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#6. Tibetan Steampunk Kid
This looks like a screencap from the Bollywood version of The Road. It looks like somebody got their Lone Wolf and Cub mixed up with their Mad Max. This photo looks like the immediate aftermath of something the steam-powered men still whisper about at night, in hushed voices around the campfire. This is what would happen if Joss Whedon invaded Tibet. This image is such a perfect amalgamation of the ad-hoc tech of steampunk, the thousand-yard stare of hardened war veterans, and the quasi-mysticism of the Far East, that it simply has to be staged. It's some snotty sophomore's art project or a promotion still from an indie apocalypse movie, right?
This is a photo of a real Tibetan father and son, on a pilgrimage to Mt. Kailash, before ultimately attempting to illegally cross the border. And sure, the father is probably the bigger badass here -- with his Road Warrior eyewear, vintage sniper rifle and pith helmet -- but then he's the adult.
He's had decades to grow that immense pair of balls. But the little kid - with his mad scientist goggles, yak fur sash and presumably wise-cracking horse - is still holding his own, even in the company of a man who looks like he's going on robot safari. As children, we complained when our GI Joe didn't come with all of the packaged accessories, and here's this little kid, jury-rigging mountain-gear so he and his post-apocalyptic sniper/father can cross the Tibetan mountains in fucking Chuck Taylors to escape a brutal occupying regime.
If I were China, I would be intensely worried by this picture, because it is quite obviously prophetic. One glance, and we all know how this is going to play out: At some point the father will sacrifice himself, likely while shoving a clockwork handgrenade down the throat of a screaming Chinese steam-yeti, and the son will be forced to grow up half-feral in the merciless mountains, periodically emerging to fire-bomb guard outposts while delivering sermons comprised of equal parts howls and headshots.
#5. Youngest Female Black Belt in the World
Update: The old entry in this spot, "angry sports kid," has been replaced, due to...ah...is there a fancy editorial term for "just plain got my shit all wrong on this one?" No? Okay, let's go with "conflicting sources" then.
This is Varsha Vinod from Purakkad, India, and that is not a picture of a child in pajamas being violently hucked into the face of a passing Caucasian. That picture is exactly what it looks like: A 5 year-old girl (now seven,) the youngest female black belt in the world, delivering a gravity-mocking jumpkick to the mouth of a full grown man, presumably after he commented on her adorable little pigtails. Varsha started her martial arts practice at two years old, and showed such talent for it that she blew through eight belts in the next three years. She's a master of several deadly weapons as well, including the yawara stick, nunchaku, and temper tantrum.
But all this still leaves one question unanswered: If the guy in the back isn't, in fact, hurling that little girl across the room like a precocious ninja star, what is he doing? Well, he could be doing anything - practicing his own forms, or advising the unlucky opponent in proper defense strategies, or just sneezing at a hilariously inopportune time - but we all know that's not the case. He's just doing exactly what we'd be doing in his place: Flawlessly executing the Chris Tucker "aw! You got knocked the fuck out!" maneuver.
#4. Sharkboy
This is Enal. He swims with sharks.
If you need more information than that, perhaps you should take a step back from the computer and contemplate how fucking spoiled modern-day media has made you - that a boy gleefully riding a shark like a little Thai Aquaman is somehow not "enough" for you.
But okay, fine, details: This image was not taken out of context, and it was not a once in a lifetime thing. Enal begins every single day by slapping on a pair of goggles, slipping into the penned area beneath the Indonesian fishing community he's a part of, grabbing the nearest shark by the tail, and then steering it around like a murderous jet-ski. There is no further purpose for this action - it's not training for anything, it's not a show for tourists - the only benefits that daily shark-wrangling provides Enal are a quick and energizing way to wake up, and presumably an unflappable sense of invulnerability that borders on madness.


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American Idiot began previews at the St. James Theatre March 24, and it looks like fans of the show (and of the Green Day album that spawned it) are already beginning to show devotion to rival that of other musicals with rock-themed scores aimed at young audiences, from Rent to Spring Awakening and Next to Normal.
Rent fans frequently wrote messages declaring their love of the show on the wall of the Nederlander Theatre. Now, American Idiot audience members can gush, weep and enthuse over the show by writing on the entrance wall to the St. James.
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The night the Buffalo School Board approved a contract with distinguished educator Judy Elliott, a local radio reporter asked the new schools superintendent what everybody in town seemed to be wondering.
What, exactly, is this distinguished educator supposed to do for Buffalo's schools?
"Is she a guardian angel? Is she a nun with a ruler? Is she a spy for [state Education Commissioner] John King?" WNED's Mike Desmond asked.
The question itself may have been more telling than the answer.
Nobody seems entirely sure what Elliott is supposed to do – or how she's supposed to do it, seeing as she is the first distinguished educator ever appointed in New York by the commissioner to assist a low-performing district. The uncharted territory is causing considerable anxiety in Buffalo.
Each of the possible versions offered by Desmond seems to have its share of believers – although the spy-for-John-King theory likely has the biggest following, especially in City Hall and throughout many a faculty room in city schools.
The official party line, of course, is: None of the above.
Whether you ask Superintendent Pamela C. Brown, state officials or even Elliott herself, the answer you'll get will no doubt include the words "help," "collaborate," "supportive role," and the like.
"She's a professional," the superintendent told Desmond. "Her primary role will be to serve as a consultant to work with the board and me to develop plans."
King scoffs at the notion that Elliott is here as his spy.
"Judy's here to help – be a source of support for the superintendent and the board," he said. "And present recommendations to them and ultimately to us at the [State Education] Department on how to move things forward in Buffalo. The only thing I'm interested in is improved student outcomes."
Let one thing be clear, though: It is not Elliott's job to actually fix the schools.
Fixing the schools is a job that belongs to the superintendent.
"It's not my role to do that," Elliott confirms. "But it's my job to facilitate that."
That includes coming up with a plan on how to make those changes happen.
She has, in fact, already developed that plan. Two weeks ago, she submitted it to the state.
The public likely won't know for quite some time, though, what her plan actually says.
"The document will be publicly available once it is reviewed and approved by the commissioner," said Jonathan Burman, state Education Department spokesman.
How long that will take seems to be anybody's guess – it's now in the realm of Albany Standard Time. As of press time, it still had not been released.
The state has been known to move at an agonizingly slow pace, taking more than four months to review improvement plans for half a dozen failing Buffalo schools.
The state also has been known to move at warp speed, announcing approval of Buffalo's 2011-12 teacher evaluation plan within hours of its final submission.
What we do know is that Elliott had precisely 45 days to put together a plan for fixing a school district whose decline has been years in the making.
King appointed her for one year; he has the option of asking her to continue her work here for up to two years beyond that.
The plan, one state official said, outlines nine key points. Among them, according to Brown: using data to drive instruction throughout the district and providing resources to schools in a way that's more tailored to the individual needs of each school.
Fixing public education in Buffalo isn't about addressing isolated problems in a handful of schools. Profound problems permeate the entire district, affecting all 32,000 students in various ways.
Truancy is rampant – one-third of high school students missed more than seven weeks of school in a recent year, and nearly half of kindergartners missed nearly a month. The district suspends students at four times the statewide rate. Less than a third of elementary and middle school students can read or do math at grade level. Only about half of all students graduate from high school – and only one out of four black males graduate.
Elliott spent her first month and a half on the job in a whirlwind tour of the 28 worst schools in Buffalo. Those schools – which account for nearly half of the 59 schools in the district – are counted by King's administration as being among the worst 5 percent in New York.
These schools are now officially known as "priority" schools, under newer federal terminology that appears designed to sound less offensive than the former "persistently lowest-achieving" moniker.
Elliott says she will bring with her the lessons she learned working in various districts across the country to reshape education in Buffalo.
"Instead of admiring the problem, let's do something about it. We need to make this the best run at increasing equity and access across the district as we can," she said. "You cannot run a school district from central office. In a lot of places, the people who sit in the big seats tell everyone else what to do. I would walk the buildings with principals. That's how I moved things and got systems working."
The principals of the priority schools in Buffalo generally say their visits with Elliott were brief – in most cases, she visited the schools before classes were even in session – but that she impressed them as committed, competent and approachable.
"You can see that she has a job to do and she's very committed to what her role is going to be," one principal said. "I think she can make a difference if they truly let her be a conduit for communication with the state.
"If the School Board thinks they're OK just bringing in a new superintendent, they're sadly mistaken. We need more than one person. We can't do it on our own. We haven't been able to do it in 10 years."
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For as much curiosity as there is surrounding Elliott's role in the district, there's an equal measure of curiosity about Elliott herself.
Upon meeting people here for the first time, she often describes herself as "the white lady with the crazy hair," self-deprecating humor intended to break the ice.
The truth is, most people here don't know a whole lot more about her than that.
It's known that she most recently worked in Los Angeles, where she was forced out of her job as a high-ranking school district official. And the Buffalo School Board agreed – grudgingly – to pay her an hourly rate that exceeds the superintendent's pay.
Elliott bristles as much at the notion that she's an outsider to Buffalo as she does to the notion that what matters about her tenure in Los Angeles is that it ended with a buyout of her contract.
It's true that she spent the last two decades mostly outside of Western New York – but before that, this is the place she called home for 30 years.
Elliott was born in Milwaukee, the youngest of six children, but from the time she was 3½ years old, the family lived in a modest four-bedroom house on a corner lot in the Town of Tonawanda – a house where her mother still lives.
Those who knew her as a child say her family was strict, her father a part-time preacher. Elliott recalls playing violin duets with one of her sisters at church services when her father preached – a lay minister, he didn't have his own congregation, but filled in at the City Mission and other places downtown.
Elliott, now 52, talks sparingly about her childhood, referring obliquely to tensions in the house that prompted her to spend most of her teenage years elsewhere.
"I grew up in a very poor family. We had very little means," she said. "I was one of those kids who never would have amounted to anything. I came from a very meager background. Education was the only way to get out."
As a student at Kenmore East High School, Elliott discovered a passion that would define her life through young adulthood: diving.
Those who coached her through the years say there were plenty of girls competing against her who were physically stronger than she was. Elliott was born with one leg slightly shorter than the other – a condition one coach recalled as a significant disadvantage in the sport.
But there were few who consistently dove as well as she did.
"In the case of Judy, her work ethic is what always impressed me. She was not the most gifted athlete on the board, but she did perform," said John Crawford, a coach who knew her since she was 15.
In high school, she dove so well that she was the only girl to compete against the boys' team.
She approached the sport in what some described as an academic way.
"She would analyze her dives herself. She knew what she was doing wrong with a dive before I had to tell her. And then she would correct it," said Kent Clulow, who coached her at Buffalo State College.
"If we went to a big meet, state or national, she would look at the field of divers and she would look for the one she would have to beat. They would do a dive and then she would do the same dive, better, in warm-ups. It was a way to psych the other person out."
Elliott's dedication paid off. She worked her way through Buffalo State, relying on Pell grants and lifeguard jobs to pay tuition. By the time she graduated in 1982 with a bachelor's degree in exceptional education – another term for special-education – she had acquired a slew of athletic honors, including recognition as an NCAA All-American athlete four years in a row.
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After graduation, she taught students with disabilities at her alma mater, Kenmore East, for a year. From there, she went on to a variety of positions locally: teaching special-education at Hamburg Junior High and then at Amsdell Junior High in Frontier Central Schools; later, working as a school psychologist in the Frontier schools and then in the Williamsville schools.
Along the way, she earned a master's in educational psychology, a master's in school psychology and a doctorate in educational psychology – all from the University at Buffalo – and a master's in school district administration from Fredonia State College.
In 1994, Elliott turned to research.
"One of my goals was always to write some books," she said.
She packed her car and headed to the University of Minnesota, where she spent five years as a senior research associate at the National Center on Educational Outcomes. Much of her work focused on finding ways to help students with disabilities have more success in school.
"She's about as energetic a researcher and educator as I've ever run into," said Jim Ysseldyke, who oversaw Elliott's work in Minnesota. "She is absolutely committed to improving performance with low-performing kids and schools. She has a very strong commitment to putting in place evidence-based practices. She has a kind of no-nonsense approach."
It was around the time that Elliott was working in Minnesota that she started being recognized as a national expert in special-education, thanks to her prolific publishing, speaking engagements and participation in national panels and conferences. (Along with publishing numerous articles in academic journals, she has co-authored four books, including "Time Savers for Educators" and "Maximizing Test Performance for Students with Disabilities.")
Her reputation landed her a job offer as assistant superintendent in Long Beach, Calif., where she worked for eight years, followed by a one-year stint as chief of teaching and learning in Portland, Ore.
In 2008, Elliott was hired as chief academic officer for the Los Angeles Unified School District – the second-highest position in the nation's second-largest school district, with an enrollment of more than 640,000 students. During her three years there, she was instrumental in introducing a number of initiatives – some of which shook things up a bit.
In most schools, students' scores on standardized tests don't directly affect their grades.
In Los Angeles under Elliott, the district rolled out a program in some high schools that rewarded students for performing well on standardized tests. Those who improved from one proficiency level to the next were rewarded with higher course grades.
Advocates of the plan said it finally gave students what had long been missing: a personal stake in their performance on the tests. Others said it simply fueled an already test-crazed education establishment.
Just as that program attracted its share of fans and opponents, so did a new homework policy that Elliott brought to the school board: Homework could count for no more than 10 percent of a student's course grade.
Supporters of the policy said it acknowledged a reality in urban schools: Many students' family situations make finishing homework a challenge. Adults at home are often unable to help with the work; the home environment may not be conducive to focusing on schoolwork; and family responsibilities such as helping with younger siblings often take priority over schoolwork.
Opponents of the reduction – including many teachers – said it let students off the hook and sent the message that homework wasn't important.
"As an L.A. Unified teacher, I would like to send a big thank you to Chief Academic Officer Judy Elliott for this new homework policy," one teacher wrote sarcastically in a letter to the editor of the Los Angeles Times. "Thank you for no more calls to parents requesting they turn off the television so their child can concentrate on homework. Blare away. Parents are not to be held responsible for their children's academic achievement. Thank you for pointing out to our children that effort does not count."
Ultimately, it was the homework policy that led to Elliott's departure from Los Angeles.
Two months after the policy went into effect, the superintendent, John Deasy, put the brakes on it. Soon after, in August 2011, the district bought out Elliott's contract for $231,164 – the salary for the remaining 10 months on her contract, plus unused vacation time.
Elliott defends the homework policy – which the school board had approved. She says a group of parents, teachers and administrators spent 18 months developing it.
"It really got spun as lots of different things, but it really was [the result] of a lot of people working hard on it," she said. "When it started getting lots of attention, getting on CNN, that's when they backed off on it."
She downplays all the hype in Buffalo about her exit from Los Angeles. She was hired by then-Superintendent Ramon C. Cortines, she points out. When Deasy rose to succeed him, he decided to bring in his own team, she said.
"It wasn't a good fit," Elliott said. "We mutually agreed to separate."
In recent months, she has been working on her own as an educational consultant, operating from a home base in Tampa.
Buffalo is one of several places Elliott is working in right now – and likely the one that was the least eager for her arrival.
After all, New York State Regent Bob Bennett has been talking for at least two years about a state takeover of the district – something that would have to be prefaced by the appointment of a distinguished educator, according to the proposed takeover legislation.
School Board members, administrators and plenty of teachers remain skeptical about the state's motives for appointing Elliott, despite state officials' insistence that Elliott is here to help turn the schools around, not to lay the foundation for a state takeover.
"I pray this is not a political move and an exertion of power for increasing one's status," said Florence Johnson, a longtime board member. She voted in favor of Elliott's contract, but "under protest."
Skepticism gave way to outright hostility for some once word spread of Elliott's $190-an-hour consulting fee, supplemented by a $275 per day line for expenses. (Although King appointed her, the district has to pay her.) National experts in education say her contract is in the ballpark for consultants of her stature – but most Buffalo School Board members say it's outrageous.
In the past few weeks, board members have generally toned down their initial hostility toward Elliott – publicly, anyway – although it's hard to say whether that's because she has won their confidence or because they simply see a futility in continuing to complain about a situation they can't change.
"We'll just see what happens," one of them said with a shrug.
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"You know what song this is, right?" he said. "I want to sing this song to the birthday girl that's back there right now, my fiancée."
West, who proposed to Kardashian at a San Francisco stadium on Oct. 21 (her 33rd birthday), offered the audience advice on love and life throughout his performance.
"If you came with somebody that you love tonight, hold on so tight," he said. "What I'm trying to say is it's hard to find you."
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"Life," he said. "Sometimes I'm feeling like I had a second chance in life. 'Cause I remember in my career early on when I could have lost my life."
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Saint Vincent College Department of Fine Arts Division of Music will present a student voice recital at 7 p.m. Wednesday, November 9 in the Dr. Frank J. Luparello Lecture Hall in the Sis and Herman Dupré Science Pavilion on the campus of Saint Vincent College. Admission is free and open to the public. All of the students are currently studying voice with Thomas Octave, assistant professor of fine arts and chair of the music department, and Ms. Joanne Luschinger, lecturer in voice. The students include Chantal Braziel, a freshman music major from Pittsburgh; Danielle Byrne, a sophomore music major from Williamsport; Casey Ciocco, a junior psychology major from Latrobe; Marla Crawford, a junior biology major from Valencia; Lauren Donahue, a senior arts administration major from Walkersville, Maryland; Rona Gehring, a freshman music major from Robinson; Lydia Gibson, a sophomore music performance major from Saint Marys; Rona Gehring, a freshman music major from Robinson; Joshua Gongaware, a sophomore economics major from Irwin; Alyssa Hennessey, a senior communication major from Latrobe; Ashlee Lamar, a freshman music major from Indiana; Allyson Lambert, a junior business major from Saltsburg; Signe Lindberg, a senior arts administration major from Keene, New Hampshire; Zac Rumski, a senior arts administration major from Pittsburgh; Anna Steighner, a senior political science major from Kittanning; Lauretta Sterner, a freshman music major from Downers Grove, Illinois; and Fr. Jean-Luc Zadroga, O.S.B. of Saint Vincent Archabbey. They will be performing works by Mozart, Handel, Wildhorn, Schubert, Gluck, and some favorites by Sondheim, and Rodgers and Hammerstein.


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MIFFLIN - A suspected arson took down a storage building Tuesday morning in the village of Walnut in Juniata County, local officials said.
Beale Township Fire Chief Shawn Stidfole said it took about seven hours until the scene at 133 Vine St. was cleared.
Pennsylvania State Police Lewistown, along with Stidfole, said the cause of the fire is under investigation.
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A storage building caught fire around 9:45 a.m. Tuesday at 133 Vine St. in Walnut. Officials said the fire is a suspected arson, but an official cause has yet to be determined.
Stidfole said the storage building belonged to Harold Sheaffer, and wood and tractors were among items lost in the fire.
A fire on Jan. 31 at 2140 Cider Press Road, also in Walnut, is also under investigation and may be related to the Tuesday fire, Stidfole said.
Beale Township Fire Company was assisted at the scene by Central Juniata EMS, Mifflin Fire Co., Port Royal Fire Co., Mifflintown Fire Co., Fayette Fire Co., East Waterford Fire Co., Thompsontown Fire Co., Reedsville Fire Co., Junction Fire Co., Brooklyn Hose Co., Burnham Fire Co., Highland Park Hose Co., East Salem Fire Co., Richfield Fire Co. and Pennsylvania State Police Lewistown.


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Published March 14, 2013
UB faculty member Bruce Jackson's scholarly work on the death penalty in the United States played a significant role in France's abolition of capital punishment 30 years ago. In recognition of that and his other ethnographic work, the French government awarded Jackson the Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight in the Order of Arts and Letters), one of the country's highest honors, in 2002.
Now, a decade later, Jackson, SUNY Distinguished Professor and James Agee Professor of American Culture in the Department of English, again is being recognized by the French government, this time with L'Ordre national du Mérite (National Order of Merit), the country's second-highest honor after the Légion d'honneur.
While Jackson received the actual appointment letter several months ago, the consul general of France in New York, Bertrand Lortholary, traveled to Buffalo on March 13 to personally present Jackson with the medal. The ceremony was held in the Buffalo residence of Provost Charles Zukoski.
The order has five classes; Jackson is being named a chevalier (knight).
"I like being in the company of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Isabelle Huppert, Marcel Marceau, René Clair, Alain Delon, Léopold Senghor and King Juan Carlos of Spain," Jackson told the UB Reporter, citing previous recipients of the honor.
He noted that his previous award, Chevalier dans L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, is France's highest honor specifically in arts and humanities, and is a national order, administered by the minister of culture.
"Both Légion d'honneur and L'Ordre national du Mérite are given by the president and acknowledge broader accomplishment," he said. "There are several ranks in each of these orders; they could have promoted me to a higher rank in arts and letters. They chose instead to award me this second order, a much bigger deal because there are far fewer of them and they are given by the president, rather than by one of the president's ministers."
An acclaimed folklorist, ethnographer, documentary filmmaker and photographer, Jackson is being honored for continuing the kind of work that led to his being named Chevalier dans L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Lortholary spoke several times of Jackson's artistic achievement when presenting him with the Ordre national du Mérite.
Over the past decade, Jackson has continued to publish on capital punishment and on American prison conditions—much of this work in collaboration with his wife and colleague Diane Christian, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of English.
His most recent publications include "In This Timeless Time: Living and Dying on Death Row in America," co-authored with Christian (University of North Carolina Press, 2012) and "Inside the Wire: Photographs from Texas and Arkansas Prisons" (University of Texas Press, 2013).
Jackson also has published on human and civil rights in American and European journals, served on editorial boards in France and exhibited work at Bibliothèque nationale de France (the National Library of France).
He's lectured, at the invitation of the French historian and philosopher Michel Foucault, at Collège de France, a higher education and research institution in Paris, and taken part in and served on the organizing committees of major conferences on human rights and the environment held at Bibliothèque nationale de France and at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle.
"Being There," an exhibition of 350 of Jackson's documentary photographs taken over the past 50 years, is on display at the Burchfield Penny Art Center through June 16.
What does it mean to Jackson to receive another honor from the French government?
"It is always nice to have one's work recognized by the president of a country," Jackson said. "But far more important is that awards like this open doors. Certain people are more willing to talk to me, or let me in places, or give me access to documents because of this two-fold ratification by the French government," he said.
"Which means it helps me do my work, and that's the part that really matters."
In remarks after receiving the award, Jackson said he often is asked what he does for a living, "what my field is."
"I paraphrase the great Mississippi writer and photographer, Eudora Welty, who said her goal, her job, was to tell people things they did not wish to hear, show them things they did not wish to see, and help them think things they might not otherwise think," Jackson said. "That is a profession without a name, but it has a long lineage: Zola did it, Camus did it, Jean Paul Sartre did it, Dorothea Lange did it, James Agee and Walker Evans did it.
"So," he said, "I gratefully accept this award honoring my work, but I do it as simply one of that great company whose task it is to help people see, hear and think."
Bruce Jackson tends to humanity as he does to his artform, with
great clarity and dignity. He and Diane are among the best examples
of human evolution I have encountered and gifts to me in our brief
lifetime. Congratulations!
Mary-Jane Russel
Thank you, Bruce, for continuing to help us see, hear and think. It is always good to be acknowledged by the head of another country for this. Congratulations!
Anne Rose
For my part, to paraphrase this eminent academic, "I like being in the company of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, King Juan Carlos of Spain..." and Professor Bruce Jackson! This award is a well-deserved recognition of a life of brilliant service to others, and of genuine, world-class achievement.
Stewart Addington Saint-David


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Apple iPhone 5 vs Nokia Lumia 900
0. phoneArena 01 Oct 2012, 05:24 posted on
After having taken some of the formidable competitors in the Android sphere and pitted them against the new kid on the block, the iPhone 5, it seems right to now focus our attention on another rival mobile platform – Windows Mobile. Generally speaking, Windows Phones are undoubtedly rare commodities right now, so as we look around the camp, the Nokia Lumia 900 would seem like the fitting candidate to face the iPhone 5 next...
This is a discussion for a review. To read the whole review, click here
1. XPERIA-KNIGHT (unregistered)
are that bored to make this comparison john? or are you tryna give the iphone the upper hand....... yet again?
3. wendygarett (unregistered)
IDK... But I start to feel that the lumia 900 is actually better... Not that I trust what siri says...
Oh no!!! Why I start to think the iPhone looks like a crap!! :(
7. asseek (Posts: 164; Member since: 12 Sep 2012)
lol, Siri isn't to be trusted, except on this one
58. Nathan_ingx (Posts: 3791; Member since: 07 Mar 2012)
iP5: Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?
Mirror (SIRI): Umm...hold that thought, i'll be back in 4 inches.
Phonearena, this comparison is very unfair...i didn't care to go through since i already knew the result.
60. pravi (Posts: 6; Member since: 05 Oct 2012)
Agree. Comparison holds good when compared to devices which are almost equally strong. Well I guess Nokia 900 is really strong since it is compared itself to iPhone5.
11. IHateApple (banned) (Posts: 122; Member since: 26 Sep 2012)
I am still waiting for iPhone 5 vs. LG Optimus G. I know for a fact that iPhone 5's GPU is a slightly better performer (GLBench's website). But Quad Core Krait should pretty much own A6's CPU.
16. CX3NT3_713 (Posts: 2275; Member since: 18 Apr 2011)
Lol iPhonearena, has a case of its monday,,,,, how are you going to compare, the 900, with a newer phone,,,, smh
41. Vinayakn73 (Posts: 191; Member since: 05 Oct 2011)
please compare it with my G1
17. applesauce (banned) (Posts: 165; Member since: 26 Aug 2012)
How the •bleeeeep• do you come up with the ip5 having better outdoor visibility? Was the Lumia's screen on?
18. applesauce (banned) (Posts: 165; Member since: 26 Aug 2012)
Also, yes, metal body may feel better, but you should take into consideration that Nokia did the aluminum think 2 years ago and has moved on. Which is more futuristic, a space-age dyed super-plastic-like material like polycarbonate, or easily scratched and dented metal which impedes signals, something a phone has a very strong need for?
Was the 900 updated to Tango?
19. applesauce (banned) (Posts: 165; Member since: 26 Aug 2012)
And did it have the correct Nokia software bundle installed, namely the one that includes Camera Extras (updated camera software, settings, and Macro mode) and Microsoft's excellent Photosynth app? It's my understanding that those are being installed out-of-the box on new 900s
21. Stoli89 (Posts: 333; Member since: 28 Jun 2010)
Clearly, Apple annodizing approach is inferior to the Nokia N8's because my N8 never scratched (after 2 years) like the iPhone 5.
As for the ALU body interferring with the iPhone 5 signal...probably not. The antennae on the iPhone sandwhich design are in the rim/edge of the device. Recall, the N8 had plastic ends where the antennae were housed. Not the case for the iPhone 5.
40. Vinayakn73 (Posts: 191; Member since: 05 Oct 2011)
is this the imarraige beaurau. iphone needs one Groom.
2. Credo (Posts: 748; Member since: 19 Apr 2012)
The Lumia 920 owns the iPhone5 in every single way
6. XPERIA-KNIGHT (unregistered)
cept for weight issues.....lol jp but it is a tad bit heavy and im not sure if the OS is quite better than IOS yet......but maybe u guys like it better :)
8. asseek (Posts: 164; Member since: 12 Sep 2012)
no offence bro, but in my opinion everyone likes an OS and thinks its the best. some prefer the IOS, some prefer the Android OS, and some prefer the WP OS.
10. darac (Posts: 2156; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
Even i, the suposed Android fanboy, will readily admit that iPhone 5 is the very peak in terms of technology and overall package right now.
It bests Lumia 920 in:
- battery life, probably (incredible 51 hours on gsm arena test)
- compactness and weight (HUGE win here)
- processing power (A6 is MUCH more capable than dual core Krait)
- ecosystem/apps (absolute no-contest here)
14. rickywinataa (Posts: 262; Member since: 05 Apr 2012)
actually, if you see the video, lumia 900 running single core previous gen processor can run smoothly, as fast as iphone 5. and that's still a single core, not a dual core latest gn processor.
even though iphone is smaller ad lighter than 920, not all people want their phone to be super light
26. darac (Posts: 2156; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
see this:
ICS running smoothly on 800mhz single core and 256mb RAM
The point is, that doesn't meant this phone can in any way compare with the iphone.
Even iphone 4S seems noticeably slower than IP5 in running/opening complex, processor-demanding tasks such as the map flyover mode etc..not to mention the future games
27. darac (Posts: 2156; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
correction, it's 512mb RAM..but still a 800mhz single core, basically a refurbished ancient snapdagon s1 with adreno 200
48. THEAXE (Posts: 5; Member since: 03 Jul 2012)
I bought this IP5 for my misus the other day and it feels like a toy-phone.....Had a couple of tiny dents, the charger doesnt work, and when I connected it to my laptop, it stuck...while pulling out, I almost broke the usb slot on the laptop....
So Im sending it back ....
bottomline:: Apple sucks bigtime...
22. -box- (Posts: 3991; Member since: 04 Jan 2012)
As an overall package for an average smartphone user, it's a decent choice, but peak in technology? While the Lumia 920 isn't out yet, I can't openly include that for comparison purposes, but there are a number of other phones, as overall packages or single standalone features that offer better technology than the 5. NFC, especially coupled with software like Samsung's S-Beam for ease-of-use, various other makers' better screens, thinner bodies (thinness isn't everything, and I personally would sacrifice a few millimeters if it gave me a better camera and/or battery life, though I wouldn't want something much thicker than a half-inch, say the thickest I'd be comfortable with would be an 808 PureView), as well as camera tech. Like I said, decent all-arounder, but not the champion by a long shot
23. Stoli89 (Posts: 333; Member since: 28 Jun 2010)
Battery life? Hard to make that case given recent feedback from users of the iPhone 5.
30. LumiaLover (Posts: 160; Member since: 27 Sep 2012)
Features that iphone doesn't have...wireless charging, free music, mapping that works, phone that doesn't scratch when you fart, image stabilization...need I go on? Don't see how anyone can come to any conclusions until 920 has been properly tested?
and this is coming from a current android guy who was leaning towards the iphone5 until I realised that Apple doesn't give a s**t about it's customers...why else would they launch a phone which is either scratched out of the box or scratches easily with mapping that doesn't work? Oh...not to mention the adaptor you have to pay for in order that your nice new phone will work with all the connected stuff you paid £££sss for.
44. HowMyDictate (Posts: 18; Member since: 18 Jun 2012)
But the adapter is all digital....
59. ikkuh (Posts: 37; Member since: 22 May 2011)
Both phones perform well enough to do everything modern phones should be able off.
What counts for me is the way Apple does things.
It controls everything, Hardware, software and everything in between. WP is closed too but compared too iOS its almost a different world.
And even i, the supposed Android fanboy pick a WP-phone any time over a iPhone no matter how technical advanced it may be.
33. smartandcool3 (Posts: 11; Member since: 17 Sep 2012)
Lol, +1 to this.
Did everyone notice that:
iphone5 just got only 7.8 star rating by user whereas the
Nokia Lumia got 8.8 star rating by user.
I think Nokia lumia 900 is still pretty much superior in many other ways than iphone5.
34. smartandcool3 (Posts: 11; Member since: 17 Sep 2012)
sorry everyone my post get duplicated.
4. jubbing (Posts: 150; Member since: 20 Aug 2008)
It's obvious that the iPhone 5 is better than the Lumia 900. The real comparison would be towards a true competitor - the Lumia 920.
5. asseek (Posts: 164; Member since: 12 Sep 2012)
c'mon phonearena, are you cmparing a THIS YEAR phone (Apple iPhone 5) against a LAST YEAR phone (Nokia Lumia 900)?? how would that be fair?!!
unless you do believe that the iPhone 5 is a last year phone!!
39. haseebzahid (Posts: 1853; Member since: 22 Feb 2012)
ow i thought they are comparing 2007 iphone with lumia900 :O dont see much difference over 5 year of time except speed :\
53. rickywinataa (Posts: 262; Member since: 05 Apr 2012)
i think we don't need to complain about how PA compared Lumia 900 with iPhone 5. what we should see is that even lumia 900, a phone that has less specs than iPhone 5, can stack up with iPhone on day to day basis such as battery life, normal usage camera, video recording, call quality & browsing.
except of course if PA is to talk about raw performance on gamings & etc
9. darac (Posts: 2156; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
Just for some illustration - iphone has 6 times more powerful GPU and about 5 times more powerful chip overall.
I see the idea - top iOS phone vs. top WP phone at the moment - but pointless comparison nevertheless
12. bobfreking55 (Posts: 866; Member since: 15 Jul 2011)
Where is this vs the galaxy note 2? And yes, i want john v on that one too. He usually gets to the point faster.
13. MISTER.H (banned) (Posts: 167; Member since: 03 Aug 2012)
Well they are both Restrictead and closed limited specs handsets, yet i like and prefer the iP4s, cause of the touch and feel and the rear flat back design! The iP5 looks to long like a remote and the materials used looks and feel less premium.
15. JamesHunt (Posts: 37; Member since: 01 Oct 2012)
What about the Scratch test and Mapping...?
20. Nookie4u (Posts: 133; Member since: 13 Aug 2012)
Honestly, i prefer the Lumia 900's design overall, anyone else??
24. applesauce (banned) (Posts: 165; Member since: 26 Aug 2012)
Yep. Cyan 900 owner. 5 looks stale and boring, aluminum body is so 2010, and apparently apple likes the 900/800/N9 style so much it copied it almost exactly for their new ipoof small, but substituting the black area for white on the face.
25. -box- (Posts: 3991; Member since: 04 Jan 2012)
I couldn't agree more. Love my cyan 900, and get compliments on it all the time. The iphone4Stretch looks childish and outdated
54. rickywinataa (Posts: 262; Member since: 05 Apr 2012)
personally i choose either plastics over metals for phones & tablets (both normal plastics & polycarbonate). Apple users on fanboy can say "that thing looks cheap" but at least lumia or s3 wont shatter or dent when it was dropped
31. Mobile-X-Pert (Posts: 565; Member since: 20 Dec 2010)
Iphone 5 looks like my tv remote control.
32. NokiaDrew (Posts: 3; Member since: 24 Aug 2012)
Horrible comparison. The Lumia 900 compares to the iPhone4s and it KILLS it! The Lumia 920 compares to the iPhone5 and guess what.........again it KILLS it!
35. Credo (Posts: 748; Member since: 19 Apr 2012)
You are so right about this ! +1
36. cdgoin (Posts: 533; Member since: 28 Jul 2010)
Why compare a new phone with a phone that is already on the way out..? Its not even an Apples and Oranges comparison, its Apples and Carrots..
I mean seriously.. were all these comparisons simply so you could flood the front page with Apple IPhone "news"..? I think so..
38. haseebzahid (Posts: 1853; Member since: 22 Feb 2012)
i dont even think this is a legitemate comparison at all its of totally different class and AGE writter why you no wait for L920
46. THEAXE (Posts: 5; Member since: 03 Jul 2012)
How can you compare the 'new' Iphone with the 'dated' 900.
Besides we already read the comparisons with Lumia 920 and 920 was clearly the winner in almost every aspect. So thumbs down to Iphone5 and the author of this crap comparison.....920 rocks...,apple sucks..
49. 7thspaceman (Posts: 1546; Member since: 14 Feb 2011)
this is a strange lop sided test everybody and his brother knows that the Nokia Lumia 900 is a middle technology smart phone with a single core CPU and has a non high definition screen ect. The Nokia lumia 920 is the right match to go up against a high end Samsung Galaxy III or an Iphone 4s or Iphone 5 because it has a Dual core CPU and High Definition screen and all the high tech Goodies a Samsung Galaxy III or the Iphone 5 has.. Although I am a Windows smart phone fan the Iphone 5 might beat the Nokia 920 because it has a faster CPU , Retina display and has more Apps. I would not buy an Iphone 5 though because I like the Windows 8, smart tiles UI the Nokia design, Nokia Apps and Nokia's customer support. Nokia will still be making sofrware upgrades and Apps to it's Windows 7 seies Lumia line of smart phones. which means if you have Lumia 510, 710, 800 or Lumia 900 you're smart phone will still get
useful apps from Nokia. which is cool.
51. phil2n (Posts: 487; Member since: 30 Apr 2012)
john do you have one? (Lumia 900)..
I still believe in users review and not your review.
ip5 7.6 < Lumia 900 8.8... shame is it?
57. pikapowerize (banned) (Posts: 1869; Member since: 03 May 2012)
dont be surprise! a lot of tech writers of PA are iPhone people or not android folk too!! only few to zero are WP and BB likers!
52. pikapowerize (banned) (Posts: 1869; Member since: 03 May 2012)
i think lumia 900 is still a good buy! even though its outdated specs, it will still be updated to 7.8 which will bring few WP8 goodies too and most important (to me) is bluetooth file transfer and i wish mass storage too!
i mean come on at $50 for 2 years, it wont hurt! but lets just wait, maybe the lumia 920 release it might be drop at $30 LOL!!!!
55. jerahm (Posts: 4; Member since: 02 Oct 2012)
Wow. I can't help but be amazed how smooth the Lumia performed in this comparison. But that may vary in terms of how fast each device load apps but still Nokia and MS did a very impressive job with the 900. I can imagine just how smooth the 920 would perform at the time it will be unleashed.
56. AmitMajumder (Posts: 178; Member since: 21 May 2012)
iphone wins every comparison? how is it possible? I smell $$$$...
61. mcfee (Posts: 5; Member since: 06 Oct 2012)
LOVE MY NOKIA 808 unlocked phone....Not even tempted to try iPhone 5 ...I have iPhone 4s....Prefer my 808 to it unless I'm using my MacBook AIr then I favor iPhone a tiny bit....But the Nokia works with it pretty well through bluetooth. Still built like a tank..I also have no problem with Symbian and hope Nokia will not totally go Windows. Symbian is very good and for sure on a global use basis. Nokia make all your open phones dual!!!!! I can't use non-Sim networks...That is my only down note on the 808 right now and I got the unlocked phone to have lots of options without contracts.
62. mcfee (Posts: 5; Member since: 06 Oct 2012)
Does the pretty display on the iPhone 5 die as fast as the iPhone 4s?....The Nokia 808 display is great to me and outlast my iPhone charge by a long shot...Nokia looks like it could take a drop better... well... I can tell you I've seen more broken faced iPhones then on any other phone....so... when my Nokia 808 fell screen down on the concrete I thought it was done for......NOPE!! NOKIA IS STILL A TANK OF A WORKING HORSE PHONE!!! I like Symbian real well too.
63. Seany (Posts: 9; Member since: 28 Sep 2012)
Phone Arena are you blind?? The iphone 5's photos look washed out no colour
64. LEEANDA (Posts: 1; Member since: 02 Nov 2012)
i am a nokia n9 user, to be honest NOKIA has faild me this time around, the fone cant download simple mixit, not speaking abt whatsapp it just kips on sayin device not surported, its not a smart fone at ol. im even thinking of reporting it stolen, waz a loyal nokia fan but after this fone. I think i am gona move to apple....... *sad face*


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NRCS announces plan to maintain funding for Colo. snow data
Mark Udall, who serves on the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service announced Friday that they have found a way forward to maintain funding for the Snow Survey and Water Supply Forecasting Program.
The program, which Udall has fought to fully fund, monitors snowpack in Colorado's mountains and helps water managers forecast supply issues before they occur but was in danger of losing its funding due to looming budget cuts.
The plan, which repurposes money within the Natural Resources Conservation Service's budget, only funds the snow monitoring program through August 2014. This temporary fix will ensure Colorado communities and water managers continue to receive the most accurate information available to make smart water decisions.
"While we received our statewide operational budget for the year, the allocation for the snow survey program was far less than what is needed to fully implement the program even with the streamlining efforts we are implementing within the state," said Phyllis Ann Philipps, state conservationist for the Natural Resources Conservation Service in Colorado. "Upon hearing about the potential cuts in snow survey courses, we were so pleased when so many stakeholders came together to help strategize a solution. We will need their continued input and support as the fix I've implemented is an interim one."
FDA unveils plan to rein in antibiotics on farms
Numerous reports this week said officials with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration — in a move to address growing concerns about human resistance to antibiotics — they plan to phase out the non-medical use of antibiotics on food animals.
The plan, according to reports, would rein what some say is believed to be decades of widespread use of antibiotics on farms to promote faster growth in livestock and pre-empt disease in confined and unsanitary conditions. Farms consume about 80 percent of the nation's antibiotics supply, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Antibiotics for animals will then require a prescription from a veterinarian in order to limit their use to medical necessity.
Casper College to seek state OK for land purchase
Casper College wants to buy a 170-acre tract of farmland west of Casper to become the home of its proposed agricultural and equine resource center.
Both times, the capital construction project ranked low among the commission's priorities.
However, the property already houses almost everything the college would need for its agricultural and equine resource center, said Casper College President Walter Nolte.
The land currently includes a 9,000-square-foot main residence, a greenhouse, a lambing barn, two irrigation pivots irrigating about 120 acres of land and three barns offering nearly 30,000 square feet of space, including indoor riding arenas and a meat-cutting shop. The college offered to buy it for $3.1 million, with a mix of Casper College Foundation funds, budget reserves and private donations, Nolte said.
Colorado company recalls meat due to unsanitary conditions
The owner of Yauk's Specialty Meats in Windsor, Colo., apologized midweek to customers and businesses that purchased meat from him after Yauk's had to recall about 90,000 pounds of various meat and poultry products that were produced under unsanitary conditions.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service began a food safety assessment at the plant and discovered that product was being produced under unsanitary conditions, including rodent activity in the production, storage and retail areas of the property, according to a news release.
"I just didn't want this situation to get this far out of hand, but there have been issues that have distracted me in doing the business," owner Wayne Yauk said Tuesday. "I can't say how sorry I am that this has happened, and that this got this far. I feel sorry for all of the customers that I've been making products for, especially the ones that resold the product to other places."
The FSIS and Yauk's Specialty Meats have received no reports of illness due to consumption of the products. FSIS officials said that anyone concerned about an illness should contact a health-care provider.
On Thursday, the U.S. Agriculture Department announced an expanded recall Thursday.
There have no reports of illness from the recalled products.
U.S. Cattlemen's Association urges farm bill passage without altering COOL
Jon Wooster, United States Cattlemen's Association president, issued the following statement today regarding the ongoing farm bill conference negotiations.
"As farm bill talks continue, USCA commends the four leaders of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees for their efforts to move new farm policy forward. USCA appreciates the efforts of Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member Thad Cochran, House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas and Ranking Member Collin Peterson, who are working hard to produce bipartisan legislation.
USCA remains firm in its opposition to any amendment that would alter or repeal the U.S. county of origin labeling (COOL) program. As noted in previous USCA statements, any legislative action on COOL is unwarranted. The Department of Agriculture's revised COOL regulations went into effect on Nov. 23.
USCA opposes any attempt to derail COOL during the farm bill conference and we urge passage of a final farm bill that provides U.S. agricultural producers with the long-term, comprehensive safety nets they need as we prepare for the new year."
New Report: HSUS shortchanges local shelters to push 'PETA-style propaganda'
This week, HumaneWatch.org, a project of the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom, released its fourth annual report documenting the total contributions by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) to local pet shelters. The results: In 2012, HSUS spent a total of $120 million, but only 1 percent of that went to supporting local sheltering organizations nationwide.
The full report, "Not Your Local Humane Society," is available online, and includes an accounting of all grants to local pet shelters made by HSUS during the years 2009-2012. All data is drawn directly from HSUS's Form 990 tax returns filed annually with the IRS.
The report comes in the wake of a September 2013 poll of 1,050 self-identified HSUS donors in which 87 percent said they were unaware that HSUS gives such a miniscule portion of its annual budget to local pet shelters. When informed of this sad reality, a full 83 percent of HSUS's own donors agreed the group "misleads people into thinking that it supports local humane societies and pet shelters," and 59 percent were less likely to support the group going forward.
Instead of spending its money at local shelters, in 2012 HSUS spent $50 million on fundraising expenses alone, bankrolled PETA-style propaganda campaigns, maintained a huge staff of lawyers and lobbyists, and rewarded its top brass with bloated salaries and benefits, including $3 million in pension contributions.
USDA, Navy attempt to promote U.S. military energy independence with "Farm-to-Fleet"
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus this week announced the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Navy's joint "Farm-to-Fleet" venture will now make biofuel blends part of regular, operational fuel purchase and use by the military.
The announcement incorporates the acquisition of biofuel blends into regular Department of Defense domestic solicitations for jet engine and marine diesel fuels. The Navy will seek to purchase JP-5 and F-76 advanced drop-in biofuels blended from 10 to 50 percent with conventional fuels. Funds from USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation will assist the effort.
Farm-to-Fleet builds on the USDA/U.S. Navy partnership inaugurated in 2010, when President Barack Obama challenged his Secretaries of Agriculture, Energy and Navy to investigate how they could work together to speed the development of domestic, competitively-priced "drop-in" diesel and jet fuel substitutes.
The announcement marks the first time alternative fuels such as advanced drop-in biofuels will be available for purchase through regular procurement practices.


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Therefore, we honor each and every one of you as Advocates of the Month!
Last month, we wrote about Cindy Ralston whose email request enabled many people to contact their elected officials and request a proclamation in their town. Carolyn Higgins reached out to Mayor Mike Davis of
, Georgia to ask him to issue the proclamation. During their meeting, she learned that he too had been affected by myeloma. He lost his grandmother to myeloma in 1975 because there was no treatment, so the once 4'8" lady, shrunk to 3'9" and passed away soon after diagnosis. Laura Mooney of Staten Island, NY had a similar experience where the borough press secretary called her while typing the proclamation to ask about myeloma because a close friend had just started treatment that week.
In Wasilla, Alaska, Bryan Geary knew the former Mayor Curt Menard had passed away from myeloma in 2009, three years into his term as mayor. Menard was diagnosed in 2003, but that did not stop him from running and winning his mayoral seat in 2006. Geary was pleased to honor the former mayor this way and share his own story of myeloma with Menard's family.
Other advocates used their personal connections to reach their local officials. Newly diagnosed in February 2013, Tim Gavallas of Watertown, Connecticut contacted one of his buddies on the town council for its support. At the city council meeting, "Council chairman Ray Primini, who I have known for 18 years, choked up reading aloud about my battle with myeloma." Tim's story was later published in the TownTimes. In North Carolina, Advocate Brenda Stubbs called upon her son-in-law, Mayor pro-temps in Mooresville, to issue a proclamation and her grandson accepted it on her behalf at the Mooresville Town Council meeting.
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While we will never know the true reach of Myeloma Awareness Month, we do know that every day new people learned about myeloma. In advocate Mary Polancih's remarks to the Madison City Council she said, "If you have never heard of Multiple Myeloma before tonight, this proclamation is doing what we intended." A few days later, a friend of a friend recognized her as the person who spoke at the Council meeting. "He said he had learned about myeloma for the first time when he watched a TV broadcast of the meeting. I guess the proclamation is getting the word out there even without flashy media coverage. More like stones dropped into a lake, the ripples go out in all directions farther than we can cast."
Every proclamation, every article and every one of you made an impact and should be proud of the amazing achievement made collectively with over 60 proclamations issued throughout the US! In this time in government right now, there is a lot of frustration and distrust, but Myeloma Awareness Month showed us that every voice makes a difference and that elected officials really do work for the people. Thank you all for your amazing work!
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It may not be the loftiest moment in human history, but the latest effort to topple the Guinness World Record for the largest human mattress dominoes has people falling all over themselves with glee.
GWR announced that a new world record was set in China this weekend after 1,001 volunteers arranged themselves in a pattern, and crashed comfortably to the ground in an empty section of a shopping mall in China's financial hub of Shanghai.
The rally, which was organized by the Shanghai-based mattress company Bellarest International, beat the former record of 850 set in February in New Orleans by employees of La Quinta Inn & Suites.
According to GWR rules, each volunteer needs to touch the person behind them with their mattress and there needs to be a consecutive chain of toppling mattresses. Participants then have to remain lying down until all the mattresses fall.
GWR adjudicator Dong Cheng was on hand to witness the event and awarded the team with a certificate confirming their record-breaking status following the successful attempt.
"For an event like this involving 1,000 people to succeed first time is not just about luck. All other conditions must be correct. First of all, all the participants must fully understand the rules. Second, the volunteers were all very brave. No one dodged when the 2-meter-high mattress fell onto them," Cheng said.
GWR officials said the new record took 11 minutes and 11 seconds to complete, and that no volunteers or mattresses were injured during the effort.


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About the Glades Road Branch
The Glades Road Branch Library serves as the neighborhood library to west Boca Raton. The library circulates a large amount of popular adult fiction, nonfiction and children's materials.
A wide variety of electronic resources, such as magazine articles, newspaper databases, and Internet access are available to the public. Hands-on computer training for novices and the more experienced is available. The library has an active children's department that offers programs to children of all ages.
By Bus: Palm Tran Route #91
From I-95: Take the Glades Road exit (Exit 45) and travel west to 95th Ave. South (5 miles). Turn right to Library.
From Florida's Turnpike: Take the Boca Exit (Exit 75) and travel west to 95th Ave. South (1.5 miles). Turn right to Library.
From State Road 7 (441): Head east on Glades Road to 95th Ave. South (.5 miles). Turn left to Library.
- A separate Teen area
- Free Wi-Fi and Internet access
- Five study rooms including two group study rooms
- A large meeting room that seats up to 50 people
- A small conference room that seats 10
- Comfortable seating and reading tables with electrical connections for laptops throughout
- Color and black and white copiers
- Self-service options at Check Out
39 Public Computers
- 5 Catalog computers
- 18 Public Internet computers
- 2 Guest computers (Express Email)
- 2 Catalog and Electronic Database computers in the Children's area
- 12 Public Internet computers in the Children's area
- 1 Catalog computer in the Children's area
- 1 Toddler game computer
- 5 Teen Computers
Public adult and youth computers shut down 15 minutes before the branch closes. Guest computers shut down 10 minutes before the branch closes.
Service Area
The Glades Road Branch serves the south end of unincorporated Palm Beach County from Boynton Beach to the Broward County line.
Nearest County Libraries
West Boca Branch (3 miles)
Hagen Ranch Road Branch (9.5 miles)
West Boynton Branch (13 miles)
History of the Branch
Opened: September 1975, leased 1,459 sq.ft. in Sandelfoot Cove.
Expanded: November 1981, leased 4,975 sq.ft. in Piccadilly Square.
Opened Regional Library: November 1991, 24,000 sq.ft.
Renovated May 2010.
A one-acre protected cypress preserve is on the site.


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You might be thinking this is just another "face-swapping" app, but this one stands out because of its extra features. Additional features include the addition of hats, glasses, and word bubbles, and you can adjust the lighting and color.
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The idea of doing a review of the calendar year may seem a bit strange when the topic is bowling. After all, to do so would mean looking at the second half of last season and the first half of this one. Then again, one could argue that the stories I'm about to relate are not exactly the top bowling stories of 2012. Suffice it to say, if you think what I'm about to write is a little crazy, consider the source. I've been called worse.
2012 began, as do all years, in January with yours truly vacationing in Florida. Not simply a golf trip, I visited the Spanish Springs Lanes in The Villages to see what was cooking. I found out a number of things including that every league had a team called the Village People. What one could do with bowling shirts for those teams.
I also found out that bowling is the most popular sport in The Villages, narrowly edging out golf in a local survey. This was evidenced to me by the fact that all 32 lanes were occupied on the evening I dropped in. The same scene was repeated the following morning. Full house last night and again this morning I thought. That reminds me of an Ann Landers column from years ago. See me, ask me.
Also in January, the Northern Ohio Bowling Conference held a tournament for high school bowlers. Local bowlers fared quite well and a few of them were rewarded. Admission was charged for the event and that money went to the top three boys and girls bowlers. Actually, it went into the USBC SMART Fund to be used for a college education. Now that's smart!
February brought the annual city bowling tournament. Stiney's Three Oaks won the ladies team title, while Bascom Elevator did the same on the men's side. Singles titles went to Robyn Wight and Frank Martinez. Martinez then teamed with Justin Hoepf for the men's doubles crown. Mom and daughter, Jan Houk and Heather Butler won the ladies doubles competition.
One of the funnier moments in the 2012 tournament took place when a bowler threw two consecutive balls in the channel before realizing that he had thrown someone else's ball. Looking much like his own, it was obviously bigger as the ball fell off his hand and into the gutter, not once, but twice before the discovery was made.
March brought some good bowling to these pages as Greg Tiell and Jim Ross shot 299 games minutes apart in the Big 8 League. Both keglers left solid ten pins on their last shot denying them of perfect games. It was also in March that I went to Detroit for a PBA tournament. It was there that I concocted my first April column which was published April 1.
I told of winning the most photogenic bowling fan contest that rewarded me with a trip to Las Vegas. Most people realized it was part of an April Fool's Day joke immediately and I'm guessing the photogenic part tipped them off. Some people were taken in though as I (cleverly) kept the ruse a secret until the final paragraph, which some people apparently didn't bother to read. I had more than one congratulatory phone call from readers and an email from a couple that told me they really enjoyed a laugh once they realized what was happening.
The summer months were devoted to golf stories, but here's one that involves both sports. Sherm "Big Daddy" Wilkins from Terre Haute, Indiana notched his first ever hole-in-one on Father's Day 2012. The 72-year-old turned around the next evening and bowled a perfect game in a summer league his fifth career 300. The man adds a new dimension to an old argument. Which is more difficult to pull off the ace or the perfecto? Personally, I think just living to his age and being able to compete in both sports may be tougher than either outstanding accomplishment.
As this year's bowling season began to heat up, October brought a return to the old days at Dunn's Lanes as proprietor Pat Weidner had to oil the lanes by hand. It was also the month that I tried to intimidate my opponents with a game face that was, well, less than intimidating. Laughter from my opponents as well as my own teammates told me the effort was fruitless.
When the calendar reached November local bowlers started to get serious. Rich Yates Jr. posted perfect games five days apart. Just your average week I guess, but Richie's feats were definitely a harbinger of things to come.
December started with John Funk firing a huge 820 series in the Rocket League. George Holscher from Chesapeake, Virginia fired a perfect game from his seat in a wheelchair no less. Then two weeks ago, Dustin Soals shot 300 joining his father Brian and his grandfather Dick Soals on the family perfection list.
Five days after Dustin lit up the lanes, Greg Soals shot a perfect game. Greg would be the son of Brian's brother Tom. I've bowled against Tom and he can throw the rock too. As of now though, he's hearing it at family outings. Something about the only one not to have
So what's in store for 2013? Well, I'm guessing there are some more great bowling scores yet to be shot. Whether any of them will be shot by me is certainly questionable at best, but you never know. I am going back to The Villages in another week. I will be teeing it up before returning for the second half of the bowling season.
Do you suppose an ace is in my future? How about a perfect game? One never knows, but "Big Daddy" sure has me fired up!
Al Stephenson is The A-T's bowling columnist.
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More than 50 students from Vanguard-Sentinel Career and Technology Center are to compete in the 61st SkillsUSA Ohio Championships Tuesday in Columbus.
This year's championship is to feature 78 competitive skills and leadership events with roughly 100 Ohio schools competing for a national title in June in Kansas City.
Junior Tyler Lewis from Columbian High School will be one of many students from Sentinel competing. He is participating in the carpentry program at Sentinel. During regionals, he placed first and since has been practicing for state.
The competition will test his skills on carpentry, finishing, trimming and framing.
"(During regionals) I learned the importance of speed and accuracy," Lewis said.
He first got involved with building when he helped his father build a shed.
Through this competition, Lewis said, he has learned new things and he keeps getting better. He hopes to take on an apprenticeship during college.
The teamworks team made of seniors Salvador Cantero, Austin Kelbley, Jacob Serviss and Jacob Welly also placed first at regionals. They have been practicing by using past blueprints.
"We have been using techniques and are becoming better and faster," Cantero said. "It is nerve wracking because we don't know what to expect."
The skills the team must use are in carpentry, electrical, plumbing and masonry. The competition will resemble a real work day, Serviss said.
The team has become closer, Kelbley said, adding: "It is about trusting and understanding of each other's trades and helping each other out."
Cantero is from Fostoria, Kelbley is from Mohawk, Serviss is from Seneca East and Welly is from New Riegel.
"We all have differences but we are still able to work together. It has been a good experience (so far), and we just want the knowledge to be good enough to win."


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quote: maybe nvidia will turn out to be the sole high-end graphics provider in the industry after this AMD-ATI merger(ala 3dfx).
quote: speaking for DX10 ASIC such as G80 per se . with numerous arrays of MIMD 1D ALU which could
be seen as
128X1(MIMD 1D)X2(Double-Clock)=256
besides R600 has better raw performance whilst G80 have better arrays of ALU suffice for
better utilization hence optimal future.


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A former Altoona police officer accused of aggravated assault testified Wednesday that he pummelled an older man during a brawl at a local bar nearly three years ago when he was grabbed around the neck and pulled backward.
Duane "D.J." Eichenlaub said that he was fighting Herman "Bo" Lardieri in the restroom of Pellegrine's Lounge because he believed Lardieri had improperly touched his wife while in the bar area.
Eichenlaub was joined by another off-duty officer, Eric R. Kriner, in the confrontation with Lardieri.
What the two men didn't realize was that Earl P. Eshelman, 59, was washing his hands when he noticed the two attack Lardieri.
During his testimony Tuesday, Eshelman said he saw two men on their knees beating Lardieri, who was prone and in the fetal position.
Eshelman said he grabbed Eichenlaub around the middle and was trying to pull him away, and that's when Eichenlaub spun and punched him in the face multiple times, ending with two serious blows that knocked Eshelman unconscious and resulted in eye and other serious injuries.
Eshelman spent six days in the hospital.
That wasn't what occurred, Eichenlaub responded on Wednesday when he, for the first time, told his story publicly in Blair County Judge Timothy M. Sullivan's courtroom.
Eichenlaub, citing a key point in his defense, said he was grabbed around the neck and his head was jerked back. He said he began backpedaling and he felt the "sensation" of not being able to breathe.
As a police officer, he learned that neck holds can be deadly, potentially resulting in suffocation.
Eichenlaub said he spun to face Eshelman and punched him four times in the face, but the last he saw, Eshleman was getting to his feet and appeared uninjured.
Eichenlaub said he "felt horrible" about what happened to Eshelman, but he said he was being choked and he took steps to save himself the only way he knew how.
Eichenlaub's attorney Lawrence J. Rosen said, "This was the perfect case of being at the wrong place at the wrong time."
He argued to the jury that Eichenlaub acted in self-defense when he attacked Eshelman.
Deputy Attorney General Christopher Jones countered that argument, saying the defense was putting the victim on trial, adding there was a common theme to Eichenlaub's story: Everybody else during the early morning of Memorial Day 2010 was at fault, with Eichenlaub attempting to depict himself as a victim.
Jones argued that Eichenlaub was portraying Lardieri as being at fault for his own assault because of the assault on Eichenlaub's wife, even though, Jones said, Eichenlaub had no legal right to attack Lardieri.
Eichenlaub believes Eshelman was at fault for being a "good Samaritan," Jones said.
Eichenlaub is charged with attempting to cover-up the assault by urging a fellow officer Jack Kuhn III, sent to investigate the brawl, to not put his name in the official report. Kuhn didn't.
Kuhn did what he did on his own, Eichenlaub testified.
Jones countered that Eichenlaub's statement was more of the defense's common theme: blaming Kuhn for the cover-up.
Sullivan was about to give the case to the jury at 5 p.m. Wednesday but decided to put off his instructions until this morning. The jury is expected to have the case in its hands by 10 a.m.
The jury has several decisions to make as outlined by the attorneys.
A suspect cannot argue self-defense if a third party - in this case Eshelman - was attempting to intervene or help a person he thought was in danger of injury, Jones argued.
The defense contended that Lardieri was standing and fighting with Eichenlaub and Kriner, not lying on the floor in a fetal position.
The jury must decided which story to believe, both attorneys argued.
Eichenlaub's wife, Adrienne, took the stand on Wednesday and tearfully told of the assault on her by Lardieri, who, she said, put his hand up her dress as he passed by.
Kriner supported Eichenlaub's story that he was grabbed around the neck and had to defend himself from Eshelman.
Kriner has entered guilty pleas to simple assault of Lardieri and to hindering the police investigation. He will be sentenced by Sullivan in March.
Eichenlaub testified that he was an Army veteran of the Iraq War and that he had been a police officer since 2006.
Until the night of the fateful incident at Pellegrine's Lounge, Eichenlaub said he had seen his wife cry only once and that was when her grandmother died.
She is a "very strong woman," so when she approached him in Pellegrine's after an evening celebrating a fellow officer's wedding, he knew something was wrong.
"Her face was red. She was crying. She was very upset," he said.
She told him that "some pervert" had stuck his hand up her dress.
She described the man as short and stocky, and Eichenlaub approached a male standing nearby who fit the description. The man denied the assault, but a woman approached Eichenlaub and said the person who had committed the offense was in the men's restroom.
He went to the restroom and found Lardieri in "a hiding or cowering position," Eichenlaub said.
The ex-officer said that based on Lardieri's body language, he knew the man had done something. He said he asked Lardieri if committed the assault on his wife.
It was Lardieri's response that brought Eichenlaub's anger to a full boil, he said. Lardieri bore a "crazy smile." He "giggled like a child," Eichenlaub said.
He grabbed Lardieri by the lapel of his shirt and the two began what Eichenlaub called a "hockey fight" with each man grabbing and punching the other as they went round and round, slamming into walls.
Eichenlaub said as he was fighting, he was grabbed around the neck.
After the fight, Eichenlaub said he, Kriner and Lardieri left the lounge.
Eichenlaub left the lounge, he said, because his wife was upset and she wanted to go.
He said that he knew, "I am a police officer. I am intoxicated. I just rolled with some guy." This meant potential trouble with police administration.
Eichenlaub is alleged to talked with Kuhn, Kriner and a third officer Terry Merritts later that morning in an effort to hinder the police investigation.