "steep" (like Manjoo) or "shallow" (like some others), the very existence of a learning curve is the barrier between mainstream success and failure. It's also the major historic difference between Apple products and dozens if not hundreds of alternatives. Early adopters are a small group of people who are willing to suffer through rough patches, but the large mass of mainstream users people get frustrated with unpolished products and often won't come back. That's why Apple always used to err on the side of shipping fully usable products minus desired features rather than ones that compromised intuitive usability. Steve Jobs' Apple was literally defined by the philosophy that it was better for a product to do a few things wonderfully than a lot of things poorly.
Apple Music suffers from the same lack of polish as the Apple Watch, except here, the major issue is sprawl. For some reason, pieces of the new service are scattered across four separate tabs. On the iPhone, I was initially dropped into the least important tab, Connect, a timeline of tweet-caliber posts from artists. Beats One, Apple's new and much-discussed global radio station, is nestled within the Radio tab. A section called "For You" houses personalized (but seemingly not particularly deep) music recommendations. And the one thing I really wanted to see, a catalog-like view of the 30-million-song Apple Music collection I'd signed up for, appeared to be hidden inside a tab called "New." But if you really want to find individual songs in the catalog, it turns out that the easiest way to do it is… a search.
Apple Music's features feel even less conspicuous in iTunes 12.2, which already has so many icons and tabs that the new features just blend in. Unfortunately, they don't blend in a desirable way. It goes without saying that Apple Music could have just dropped you into the iTunes Store and let you go to town downloading tracks, but instead, Apple built a parallel interface that looks and acts just different enough from the Store to be confusing. For instance, it's easy to see just how popular an artist's individual tracks are within the iTunes Store. But in Apple Music, you can't. A team of people went through the trouble to build this second UI to browse largely identical content, but it barely adds anything. And for some reason, my MacBook Pro's fans start spinning whenever Apple Music features load.
The iTunes Store shows popularity in a clear way
Apple Music presents the same content in a less useful way
There are a lot of nits to pick with the way Apple integrated Beats Music into iTunes and iOS, but the bigger picture issues are more important. First, someone at Apple was OK adding a bunch of new tabs into iTunes and the Music app without giving customers even a brief first-use explanation of how they worked. Second, no one stopped a minor feature such as Connect — a retread of a previously highly unpopular feature, Ping — from getting one full tab within the iOS Music app when the old iOS Music app was getting uncomfortably shoehorned into another tab. And iTunes, an app that has long been criticized for bloat, now has actually gotten to the point where it's employing two user interfaces to browse largely similar content. Given Apple's supposed list of "a thousand no's for every yes," it's hard to see how these items wound up in the "yes" column.
Today's top-level user interface leadership changes at Apple present a fresh opportunity for the company to return to the user-friendly software releases that made it famous. A little extra UI polish — particularly when thinking about what both first-time users and experienced users of brand new software will be thinking — will go a long way towards making major new Apple releases as magical as their predecessors.
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