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Today was Day 3 of food prep at the Test Kitchen. My GastRAWnomique molecular gastronomy inspired dinner is just days away. Chris Ochs and Josh from SunFood personally delivered a ton of superfoods. Diane Paylor and I were elbow deep in cacao. And Top Chef Alex Reznik was cold smoking my cashews for me.
To cold smoke, Alex uses a smoking gun packed with chips to push smoke into a sealed container of raw cashews. The cashews absorb the aroma of the smoke, but stay raw. Pretty cool. No pun intended.
Restaurant Mo-Chica's Ricardo Zarate and I making Cheddar Kale Chips.
Richi helping me set up 8 Excalibur Dehydrators. These are my favorite dehydrators, and they come with Paraflexx reusable non-stick sheets. Thanks for sending them over to me Excalibur! So much love from the community, sponsors have been super generous and include: Excalibur, Sambazon, Earth Circle Organics, Sunfood, Gold Mine Natural Food, Frontier Natural Products Co-Op, Big Tree Farms.
Chef Seth Greenburg at the Huntley Hotel Penthouse Restaurant invited me into his kitchen where he shared with me some of his favorite molecular gastronomy techniques.
Chef Seth and I compressed melons and cucumbers, and put chemicals into water and fruit puree to create popular spheres or 'caviar'. We even made 'noodles'. See what could be done using chemicals got my creative juices flowing thinking about ways to create similar effects without chemicals, and instead 100% natural and raw.
Test Kitchen brings together the best Chefs in LA, and has become much like a think tank where Chefs share their creativity, ideas, and time. Great energy in this space! Chef Christian Page, a locavore sourcing his ingredients locally and seasonally, is to the left of the photo, and is about to open Daily Dose Restaurant in downtown LA in mid Dec.
A book trailer for Ani's Raw Food Essentials for a naturally effervescent probiotic drink called Water Kefir from page 56.
This healthy drink is simple to make using water kefir grains that you can purchase online. I include resources in my book, and recommend going straight to the source for the living grains. Avoid the processed, dried, packaged grains because they are not as vital as the living grains. Plus, the dry grains only brew maybe three batches before you have to go and buy more dried grains again.
It takes just 48 hours to brew Water Kefir, and it's full of friendly bacteria for building healthy intestinal flora. It helps me with digestion, assimilation of nutrients, and elimination. I enjoy Water Kefir with and after meals to help with digestion. I drink a cup on an empty stomach before bed to balance my intestinal flora.
In this video, I use a variation of the recipe in my book.
Water Kefir
Place water into a glass jar. Add sugars, ginger, pear, and stir. Add grains. Close lid, and store in cabinet for 48 hours to brew.
Pour brew through a plastic sieve to catch the grains. Remove ginger and pear. Store brew in glass bottles at room temperature to increase vitamin B levels. Or, store in fridge to chill.
Start your next batch immediately.
In this video, I speak with The Blissful Chef Christy Morgan after my book signing and food demo at Erewhon May 8, 2010 about my philosophy of raw food and about my new book Ani's Raw Food Essentials.
Cauliflower is one of my favorite vegetables, and it was abundant at the farmers' market today. So, I picked up a big, beautiful head to whip up my mash for dinner. Cauliflower comes in white, green, and purple varieties, and works wonderfully processed into a mash. This is my version of mashed potatoes. Cauliflower has a kick to it, which I love. But if it's too strong for you, try the following trick:
To soften the kick of raw cauliflower, process on it's own first with 1 cup of filtered water. Strain through a cheese cloth or nut milk bag. Some of the pungent flavor will run off with the water. Or, you can also substitute with broccoli, which is much milder.
Serve with a gravy on it's own, or alongside your favorite recipe(s).
Cauliflower Mash
To keep your mash lighter in color, you can use white miso paste. I used a red paste, and it was still light in color. I added a touch of olive oil, but for even more creaminess, I use avocado. Avocado creates spots of slight green, which I don't mind, since I love the color green. Besides, the gravy will cover it up anyways.
I used to use Psyllium Seed Husk powder in this recipe, but this batch didn't seem to need any stiffening up, so I skipped it. If your mash is too runny, add a teaspoon at at a time, up to a tablespoon, of Psyllium to thicken.
Place all ingredients into your food processor. Process until smooth.
Mushroom Gravy
A rich and creamy gravy that's easy-to-make in your blender.
Place all ingredients into your blender. Blend smooth.
Kate Magic was visiting from the UK last fall. In this video, you can watch our visit to Erewhon Natural Foods in the heart of Los Angeles, CA. I believe Erewhon was SoCal's first natural food market and co-op. It's full of the healthiest foods, cookbooks, natural eco green cleaning products, and lots more. Rooted in macrobiotics, they have a great book selection too.
Erewhon offers a huge array of raw food products in their store, it's probably the largest raw selection in the world. The raw food goodies take up 2 full isles, end caps, plus a refrigerated section. It's always a treat to peruse the isles to see what new raw food products have hit the marketplace.
Kate and I enjoyed a lovely day playing around West Hollywood. We started out at lunch eating delicious collard roll wraps, then stopped into Trashy Lingerie next door. Since raw foods keep me at my ideal weight, makes my skin smooth and clear, and helps me build a lean, strong body, it makes shopping for and wearing lingerie easier.
Next, we visited a thrift store, which is my favorite way to shop. It's recycled fashion, eco, green, good for our environment, and it's true that one person's trash can be another person's treasure. Finally, we then made it over to Erewhon.
Kate will be back in LA in August this year. I look forward to continuing our SoCal adventures together!
I made a batch of Kanga Dog Treats for my Rhodesian Ridgeback canine companion. She loves these, and asked me to share the recipe with you here on my blog so other dogs could also enjoy these treats.
It's important to keep your dog's gums and teeth healthy, especially if they aren't crunching on dry kibble. These easy to make, crunchy treats will help remove plaque and freshen dog breath.
Your dog may not be used to these at first. Just like other new foods, you may need to teach pooch how to eat them by taking a bite out of one first, then giving it to pooch to try. Dogs always love what they see us eating. Especially when accompanied by yummy, delicious sounds.
Kanga is a dessert dog. She hates water and baths. She was rewarded after her lavender bath today with these treats, and was very happy.
I realize this is a recipe section where I list food for people. The good thing about raw food is that even treats for dogs could easily be enjoyed by humans. Many times, friends have come over and said "your dog eats better food that I do!" And this is so true, since Kanga eats organic, local, seasonal, and many times stuff that I eat. I joke that she's my compost bin, eating up all my leftovers.
Kanga Dog Treats
Place sweet potatoes on dehydrator trays, and dry at 104 degrees F for 12 hours, or until completely dry.
The sun was out for Day 1 of Expo West, and I was happy it was warm outside for the folks visiting from colder climates.
My first stop was the Sequel booth, where I found my good friend Brendan Brazier. He's the formulator of Vega. He has a new Sport line out for pre and post workout fueling. Brendan's the author of Thrive and Thrive Fitness books. I love Vega drinks and bars.
I also found my friend Robert Cheeke at the Sequel booth, vegan body building champion. He also has a new book out soon called Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness.
Next stop was the Ohgave booth, where I found Matthew Kenney with his new raw agave product. Matthew's latest restaurant, 105degrees, is opening up the world of raw food to mainstream America in Oaklahoma City, of all places. Matthew's the author of numerous cookbooks including Everyday Raw, which I've often found my Ani's Raw Food Kitchen book sitting next to on store shelves. What a cutie pie.
Excited by the huge jump in new raw products at this year's Expo West, I forgot to take anymore photos after this point, and got carried away into the thousands of booths and new products. I found several raw kale chips, tons of raw chocolate, a couple raw kombuchas, new raw bars, and several flax crackers. The raw food explosion was quite a sight to see.
I had my preview copy of Ani's Raw Food Essentials with me, and folks were stoked to see a sneak peek at my new book. In addition to several awesome meetings, I was also video interviewed for VegNews and Delicious Living Magazines. I'll make sure to post up the videos right here as soon as they are live.
My raw food Miso Soup recipe is featured on the cover for the new Vitamix Create Cookbook. It's included inside the box with every professional series Vitamix blender.
Two of my recipes are included in the 2009 Food & Wine Cookbook.
I love this recipe for Zucchini Noodles with Raw Tomato Marinara. Super easy to make. Just blend tomatoes and herbs with some lemon to add that tart flavor of cooked tomatoes and a date for added sweetness. Serve marinara over thinly sliced zucchini 'noodles' for a wheat free, low calorie, raw food pasta dish that will help you loose weight and feel great too.
This delicious Raw Sweet Corn and Cashew Chowder is made by blending fresh corn with cashews for creaminess, a splash of olive oil for rich smoothness, and fresh cilantro for brightness.
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Angel Nicole Pitch and Justin Luke Samples were married Saturday, November 3, 2012 at Zen in downtown Greenville, SC.
The Rev. Michael Babb officiated the 6:00 pm ceremony.
The bride is the daughter of Jeff Pitch of Arcadia, FL and Sonya Debrowski of Seneca, SC. The groom is the son of Carter and Kathy Samples of Elkin. The bride is the granddaughter of Gloria Pitch of Philadelphia, PA and the late John Pitch; Claire Wilburn of Maryville, TN and the late Don Pass. Grandparents of the groom are Ray and Dixie Samples of Elkin; Edith Porter of Elkin and the late James Porter.
The bride was escorted down the aisle by a dear friend, Trudy Nickles of Seneca, SC. Closest friend and maid of honor, Latosha Hankinson, attended the bride. Bridesmaids were Tyna Khieav, Jordan Brown, Ashley Conner all of Greenville, SC; and the bride's sister, Misti Debrowski of North Palm Beach, FL. Carter Samples of Elkin was his son's best man. Groomsmen were Josh Samples, brother of the groom of Elkin; friends of the groom Alan Moxley of Elkin; Brett Greene of Bristol Tennessee; and the groom's nephew, Tate Samples of Elkin. The bride's niece, Amiah Cordova of Seneca, SC was the flower girl. Jace Samples of Elkin, the groom's nephew was the ringbearer.
Following the wedding ceremony, the couple greeted and entertained their guest at a dinner reception.
The bride is the owner of Angel Photography. She is attending Upstate College of Cosmetology in Greenville, SC. After graduation she will open a Studio/Salon in Greenville. The groom is a 2005 business major graduate of Catawba College in Salisbury, NC. He is the Regional Sales Representative with Jostens in Upstate South Carolina.
The couple has made their home in Greenville, SC.

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HNN765 - Cardiac Care Nursing 1
Unit details
|2015 unit information
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Trimester 2: Cloud (online)^
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Theoretical component 3 hours per week - a combination of classes, cloud (online) modules and seminars. Students will be expected to undertake an additional seven hours per week of independent study.
This unit is part of the Cardiac Care Specialty stream of the Master of Nursing Practice for students who are also employed in a suitable clinical area in partnership with Deakin University.
^Students enrol as Cloud (online) students, however there are significant campus requirements.
The unit is divided into four distinct modules and covers: assessment and management of patients with a variety of cardiovascular and neurology dysfunctions; care of the elderly critically ill patient and psychosocial aspects of nursing care; advanced electrocardiography concepts; and specialty practice issues in Cardiac Care Nursing including advanced treatment modalities for cardiac failure and complex electrocardiography.
Assessment task 1: Presentation (equivalent to 1500 words) 40%
Assessment task 2: Examination (1.5 hours) 40%
Assessment task 3: Tests (3) 20%
Assessment task 4: Clinical assessment pass/fail; satisfactory completion of clinical competency hurdles and assessment.
Both the theoretical and clinical components of the assessment must be passed in order to successfully gain an overall pass in this unit. Compulsory clinical hurdles form part of the assessment of this unit. Recognition of the importance of clinical assessments is calculated in the overall student workload.
Note: Failure of a compulsory clinical practicum component in a unit will normally lead to exclusion.
Unit Fee Information
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A 150-foot asteroid hurtled toward Earth's backyard, destined Friday to make the closest known flyby for a rock of its size.
NASA promised the asteroid would miss Earth by 17,150 miles, avoiding catastrophe. But that's still closer than many communication and weather satellites; scientists insisted these, too, would be spared.
Asteroid 2012 DA14, as it's called, is too small to see with the naked eye even at its closest approach around 2:25 p.m. EST, over the Indian Ocean near Sumatra.
The best viewing locations, with binoculars and telescopes, are in Asia, Australia and eastern Europe. Even there, all anyone can see is a pinpoint of light as the asteroid zooms by at 17,400 mph.
As asteroids go, DA14 is a shrimp. The one that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago was 6 miles across. But this rock could still do immense damage if it struck, releasing the energy equivalent of 2.4 million tons of TNT and wiping out 750 square miles.
Scientists are certain it won't impact Earth. And chances are extremely remote it will run into any of the satellites orbiting 22,300 miles up.
Most of the solar system's asteroids are situated in a belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, and remain stable there for billions of years. Some occasionally pop out, though, into Earth's neighborhood.
The flyby provides a rare learning opportunity for scientists eager to keep future asteroids at bay — and a prime-time advertisement for those anxious to step up preventive measures.
"We are in a shooting gallery and this is graphic evidence of it," said former Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart, chairman emeritus of the B612 Foundation, committed to protecting Earth from dangerous asteroids.
Schweickart noted that 500,000 to 1 million sizable near-Earth objects — asteroids or comets — are out there. Yet less than 1 percent — fewer than 10,000 — have been inventoried.
Humanity has to do better, he said. The foundation is working to build and launch an infrared space telescope to find and track threatening asteroids.
DA14 — discovered by Spanish astronomers last February — is "such a close call" that it is a "celestial torpedo across the bow of spaceship Earth," Schweickart said in a phone interview Thursday.
Astronomers organized asteroid-encounter parties for Friday and experts just about everywhere were giving flyby rundowns.
NASA's deep-space antenna in California's Mojave Desert was ready to collect radar images, but not until eight hours after the closest approach given the United States' poor positioning for the big event.
Scientists at NASA's Near-Earth Object program at California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory estimate that an object of this size makes a close approach like this every 40 years. The likelihood of a strike is every 1,200 years.
If a killer asteroid was, indeed, incoming, a spacecraft could be launched to nudge the asteroid out of Earth's way, changing its speed and the point of intersection. A second spacecraft would make a slight alteration in the path of the asteroid and ensure it never intersects with the planet again, Schweickart said.
Of course, this is all in theory.
Forget an asteroid blowup like the one depicted in the 1998 film "Armageddon." The last thing Earth needs is asteroid fragments raining down.
"Thanks, Hollywood," Schweickart said with a laugh.
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I feel I must point out the flaws in our health care, because they are there. Equal health care for all also includes long wait times. Depending on what city you live in you can wait weeks or months for certain tests such as MRI. You are not allowed to pay for services. People wait a year or more for certain operations. There are also people who are above the system such as athletes and politicians..they don't wait for anything. People who are rich, go to the states to have their tests/operations to avoid our lists. Doctors don't wait because they know other doctors who put them ahead of everyone else. It's frustrating as a middle class person who can't afford to cross the border and pay for services but who might pay a little extra to be put on a shorter list. We are all equal unless we are rich..then, not so much!
...that'll be $195, with $100 going toward your deductible....Well, poop.
So now I have to ask you: how does your system work? I imagine there has to be some sort of "triage" that goes on, right? So if you show up at the emergency room with a burst appendix, they don't just put you on a waiting list ... I hope.
The greatest issue Canada's healthcare system is facing is continual de-funding by Conservative-leaning governments who continue to believe (without any evidence to actually back up this belief) that free-market systems of healthcare delivery are more cost efficient than publically-funded systems. To demonstrate the outcome of this belief in action, I'll briefly mention what's recently occurred in Alberta.
Until fairly recently, Alberta's economy was floating in petrodollars, and through the 80's and 90's, the government had embarked on an ambitious plan to have full service hospitals offering 24/7 Emergency services in practically every community. It was amazing to see these small but state-of-art hospitals pop up everywhere, seeming overnight. And for this, most Albertans were charged a monthly insurance fee that was about $30 per person (subsidies were available to those individuals and families that could not afford this fee). This fee gradually increased to $44 per month per person, but in January 2009 it was entirely eliminated: Albertans would now pay nothing; the Province could afford this... or so the Premier of the Province, Ed Stelmach, led people to believe.
Predictably net costs began to increase; when the price of oil dropped, net costs increased dramatically. Typical of Conservative thinking, these costs were held up as evidence of the indicative of the inefficiency of socialized medicine, and now there's some discussion of integrating "user pay for certain services" (i.e., where private for profit medical service corporations - many of them American - could make a go of it). Costs will predicatably continue to increase... as they did when other publically owned and operated services and utilities were privatized (from AGT to energy ultilities, the government insistented services would improve and consumer costs would decrease as free-market competition would increase. In actual fact, the opposite occurred).
I'd like to point out, however, that world's first system of socialized medicine was established in the early 1920s by the former Soviet Union. Like most things in the Soviet Union, it soon fell apart. Whereas the Canada's current system demonstrates that socialized medicine can coexist within a free-market economy, the dismal failure of Soviet medicine demonstrated how corruption within any society can distort any system. And you'd think, with the recent revelations about how big pharma is deliberately manipulating the costs of drugs, people would've caught unto this. But they apparently haven't.
Further, while we all hear annecdotes about how Canada's system failed on this and that occasion, we rarely hear hear about the tens of millions of times annually wherein the system did what it was designed to do: deliver access to the world's best health care to each and every Canadian.
Me, I dread what's coming in the future - every day that a Conservative government is allowed to effect its foolish, self-destructive ideology is another day that brings the failure - if not the complete and utter collapse - of Canada's healthcare system that much closer to reality.
insistented" <==== what the hell word is that?
That sentence ought to read, "(from AGT to energy ultilities, the government *insisted* services would improve and costs to consumers would decrease as free-market competition would increase. In actual fact, the opposite occurred)."
This time I'll not blame my iPhone for the dozen or so curious lapses contained within my previous post; instead, I'll pin the blame on Eric the Wonder Moose, the typist I've recently hired to handle my e-mails and general correspondence. For those curious, yes, Eric is a moose. He has antlers, and you'd be surprised at how many words per minute Eric can type out...
True those words are often questionable efforts such as 'insistented', 'operantsdnt' and 'antidisestablishmentarianism'.... (and let's not even discuss Eric's questionable punctuation, word duplications, word skips and frequent lapses in tense and grammer... not to mention the use of "it's" when its not correct)... but I think readers, generally, get the idea of what me and Eric are going on about. If not, there's always much hilarity to be found in discovering yet another on-line fail
(Next up, watch me and Eric in a hilarious new YouTube video wherein we attempt moose-enabled paragliding and prove once and for all that a moose's antlers can - or maybe cannot - defy gravity...)
The thing is ... however much people bitch about the government (like it's somehow drawn from a pool populated by a different species of semi-intelligent bipeds, not by people just like the rest of us), there are all kinds of hidden costs in the free market health care system that are there in part because of the inefficiencies caused by said system.
- Someone has to pay for the people who cannot, e.g., my husband's younger sister who has gone to the ER at least three times because of migraines, despite the fact that she can usually head hers off with ibuprofen. Any known cost is much more easily controlled for.
- Doctors' offices, hospitals, etc., have people specifically devoted to billing because it's all a nightmare. Every insurance company has different rules, different coverages, etc., and that adds HUGE inefficiencies into the system.
- Doctors hampered by insurance company constraints, making health care choices based on, not their experience and observation, but what an insurance company requires.


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Perhaps I didn't read the description well enough but these garland bulbs are very small. Although they are a nice quality and very pretty, it would take 100 strands to make a difference in your Christmas tree.
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Love how the garland looks with my vintage decor
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The small size makes them useful on both a large and small tree. I really like them.
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Apple updates its jailbreak Knowledge Base article after the release of Evasi0n
Apple has issued an update to its previous Knowledge Base warning regarding problems that jailbreaking your device can bring. The update was obviously needed after the high profile release of the Evasi0n untethered iOS 6 jailbreak earlier this week. The Knowledge Base article warns about device instability, security vulnerabilities, shortened battery life and unreliable voice and data.
As designed by Apple, iOS and iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch are designed to work together reliably. Unauthorized modifications to iOS ("jailbreaking") can cause numerous issues to the hacked iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Examples of issues caused by these unauthorized modifications to iOS have included the following:
Instability: Frequent and unexpected crashes of the device, crashes and freezes of built-in apps and third-party apps, and loss of data.
Security vulnerabilities: Security compromises have been introduced by these modifications that could allow hackers to steal personal information, damage the device, attack the wireless network, or introduce malware or viruses.
Shortened battery life: The hacked software has caused an accelerated battery drain that shortens the operation of an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch on a single battery charge.
Unreliable voice and data: Dropped calls, slow or unreliable data connections, and delayed or inaccurate location data.
Disruption of services: Services such as Visual Voicemail, Weather, and Stocks have been disrupted or no longer work on the device. Additionally, third-party apps that use the Apple Push Notification Service have had difficulty receiving notifications or received notifications that were intended for a different hacked device. Other push-based services such as iCloud and Exchange have experienced problems synchronizing data with their respective servers.
Inability to apply future software updates: Some unauthorized modifications have caused damage to iOS that is not repairable. This can result in the hacked iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch becoming permanently inoperable when a future Apple-supplied iOS update is installed.
Apple strongly cautions against installing any software that hacks iOS. It is also important to note that unauthorized modification of iOS is a violation of iOS end-user license agreement and because of this, Apple may deny service for an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch that has installed any unauthorized software.
This sort of warning from Apple is nothing that we haven't seen before so those of you that have jailbroken your device shouldn't be too alarmed. Having said that, the warnings are reasonable in as much as any form of hacking to any device may cause it to become unstable. If you take a sensible approach to installing jailbreak apps and tweaks it should minimize the chance of you having any problems. If you do run into problems, our jailbreak and unlock forums are a great place to look for help.
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Apple updates its jailbreak Knowledge Base article after the release of Evasi0n
Apple doesn't make money on free apps either but I don't see them cutting those off or suggesting anyone not use them. I've only jailbroken once, for a few days, and didn't experience any problems but there's nothing in their KB article that I haven't seen on these very forums a dozen times before. And no where do they say it WILL cause problems, only that it CAN cause problems. It's all true and very reasonable.
It should be noted that jailbreaking may be illegal in your jurisdiction. Some laws have recently changed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_jailbreaking#Legal_status
Not jailbreaking may cause limitations imposed on you by carriers for no apparent reason. Also, without a jailbreak, expect certain services to just not work right. Airplay is an example. With the proper tweaks, you can get this valuable service working across all apps.
Further, if you don't jailbreak, you have to suffer texting from only the messages app. You will have to drill within menus to just turn off bluetooth.
Not jailbreaking will prevent you from using iFile and downloading files using safari download manager.
If you don't jailbreak, you will face limitations when it comes to folders and how many you can put in one. Further, you will lose the ability to move multiple apps at once (multiicon mover). Need 5 icons on your dock? You lose this benefit as well if you don't jailbreak.
In other words, the list can go on and on what can happen if you don't jailbreak.
With the enthusiasm of everyone FINALLY being able to jailbreak, it makes you wonder how people are at all satisfied with the phone out of the box? Cardfan listed so many complaints that you would think he should go Android. The way the whole system is locked down by Apple (not just the OS, but the entire ecosystem being tied to iTunes and Apple's ginormous data collection servers) is one of the biggest reasons I would never go Apple. But don't get me started with Google - aka 'Big Brother'. Anything you ever type into an Android phone gets collected by Google and sold to the highest bidder.
Each platform has its share of shortcomings. If I went android, my list would be much longer.. Windows would be a book. And Blackberry would be laughable.
We all have different criteria though for which we judge these. I still like to tweak but I don't like spending a lot of time with it as I used to. Apple slowly removes some needs for tweaks with each update.
Apple is tied down but it's also open to the others...google, amazon, etc. These others can't get their apps in the Apple app store fast enough. The reverse isn't true. Use what you want of Apple, use others as you see fit.


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Average Customer Review: based on 19 reviews.Rating: Sherwood Oracle Mask Review - Scuba Gear Customer Reviews
This sounds and looks like a great mask. I am a snorkeler, not yet a diver, and Im sick and tired of masks that fog, are uncomfortable, and leak (like my Scuba Pro). Is this mask as good as it seems, and where is it manufactured? Tell me its not China. Thanks, Steve
Hello Steven, the first thing you want to do to any new mask put optical lens masks. Is to get some of the toothpaste that has grit to it not the gel type. You want to put a dab on each side and rub it around for about 3-5 min. When the lens are made there is a fine power coat that is left on the mask. That light abrasion will take that off. If you do not do this your mask will fog on you every time. As for this mask this is a great mask and I am not sure where it is made. If you like you can contact the manufacture at 1.800.347.9766. If you have any other questions or would like to place an order please feel free to give us a call at 1.800.347.2822.
this mask looks like something i am interested in. i can not tell from the color ion whether it is offered with a clear, not black, silicone skirt?
Hello Frank, Thank you for your inquiry! The Sherwood Oracle Scuba Dive Mask is available in the following colors: Blue Transparent, Clear, Yellow, Black, Red, Red Frame/Black Silicone Skirt and Black Frame/Black Silicone Skirt http://www.scuba.com/scuba-gear-32/027069/Sherwood-Oracle-Scuba-Dive-Mask.html If you have any questions or wish to place an order, please call us at 1-800-247-2822 or 949-221-9300.
I have taken up the hobby of free diving this spring and i want to upgrade my mask and i was wondering what your recommendations were on this mask. i am very interested in this individual mask. i dont dive too deep. normally at 30 to 40 feet and i free hand equalize so i am wondering if this mask is comfortable and is easy to equalize with. thanks, Kenny
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Thursday, March 14, 2013
Academic Magnet 10, Bishop England 5
at Bishop England, Wednesday
For the record: BE (4-2) Friday at Benedictine, 6 p.m.
Goals: BE–Connor Canning 2, Cole Jenkins 1, Warner Jenkins 1, David Hull 1.
Assists: BE–Canning 2, Simon Johnson 1, Jenkins 1.
Saves: BE–Jennings Kleeman 10.
Ground Balls: Jenkins 6.
Wando 26, Bluffton 2
at Bluffton, Wednesday
For the record: Wando (7-0) Saturday at Socastee, 1 p.m.
Goals: W–Horner 1, Dodson 1, Anderson 3, Robinson 3, W. Bailey 2, Phelan 3, Shipman 3, Brower 2, Breen 2, M. Bailey 1, Trotter 1, Brand 1, Stutz 1, Dodds 1, Conroy 1; B–Hogan 1, Lewis 1.
Bishop England 18, West Ashley 5
at West Ashley, Wednesday
For the record: BE (8-1) Monday at Hilton Head, 6:30 p.m.
Goals: BE–J. Mitchell 4, T. Kennington 4, E. Bosco 3, C. Petyak 2, I. Burnett 2, E. Heavy 1, A. Kuehhas 1, L. McMillan 1; WA–A. Brimmer 2, K. Grant 2, L. Biggs 1.
Assists: BE–Mitchell 2, Bosco 4, Petyak 2.
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(USA Today) - Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel and his family have taken out an insurance policy to guard against the loss of potential future earnings due to injury, Manziel said Tuesday after the Aggies capped their second day of spring drills.
"It's just a precaution," Manziel said, via Sam Khan Jr. of ESPN.com. "I think there's a lot of players who have done it in the past and you never know what could happen. Football is a dangerous sport, so you kind of have to make sure that you take a precaution in that regard."
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Manziel does indeed join a long line of college stars who have taken out similar policies as student-athletes, though most – like a Jadeveon Clowney, for instance – do so later in their careers. Of course, most sophomores (like Manziel) aren't fresh off a Heisman-winning season.
"I talk to players all the time about different issues in their lives and guys that for whatever reason, feel like they need to protect their interests professionally, they have insurance policies," Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin said. "There's ways to do that through the NCAA and like I said, there's probably more people than you think that have done that over the course of the last few years."
Manziel said that his family and the university are handling the process of securing the policy. Student-athletes are able to acquire coverage through the NCAA's "Exceptional Student-Athlete Disability Insurance Program," which was established in 1990 and can provide up to $5 million in coverage, Khan notes.
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Technically, Manziel could opt to enter the NFL Draft after this season – as a redshirt sophomore, he would be three years removed from his high school graduation at the completion of 2013. Is an early leap to the NFL something that's on his mind heading into spring practice?
"I'm not leaning any way," Manziel said when asked about the NFL. "Whenever that decision comes, [I'll] have to sit there and evaluate it just like you do anything else in your life.
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I've been playing in the PS2 beta for a while now and though I keep going back night after night, it's more out of an interest to see if the developers will make any nice changes, than actual game enjoyment. I mean, it's not a bad game, it has its moments, it's just all a bit pointless. There's a big battle going on in the middle usually, then you'll get people backhacking other bases so people will go out and take those back, while that's happening another base nearby will be taken so you go to that, then that's captured and, oh, they took the first base back again, so you go there...
It's just back and fore, back and fore, no real reason, no real purpose and wow does it ever get tedious. You can go back and fore like that all day, meanwhile that same battle is going on in the middle, someone might go forward, someone might fall back. Then you can log on the next day and the exact same thing will happen all over again. This game is desperately in need of PS1's original lattice network, plus more areas for the three factions to conquer. At the moment I find myself wondering why I'm bothering, it's just fighting for fightings sake.
Then you look at the classes, vehicles and weapons and how to upgrade them and quickly realise that this game screams Pay to Win. I mean, I started my current character about 5 days ago, played about 3-4 hours a night after work, and I managed to raise 5000 auraxians (that's credits). To purchase a new weapon can cost upwards of 20,000. No surprise then that you can also pay real cash for those extra weapons.
Are these weapons powerful? Hell yes they are. Most people seem to have gained enough for anti-air weapons now and honestly, it's not even worth taking an aircraft up if a few of those are around. With rockets that auto lock and flak weapons with massive range and damage, it's just not worth the cost in resources. I was in a battle earlier to take a base back, flying around with my Galaxy trying to find a suitable position, and if I even saw an enemy far off in the distance I was taking damage and having to flee from missile locks.
Will they balance these things or will it become an arms race, where everyone is paying real cash for the next upgrade so that they can keep up? I don't have the answer to that one. I'd bet that they keep the power level up though, to entice people to open their wallets.
I'm also against the idea of classes. Looking at the certifications and how many you seem to get over time, it seems you'll be forced into a role as the cost of some of those certs are pretty high. They do seem to increase even while you're offline though, which is something I guess. Like I'd log off with about 5 certs then join the next evening and find I have 28.
The bad thing is that a simple cert can be really expensive. Small things like a suppressor on your weapon are about 5pts, but placing a zoom function on a vehicles weapon can be 15 for the very basics, increasing with each extra level, so a 1.5x zoom will be 15, 2x zoom will be 25, 3x will cost 40. And you have to get the first to get the next, so to get 3x zoom will total out at 80 cert points. That's just for one weapon on one vehicle.
Of course, this is still beta and I'm sure there are changes to come - hell, a lot of certs still aren't active yet. But considering they've lifted the NDA and are willing to accept what people currently think of the game reaching consumers, then I can't see a whole lot of changes coming down the line. I think we'll see the locked certs slowly open up, a few tweaks here and there, then they'll call it done.
For me, it's far from done..
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I think you need to let this part of the beta play out... don't burn yourself out. As has been stated in a variety of forums - this is an actual beta, not a pre-launch demo.
Re: the pricing and upgrade pacing... who knows? It's obviously going to be very important in maintaining a level of competitive balance (though keep in mind, nobody is forcing you into the sky until you've unlocked decoy flairs or your own AA missles) - but I would take any costs you see in beta as just that... beta costs.
However... SOE is in the business of making $$$. If you're one of those that can play 50+ hours per week and pays nothing... you must understand you're not going to be as far 'ahead' of others who play 10 hours/week and are willing to pay $10/month as you'd probably like!
the removed everything that made planetside good and basically made battlefield 3 / ps edition. it's really terrible. and im not talking about the AWFUL graphics and textures, nor the animations, optimization and the other million problems it has, but the game is simply not fun. there's no point to anything and it's just terrible all the way through. but i guess its a F2P so can't expect too much, but the shooting, balance issues, max, healing, classes .... its all just extremely bad.
Originally posted by coretester
This is my biggest problem with it at the moment. There really is no point, the game gives me no motivation to go out there and fight for territory. The territory just swings back and fore every few minutes, you can capture a base or outpost and within a few minutes that base or outpost is back in the hands of the enemy. Why bother?
In PS1 the motivation was capturing lands, you could push the enemy completely off a continent and then move on to the next one. That was the goal, to try and conquer the lands. Making the whole game about a couple of bases on some godawful landscape is just a major fail in my opinion. It gives you nothing to care about, the scale is just too small to be interesting.
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Originally posted by UsualSuspect
Highlighted red text is some really bizzare logic that doesn't reflect what IT industry (and to an extend the gaming) does.
IE. in the real world (and not some imaginary one) games / IT stuff are beta with no NDA for a while and some do go through radical changes. Gmail comes to mind.
Also, I recall J-Smed saying 80% of skills isn't in yet.
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Originally posted by UsualSuspect
I don't see how any of this should be a problem and as you claim to be a former PS1 player im baffled at these comments.
Paying cash for faster access to the more advanced weapons/kit/vehicles, whats the problem with that? Everyone can unlock them for free, it's not P2win.
Organised gameplay is how you tackle AA, if you think you can grab an aircraft and fly it into a zone with AA without the support of your friends taking those AA's out on the ground then your a bit daft and deserve to get killed.
I also see no problem with slow gain certs, as with PS1 you can play effectively with just the basic certs in an organised outfit, the advanced certs just enhance the game as you progress, easy access to everything would detract from the game experience quite a bit for me.
You are not FORCED into a role, you CHOOSE a role and you can eventually fulfill any role should you wish to.
Balance is fine, join an outfit.
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I agree with the OP. Jump in a shoot stuff for a bit of fun. Beyond that .. Pointless.
PS2 does not capture any of the feel or game play that makes PS1 great. .. Back to PS1 for me
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I will avoid a large reply, but will add that I feel the same, after logging in a couple of times this last week I eventually uninstalled, ultimately I found it boring and would rather play Tribes Ascend for my fps fix.
Further, after learning that ProSiebenSat.1, and not SOE will handle all EU accounts for Planetside 2, I cancelled my existing pre order. PSS.1 support is abysmal, I lived in Germany for a while, and I had nothing but problems with them as my television provider; and on reading the fiasco that was the handover of DCUO, I see they have not changed, and I will be damned if they get another penny of my money.
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I agree about all the battles taking place in the middle. I noticed this and felt it was such a waste of a huge map. It was quite disappointing.
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Wow, and I was just checking this game out today and signed up for beta.
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I think it is interesting that I am playing the same game, dont have the problems that you do, but have a totally different set of issues.
I find the certifications quick, and almost effortless. I really dont see a need to buy anything, nor do I see any real advantage for buying thngs. I do realize that much of the inventory isnt available at this time, but even when it is, I can see spender maxing out quickly, and not having any real advantage (other than having more choices).
I do understand your concern about pounding the same ground, over and over. It is a bit repetative in PUG or solo. However, in a good squad, or with some friends, the familiarity with the territory makes it much more enjoyable. When you dont need to explain the terrain, and layout to your mates in the middle of combat, it becomes mure tactical... and ads a new level to the gameplay.
Now, the problems that I (and my friends) have is this... performance. It has gotten noticably better this weekend, I have gone from 5-10 FPS to 10-15. I still cant compete with anyone that has a reasonable FPS, but with the use of terrain, and some tactics, I still get kills and can help support the squad. The only think that I really cant seem to do is fly.
This game is really fun to jump into.. especially with friends. However, because of the action element, it isnt as grindable as a RPG, so 2 hours at a shot is plenty... take an hour break, and come back for two more.... then call it a day. I think that they need to re-work the server setup.. and allow you to play the same char on any server... then keep the amount of servers low. I expect this game to have max players during peak hours, but not many during off hours. They need to adjust the servers to account for this, and to keep it busy.
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This just goes with what I have been saying all the time, this is Battlefield online more then it is Planetside 2...
Another Epic Fail in the works for Smedley? Sure looks that way.
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Beta is beta. This is not GW2, RIFT, or SW:TOR beta where you get a free preview of a 99% done game before it comes out.
The game is nowhere near finished. Two of the three continents aren't even in the game yet. Most of the weapons and certifications are still unavailable. Class and vehicle balance is still being hammered out. Base capture mechanics are still being tinkered with. There are still bugs which make it difficult to communicate, easily find action, and play as a unit.
Yes, there are a ton of issues still that need to be dealt with before the game is ready for an official release. My guess is it's still at least two months away, probably more. To judge this game based on what is available right now and to call it an epic fail just implies that people don't understand what a real beta is.
I have been in the beta since day one. The game is already a hell of a lot more fun than when beta started. There is a long ways to go, but there is no reason to think anything other than that big improvements will continue to be made.
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Dont agree with the OP at all, I used to play PS before and I am having just as much fun in PS2.
There is a reason to fight, each base gives different resources to your team. I dont think the resource thing as been all brought into the beta yet but it will pay to hold more locations as your team will get more resources.
Also to the people who say its pointless taking a base as someone will come and take it again a few mins later... well guess what defend the location then.. Get a group of you to defend a base you just took and get a battle going..
At the end of the day PS2 a multiplayer FPS game your suppose to fight each other..
The classes work fine and yes it takes some time to max the class out but thats a good thing, it adds somthing to the game.
I would have prefered a sub instead of a cash shop thats for sure but at least you can buy everything with in game cash even if it does take a bit of time. SOE are out to make money of course so they had to put stuff in the cash shop that makes people want to spend cash.. are the weapons overpowered? I dont believe so at least I have not come accross anyone with an unfair advantage..
Anyway this is gonna be my pvp game of choice for quite some time i think. GW2s WvWvW is ok if you can manage to get into but its no where near as much fun as this.
Dont get me wrong the game has big perormance issues at the moment but hopefully they will be fixed.
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Originally posted by UsualSuspect
maybe that's why they call it beta and not release?
jesus... some people will never get it...
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Originally posted by Thane
The beta argument would have been a good one, and one I would have agreed with and been content to just wait out the problems, but as I said before, the moment they lifted the NDA they're happy for people to judge the game as it is. Why would you risk that on an inferior product? It just says to me that this is what we can expect, they'll tweak a few things, bring the locked certifications online, then call it done.
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I m not going into a long winded post about it, but I don t agree at all. It s a brilliant game, with more strategy invlved then just macx crashing. It s also fairly early beta.
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Originally posted by UsualSuspect
They opened the NDA to get a lot more feedback. John Smedley has stated that the game may change radically by the time it is actually ready for release, and they want the community to shape how the game develops.
They want people judging how the game is with the intention of making it better, not reviewing it as if it is anywhere close to a finished product. There's a very fine line, I suggest you find it.
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Like Bioware did with Star Wars: The Old Republic, you mean? Yeah, because that worked out really well for them.


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All you ever need to know you can learn during the holiday season–just ask the members of the Lourdes University Drama Society. The Drama Society welcomes you to the return of Uh-Oh Here Comes Christmas. The series of vignettes, by the famed author of All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, has become a regional holiday tradition. The laughs are set to kick off in the Ebeid Student Center on December 6, at 8pm.
The production features Danita Binkowski, Tim Robinson, Sarah Wright, Courtney Gilliland, Morgan McPhilliamy, Emily Green, Brad Somogye, Kelly Welever, Elliott Boggs, Alicia Allen, Rachel Esposito, Katy Berlin, Nicole Peckham, Austin King, Enique Mason, and Brittany Potts. Faculty Advisor Keith Ramsdell is directing for the Drama Society.
"I like the play because it fits Lourdes Drama Society well. It's includes scenes about the challenges we all face around the holidays with family and relationships. It also has a few "Linus moments" when we're reminded that Christmas is really about something more significant than Santa Claus and giving presents," said Ramsdell. "I also like the script because it gives us the opportunity to include any student who auditions. There are big parts for seasoned actors and small parts for newcomers. Combined with simple staging and minimal technical requirements and it's the perfect choice for our group to perform in the Ebeid Student Center."
Robert Fulghum has published seven best-selling books with more than 16 million copies of his various works in print and published in 27 languages in 103 countries. Fulghum has also performed in two television adaptations of his work for PBS and was nominated for a Grammy for a spoken word production of All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.
"We want to help our guests prepare themselves for the holidays by drawing upon their memories and all of the senses– they'll be welcomed by the sight of decorated Christmas trees, the sounds of a Peanuts Christmas, and the smell of cinnamon pine cones. Every year we have patrons who come and see the show for the first time. I think it demonstrates how well Fulghum's writing connects with the human experience, especially around the holidays."
Tickets for Uh-Oh Here Comes Christmas are $8 for general admission and $5 for seniors and may be purchased at the door or in advance. The show runs through December 8. Show times are 8pm for Friday and Saturday performances and 2pm on Sunday.
For more information, call 419-824-3999 or visit www.lourdes.edu.
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It wasn't a great night for the Republican Party, losing bids for the White House and control of the Senate. Republicans did retain the majority in the House, and House Speaker John Boehner found consolation in that. Speaking to supporters last night, he remained steadfast in his pursuit of a conservative agenda.
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In which Linda answers some questions from blog readers.
1. So what's up with your Twitter handle? You don't follow your own advice. You know something? You're right. My twitter handle should be either @LindaBernstein or, better, @GenB2. These days, we're all brands, in a way, when we're on a public platform, such as Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, not to mention Tumblr or Pinterest or one of the hundreds of social networks, large and small, that populate cyberspace. Either we're ourselves, or we're part of something we're promoting. If my handle were @GenB2, I'd be promoting my Website, which is all about Baby Boomers, and my platform for now until I get my book on Baby Boomers published. If my handle were @LindaBernstein, I could take it anywhere and be "me." So how did I end up as @wordwhacker? I had to get on Twitter quickly, and I tried to be clever. I'm a writer, a lover of words. I'm an editor, a worker with words. @Wordwhacker seemed appropriate. It was memorable. People liked it. Now people who don't know my name say, "oh, you're wordwhacker," when they meet me. Nice, but also sucks. It's not that I have so many followers I couldn't change it. I could also develop either @LindaBernstein or @GenB2, and I might.
2. Will you follow me? Yes, maybe. If you've got good stuff. I mostly follow friends and journalists. I also use two cool tools (NEW INFO ALERT)
www.friendorfollow.com lets you sign in with Twitter. Then you can do three things: Check whom you follow but doesn't follow you back; check followers who follow you; and check who is following you but you're not following. I've unfollowed people because of what I've found–people with whom I had a follow-me-I'll-follow-you arrangement, but who had dropped away. So if they're not giving me interesting content, and believe me, they weren't I dropped away too.
http://twitcleaner.com This neato little tool first asks you to follow them so they can DM you. (DM–direct message, remember? It's a private message between two people who follow each other, and, frankly, a lot of what's tweeted on Twitter should really be done through DM because people are having conversations we don't all need to see in public.) Then they go through everyone you're following, and based on the kind of tweeting that Tweeter does, they suggest who has "dodgy behavior," who tweets nothing but links, and who hardly follows anyone, and who's self-obsessed. (@NJDoc–they suggest I unfollow you because 70% of what you do is retweet). Then they do a report on you. Mine said:Make my day! Thanks.
3. Who's reading my tweets? Unfortunately, the answer might be no one. It depends on how you're tweeting. If you have friends, who have more Twitter followers than you, and they're retweeting you, then maybe lots of people. But if you're just starting your tweet @DearFriend with no character before the @, then probably no one is seeing your tweets. Some people asked me to look at their tweets and tell them what they were doing wrong. This is the most common error. So begin your tweet .@DearFriend or /@DearFriend. That way everyone who follows you will potentially see it. Except the Twitter stream goes by fast. Here one minute, gone the next. Most people don't bother reading their whole stream if they've missed 357 tweets. Some people check their @ mentions and retweets. Most famous people don't. So if you're tweeting @Aplusk, he's not reading it, believe me. I found this fantastic explanation: http://www.jhische.com/twitter/. It's visual and well done.
4. How can I get more followers? Jeesh. Wish I knew. You can buy them. Lots of people do. (Yeah, Mr.BabyBoomerPretendExpert, I'm on to YOU.) Or you can do something and get famous. I know lots of writers and journalists. The journalists who work for well known outlets have tens of thousands of followers. Those who are columnists and write books have even more. And if you're @NickKristof, you have over a million. Taking a class where you meet fellow Tweeters helps. So does taking part in Twitter Chats. I'll discuss these more next time, but meanwhile you can Google it. Some people tweet at the people they're following constantly, thinking that the person will notice them and follow them. Sometimes that happens. Sometimes they just ignore you. What's true is that the more you tweet, the more followers you will get. The more you give content–links to things that are interesting, links to your blog–the more followers you'll get. The more self-obsessed you are, like you are so obviously trying to be clever, well, you'll bore people. I know because I do that. I get pretty snarky, and I lose followers. But here's something I know–followers come and go. Most of the ones who go were only following you because they wanted to be followed back. Or they're bots. So today you had 33 followers and tomorrow you have 31. Doesn't matter because probably only half of them, at most, are reading your tweets.Meanwhile, though, here's an interesting blog about people who rack up the followers (though still not guaranteed they're reading you): "How to Spot a User With a 'Fake' Follower Count" http://bit.ly/nakPom.
5. What's a bot? A robot tweeter. I mean, sometimes there is actually a person behind the bot, but mostly it's just a computer generating a picture with a sexy woman, and the tweet is either a link to a product, to pornography, or worse, to something that takes over your Twitter. NEVER CLICK ON A LINK IN A TWEET UNLESS YOU KNOW WHO IS SENDING IT. Also, Tweeters with eggs instead of pictures, well, either they're trying to keep their identity anonymous so the Syrian police can't find them, they're real newbies, or they're bots.
6. How do I get rid of bots? If you're still under 1000 followers, this is easy. Someone new follows you. Her picture is either an egg or a sexy woman. You click on her. An enlarged version of her picture appears on the right hand column. You notice she's only tweeting links. Or three words and then a link. Or she's following thousands but only a few are following her back. Go to that little person icon and click. The last option is "report for spam." Click on that. She'll be gone. Yeah, your number of followers will go down by one, but you're doing yourself a favor, and you're doing a favor for other Tweeters. Many times these "bots" haven't even tweeted yet. But if she has, NEVER CLICK ON A LINK IN A TWEET UNLESS YOU KNOW WHO IS SENDING IT.
7. What's Klout. Next time. Forget it for now.
8. How do I know who's unfollowed me? Great tool for this. Go to www.twunfollow.com and sign up. They send a list to your mailbox every couple of days. This is a startup company that seems to operate on a shoestring budget. You won't recognize most of the names, but no matter. They're mostly bots or people trying to get followers in the way described in the article I mentioned above. So don't invest in this emotionally.
9. What's the most interesting thing you've learned on Twitter this week? Actually, I have an answer. The other night when the world was following the anti-death penalty protests in Georgia livestreamed via DemocracyNow, and I was tweeting about it, I received a tweet from someone called @DeathRowInmates. He tweeted follow him back. So I did. There was a link. According to him, his father is on death row and his father is innocent. He was tweeting and tweeting, and in the urgency of the moments before Georgia executed someone who may well have been innocent, his tweets seemed compelling. The next morning he had over 20,000 followers, and he was tweeting about his lunch. If this person is not a complete hoax, he is really young–21 he says–and in a terrible situation. He also has a bad attitude and doesn't know how to tweet. His girlfriend sent me this insult (gotta love her hashtag):Of course people can tweet whatever they want, but if you start out asking people to follow you because you're part of a cause and then you tweet about chicken fingers–you're doing it wrong. Yes, if this guy is for real seeing him through his tweets as a real person would be great. But give us something besides chicken fingers. And not chicken fingers a few times a minute because you have Twitterhea and think it's cool when Twitter stops you for a bit (Twitter Jail, people call it). This guy thought Twitter Jail was funny. So I unfollowed. I am interested in anti-death-penalty advocacy; I might even find it interesting to follow someone whose father is on death row. But I don't need to hear about what you had for lunch (unless you're Mark Bittman or a bunch of other foodie types).
10. Who do you like best on Twitter? My answer here isn't going to be your answer. I really like Andy Carvin (@acarvin) of NPR because he is doing something completely new in the way he is crowdsourcing information. I like the comedian Andy Borowitz (@BorowitzReport). I appreciate the efforts of @NPR @Reuters @BBC @Guardian @NYT to keep me informed. I love the headlines from @NewYorkPost. I love discussing journalism with super social median Mo Krochmal (@Krochmal). Amy Vernon (@AmyVernon) cracks me up with what she's found on the Internet and then posts to her Tumblr. I love it that I have total conversations with @LaurenAradi, though I have never met her in person. I appreciate some of my original Twitter folks, like @AxelDiewald. @ESills and @KJohnson04. I'm grateful that @awshuttleworth and I share some of the same obsessions about language. But this is my list. You will develop your own.
In the meanwhile, keep tweeting–but only if you like it. You can ask me questions in the comment area below or, as you do, on Facebook or by email. Friend me on Facebook: www.facebook.com/linda.bernstein and tell me who you are. My Twitter is @wordwhacker.
BTW–you should also be following @TweetSmarter, @AllTwitter, and @AskAaronLee for the latest and best links on using Twitter.