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webOS surpasses 5,000 apps 142
We've been keeping a bit of an eye on the webOS app count lately and it's time we called it (along with @webostoaster): webOS has surpassed the 5,000 app mark when you include all of the apps from various feeds and direct downloads now available for it. That number is over 7,000 when you include themes and patches.
Although it varies by device and region, in general the number of official App Catalog apps is now over 4,000. Apps from Palm's Web and Beta feeds combine for over 500. Homebrew apps account for over 500 as well. There are over 400 patches and 1800 themes for webOS.
While 5,000 isn't a huge number compared to other platforms, it's an important benchmark for a group of users who have been hungry for apps. Congrats to the webOS developers who helped make it happen. Want to congratulate them yourself? Buy a PDK app before the $1 million PDK Hot Apps Competition ends tomorrow. Suggest your favorite in the comments!
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How many apps did the iPhone have after a year? Just curious to see how we compare.
or the Android Market
App store opened on July 11th, 2008 with 500 apps. On October 22nd, 2008 it had 7,500 apps.
The Android market opened October 22nd 2008, but paid apps weren't available until February 2009. By December 2009 there were 9,000 apps.
The iPad had 5,000 iPad-specific apps in the App Store on the day it was launched.
Now I have no idea how apps on iphone/ipad work. Does apple give tools to the public for people to make apps like Palm? When the iPad was launched with 5,000 apps, who made them? Major companies or small time developers? Thats the thing with us. We are just starting to get major app making companies on our side. Once we get a new "super device", Im sure the app catalog will start to pick up.
keep dreaming
Negative Nancy.
just being realistic. alot of people in our community seem to believe in the "new hardware fairy" or the "app fairy" that will overnight give us amazing hardware, quadruple our apps and put palm back on the map
Im not saying it will be over night. But the new phone that comes out HAS to be up to par with all the others including the iPhone. If that happens, developers for the iPhone will be more willing to port over their apps. Some have already started. The only thing we're missing is a popular device. It will be sad if Palm doesnt deliver but I DO belive they will.
don't kid yourself, why on earth would a developer worth anything want to develop for webos? Even when webos had potential nobody developed! Why would they bother when there's a lot of better options for consumers and devs?
Ok, games that have been ported already...Angry Birds, TileStorm, Welcome to Hell, Crusade of Destiny, All the Gameloft Games, etc. Pretty much all the popular games for WebOS was made for iPhone/Android. Almost any game that the iPhone/Android has, can be ported for WebOS. If Palm comes out with a better, more popular phone, why wouldnt they make all those games for the next WebOS device? And especially when Palm has made it so easy to do so. Thats just more money in their pocket.
There's a difference between porting certain games and porting apps. I haven't looked at the specifics myself, but from what I've read, only certain games (built on a particular platform) can be "easily ported". This leaves almost all non-game apps and any games not using that particular platform out in the "not so easily ported" column.
agreed. And gaming isn't the end-all-be-all of apps. There are alot of good productivity/ news/ entertainment apps that are only available to the iOS and Android OS. I really want Palm to be able to compete, but the gap they have to make up to even be competitive is gigantic.
nice give and take, but i'm only replying to see how narrow we can get the top of this upside down pyramid comment string (full site only--can't appreciate on mobile)
Haha. Im down for that.
*sigh* why are you making me do this? :-)
because you're just as curious as him. lol
How thin can it go?
Palm no longer exists.
The iPhone App store didn't even open until the phone had been out for a year IIRC (and I very well might not).
The Apple app store had 0 apps for a year after the first sale of the iPhone.
Palm officially (not including the Preware apps) had over 3,000 after 1 year of the first sale of the Pre.
That should say more than enough.
The reason why the Palm App catalog exist as well as the android market is because of the Apple App Store. Lets not be delusional.
you forgot to include the year of release
that's cause app stores darn near didn't exist.
It mostly tells me Palm executed horribly.
I agree to a certain extent. I think the main failure was in their marketing plan. The commericials were freaky and didn't get the positive attention needed to spread the word. Meanwhile, the droid commercials were cool and got people eager to look for it.
Palm did very well in other areas. Unfortunately, their brilliance with design and interface was overshadowed by the Homer Simpson moment over in Marketing.
according to Wikipedia 1 year after the Apple App Store launched they had 55,000 apps. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Store
Please read my post again.
One year after the launch of the Pre and iPhone is what Im pointing out. (that would be 2 years after the launch of the iPhone for them to have thier 55,00 aps according to your information).
Palm did an extraordinary job in this regard.
Why is it that Palm only does extraordinary stuff when that "stuff" has some sort of qualifier?
I have no idea what you are talking about.
Palm had applications out into the store within a month of the PRe debut, and had over 3,000 within a year. Palm was a 1,000 person firm, and suffering financial difficulty.
Apple had 0 apps out until over a year after the debut of the original iPhone. Apple has over 34,000 employees, and obviously, found it to be a daunting task to get apps into their store in the same time frame.
Having said that, there is no "qualifier" here; the circumstances speak for themselves: PALM's effort was huge and should be acknowledged as an extraoridinary achievement.
If you don't agree, that's fine, but that doesn't mean that facts arent facts.
What I mean is that everything must be qualified in order to show palm in a good light. The fact is the number of apps in the app catalog is significantly smaller than the other "app stores" mentioned given the amount of time it has been open. The number of employes may have something to do with how fast you can get your store open but has no bearing on the number of apps placed in your store once opened.
So to paint Palm in a good light, people compare based on the date the device (not the store) came to market. That is a very silly qualification.
The facts are a bit more straightforward and are unqualified.
* The App Store went from 0 to 7500 in ~4 months.
* The Android Market went from 0 to ~1200 in ~4 months.
* The App Catalog went from 0 to
There is no effort to "paint Palm in a good light"; my assertion was simple: Palm did something that Apple didn't - they opened thier store immediately and had apps in there, ready to buy, within a month of the device's debut. Apple took a year. Yes, they then had lots of apps 4 months after, but, that isnt the point - thier users went without anything for a year, while Palm's users were provided with a store that grew from the very beginning.
No qualifiers - apples to apples, (no pun intended)
If you're going to qualify things, here you go.
A year after Apple got into the smartphone business, their users had apps.
A decade after Palm got into the smartphone business, their users are still waiting for apps.
Ridiculous right? Right.
What I said is true - and undeniable.
There are MANY OTHER things that can also be said that true, and are undeniable, as well, however, they do not detract from the importance of what Im poionting out.
The qualifications here are by those (inlcuding you) who have a penchant for criticizing Palm. I don't. I look at facts and opine on thier relevance, so you may not agree with the relevance of what I pointed out, however, you cannot disagree with the facts, regardless of any/all other issues you raise in an effort to paint as poor a picture as you can.
There appears to be a huge difference here in what we are looking for, as participants of PreCentral's site. Mine is to learn and discuss. Yours is to point out how deficient Palm was/is.
Yes, yes.
Anyone who looks at Palm's history without rose colored glases is simply here trying to tear a good company down. No one is here to learn and discuss except those that see the silver lining in Palm's cloud (pun intended). How dare anyone compare what Palm is doing to what is currently happening in the very market they had a huge hand in creating? Freaking iPhAndroid sheep and trolls!
Ive never siad or implied any such thing(s).
I respect all who express opinions, even if I dont agree, however, I dont try to convert them to my way of thinking.
You don't like Palm.. fine. I get it. No problem. Im sure you have your reasons.
I dont like or dislike Palm. This is a company, not a person.
I do favor WebOS over other alternatives available. I DID favor the Treo over alternatives available at the time.
Im not going to tell YOU to favor them, though. YOUR opinion is entirely yours, however, your bais to be anti-PALM is uncannily obvious and it detracts from your credibility - just read above and how emotional and sarcastic you have become, all over my pointing out the fact that PALMachieved something that even Apple couldn't.
Get a grip, dude, seriously.
Your words: Mine is to learn and discuss. Yours is to point out how deficient Palm was/is.
Followed by: Ive never siad or implied any such thing(s).
Did you forget that so quickly? You JUST posted it. And newsflash: I nether like nor dislike Palm. I buy what works for me. I've owned many of their devices from the original pilot to the pre. It does not mean I'm going to put blinders on when talking about them. Call me "biased" and "anti-PALM" as much as you need, it is simply not the case.
Sarcasm was exactly the point of the previous post. I suppose now you are using that as "fact" that I'm somehow anti-palm without looking at the context.
I absolutely LOVE how you create "facts".
Your bringing employee count into this?
Well, shiiiii... apparently Palm is a decade behind in building 300+ worldwide retail stores with 20,000 part-time staff. They're executing horribly.
See how easy it is to move the goalposts?
Im no bringing anything into this. Im stating relevant facts to the information that I posted above.
Size of the corporation, as well as financial strength has much to do with what they can or cannot accomolish, wouldnt you agree?
Therefore, Palm being1/30th the size of Apple at the time when thier Pre debuted for sale, and thenimmediately had an apps tore available for their users, and within a year of that, had over 3000 apps available, is quite a feat, compared to Apple, who, did NOT provide an app store for thier customers until over a a year later.
Why was the smaller company able to do more, in this regard than the larger company? (I know the reason why, however, my question is rhetorical).
These are the facts. You may not like them, but, Im sorry, they ARE the facts - not contrived, not manipulated, and certainly not backwards-rationalized, as many of all of your posts contain.
They are facts only when you purposefully keep a very narrow view of the events. You speak as if the Pre was Palm's FIRST phone. It was not. So if you want to talk about how long it took any company to launch an app store for their smartphone, you cannot conveniently start with what is currently Palm's LAST two devices. I can be just as silly and say the iPhone 4 and the Samsung Galaxy S both launched with full app stores. The iPad launched with over 200K apps. Those are facts! Right? I guess Palm should get a pass because they had to go back to the drawing board and start over. So let's only count things that happened since their reboot but look at entrance into the market when counting the accomplishments of others.
Sigh. I have to get to work, so I'll make this brief.
The facts aren't facts codnitionally - they are true, all the time. Sorry. That's just how it is.
My point was that at the time of the release of the Pre, and WebOS into the world as a brand new, differentiating OS for smartphones, Palm, a struggling company, achieved something that even the market leader couldn't - open, immediately, an app store, so that thier users could have applications on the phones they purchase, available immediately.
A year later, WebOS had 3,000 apps in the market. Only 2.6 mil users, too - nowhere near as succesful a business as Apple, but, it wasnt for the lack of effort in this area. You have to give credit where credit it due, man.
Apple didnt release a single app until over a year after the iPhone originally released. ITs NOT like an app store was thier idea.. Palm had done this years before with thier PalmOS online stores - Apple just was a year late, and thier users suffered without apps. Then they released the app store, and the rest was history.
Therefore, logically, Palm did something Apple didnt/couldnt do at the same point in thier product development/release, which is a considerable feat given the huge differences between their financial strength and physical sizes.
Anything else that you derive from this is just irrelevant.
And I'll simply repeat one line here since it explains how you seem to derive your "facts".
So let's only count things that happened since their reboot but look at entrance into the market when counting the accomplishments of others.
What does that have to do with my response above?
Oh never mind...
Have a nice day!
You really don't see it? It's simple. You use Palm's "latest attempt" in the smartphone market and compare that to Apple's "initial attempt" and try to paint Palm as having accomplished something major. The point is to really compare apples to apples and either speak of both company's "latest attempt" or both company's "initial attempt". Keep in fair on both sides of the comparison and let the facts speak for themselves. Mixing the two is a bit dishonest.
"Why was the smaller company able to do more, in this regard than the larger company?"
Because they were already a year behind (really a decade behind) so they were able to copy what Apple already did a year after their release.
You keep pretending your delusional reality is shared as concrete fact by the world -- it's not, must people think Palm failed horribly.
why would i read your post? I wasn't responding to you. A year after the iphone was launched apps stores hardly existed. And considering that Palm is so late to the smartphone game it doesn't matter what iphone did when nobody expected apps. Today in this smartphone market people do. And a proper way to compare the catalogs is in the same time period they've been up. no consumer is gonna cut palm slack cause it's more then a year old catalog. That's like starting a car company now and expecting customers to ignore the fact that you have figured out how to build cars with power steering, ac, and air bags. They sure as hell won't care cause your knew. They'll say catch up. The reality is the both Android and Apple's catalog have grown at a much faster rate.
Bottom line is at this rate it doesn't matter. One the palm catalog is full of crap And even if you wait it's still behind the competition. And the it's a year old excuse clearly doesn't fly with consumers. And just like Taharka said Palm's been making phones for a decade and just now has 5000 apps.
1. You should read my post because your original post was just below mine and its content was specifically directed at mine.
2. I do not discupte the fact that Palms app catalog is not as big as thier competition, and that it needs to grow even more.
3. I do not dispute the fact that Android and Apple have grown at much faster rates.
4. I do dispute your contention that the APP catalog for Palm is "full of crap". It isn't. Well, it isn't, any more than any other app catlalog, - how's that? I have found many useful apps - some I use for work - having said that, it can't be all "crap", for me, then.
5. If you are going to bring the "10 years of Palm making phones" into the picture, then you need to remember that the PALM OS has almost 30,000 apps for many years, which thier Treos were able to use. Had they stuck with that OS, and it thrived (I dont think it would have, though), I suggest that their app count would be MUCH higher by now, wouldnt you agree?
So why didn't they have a consolidated app catalog back then to house those 30K apps. They accomplished this amazing thing of opening a app catalog with the Pre right? Why couldn't they amazingly do it before the Pre?
They did have a repisitory online. Thats how you bought the apps, silly.
I know I did. A few really terrific ones, too. Helped me with my professional work, big time.
Not with 30K apps. They are spread out all over the net.
Yes, 30,000 apps, in total. At least, if thats what the articles I read were reporting. Free and paid.
And it doesnt matter if they were in one place or many - they were all available and certified by Palm on many sites, as well as the developers sites.
The point is, apps for use. 30k. Available to anyone who wanted to use them.
Versus up to 3k after a year after the release of the Pre.
Versus 0 for up to a year after release of the iPhone.
I think you forgot to mention how many apps were available in the first year after the FIRST app capable device Palm made (rather than jumping to the device they made almost a decade later).
I don't have that information, however, it isnt relevant to this discussion.
Have a nice day!
It's not relevant if you are not doing a fair comparison. Palm did not enter this market with the Pre. So saying they accomplished something by launching the Pre with an app catalog vs. Apple launching their app store a year after the iPhone was releases is misleading.
It's like Company A making cars for years that always had breaks. Company B decides to make cars for the first time and produces their first car (with breaks). A year later, Company B produces an ABS system for their car. A year after that, Company A makes a new car and includes ABS with it. Then you come along and praise Company A for being able to produce a car with the new ABS system at launch. You ignore the fact that Company B did it on their very first product a full year earlier than Company A. You also ignore the fact that Company A produced cars for years without this new system. Then you criticize people for pointing out the flaws in both your logic and Company A's history.
It's irrelevant that apple didnt' have apps for a year. apps were NOT important then.
crying about that is like starting a car company and offering a car with no AC then saying but Ford's was around for 50 years without AC in cars. Nobody cares about what ford didnt in 1910 when they are buying a car NOW. when you walk into a dealer right now. you compare the current models. you do the same with phones. you're just reaching and making excuses.
it is full of crap. all app stores have crap. this one lacks quality.
10 years, yeah i didn't bring it up some one else did. but palm os doesn't exist on my phone. and it's10 years and it's obselete. apple and android aren't counting an obselete o.s. you are. and in 10 years they've managed to for apple sell, phones, tablets, music place, laptops and computers. Google has tons of service and ad revenue. Palm went backwards, entered no new markets and failed and got sold. i couldn't care less about raw app count numbers. the only issue is though regarding app counts is the rate of growth and since the catalog has been out it's not growing fast and the stuff that is growing it by and large is crap apps. Regular companies aren't making apps for the platform. That may impress the linux nerds that care about whether something is open source and that kind of thing but the rest us want ESPN, Yahoo fantasy football, and Shazam.
Yes, growing at a rate 1/1000th of the App Store growth rate with your self-delusional "lead" is quite extraordinary.
Ive never stated or implied anything even close to something tthat would incite your reply above.
The insult regarding "self delusional" indicates that which happens to those who can't discuss with others who say something they might not like - they insult and degrade, and divert.
You keep applauding having apps on launch for Pre as a brilliant, great success: reality says it has been a colossal failure (it was an also-ran that didn't sell well). You keep applauding the app count when both the count and rate of growth are anemically pathetic. This is truly self-delusion.
Keep holding onto the fact that for a year Apple completely blew away a company at their own game, a game they had been at for more than a decade, a game that Palm's leaders said there was no chance of Apple successfully entering ... yes, with a phone that revolutionized the smartphone, a phone that everyone else has now been chasing for 5 years, made millions of users the happiest phone owners ever ... all without an App Store. Amazing. I applaud Palm for getting completely walked all over. They did a fantastic job of handing the market to Apple. And with an App Market at launch! Yippee.
my app catalog has 3917 apps
So why does preware only show 187 in the catalog and 365 Web? (and no, I don't already have the other 4,448 already installed!
Go into your "Manage Feeds" for Preware and make sure ALL of the feeds are "On"! ;-)
is there anyone left in the world that hasn't purchased Angry Birds?
I doubt it. Im sure the've made millions on that game. I need to become a developer. lol
well it has 24000 downloads.
I have not yet. I played the demo version and I think I might buy it later today.
I don't have it yet. But it's not my fault. ATT still hasn't released 1.4.5 for my pixi!!!
I haven't! I don't buy unless I can try first. Is there a lite version? How many people got bored with it? I may be too causous I guess.
Lite / demo / free version
It's only $1.99 for a well developed and fun game.
Yup - me! (not much of a game person)
3299 apps (UK) cosmic nitro is a nice game
I don't think it's right to say we have over 7,000 apps and include patches and homebrew apps. The precentral community needs to realize that not all webos users use preware (sadly).
I myself do use preware with patches and apps but I have two friends with a pre that aren't tech savy. They don't want to root the phone and install patches. I'm sure they are not the only ones.
But the apps/patches/themes are indeed "available" even if some choose not to use certain venues. It's still a fair count and they did break it down by venue, so no problem.
we would count 1-ton pickups in the ford or chevy product family, even if you'd never buy one...
"they don't want to root the phone"... there is no rooting involved all you have to do is install preware.
You're right. I don't think patches and themes should be counted because patches and themes !=apps. Makes sense.
The bulk of Android so called apps are ringtones and wallpapers.
well that's pretty dumb. What is the android app count when only counting apps?
could they also quote the stats for how many apps have been published by crapBookShop, Brighthouse, and Dijit?
Let's give credit where credit is due...
D'oh - now we're back under 1000. ;)
To some degree, developer creativity is stunted by the lack of APIs. We desperately need some new APIs as things are getting very boring these days.
That's definitely partially true. The true test of a developer's skill is working withing constraints. I feel like I thrive when I'm forced to work with limited resources. I have several apps either in development, or in my head ready for development that utilize the current APIs, and all of my apps waiting for launch do not exist on webOS or any other platform.
That being said, camera and microphone APIs will open up a slew of awesome new apps, not to mention upcoming webOS 2.0 features.
webOS will have quite a selection of unique apps soon.
rim jus hit 10000 apps not to long ago think we can catch them how many apps does windows have
Somebody please make a graph of app catalog growth by week/month. I'm pretty interested in the results.
Someone did. http://bit.ly/bG25rT but this is old. Maybe you can ping them and ask for an update. I didn't check to see if there was an update already available.
ok thanks for the link. so it says 1000 us official apps after 6 mo. Rate=5.5 apps/day assuming 30 day months. At the end of april, it hit 2000. In that 4 mo timespan,rate=8.3/day. About 4000 official us aps at end of september. Rate in that 5 mo span: 13.3.
Interpret as you will. It's nice to say that the rate has more than doubled when comparing the last few months to the products inception, but when that means there's only about 8 more apps/day,it's disappointing :(
Yeah, people can interpret as they see fit. In the end, all it means is that the app catalog simply does not have enough apps and is not growing fast enough. Maybe that will change but based on some surveys I've seen (and depending on how what one thinks of surveys), things don't look good for the app catalog and haven't for quite some time.
according to my calculator, we have roughly 0.04166 apps as the iPhone app store. Wooo. Lets make it 0.042!
we need minigore...great iOS app
edit: in percent terms, we have 4.1% of the number of apps as iPhone
true indeed! Especially since the 6 is repeating. My error.
Great! There'll be more apps than webOS users by the time we get any kind of look at next generation phones!
yeah palm is fucked
hahaha, don't you have anything better to do with your time?
if you actually used webOS, it could make your life easier, dude. Watch:
I could care less about the number of apps. It's the quality apps and functionality I'm looking for. WebOS is still missing some key things, like the Kindle app. You could get to 100,000 apps, but if the platform is still missing some of the major apps out there, it's pretty much worthless.
Hopefully this obsession with number of apps in the smartphone industry will end soon.
i agree. especially considering when you compare the numbers after the same time period for the catalog's launch webos does not measure up well at all based on number of apps.
Agreed. Only a few apps really are indispensable. Kindle, quickoffice (or productivity suite) are among the few that I still need. When the browser improves a bit more, apps will become less important as we'll be able to do everything we do on a full desktop/laptop browser. At that point apps will be irrelevant.
Apps won't remotely be irrelevant to me. in fact they are number 2 in importance. And fyi making phone calls probalby isn't in my top 5. But i think "indispensable" will vary from person to person. kindle and office stuff aren't remotely indispensable for me. i'm not editing anything on a phone. my work is wordy for that and i can't read an ebook on my small screen. i just won't do it. But stuff like fidelity, etrade, espn, etc etc are all indispensable for me. And i think that will vary form person to person. if you have a 401k or a roth at Charles Schwab it's indispensable. If you bank at Chase it's indispensable, if you are a guitarist maybe the amplitube app is indispensable. Twitter is indespensible for many but i don't twitter and only have an account to read a specific reporters news. Not to mention a browser may never give the same made for a finger ease of use as a dedicated app plus there may be stuff that's easier to do on a dedicated app. like there are websites that i go to that have mobile pages but they are garbage to use and you have to always enter your info. just a pain. apps aren't going anywhere any time soon. Especially since tons of apps like say games or recorders are not web based pages. Like say a camera app. it's not a browser it's a camera. or a digital recording app. what point is a browser? Navigation?
as long as HP spends some $ to advertise the new hardware Palm with rise again. Don't forget the Pre had a very large lack of advertisement compaired to EVERY OTHER smart phone. Can't watch TV without seeing a GD Blackberry commercial or Droid for that matter.
Palm needs to hold a closed door meeting with major developers of apps, and show them the hardware roadmap and perhaps allow early access to certain api's..
Not sure what difference that would make. It's the potential sales that matter more not the device specs. It could be a very impressive device, but if devs don't believe consumers will buy it, they won't see value in developing for it. Given webOS' unfortunate recent history, it is likely going to be hard to convince the devs that the next product will sell well.
If i were palm i'd go into those pre central app request threads. i'd pick the top like 100 major apps and i'd either have someone make an app like they did facebook, or port an app or try and partner with all of those companies to make an app. Like maybe assist porting an app. Like i haven't really seen the cnn news app in a while but i think it's basically text, video clips. Like how hard is it to help them make that app? and i'd do that for msnbc, abc, etc. Shazam? Why not partner with them. I'd pay it too. Give people very little reason to use lack of apps as an excuse. I'd sure stuff like slingbox and stuff may be a bit harder. But i'd hit the top cable companies for mobile dvr interfaces. hell they partnered with what 30 companies for launch apps. Do a shazam, and a red laser type app. i think the outlay of money now would really help later in more subscribers and higher customer satisfaction later. Like google. Google doesn't care. They aren't trying to win the cell phone market they are trying to drive users to google services. They aren't really even trying to topple iphone, they are trying to get google voice on the iphone. So i'd make google navigation, etc. and a robust email client. I wouldn't worry about the raw number of apps as compared to apple. I'd be like we don't have as many but we got about 80% of the big stuff just like them.
We are on our way ! Yippeee !
5000 apps darn near meaningless. the Huge majority are nothing apps and there surely aren't many big name companies making apps. i think the last app i downloaded was webos lite the utorrent client. And i'm not even sure that was from the official catalog. before that it was facebook in like January.
The reality is the companies people want are not interested in making webos apps even though apparently it's so easy to port apps in hours now. Which as some developer told me is a myth. that it's not exactly that easy.
according to Admob there was just very little interest in developing for webos. Less then even blackberry. that was according to a study back in may. And i think it shows one big problem palm has.
yep, palm is the red headed step-child of the smartphone world.
Angry Birds. I still think it's interesting that it has been available in non-beta form on the Pre for a while now, but it's still only in beta for Android. One would think that Android's huge numbers advantage would dictate that the Android version would be made available first with the Pre version coming in much later (if ever). Have any of the Angry Birds developers, etc, ever said why they were able to turn around the Pre version so much quicker than the Android version?
I think this article on the Palm Developer Blog should answer your question:
Maybe it was just a lot easier to port Angry Birds to webOS than Android?
EDIT: the link got cut off for being too long, so I split it across two lines.
It's encouraging to hear it was a straightforward port. When other developers see how much money they can make by porting to WebOs (even if only games), I would expect to see more developers take the time to do the port from iOS to WebOs. It looks like low-hanging fruit to me. Hopefully to them, too. For apps that are tougher to port, we'll probably need to see a bigger installed base. Hopefully, that will come when HPpalm finally gets around to releasing new hw.
i was told by a developer here, that its not normally that straight forward as they say. He indicated that it wasn't like swapping parts but that each part hard to have the code rewritten even when porting. My thought was it was kinda like taking a vhs tape and recording it to beta. that is basically just a copy in a different format. His point was that you may use a mic in an app for an ipod but you can't just swap the code to use make the app work on webos, the code has to be rewritten even when porting and that's a deterrent.
That number of apps is useless if I cannot buy one of them.In Mexico, Palm stalled us without the App Store, event when they announced that will deploy App Store in Mexico. I love my plam pre but if I have no apps to run, well I'll buy an iPhone.
I am so tired of coming to Precentral and reading all these negative anti-webOS comments. If you hate the Pre, get a new phone and stop coming to a website dedicated to the Pre, webOS and HPalm. If you've already gotten a new phone and you're still coming just so you can comment on every story bemoaning how bad everything non-iPhAndroid is...well, that's just sad.
I love webOS and my Palm Pre (Sprint non-Plus) and am hopeful, despite the lack of apps in comparison or the "need" for a faster device.
You also have the choice to not read the comments rather than complaining that people are expressing opinions that don't jive with yours.
when people express "opinions", it's fine.
coming here to just bitch/moan/praise another platform isn't expressing your opinion, it's talking shit.
it's stupid and pointless, and serves no purpose except to justify the troll's purchase of their shinynewwhatever, and placate their ego, to make sure they feel superior.
it's like winning a gold medal at the special olympics... it's still better to not be retarded.
Wow dude I hope that's not the real you. Perhaps you had too much to drink (or smoke) cause if it's you, you may want to seek counseling....
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Yeah dont get butthurt over the fact that your phone is a POS with a measly 500 apps (after you subtract the shit), performs worse than a ford pinto, and has its users dropping like flies.
Hey, I love WebOS too, but I can't hide the fact that we are falling quickly. I like reading the posts for fun, but just listen to the "professionals" outside of the WebOS community. Sure Nilay Patel of Engadget may love him some WebOS, but Palm? HP? Listen to Buzz Out Loud and they hardly even acknowledge Palm and WebOS. Before PCMag closed out PCMag Radio it was the same thing there, hardly a mention of what Palm was doing, or more like NOT doing.
A recent Engadget podcast killed Android for having their users rely on an independent dev. to solve a common problem the company should have tackled themselves. Sound familiar? Preware, etc. That little penguin shouldn't be solving all these problems, Palm should......should have....didn't!!!!!
Go WEBOS!
True. Well, sort of. I'm not complaining that their opionions are different than mine. I'm just baffled by people who moved on to a different phone but still get on here daily just trolling and waiting for an opportunity to diss Pre, Palm, HP, webOS, etc. It's strange to me.
Precentral used to be a fun community and still is for the most part. There's just so much dissension and pessimism on here these days
I feel you for the most part, but I am not an Apple fan, and never have been, I am not going to Android anytime soon, and to be honest, this little Palm Pre (minus) is the best phone I have ever owned. Unfortunately between me and my wife we've hit 5 in just under a year. The last time I went in with a "defective" phone, the girl smiled and immediately suggested I "do not buy Palm again". I know man, you love Palm and so do I, but I won't believe the positive hype until I see it.
GO Palm!!!!
And how many of those App Catalog apps are duplicates. Just take a look to the right at the top of this page. You see 4 different apps for "Need for Speed" (English, French, German, and Spanish versions) and 2 "Trivial Pursuits".
I too don't think "patches and themes" should count. Does Android count all the ROMs that are available as apps? Or any of their sideloaded apps that can be loaded? Don't try to inflate the number, it is right around 4000 give or take.
Yep, and whatever the number actually is, it's still signifcantly less than what's available for iOS or Android. I would also bet that Windows marketplace for Windows Phone 7 will surpass the App Catalog within a couple months of the phone's launch, assuming no new announcement from HP. And a release of webOS 2.0 without new hardware won't improve the situation either; what developer wants to work with horribly outdated hardware?
what's bad is i started searching for apps i had zero interest like the dijit, brighthouse, appbook makers, religious stuff etc etc, when i totaled up the number of apps it was a hell of a lot of apps. i had actually added the patch to shade stuff out of the catalog, man it was pages and pages of just ignored apps.
where are these 1,800 themes? I only ever see like the same 93 in preware. I take it I missed something?
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So many of you asked. You wanted to be a fly on the wall at this meeting, so I'm planning to share the ups and downs, as well as some of what I learn, while I'm away on my trips! But, you're getting it all… from start to finish…
I had a plan, of course. Monday, I was going to clean the house, so Scott had a clean slate to mess up. Tuesday, I had to run errands – grocery shopping and all that. Plus, sometime Tuesday, I was going to seriously consider updating a few pieces of my "stay-at-home mommy wardrobe" for the conference. And Wednesday was for fun with my girls and packing. Then Thursday, I'd be off early and there with time to chill before I emerged myself in Bliss.
Sounds nice, right? Except, that's not how it went…
Friday, my little man was coughing. With high-grade reflux, that's nothing new to us, so we ignored it. By Monday, when I should have be cleaning, I was cuddling him. He seemed so needy. Then, as the day went on, I started to realize, it was sounding more like croup. Dreams of Blissdom started to fade, since I knew I couldn't leave, nor could I take my sick baby. By the end of the day though, it did calm down enough for me to realize my business cards that should have arrived were no where in sight.
Tuesday, I got an appointment at the pediatrician who gave me good, but bad news. Yes, he had a little cold. But it wasn't croup. His reflux had flared up enough it had filled his ears and given him a double ear infection, plus caused some problems with his lungs. Ten minutes later, I was the proud owner of my very own nebulizer and enough medicine to open my own pharmacy. But, she said, by the time I left on Thursday, he's be so much better. I hoped. But he was so much more important than a conference. And those business cards – lost in transit!
By the end of the day on Tuesday, Daelan was already almost his old self. He was smiling, laughing, and playing without so much coughing and crying. I felt comfortable enough to tackle that whole "stay-at-home mommy wardrobe". But, the day had trickled down and I knew time would be limited, so I called for back-up. You see, that whole "style gene" skipped me. And knowing my own weaknesses, I knew I'd end up looking like an old lady if I shopped by myself in a hurry. So, in a desperate attempt to avoid the old lady look, I called one of the coolest people I know – my Grandma. I know, sad but true. She is way more stylish than I am.
I pulled out a Macy's gift card I'd won (hey, I am still frugal!) and hit the mall with her. She kept dragging me out of my comfort zone (the clearance section) and pulling things off the rack that I never would have glanced at, let alone worn! But, "try them on" she insisted, so I did. And I looked cute. So I gave up and gave myself over to her. She even found a pair of adorable high heels that were actually comfortable for only $7! I know! Comfortable high-heels?!? I didn't know they existed. I was armed with fashion and I even had time to get some business cards ordered locally.
Wednesday, like promised, Daelan was doing wonderful, so I was relaxing a bit. I looked at the to do list – errands, cleaning, etc… and threw it away. Instead, when a tiny nose touched mine at 7:00 AM and said in a whisper, "Mommy, can I wake up?", I grabbed her and pulled her in bed with me to do our special "mmmm, mmmm kisses". When my 5 year old joined us, we headed downstairs to fill our arms with cereal, yogurt cups, granola bars, and juice. Then climbed in my bed and enjoyed a thrown together breakfast in bed with card games and The Bachelor (I know, I'm a bad influence!).
We started packing, but my future divas first wanted a fashion show to see my new clothes. Daelan sat nearby, looking at us like we were nuts and laughing. They helped me decide what to wear when and picked out some jewelry. Unfortunately, my "glitter loving, bling wearing, a tutu goes with everything" daughters, only approved two of my outfits. The others were "so boring". They tried hard to convince me to just wear the skirt every day. Finally, with a sigh, they gave one last desperate attempt to help mom. Izy kindly offered me her pink "Hello Kitty" necklace, that didn't quite fit around my big neck. But, it only took her a few seconds to decide she wanted to take that to Grandma's anyway. Ady was more persistent. Not only did she inform me that her purple flip flop earrings would spice up my outfits, she insisted I put them on immediately so I wouldn't "for get your jewelry like you always do". Sigh… how well she knows me.
I finished packing, while I gave the girls missions, like "go find a pair of socks fit for a princess". Then we were done. My wardrobe of "drab" blacks and browns (that I loved!) was ready, much to my girls' displeasure. Ady, my sensible dresser, packed her sparkly jeans and Hannah Montana and Hello Kitty tops. Izy, my more bold dresser, packed almost-lime green pants, fuchsia pants, cotton candy pink pants, and lavender pants, along with equally startling tops.
I tucked them in for naps, since I knew they'd be up partying late a Grandma's and started trying hard to fit the 3 days of blogging I'd missed into one! The girls rose and were in the playroom, when suddenly the temperature in the playroom dropped and they came out to inform me that only hot chocolate could warm them up. For some reason, this happens a lot in our playroom. So, I reached past the "just add water" hot chocolate to make them the real stuff with creamy milk and marshmallows. I sat down on the kitchen table, saying, "Leave the cups here, so you don't spill them somewhere."
They say hindsight is 20/20. I stood there and watched as Izy reached up her small hand, past Ady's hot chocolate, to grab her own. Ady's tipped. I couldn't stop it. I wasn't quick enough. Hot chocolate flooded the table, covering my power cords, cell phone, and new business cards. Izy crumbled. I looked at her. I looked at the blotchy cards and I knew what I had to do. I dropped to my knees, cuddled her close and said, "They are only card. You didn't mean to do it. I'm not mad at all, honey." It took a while, since big sister was right there saying, "No, you said they were important, Mom. Now no one at your meeting will remember you!". Thanks Ady! :)
We cleaned up. The phone and cords still worked find. The cards were goners, but I couldn't throw away, so I laid them out to dry. Then, I threw everyone in the car in time to hit the appointment for my oil change. After, I ran by Staples to grab some printable business cards and off to meet my husband who has been stuck at work for too long, for dinner. With the to-do list growing and too many delays, we didn't go to my favorite Mexican restaurant. Instead, we settled for Taco Bell, then off to my in-laws to drop off the kids!
Even that didn't go as planned. I wanted to use her wonderful photo printer to hopefully get some classy looked homemade business cards. What I got was 2 paper jams, 3 shredded sheets of cards, a few lopsided ones, some… well, it was ugly. Out of 160 cards, I managed to salvage 71. I wasn't even averaging 50%. And it took HOURS, but 71 is better than nothing right?
I made it home at midnight and tried to finish my to-do list, so I wasn't rushing in the morning. Next thing I knew it was 2:30 AM. I laid in bed doing the "if I go to bed right now, I'll get 6 hours of sleep"… "5 hours of sleep"… "4 hours of sleep…", then the next thing I knew I heard, "Honey, weren't you suppose to get up an hour ago?"
Okay! I'm off to my first workshop – Inspirational Writing with Hallmark. But, this story and what's going on at Blissdom is to be continued… (when I have time!).

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"Today Muslims are relatively poor, whether the comparison is done to the worldwide mean at either the individual or national level, and there is a long line of scholarship that ascribes this state of affairs to Islam itself. (Of course there is also a literature that lays the blame at the feet of Western imperialism)." Marcus Noland takes up the thorny relationship between Islam and economic growth in "Religion, Culture, and Economic Performance," a paper for the Institute for International Economics (and summarized in today's Far Eastern Economic Review).
But neither of the choices Noland offers – an anti-growth bias inherent to the Islamic religion or Western imperialism – can account for Muslims lagging economically.
A better explanation for Muslims today being "relatively poor" follows, rather, from a third factor: the historical experience of the Muslim peoples. I made this argument at length in my 1983 book, In the Path of God: Islam and Political Power (reissued: Transaction, 2002). In a nutshell, two main factors inhibited the Muslim world from emulating the West as have the Japanese, Koreans, Taiwanese, and others: a historic hostility toward Christendom and acute difference in customs. Had modernity come not from the "blue-eyed barbarians" but (say) from China, Muslims might have found it much easier to come to terms with it and modernize. History is the key, but the history of Muslims, not the history of the West. (October 23, 2003)
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How Many Americans are Currently Living with Total Knee Replacement?
Adult Reconstruction Knee
Total Knee Arthroplasty / Other Clinical Conditions; Basic Science; Economic / Cost Analysis; Research / Clinical; Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty
Alexander M. Weinstein
, BA, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Benjamin Rome
, BA, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
William M. Reichmann
, MA, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Jamie E. Collins
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Sara A. Burbine
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Thomas S. Thornhill
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John J. Wright
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Jeffrey N. Katz
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Elena Losina
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In the last decade, the number of total knee replacements (TKRs) performed in the U.S. doubled, exceeding 600,000 in 2009. The vast majority are done for osteoarthritis (OA). The growth in TKR use has been greatest among younger individuals, and as a result the average age at which patients receive TKR has decreased over time. The rapid growth in TKR utilization among younger individuals, coupled with increased life expectancy, may lead to increased healthcare costs due to periprosthetic fractures, prosthetic infections, and symptomatic loosening, with the need for revision TKR. While changes in annual rates of TKR over time have been described, estimates of the number of persons in the U.S. living with knee implants have not been reported.
METHODSWe used the OAPol Model, a state-transition, computer-simulation model, to estimate the prevalence of primary TKR stratified by age and sex. We combined these prevalence estimates with 2009 U.S. Census data to calculate the number of Americans currently living with an intact primary TKR. The incidence and prevalence of symptomatic knee OA were derived using data from the National Health Interview Survey. The annual incidence of TKR among persons with advanced knee OA (Kellgren-Lawrence grade 3 or 4) was derived using the data from two national longitudinal studies of persons with knee OA (Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study and Osteoarthritis Initiative). Input parameters related to mortality, obesity, comorbidities, non-surgical OA treatments, and prosthesis failure were obtained from national survey data and published literature.
RESULTSOver 4.5 million Americans currently have an intact primary TKR, representing 4.7% of the population aged 50 years or older. The prevalence of TKR is higher in females (5.3%) than males (4.1%). Among persons 60-69 years of age, 4.1% of men and 4.9% of women have had at least one knee replaced. Among those 70-79 years of age, 7.1% of men and 8.2% of women have had at least one knee replaced. Approximately 10% of those older than 80 years have had at least one knee replaced. (Figure)
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONFive percent (5%) of females and 4% of males older than 50 years are living with TKR. Among persons older than 50 years of age, TKR has become considerably more prevalent than rheumatoid arthritis or congestive heart failure. Knowledge of TKR prevalence is useful in planning health services specific to the population living with TKR. This includes the prevention and management of periprosthetic fractures and infections, as well as planning for adequate capacity for revision TKR.
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NEWBORN - The Newborn Schoolhouse has had its doors open to the community, in one way or another, for more than 85 years. Now, those charged with maintaining the historic site are asking residents to open their hearts and pocketbooks to help repair it.The circa 1923 building, which sits along Ga. Highway 142, has a heavily damaged roof, according to Holly Firth, chairwoman of the Newborn Area Heritage Trust. There are broken beams and rafters, sagging spots and leaks. "We've even got bricks coming off the edge of the roof," Firth said. Repairs will cost an estimated $80,000 to $100,000. While insurance will cover hail damage to the shingles and the town of Newborn is expected to pitch in, the Newborn Area Heritage Trust will have to raise as much as $40,000, no small feat in a town the size of Newborn and in such a tough economy. But Firth said the future of the building, which holds so much of the town's past, depends on it. "We're trying to save the schoolhouse," she said. The damage was recently discovered when the leaky porch roof was repaired prior to installing new doors on the building. After the wood was found to be rotten on the porch, the rest of the roof was inspected and, "We just found a whole mess up there," Firth said. "It's a good, solid building, but everything with age needs work," she added. The trust has already raised about $7,000, partly through a local grant, but is struggling to come up with the remainder of the money. One way they're trying to make up the shortfall is by holding regular fundraisers, such as community suppers and bingo tournaments. Proceeds from the Horny Head Fishing Tournament and Festival set for Saturday outside the schoolhouse, will also go toward the roof fund, Firth said. Booths are available for rent at a cost of $10. The festival will include music, food and activities for kids, along with the main attraction - the fishing tournament that has kids casting their lines in nearby creeks in hopes of catching the horny head fish. The odd-looking creature is about 6 to 8 inches long and has horn-like projections on its head. Registration is at 8 a.m. with the tournament beginning at 2 p.m. The festival is from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The schoolhouse includes the Horny Head Fish Museum, along with old pictures of town residents, Firth said. It is also the home of the Newborn Opry, the site of the town's annual Christmas tree lighting and is rented out for weddings, church services and other events. The building is owned by the town but is leased and maintained by the trust. Firth said the goal is to keep the schoolhouse a viable part of the community. "We're doing this for the community, and the community needs to know they can come out and enjoy this building," she said. With all the recent April showers, the sooner repairs can begin the better, she added. "We need to get it done before more rains come in and we lose our original floors," she said. To make a donation to the roof repair fund, or for more information on upcoming fundraisers, call Firth at 770-361-2064.
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The kitchen of the St. Volodymyr the Great Ukrainian Catholic Church auditorium on Cottage Place was abuzz Thursday as cooks made food for the fifth annual St. Volodymyr Cultural Festival.
The kitchen of the St. Volodymyr the Great Ukrainian Catholic Church auditorium on Cottage Place was abuzz Thursday as cooks made food for the fifth annual St. Volodymyr Cultural Festival.
More than 6,000 pierogies, 1,500 holobchi, 1,200 kielbasa with kraut, and 1,000 servings of borscht were being prepared by church volunteers for the two-day festival, which takes place today and Saturday. Traditional cookies, pies and cakes also were made.
The event will include ethnic food and drinks, live entertainment, cultural exhibits, raffles and games with prizes.
"The festival is a way of making the community aware of the Ukrainian community in the area," festival chair Zyn Jackiw said. "It's a way of letting people know about our culture and ethnicity."
Residents can purchase a platter of ethnic food for $9, but can also purchase items individually. Take-out will be available.
Here's a look at the foods that will be available:
* Varenky, commonly known as pierogies, consist of boiled, baked or fried dumplings of unleavened dough stuffed with varying ingredients, usually a variation of mashed potatoes, cheese, cabbage, sauerkraut, meat, mushrooms, and spinach.
* Holobchi, commonly known as stuffed cabbage, consists of cooked cabbage leaves wrapped around a variety of fillings, usually meat and rice, baked, simmered or steamed in a covered pot.
* Borscht is a traditional soup made with red beetroot that can be served hot or cold. Depending on the cook, it can include variations of onions, garlic, carrots, celery, and parsley, among other ingredients.
* Kielbasa is a type of Eastern European sausage that sometimes is smoked and sometimes flavored with caraway seeds, garlic or pepper. It is often served with sauerkraut, mustard and rye bread.
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Three people were injured in a head-on collision this morning at North Loop 306 and Farm to Market Road 388, according to a medic at the scene.
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The Human Rights Council has adopted a resolution condemning the "outrageous attack by the Israeli forces against the humanitarian flotilla of ships", which took place on 31 May 2010. The resolution, adopted following an urgent debate during its 14th session, calls on Israel "to immediately lift the siege on occupied Gaza and other occupied Territories".
During the debate, the Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights noted that while details are still emerging, the attack against the humanitarian flotilla took place in international waters, and that any investigation into the incident must be "prompt, impartial, credible and independent" and in line with international standards. Outlining that the Israeli military"s use of force was "highly excessive", the Deputy High Commissioner concluded with the hope that the Government of Israel will do what is necessary to "demonstrate to the international community a clear commitment to abide by international law".
Israel has rejected requests for an international independent investigation and insists on conducting its own internal investigation as well as a military inquiry. While the format of the investigation is yet to become clear, Israel is expected to appoint a state panel of justices to carry out the investigations and will concede to allowing two international observers, one of whom is likely to be from the US.
To view the speech of the Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights in full, please follow the link http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=10091&LangID=e.
UN International Human Rights Day takes place annually on December 10th. The aim of the day is to promote awareness of human rights and advocate for their fulfilment and enjoyment by all. This year's slogan 'My Voice Counts' emphasises how important it is to hear the voices and respect the rights of marginalised and vulnerable groups. While December 10 is naturally marked with different events and happenings that are all well documented, the days around it also contain a plethora of exciting events.
Bearing this in mind, FLAC created a dedicated pop-up site (www.humanrightsweek.com/) that gathered together all the events and campaigns taking place during Human Rights Week 2012. The wide variety of events only serves to highlight how vibrant the Irish human rights community is.
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The next Irish Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Roundtable takes place Wednesday 11 June at 6.00pm. These roundtables serve as a space for academics, practitioners, students or others with an interest to engage in various aspects of IHL in an informal setting. Chatham House rule will apply.
June 2014 marks forty-seven years of Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In such a context, questions have increasingly been raised over the ability of a legal regime that was premised on the idea of belligerent occupation as a temporary transitional situation to adequately address an entrenched occupation approaching its sixth decade with no end in sight. Debates have proliferated in recent years, among theorists and practitioners alike, as to the merits of moving beyond occupation law and re-appraising the Palestine-Israel conflict through the lens of other branches of public international law. For international humanitarian lawyers, this raises difficult questions as to the capacity of IHL to maintain its relevance.
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Josh Berwanger sprang to fame as the frontman for the nationally recognized Lawrence-based band Anniversary. Since releasing his last record with Only Children in 2007, he has ventured out on his own.
In June, he launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a new album, "All You Can Eat." In a month, he raised $4,110 — well above his goal of $3,500. He plays Friday at the Riot Room with the Babies. Tickets are $8.
What's the first album you bought with your own money?
"When I was 7 years old I made my first Holy Communion. This was the same time Motley Crue's 'Theatre of Pain' came out. As a gift, my parents bought me a boom box and gave me some cash to buy a cassette at the local Tape World. I went with two friends, and they happened to buy the last two copies of 'Theatre.' The only tape left was Crue's 'Shout at the Devil.' So I bought that. When I came home my mom asked, 'What did you buy?' I told her 'Shout at the Devil.' She said, 'I hope it's shout bad things at the devil.' I bought it because it wasn't."
What's an album you've never gotten tired of listening to?
"T. Rex's 'Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow' is easily my favorite T. Rex record, and I can put it on anytime and be in a great mood. It's front-to-back solid."
What's the most recent album you've fallen in love with?
"The Mean Jeans' 'Life on Mars.' I think they have made their way into my top five bands ever. I love them because they write amazing melodies and are a true rock 'n' roll band. I sorta credit them with inspiring me to make music again. They don't care about 'making it,' they care about making fast, fun, great music. I think that is sometimes easy to lose sight of as an artist."
What kind of music did your parents listen to when you were growing up? Did that have a big effect on the kind of music you eventually began listening to?
"I truly feel pretty lucky in the fact that my parents had great taste in music. My mom listened to Neil Young, the Beatles, Who, Hendrix, Cat Stevens. But her favorite was Alice Cooper. My dad liked Canned Heat, Country Joe, Rolling Stones and was a huge Black Sabbath fan, as well as liking good blues music.
It had an enormous influence on me because it was constantly playing and it also meant they were very lenient about what I was listening to. I had a pretty good collection of LPs and tapes when I was in third grade, like Cooper, Diamond Rex, Black Sabbath, and I still love all that stuff. It still amazes me to think I was listening to that in third grade. My mom also bought me this Twisted Sister jacket in fourth grade that I still have. It's pretty outrageous."
What song helped you find your voice as a musician?
"I think I'm constantly being influenced by others. I think if I had to pick a song it might be 'Rocks Off' by the Stones. Just the attitude behind it and the lyrics 'Plug in, flush out and fire the fuckin' feed' and 'The sunshine bores the daylights out of me.' The Stones got it."
What's the first song that you memorized?
"In all honestly it might have been 'The Super Bowl Shuffle' (which I still have memorized front to back). I grew up in the '80s right outside Chicago so it was hard not to know that tune in 1985-86. But, not sure I would consider that a song. I guess after that it would have been 'Mr. Brownstone' by GNR, however, luckily, the lyrics never influenced me."


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Emporio Acapulco is located on the seafront in Acapulco, just opposite the Galerias Diana Shopping Centre. If offers a spa, 3 outdoor swimming pools and access to the beach. This modern hotel features ocean views and a flat-screen TV in every guest room. Free Wi-Fi and minibars are also included in each room. The property boasts a fitness centre, and there is a sauna and hot tub at the spa. The tour desk can help arrange activities like snorkelling and entertainment. Guests can have Mexican and international cuisine at the Emporio in Acapulco's Condimento Restaurant or Thai food at the Sunset Lounge. La Isla, Bar & Grill and the Arka Martini & Tapas Bar also offered.
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He May Not Be Pretty, But He Is Good At His Job: Mr. Yuk Spreads the Message of Poison Prevention Around the Globe and Helps Save Lives
Pittsburgh, - December 1, 2006 -
A new survey funded by the federal government shows more than three out of four people recognize Mr. Yuk's scowling green face, which has been a symbol for poison prevention around the world since being created in 1971 at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC.
The beacon of poison prevention, Mr. Yuk has proved to have staying power and is well-known nationally. In a survey sponsored by the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), more than 75 percent of the respondents recognized that Mr. Yuk represented poison control.
Overall, the national consensus is that Mr. Yuk is a likeable mascot for poison control with almost 90 percent of those surveyed saying so. Also, the majority of those surveyed believe that Mr. Yuk is a good representation of the services offered by their local poison center.
"Since Mr. Yuk is the most commonly used poison education symbol in the country, kids everywhere recognize him as something to stay away from," said Edward P. Krenzelok, PharmD, director of the PPC since 1983. "Thanks to poison prevention education and Mr. Yuk, the number of accidental poisonings has been greatly reduced and the ability to deal with accidental poisonings is greatly increased."
According to the American Association of Poison Control Centers, approximately 25-30 children nationwide die each year from accidental poisoning and more than 2.4 million poisonings are reported to poison centers across the United States annually.
Originally created as a bright green sticker to be used to deter children from poisons around the house, Mr. Yuk's face now adorns posters, educational materials and wrist bands that are used around the world. To most Americans, the risk of poisoning doesn't register as a concern, according to Krenzelok.
"People need to understand that accidental poisonings can happen in an instant. It only takes a moment for a child to be accidentally poisoned, so all caretakers must know who to call in a poisoning emergency," Krenzelok said. Mr. Yuk stickers display the number for the national toll-free poison help telephone number, 1-800-222-1222. The hotline connects a caller anywhere in the nation to the nearest poison control center.
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The Romance of the Three Kingdoms series has spanned twenty different consoles and has eleven games in the main series. So perhaps it was inevitable that Tecmo Koei would run into a few version problems. This one though is… Well, let's say somebody is getting fired for this slip-up.
Here's the problem: the cover of a recent PSP re-release says the game inside is Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII. The manual and the cover of the game itself insist that inside is Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII.
But the actual game is Romance of the Three Kingdoms VII.
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Tecmo Koei has announced that will be recalling all copies of the game. But the problems don't stop there: Koei will have to stop the production run, get all the flawed copies out of retail stores, reprint the entire run of the game, and ship it back out. On top of that they'll be provided customers who bought the game with replacement copies.
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Supremely Awesome: YLS at the United States Supreme Court
During the first week of October, my 1L small group traveled to Washington, D.C. to spend a day at the Supreme Court. Admittedly, my journey to the Supreme Court took longer than anticipated. Who knew that the Supreme Court was not the 'Judiciary' referred to in the 'Judiciary Square' Metro stop? Fortunately, I arrived on time to meet my small group before oral arguments.
Once inside the courtroom, I watched as my classes came to life: the two sessions of oral arguments felt like a performance of my casebooks and coursework. The subject of oral arguments was especially relevant for our small group that day. Our first semester memo assignment, completed the day before our Supreme Court visit, was modeled after one of the cases before the Court. The connection to our memo made our experience at oral arguments especially meaningful, because we recognized the cases cited and heard similar arguments to those we had made in our own memos.
Our Supreme Court visit offered several opportunities to interact with YLS alumni including a lunch with some of our small group professor's former students currently clerking for Supreme Court Justices. In addition to sharing their experiences as clerks, these recent YLS grads offered advice for making the most of our time in law school. During a guided tour of the Court, our professor shared her own stories from her time as a Supreme Court clerk in the 1970s.
A meeting with a certain YLS alumnus made our visit to the Supreme Court particularly special. That afternoon, we met with Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Justice Sotomayor spent quality time with our small group, answering our questions. Some of us asked questions that had come up during class discussions. How important are oral arguments to the outcome of a case? How does legal scholarship influence the decision-making process? Others asked about Justice Sotomayor's time at Yale Law School. What advice did she have for us as we are just beginning our experiences here? It felt surreal to be speaking with Justice Sotomayor, but her kindness put us at ease and invited participation.
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Palace Resorts has announced the promotion of Sandor Winkler to Chief Development Officer and Juan Carlos Seminario to Senior Vice President of Global Sales & Marketing for the brand's seven oceanfront resort properties in Cancun, Cozumel, Isla Mujeres and Riviera Maya, Mexico, as well as Le Blanc Spa Resort in Cancun.
Previously Chief Operating Officer for Palace Resorts Brands, in his new role as Chief Development Officer, Winkler will drive the brand's growth and expansion strategies and oversee the acquisition and creation of new properties throughout Mexico and the Caribbean.
Most recently the Vice President of Sales for Canada, Europe and Asia, Seminario is now Senior Vice President of Global Sales & Marketing. His new responsibilities include overseeing the brands advertising, public relations and marketing initiatives, as well as global sales.
"This is an exciting time for the brand. Palace Resorts is growing at an accelerated rate and requires a team of experts with the strategic capabilities and know-how to complement our efforts," said Gibran Chapur, Executive Vice President, Palace Resorts. "With an outstanding reputation, an unmatched understanding of our business model and hands-on work within the brand, we are confident both Sandor and Juan Carlos will be instrumental in further positioning Palace Resorts as a leader within the all-inclusive market."
Joining Palace Resorts in 2004, Winkler has held various managerial positions within the company before he was named Palace Resorts' director of tour services in 2009. Winkler also managed more than 1,200 employees within the company's nine divisions including: on-site travel agency, telemarketing, palace transfers, spas and beauty salons, marina sales and operations, Wet n Wild Water Park sales and operations, GDS (Group Destination Services) and Palace Resorts promotions.
Since joining the Palace Resorts team in 2010 as Director of Sales for Europe & Asia, Seminario has quickly climbed the ranks in various positions before taking on his new role as Senior Vice President of Global Sales & Marketing. Prior to his work with Palace Resorts, Seminario held the title of Regional Director for Jumbo Tours Group where his responsibilities included restructuring all operations within the Caribbean which led to an 83 percent increase in Dominican Republic clientele.
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