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It had all come down to this moment.
Robert Barnwell Rhett sat in the grand meeting room at St. Andrew's Hall, waiting for his name to be called. It was just after 1 p.m. on Dec. 20, 1860, and -- decades after he had first suggested the idea -- South Carolina was seceding from the United States of America.
So much had happened in a few short weeks. Since the election of Abraham Lincoln, Charleston had been abuzz with the coming "Convention of the People of South Carolina," as the Mercury called it.
There had been meetings nearly every night, Charlestonians plotting their next moves, speculating on how Washington would react to their secession -- which most people now accepted as a foregone conclusion. The actual vote seemed little more than formality.
The convention had opened in Columbia three days earlier, but panic over an alleged outbreak of smallpox sent the delegates scrambling for the train to Charleston. Rhett likely found it fitting that the secession ordinance he had promoted for years would be approved on Broad Street, a few blocks from the offices of the Mercury, the newspaper he owned.
Rhett listened carefully as John Inglis called the names of convention delegates: "Bonneau … Brabham … Brown …"
Every call was answered with "Aye."
Inglis had been appointed chairman of the committee that drafted the ordinance, but in part the panel used a document Rhett had prepared long before the convention. It sped the process along considerably.
"Middleton ... Miles," Inglis continued. "Palmer ... Porcher."
Over the years, Rhett had fallen in and out of favor for his views -- some thought him a visionary, others believed him a hopeless extremist. But all that had changed since the election. For a while there had even been rumors that he would be elected governor, but that talk had been quickly silenced. He did not campaign for the job, perhaps because he had other ideas.
Finally, Inglis called Rhett's name. In the silence of St. Andrew's Hall, he savored the moment a second before answering.
South Carolina's secession convention had dragged on for days.
At first, the delegates had been bogged down with trivial matters -- what to do with federal employees working in the state, how to handle mail service. They even debated whether to allow reporters into the chamber. Rhett, himself a delegate, had no reason to be overly concerned with the Mercury's access.
Although some protested, most delegates argued that barring newspapers from the room would look bad. It would appear they were ashamed of what they were doing, and they certainly were not ashamed.
They fully believed they were doing the will of the people.
For proof, they only had to look beyond South Carolina's border. In the weeks following Lincoln's election, several other Southern states -- Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and Georgia among them -- had begun planning their own separate conventions.
Representatives of at least two of those states were in the audience to assure the men that, if they seceded, they would not stand alone for long. Some of South Carolina's delegates would be appointed to coordinate with these states. Already, there was talk of forming a confederacy with them.
At the same time, Rhett had been selected to join a delegation that would travel to Washington and negotiate a settlement of all debts between the state and the U.S. government.
Among other issues, these delegates would deliver terms for the government to turn over all federal forts in Charleston; the United States no longer would be welcome to hold property in South Carolina.
Of course, first there was the actual business of seceding.
The ordinance itself, which the delegation would carry to Washington, was so simple that the men gathered in St. Andrew's Hall had little need to debate it. It read:
"AN ORDINANCE to dissolve the union between the State of South Carolina and other States united with her under the compact entitled 'The Constitution of the United States of America.'
We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, That the ordinance adopted by us in convention on the twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the 'United States of America,' is hereby dissolved.
Done at Charleston the twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty."
It took less than 10 minutes to call the roll. When Inglis finished at 1:15 p.m., the vote was 169-0.
Within minutes of the vote, the Mercury had a special edition circulating on the streets of Charleston. Its banner headline -- destined to become an iconic symbol of the coming conflict -- was even simpler than the ordinance. And when the citizens of Charleston read the news, the paper later reported, "loud shouts of joy rent the air." The headline read:
"The UNION is DISSOLVED!"
Underlying causes
As word of the vote spread through Charleston, church bells rang and businesses suspended trade. The Citadel fired artillery salutes, volunteers donned the uniforms of local militia and new flags were unfurled.
The officers of the Lewer Guard House stretched a line from their station to City Hall and used it to hang a banner that featured a palmetto with a rattlesnake coiled around it, cannons on either side. The names of the 15 Southern states surrounded the palmetto, along with the words "Hope," "Faith" and "Southern Republic."
The Mercury reported "(a)t the base of the arch the non-slaveholding states are represented divided and broken into fragments, and underneath the whole of the motto, 'Built from the ruins,' indicative of the position of South Carolina and the Southern Confederacy."
According to the newspaper, the entire community was overjoyed by the vote. But somewhere in the city, others were less enthusiastic. One man saved his special edition of the Mercury, and it eventually would be preserved in the Charleston Museum for more than a century.
At the bottom of the paper, the man wrote, "You'll regret the day you ever done it. I preserve this to see how it ends."
Many Charlestonians, however, saw secession as a step into the light of freedom and independence, words that evoked strong emotional responses. South Carolinians had been told by their politicians that a minority was controlling the majority and that wasn't the way the United States had been designed to work.
Such was the rhetoric that secessionists used to rally the masses, but there were more specific reasons. That was evident in the "declarations of causes which justify the secession of South Carolina from the federal union," a report written by a committee of delegates.
Late in the convention, this report was delivered by C.G. Memminger, with significant influence by Rhett. It recounted the entire history of the United States from the adoption of the Constitution forward, with notations of the rights of sovereignty and self-government given to the states.
Reading the report, Memminger spoke of "an increasing hostility on the part of the Northern States to the institution of slavery" that had led to their disregard of sovereignty. He spoke of federal laws that once supported slavery now being used against the institution.
"These states have assumed the right of deciding upon the propriety of our domestic institutions; and have denied the rights of property established in fifteen of the States and recognized by the Constitution; they have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery."
The report was so heavily laced with slavery rhetoric that another delegate, Maxcy Gregg, stood up and complained that "not one word is said about the tariff, which for so many years caused a contest in this State against the Federal Government."
Gregg referred to an 1828 tariff intended to protect Northern industries. The "Tariff of Abominations," as Southerners referred to it, cost them more to buy certain raw materials and also led to a decline in Britain's orders for Southern cotton.
The tariff was the direct cause of the nullification crisis. Some delegates wanted to name tariffs as the overriding reason for secession, and introduced a motion to table Memminger's report -- the first sign of division in the convention.
The delegates had agreed to cast a unanimous vote for the secession itself, but they were not in agreement on the reason for their action. Gregg had at least two dozen delegates on his side, men who considered tariffs their greatest concern. But their motion to table Memminger's report failed by a 4-to-1 ratio.
Williams Middleton, owner of Middleton Place, was among the delegates in favor of naming U.S. slavery policy as the cause of secession. According to Tracey Todd, a Middleton Place historian, Williams and his brother John Izard Middleton, who owned a plantation in Georgetown and was also a delegate, held hundreds of enslaved African-Americans, whom they used to cultivate rice, cotton and other crops.
These slaves also managed the plantations' considerable collections of livestock. The Middletons' entire livelihood depended upon slave labor, and it was the perceived threats to the institution that had convinced them that South Carolina must secede.
Other delegates had less specific criticisms of Memminger's committee report. Some wanted to soften it, to downplay the role of slavery in their decision, to make it more palatable. But men such as the Middletons held the most sway at the convention, and Memminger's report was adopted.
The report was accepted by a voice vote on Christmas Eve -- a move, historians would note, that left it unclear how many delegates actually voted to name slavery as the main cause of secession. But it was a majority.
Rhett biographer William C. Davis later would say that although Rhett did not consider slavery "the root cause of secession in his mind," it "was certainly the occasion that brought it about."
In fact, Rhett found Memminger's version of the report tame.
The ceremony
More than 3,000 people crowded the streets of downtown Charleston that evening, eager to catch a glimpse of history. At 6:30 the delegates finally appeared outside St. Andrew's Hall. There they quickly fell in a line and began their march down Broad Street.
There had been considerable debate over when and where to sign the actual ordinance. A few delegates wanted to delay the signing until the next day at noon, which would allow time to have the ordinance printed on parchment.
But a majority did not want to wait -- it had been passed on Dec. 20 and they wanted to sign it on Dec. 20. The ordinance had been rushed to a printer, who was persuaded to have it ready that evening.
When they reached the corner of Broad and Meeting, the delegates turned north on Meeting. The Mercury later would describe the sight as "grand and impressive."
"There were a people assembled through their highest representatives -- men most of them upon whose heads the snows of sixty winters had been shed -- the dignitaries of the land -- the High Priests of the Church of Christ -- revered statesmen -- and the wise judges of the law," the paper proclaimed.
The parade ended at Institute Hall, which had been deemed the most appropriate site for the ceremony. In a fit of patriotism, the building had been renamed "Secession Hall."
Inside, the ceremony began with the Rev. John Bachman offering a prayer about "this great act ... about to be consummated." Then the convention's president, David F. Jamison, read the ordinance off the parchment.
By the time Jamison reached the word "dissolved," the Mercury said, the crowd erupted -- the "men could contain themselves no longer, and a shout that shook the very building, reverberating, long-continued, rose to Heaven, and ceased only with the loss of breath."
The delegates lined up in the alphabetical order of the districts they represented to wait their turn with the document. The actual signing took two hours. As each man wrote his name on the parchment, the cheers increased throughout the hall. By the time Rhett reached the ordinance, the Mercury later reported, the shouts had become deafening.
When Rhett stepped up to the table, biographer Davis later wrote, "Suddenly he fell to his knees, lifted his hands upward toward the heavens, and bowed his head in prayer."
It was, Davis noted, a bit of high drama. But then, Rhett had waited nearly his entire life for this. He signed his name under Memminger's, "R. Barnwell Rhett," and soon after that, it was done.
South Carolina had officially, irrevocably, seceded from the Union.
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The Committee meets at 6:30 pm Wednesday October 23rd on the 26th Floor of County Center in Conference rooms A and B.
Hillsborough County, Florida-- Hillsborough County Animal Services (HCAS) will move forward to improve their program operation to increase adoptions. The shelter will be open 7 days a week including most holidays when families are home so they can visit the shelter. Some of the improvements that are being implemented by community experts include:
FishHawk, FL -- Fish Hawk Animal Clinic is hosting a "$20 Bath Day" on May 18th 2013.
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Needy shelter pets at the county animal shelter became the benefactors of the children's "Coin Crusade" and Anderson hoped the coin drive might exceed a hundred dollars.
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Resolutionary? Nope, just plain scary. If you're a clumsy gadget owner and you haven't purchased a protective case for your new iPad just yet, watching these videos might immediately change your mind.
In the first video, the people at SquareTrade (who appropriately enough sells iPad protection services) decided to take both the new iPad and the iPad 2 and compare them in a drop test. The tablets were dropped backside down from the waist level, then again glass side down from the waist and shoulder height. If that sentence seemed cringeworthy, you're not alone. Even the people seen in the background of the video tensed up moments before the iPads were dropped. You can see how the iPads fared and what it looked like falling in slow moment to take in the impact of the drop.
We're not gonna tell you how it ends because you can probably imagine the conditions of the iPads after three concrete kisses, but even though both iPads suffered a lot of glass shattering, the testers declared the iPad 2 the winner of the drop test. It's a shame that a gadget worth hundreds of dollars aren't as durable as you'd like.
Of course, this all may just be a marketing campaign to get users to purchase SquareTrade's iPad protection plans. The video description, however, notes that SquareTrade won't "cover intentional damage like you see in the video" so just because you have insurance on the thing, that doesn't mean you can go and try to see how the iPad stands against falling out of your window. One year of SquareTrade's insurance on the new iPad starts at $59.
In this second, more epic destruction of the new iPad, carnage was pretty much the only goal. RatedRR have been known to blow up various kinds of gadgets, from iPhones to Xbox 360's. For the new iPad, they have decided to please the anti-Apple fanboys by giving the new iPad a taste of the HK 53 assault rifle, followed by an M4 shotgun. The video starts with the shooter narrating the specs of the guns and how powerful they are, before introducing their capabilities to the iPad's surface. Unsurprisingly, the assault rifle flew completely through the iPad while the shotgun delivered to final blow. The shotgun bullet also caused the weakened glass to protrude outward and stay in that explosive stance.
The point of this wreckage? We can't seem to locate one. Other than being completely over the top, the guys of RatedRR just seem to like breaking and blowing up gadgets while SquareTrade is at least trying to convince you to get protective gear for your iPad. Either way, these videos are not made for Apple fans or those who can't even afford an iPad, but if you do own one, get yourself a cover and keep it far, far away from men with guns.


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A funding option for the National Guard Armory and a proposed conference and convention center was announced during this week's Buckhannon City Council meeting.
City Treasurer Michael Doss said there is an opportunity to seek funding through the United States Department of Agriculture for a community facilities direct loan application program.
Council authorized Mayor Kenneth Davidson to sign an agreement with Steptoe & Johnson for council in the amount of $15,000.
"This is basically a preapplication," Doss said during Thursday's meeting. "The major portion of the application will come later on, but we have to get the (preapplication) in with some comments from the development office."
Through the Building Commission, the city of Buckhannon proposes that $750,000 be borrowed to assist with development of the proposed conference and convention center facility. The loan would be on a term of up to 40 years at a fixed interest rate of 3.5 percent, with no early payment penalty and the advantage of a lower cost of issuance.
The USDA has its own counsel, meaning orientation or placement fees will not be charged. The bond counsel fees are lower than that of public funding sources, and there are no commercial banking fees associated with the program, Doss added.
City Engineer Jay Hollen announced the remaining right-of-way agreement for the project was secured.
"All of them have been executed, recorded; and I'll be able to submit my plans and specifications for the Army National Guard waterline, hopefully, by the end of this month," Hollen said.
Doss also said he completed an application for the Brushy Fork minor-boundary-adjustment annexation for the proposed National Guard Armory, and it is ready for submission to the Upshur County Commission.
"We're actually going to go around the Brushy Fork Creek line," Doss said. "We've annexed, on the advice of our attorney, a 15-foot strip of right of way and easement to be annexed into the city of Buckhannon."
Hollen said the annexation corridor will follow the waterline, not the stream located in the area. Doss said annexation would continue to the National Guard property and to the property owned by the Upshur County Commission and Development Authority.
In other business, Doss reported the city received a notice that $150,000 in funding was not awarded from the West Virginia Division of Culture and History.
"We did receive several comments in the grant review that were provided, and we intend to make future application for the project," Doss said.
Also, Hollen reported the Island Avenue water line has been "put on hold," and the design is completed.
"I'd like to get that design approved and ready to go, so that when we do decide to start that up, it's wrapped up and ready to go to construction," Hollen said, adding the water line "can sit on the shelf for up to three years."
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Observations on British and American English
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England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
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Saturday, June 10, 2006
cheap and tight
Well, in the US it can mean that too--it's ambiguous. But, given the context most Americans would naturally have interpreted my comment as meaning that MA is careful with her money (to put a positive spin on it), rather than that she has loose morals. I know that in England I'm 'supposed' to say that such people are tight, but to me, that word has unappealing connotations when applied to a woman. This is not helped by my knowledge of British saying about stingy people, which is often applied to MA: She's tight as a gnat's chuff.
From now on, I think I'll have to resort to saying "MA is careful with her money for reasons that I don't entirely approve of."
10 comments:
- Alexandra said...
Yes, but if she's "tight" it could also mean she's slightly sloshed, almost smashed, or just plain drunk.
- 13 June, 2006 23:08
- lynneguist said...
That works in the UK too--though certainly wouldn't be the first interpretation. In fact, I think of it as something my parents' generation would say...
- 13 June, 2006 23:50
- badgergirl said...
or, on the Isle of Wight when I was growing up, saying sbdy was tight meant that they were frigid.
- 16 November, 2006 11:59
Where I grew up in California, we would say a teacher was tight if she was strict. When my family moved to New Jersey, I learned that to the kids there it had the unappealing connotations you allude to. I had to stop using that one.
- 02 May, 2007 12:44
- Hodge said...
I would like to toss out a couple more AmE meanings for cheap and tight. "Cheap" can mean something like "unfair and uncreative", especially in sports and games, as in, "That was a really cheap move." "Tight" can be applied to something quite the opposite, a well thought-out/executed plan or design or song. "Have you seen the new BMW. It looks tight!"
- 02 May, 2007 13:19
- Stephen C. Carlson said...
Well, there's always "stingy."
- 02 May, 2007 14:23
I don't think I have led a very sheltered life, but I have never come across the phrase "tight as a gnat's chuff". It can be googled, so it clearly exists, but my guess would be that it is highly localised to time and/or place. I certainly couldn't imagine using it with any expectation of comprehension.
In my dialect of BrE, I do think the primary meaning of 'tight' used in isolation would be to do with drink rather than money. If the latter were intended, I would expect to hear a phrase such as 'tight fisted' - though in conversation, context can sometimes avoid the risk of ambiguity.
- 02 May, 2007 23:59
My limited understanding of BrE is that "mean" should be used in a situation like this. Is this correct?
- 21 January, 2010 09:24
- lynneguist said...
'Mean' means 'ungenerous', really. So it would work in some but certainly not all situations where one might use 'cheap'.
- 21 January, 2010 11:03
tight can also mean nasty, like 'our teacher was being tight in that lesson', I think it's more of a term synonymous with being ungenerous, tight-fisted. I have NEVER come across the phrase tight as a gnat's chuff. Nor have I heard tight being used to mean somebody's drunk. Mean is synonymous with tight in most situations, but it's less used so could be misinterpreted.
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To stealthily engage in intercourse , like a ninja of the minge
"I snuck in there and shagged the arse off her, I was a proper minja"
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A minja is a midget ninja (mini ninja). Minjas are extremely small, fast and very dangerous. Santa Claus is a ninja and so are his elfs. It has however been debated whether the elfs are defined as minjas or not. For more info: www.askaninja.com
"And a minja, they can do some cool stuff that I really wish I could do. Like they'll throw a shuriken and then they'll jump on top of the very shuriken that they threw. It'll like hit you in the neck, then they'll punch you in the face."
από Dr Heelhook 17 Απρίλιος 2006
A midget ninja. Or, vertically challenged ninjitsu master, preferably dressed in black sheetlike like garments
In the most epic battle to ever take place, minja's versus pirate midgets. The tiniest shurikens and cannons you will ever see.
A shorter version of the game Ninja Gaiden=Minja Gaiden
A shorter version of the game Ninja Gaiden=Minja Gaiden
από BVA 5 Μάρτιος 2010
Minja: A furious Mexican ninja utilizing the Martial Art style of the furious Chihuahua. Often found in typical ninja garb but also sporting a sombrero.
Did you watch the MMA fight last night? Rodriguez is one badass minja.
από TrojanMayhem 5 Φεβρουάριος 2010
A ninja who happens to be a midget.
"I was sitting on the couch, drinking a beer & watching the game. When, out of the darkness appeared a Minja, who proceeded to kick me in the head & run off with my remote. What are the odds?"
από ProgPrincess 31 Οκτώβριος 2009


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One who is small with a highpitched voice and extremely nazi-like when grading. Also tends to be a horribly boring teacher.
"That teacher is such a craton giving out two essays to do in the same week; he pretty much sucks decrepit monkey wenises."
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Gerald F. Wyland Sr., 73, Cresson, died Wednesday at home.
He was born in Cresson, son of the late Norman and Mary Monica (Waltz) Wyland. He married Linda Adams on June 18, 1966.
Surviving are his wife and four children: Gerald Jr. and wife, Tracy Wilt, of Altoona and their four children: Garett Wyland (Caitlyn), Angela Wyland, Cory Wilt and Jannell Wilt; Brent and wife, Michele, of Virginia Beach, Va., and their four children: David Wyland and wife, Molly, and their son, Ethan, Christopher Wyland and his son, Quinnton, Brandi Wyland and Alivia Wyland; JoeAnna Alverson of Altoona and her two children: Mariah and Nathan Alverson; and Robert and wife, Stephanie, of Altoona and their three sons: Steffan, Brodee and Tanner.
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Also surviving are three siblings: Beverly Stevens (Terry) of Altoona, Joseph Barry (Becky) in Arkansas and William (Mary Ann) of Cresson; and numerous nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his mother-in-law, Mary Margaret Adams; a brother, Boyd David; and twin siblings: Alice and Stephen.
Gerald was a retired coal miner. He was a member of the United Mine Workers of America and a life member of Cresson Community Sportsman's Association. He loved spending time with his family, hunting, fishing, gardening and canning, and he taught his family how to hunt and fish.
Friends will be received from 4 to 8 p.m. today, Nov. 16, 2012, at Charles M. Kennedy Funeral Home, Cresson, followed by a funeral service at 8 p.m., the Very Rev. Father John D. Byrnes officiating. Committal will be in St. Aloysius Cemetery at the convenience of the family.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Urology Unit at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.


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This past month our good friends at US Lacrosse included a present for their members inside the monthly newsletter. Personally, I wasn't expecting anything since I already receive the highly coveted 'Lacrosse Magazine' just for being a member. But inside, there was as a link to "Download the USL Widget".
Being a curious techie type of person, I had to check it out. So I followed the instructions and downloaded the app and installed it. I gotta say without sucking up, that this is a neat application and I think it will be something that I will use during the Spring and Summer.
Here are some of the strong points.
- It takes almost no time at all to download.
- Quick to run, just create a link on your desktop.
- The Info Center provides you with all the updated scores, news and USL Headlines from all divisions and the pros. Great for Sunday and Monday mornings!
- And last but not least, it includes a lacrosse video game!
Finally!! The lacrosse game that we have been waiting for is here and is free from US Lacrosse. Well not quite, but it's a start. Kill some time at work or at half time while watching your favorite game on CBS or ESPNU. I was introduced to the game at the US Lacrosse National Convention a few weeks ago in Baltimore and liked it from the start. It's a simple yet fun game of wall ball but you'll be addicted in no time….LASER!
If you don't have it, download it here: http://www.uslacrosse.org/info/US_Lacrosse.exe.zip


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Libby Nielson Miller began studying the violin at the age of 3 as the third child in a Suzuki family. She began piano at the age of 5 and has played both instruments since then. Her teachers include Hiroko Primrose, Liz Westerlund Arbus, Tammy Cardon, Cheryl Norman, Reid Nibley, Ralph Matson, and Sheila Fiekowski. She has played in countless masterclasses and performances across the United States. During her undergraduate studies she was awarded an Honors at Entrance Scholarship and was named the Presser Scholar in the Fall of 2003.
In 1998, Miller founded the Nielson Studio in Highland, Utah. By the summer of 2010 the Nielson Studio had 55 students enrolled, ranging in age from 3 to 18, Twinkles to Mendelssohn. Students came weekly for private lessons, group classes, and frequent recitals. She also founded Tuning Up!, a summer string program, for her students in 2001 which was held annually through Summer 2010, at which time she relocated to Massachusetts. In addition to Tuning Up!, Libby has been on faculty at the Somerville String Camp, Timpanogos Chamber Orchestra, Timpanogos Summer String Camp, and Mountain Ridge Summer Strings. She is currently a chamber coach and private violin instructor for the New England Conservatory Prep Division and St. Mark's School and is frequently invited to adjudicate local Solo and Ensemble festivals.
Miller is actively involved in the Suzuki Association of the Americas, Suzuki:MA (the Massachusetts Suzuki organization), and The American String Teacher Association (ASTA). As a member of ASTA, she attends monthly seminars and lectures presented by local master teachers. She currently serves as the vice-president of Suzuki:MA and frequently volunteers at local Suzuki events. While living in Utah, she was the Utah County Graduation Coordinator for four years.
An advocate for teacher training and continuing education, Miller attends teaching symposiums and summer camps yearly. She has attended the biannual Starling-DeLay Symposium at Julliard since 2007 and has spent many summers at the Intermountain Suzuki String Institute in Draper, Utah completing her Suzuki Certification. Her Teacher Trainers include Edmund Sprunger, Edward Kreitman, Linda Fiore, Cathy Lee, and Gabe Bolkovsky. She is currently doing additional long-term Suzuki certification at Hartt School of Music, studying under Teri Einfeldt.
Miller feels it is very important to be actively involved in the musical community she lives in—meeting and collaborating with fellow teachers, volunteering at local school programs, and participating in community orchestras and ensembles. She is currently a member of the Orchestra at Temple Square and the New Philharmonia and is a founding member of the Lynwood String Quartet and the Sylvan String Quartet. She has played with the Utah Symphony, the Utah Philharmonia, the Mt. Olympus String Quartet, the Maywood String Quartet, and Silver Strings. She is an active studio musician and has played in concert with Josh Groban, Harry Connick Jr., Peter Cetera, the King's Singers, Natalie Cole, Audra MacDonald, Maureen Mcgovern, and others.
Bachelor's and Master's degrees, University of Utah; graduated Summa Cum Laude.


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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The New Smyrna Beach Little Theatre will hold auditions from for "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 27, and Sunday, Aug. 28, at the theater, 726 East Third Ave. on the beachside.
"Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical with lyrics by Tim Rice. The story is based on the "coat of many colors" story of Joseph from the Hebrew Bible's Book of Genesis.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- When Santa brings toys for tots in December he'll be giving Rudolph and the other reindeers the day off and instead will arrive by train -- courtesy of the Florida East Coast rail -- from Jacksonville to Miami with New Smyrna Beach one of the stops along the way.
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Miguel Angel Frank departed this life on earth from Halifax Health Hospice of Volusia/Flagler, Edgewater Care Center, Edgewater, on October 4, 2011, and ascended into Heaven to join his beloved Cuban Family.


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Saint Vincent College Small Business Development Center will host Intro to Marketing a Business on Wednesday, Nov. 16 from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. This workshop is designed for business owners who are seeking to grow their businesses. In this workshop, participants will gain an understanding of basic marketing principles. Topics include market planning and strategizing what works best for each participant's company, formatting a marketing plan, mission statement (what it is and why it's important), planning a marketing mix and adding value through marketing methods. The fee to attend is $40 or $35 each for two or more. A coffee/tea drink set up and light refreshments are included as well as an optional one-year subscription (12 issues) to Inc. magazine, valued at $10. The Saint Vincent College Small Business Development Center is part of a statewide system of university-based economic development organizations, whose mission is to provide high quality education and consulting to entrepreneurs, to help them start and grow their businesses in the competitive global economy. Early registration is recommended, as space is limited. To register or to obtain additional information, contact the Saint Vincent College SBDC at 724 537-4572 or www.stvincent.edu/sbdc.


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Fortunately Odin cuts down on the fish deliveries just before they are suppose to fledge. If he left it to EJ she would feed them until they were too fat to fly :)
LOL Barbara. Yes I remember them getting hungry, forcing them to actually learn to fly.
Truly stuffed, all in a heap after feed 3.
I am sure you recall the year Mallachie was so fat we were certain she would not be able to get airborne :) We were praying for a strong gust of wind to help her out
Yes I do Barbara. Bless her. She did like her food :o)
I'd like to have known Mallachie :-)
I thought that #1 was going to climb out of the cup here, but no, just needed a poop:
A quick comfort flight followed by yet more feeding!!!
Good grief, #1 just refused food!!!
#3 isn't interested... yet!
#3 is intrested now, and just took fish that EJ was trying to force feed #2, lol :o))
EJ flies out and back and prepares for another feed. Chicks not madly impressed at first:
They really are full, and just don't want any more. aww
#3 quickly collapsed :-)
I'm off again now, shan't be posting the rest of the (attempted) feed :-)
Good idea scylla. No one needs to be concern that all of them aren't being stuffed. They are all turning away including #3 unable to swallow another bite
I am going to bed Good night
07.45 Flight and force feeding.


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The great Legendary Weaz is a simple man from NC, USA. He's a very helpful indivual and for this people love him. He makes a good leader because he doesn't always put himself first.
Weaz can be anyone, but the Legendary Weaz, can only be one!
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Someone who knows Vanderbilt's James Franklin very well shared some good news and bad news about the most popular name to surface so far as Penn State's potential next coach.
"My son works for him, so I have a little bit more insight than a lot of people," said Jim Pry, an Altoona native and offensive coordinator at Bethune-Cookman University.
Pry served as offensive coordinator when Franklin was the starting quarterback at East Stroudsburg in the early 1990s. And his son, Brent, is now Franklin's assistant head coach and co-defensive coordinator at Vanderbilt.
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James Franklin is 21-15 in 3 seasons at Vanderbilt
While PSU's Bill O'Brien is the hottest college name in NFL circles, and according to reports about to be named head coach of the Houston Texans, Franklin is one of the hottest names for college jobs.
"He'd be a great fit [at Penn State]," Jim Pry said Monday night by phone.
That's the same sentiment being shared by many PSU fans on social media sites.
"He's a great offensive mind," Pry added.
"Probably the biggest character thing that James has working for him right now is he's a players' coach. Players love him. They love to play for him, they get fired up for him. He can fuel that fire better than a lot of people in the country right now."
All of that sounds great, which is why Franklin already appears to be widely considered the fan favorite to come to Happy Valley if O'Brien leaves.
But there's a catch. The bad news, if you will.
"Penn State would be very fortunate to get a shot at him," Pry said. "Unfortunately, I think in my own opinion, in the next two weeks there will be a lot of jobs come open that James Franklin is going to be at the top of their list."
Franklin has done such a good job at Vanderbilt that more than just officials at Penn State will be taking notice. Furthermore, he not only could be a candidate for other top college jobs, he also could be on the radar of NFL teams.
"I think he's more of a college coach in my own opinion, in my own eyes, because of the charisma he has with the players," Pry said. "The younger people, he has a charisma they like and and are attracted to, and they'll play for him. Whether the NFL guys will be able to do that, I don't know that."
Franklin, 41, is a native of Langhorne, Pa., who is in his third season as head coach at Vanderbilt. He went 6-7 in 2011 but has led the Commodores to 9-4 and 8-4 records the past two years, while going 9-7 in the SEC.
For a coach to lead a program like Vanderbilt to a winning record over two seasons in the nation's toughest conference speaks volumes of Franklin's abilities.
So does his salary. Despite being at a school without much football tradition, Franklin's salary is $3 million per year. He could command more at his next stop than the $3.3 million per year PSU currently is paying O'Brien.
Franklin previously served as offensive coordinator at Maryland and Kansas State, plus was the receivers coach for the Green Bay Packers in 2005.
"I've been coaching college football for 33 years, he was probably the most competitive player I've ever been around," Pry said of his days working with Franklin the quarterback at East Stroudsburg. "The only thing he knew was success or making his team win or being a huge factor in helping his team win.
"He turned out to be exactly the adult as he was as a young adult. A competitor, wanted everything done right."
When it comes to offensive philosophy, Franklin isn't the pass-happy coach that O'Brien is but does know how to develop a quarterback. Vanderbilt's Austyn Carta-Samuels has completed 68.7 percent of his passes for 2,268 yards, 11 TDs and nine interceptions, and his QB rating of 143.0 is actually higher than PSU's Christian Hackenberg (134.0).
"The offensive mind he has is from two different perspectives," Pry said. "One from the spread offense. And the other is from a conservative standpoint in terms of let's run the ball, don't turn it over, play great defense.
"That's how they do it at Vandy. They have a great offensive scheme, they try and control the ball, not turn it over and play good defense."
Pry said he's not surprised Franklin has turned out to be a successful coach.
"I'm not because he had a vision, an outlook of how he knew things were going to turn out for him," Pry said.
"Honestly, a lot of guys in this profession have the same thing. You sort of see the carrot way down the road -- five, six, seven, eight years -- and sometimes you get it, sometimes you don't. He got it."
Now Franklin might have to consider whether his next carrot will lead him to Penn State.


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CHESTER - The hunt for the perpetrator of a violent domestic assault in Chester came to an abrupt end when the suspect jumped off the Jennings Randolph Bridge into the Ohio River late Tuesday afternoon.
The suspect's name is not being released pending notification of family members.
Hancock County Sheriff Mike White said the suspect, described as being in his early 50s, had attacked his wife with a pipe shortly after 4 p.m. She was able to escape to a neighbor's house after their adult son intervened. Neighbors tended to the injuries of the mother and son, and called 911 as the suspect fled the scene.
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River rescue units from Chester and Newell volunteer fire departments search the Ohio River for signs of the body of a man who jumped from the Jennings Randolph Bridge late Tuesday afternoon. The man was wanted by police in connection with a brutal domestic assault in Chester before taking his own life. (Photo by Richard Sberna)
According to White, Chester Police officers saw the suspect's truck headed west-bound on U.S. Route 30 toward the bridge, but had to turn around in order to pursue him. Once on the bridge, they found his truck abandoned on the right-side shoulder. "The truck was parked and he was nowhere in sight," White said.
A passing motorist witnessed the suspect stop his truck, exit the vehicle and jump off the bridge. Chester Volunteer Fire Department was called immediately, with assistance from Newell Volunteer Fire Department.
White stated that eyewitness testimony and evidence found at the scene led police to the conclusion that he did not survive. "They [Chester and Newell VFDs] deployed some boats in the water in an attempt to do a rescue, but that became a recovery at this time," he said. Efforts to drag the river were started, but had to be called off as darkness fell. White says efforts to locate the body will resume Wednesday morning.
The suspect's wife and son were taken by ambulance to East Liverpool City Hospital for what White described as significant but non-life-threatening injuries. Both were treated and released Tuesday night.


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LISBON - A Salem man running for county commissioner believes candidates should be drug-tested, and he wants to start with himself, his immediate opponent and would-be opponent.
"In most jobs and many schools, drug testing is mandatory. It is time we held our public officials to this same standard," Nathan Walker said, in a news release issued last week.
Walker is seeking the Democratic nomination for the Columbiana County commissioner seat held by Republican Mike Halleck. Dan Bailey is his opponent in the Democratic primary election on May 6.
"It blows my mind that to work at a gas station you need to take a drug test, but a county commissioner handling millions of dollars and making decisions that affect over a hundred thousand people does not have to be held to the same standard," he continued.
Walker believes all politicians should volunteer to be tested, but testing positive should not necessarily be an automatic disqualification for seeking office, leaving that decision to voters. He said he is already tested as a condition of his employment as a chef for AVI Food Systems.
Walker said he would take the lead in getting tested and submitting the results to the local news media, challenging Bailey and Halleck to do likewise. "If Bailey, Halleck and I all get tested we are sending a good message to the community," he said, in his news release.
Bailey chuckled when told of Walker's suggestion. "If he's paying for it, I'm down for that," he said. "To be honest, I do find it humorous."
Halleck described the request as "bizarre and outrageous," especially considering it has nothing to do with any county issues. Halleck, who was subject to drug tests while employed in a previous job, said should Walker win the Democratic primary "I will be more than happy to engage in whatever issues he feels he wants to discuss."
Walker was asked by the newspaper whether, in issuing the news release, if he was insinuating that either Bailey or Halleck used drugs. "I don't think so and I hope not, but I want to be a leader and I think we should lead by example," he said.
Halleck, in his own news release, brought up Walker's 2007 conviction for urinating in public, calling on the county Democrat Party to "refute his candidacy in lieu of not only his bizarre behavior in this matter, but the recent revelation that he was convicted of public indecency."
Walker said there is nothing "bizarre" about wanting to hold public officials to the same standards as many others. "As for being 'bizarre,' how can it be if everyone is calling for drug testing for welfare" recipients and yet others receiving taxpayer dollars are not subject to the same requirements, he said.
Halleck went on to call Walker's candidacy "an embarrassment to our political process," saying it is common knowledge in political circles that his "mentor" is "disgraced" ex-county recorder Craig Brown.
"Mr. Walker would be well served to present himself in his own words and stop being used by someone who is only interested in blaming others for his own demise," Halleck said, in his new release.
Walker said he and Brown have been friends since high school, and he is serving as an unofficial advisor to his campaign. "Yes, in the past he's had his problems ... but I'm just asking him for his advice," Walker said of Brown.
As for the press release suggesting drug testing, or the other releases issued by his campaign, Walker said, "Everything has been my idea."


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Observations on British and American English
by an American linguist in the UK
England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
--George Bernard Shaw
BrE = British English
AmE = American English
OED=Oxford English Dictionary (2nd edn. [1989], unless otherwise noted)
Sunday, December 24, 2006
This entry is mostly an excuse to post a picture of the pretty (and, in person, pretty imposing) Christmas tree at Rockefeller Centre, which Better Half and I visited a week ago. This was the first time I'd been to New York City during the (AmE-preferred) holiday/(BrE-preferred) festive season, and I was excited to watch the ice skaters in the rink below the tree. But when we got there, all I got was an opportunity to teach Better Half an AmE (or, as the OED puts it, "Chiefly N. Amer.") word: Zamboni. This is a proprietary name for a machine (in vehicular form) used to resurface ice in ice rinks, introduced in 1962 (patented in 1965) by Frank J. Zamboni & Co. of Paramount, California. BH had never seen one before, however he was not content to watch it do its job for more than 10 minutes before declaring that we weren't going to see any ice skaters. Instead, we merried ourselves with the fantastic light show at Saks Fifth Avenue.
A few days later, in a (AmE) book store/(BrE) bookshop, I spotted a children's book called Z is for Zamboni: A Hockey Alphabet, illustrating that in AmE hockey refers to a sport played on ice. In BrE, one must say ice hockey to refer to that sport, and hockey refers to what Americans would call field hockey.
Merry Christmas from Better Half and me!
5 comments:
- Rebecca said...
Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays/Festive Wishes to you and Better Half, too!
- 24 December, 2006 16:34
About the hockey distinction- in my area (Greater Philadelphia) we refer to field hockey as hockey and ice hockey as, well, ice hockey. Probably because hockey (field variety) is so popular here?
- 04 January, 2007 17:07
- lynneguist said...
But I note that the Philadelphia Flyers, of the National Hockey League, do wear skates! I expect it matters who's doing the talking in Philadelphia whether it's ice hockey or not--some of the local leagues call themselves ice hockey leagues, and some just hockey. The latter is fairly unthinkable for an ice hockey league in the UK.
- 04 January, 2007 19:14
Hi, as a linguist wasting time in the middle of the night when I should be preparing a paper, I just typed ice hockey and linguistics into google to see what came up. (Ice hockey being my second favourite thing in the world...after linguistics...or should it be the other way around?) Anyway, in Aust hockey most definitely is field hockey, UNLESS you play ice hockey. I'm continually confusing people now that I play, because within the ice hockey community, it's hockey. But without, it has to be ice hockey.
- 06 May, 2007 15:05
And a Festivus for the rest of us.
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If I am asked what the price is for Obamacare, I can honesty respond $14,088.00 a year. That is the annual cost for our new insurance coverage. I am a local small business owner and have purchased health insurance for my family the past 7 years. My policy with a premium of $623.00 per month has been canceled by Blue Cross. Our new policy will cost $1,174.00 per month or $14,088.00 per year; an increase of $551.00 per month. Our new policy will include government mandated coverage like maternity and new born care as well as pediatric oral and vision.
My wife and I are 49 years old and physically incapable of having any additional children, and my two children are in college. We are being forced to pay for coverage that we can never use. I will have to find the additional $551 per month somewhere. Should I cut payroll hours for my employees? Should I adjust my prices, which may lower payroll due to loss of customers?
These are hard business decisions that impact not only my family, but the families of my employees. So if you ask my employees what the price is for Obamacare, they may share my pain of higher premiums. However; they may also say lower pay checks due to fewer hours.
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text: This past weekend I joined the audience for the day of panel discussions at the Brooklyn Museum organized by The Feminist Art Project as part of the annual College Art Association Conference. I was only able to stay for the first three and a half panels, in a day that included five. But in those three and a half panels, a clear through-line started to emerge, at least from my perspective. That through-line involved the idea of creating collective histories, of asserting a history that complicates singular narratives, and that makes it clear that whole communities of differing experience and perspective participate in the making and supporting of the arts.Continue Reading →


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By the time I got home on Sunday, there were only three laps left in the NASCAR come out of caution for a green-white-checkered finish. I asked my husband if they'd had "the big one" yet. He said, "no," so I settled in for what promised to be a thrilling finish. I was not disappointed.
Anyone who follows NASCAR knows that when it comes to superspeedways like Talladega and Daytona, you can almost put money on one big crash that will make the difference between winning and losing the race. In the case of Sunday's multi-car melee, it may have also more clearly shaped the Champion Chase.
With the crazy-fast speed, drafting conditions and sheer importance of every point in the Chase, the field came around turn three of the final lap, and something had to give. Turns out, it was Tony Stewart who tried to block a pass and instead ended up with his car on its side, riding the hood of Kasey Kahne and others as more than two dozen cars (half of the field and ten Chase teams) got caught up in the chaos.
After the hair-raising ride, Stewart was quick to take responsibility for the wreck, though most drivers would agree any one of them could have been in the position to start the chain-reaction pile-up.
The in-car-cam replays provided the best feel for what drivers experienced. At first, you can see cars spinning, flipping, crashing, but then the windshields goes dark with smoke and debris, and all the drivers can do is listen to their spotters, keep moving and hope for the best.
It took some time for NASCAR officials to determine the final race results, though the top three were evident: Matt Kenseth cleared the bedlam, followed by Jeff Gordon and Kyle Busch.
As the point standings shook out, the crash didn't help the hopes of many in the Chase, though the top three remained in-tact, with Brad Keselowski still leading Jimmy Johnson, and Denny Hamlin within 23 points of the top. But after that, the road to the championship becomes more and more unlikely for the remaining competitors.
Luckily, no one was seriously hurt in the "big one," but the question arises after the fact: should Talladega, with its tendencies toward these multi-car mishaps be one of the Championship Chase races? While the top-placing drivers are among the sport's most talented, even they would agree they were "Lucky Dogs", not necessarily great drivers to finish that race in one piece. So should such an important Chase race come down to a twist of fortune?
You betcha! Luck is a dynamic in racing week in and week out, and "the big one" is nothing new to longest, fastest track on the schedule; it's just one of the reasons fans love to watch Talladega events, and a fitting factor in any NASCAR championship.
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Nokia Lumia 920 vs HTC Windows Phone 8X
The handsets sport 8 MP cameras on the back, but the Lumia 920 has optical image stabilization inside and a pulse dual LED flash. HTC 8X introduces wide-angle lens front camera, which fits up to four people in the frame during video chat.
The interfaces are quite similar, as can be expected from WP8 devices, allowing you to adjust things like exposure, sharpness or saturation, to which Nokia throws in a couple of helpful scene modes like night shot or sports.
Pictures from the Lumia 920 sport higher contrast than the bland looking photos from the HTC 8X, and slightly more detail. Nokia's phone doesn't always get white balance correct, and overexposes bright spots, but the 8X fares much worse, making the clouds look purple, for example, and overall its photos look more processed than the softer snaps from the Lumia. In low light scenarios the Lumia 920 wins hands down, with brighter and sharper shots, less noise, and less halo around light sources.
Nokia Lumia 920 Sample Video:
HTC Windows Phone 8X Sample Video:
Nokia Lumia 920 Nighttime Sample Video:
HTC Windows Phone 8X Nighttime Sample Video:
The gallery, music and video players are the same and perform as advertised with the typical WP interface that fast forwards the track by holding the arrow keys, including while playing web video. The phones support local DivX/Xvid video files out of the box, up to 1080 definitions.
HTC advertises a dedicated sound amplifier for its loudspeaker on the back, which indeed adds a bit of strength to the sound compared to your average smartphone, yet the Lumia 920's stereo speakers at the bottom are still pumping out louder sound with more amplitude than the 8X.
81 Comments
1. arsenaljimenez (Posts: 178; Member since: 03 May 2012)
There's no comparison, lumia hands down
25. Airforce (Posts: 68; Member since: 24 Jul 2012)
Dude am not a nokia fan..i love Sony products a lot but if i was to choose a Windows phone it will be HTC
26. Airforce (Posts: 68; Member since: 24 Jul 2012)
and i don't hate NOKIA ..i must confess the Lumia is the best version of Nokia catergories ever created but my allegiance goes all the way to SONY XPERIA...if i was ever going to buy a Windows phone i will go for the HTC..it my personal choice..but the lumia is great
27. brandonrana (Posts: 57; Member since: 04 Nov 2012)
I love how this monster LUMIA 920 is banging every other phones a**sss ;P
55. lumia920 (Posts: 112; Member since: 27 Nov 2012)
no doubt... phonearena is comparing a king with a knight... it should be compared to lumia 620 type phones
76. Gopaljoshi9977 (Posts: 1; Member since: 09 Dec 2012)
Lumia rocks....
2. Nathan_ingx (Posts: 3787; Member since: 07 Mar 2012)
I don't have to read the whole article to know who wins!!
L920 is all about innovation, 8X is just about WP8.
L920 hands down!!!
5. Pedro0x (Posts: 271; Member since: 19 Oct 2012)
Can you tell me what is so innovative about lumia 920?
6. SIGPRO (Posts: 1443; Member since: 03 Oct 2012)
Damn you must live in a cave.....seriously dude????
7. Pedro0x (Posts: 271; Member since: 19 Oct 2012)
No really, tell me?
10. Nathan_ingx (Posts: 3787; Member since: 07 Mar 2012)
Do you really not know?
Or are you a heart broken HTC??
Where have you been all of 2012??
14. Pedro0x (Posts: 271; Member since: 19 Oct 2012)
I never said that I like HTC, so you should go check your eyes. The super sensitive touch screen is not new, my SGS 1 can also be operated by gloves or a spoon, I have tested it works. The camera on lumia 920 is taking very good videos but the pictures, when they reviewed lumia 920 vs iphone 5, iphone 5 took better pictures they were sharper. I never said that i like HTC 8X, it has way too much unused bezel and it takes worse pictures than lumia 920. Now can you tell me why lumia 920 is so innovative?
29. Nathan_ingx (Posts: 3787; Member since: 07 Mar 2012)
So you admit the 920 take good videos right??? Well, that's because there's an innovation behind it, namely the OIS...and there's the 'rich' sound recording. Learn to appreciate something new...
By the way, i never said you were an HTC 'FAN' (that was missing)...you have to know the know the usefulness of the word 'or' and the '?' question mark!
And stop bringing the Applet here...it has no business on this particular space.
31. Pedro0x (Posts: 271; Member since: 19 Oct 2012)
I was just comparing, you can not just say that something is best withou compere it to something else. I am sorry I was unclear when I said that lumia 920 took good videos, I meant the audio, that is great, otherwise the video alone is almost the same as SGS3 or Iphone 5 , just with more vivid colors. I am not a fan of no-one. I am appreciating new stuff, if I wasn´t then I would not appreciate jelly bean on my SGS1. What is wrong with you, I am just saying that lumia 920 is not the greatest and the most innovative mobile. That is my opinion, you fanboys are really cruel, someone will say his/her opinion and you bash him/her for it.
35. Nathan_ingx (Posts: 3787; Member since: 07 Mar 2012)
Because you talk like you know what you're talking about but you actually don't. The video is the same as GSIII and iP5 you say?
Again, where have you been this year? Go back to how the 920's video recording with the OIS technology reduced shakes and made the video much smoother than iP5 and GSIII. You know nothing! Don't kid yourself!
And yet again, i never said the 920 is the mobile phone with the best innovation...i just said "It's all about innovation" compared to HTC's 8X which has nothing to offer except for the raw OS.
Still don't get me? Then not my fault...
58. Pedro0x (Posts: 271; Member since: 19 Oct 2012)
OIS is great on lumia but the video quality is not best. Otherwise I can not see another innovatition on lumia. And WP 8 ruins this mobile IMO, android is much better IMO, for example : did you see Note II:s USB on the go, you can almost use it as a computer. I think that WP 8 is a waste of time. Android is more organized
59. Nathan_ingx (Posts: 3787; Member since: 07 Mar 2012)
Dude, what's wrong with you??
I cannot find a valid reason to make you understand!!
And now you're jumping to Android...
Forget it man...
61. Pedro0x (Posts: 271; Member since: 19 Oct 2012)
Oh no, I understand. Lumia´s OIS is a great thing that I have not seen in other devices, but this is the only real innovation about this phone.
65. lolol (Posts: 64; Member since: 14 Nov 2012)
havent you seen any comparisons? Lumia 920 has the best video quality, 2nd goes to HTC 8x and iphone 5, 3 and 4 GS3 and Note 2..
87. keygenpro1980 (Posts: 2; Member since: 27 Jul 2014)
haha... cortana now is in beta but you can compare now to siri & google now what more when cortana officially made? windows phone 8.1 is a lot better now soo..just wait!!!
68. jameshoe (unregistered)
you wanna know what is so innovative about Lumia 920? buy Nokia, you will love it and share to everyone about your experience
83. mattypaul (Posts: 17; Member since: 03 Mar 2012)
No one seems to have fully explained to Pedro0x why the Lumia 920 is so innovative, well here we go:
1. The screen: PuremotionHD+ seems to be an umbrella term for a few technologies. The main one is the fact that the pixel refresh rate is the fastest and so the transition of anything on the screen is much better. It is the first device to be able to fully show 60fps without motion blur. It is 5.4x as fast as the IPhone 5 and 2.4x as fast as the Galaxy S3. Next is the fact that it uses Synaptic technology which means you can use it consistently, and perfectly accurately, with gloves on or with keys etc. Also, it has a higher PPI than the IPhone 5 with 332 compared to 326 and even despite the fact the screen is 4.5 inches compared to 4 inches big. On top of all this it has leading visibility outdoors with new optimisations and the usual Nokia CBD technology with a polarising light filter. It uses curved Gorilla Glass 2 to top it all off.
2. The camera: Pureview is in its second stage and it brings an 8.7 megapixel BSI Carl Zeiss snapper to the table. It has the famed OIS where the whole camera module is floated, which means photos are blur free and it has the best low light imaging capabilities. It also serves up by far and away the most stable video. (I saw your point about some reviewers highlighting an issue with fuzziness or softness in full daylight and it seems to be only an issue for preproduction review units or early adopters, but nevertheless Nokia is beginning to update all concerned with a software fix bundled into the Microsoft update). Along with the wide angle lens, and the new short pulse high power dual LED flash, and all the Nokia camera extras such as group shot and cinemagraph, it is considered to be the best camera on any phone bar the 808 Pureview, but in some ways it does even trump that.
3. Audio and sound recording: the Lumia 920 has Nokia's Rich Recording technology and it includes innovative HAAC microphones which can record sounds up to 140dB and higher sound pressure levels without distortion. HAAC also provides full audio bandwidth capabilities to match human hearing. Normal microphones typically used in high end smartphones can record up to 120dB but with heavy distortion even at that level. Also, the Lumia 920 has Dolby software and Dolby Headphone for added quality with audio overall. Nearly forgot! As a general feature Nokia added a personal sound equaliser to Nokia Windows Phone 8 devices.
4. LTE: This is not just any 4G. It is the first phone to the market with pentaband 4G.
5. Wireless charging: coming out before the Nexus 4, it is one of the first phones to adopt QI wireless charging and it is a cool and handy feature worth mentioning.
6. NFC and Bluetooth 4: yes, lots of phones now have both, but that does not make them any less a pair of standout out features, especially when compared to the HTC 8X's 3.1 and the IPhone 5's lack of NFC. COUGH.
7. Materials...
84. mattypaul (Posts: 17; Member since: 03 Mar 2012)
7. Materials: despite Nokia using polycarbonate in around 3 phones before the Lumia 920, it is still innovative. Here's why: the material is sturdy and robust (good old Nokia style), it is signal transparent (why would you put metal covering over a transmitter, it is only going to help distort or diminish it), the colour is inherent to it (meaning it is coloured all the way through and scratches will not show, oh and btw you can't say the same for the HTC's material), and Nokia have made a distinct, iconic, unibody design out of it, with a new ergonomic shape. The Lumia 920 is also the first phone to have zirconium used in it. This is a strong, scratch proof, cool looking transition metal which Nokia have made use of in the side keys and camera detailing.
8. Nokia apps: my main example is City Lens which is an innovative augmented reality app but there are countless others, such as Nokia's true map offering and other imaging additions.
Whilst I am at it the Lumia 920 compares favourably to the HTC 8x on basically every single account. So far I have not mentioned the Lumia 920 has more memory and a bigger battery than it. The Lumia 920 also has GLONASS which works with GPS to make pin pointing your location more accurate and faster. It can also step in when GPS is out of range or weaker.
Overall, it is definitely one of the most innovative phones, if not the most innovative phone of 2012. Then, you can take into account Nokia made it cheaper than the IPhone 5 16gb model and even the HTC 8X, so it is really a no brainer.
It is a shame Phone Arena will not let me post links to go along with the comments but oh well.
12. dexter_jdr (Posts: 1163; Member since: 28 Jun 2012)
Can you tell me reasons why 8x is better than 920? Don't say weight coz that is nonsense . You have the review to read. WE don't need to answer your question
9. loyals (Posts: 129; Member since: 10 Nov 2012)
not exactly innovative but if u see
they made screen with resistive + capacitive , they called it super sensitive bcoz u can handle with ur gloves on. n they r many disadvantages like unnessary touch inputs as its responsive to any shi*
n so called camara lesser than what we seen in n8 though with better image stabilisation like iphone. with too much show off. an iphone camara is almost same with all appecture but in lumia there is too much showoff
11. Bilpocalypse (Posts: 301; Member since: 13 Oct 2012)
Haven't had any accidental touch inputs yet. Amused that you would even call the image stabilization on the iPhone comparable. There is a drastic difference between the two. Check out the iPhone/Lumia 920 showdown.
13. dexter_jdr (Posts: 1163; Member since: 28 Jun 2012)
Who the hell told you that the screen is resistive +capacitive? Please educate yourself. I will gladly humiliate you with all your nonsense
30. loyals (Posts: 129; Member since: 10 Nov 2012)
educate urself bro. its kinda pro resistive touch. they called it super sensitive. if not wat else would it be ?? dont say super sensitive pls. this sensitive based on force not on sensitivity try loose cotton with dia 0.3cm with a very minute force or just place on it . i bet it doesnt work that way . sry for saying truth though !
54. dexter_jdr (Posts: 1163; Member since: 28 Jun 2012)
im sorry to say this, but this is bulls**t! im dissapointed by your comment. i bet you never touched or used a real nokia 920.
they use the technology of Synaptics on 920
15. dexter_jdr (Posts: 1163; Member since: 28 Jun 2012)
It is purely glass screen. And NO accidental inputs will happen. Turn of sensitive touch mode if you just want your finger tips then..
33. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
There's nothing innovative about L920, mid-spec phone with a high price!
37. chaoticrazor (Posts: 2347; Member since: 28 Aug 2012)
your back then, and still with your blind hate for other phones not using android
39. Nathan_ingx (Posts: 3787; Member since: 07 Mar 2012)
And there's nothing that makes sense in your comment.
Minimal words, maximum troll!!
40. ar2730 (Posts: 42; Member since: 24 May 2012)
The price is actually cheaper than I've ever seen for 32 gigs of internal memory plus all of the extras!
46. Just_a_boy (Posts: 183; Member since: 18 Oct 2011)
TROLL we're not talking about iPhone here
53. lolol (Posts: 64; Member since: 14 Nov 2012)
lol troll, ive seen your comments on phonearena since i began to visit daily to check news, you are nothing but a pathetic loser :P with your lame profile pic
78. AplhaMale (Posts: 8; Member since: 11 Dec 2012)
retarded answer!! Shows your stupidity
51. jackhammeR (Posts: 1548; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
have you seen your doctor recently????
60. Nathan_ingx (Posts: 3787; Member since: 07 Mar 2012)
Why would he???
Trolls are afraid of doctors...
They think Doctors scare the troll out of them!
66. jameshoe (unregistered)
to lovely PedroOx
Nokia Lumia 920,
the best DISPLAY in 2012
the best CAMERA in 2012
the best NOKIA PHONE in 2012
70. chaoticrazor (Posts: 2347; Member since: 28 Aug 2012)
best camera in 2012 actually goes to the 808
but yeah the best all round nokia phone of 2012 is the 920
77. venkkr (Posts: 2; Member since: 11 Dec 2012)
What's not innovative about the lumia 920?
Nokia city lens, Nokia maps (offers offline navigation and is superior to google maps)
Pureview floating lens technology (iPhone images are fake, with added colour. They look bad on a larger screen)
USB on the go is not only in android phones, Nokia had em since the n8 ... And it is present in the 920
SGS1 isn't meant to be mentioned at all here, but since it is brought about, it lags horribly, has a terrible camera without a flash and it's browser is the worst ever.
Moreover, Samsung phones feel of cheap plastic, despite having gorilla glass, due to poor framing, the glass has broken for many SGS 1 owners.
Lumia 920 is Rugged and highly resistive to external damages.
To sum up, the innovation
Rough and tough, feature filled phone with amazing interface, resolution, excellent software and hardware combo
79. AplhaMale (Posts: 8; Member since: 11 Dec 2012)
Pedro0X asked the question of what makes the Lumia 920 so innovative then everyone got very emotional :) Fortunately Pedro I actually have a Lumia 920 and here is why I think it is innovative. 1. Wireless charging - Awesome feature. I charge my battery (without wires) whilst playing music from my L920 through my NFC JBL speakers. 2. It's quick - 100Mbits/s downloads and 50 Mbits/s uploads combine that with the best in class social integration and you realise how much fun social networking on your smartphone should be. 3. USB - no need for sofware as my pc reads my phone as an external drive - just drag and drop whatever you want onto it, create folders, whatevs. 4. Polycarbonate - I drop my phone a lot no marks at all. 5. Seemless integration between devices - I now own a windows 8 tab (Acer) & W8 Laptop also Acer. My Skydrive syncs everything and I can pick up on a different device where I left off on the last. 6. Mix Radio - Free streaming music and then it allows you to download the mix for free!! I choose the artists the genre everything. 7. OTA updates direct from the vendor. I dont wait for my service provider or Nokia to release anything, I update whatever whenever. 8. Skype integrated with video call - the app does not even have to be open to receive calls and i'm's. 9. Camera - much has been said already but my personal fav about the camera is I can take photos of fast moving objects and have NO blur at all. I'm into racing so nice to have. 10. Microsoft Office - My excell looks like it should and my very secure corporate mail integrates with mobile Outlook hassle free coz all the security certificates and policies are duplicated. Also access to my company sharefile and all the intranet services and custom apps we run. Lync is amazing on the L920. Before this I used the Samsung Galaxy S3 (I had a lot of software and hardware issues) and before that the iPhone 4 (loved it). This is by far the best SmartPhone I have used to date. Oh and #11: DLNA - I have a DLNA LED tv and using the "Play to" app I stream my multimedia to my home theatre system. i know Samsung has all share but this is more stable and much more user friendly. Buy 1 you wont be able to hate no matter how hard you try.
80. venkkr (Posts: 2; Member since: 11 Dec 2012)
Points very well put up :)
I am thinking of getting a handset myself, waiting for the unlocked version to release in my place
Could u tell me about its Bluetooth and NFC based file transfers, whether it is restricted to wp8 to wp8 or supports cross platform transfer also...
3. Emily1985 (Posts: 127; Member since: 08 Nov 2012)
Nokia lumia 920 is 10.7 mm thick , htc 8x is 10.1 mm thick, so why are you saying that htc 8x is very slim(the difference between them is 0.6mm)??
62. ghanemsam (Posts: 64; Member since: 21 Nov 2012)
its not like that you should know that the 8x has a rounded edges which let you feel its slimmer than the lumia rectangual shape from all directions and the weight of the 8X is 130 grams and L920 is 185 grams what the hell????
85. mattypaul (Posts: 17; Member since: 03 Mar 2012)
The 920 is also curved and rounded on the back. But yes, the 8X is more so.
75. Joshing4fun (Posts: 1236; Member since: 13 Aug 2010)
I agreed with you at first until I actually held the 8X. I gotta say this phone is very nice in person and feels really thin. Just one of those things where specs don't tell the whole story.
4. wendygarett (unregistered)
Nice comparison pa, it shows the care for the wp users :)
17. dexter_jdr (Posts: 1163; Member since: 28 Jun 2012)
PA is annoyed why lock button of 8x is on top.I don't see them complain on iphone's lock placement..
24. Just_a_boy (Posts: 183; Member since: 18 Oct 2011)
but the iphone fit in the palm of the hand of anybody, and 8X is a big phone, so is hard to reach the top to lock/unlock the phone!
81. meowcenary (Posts: 187; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
Unless you have atrophied or small hands then it would an issue. I hold my HTC 8x in my left hand and my index finger fits nicely on the power button. I have no issues with turning the phone on or off, let alone unlocking or locking it.
20. lauremar (Posts: 181; Member since: 29 Feb 2012)
Nokia Lumia 920 hands down!!! I have the Red Nokia Lumia 920 and also own an awesome LG Nexus 4... Best of both worlds baby!!! Had an iPhone/IOS and got sick and bored with it and the underwhelming iPhone 5 and IOS 6 launch did not help and put the nail on the coffin with the Apple ecosystem on my part...
21. Credo (Posts: 748; Member since: 19 Apr 2012)
We need some cool apps, thats what wp needs very hard
22. Dastrix (unregistered)
I just happened to think about how disappointed 8X users would be if they were trying to take photos at night. *Should have gotten a Lumia.* I mean, it goes without saying that you'd feel pretty sad, regretting your awful decision, knowing there's a better phone out there, right? That alone, explains everything! L920 hands down!
44. bayusuputra (Posts: 963; Member since: 12 Feb 2012)
If you get things for free, the disappointment is so much lesser..
I like the 8X, but I just hope that HTC can put a better camera, bigger memory and better buttons.. I am not really particular about bezel.. and in the tropic, people don't really use gloves other than for riding bike.. But yeah, the OIS and better audio recording in the Lumia plus the Nokia apps make me jealous of that phone..
28. SonyXperiaNexus (Posts: 374; Member since: 01 Oct 2012)
htc...just stick with android.
32. Bardi (Posts: 12; Member since: 30 Oct 2012)
.Pardon me, but from experience, i find the position of the main speakers at the bottom results in the sounds being muffled especially when hold horizontally while playing games
34. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
A lot of thumbs down, red paint everywhere! Nokia+WP8 articles always have thumbs down.
36. asseek (Posts: 164; Member since: 12 Sep 2012)
i guess all the thumbs down are from you, oh wait, am sure of that
go troll elsewhere


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