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BOCA RATON, FL ( September 21, 2010 )– Learn about estuaries, including the one in your own backyard—the Indian River Lagoon—when Florida Atlantic University's Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute in Fort Pierce hosts a National Estuaries Day celebration on Saturday, September 25. This is the third year Harbor Branch has held this event designed to recognize the importance of our nation's coastal and inshore marine environments.
The celebration will be based at the Harbor Branch Ocean Discovery Center located directly across from the main gate at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, 5600 US 1 North, in Ft. Pierce. This family event will take place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and will feature indoor and outdoor fun and activities including:
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• Eco-Boat tours of the Indian River (cost is $10 per person, space is limited)
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• Local wildlife and environmental artists
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The Harbor Branch marine mammal stranding ambulance will be on-hand. Food, drinks and raffle tickets will be available for purchase. In addition, the gift shop will be open and will showcase some of its new merchandise. Admission to the event is free. For more information, call 772-242-2293.
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Metro users may have to alter their weekend plans for the next few months — and for a few months after that.
The STM is carrying out major repairs to the ceilings along the metro's yellow line and will be closed on weekends beginning Saturday and lasting until May 25th.
Work will stop for the busy summer months but will resume September 13 and last until just before Christmas.
There will be three new bus routes pressed into service to try to make up for the inconvenience. They'll run between Longueuil, St. Helen's Island (Jean-Drapeau station), and downtown Montreal.
The STM is spending $10 million on the repairs, but the transit corporation says this is not an emergency situation.
"The safety of customers has never been at issue," says STM spokesperson Amélie Régis. "It is planned work, and the repairs are necessary, so that our infrastructures [remain] safe and reliable."
Régis says buses on the main Montreal to Longueuil route are expected to depart every three to five minutes. She adds the STM can adjust those schedules in the coming weeks to suit ridership needs.
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Expected Benefits for Industries
Embedded systems with high safety requirements contribute more and more to the total costs and value creation in a large variety of equipment serving application areas such as transportation applications (automotive, aerospace, rail), industrial applications (process control & automation), medical and energy generation applications. Many prominent stakeholders of these domains are represented in the project.
The table below summarizes the current major weaknesses identified regarding electronic and safety critical software development in the various domains and the expected benefits after the CESAR implementation.
Lack of requirements formalisation
Formalisation of requirements will help to avoid misinterpretation, interference between levels. Consistency checking, forced to answer difficult questions and need for detail early, reduce rework through identifying issues earlier.
Integration issues
Reduce the number of problem reports by 30% at first integration at system level, then 50%. Reduce the risks of integration of new software with existing software.
Quality not consistent across the supply chain
Multi-views requirements and multi-criteria analysis will ensure consistency over different viewpoints including safety. Greater ability to predict what the system will do.
System development and maintenance costs difficult to master
Component based design is a key issue to manage complexity and costs.
Size and complexity of systems and subsystems as well as numerous interactions requires a lot of testing thus without full guarantee to avoid situation of "No trouble found" in case of a particular behaviour.
The task force "Safety and diagnosability" is dedicated to that concern. Fault robustness and diagnosability requirements will complete the specifications in order to prove lack of errors in design.
A system is certified or used as a whole in a specific application.
Modular certification reduces costs dramatically while contributing to the overall performance.
System and software become more and more complex over time leading to increasing management and development costs.
An increment of 50% to 60% functionality, with respect to systems developed today, while maintaining present levels of safety.
CESAR will ...
... provide a better systems and software level environment for the development, validation, and verification of requirements and architectures called a Reference Technology Platform. This RTP will embody meta-models, methods, and tools for safety-critical hard-real-time system development supported by European tool vendors. It would be applied domain by domain, considering sufficiently mature tools while making them interoperable or integrate able on purpose.
... provide a model-driven process for the compositional development of safety critical systems. Through the RTP, system design will integrate analysis of the extra-functional aspects into the primary functionality, thereby for the first time allowing integrated design of the entire system. This will enable model-based compositional development and qualification, supporting reasoning about execution times and safety and provide a basis for certification of compositionally designed systems and rapid re-certification after change including variability analysis through product lines.
... provide an analysis process to establish an industrially applicable methodology for exploration of design spaces, multi-criteria constraint satisfaction and design decision making, with particular regard to safety and diagnosability properties.
... initially target application in Aerospace, Automotive, Rail and Automation, integrating the sector- specific tools defined by the end-users, for which models and processes will be established to create a flexible environment supporting all phases of the development life-cycle, as each of the tools usually does separately. Further work would then consist of establishing new models and processes for new applications (hence integrating other tools within the established RTP).
CRYSTAL Project
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CRYSTAL Project
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Jazz Night
A jazz bar jams it up in the unlikeliest of places, and the food is good too.
It's only 6.30 in the evening, quite early to kickstart one's night out but I'm already grumpy. Controlled nibbling throughout the day has left my stomach on a rampage. As Erica and I settle at a table, I grumble, "I swear to god that if Margaux is late again, I'm going to eat her share of the tapas!" Erica gives me a look of sympathy but I know she'd rather I take a chill pill.
Still, I can always count on Erica to give me a run for my appetite so we crack open the menus. We're at Charlie's Tapas Wine And Jazz, aka Charlie's Tapas Bar aka Charlie's. Opened just last October, it's primarily a jazz club where a daily roster of bands croon and sing the blues. The place is done in blacks and whites, a look capturing the vibe of the Prohibition period (1920-33) in the US, memorialized forever in prints on the wall along with iconic shots of Chicago, "My town!" Charlie's co-owner and manager David de Padua proclaims.
Against Erica's and my better judgment, we order the Chicken skin chicharon (P95), crunchy morsels of cardiac arrest that are supreme in flavor and surprisingly, not oily at all. The accompanying vinegar dip does a good job of cutting through the cloy, clearing the palate for another and another. Another good choice is the eponymous Charlie's crab cakes – see cover photo (P175), soft and full of real crab, the exact opposite of pseudo patties purporting to be crab cakes. I also like the quesadillas brimming with cheese and tomatoes.
Charlie's is owned by a group of friends – "…some of us have known each other since Prep," says David – and they decided to name their place in memory of their good friend, Charlie Carballo, a man I'm told was big and jolly and who lived his life in exactly the same way. David is particularly proud of the way the acoustics are designed in Charlie's, since its primary purpose is dedicated to sound. There's padding under the tables – I check, and indeed, it's soft under there – there are "eggshell" cartons on the ceiling, and even the supporting beams are padded with foam. The house band is playing proudly while we eat but I can hold a steady conversation with Erica and David without straining my voice and ears.
Margaux finally arrives, overflowing with apologies as usual. She's kooky and a real hoot so I can never stay ornery with her for very long. She finishes off the last of the chicken skin chicharon, which David can't seem to keep his hands off of also, so we order two more.
Charlie's has an expansive tapas menu that's international in its appeal, a good number of which I notice have bacon playing a starring role. To wit: the Smoked ham croquettes – see cover photo (P165) are supposed to be ham but it could also be bacon since its telltale flavor is there. Then there's more bacon, this time in the Wrapped quail eggs – above, first photo in this set (P110) and another dish whose name floats in forgetfulness but which I dub bacon rolls (above); again, bacon rolled tightly and speared and arranged as a quartet on a plate teeming in a garlicky brown sauce. The idea is to grab a bacon "pick" and wipe the plate with it. Ohhh. Good! I'm beginning to believe everything is better with bacon.
As with all good "multi-hyphenates" such as this restaurant-bar-jazz club, Charlie's has a wine cellar offering wines from Chile, Italy, France, Argentina, and South Africa. It's not an unwieldy list but it's more than enough to keep oenophiles content.
Other tasting plates we try include a Beef tataki, tenderloin whose sides have been seared and is eaten sashimi style with wasabi and soy sauce. I consider it a renegade beef tartare. There's also one dish that's meant just for greedy me, the Escargot en croute. Little snails (but they're tough tonight), sautéed in butter and topped off with a puff pastry crust. Erica takes one look and rolls her eyes, not fond is she of snails. Everyone else passes on it also but dives in to another dish, Quail eggs on toast slices (P155): little toasts crowned with chorizo rounds and fried quail eggs garnished with cheese. It's quite delightful to have those runny eggs pop in the mouth. It certainly calls for another swig of wine as we sway to the music.
Charlie's Tapas Wine And Jazz
7232 Malugay St., Bel Air, Makati (inside Makati Golf Club)
840 5745 / 830 2222
Open Mon to Sat 11 am to 2 pm and 5.30 pm to 12.30 am.
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To evaluate management strategies for acute cholangitis in elderly patients (age, ≥80 years).
Nonrandomized control trial.
A university hospital.
Patients (n= 191) who underwent urgent biliary drainage for acute cholangitis due to choledocholithiasis. Thirty-seven patients were elderly, and 154 were younger (age, <80 years).
Surgical (8 elderly and 48 younger patients), percutaneous transhepatic (11 elderly and 47 younger patients), or endoscopic drainage (18 elderly and 59 younger patients).
Main Outcome Measures:
Clinical features of acute cholangitis and outcomes of biliary drainage.
The elderly patients had higher incidences of septic shock or mental confusion (acute severe cholangitis) (43.2%) and concomitant diseases (81.1%) than the younger patients (25.3% and 42.9%, respectively). The elderly patients had significantly greater morbidity (37.8%) and mortality (10.8%), compared with the younger patients (16.9% and 3.2%, respectively). Mortality was 18.8% in elderly patients with severe cholangitis and 4.8% in those with nonsevere cholangitis. In the elderly patients, endoscopic drainage yielded lower morbidity (16.7%) and mortality (5.6%) than surgical (87.5% and 25.0%, respectively) and percutaneous drainage (36.4% and 9.1%, respectively). No complications occurred after endoscopic nasobiliary drainage without sphincterotomy.
Elderly patients with acute cholangitis have high incidence of severe disease and concomitant medical problems. They should undergo endoscopic biliary drainage, especially nasobiliary drainage without sphincterotomy, because of its safety and effectiveness.Arch Surg. 1997;132:1129-1133
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Manheim Township police are investigating a robbery at T.J. Maxx.
At 7:10 p.m. Sunday, a man walked into the store in the 800 block of Plaza Boulevard, knocked over an employee and grabbed a bank bag, police said.
The man left the store with an undetermined amount of cash and got into a dark-colored SUV, police said.
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Friday, January 31, 2014
A substantial amount of money has turned up missing from the Dubose Middle School PTSA.
According to a Dorchester County Sheriffs Office incident report, School Accountant Gina Austin noticed a discrepancy in deposits made on behalf of the school PTSA and reported it to school Principal Christie ORear, who notified police.
A total of six deposits never made it to the bank totaling $5,498.75 in checks and cash. The PTSA treasurer and two members had signed as taking custody of the monies for deposit on certain dates, but that may not accurately reflect who was responsible for making the actual deposits, according to the report.
The six unaccounted for deposits were for October $1072.75; November $480; and four in December $975, $1119, $987 and $ $865.
The checks that were in those deposits have not cleared their respective bank accounts.
The First Federal Bank records, where the PTSA account is, show copies of deposits received of which some left the school and were held for almost a month before being deposited.
One PTSA member admitted she had failed to make deposits on time but was adamant that she made most deposits after school or around midnight when she picked her husband up from work.
The accountant told police she receives monthly statements but thought that because deposits were not made in a timely manner the statements might not reflect deposits still being held by PTSA members.
The deputy says he spoke with the PTSA head, Deeann Farrell, who told him she did not wish to pursue the investigation because she thought it was a clerical error and the money would be located. The deputy reported the request as well as the incident to his superiors.
According to Pat Raynor, DD2 PIO, the district was notified of the issue and is taking it very seriously. When the discrepancies with the deposits came to light it was reported to DD2 and an internal audit was conducted. Our auditor visited the school and verified some points. Mike Turner, our head of security has reported this to the bonding company. The bonding company will now investigate, working with the police.
According to Raynor, the national PTA requires fidelity bonds for all PTA board members. She noted that AIM is the bonding company and said they will conduct a careful investigation and determine if it was sloppiness or criminal and if there would be charges pursued. The bond company could also reimburse the PTSA depending on the outcome of its investigation.
This is being handled appropriately, according to our procedures, noted Raynor Jan. 28.
In charge of security for the district, Turner was brought into the investigation to coordinate between the DCSO, the bonding company and the district.
Raynor said that AIM has assigned a claims adjuster to the case. The claims adjuster will take the internal audit which supplies the crucial paper trail, and investigate. Then AIM will determine if the issue is poor record keeping, embezzlement, or what it is.
The paper trail was key, thats why the internal audit was so important. Once the audit verified that something was amiss, AIM was given the results. AIM is not yet at the stage of its investigation where it is ready to contact the sheriffs office, said Raynor.
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Bill Harris hosted this live program that examines one of the most pressing issues facing our community - the problem of low literacy rates among preschool aged children. Children entering school with high literacy skills are "ready to learn" and move to the head of the class. Children with weak reading skills begin school at a disadvantage, a gap that may grow wider as their educational experiece proceeds. How can we break the cycle?
Bill Harris hosted this live, one-hour special that connects parents with local resources to help them better communicate with their children on the current financial situation including the mortgage crisis. Topics included losing a job and/or home; feelings of insecurity; the concept of want versus need; language and approach for differing age groups; need for security; and much more.
Panelists included Mike King, Consumer Credit Counseling Service; Eric Young, Harbor; and Kristi Hannan, Lucas County Help Me Grow.Read more
WGTE presented this live Town Hall program "American Graduate - Finding Solutions for Toledo's Kids"
We also broadcast special editions of "Deadline Now," focusing on graduation rates and community solutions in October and December.Read more
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From Haiti to the Gulf of Mexico to Chile to Northwest Ohio, this has been a year of disasters. Some natural and some man-made. Our region was devastated by tornadoes last month. When a crisis strikes, what determines which agency does what? How do they work? And what can we do to prepare for a disaster? Tim Yenrick, Executive Director of the Greater Toledo Chapter of the American Red Cross, and Bill Kitson, President and CEO of the United Way of Greater Toledo are Jack Lessenberry's guests this week.Read more


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Loved your enemies lately? Prayed for those you disagree with? Two Christian groups that often oppose President Obama's policies are making a very public gesture to say they're backing him -- with prayer.
Rev. Rob Schenck, president of Faith and Action, and Rev. Pat Mahoney, with the Christian Defense Coalition, are both pastors who know many fellow evangelicals are upset with the election results.
"Some of them are heartbroken that the American people chose to elect Barack Obama to a second term," Rev. Schenck said. "And a lot of Christians are having a very hard time with that. Some are very bitter. Some are in despair."
But as they unfolded an inaugural banner, they wanted to let Christians know none of that relieves them of their obligation to pray for the president.
"In Timothy we're told to pray for our leaders," Mahoney told CBN News. "There's no asterisk. There's no parenthetical 'Oh, only if you agree with him.'"
The yellow banner declares, "We don't always agree with the president, but we always pray for him."
"That's something we're all obligated to do, and the Bible says this pleases God, our Savior," Schenck said. "So I say do you need any more reason than that? It pleases God!"
"And our president needs wisdom; he needs guidance," Mahoney said.
Mahoney pointed out the early Church even prayed for its enemies, like the infamous persecutor Saul, killer of Christians.
"Saul had set his heart against the Church, but yet on the road to Damascus, there was a mighty transformation. Could we believe in the next four years that there's a Damascus Road experience for this president, a transformation that will shift the landscape of this country? That's certainly what I'm praying for," Mahoney said.
The Faith and Action building is right across the street from the Supreme Court. Many lawmakers pass by as they go back and forth to their offices.
On Inauguration day, tens of thousands of people will pass by.
"We're going to see a lot of people doing this because banners capture attention, and as far as I know, we're the only banner anywhere within view," Shenck said, craning his neck toward the banner.
The banner itself is displayed blocks from where the inauguration will be, but four years ago the president stopped by the Supreme Court to pay a courtesy call.
If he does that this year, then he's likely to drive right passed this banner that lets him know people of faith are praying for him.
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Roy wasn't going to let anyone else tell him it was time to quit.
He called his final shot.
While we're waiting for Roy to make his retirement announcement official, take your pick of your favorite Roy career highlight. There are plenty. Christmas Day and 41 points? Maybe 52 points against Phoenix? A game-winning shot? Game 4 of the Dallas playoff series? Roy always let the game come to him, then seized it with both hands.
In the end, what I'll remember most about Roy's time in Portland wasn't a game winner, or a playoff miracle. Those things were wonderful. But they're not the goods, they're just symptoms of something buried deep inside of Roy.
His heart.
He's authentic. He's courageous. He's proud. Roy is as deep as an ocean in an organization littered over the years with characters that were no deeper than a puddle on the pavement. When he arrived as a rookie and stood in the middle of the locker room, cutting off veteran buffoon Zach Randolph and demanding his team expect more, we all knew how special Roy was.
Roy's teammates followed him straight out of the draft lottery.
There have been better players, and longer careers, and that championship in 1977, but there hasn't been a better leader anywhere in this franchise. And the Blazers have so desperately leaned upon Roy that I worry what happens to the organization without him.
Even with degenerative knees, even with him unable to play defense, he made you believe anything was possible.
That 90-minute meeting that Roy had on Monday with his coach and executives ends up a curious development. His agent already knew that the Blazers were poised to possibly use the new amnesty clause on his client. Roy was looking for an assurance from the organization that he wouldn't be cut, so much so that Roy's agent carefully followed the news conference that came later in the day, waiting for word that Roy was safe. Instead, the Blazers announced that Roy was a starter.
Five days later, he's retired.
Roy's knees are shot. He has no cartilage left. Bone on bone. And his doctor reportedly told him that if he wants to walk later in life, it was time to retire. And anyone who knows how proud Roy is, understood immediately that the three-time All-Star would never let anyone in a suit tell him when he's done.
Roy will do it himself.
Will he stay retired for good?
Who knows?
I have no doubt that Roy is broken up over the idea of not playing NBA-level basketball again. It's what he does. I also know that he's deeply invested in his family. It's why he disappears every offseason to spend uninterrupted time with them, and why he brings his children to news conferences, and why his wife was with him on the road last season during the playoffs.
We all remember the game winners. We remember the calm we had when Roy
had the ball in his hands. We remember the confidence we had in the guy
who refused to hide from the challenges and instead accepted his role as
a leader.
But I will never forget the image of Roy standing in front of the team hotel in Dallas after that brutal start to their playoff series --- holding his wife's hand, waiting for a taxi, world's best teammates.
That team needs him healthy most of all.
Roy told me in 2009, on the day his maximum contract was announced: "Contracts... basketball... wins and losses... nothing compares to those moments with the kids."
I believe him.
Several years ago, while Roy was sitting out with an injury, I walked the Rose Garden arena hallways during the second half of a late-season game and heard the giggles of a young child coming from just outside the Blazers locker room. When I turned a corner, I came upon Roy, holding his infant son, smiling, tickling him.
I said: "Don't change."
He didn't need to answer. But Roy smiled, and promised he wouldn't. And while this Blazers organization has teetered at times, it always felt as safe as that child when it was in Roy's hands.
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Views of Kolkata: Hyatt Regency
Kolkata is overcrowded, filthy, and, sometimes, mighty smelly. It is loud, bustling with life, oddly complacent about its poverty, yet showing a heightened sense of entrepreneurial spirit at that lowest rung. And my first days, after being driven from the airport, were spent in impressive luxury--all of the rest of Kolkata was distant noise beyond the gates and walls.
The Kolkata Hyatt Regency is simply one of the nicest hotels I've ever enjoyed. The rooms are beautiful, the food often magnificent, the service irritatingly impeccable.
"Irritatingly?" you might ask. Indeed. While there is something nice about being treated well, I am, at heart, a regular guy. I like my bartenders funny and boisterous, in particular. The bar staff at the KHR were competent, the selection of fine alcohols was admirable, but it took a while to get them to let down a little. The first night was, "What would sir enjoy this evening?" The second night was, "Since sir enjoys vodkas, may I suggest Ciroc?" Which, incidentally, made me happy; I keep a bottle at home and it's a remarkably smooth little drink. By the end of the second night, though, I had them explaining cricket, drawing me diagrams to punctuate their lessons, and then shocking me with their passion for the soap opera drama of US pro wrestling.
If I make the trip again, I'll lobby to stay at the Hyatt again. It was a little like heaven, to be honest, even if it hardly conveyed the flavor of Kolkata. I'm not one to wallow in unrelenting trash and poverty, though; for those folks, other accommodations would be in order.
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What Just Happened? is one of the truest, scrappiest and by necessity most cynical depictions we've seen of the rhythms and pathology of America's dream factory. Director Barry Levinson (The Perfect Storm, Good Morning Vietnam) returns to his Diner roots with quirky characters in over their heads, albeit this time in a hypercharged milieu. Ben (Robert DeNiro) is a film producer whose existence is a series of rocks and hard places, with an in-your-face director and bottom-line-obsessed studio head, ex-wife No. 1, ex-wife No. 2 and their sundry offspring, as well as millions of dollars tied up in deals that could make it all vanish in an instant.
Ben requires steel cojones and the ability to lie as easily as breathing, and he's got the goods. Levinson surrounds him with equally layered (power-)players: Catherine Keener as the studio head, John Turturro as a hapless agent, Michael Wincott as an irrepressible director, and Sean Penn and Bruce Willis as themselves.
Our biggest quarrel with the film is its washed-out, cinema-verité look. L.A.'s shiny yellows, blues and greens are distractingly dull, and there's even a haze over indoor shots in production offices, sets and celebrity-owned restaurants, though it resulted in a nice effect on night shots of freeways.
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Well, Nagasu IS sitting on the sidelines missing worlds for the 2nd year in a row...she is being passed by more and more skaters, even watched her old junior rival Caroline Zhang rise from the ashes to bypass her. If that doesn't kick her, what will?
As for Czisny, she just does not have the nerves for competition. Frankly, I'm surprised to hear her saying she enjoys it...looks can be deceiving!
Yeah you're probably right about Mirai and Alyssa. I still just think for these really naturally talented skaters, they know that just skating clean is enough to medal. They don't have to stretch themselves technically or do anything special. I just think back to Lipinski and Hughes who both had their best skates at the Olympics, particularly Lipinski who also had pressure as a co-favorite for gold. A superior rival forced both to go out and do more technically than they might otherwise have. Lipinski's 3L/3L wasn't all that solid; she missed it a few times during the season and fell on it at the Olympics LP run-through practice. Hughes had never done 2 3/3s. Yet both pulled off the big moves, I think, because they knew they needed to; simply skating clean wasn't going to do it.
Czisny skated almost as well as she could at Worlds last year, only one missed jump in both programs. She did not even medal, beaten out by Kostner who had mistakes and lesser content, and also by Leonova. Far behind winner Ando and a 55% Kim who took silver (and nearly gold). This was in argaubly the worst year of World ladies competition in decades too.
So should either of these ladies have a myth that skating clean with what they have now guarantees them a medal at the World level, they are already operating off track with reality. With Wagner, Gold, and possibly Zhang above them in the UFSA's viewpoint going into next season, they may have to add things just to make the U.S World team should they skate clean, unless the others falter.
Kwan boosted her career in many ways being 8th at the 94 Worlds. I guarantee if she doesnt make it to the 95 Worlds (which without being top 2 and gaining the U.S 2 spots for 94 she wouldnt have been) she doesnt come close to winning the 96 Worlds, quite possibly not even medalling. It was her experience at the 95 Worlds, skating so unbelievably well and still coming 4th, that gave the push for the Kwan transformation next year. She also wouldnt have ever entered the 95-96 season with enough reputation if she didnt even compete at the 95 Worlds.
It's true that having strong rivals brought out the best in Kwan. But she also had extraordinary drive and coolness under pressure. You don't find her particular combination of skills under every tree. I'm still waiting for another one on the American team.
A lot of skaters are like Mirai and Alissa, who are far better in practice than they are when the crowds come. Angela Nikodinov used to win all the practices. So did Maria Butyrskaya...
I've heard reports that Czisny is inconsistent in practice, too...
I don't know about Nagasu though.
Well, I wonder what Alissa is reading on the boards? Two of her comments surprise and bother me a bit. Firsst, "I love competing." Huh? It looks like torture. I think she just can't bear to leave with a 22nd place finish, and even the lingerie dress couldn't help her. I rewatched Nationals. She has something in her skating that Zhang does not. Beautiful stroking, flow, basic skills which get her over, but she is a tentative jumper whose nerves are not going to get better next year. Please Alissa, have mercy on your fans who supported you all the way. It was torture to watch you compete your last two competitons. Please do some gorgeous programs for shows and galas. Go all out and get yourself invited to every show. People will forget this year. Join SOI if not bankrupt. Look at the show programs of Shizuka Arakawa, and emulate her. Get the choreographer who gives you an upbeat number with faster movement. Dazzle us with spins and a great footwork sequence. Even Chan dropped the jumps and did "Elegy" at the WC Gala skate to show off his skating skills which is what you have. This is what I'd like to see. Sasha Cohen barely jumps but is always in demand. Use your beauty and your head. You might finish far from the podium at Nationals next year, and you'll have to live with your GP performances. I honestly think you will lose support and the majority of posters are kind but would rather see you call it a day and dazzle us in the shows. Wear what you want, skate how you want, use the music you always thought was too "unprincessy." No one asked for my advice or our advice but we are all giving our 2, 4 and 6 cents. I think it is past time to move on, whether USFS still "adores" you. There is no glory in being held up.
There are younger skaters who need to get a chance and as our senior skater, it is time. The other statement that most of the emails were supportive may be true but if you read here or at FSU a lot of people really deep down feel you can't compete, you are embarassing yourself and you did, sadly lose our chance for the third spot. Cruelty sometimes seems like truth. I offeerd much love, appreciation and consolation for the total package of beauty called Alissa Czisny and your courage in getting up.
Miracles do happen, but you are not a fierce 'bring it on' girl. It is part of why you are loved. Sweet, soft, demure, shy. So if you are reading remember people like to be PC on these boards and "seem kind." Some are brutally honest. I hope if you read this you consider everyone- your long time fans, your federation, the other younger skaters who don't get the "special" points you enjoy for various reasons. Call me mean, anyone, but I think we can all be honest and polite.
Alissa will be a successful show skater because her signature move, the spins, are truly in a league of their own. I could watch her spin all day long, and both casual fans and more knowledgable ones can appreciate the speed, difficulty, and variety she shows. On top of that, she moves across the ice so elegantly and she should have no problem doing the doubles up to the lutz in programs.
Well, Alissa might not be overly curious about what a lot of people here feel deep down. (FSU, well yeah, I can see that...)if you read here or at FSU a lot of people really deep down feel you can't compete,...
One day at a time. See what happens at Skate Canada or TEB or Cup of Russia. Jason called me for my advice the other day, and I told him to get peppier music and put in more in-betweens so that the jumps just come up naturally instead of each one being a dreaded ordeal. He thought that was a pretty good idea, and why didn't he think of that?


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It actually does not look like there will be any presales for this tour – he will be capitalizing on his Super Bowl halftime performance to sell as many tickets as he can the next day.
This was a hot tour last time, but tickets (and good ones) were released day of show. If you don't get what you want during the presales or public sales, wait it out. I'll track these shows and prices, too.
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May 31: Los Angeles, Calif. (Hollywood Bowl)
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June 10: North Little Rock, Ark. (Verizon Arena)
June 11: Birmingham, Ala. (Birmingham Jefferson County Civic Center Arena)
June 13: Columbia, S.C. (Colonial Life Arena) – through Colonial Life Arena site, if there is a waiting room, open up a number of tabs and copy and paste URL for waiting room, one could open sooner than another
June 14: Raleigh, N.C. (PNC Arena)
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Aug. 2: Winnipeg, Manitoba (MTS Centre)
Aug. 3: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Credit Union Centre)
Aug. 5: Calgary, Alberta (Scotiabank Saddledome)
Aug. 9: George, Wash. (The Gorge Amphitheater)
Aug. 11: Eugene, Ore. (Matthew Knight Arena) – Through their site, if there is a waiting room, open up a number of tabs and copy and paste URL for waiting room, one could open sooner than another
Aug. 14: Stateline, Nev. (Harveys Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena)
Aug. 15: San Jose, Calif. (SAP Center at San Jose)
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i think you're the only one who can answer this question effectively, since it's your body and how it reacts to things. my suggestion is to just figure it out. try some non-primal food at a single meal and see how you do. a few days or a week later, try a SAD day...try a couple days in a row, and just be aware of how your body reacts.
is that going to kill you? nope. is it going to make you gain 40 pounds of fat? nope. there's nothing wrong with stepping away from primal once in a while...as long as it's not that often and you are sure to come back.


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Dating is hard. Not quite trying to give a cat a bath hard, but difficult to say the least. There are no clear-cut instructions. Much of it is left up to instinct, guesswork and desperate grasps at any semblance of headway. Like calculus, or being a Cleveland Browns football fan (ooh, burn).
On a date, you have to read and analyze every gesture and comment and movement like the Terminator and scan for signs of intelligence or selfishness or ax-murdering tendencies so you don't end up a movie of the week subject. Or at the very least, married to someone who picks their ears with their car keys.
Why subject yourself to such hardship? People like to pair up. Lots of things are better with someone you care about, not the least of which is paddling a canoe, filing joint tax returns and, according to commercials, sitting in a bathtub outdoors while staring at the sunset. Love is a many-splendored thing, but it can be such a pain in the butt.
Dating requires a certain amount of vulnerability. And whenever one is vulnerable, common sense and everyday way of thinking goes out the window. No matter what you do, you do a mental eye-roll like "Boy, THAT was pure genius." But we trudge on, hoping for that moment of kismet.
With Valentine's Day around the corner, I offer some simple tips for dating that will help you at least get your foot in the door, as well as some etiquette. Most of this comes from experience. Terrible, terrible experience.
For starters, don't Facebook stalk someone you like. Sure, it's OK to peruse photos, assuming you are Facebook friends. You can also check a profile for common interests and stuff to talk about. But most people can tell when you sit and "like" 48 photos in a row. Don't comment on every single post to show your interest. That stuff is creepy, male or female. It also leaves the impression there's three or four other people you're vetting, it's so methodical. Instead, maybe leave one witty, clever showstopper, then walk away, leaving them thinking "Wow, what a cool person. They could write for The Onion!"
Next, be yourself. It's much easier than trying to invent some fake personality on the fly. Your brain can't scan for the perfect response that some hypothetical perfect person would say fast enough to avoid an awkward silence. Unless you're a dictator of a small country or a reality show cast member, your actual personality should be fine, and there should be someone out there who finds it just spectacular. Besides, if you lie, Google or your conscience will betray you in the end.
Also, don't lose sight of yourself. No matter how much you like someone, make sure they respect you, and that you keep doing what you do and stay who you are.
Don't obsess over their past. If someone happens to bring up an ex, just listen, and if it seems OK to ask about them, do so, and be supportive. Don't constantly compare yourself to their ex, or assume that if they used to date some supermodel or test pilot that they won't like you. Everyone gets insecure, but keep it in check. Confidence pays dividends. Don't wonder how many, or who they were. The important thing is that they're spending time with you; make it quality time.
Go someplace conducive to getting to know each other. If you go to a movie, do the dinner first, so you're not sitting in silence for two hours next to a stranger. Avoid those wacky date ideas like go-karts or skydiving, at least in the beginning it's hard to read their reactions when you're wearing a helmet and goggles.
Also, no need to overspend. One of my most memorable dates was at the Kmart cafeteria the guy was a disaster, but the meatloaf on a little tray was cute. Fancy gifts can come later; in the beginning, keep it simple. Anyone with integrity won't lose your number if you don't show up to their door with gifts or take them to fancy places. Weed out those gold diggers; all those rappers can't be wrong.
Don't overjudge. Not every small mannerism speaks to their core beliefs. Biting their nails doesn't mean that someday your date will cash in their 401K for a sports car and leave you broke. Odd mannerisms can be quirky, even cute. Don't be all "Seinfeld"-y about people.
And lastly, have fun. Life is better without an agenda. Don't be on marriage-material patrol. No matter what you want in the end, just enjoy the present.
So, everybody enjoy your Valentine's. I know, Hallmark holiday, blah blah, but I plan on making heart-shaped eggs and toast and you can't stop me.
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We should have mentioned this earlier. Via Dejan Kovacevic, the Pens won't be wearing their blue jerseys any longer.
As Sean Gentille of Sporting News points out, they were going to retire them at the end of this season anyway.
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Apple's win may be a good thing for Android
0. phoneArena 25 Aug 2012, 16:41 posted on
Let's start out by facing a few facts: first, Apple's win over Samsung was big, but it is not spelling out doom for Android any more than it is likely to catapult Apple to being the smartphone leader again. Second, the ruling was much more a loss for Samsung...
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1. PAPINYC (banned) (Posts: 2315; Member since: 30 Jul 2011)
All this 'inappropriate' talk has me iHorny.
BTW, jolly good artiCle:)
2. tsspro (Posts: 21; Member since: 18 Jan 2010)
The is just the beginning, Samsung will definitely do more that just an iPhone like. They will have to speed up their inovation.http://www.youtube.com/watch?f
eature=endscreen&NR=1&v=kJEHp1 5Hoo0
3. Orbitman (Posts: 110; Member since: 09 Oct 2011)
good article, as always, Michael!
4. ajac09 (Posts: 1481; Member since: 30 Sep 2009)
All this lawsuit means is now everyone will be aiming for apple . And google/moto has started this
7. Lucas777 (Posts: 2137; Member since: 06 Jan 2011)
i think that started a long time ago...
5. taz89 (Posts: 2014; Member since: 03 May 2011)
as usual a great article although i will defend that the touchwiz ui on the s2 and especially the s3 are quite good and not ios like ie not all icons are in box
6. smallworld (Posts: 484; Member since: 13 Jul 2012)
Seriously getting bored by these articles.
8. taz89 (Posts: 2014; Member since: 03 May 2011)
well each tech sites will have there own articles similar like this...would be stupid as a tech site not to have an article on this topic but i agree it is getting a bit too much especially the articles that claim doom and gloom for android
12. Berzerk000 (Posts: 4275; Member since: 26 Jun 2011)
Then don't read it... Problem solved. No one is forcing you to read it, or make a comment saying how bored you are of these articles.
66. AndroidShiz (Posts: 154; Member since: 08 Nov 2011)
Having some wine and cheese are you?
10. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
nice concise article. However I dont agree with RIM or WP picking up "samsungs drop" for a few reasons. First, banning US only SGS1 variants will have little effect on samsung's over all sales as most are already D/C'ed. All of their newer phones from the last few years use at least the version of TW found on the SGS2 which was found to be non infringing, so the vast majority of Samsung's sales are safe. Also, if RIM licence out phones, Samsung is likely to make one to diversify, which would pick up any slack from those SGS1 variants being banned.. and since they make WP phones as well, any uptick in WP sales is likely to help in some sort as well.
We'll see how many of those patent infringements hold up on appeals. I'm still surprised the P2Z and multitouch (which is required for P2Z) held up with all that prior art and tech proving its existence years before the iphone and apple patents.. Most everything else has been taken care of a long time by android except that.
Other than expecting at least one of them to be tossed by appeal, my main hope for the googerola-apple court fight is that googs laywers scare apple enough with what every they are bringing to make apple want to come to amicable (net zero cost for both sides) cross licencing terms and stop these stupid lawsuits for good.
11. pikapowerize (banned) (Posts: 1869; Member since: 03 May 2012)
very nice article.. i really do believe that android's sale wont be hurt..only samsung's...
i really do believe that samsung really needs to change touchwiz to a different UI.. all samsung phone products has this UI the bada has touchwiz that really looks like a mock up iOS... even the upcoming (or samsung even care about this) TIZEN.. really looks like a mock up version of iOS, android and bada... they need to replace touchwiz..
so i hope sony and motorola will be on top list again.. i just love their products..
and if this will really make an opening to BB and WP.. it will be a great!!!
23. Aeires (unregistered)
Don't be surprised if people buy Samsung's products in protest of Apple. The sales of the Galaxy Nexus jumped after Apple banned it, and that was minor to what happened here.
30. pikapowerize (banned) (Posts: 1869; Member since: 03 May 2012)
people even consider samsung and apple the same now.. haha.. i read some articles/post on g+...
13. zackh121556 (Posts: 101; Member since: 01 Feb 2012)
PhoneArena was the ones saying it was a win on Android. dont try to flip it now. PhoneArena has always been for iOS no matter the topic. Android will be the king for a long time. deal with it! Also, I am not an Android fan boy, I use an Android device because it is the best for my lifestyle. love the OS and would never switch
14. AndroidVsApple (Posts: 12; Member since: 01 Jul 2012)
Wow just wow.... Was hoping Samsung would win but let my hopes go too high (again)
15. roscuthiii (Posts: 2217; Member since: 18 Jul 2010)
Simplification and minimization is a natural evolution of technology and a necessity when it comes to consumers and the market. As is using previous products, both in-house and competitors', as the building blocks with which to innovate upon to give the consumers what they want.
What Apple is in the end saying, and being given on a silver platter, is that they are the only ones allowed to do that.
The precedent set here is no good for anyone.
Absolutely everything, every single damn thing Apple has now, was built on the back of someone else's work, improved upon, and then polished.
And that is exactly what Samsung did. Took what made the iPhone a selling point for the consumers, and made it better in their eyes, for the majority of their market.
Where the hell would Mankind be today if there were lawyers and patents, trademarks, & copyrights ages ago?
"Ug, no! No no no! Ug, you wheel no be circle. You no copy me. Ug, you use oval, or square, or triangle. No use circle, copycat."
16. dragonstkdgirl (Posts: 144; Member since: 07 Apr 2012)
The only problem I see with this is give an inch take a mile - if Apple is awarded over a billion dollars in damages over a black rectangle with rounded corners and a green phone icon with rounded corners, what next? That's a damn big payout for a relatively quick trial. And since it worked the first time, there's going to be a team of Apple employees and lawyers digging for more patents and more companies to sue...
17. AndroidVsApple (Posts: 12; Member since: 01 Jul 2012)
i Saw this website
Based what im looking at They dont look the same at all The Galaxy Tab 10.1 Doesnt even look Nothing at to the iPad. The Galaxy Tab is used at Landscape mode. The iPad is potrait mode.. And To be Honest The Galaxy Tab Looks 10x More better than the Scrunched iPad.. AND Also The Galaxy Tab is more Open and Free Because its Android.. it got banned due to Apple (dumbasses) Who Noticed Apples OS Hasent Changed at ALL since it was Released in 2007? Android is Far from better than iOS Because Theres no hassle on jailbreaking it unlike the iPad..
i Rather go with The Galaxy Tab to do Everything And The iPad Just Leave it as Decoration cause theres nothing good about it like the iPod and iPhone (in my opinion)
This Means Theres Less Android Products from Samsung i bet due to Apple.. Plus Where i live. (Close to) One Year ago When the 4S was Just Released There used to be more iPhones than Samsung Devices... Now Ever since the Nexus and the Galaxy S III Was Released i started to see More Galaxy S III or Galaxy S Devices where i live now.. Strange that now i see Less iDevices but eh. i dont care at all its everyones opinion..
CORRECT Me if im Wrong on all of this
59. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2703; Member since: 26 May 2011)
The jury didn't find the Galaxy Tab to be in violation of Apple's iPad patents. It was only the smartphones.
18. wendygarett (unregistered)
I think Samsung should delete all the 2010 document in the 1st place so that Apple can shut up
19. allen83 (Posts: 107; Member since: 01 Mar 2012)
agreed they should not copy from ios they can be unique if they think really hard enough. Look at the N9 very very nice and unique swipe UI. I really love the swipe UI of the N9u
25. Mitchel (Posts: 228; Member since: 25 May 2012)
As much as i like Samsung products, i had International SGS2 & now the SGS3, you can't deny the fact that they copied the iPhone 3gs design on SGS1 and iPhone 4 on Galaxy Ace.. They are deserved to be punished! They need to go back on the drawing board, hire a great design team, choose more premium materials for their next flagship and move on!
33. MartyK (Posts: 820; Member since: 11 Apr 2012)
Apple has rip off everyone idea, the whole Iphone (from the name to the parts) design came from other company.. you Iphone is a mix of
LG Prade+Nokia N900 commuincator+Neonode N1M+Xerox = Iphone
Oh yea, did I mention the stole the NAME Iphone too...hahaha
26. denied911 (banned) (Posts: 361; Member since: 31 May 2012)
this is bullcrap
look at converse all stars, classic chucks
how many companys is making knockoffs of this design?
from cheap chinese to 3 times more expensive gino rossi and many many more
no one is suing anyone!
apple is crazy and stupid americans love apple
57. Jay_F (Posts: 236; Member since: 29 Nov 2011)
I can't believe you compared technology to clothing twice in the same article. Wow.
64. denied911 (banned) (Posts: 361; Member since: 31 May 2012)
i don't believe that you didn't realize it is the same comment!!!
copy paste dumbass
68. Jay_F (Posts: 236; Member since: 29 Nov 2011)
That's the point, tool.
29. RomeoJDR (Posts: 244; Member since: 09 Dec 2011)
Great article! Certainly a different twist than all the doom and gloom for Android articles that everyone else seems to be writing
31. MartyK (Posts: 820; Member since: 11 Apr 2012)
I've never disagree with you much, but on this I must.
To me, the media reporters refuse to call out Apple BS patent for what they are BS.
If you look at each and every patents you listed, I can show you PRIOR arts or a computer that was doing this.
So the power to be, send their lap dogs out to try to calm the people who's been messing with computer langague-cellphone-computer-electronic for years.... sad thing when suppose to be computer experts sell themself... Lady Lovelace, I know is turning in her grave
So please don't insult our intelligent with some BS about all is not lost..this whole TRIAL has been nothing but a sham and all about Apple Stock holders...
If this case was held in any other Country in the world, Apple would had LOST big time, and anybody who's been fooling with computers since 1975 knows this!.
60. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2703; Member since: 26 May 2011)
I have called out BS patents a number of times (search for "patently" on PA). I have called out the USPTO about BS patents (http://www.phonearena.com/news/The-USPTO-Patenting-logical-conclusions-since-1790_id25234). I've called for the entire BS system to stop (http://www.phonearena.com/news/Why-the-Patent-Cold-War-needs-to-end_id20914). And, if you missed it, I linked 3X to the EFF's page calling for total patent reform. You don't need to tell me about BS patents.
But the point stands that according to the law as it exists right now, Apple won fair and square, and it really wasn't that close. And, according to the law as it stands today, Apple's win doesn't really mean that much for the Android ecosystem at large.
So, what exactly are you disagreeing with?
35. skymitch89 (Posts: 1300; Member since: 05 Nov 2010)
I've got thoughts and comments but I'm getting tired of trying to type them out on a lot of these posts, so I'm going to stop commenting.
61. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2703; Member since: 26 May 2011)
I think you failed in that endeavor, what with typing this comment...
36. Spylake (Posts: 1; Member since: 26 Aug 2012)
The EFF is one way. I chose another. A Samsung Galaxy SIII for each member of the family. We've bought our last Apple product.
38. GuiltyBystander (Posts: 199; Member since: 05 Mar 2012)
39. Bluesky02 (Posts: 1439; Member since: 05 Dec 2011)
Quote : "We certainly won't see this sort of lawsuit go against HTC, because the Sense UI bears no resemblance to iOS, and the same goes for MotoBlur, Sony's Timescape, or Google's stock Android UI".
- That's a very good point.. :)
45. rusticguy (Posts: 2828; Member since: 11 Aug 2012)
As long as they (Sony/HTC/Moto et al) all do not climb up on market share charts to the extent that the figures start PINCHING Apple's butt to Zoom the fall in sales of iDevice ... that's the time when apple will sue everyone. Itr's not just bUI. They will find some other stupid patented stuff to base their claim for few more billions for nothing.
40. redmd (Posts: 1269; Member since: 26 Oct 2011)
I'd hope to find the tl;dr at the bottom in every article written by Michael.
62. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2703; Member since: 26 May 2011)
Those usually only pop up when I cross the 1200 word barrier. This piece came in under.
41. jove39 (Posts: 1860; Member since: 18 Oct 2011)
Die hard android fan here...don't mind apple's win...if it results in exit of Samsung's TWz! I've been running aokp on my SGS1 & SGS2 and love stock ICS experience.
42. paynekiller (Posts: 139; Member since: 24 May 2010)
I'm no iPhone fan, I'd never get one. But even I will admit I've been watching how Samsungs have been looking very iPhoney since the Samsung Instinct and I don't think they were even being discrete about it, it was almost blatant. Touchwiz is the UI on android that I hate the most after motoblur, simply because it looks far too much like an iPhone and it disgusts me.
So, maybe now we can see better UI design from Samsung, even tho the latest TW on the SGS3 is much improved imo, they still need a change.
47. rihel_95 (Posts: 301; Member since: 21 Mar 2012)
50. tmcr7 (Posts: 180; Member since: 02 Nov 2011)
That bounceback effect has been present since time immemorial in Microsoft Powerpoint animation options. Unfortunately, this jury is composed of Aunts and Grandpops who calls any other touch screen phone an iPhone.
58. AndroidShiz (Posts: 154; Member since: 08 Nov 2011)
I don't exactly know what's going on with some of the fashion patents and all this other crazy stuff that some people are typing about on here, but although I absolutely loathe Apple now and everything they stand for, I do remember not liking the old school Galaxy S because it looked too much like an iPhone. At that time I did not know anything about Android but I did not buy that phone because it looked like that. I remember leaving iPhone because it looked like an iPhone. I sure as heck didn't want my Android looking like one. That is why I became a complete HTC fan at the time. After I bought an HTC phone I did see in the market that there were these apps called home replacement apps that I did not know about, so I started buying skins to even cover up the HTC Sense after awhile. Now that there is Jelly Bean there's no way I could go for another UI besides stock Android. B4 coming to this sane conclusion concerning Android UI, I did start buying Galaxy phones (Infuse/S2) because there was good skin covers to buy in the market that covered up the ugly TouchWiz. I hate TouchWiz/Blur etc as much as I hate Apple and I wish them ill will. If it were not for being able to download launchers like Nova Launcher, I'd never buy a Galaxy S+ phone. Although right now I have a Galaxy Nexus and I have no plans to ever buy anything but Nexus tablets/phones from here on out.
67. AndroidShiz (Posts: 154; Member since: 08 Nov 2011)
Look- the main thing that we need to remember is that "Apple sucks" that's it, keep it simple, get the bumper sticker and a t-shirt.
70. soelex (Posts: 1; Member since: 27 Aug 2012)
IRT " technical patents that could pose a problem", it isn't really, since the desired features can be reprogrammed via different implementation.
(a) The bounce-effect is already non-existence in newer Samsung phones. Replaced with blue highlight.
(b) Someone else commented that pinch-to-zoom can readily be replaced, i.e. sliders, +/- buttons, or if one is still inclined to use motion gestures, clockwise/counterclockwise.
(c) The double-tap zoom can also be changed to a button/icon or press-hold action.
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