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Gifts that change livesDecember 07,2012Looking for an unusual holiday gift? How about a $60 trio of rabbits to a family in Haiti in the name of someone special? Bunnies raise a farming familys income because they, well, reproduce like rabbits six litters a year! Heifer International arranges the gift on its website (heifer.org).
Or for $52 you can buy your uncle something more meaningful than a necktie: Send an Afghan girl to school for a year in his name, through the International Rescue Committee (rescue.org).
Yes, its time for my annual holiday-giving guide. The question I most often get from readers is What can I do? This column is an answer. As in past years, Im highlighting small organizations because youre less likely to know about them.
Shining Hope for Communities (shininghopeforcommunities.org) was started by Kennedy Odede, a slum-dweller in Nairobi, Kenya, who taught himself to read. A visiting American gave him a book on the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and it inspired Odede to organize local residents to fight against social injustice particularly sexual violence, because his 16-year-old sister had just been raped.
Odede now runs an outstanding girls school in the heart of the Kibera slum in Nairobi, along with a clinic, a water and sanitation program, and job training classes. That slum school is one of the most hopeful places Ive ever visited.
After I wrote about Shining Hope in 2011, Times readers contributed $180,000, leading to a huge expansion so that Shining Hope (mostly through the clinic) now serves some 36,000 people. Another nearby slum, Mathare, has invited Odede to start a girls school there if he can find the resources.
Dr. Hawa Abdi (vitalvoices.org/hawafund) runs a hospital, school and refugee camp in war-torn Somalia. She became an obstetrician-gynecologist partly because her mother had died in childbirth, and she has focused on helping rural Somali women.
The land around her 400-bed hospital, outside of Mogadishu, has become an encampment serving up to 90,000 people made homeless by war. Hawa has provided water, health care and education, and when students transfer to Mogadishu they are up to three grades ahead of children there. Hawa also is battling female genital mutilation, and she runs a jail for men who beat their wives.
An extremist Muslim militia with 750 soldiers attacked the hospital two years ago, saying that it was against religion for a woman to run anything substantial. Hawa stood up to the attackers and because ordinary Somalis sided with her she was able to force the militia to back down. Then she made the militia write her an apology!
Yet Hawas hospital and school are struggling financially. Vital Voices, a Washington organization supporting womens rights, has set up a tax-deductible mechanism to keep Hawas work going.
Polaris Project (polarisproject.org) is a leader in the fight against human trafficking in the United States. One of its most important projects is a nationwide hotline, with interpreters on standby for 176 languages, for anyone who sees people who may be trafficked. Its 888-373-7888. This year alone, Polaris says, it has helped more than 3,200 victims get services through the hotline.
Polaris, based in Washington, has also been a powerful advocate for tougher laws around the country those that target pimps rather than just the girls who are their victims. Polaris says that this year alone it has helped 17 states pass laws on human trafficking. And Polaris has supported nearly 500 trafficking survivors as they start new lives.
Fair Girls (fairgirls.org) is also based in Washington and fights sex trafficking at home and abroad. Its founder, Andrea Powell, braves dangerous streets and disgusting websites for hours in search of girls enslaved in the sex trade, and she is fearless about confronting pimps and prying girls from their grasp.
Earlier this year, I wrote about one of the trafficking survivors Fair Girls has helped: Alissa, the street name of a Boston girl whose cheek is scarred where a pimp gouged her with a potato peeler as a warning not to run away. Alissa ultimately testified against her pimps and sent them to prison. Now, with Powells mentoring, she is helping other girls escape that life as well.
Fair Girls also trains trafficking survivors to make jewelry, which makes nice gifts and is available on the groups website.
Another possible gift: Tell a university student to apply for my annual win-a-trip contest! Im hereby announcing the contest for 2013: Ill take a university student, undergraduate or graduate, with me on a reporting trip to Africa next summer. Together well shine a light on neglected issues. Information about how to apply is on my blog, nytimes.com/ontheground, and thanks again to the Center for Global Development in Washington for helping me choose a winner.
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Nice style of writing! Even when you're on a rant :-)
iGot an iPhone, Initial Impressions and Reflections, Part 3
Before delving further into my initial impressions, I wanted to go back to the topic of iPhone's display that I hadn't yet covered – brightness and color. The screen is absolutely the brightest and richest color LCD I have ever seen on a mobile device. In fact my initial reaction upon powering up the device for the first time was that Apple obviously preconfigured these units with screen brightness to maximum strength by default. One of my first actions was to go to the settings screen and turn it down. Imagine my shock when I discovered that brightness level was in fact set at just 50%. Moving the slider to its maximum setting creates a retina popping brightness that could double for a Maglite. So bright in fact that it's actually painful to look at. Needless to say I don't recommend doing this. You'll have no problem finding your keys in the dark with this thing.
To conserve even more battery power I downgraded screen brightness to 35%, which believe it or not is as bright as my Treo 650 set at 65%. I don't know who Apple contracted to manufactures these LCDs but it outshines everything else out there, literally. The same is true for color saturation and balance as well. I synced my copy of Pirates of the Caribbean that I had purchased off of iTunes to the iPhone (I'll get to video playback later) and the color and picture sharpness was absolutely eye popping, as one would expect from a device so focused on multimedia capabilities.
At the risk of repetition, the OS continues to wow and impress me the more I use. I'm still awestruck at the fluid nature of the UI. As I said before, after you've immersed yourself in the iPhone user interface, you wonder why no one thought of this sooner. Standard smartphone platforms feel so primitive in comparison. How anyone could even look at a Blackberry after using an iPhone is beyond me. Windows Mobile, maybe (remotely plausible). PalmOS is so pathetically out of this league, to compare it with iPhone/OSX is like holding a vintage 1989 Sony Walkman cassette player up against an iPod. It's a joke. Every Treo user should do themselves a favor by donating their smartphone to a third world country, where it belongs. OTPC = One Treo Per Child. Just glue a hand crank to the side of the Treo 680 and maybe there's hope form Palm overall.
Clearly Apple put a great deal of research into designing the right navigation method for user interaction and input. The interface is easier to use and navigate than PalmOS, multitasks more seamlessly and thoughtfully than Windows Mobile, and simplifies connectivity tasks better than Symbian. It's as if Apple took the best qualities of each platform and rolled them together.
But even more shocking to me, running such complex software – where are the crashes? Shouldn't my iPhone have locked up on me by now? Again I have to ask this painfully obvious question - how is that Apple, being a relative newcomer to this market, managed to create with such ease a mobile operating system so fast, efficient, stable, and reliable, when device makers with years of experience and pedigree have managed to create such flawed, slow, inefficient, and generally poorly designed software?
Were this a Windows Mobile device I'd be staring at a spinning hourglass as I tap on the screen and make selections, waiting for the OS to perform even basic tasks.
If iPhone were running PalmOS it would be crashing hourly or at the drop of a pin, with a putrefied DOS-era interface to boot.
If it were Symbian under the hood I'd be pecking through menus looking for some feature setting painfully buried away in an unintuitive interface.
And yet Apple did it. I don't know how, and the dubious side of my brain keeps waiting for some ugly truth to reveal itself, beneath the elegant veneer. Like meeting a beautiful woman in a bar, who smiles back at you, revealing a mouthful of rotting teeth. So far I haven't stumbled upon any dark cloaked secrets or locked closet doors. And that makes me somehow ever MORE skeptical. This can't be right, can it? Something MUST be wrong somewhere.
Well there are a few areas that are less than perfect. Aside from the unpredictable predictive spelling, there are number minute features and functions that I would like to see added or changed significantly. One item that I was disappointed by is that background wallpaper is only utilized on sleep/wake. You can set any picture as your wallpaper, which is nice, but you'll only see when iPhone is wakened. I'd like to see Apple enable background wallpaper on the home screen, with an opacity level adjustment allowing the user to darken and obscure photos so as not to interfere visibility of home screen icons. That's a minor niggle, I know, but I care about the minutia.
Second, the iPhone interface doesn't have permanent scrollbar framework. You scroll up or down simply by making sliding gestures with your fingers. That works beautifully! However, if scrollbars aren't shown it's not always apparent when a document continues on. I noticed this several times when reading an email or webpage. I would mistakenly assume that I had reached the end of document when in fact it continued on. If visible scrollbars were present I would have known to keep scrolling. Such as it is, you have to basically guess this by continuing to scroll until you encounter a rubber banding feedback effect where the document bounces back again, indicating that you've reached the end of the road. That works of course, but I still prefer having some form of indication, be it a scrollbar or a tiny arrow, indicating that I NEED to continue scrolling. But as with the wallpaper thing, this is a minor detail.
Now onto a potentially more worrisome issue, if it is an issue. I haven't yet spent enough time testing the device to draw hard conclusions, but given my extensive experience with wireless devices, I am beginning to suspect that iPhone has some reception issues in areas of weak coverage. I say this because, having travelled with my iPhone in locations where AT&T coverage in my area is known to be poor, my iPhone has several times lost coverage COMPLETELY - as in NO SERVICE, where other smartphones I own maintain active connection, however weak. Again I stress that I need to spend much more time before placing a period at the end of that sentence, but as Poirot famously said, "My little grey cells are busy".
Battery life is another feature that needs to be thoroughly tested before passing judgment, but based on what I've experienced so far I feel comfortable is saying that it is every bit as good as claimed. And once again that opens more questions that indict incumbent smartphone players who preached so loudly that in no way could such a thin device, with a large 3.5" display powered by a desktop class OS under the hood, offer even barely tolerable battery longevity. But it does. So I ask, once again, how is that such a product DOES offer these qualities while you numbskulls at Nokia and RIM can't even produce a touchscreen device? Shouldn't my Windows Mobile powered HTC S620 deliver TWICE the battery life of iPhone rather than a meager percentage more? Shouldn't my Treo 650 with its brick-like form factor and puny postage stamp sized display go days on end without needing recharged? A foul oder of lies and excuses is blowing past my nose, and it ain't coming from Cupertino. I'm beginning to think handset makers have sat on their hands for years using battery consumption and hardware requirements as an excuse for their lack of innovation. Knock knock fellas, this is your wake up call.
Ok, so that rant is out of the way, for now. I'll brow beat the handset industry further another day.
For now I will turn my attention back towards Apple. How about brow beating iPhone for a change? Sound good? Alrighty then, how about this – iPhone is only compatible with the included earphones provided by Apple. You read that right. How is that possible you ask? Well the geniuses (and I don't mean the Genius Bar employees at your local Apple Store) at Apple made one of the dumbest and easily avoidable design mistakes ever made. The iPhone's headphone jack is countersunk within the brushed metal enclosure, made precisely the same diameter as the iPhone/iPod earphone connector. This means you can NOT ( I stess NOT) use the iPhone with your favorite pair of earphones, or in-car audio adapters.
I have a pair of Shure headphones that are now useless. Thank God I didn't buy that pair of $60 Senheizer earphones I was about to purchase. If the iPhone has any serious design flaw, surely this is it. Apple could have a least thrown us a bone by including some kind of mini adapter enabling compatibility with standard headphones, but no. The reason why I am shouting so loudly from my soapbox is because this shortcoming is so blatantly unnecessary and avoidable. There is absolutely no reason why such a trivial yet damaging decision was made in the iPhone's design. Flat out, this was a dumbest decision on Apple's part.
I'm not finished yet. As wonderful as iPhone, and believe me it honestly is, I still disagree with Apple's decision to lock out development. As it is, iPhone feels like an empty treasure chest. You have this absolutely amazing smartphone running the a mobile operating system that utterly awe inspring, that puts everything else to shame. And yet the more you use the iPhone the more you want it do, but can't. I feel like we are all waiting for the other shoe to drop - that Apple has something up its sleeve they aren't showing us yet, and that's probably the case. But as it is, I feel like I'm being served a delicious appetizer as I wait impatiently for the main course to arrive. The question is when it will arrive.
Apple seems to have concentrated on getting iPhone's core functionality and operating system right rather than worry about extending its capabilities. In that regard they passed with flying colors. iPhone is far more advanced, far more reliable, and far more innovative than any other device or software platform on the market today - not only surpassing the competition but making them look stupid in the process; a feat that Apple prides itself upon.
And yet the more I use my iPhone the more it leaves me wanting more. It's like watching a new blockbuster film only halfway through. What happens next? Apple is leaving me in suspense! My instincts in guessing where device makers are heading are usually pretty good, and in this case I think Apple has a winning hand that it isn't ready to show just yet, and I can't say I blame them. Step one was generating hype, silencing the critics, winning analysts, and growing an iconic status before the product even shipped. They managed to pull that off marvelously. My hunch is that by the fourth quarter of this year we are going see some rather shocking and interesting surprises from Apple in the form of value added software and features.
And now comes one of those scandalous rumors that I love spreading, but I spoke with a "source" (you know it's credible whenever the word source is used within quotations) that Apple does in fact plan opening the iPhone to third party developers. It's not a matter of if, but when. The exact words my source used was…"you'll be hearing some interesting "news" on that later this year".
That winds up the third portion of my so called "initial impressions" pseudo review. I'll be posting more later in the coming days.
So far my overall impressions are best condensed into one sound bite - iPhone is an absolutely amazing first generation product that surpasses even third and fourth generation smartphones, which are now best described as dumbphones by comparison.
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iGot an iPhone, Initial Impressions and Reflections, Part 3
The one iPhone rant I have that you missed is the web browser - it's horrible for reading text-heavy sites like blogs, because it doesn't have the Treo's "Optimized Page" feature that wraps text to fit the small screen. Sure it's great for blocky sites like CNN, but I find it unusable for Bloglines and news stories, which is most of what I read on my phone. And it should be trivial in software to have Safari just render to a smaller resolution. OTOH, the "tabbed browsing" UI is freaking amazing.
There are a bunch of other annoying UI quirks (no searching through contacts? But I have hundreds of them!), but hopefully they will be addressed in software too. But when the UI works, it sure is fun!
I haven't found that to be a problem. The UI is so fluid by design, you merely double tap an area of any webpage you want to view closer and the brower zooms in. Or you do the "pinch" gesture and scale the page up or down as you please. Treo's "web optimized" feature is obsolete as far as I'm concerned.
Hello to all who read,
I apologize in advance for my rant.
To my un-amazement my Iphone crashed on me after playing with iTunes ,Safari, YouTube, Mai ... etc for about 8hrs striaght. Totally cool and all... oh and by the way if this happens to you just hold the power button down for like 10 seconds the unit will reboot and the reboot process a little longer than expected so be patient. It may be because it's writing the error log it sends back to apple after being plugged back into your computer. (Smart error handling on their end )
My only real issues that i hope are resolved at one point in the future iPhone's inability to display flash. It would have made a great development tool for a fully touch interface. Also where's the speech recognition for my contacts?
I cannot wait for this Product to come to the UK, I have 2 phones both with varying PDA functions wished they were both merged into one, life will be a lot easier and because I travel on the the train a lot I do have my music on the go (Ipod). I have often wondered what life would be like if carried just one device that allowed me to make calls, organise my schedules and documents and surf the web.
I wonder how long we will have to wait for and no doubt we will be paying double the price......
The reason the audio jack is counter-sunk is to protect the circuit board of the iPhone in the event of a drop or a hard yank from the side. Save your money for a future set of killer bluetooth headphones. After all, a cord hanging off this device is just plain wrong to begin with.
What's really needed and Apple should have provided: a small rubber plug to protect the head phone jack from lint and dirt. I keep my iPhone in my pocket and already find myself having to clean lint out of that jack.
There are some small software points I hope they fix soon.
* Not all applications turns sideways with the iPhone
* No copy+paste
* Can't save an e-mailed JPEG to the Photos library
* Google Maps application doesn't have all the functionality of the Google Maps web page
But it's a nice toy!
Here are some research results about the iPhone, about percentages of workers in the U.S. interested in an iPhone: http://www.gmi-mr.com/gmipoll/release.php?p=20070702
My Wife and I fell into the hype and like a lot of suckers we bought two iPhones on Friday evening.
We have tried all weekend to get the phones activated and still nothing. Dozens of calls to AT&T have been worthless. (I'm amazed at how little the phone tech people at AT&T actually know about the iPhone). We now have dead, glossy $600 bricks. They simply don't work. A real waste of money.
Steve Job's was bound to fail, and now he has. The emperor finally has no clothes. Apple blew it.
AT&T has ruined a potentially great product. We all knew AT&T stunk, but now Apple too?
You are known for the company you keep. Shame on Apple for partnering with AT&T, a network that is dead last in customer service. Awful.
The whole experience has been so bad it has soured our impression of Apple. I'm returning the two iPhones to the Apple Store today for a refund. They are not worth the hassles.
Apple made great hardware...but the awful service of AT&T has 100% killed the iPhone user experience. Shame on both Apple and AT&T.
We're really sorry we bought them. We were HAD.
I would love an iPhone, but I am waiting for 3G and Internet sharing before I am willing to break my Sprint Contract. Right now I must say I truly love using my PPC 6700 on my Macbook Pro to get online with high speed internet.http://youtube.com/watch?v=OTxQylyW2Gg
listening to all these reviews is making me cry !!!! i am from the UK and we dont get them until September time this year...
but i think this may be a good thing, waiting for software updates, upgrades etc. :-) thats my excuse anyway lol
i think i will wait though until 3G.... and *deep breath* what has Apple done with the absolesence of earphone jacks.... :-o
this is another question i have, WHY HAS APPLE AND WHY IS APPLE GIVING THE IPHONE EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS TO CERTAIN SERVICE PROVIDERS?
isn't there aim to sell as many iphones as poss? restricting the access will not allow this surely?! am i being silly or what :-s lol
if you know or have any ideas could you email me:
I found this website to win a free iphone.
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It's pretty easy and you never know.
I totally agree with you about the audio jack and blue tooth headphones don't solve the problems for those people who have auxillary inputs into their car stereos for devices like ipods but can't be used plugging directly into the iPhone now due to the way the jack is designed.
I was able to get around this by using the iPhone base. There is a line out on the iPhone base which allows the standard auxillary or headphone plugs to be used. However, who wants to carry around the base with them wherever they go.
I am wondering what the 350,000-plus users who have bought iPhones will do for cellphone service once their iPhones' batteries go dead? You're supposed to send the phone to Apple for a battery replacement. Are all of the users really going to go without a cellphone for 10 days or so while waiting for their iPhone to come back with a new battery? Did the buyers think this aspect of the iPhone through? I sure wouldn't want to go without a cell for 10 days.
And how can Apple claim that the iPhone is its "best iPod ever" when the iPhone has one-tenth the memory capacity (8 GB to 80 GB) of the top-of-the-line iPod? For users like me, who have been waiting to get an iPod till the iPhone came out, to find out that the iPhone's iPod has such little storage capacity for almost twice as much money is very disappointing.
I don't expect anyone at this site to have any answers. I'm just thinking out loud.
The device is great - BUT - it has two fatal flaws that will force me to go back to my blackberry if they are not fixed soon.
1) I am shocked that Apple of all companies neglected to add the basic contact search ability that exists in Address Book on OSX. I have nearly 2,000 contacts. In order to place a call ... I can select the first letter of first or last name - If I have a hundred entries that begin with that letter - I have to scroll. For email this is not the case - it works properly ie. I type a partial or complete name and it finds it. It even works properly for SMS.
2) Select, Copy and Paste! This is a very basic feature that every blackberry has and completely missing from iPhone. So if I type a note with a phone number - there is no way for me to call that number without re-typing it!! Or ... if I get a phone number texted to me - I cannot simply select and copy and then paste into the phone to call - I need to retype it!!!!
This one misssing feature renders the device nearly useless in comparison to a BlackBerry
"Every Treo user should do themselves a favor by donating their smartphone to a third world country, where it belongs. OTPC = One Treo Per Child."
This is lame and offensive to the poor people in developing country. You, sir, should be ashamed of yourself. Developing countries are not a place where you dump your old stuff and possibly your trash too. It's also offensive to the OLPC project. On the contrary of the frivolous iPhone, aims to really help those folks. A little respect, please.
I'm curious whether anyone knows the maximum resolution that photos are downsampled to when they are synced into the iPhone.
I wanted to put a subway map into my phone; I tried pulling in a large jpeg (1600x1200, which I read was the resolution of the camera) and I can't zoom all the way in - the image is scaled very poorly.
I haven't been able to find this information anywhere yet...
Look, it's all very nice and all, but it's still phone - check out the phone HTC just launched - or even the really slick interface and functions that you can download onto your existing phone from Yoober. When the hype dies down and the glitz wears off... is the thing anywhere as useful as what's already out there? Probably not
I like the fact that you are a smartphone expert. I have been holding out to replace my TREO 600 for something substatially better (had the TREO600 for almost 4 years). I was glad for the pre-announcement and the TREO held out for 6 more months (Jan-June). I love the iphone and want to be as optomistic as you, but I just returned from a visit to the Apple store to answer a list of 18 questions stemming from my first week with the iphone. Unfortunately there were 16 No's, 1 yes and 1 kind of. I hope you are right with the 3rd party apps and something up Apple's sleeve, because I am giving up many features I had on the Treo. Here is a highlight of my biggest concerns:
- No cut/copy/paste - had this almost 20 years ago on my MAC - Where is OSX on this primative front?
- No search - of notes and other desired content (word, excel, pdf, etc. - wasn't Google in on the iphone?)
- No grouping of notes - Folders are used elsewhere, why not for notes. No backup of notes on my computer.
- Contact info - no grouping by category or company. Missing key fields like job title (business use)
- ebooks - would like to read on the airplane, but no way to save an ebook to the iphone.
- read email in landscape mode.
- fast locating of contacts. Scrolling is great, but I have over 150 contacts starting with "M" alone. liked the Treo's first initial/last name that got me to the contact I wanted (out of over 2000) in 3-4 letters.
There are more, but these are some of the more substantial issues.
Would love to have a conversation with you and plan to follow your continued findings. Fortunately the shortcomings identified should be solved by improved software not require purchase of iphone generation 2.
Great info from you and hope you can help in finding a way to overcome some of these shortcomings.
What about scratches?
Please don't drop your iPhone to test it. If you do, you will get spanked by this young lady:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwkpNdS5PGo
PJAY ...... dont be ignorant .... u can pull the Sim card out of the iPhone and place it in another phone. And for the iphone being a ipod its not. Put like 3gs of songs on ur iphone and ur good.
iphone is in trouble when Nvidia finds the right buyer for the Tegra APX. I'm debating on whether to wait or not since end of 08 is when its projected to come out. Blows the iphone out of the water.
Are the new models out yet?? My son told me all the employees where he works were going to be given one of their own because they totally outdid themselves in production last year. I told him he could give it to his mother, but he said, "I don't think so." How's that for gratitude from the child I gave birth too? LOL
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The Institute of Medicine report also took aim at food sold to raise funds for schools, recommending it be curtailed. At the same time, a new bill that would amend the Child Nutrition Act to eliminate junk food from U.S. schools is gaining support in Congress.
Bill Jeffrey, national coordinator of the Canadian wing of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, wrote a response to the Institute of Medicine's report, calling for Canada's federal government to take serious leadership on school nutrition. "We don't have a good snapshot of food in the schools nationally," he says. "There needs to be a national approach to improving it."
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In 2006, it began phasing in (over three years) its Food and Nutrition Policy for Nova Scotia Public Schools. The policy states boldly that food must be for nourishment rather than revenue generation. It bans sports drinks and deep fryers from cafeterias, eliminates super-sized portions, and ranks foods (and when they're allowed to be eaten) according to nutritional content.
Peter McLaughlin, spokesperson for the Department of Education, says schools expressed the greatest concerns with strict guidelines in the area of fundraising (no more cookie dough). To clarify, a comprehensive guide was created.
"We were helped by the warnings that this would be the first generation not to outlive their parents," he says. At the same time, Nova Scotia is updating its anaphylaxis guidelines and undertaking more emergency training.
In Ontario, the food-in-the-class debates have been focused on compliance with Sabrina's Law, the groundbreaking anaphylaxis legislation. But nutrition is also building as an issue.
In late 2004, the Ministry of Education released guidelines for school boards that targeted the sale of chips and chocolate bars in elementary school vending machines. School boards were advised to restrict snacks to those that are nutritious, including fruit cups and some types of granola bars, crackers and cookies. Lower-fat milk, water and 100 per cent fruit juice were recommended as beverages, and the guidelines are part of a broader health framework.
Meantime, British Columbia has similarly begun moving toward healthier eating habits. It is working with the school boards with the goal of eliminating junk food in the vending machines and cafeterias, and has introduced a program called Healthy Schools.
But beyond provincial or statewide policies, changing the dynamic of food in the class also comes down to a single school's own initiative. In the case of one Mississauga, Ontario school, the approach to reducing allergens in the junior kindergarten is steeped in nutritional advantage.
St. Basil Elementary School implemented a fruits and veggies-only snack regime for its junior kindergarten pupils two years ago. This came about following discussions with a parent whose child had had an anaphylactic reaction. To make the classroom safe for that pupil, his teacher suggested this nutritious (if more limiting) solution. Clifford Read, the school's principal, agreed.
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I have two unissued Romanian G kits for sale. These have the original barrel.
These will each ship with a Nodak Spud NDS-3 receiver.
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why do people throw out "" a good tree cant bear bad fruit and a bad tree can bear good fruit""does that really mean what people say? i do both good and bad so whats up??i have good works and bad works, i bear good fruit and bad fruit, WHATS UP??
do the ones whom use this verse every do any of these things:
Gal 5:20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Gal 5:21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
The "GOOD TREE" (wheat) is CHRIST... IN YOU... The BAD TREE (tare) is YOU ...IN YOU...This is why WE must DIMINISH (IN US becoming NOTHING) and CHRIST must ...BECOME... more (IN US becoming EVERYTHING)...
im stubborn i want to do good but i find myself doing the very opposite of what i know is right. im tired, im sick of it, i dont wanna be a tare. i take one step forward and two steps back, why am i a tare!!! why cant i be wheat??
author=willieH link=topic=2591.msg26874#msg26874 date=1210016723]Quote from: chuckt on May 05, 2008, 10:30:36 PMim stubborn i want to do good but i find myself doing the very opposite of what i know is right. im tired, im sick of it, i dont wanna be a tare. i take one step forward and two steps back, why am i a tare!!! why cant i be wheat??Isn't your confession above, just a paraphrase of Romans 7 (especially vs 15-25) Chuck?
And KNOW that WE are ALL in this very same battle
You came back at me with many quotations from various epistles of Paul. Paul is a parable hard to be understood by the gentiles that there might be an elect of the gentiles. Why Peter said of the teaching of Paul what he did, and you know what he said. You had best get a grip on what Jesus said, and on the scriptures of the old testament which speak of Him, and get off the unstable ground you are on taking what you think Paul said over what Jesus Christ said. It is not the gospel of Paul that will make you wise, free, and give you eternal life, but the gospel of Jesus Christ!
I am really sorry that you don't realize that Jesus died for the sins of the world meaning every sinner in this present age. Those who are saved in this present age have no threat from the second death, meaning death in the millineum. The point of the millineum is the seperation of the wheat and the tares, the light from the darkness. The saints are the holy angels.
The millineum is the seperation of the wheat and the tares.
Revelation 20:7And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, 8And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. 9And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
You can be ignorant of scripture if you want and think the tare is your flesh if you will but you have been told the truth of these things. God is not mocked and the scriptures can not be broken. The report is hard to be understood, and is a vexation to the whole world. No surprise, for we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but spiritual wickedness in high places.


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*For as long as sisters Elizabeth and Isabella can remember they've been enamored by the feeling created when you combine feathers, leather, and turquoise. In the 1960s and '70s their father was a leather craftsman and their mother was a potter/painter. The sisters work, channeling their inner gypsy spirits, from their Byron Bay studio.
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Rated 5 out of 5Â by vmalka Not exactly the same as the bag sold by Spell I first saw this bag at the Spell Designs website and loved it, and was psyched when I saw FP was selling it for less. I was so excited that I didn't notice they weren't exactly the same, despite both being called the Dreamweaver bag. The taupe from Spell has turquoise embellishments while FP has cream embellishments. Not a huge difference but felt I should point it out for any future turquoise-loving shoppers. Otherwise, it seems to be pretty much the same. 8.22.2013
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After learning many college racing teams can't afford certain tools due to strict budgets, IMCO Carbide Tool of Perrysburg stepped up and provided tools as well as technical assistance to several teams, including the University of Toledo's.
The business also hosted the inaugural IMCO Invitational on May 6 as a preliminary event for the International Formula SAE (FSAE) competition at Michigan International Speedway (MIS), held May 8-11.
"It's like a dress rehearsal for the MIS event," said Matt Osburn, vice president of IMCO.
"The teams put their cars through the paces without serious competition," said Steve Avers, application support team leader at IMCO.
Formula racing competitions are held annually for college teams, sponsored by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). In the FSAE competition, engineering students at schools around the world work to design and build a new race car each year. The college teams solicit donations from companies that will help them build the race cars from kits.
College teams have strict rules and budgets for materials and tools. The teams are responsible for recruiting sponsors and developing supplier relationships.
IMCO first became involved by providing cutting tools and technical assistance for the Hardrocker Racing program at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSMT) in 2012.
IMCO received more contacts from schools for tools and began helping the Rocket Motorsports team at UT.
In the past, IMCO hosted some of the teams at its headquarters and manufacturing facility in Perrysburg. Company officials were so delighted with the ongoing relationships they decided to expand the idea, Osburn said.
"We wanted to do something that would bring the students together here, just to meet each other, talk and have a little fun before they head up to the FSAE competition at MIS," Osburn said.
"Matt came up with the idea of having an invitational race. We randomly pick four or five schools from a wide range of areas to compete in several events in competition for fun," Avers said.
IMCO invited five teams to the inaugural event in May, including Hardrocker Racing from SDSMT, Rocket Motorsports from UT, Bearcat Motorsports from the University of Cincinnati, Illini Motorsports from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Formula ETS of Montreal, Quebec.
The Illinois team was unable to attend and the Montreal team canceled due to technical problems but made it to the international event at MIS. So, an invitation was extended to FEI Racing, a 10-member team from São Paulo, Brazil, that UT was hosting for the international event.
IMCO provided the teams from Toledo, Illinois, South Dakota and Montreal with a care package of tools including carbide end mills and related materials, valued at $3,000-$4,000. The Cincinnati team declined IMCO's offer because its car was already finished.
"By the time IMCO contacted us, we were already done but we didn't want to miss the events. We're here to build a relationship for next year," said Matt Davis, a UC senior.
The tools came with offers of technical support from Avers and his staff at IMCO. The teams called or emailed Avers for technical assistance leading up to the two events in May.
The inaugural IMCO Invitational was held at the Center for Emergency Preparedness at Owens Community College, where emergency responders learn safe driving practices.
The IMCO Invitational featured four events: a sprint for the fastest time in 100 yards, slalom weaving between cones, long obstacle course with chicanes and Chicago boxes, and a double figure eights as well as an endurance competition, which combined all four events.
FEI Racing placed first with a race car that was "head and shoulders over the rest and definitely the top car of the day," Osburn said. Rocket Motorsports placed second; Bearcat Motorsports, third; and Hardrocker Racing from SDSMT, fourth.
Marcus Hamann of the Brazilian team said they hope to develop a sponsor relationship with IMCO. Osburn said he hopes the team is able to come back for next year's events.
The Rocket Motorsports team began building the chassis in January for the open-wheel, formula-style race car powered by a four-cylinder Honda motorcycle engine.
"IMCO's tooling was outstanding and allowed us to cut parts in about one third of the time," said Dale Hamberg, a senior mechanical engineering student at UT who serves as team leader for Rocket Motorsports.
Hamberg said the car weighs 430 pounds, can go from zero to 60 mph in 3.5 seconds and reaches 90 mph. A team of eight to 10 students built 90 percent of the car in the machine shop located on the UT Engineering campus.
"It's very time-consuming and takes complete dedication," said Hamberg, who is from Coldwater, Ohio. He plans to lead the UT team in 2014 as well.
"We hope to do it again next year. We just enjoy getting the teams together. We get a chance to meet and mingle with the engineering students," Osburn said.
"It's nice to get that exposure and see IMCO tools playing a role in their designs' development. It plants the seeds to grow business relationships with people we hope will be the next generation of our customers. Fifty potential customers come here every year and have a great experience," he said.
IMCO Carbide Tool was founded in 1977 by Larry Osburn. He turned the business over to his sons, Perry, who serves as president and Matt, vice president. The company has 85 employees at its home offices and manufacturing facilities in Perrysburg and Warren, Mich.
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Originally posted by ozmono
Allow freedom of choice and the ability for players to determine their own path to a much larger extend then is possible now. For instance: no faction lock for races, freedom to join one or more factions or none at all. Freedom to go where ever you want, no zone lockout.
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Originally posted by Astraeis
While i agree with freedom to not join any faction ... i must strongly disagree with being able to join any faction with any race .... In EP we already got one filthy elves ... i realy don't want to play with more of them. I think that factions in faction oriented MMO should be clearly defined. Maybe have really really hard way to change your faction so we see as few people as possible changing factions. They would execute you as spy anyway.
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Originally posted by Iselin
The problem has never been the specifics of the game design, it's the conceptual direction of the game itself that most TES fans take issue with. Zenimax have chosen to focus the game around three-faction PvP and sacrificed most of the fundamental features of the series in doing so. We now have pre-determined factions, faction-locked regions, separated classes, no housing... these things betray the series' original concept of freedom to explore and play as you wish.
Posting 'ideas' to solve the issue is pointless as the solution is obvious: scrap the three-faction PvP and make an actual online TES game instead of DAoC2 in a TES skin... of course they won't actually do that but disgruntled fans have a right to voice their disappointment in seeing a popular series bastardized in this way.
Originally posted by Lawlmonster
I can see both sides of the open world thing, yes it is nice to be able to visit everywhere with one character you are attached to, however Zenimax is aiming to make a RvR focus, and letting the opposing factions freely wander your home region simply cheapens that scenario.
Could they have made a standard MMO with battleground PvP and free access to everywhere? Sure. But they have their own vision for the game and to make that cohesive there needs to be certain concessions.
In general I feel there is way too much entitlement from gamers these days. You either enjoy a game or you don't, getting emotionally attached to a game which obviously doesn't cater to your gaming preferences isn't particularly healthy.
Originally posted by Alberel
Yes, and not agreeing with that is fine too, and is just as pointless, but it is fun to exchange ideas.
It takes one to know one.
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Personally, if they found a way to turn Morrowind into an mmo I'd be interested. :)
I realise that's a big ask, but hey, a man can dream.
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Originally posted by sapphen
No, I'm not talking about switching between Cyrodiil campaigns. The mega-server currently creates and moves people around different instances of the same area. So if your friend is playing then you could join his instance. In other words there is no servers to hop between.
Originally posted by sapphen
World PvP is not a-la WoW. I don't want battlegrounds but I do think organized open world PvP would be a respectiable subsitution.
Originally posted by sapphen
There is no PvP in explorer mode... although I would welcome a manual FFA or Faction wPvP flagging system while exploring.
Originally posted by sapphen
Why shouldn't we ask for FPV, the series is known for it. Anyways, that's why I suggested a FPV only Cyrodiil campaign. That way FPV can play together and not worry about TPV advantages. It would be a nice touch to remember and respect people who like that PoV.
Originally posted by sapphen
I figured a subscription fee would warrent some bandwidth. I was actually suprised to see that a private server type thing is becoming popular and we may see something like this in an upcoming MMO. The Private Server would be a great way to give players that SP/Co-op TES feel, allow housing and developer made mods. It could also be used as a tool for guilds for leveling alts or foster guild bonds.
Originally posted by Iselin
LOL, you must be trying to hurt my feelings. Granted these ideas are pretty raw but I'm only one man. You must have high expections to think a forum poster (without a team of designers) would have professional grade ideas. I was asked what would please me and I answered. You can insult me all you want but it means nothing.
Originally posted by Alberel
I agree with you that people have every right to voice their opinions. It's the implied concept that the developers should change course and do something to appease them that I have trouble with.
I have been a fan fo the TES series and have played the heck out of every one of them since Arena, At the same time I have usually had an MMO going on the side as well (with Skyrim it was SWTOR...talk about contrast lol.) I like both environments: the great freedom possible in single player games and the more managed style of MMOs...some are better than others but I don't expect to see my single player features in an MMO any more than I expect to be able to see my FIFA features to play soccer with an enemy's decapitated head in a single player RPG.
The "conceptual direction" as you call it, is a very important core feature of design. Design is not just the nuts and bolts of which 3D engine to use or who to hire for voiceovers. Zenimax has made their choices and neither I nor you nor anyone else has any clue yet how the whole TESO game experience will feel.
I think one of the problems that is in part responsible for the over-heated rhetoric in this forum is that TES has always been the most sandbox-like of the single player RPG series so fans assumed that a TES MMO would also be a sandbox. It isn't one. It's a hybrid that leans heavily in the themepark's direction. This is a choice Zenimax made knowing full well what the TES franchise is all about.
Why did they make that choice? Well, one reason may be that MMO players only say they love sandboxes but they have never put their money where their mouth is. Other than Eve, not many people in 2013 are paying to play sandbox MMOs. We get excited about their announcements, follow their development with great interest, participate in their forums...and then we don't buy them.
There's always a "next great" golden sandbox child on the horizon--currently that would be Archeage and The Repopulation for me--and I'm just as hopeful for those to be the sandbox breakthrough as everyone else. But that's us, the hardcore MMO consumers who play a lot.
Zenimax chose to go for more mainstream mass appeal as part of their design decission. If they hadn't, Darkfal would have been the end result--complete with FPV and targetting, housing, skill leveling, etc. Maybe they noticed that very few people play DF... IDK.
I've played and enjoyed sandboxes and themeparks and have no particular bias when it comes to them--both types have pluses and minuses. I don't see Zenimax' choice as a "betrayal" a "bastardization" or any other melodramatic term you want to throw at it. It IS an interesting decision from those who know TES best, to say the least. But it may be a good one. I'll reserve judgement until after I play the damn thing (see my post with beta info elsewhere.)
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I'm easy. Release a game that isn't a bug ridden mess and I'll give it a shot. While I may have become accustomed to horrendous quality control in my ES titles, that doesn't mean I like it, or am willing to pay a sub for it.
Also sub fee, have a sub fee. While we're at it, lifelike npcs with more than 3 lines of dialogue to choose from.
Getting into the weirder end, I'd like solo or small group randomly generated exploration dungeons/forts/cave systems which one must find a la scanning down sites in eve or some other mechanic even just by stumbling accross them, anything which allows variable placement for them. Hmmm, also huge-ass non- instanced dungeons riddled with passages where one party may run accross another while exploring and share map info, whatevs.
Make torches MORE necessary to see. i.e. if you're underground with no torch or alteration caster, make dark really dark, not kind of like starlight.
So I'm not easy, but if the launch is smooth and lacks bug upon bug, i'll still likely give it a shot.
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Originally posted by Darkcrystal
The issue today is gamers will be any crap. Thats why market is full of medicority.
This right here. I am forced from the start to be in some mythical "faction" that does not fit the lore of the game just because of PvP.
What would appease me? Ditch PvP and make an actual Elder Scrolls Game.
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Originally posted by ozmono
These are few things I think Zeni could've done different to be more faithful to the IP;
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
Originally posted by walltar
And again this comes up. DO that and you turn the game into a WoW clone. There is no debating it, it is the exact style of MMO that has been mass produced for the last 8 years.
In short, you either make it a WoW clone or you innovate on the core systems of an Elder Scrolls game and put it in an MMO skin which has rarely been done. I'll take my chances with ZOS's version over WoW clone# 7410.
Originally posted by Iselin
I agree with you that people have every right to voice their opinions. It's the implied concept that the developers should change course and do something to appease them that I have trouble with.
TES games have never been pure sandbox games. They all had story-lines that where quest-driven. However, what defines a TES game according to Bethesda is the ability to go to that mountain top you see in the distance. This gives you the freedom to play a TES game as a sandbox game.
I do understand why Zenimax would not opt to make a sandbox game. But that does not mean they needed to make decisions that would hurt the central characteristic of the Elder Scrolls IP. I do not understand why they made that decision, while they could have gone in many other directions that would not result in faction and zone locking, but yet they did. Evil tongues say it was just them being lazy and/or still being in love with the DaoC model.
Maybe, I don't know, but I see reason to be hesitant for TES fans to embrace TESO.
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Originally posted by AlBQuirky
You realise that it never had PvP as a focus because it was single player. This is a MMO. PvP is pretty much the ultimate player interaction, and gives far more replayability. If you want solid PvE you are better off waiting for the next single player ES.
Things that are fundamental to single player games, are not fundamental to MMOs, and vice versa. If Street Fighter ever became a MMO, I would have to give it some breathing space to adapt, rather than expecting to play it like the 2D fighter. The same applies to single player RPGs becoming MMOs, you can't expect them to be identical because they just don't work the same way.
The lore behind the factions and war has been explained. This isn't set in the same era as the single player ES games.
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Everything always comes down to People's Opinions when your dealing with people.
And Basically this is my Opinion being added to this thread.
As for What would have Appeased the Elder Scrolls Fans? Actually Making Elder Scrolls into a MMO using The Elder Scrolls Ideas incorporated into a MMO(changes would need to be made for Balance Reasons Of Course/making sure nothings abused etc etc.) however TES:O Dev's Decided that They will use every other MMO's Ideas and Incorporate those into a Elder Scrolls Theme game and Cut out Many of The Elder Scrolls Games Defining features.
Basically from my Standpoint it looks like TES:O Dev's are making their decisions based on the fact that its Easy cash/crazy safe business standpoint Using a TES IP + DAOC Ideas / Design in the same game. Rather then Take the Risk of actually Making a More Unique MMO Experience that many probably have never experienced. however I doubt the Game with its current designs will have Success Long Term but only time will really tell if that statement is true.
Originally posted by Astraeis
Hmm... if you don't consider TES games sandbox you have a very, very strict idea of no developer guidance via quests, stories or whatever. Does a game like that even exist other than Minecraft?
TES games have no classes, have housing, in-depth crafting and although the world is alive with many different story arcs, no one tells you which must be done first or next. Says sandbox to me.
As to go anywhere you can see... yeah you can go anywhere they chose to show you and confine that particualr episode to. All of them tiny portions compared to the "limiting" half we have access to (half = your faction quarter plus the Cyrodil quarter) in the MMO.
Originally posted by Iselin
I think you missed the word pure. But maybe it will be a comfort to know I miss the point of your post if it is not confirming what I already said.
It takes one to know one.
Originally posted by Astraeis
I didn't miss it, I just ignored it because I don't know what a pure sandbox is...do you? Which is why I said "sandbox-like" in my description in the previous post before you replied saying it isn't a pure one...
So yeah, you're right we see what we want to see,
I am fully aware that a player cannot PvP in a single player game :)
PvP is what is causing all the strife with TES:O. Without PvP, there would be no locked out areas. Without PvP, class balancing would be a non-issue. PvP, in this case, seems to be taking away freedoms that TES players are used to in their games, not creating more freedoms.
I realize that most MMO players feel that PvP is, as you put it, "The ultimate player interaction", but for me, that interaction is grouping, being on the same team, being friendly, trading with each other, helping others out, not trying to knock each others' blocks off.
I am sure that this game will be very popular amongst MMO players. It seems that time after time, ZOS's decisions have been towards that goal. I never had any inkling to play an MMO heavily based on realm vs realm PvP, especially DAoC. If ZOS wants to do that aspect right, they must focus most of their attention on it. Otherwise, it falls short.


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Karen, what a beautiful surprise! Your husband did a really good job too! Perfect.
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hello Karen...you can paint anywhere now...and the thumbhole will be useful to hold a glass of 'whatever'........lovely present even if belated....I just get given money these days which is nice but,,,,,,,,,
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Hello Karen ! What a thoughtful and useful paint palette table your hubby made! Happy Anniversary!
Comments and critiques are welcome.
Hello Karen......well done you for coping so unexpectedly with the April Challenge and the Gallery presentation.
Hello Jen,
I may not be able to post much this month as I am hoping to have more work done on my house and I shall also be away on holiday for a week. Anyway will try.
Karen the gallery looks great. Sorry to take up so much space!
Sarah, no worries we all have other lives and the travel season is coming up. I shall be on the move again soon if Howard ever stays home!
Karen a big THANK YOU for the April Challenge & gallery. And good news about your art shows. CONGRATS!!!
Karen, it is so great to see the work everyone did for the April Challenge. Thanks so much for hosting the Challenge and setting up the Gallery.
Bonnie C & C most welcome / appreciated
Thank you, I really enjoyed hosting the April challenge.
Finally finished this one. Picture is a little dark much brighter in person
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Karen, well done. You got a lot in there while keeping the figures front and centre. Great memories of a special day.
Hi to all, just stopping by to see what the everyone has been working on and the art here is just beautiful. I'm still painting and will join the challenge soon, been busy at work can't wait to retire in July. Spending most free time with grandkids, seems we all have been passing around a tummy virus. Thank you everone who has emailed me, the email did mean a lot to me and I'm sorry I didn't get back to you. Please forgive me. Joyce
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Joyce, good to see you here! July is less than two months away yea! You have been missed, hope the tummy bug has gone away!
Very excited tonight. I found out Sunset at Delcastle won 3rd place.
Karen, CONGRATULATIONS!!! Well done girl! I am so glad for you and much deserved! !
Thank you Jen. The award presentations are on the 17th. I'll try and get some pics. The exhibition goes till the 24th then the winners will be on exhibit at the Eastern Monroe library gallery June and July. Wow. This is fun.
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