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Don't be fooled by Staten Island's relative sleepiness in New York's entertainment scene — we've got some of the best musicians and musical offerings in the city, if you know where to look.
From jazz to classical and choral, the borough's wealth of players and institutions includes prominent musicians, composers and groups who perform on various stages, as well as informal music groups open to anyone who loves music.
- The Dorothy Delson Kuhn Music Institute, through the Bernikow Jewish Community Center in Sea View, offers private lessons in most band and orchestra instruments, as well as voice, piano and guitar for all ages. It offers courses in theory and musicianship, as well as early childhood music classes for ages 3-6. They have many ensembles, including a youth chamber.
To sign up for lessons or for more information, call Ela Seeley, Music Institute director, at 718-475-5263, or visit the Bernikow JCC at 1466 Manor Rd., Sea View.
- The Richmond Choral Society is an adult chorus directed by Marina Alexander, a professional choral director. Rehearsals are Monday evenings at 7:30 p.m. in the Noble Maritime Museum at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden in Livingston. To join, call the choral society at 718-448-3656.
For more information, visit richmondchoral.com. The Society also has a Facebook page.
- The Richmond County Orchestra is an open-membership group currently 65-85 members strong with five to 10 performances each year. The all-professional orchestra, which performs around the Island, offers educational outreach and student mentoring and provides free concert tickets to children and provides opportunities for young instrumentalists.
Founded in 1999, the orchestra attracts world-class soloists and musicians to perform and even composes original works.
Call the music director, Alan Aurelia, or executive Alice Bergeron at 718-876-7945. For more information, visit richmondcountyorchestra.org.
- Richmond County Pipes & Drums is a small, family-oriented bagpipe and drum band, serving the community since 1976. The band offers free piping and drumming lessons to students of all ages. Beginners are always welcome.
Practice is held every Thursday night in St. Alban's Episcopal Church, Eltingville. The band is also available for booking.
Call Kathy O'Keefe at 917-837-3272 or email email@example.com. For more information, visit richmondcountypipesanddrums.com.
- The Riverside Opera Company, which has been on Staten Island since 1996, stages productions across the Island throughout the year from its residence at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, Livingston.
Concerts and operas are staged and performed with costumes and full orchestra, and are either free or have a low admission fee. Children are always admitted free of charge. The company also provides opportunities for young singers.
For more information, call its artistic director, Alan Aurelia, at 212-729-4792, or visit riversideoperacompany.org.
- The South Shore Band, directed by James DeFrancesco, performs five to 10 concerts each year of traditional concert and marching band-style music — from show tunes, popular music and marches. The concerts usually are free and held in various parks throughout the borough.
New members of all ages and skill levels are welcome. Call the band's president, Tom Doty, at 718-948-0688 or visit southshoreband.org.
- The Staten Island Barbershop Chorus, which includes the performing group The Four Statens, now in its 65th year, welcomes amateur singers to hit the old tuning fork and launch into harmony and a cappella song. The group performs at churches, schools, veterans' associations and nursing homes throughout the area.
For information on weekly meetings, call Glenn Rocle at 718-494-8006.
- The Staten Island Community Band, the longest-running community band in New York City, which celebrates its 75 anniversary this year, performs a range of music, from Bach, to Basie and Broadway. Performances happen throughout the year in concert halls, nursing homes, places of worship and venues across the Island.
Rehearsals are on Wednesday evenings from 7:30 to 10 p.m. at Tottenville High School's Concert Hall. New members of all ages and skill levels are welcome.
Call Conductor David LaMorte at 718-668-8800, ext. 41302, or band president the Rev. Garry Squire at 718-356-1052.
- Viva Voce Chamber Ensemble brings classical music to audiences of all ages and backgrounds with lively programs complemented with commentary. Volunteers are always welcome to help behind the scenes.
Call Carolyn Clark 718-273-3250 or 917-545-8266, email email@example.com for more information.
- Staten Island Philharmonic offers up classical and contemporary music to the Island community with around eight concerts annually, playing locations from the St. George Theatre to the College of Staten Island.
Rehearsals start in early June; call 718-273-3250, or visit siphilharmonic.org for more information.
- Musical Chairs Chamber Ensemble performs between seven and 10 chamber music concerts annually, blending classical music with interesting contemporary options and even commissioned work.
Holding a residency at the Staten Island Museum in St. George since 2004, the group also performs at the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art on Lighthouse Hill, amongst other venues.
Musical Chairs has an informal usher program for high school students, and is always looking for volunteers and interns to help with mailings and programming, and to support its set of concerts that features musicians from all over the tri-state area.
For more information, call artistic director and founder Tamara Keshecki, 718-907-3488, or visit the group online at mcensemble.org.
- The Center for the Arts at the College of Staten Island in Willowbrook presents both local and national acts performing classical, jazz, folk, popular and world music acts in two large halls, the Concert Hall and the Williamson Theater, as well as a smaller Recital Hall. Call the box office at 718-982-ARTS (2787), or purchase tickets from its website at cfashows.com.
- Christ Episcopal Church, at 76 Franklin Ave., New Brighton. Call Valerie Quinlan at 718-273-3668 for more information, or visit the group online at SerenadeConcerts.org.
- The Conference House, at the end of Hylan Boulevard in Tottenville, is an important part of Staten Island history dating back to 1680.
Tours of the historic house are offered on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. There are also children's summer programs. For more information about other events or programs, call 718-984-6046, visit conferencehouse.org or email email@example.com.
- The Music at St. Alban's Concert Series has been bringing classical music to the South Shore for the past decade. Concerts are held in St. Alban's Episcopal Church, 76 St. Alban's Pl., Eltingville.
For more information, contact artistic director Kenneth Hamrick or managing director Rob Patterson at 718-984-7756, send an email to email@example.com, or visit the group's website at musicatsaintalbans.org.
- Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden in Livingston presents live entertainment throughout the year in its indoor venues, The Music Hall and Veterans Memorial Hall. Both venues host a range of attractions, including theater, concerts, recitals and special events.
In The Wings Productions, the Staten Island Children's Theater and the Harbor Lights Theater Company present their theatrical productions there throughout the year. The center's outdoor South Meadow Stage hosts large acts. They also offer programming in visual arts, performing arts, horticulture and agriculture.
Find out more by visiting snugharbor.org.
- The St. George Theatre, a baroque movie palace first opened in 1929, reopened in 2004 after it was shuttered for many years. The ornate performance hall has a host of world-class dance, musical, theatrical, vaudeville and film events on its schedule.
Call the theater at 718-442-2900 or visit StGeorgeTheatre.com or TicketMaster.com.
- Wagner College has ensembles devoted to various musical styles — a concert band, jazz ensemble, guitar ensemble and four choirs — all of which perform regularly throughout the year at the college, local churches and at Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Livingston.
Additionally, Wagner's opera workshop performs on the campus twice each year, while the music department occasionally hosts guest performers for recitals and lectures.
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Ex-Zynga Execs Raise $2.5M for Mobile Game Studio JuiceBox
A trio of former Zynga employees who started their own mobile gaming venture in 2012 called JuiceBox Games Inc. have raised $2.54 million in a priced seed round led by Initial Capital, the company told Venture Capital Dispatch.
The company's first game, "HonorBound," is now available for iOS, Android and Kindle mobile devices. The game asks players to build and train an army, fight battles against other players' squadrons, capture heroes and lead troops to victory. The game is rated "low-maturity."
Overall, JuiceBox wants to make what it calls "mid-core games with a soul" that can be played on tablets and smartphones, says Chief Executive Michael Martinez, typically by male gamers from ages 18 to 34.
The company is making straightforward free-to-play mobile games that generate revenue through in-app purchases only.
JuiceBox's games do not take advantage of sensors in mobile devices that can allow for location-aware game features, for example, or screen tilting and other more physical uses of a tablet or phone for game play. Such features, Mr. Martinez said, can be "fun to play the first time but not the 10,000th time."
JuiceBox, which currently has 19 full-time employees in San Francisco, closed its seed funding round in mid-2013, before the company had completed and made any of their games available.
Mr. Martinez was previously a senior product manager at Zynga best known for his work on Zynga Poker and Farmville. His co-founders are Chief Technology Officer Jason McGuirk and Zak Pytlak, a former Zynga engineer and art director, respectively.
Joining Initial Capital in the seed round were General Catalyst, Index Ventures and Maveron, as well as individual angel investors Scott Dale (a former vice president of engineering at Zynga), and former Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello.
Kristian Segerstrale, founder and CEO of Playfish and former Supercell board member, joined the board of JuiceBox with his fund's investment.
The investor told Venture Capital Dispatch he expects JuiceBox to use its remaining capital to develop its second and third mobile game titles while "staying true to [their] passions."
In other words, if kids' games or text-based games are topping the app store charts, he doesn't expect or want JuiceBox to shift their focus away from "mid-core" games that feature "immersive" worlds, "beautiful" art and characters, or to stop serving the demographic they know best (male gamers 18-34).
Mr. Segerstrale said, "What they need to do overall, and what any company needs to do now in the marketplace, is create games that are unique, iconic and differentiated compared to everything else out there."
He also said JuiceBox and other mobile game makers need to learn from successful PC or Web-based games of the past to be "patient about monetization."
He believes that too many mobile games in the market today prompt players to buy something right away, or set up "gates" that bar them from advancing unless they buy virtual goods or currency.
To that end, Mr. Martinez said, JuiceBox will always give free game players a way to advance to the top levels (and game victories) without making in-app purchases.
"We want to make games that respect the players. That means recognizing our free players, who may compete against each other or other paying players, are contributing to a full ecosystem, and the overall fun of the game," he said.
The CEO also said the company plans to use a good portion of its seed funding to continue to "localize" its game for players in Europe and Asia. The game will soon be available in French, Italian, German and Spanish, and will be available in Asian markets, starting in Japan, by the third quarter of 2014.
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By MANYA NELSON
We visited in October to photograph some of the old ship graveyards we had seen on the Internet site, Opacity. We arrived via public transportation.
Here is a thank-you to all of the people whose names I remembered and to all who helped us anonymously:
Bill Murphy, the gifted artist who kindly shared his knowledge.
The bus driver who got us off at the right stop.
Danuta, the lovely owner of the cozy Victorian B&B who gave us a ride.
Her friend Joan drove us to Bruno's Restaurant the first night and picked us up after the incredible meal.
Vince and Fran from Star Supply, who upon hearing about our quest, suggested we get a rental car. Fran called her mechanic who hooked us up with Hertz. Their service and the ladies' charm is amazing.
We found a marshy area where could get a good view but not close. Enter Tony, our hero, who allowed us access through his backyard. Because of him we found the most amazing sight, a quiet place, got close to the ships. A dream came true.
Jonathan from The Tuscan Sun, for your stories, enthusiasm, awesome food and service.
We are full of appreciation for Staten Island and the people.


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5/15: Indians at Rays
Tonight's 7:38 p.m. ET game at Tropicana Field will be broadcast on WTAM and STO. Once again, it's Peralta at third, Cabrera at short and DeRosa at first, with Garko bumping Ben Francisco.
INDIANS (14-22): CF Grady Sizemore, SS Asdrubal Cabrera, C Victor Martinez, RF Shin-Soo Choo, 3B Jhonny Peralta, 1B Mark DeRosa, DH Ryan Garko, LF Matt LaPorta, 2B Jamey Carroll. RHP Anthony Reyes (1-1, 7.20).
RAYS (16-20): CF B.J. Upton, LF Carl Crawford, 3B Evan Longoria, 1B Carlos Pena, DH Willy Aybar, RF Gabe Gross, 2B Akinori Iwamura, SS Jason Bartlett, C Dioner Navarro. LHP Scott Kazmir (4-3, 5.92).
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So…we're going to play musical 2nd basemen from here on out?
. . . more like musical defense
I am surprised that Wedge put Jhonny back at third for the 2nd day in a row. I actually like this lineup, he has Garko in their, but i would rather have Luis at Second.
Platoon plain and simple, lefty pitcher, righties like Jamey and Ryan get their chance.
We are victim of the hype and often grasp for the golden ring on impulse, if not faith. From what I have seen, young LaPorta has the stuff of a star major leaguer, but it could be too soon. With each game, he will realize that he does belong here; he has as much as Ben Francisco has to offer, maybe more! And, Ben is not bad! You can play this game any way you want to, but you have to play to win. Offensively, we deserved a win; our pitching thought otherwise. Go tribe!
Stop this. Put DeRosa on 2nd and leave him there. This is a mess that's being made messier by management. So now, when Victor plays first, what happens? Do we leave Valbuena or Carroll at 2nd and lose DeRosa's bat, or move DeRosa to 2nd where he won't have been playing? Or do we DH DeRosa and lose Garko, Choo, or Francisco at the plate? The answer is soooo simple. 1B- Garko, 2B, DeRosa, SS – Cabrera, 3B- Peralta, LF – LaPorta or Delucci (platoon, maybe?), CF – Grady, RF- Choo, C – Victor, DH- Shoppach. This is your everyday lineup. Then when Victor plays first, you DH Garko and catch Shoppach. Obviously, Pronk will DH when he heals up. Carroll can be the prime utility guy. Send Valbuena down the road, call up Barfield, quit fooling around with the infield, and start trying to find middle relief. (I hear Tony Graffanino's available – maybe he can play first, too!!)


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2010 USC opponent preview: Arizona State
Can USC sweep its three-game midseason homestand? Is ASU a potential trap game? Answers to those questions and more can be found in this here post.
Foe: Arizona State
When: Saturday, Nov. 6, 7:30 p.m. PT
Where: The Coliseum
TV: Fox Sports Net
Last meeting: USC 14, Arizona State 9, on Nov. 7, 2009, in Tempe, Ariz.
Fun fact: Subtract Matt Barkley's 75-yard touchdown pass to Damian Williams -- which was almost entirely Williams' doing -- and the then-freshman quarterback was just 6 of 21 for 37 yards against ASU last season.
Sun Devil to watch: Vontaze Burfict (above left) sure would look good in a USC uniform right about now, wouldn't he? The sophomore linebacker, whom USC was this close to landing, made his presence felt in the conference last season, earning Pac-10 Freshman of the Year accolades. Starting the final nine games at middle linebacker, the 6-3, 245-pound Burfict finished with 69 tackles, seven stops for loss, five pass breakups, two sacks, two forced fumbles and two fumble recoveries.
Cause for concern: This game has major letdown potential for the Trojans if, as predicted, USC defeats Oregon the previous week. In that case, it could be another ugly, low-scoring affair like last season's, which the Sun Devils easily could have won (if they had any semblance of an offense, that is).
What they're saying: "While it's not quite do-or-die time in the desert, Dennis Erickson might want to keep the governor on speed dial just in case. ... After beginning his Sun Devil career 8-0, Erickson has slumped to an 11-18 mark, creating a great deal of anxiety around Tempe. The savior for a brief period of time, many have begun wondering if the coach still has what it takes to turn things around. Last year's eight losses were the most by the school since 1994, a tipping point that's going to make 2010 a crossroads year at Arizona State." -- CollegeFootballNews.com
Lev's look: It wouldn't surprise me if this is another defensive slugfest. But I fully expect Barkley to perform better than a year ago, and that'll be the difference. ASU's defense is legit, but its offense -- featuring a new system and several new starters, including at quarterback -- is a work in progress. And that's putting it kindly.
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When his team was the last remaining unbeaten club in the NBA after an 8-0 start, New Orleans Hornets Coach Monty Williams reminded his players to not look back on their past success.
At some point, Williams said, setbacks are going to happen.
He just didn't expect to see it Monday night against the Los Angeles Clippers, who entered the game with the league's worst record at 1-13 and on a nine-game losing streak.
After the Hornets' 99-95 loss at the Staples Center, Williams said his team was manhandled by the Clippers in the post and lacked a sense of urgency.
To make matters more puzzling, the Hornets had beaten the Clippers by 19 points just 13 days earlier at the New Orleans Arena. The Hornets were tied with San Antonio for the league's best record at 11-1, but New Orleans now trail the Spurs (12-1) by a game in the Southwest Division.
"The one thing I will say is that for two games now, physically, teams are trying to take it to us in the paint,'' Williams said. "We can't allow teams to throw us around. They (Clippers) have some big physical guys, but so do we.''
It was only the Hornets' second loss. The Dallas Mavericks pulled out a 98-95 victory Nov. 15 at the American Airlines Center.
The Clippers outscored New Orleans 50-40 in the lane and shot 50.7 percent, equaling the highest shooting percentage allowed by the Hornets since a 99-97 victory against Dallas last week at the Arena.
Los Angeles rookie forward Blake Griffin easily got post position against Hornets center Emeka Okafor and forward David West and scored 24 points. Guard Eric Gordon led the Clippers with 27 points.
In their past three games, the Hornets had shown brief signs of slippage from earlier this month when they emerged as the league's surprise team. In New Orleans' 75-71 victory at Sacramento on Sunday, the Hornets shot a season-low 32.2 percent from the field.
In New Orleans' 108-101 victory against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Friday at the Arena, the Hornets allowed 100 points for the first time and a season-high 33 points in the fourth quarter.
And now, in the first two games of their four-game trip, New Orleans has shot only 39.4 percent.
"We've just got to get back on the same page and start getting easy baskets,'' forward Trevor Ariza said. "We're out of sync a little bit, but it's nothing too big. But I hate to lose.''
After seeing breakdowns against the Clippers, point guard Chris Paul said the Hornets will work on improving their defensive play.
"We're starting to make up stuff on our own and not sticking to our principles,'' Paul said. "We're making mistakes, even during our winning streak, and it finally caught up with us. We haven't played a perfect game yet.''
Despite averaging 16.6 points for the season, Paul made only seven of 24 shots in the past two games. He scored 12 points in the first quarter against the Clippers but didn't score again until 4:41 remained in the game. He finished with 14 points.
New Orleans now moves into a tougher stretch of its schedule, starting tonight at Utah (10-5). On Friday night, the Hornets conclude their trip at Portland before returning home to face the Spurs on Sunday afternoon.
The Jazz, who have won eight of its past 10 games, has had six fourth-quarter comebacks this season. Utah is led by point guard Deron Williams, who is averaging 21.6 points. Louisiana native Paul Millsap, who plays power forward, has been vital with his rebounding and inside scoring.
Eight of the Hornets' victories have came against teams that made the playoffs last season. New Orleans defeated the Trail Blazers 107-87 on Nov. 13 at the Arena.
"We're going to have to protect the paint better,'' Hornets guard Willie Green said. "When you go to Utah, you know they are going to play hard defensively and execute their offense. We have to bounce back from this game because we're going into a tough environment.''
Williams might tinker with his rotation to include newly acquired center David Andersen and guard Marcus Banks, who are expected to join the team before tonight's game.
Backup point guard Jarrett Jack joined the Hornets before Monday night's game and scored 12 points and had four assists in 16 minutes.
Jack, Andersen and Banks were acquired Saturday in a trade with the Toronto Raptors for forward Peja Stojakovic and guard Jerryd Bayless.
"I was just trying to go out there and be aggressive and feel my way through the process,'' Jack said. "I thought I did OK out there.''
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Kat's Southwest Chicken Salad
Kathleen Hagood
My husband and I love spicy foods, so I made up a chicken salad recipe that really pushes the envelope on Southwest flavors! It's such a great change from the traditional chicken salad sandwich.
Blue Ribbon Recipe
- 1 large
- chicken breast, chopped (smoked, bone-in with skin on); remove skin and bone before chopping
- 1/2 c
- onion, chopped
- 1/3 c
- red bell pepper, chopped
- 1/2 c
- fresh cilantro, pulled from stem then chopped
- 1/8 c
- canned black olives, chopped
- 2
- pickled jalapeno peppers, chopped
- 1
- canned chipotle pepper in adobe sauce, chopped ( kat uses two.)
- 1/4 tsp
- ground cumin powder
- salt and pepper, to taste
- 3/4 c
- mayonnaise (more if needed, to moisten the above ingredients)
- cheddar jalapeno bread or hard sandwich rolls for eight sandwiches
- garlic powder
- cooking spray
- peach slices, pineapple slices, or avocado
Directions Step-By-Step
1Combine all chicken salad ingredients in bowl and mix well. This is a very hot and spicy recipe, but you can reduce the chipotle and jalapeno pepper if you wish. (The pickled jalapeno gives the chicken salad a little of the tartness that we expect with dill pickles in a traditional chicken salad.)
2Once mixed, sprinkle garlic powder on the bread or rolls, spray with cooking spray and then toast under the broiler.
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Course/Dish: Chicken, Sandwiches, Salads
Main Ingredient: Chicken
Regional Style: American
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- Before you start download and install this file QPST 2.7 Build 366.
- Next download this file and unzip it, saving it somewhere you can find it.
- Connect your phone to your computer and make sure you have USB debugging turned on. Settings->Applications->Development->USB debugging is ENABLED on your Orange Monte Carlo. (You will need your normal SIM in for this, otherwise you see the screen 'Enter Network Unlock PIN message).
- Go into 'Preparation' folder (in your unzipped files) and run "Install-recovery=windows.bat". You should see your phone reboot.
- Remove the phone battery and disconnect the USB.
- Now you are going to reconnect the phone via the USB, but when you reconnect your phone, make sure you're holding the volume down button – do not let go of this until you see the black screen, with a white box and 'FTM' on it.
- In the start menu on your computer, go to 'All programs' and find your previously installed QPST file. Expand the file and select "Software Download".
- In the tabs along the top of this software, you will see 'Backup' click this and choose where to save your backup file – "QCN" file.
- If you can't see your phone on there (as in the video) Go back to the Start menu, and select "QPST Configuration" and click add port – and the you should be able to see a port with your phone there. Exit this and go back to the Software download part of the program.
- Go back to the 'Backup' tab and select your phone. Then hit 'Start'.
- Before continuing, go to the folder you've just saved your QCN file in and make sure that the file size is not 0, if it is, you need to repeat step 10 again.
- Close the QPST software now.
- From your unzipped files, now select the "Unlock"folder and run download.exe file.
- Then to unlock your phone, press the "Start"button.
- Wait for the process to be 100/100 – and you will get a completed message.
- Go to the start menu and again open the QPST 'Software Download'utility, click the 'Restore'tab. Now Browse to find the QCN file you saved earlier and restore it.
- Finally, remove your USB cable, put the battery back in and your giffgaff SIM card, and your phone is unlocked.
Apply giffgaff settings to Orange Monte Carlo
Next step is to apply your settings:
Click the Settings icon.
Select 'Wireless and Networks'
Select 'Mobile Networks'
Select Áccess Point Names'
If a giffgaff APN already exists hit 'menu' and 'delete''
Otherwise hit 'menu' then 'New APN'
Enter the following details into the relevant screen
Name: giffgaff
APN: giffgaff.com
Username: giffgaff
Password: password
MMNC: http://mmsc.mediamessaging.co.uk:8002
MMS Proxy: 18.104.22.168
MMS Port: 8080
Then press the 'Menu' key again and 'Save'
If you can see the giffgaff APN in the list – press the radio button next to it/
Otherwise turn your phone off, and back on, and you should see the giffgaff APN with the details you entered previously.
I have installed google chrome and now both links worked I unzipped the file and opened the preperation folder with my phone attached and ran install-recovery-window, it just says waiting for device. Getting this phone unlocked is a truly painful experience.
Well my HTC Desire decided to pack up again (it's my 3rd one from warranty) so I'd decided I'd had enough. I bought this phone to keep me going for a bit as it was cheap in Argos. Unlock was a bit scary but worked fine. Rooting was nice and easy. Just copy a file onto SD then boot up holding a couple of buttons. Running Atomic rom with a 200mb partition and it's great. I wasn't really keen on getting a large screen phone but now I don't know how I did without. Overclocked it to 940Mhz and haven't really noticed any lags compared to my Desire. If I had to find a fault I'd say the screen gets dirty easily but that's about it. Also got my 64GB sdxc card in it that works fine. It's a lot of phone for the money, makes me regret getting my wife a Wildfire even more!
Worked a treat! Thanks.
waiting for device problem - same here, 'phone did not reboot. However, I carried on with the process and it worked anyway. It might have something to do with the computer not seeing the 'phone. Once I got it into FTM mode (step 6 - don't put the battery back in!) I had to do step 9 as the computer did not 'see' my phone - I had to add it. Good luck!
I bought an Orange Monte Carlo from Argos just after Christmas for just £89.99
I've unlocked it, Rooted it and de-Oranged it:
How to permanently Root the Orange Monte Carlo:
How to unlock the Orange Monte Carlo for free:
How to remove Orange software / bloatware from your Monte Carlo:
Hope this info helps.
thanks for the instruction worked perfectly and now the unlock phone has more feature and internet from giffgaff i could use but thanks
from sincerely
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Thanks for the instruction worked perfectly and now the unlock phone has more feature and Internet from giffgaff I could use but Thanks
from sincerely
a member of community
I don't see my phone reboot.
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22nd June 2008, 08:24 AM
so of the out of the current wave line, I suppose the evo is a little bit more suitable to onshore conditions correct? anyway, I was thinking about how the flare has been developed with a different angle on the front footstraps to allow easier switch stance ridding. why nit apply this concept into onshore wave shapes to allow for an easier onshore bottom turn. I think it would work well to have two different footstrap angle options on the board, so that onshore would work better, but if you ever get side shore you can change them back for normal ridding.
what you guys think?
what you guys think?


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Idaho woman hits two big lottery jackpots in 2011
BOISE (AP) -- Lottery officials say a southern Idaho woman has won $250,000 twice in the past year playing scratch games at the same convenience store in Twin Falls.
Cindy Ragains is a regular customer at the Oasis Stop 'n Go where she claimed her first quarter-of-a million dollar prize in February on a scratch ticket. Ragains was then stunned last week when she won another $250,000 while playing a different scratch game.
Ragains says she plans to use the money to pay off debts and then invest the rest.
The Idaho Lottery confirms that with her most recent win, Ragains has claimed the last top prize for the Mega Fortune scratch game, which has now ended.
Washington woman gets only a year in jail for pimping young girls
KENNEWICK, Wash. (AP) -- A Kennewick woman who forced underage girls to have sex with men has been sentenced to one year in jail -- an exceptionally low sentence for the felony charges.
The Tri-City Herald reports that 20-year-old Melissa Marie Salsbury and her husband recruited girls, ages 17 and 18, to work as dancers. But once under her command, she would rent hotel rooms and force the girls to have sex with paying customers.
Detectives found out about her operation when one of the girls sought help from a school counselor.
Standard sentence range for her crime is seven and 10 years in prison.
But Benton County Judge Craig Matheson granted the exceptional sentence on Wednesday after finding "substantial and compelling reasons exist" to justify it, including that Salsbury had been similarly exploited when she was younger.
Washington tugboat captain dies in Mexico after beating
BREMERTON, Wash. (AP) -- A Bainbridge Island tugboat captain from Washington state has died from injuries suffered during a Christmas day beating in Mexico.
The Kitsap Sun reports that 46-year-old Patrick Warga died Tuesday in a San Diego hospital.
Warga was in Tampico, Mexico, for his job with Foss Maritime. He and a shipmate attended a Christmas Eve service at a church in town and then opted to spend the night at a hotel because it was unsafe for them to return to the shipyard after dark.
On Christmas morning, before returning to the ship, Warga went out for a cup of tea. That's when he was robbed and attacked.
Warga is survived by his wife and their three children.
Prosecutors sought alcohol car lock for Veneta man before he died in Christmas crash
SPRINGFIELD (AP) -- Lane County prosecutors had been seeking to install an alcohol interlock device on the car of a Veneta man before he crashed the vehicle on Christmas night, killing himself and seriously injuring three others.
The Eugene Register-Guard reports that 22-year-old Jonathan Arthur Golz had been arrested four days before the wrong way crash for failing to appear at a Dec. 1 court hearing on a Lane County District Attorney's Office motion to require the driving lock device on his car.
Such systems lock a vehicle's ignition system until drivers exhale into a blood-alcohol concentration analyzer to show that they are not drunk.
Court records show Springfield police transported Golz to the Lane County Jail after arresting him Dec. 21, but he was released Dec. 22 after signing an agreement to appear at a Jan. 10 hearing.
For more Northwest news, go to oregonlive.com/northwest and The Oregonian News Network.
-- The Oregonian


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What was that again? What did you say?
Yes, that was the best idea Jamestown City Council President Gregory Rabb came up with when asked what he would suggest to improve tourism in the city if budget limitations and other barriers were removed.
Rabb came up with that marketing idea initially after New York legislators voted to legalize gay marriage last June. We got it then, we understood what he meant - Jamestown is easily accessible to gay couples driving in from the west and we should capitalize on that.
But, really, what was a trendy comment a year ago is worn out and disappointing in a serious discussion today of what truly are possible improvements if only we had the money.
We got it, too, that Rabb is a long-time advocate for gay rights. You do not have to agree with him to acknowledge his consistency and persistence in the cause for which he so resolutely stands.
But he is a councilman at large and in the final analysis, we expect Rabb to have the best interests of the city as a whole in mind. Sticking to a one-issue tourism development agenda does not reach that goal. And it is especially a waste of time and opportunity given the controversy surrounding same-sex marriage.
We all know that there just is no way on earth that people in the city would ever agree to market Jamestown as the gay-marriage capital of New York.
If that is all Councilman Rabb talks about in terms of tourism, it is tantamount to taking himself out of the discussion.
What a wasted opportunity.


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More than a dozen reputed gang members were arrested and a significant amount of cash, drugs and weapons seized during a series of raids early today throughout northern New Jersey.
Brothers Joel and Sadiel Gonzalez of Elizabeth, both heroin dealers and members of the Bloods gang were the main targets of the investigation, a joint operation between the Union County Prosecutor's Office and the FBI's Safe Street Gang Task Force, said Prosecutor Theodore Romankow this afternoon at a press conference in Elizabeth.
The long-term investigation dubbed "Operation Bloodine" traced an elaborate heroin distribution ring that primarily sold "brick" packages of the drugs to gang members in Elizabeth, Newark and Jersey City, Romankow said. It is estimated that the operation sold between one-half to one kilogram per week.
A total of 13 people were arrested, including seven verified members of the Bloods and a member of the Latin Kings, said Romankow. Most were charged with 1st degree racketeering and 2nd degree conspiracy to distribute drugs. Bail ranges between $500,000 and $5 million for the suspects.
The Gonzalez brothers would purchase the drugs wholesale, then transport the heroin to 13 Esther Street in Newark, a place they referred to as "the cave," where the drugs would be repackaged for street-level distribution, according to investigators.
After repackaging and diluting the heroin with lactose, the brothers were able to reap between $42,500 to $78,500 per week in profit, said Romankow.
"By taking these gang members and their poison off the streets, the dedicated officers and detectives who worked on this case have not only made neighborhoods safer, but also increased the quality of life for countless residents," said Romankow.
Romankow was joined at the news conference by New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram, FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Aaron T. Ford, Jose Cordero, the statewide director of gangs, guns, and violent crime control strategies, Essex County Prosecutor Paula T. Dow and representatives from the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office and a variety of municipal police departments.
The agencies that participated in the investigation were: the FBI, the Union County Prosecutor's Office, the Essex County Prosecutor's Office, the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office, the Newark Police Department, the NJ State Parole Board, the Elizabeth Police Department, Kenilworth Police Department, Linden Police Department, Roselle Park Police Department, Scotch Plains Police Department, Springfield Police Department, New Providence Police Department and the Union County Police Department.


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Korean War veteran scarred by experience
A Certificate of Appreciation from the United States Secretary of Defense and a lifetime membership certificate from the Korea Veterans Association of Canada are proud mementos that Curtis Faulkner of Valley hangs onto from his participation in the Korean War. HARRY SULLIVAN - TRURO DAILY NEWS
VALLEY - Growing up in Truro during the 1940s in close proximity to the Debert army base, Curtis Faulkner became fascinated at an early age with all things military.
He loved war movies, playing 'war' with his buddies and watching the Debert soldiers coming through town in their snappy uniforms. And seeing tanks and other military vehicles rolling along never failed to generate excitement.
"That's for me, that's for me," the Valley resident, now 81, recalls thinking of those long-ago days. "As a boy, I wanted to get into the military."
After the Korean War began in 1950, Faulkner learned that a couple of his buddies had volunteered with the Canadian Army Special Force.
Faulkner was 20 years old and working as a farm hand at the time, when his boyhood friend Leslie Fielding came home on leave from basic training in British Columbia.
"'I'm in Chilliwack. What a great place,'" Faulkner recalls his buddy telling him.
Having been born in Trenton and raised in Truro, that was the extent of Faulkner's travels at the time and with a strong sense of adventure overcoming all other thought, Faulkner decided to follow in his buddy's footsteps.
"Oh boy, that sounded great to me," he said, during a recent interview. "I had never been out of Truro in my life. So that night I said to mom that in the morning I'm going to Halifax to join the military."
"'What?'" she replied.
"I said, 'yep.'"
By the time he was ready to head off for his basic training, Fielding had already shipped off to Korea. And on the very day Faulkner was leaving for B.C., the reality of what he was about to face began to take shape.
"On the way out, getting on the train, my mother told me: 'Curtis,' she said, 'Leslie just got killed (during battle in Kapyong, South Korea)."
Faulkner, however, was too full of the prospects of adventure to fully appreciate the news.
"Never gave me a thought at all," he said. "I felt bad because he was my friend. And, a good friend. And that's all I was thinking."
After six month's of training in B.C. Faulkner was shipped off to Korea but it was not until he actually became embroiled in the effort himself that he began to see the war for the horror that it truly was.
"(After) the first three months, I didn't want to go back again," he said. "Once I seen things, different atrocities."
Now, some 60 years later, Faulkner still has no desire to speak of those 'atrocities.' And the little he does reveal barely touches on the scenes that that have scarred his mind.
"Little kids starving. And I mean little kids, like three and four years old, begging you for something to eat while you was stopped on the side of the road having your meal of C-rations, which was in a can. And we were eating there and they seemed to pop out of the sky. And they'd come up and you'd give them something to eat. You hated to ... we'd just load up and go and leave them," he said. "Their snotty noses and them shivering and cold and everything like that."
Overall, the conditions were "wet and miserable," he said. Beyond the heat and humidity, they had to deal with "all kinds of insects, rats everywhere..., mortar shells exploding around them, rifle fire and long lines of refugees seeking safety.
"I never seen a female for six months," he said, with the exception of those displaced from their homes.
"And the poor things shuffling along like they was in a different world. Things like that "pop up in my head ...," he said, pausing for a moment to reflect on the memory. "My god, what is this world made of?"
After a year in Korea, Faulkner returned home with absolutely no desire to go to war again.
"No, I didn't want to go back. I grew up very fast in the first few months," he said. "I'm not the same person I was ... it has changed me in different ways. It's made me more of a hardened person."
One thing that Faulkner always fully believed in and, which has not wavered in the decades since, however, is that Canada played an important role in joining other United Nations members in defending South Korea against its communist, aggressor sister, North Korea.
"I was proud every day of my military life and Canada being there," he said. "When we came back and landed in Seattle, Washington, I was very proud to be standing on the railing of that ship when we came in and the band's were playing. I was really proud.
"But, what I was disappointed in, once we crossed that border into Canada, we was on a troop train of soldiers ... and we were dispersed in different places coming across Canada ... They never knew who the hell we were."
Although the American government has recognized Canadian soldiers for their efforts in the Korean War, no official recognition has come from the Canadian government.
Even other veterans and the public at large have never seemed to fully grasp the sacrifices that were made, he said. And to this day, Faulkner still wonders why.
"I can't answer that ... I don't know."
Faulkner Facts:
Name: Curtis Faulkner
Age: 81
Hometown: Born in Trenton raised in Truro
Wife: Lillian
Adult children: (all grown) Stephen, Mary Dempsey, Cheryl Frizzell and Brenda Dehaan.
Served for a year in the Korea War with the Royal Canadian Engineers of the Canadian Army Special Force.
Biggest letdown after returning home from Korean War: "We just come home and nobody seemed to know what was going on. Never knew about the Korean War. It was something that wasn't even going on."


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The following is a behind the scenes look into the conversation between Minerva McGonagall and Hermione Granger in the 3rd book – Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban
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'Very well. Kindly wait outside while I have a quick word with Miss Granger about her timetable, then we can go down to the feast together.'
Harry went back into the corridor with Madam Pomfrey , who left for the hospital wing, muttering to herself.
"Kindly take a seat here, miss Granger" McGonagall said warmly, gesturing to an ornately carved armchair by the low burning fire in the corner of the office.
"I've seen your application to all the subjects offered to third years, Miss Granger."
"I know it seems crazy professor," Hermione interrupted, but was hushed into silence with a wave of McGonagall's hand. "Miss Granger, I just wanted to say that I'm extremely proud of your achievements at Hogwarts so far. You remind me of myself when I was a student, always ready to take up extra work no matter what the cost on time."


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MUSKEGON — The cause of an apartment fire inside a downtown Muskegon housing structure Friday remains under investigation, but so far arson hasn't been ruled out, a fire official said.
The investigation is ongoing, said the city's Fire Marshal Major Metcalf, into what caused the 4:45 p.m. fire inside an apartment on the 11th floor of Jefferson Towers, 1077 Jefferson.
So far the investigation has revealed that the fire started in a recliner inside Apartment 1117, Metcalf said.
"It's under investigation," he said of the cause. "We are investigating the possibility that it may have been arson from evidence that was found."
Metcalf said the male occupant who lives in the apartment where the fire started alerted at least one neighbor to the blaze.
"He ran down the hall and alerted her. She called 911. (The occupant) then went back to the apartment for some reason," Metcalf said.
The man was discovered near the doorway of his apartment when firefighters got there, Metcalf said. He was taken out of the building and to a local hospital where he was treated for smoke inhalation, Metcalf said.
Metcalf said the blaze forced some of the Jefferson Towers residents from their apartments temporarily, but most were back to their apartments soon after the incident.
"A lot of folks were able to go back to the apartments right away," Metcalf said. "Firefighters were very lucky that the fire started in an end apartment. It was much easier to contain."
The heat from the blaze coming from Apartment 1117 caused the apartment's sprinkler system to be set off, resulting in water damage down to the fifth floor, Metcalf said.
Metcalf estimates that the fire caused about $18,000 in damage.
Jefferson Towers is a subsidized high-rise apartment building for senior citizens, according to the building's site manager Deb Wells
Wells said since the fire, "everyone is doing great."
"We are back in shape. No one else was taken to the hospital," Wells said.


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First off, thanks for the positive comments on my last TR. I didn't want to respond just to say thanks, but they're appreciated! This one is kinda long and a bit inconsistent in terms of content, but hopefully it will have a little something for everyone and just ignore the bits you don't care about.
Business once again took me to a land far away -- this time Singapore. My first transpac (other than Bali in 1995) so I was pretty excited. Right to it, then.
1 April 2006
Seat: 12H (upper deck window)
Dep 11am local, Arr 3pm local
As usual, Caltrain to BART, painless check-in, painless security. From the Red Carpet Club I went to G97 and got straight on board. Settled in, and stayed in my seat this time, not wanting to make a bad impression on my cabin crew by missing the distribution of menus like I did the last time I flew UA C (shameless link to previous TR). Got my menu:
Didn't like that line about "secure the Obento," since I hadn't known it was likely to be unavailable to anyone who wanted it, and I was definitely hoping to get it – I've seen it in trip reports, and on airlinemeals, and in menus on flyertalk, but never knew you could order it ahead of time. Uh-oh. Being only Premier Exec, I doubted I had much status in the C cabin of SFO-NRT, and sure enough, our tall young female Asian flight attendant bounced all over the cabin taking orders before getting to my neighbor ("I'll have the beef") and then me. "The Obento?" "Oh, so sorry, there are none left." I have this aversion to chicken on airplanes, so I defaulted to the filet mignon, it was OK last time I flew out of SFO on UA. And next time, whether I'm 1K by then or not (seems likely the way things are going), I'll make sure to "secure the Obento."
The amenity kit had exactly the same contents as on the trans-Atlantic flights reported by me and others, but in a different container -- a drawstring bag that's probably more practical. There were also slippers.
We pushed sometime after the ANA 777 that was adjacent to us and headed, obviously, to the same place, and as we started taxi, passed the SQ 777 that had just arrived from ICN. Fun to think that this bird and I would be in the same place in "just a few" hours. Grabbed a picture through my rainy window, then more of a wide variety of Skywest aircraft as we taxied out to the 28's.
Takeoff was on 28R, and we flew to the coast, then turned right on the MOLEN3 departure -- turned out our entire filed route was:
Which looks something like this:
The weather had cleared up a bit by then, and there was a bit of a view of the Golden Gate and then the coast was visible all the way up until we were too far west to see it any more.
Hot nuts came out, which I had with champagne (they had the Hide 'n' Seek Monopole Blue Top on all the flights on this trip), and food soon thereafter. I don't remember too much about the starter except that it was better than I'd expected, maybe it even had some items that hadn't been listed on the menu. The main, though, was pretty disappointing, even without great expectations. The bacon wrapping the meat was awful, so I risked the fate of the two Portuguese Jews in Candide and tossed it aside. The green beans didn't live up to billing, and the meat started out OK, but at some point with about 1/3 left I realized the remaining bit was all badly overcooked, dried out with no flavor, and I just stopped eating it. Should have tried that chicken, which sounds pretty good now sitting in my living room. There was red wine, but I have a tough time remembering the UA red wines for some reason, so I'm not sure which one my whim drew me to. After cheese and port, with the darkened cabin and my LAN eyeshades, I had no trouble drifting into sleep even though it was only about 2pm in my home/departing time zone.
Woke up mid-flight, we were somewhere over the Aleutians. Did my little walk down the steps and back up a few times, and grabbed a bowl of the instant noodle soup. It was surprisingly good – had expected something like the versions I can buy in Asian markets and sometimes take for breakfasts when camping, but this had a lot more interesting flavor and ingredients.
Tried to sleep more, but already having slept in "afternoon" kept me from getting much, probably a good thing going west. Goofed around on my laptop and watched our progress on skymap. Eventually they came with the second meal, and I was surprisingly hungry, and as usual late in a long flight, craved hot food, so I got the "pasta trio." This was a huge amount of food (I've seen it listed as a dinner main course on UA C-class trans-Atlantic menus), with cannelloni on one side, stuffed shells on the other, and tortellini in the middle, all stuffed with ricotta and covered in marinara, with some pesto drizzled over the middle only. Not exactly cutting-edge cuisine, but this would have been my favorite restaurant meal when I was about 9 years old, and somehow I got mesmerized into eating way too much of it.
Service on this flight seemed better than the last time I was in C on UA, although the magic water glass didn't seem quite as consistent, but I might have just been awake more. We had two flight attendants, the aforementioned tall young Asian woman and an older, shorter white man, and I thought they were both pretty good. The woman was a bit robotic, the guy was friendly in a restrained way. All in all, no complaints whatsoever.
About 90 minutes out, it got pretty bumpy, and was that way on and off for the rest of the flight. As we approached Tokyo, channel 9 was (back?) on, and other aircraft on approach with us were UA801 (777 from JFK), NH202 (744 from LHR), CX520 (330 from HKG), Air Japan 1051 (763 from HNL) and some KAL plane. We got vectors to the west flying north of the airport for a left base to 16R. I had my camera out trying to get some pictures as we turned for a long final but nothing seemed worthy, and then when the aircraft in front of us (I think the Air Japan) reported "bumpy and gusty" on short final to the tower, I put it away and assumed a more balanced posture, so I didn't get any on landing either. We landed on 16R, exited on A8, and taxied to gate 37. As we taxied in, I saw two UA trucks coming to service us, one in the old grey, the other in the new white, and the latter looked very sharp.
After landing I passed through the security (love the uniforms they wear, and how polite they are!) and then went to the Red Carpet Club. Couldn't get any coverage on my mobile phone, and the wireless internet was pretty flaky. Took a shower, had some tea (I found that the bag with the green wrapper makes green tea and the one with the orange wrapper makes orange tea), and used the famous beer machine, even though I wasn't really sure I wanted a beer (but it was pretty good, was glad I did).
Soon enough, it was time to go board. Walked to gate 44, and straight onto the plane.
2 April 2006
Seat: 15D
Dep 1730 local, Arr 2330 local
My seat was an aisle on the left of the middle section of 3, very last row of C. Looked for a while like I might have an empty seat next to me, but he got there eventually, one of the last to board. There were no amenity kits, but they came around with a big basket offering anything we might want from the normal contents of the kit, which was nothing for me.
We pushed, taxied past a bunch of other UA aircraft and several NWA, out to runway 16R. Channel 9 was disabled this time. Our cabin crew were Tokyo-based, all Asian (as far as I could tell), and made announcements in English, Japanese, and Mandarin.
Route of flight seemed to be:
Which looks something like this:
Dinner choices were all Asian, and for a change all sounded good:
I'd heard good things about the fish, and we were catered in Japan, so I tried it, and was not disappointed. Had the Pouilly-Fume with the nuts, which were not warm but still good, and kept drinking it with the fish, it was good. Guy across the aisle had the pork, which looked OK, and guy next to me had the noodles, which looked good too, but I think I made the right choice for me, it was nice. Skipped the dessert, but had a cognac (they had a few different after-dinner drinks on the dessert cart – but just one of each on display, if you wanted one they actually went back to the galley to get it, I think, I could be confused here, I'd been flying for quite a while by this point!). And then, as usual – off to sleep. I woke up just after we'd passed the Philippines, and spent a little while watching skymap and guessing our route. Got it wrong, thought we'd take M767 all the way to TOMAN and then G580 in, but the right turn at TERIX was unmistakable. What can I say, don't you wish your life was this exciting? We eventually landed on, uh, some runway, must have been 2L. It was around midnight local. The UA 744 from HKG was already there, which is bad, it's supposed to be about 20 mins behind us so probably just beat us and helped clog up passport control. Sure enough, the lines were really long, and I picked by far the slowest one – in fact, someone who showed up a good 10 minutes behind me in an adjacent line and was complaining to his companions about his continued knack at picking the slowest lines got through a good 10 minutes before me. I don't know what our guy's deal was, and he didn't say a single word to me, just took my passport and landing card, verrrrrrry slowly looked at them and badly stamped them, and handed them back to me. The taxi queue wrapped around three times and took a while to clear, but then it was a quick ride into town with no traffic. All-in-all, though, a very disappointing 80+ minutes from deplaning to hotel check-in, more than half of it in the passport control queue.
Loved Singapore, and though I didn't have very much free time, I did snap a few pictures:
And while I'm usually too embarrassed to take a picture of food on airplanes, I was just fine in the privacy of my hotel room:
But after three full days there, a long trip by my standards, it was time to head back. Per my normal practice when returning home from far away, I stayed up all night the last night – had a few drinks at the Long Bar, did some phone calls with the office back home, then went to Lau Pa Sat hawker centre for a bowl of noodle soup around 3am, a guy's gotta eat. Taxi to the airport was utterly painless, and there I was.
6 April 2006
Seat: 17A (upper deck window)
Dep 0645 local, Arr 1030 local
Went to checkin, and a security guy randomly selected my about-to-be-checked bag to search. He got to several closed boxes, and said, "what's in here?" I said, "uh, cheap trinkets." He nodded and didn't open them. He re-closed my bag and let me continue to the counter. The woman pulled up my reservation and said, "you have 17A, an upper-deck window in the last row, is that OK?" I said, "yeah, that's my favorite seat" and a passenger at the next check-in desk over next to me said, "oh yeah, that's a great seat," and I was too tired to respond in a friendly manner, so I hope he doesn't think I was unfriendly or anything. I kinda grunted, mostly surprised that anyone heard me say that, and looked back at the check-in agent. Not sure why little things like that haunt me.
I was given a pass and map to a lounge because the one they normally use is being renovated, and along with a colleague who was departing on the flight to NRT, walked up to the lounges. He thought we were supposed to go into the Thai airlines one, so we did, and I'm not sure that was the right one but whatever. There was power for my laptop, wireless, and bottles of water and juice. No food worth speaking of, some little pastries or something. Cans of beer, and I probably should have had one, but decided against it. After about an hour of doing not too much of anything (a little email, a few phone calls), we headed out towards the gates. Mine was C22. There's no security until you actually get to the gate, and the metal detector is the most sensitive I've encountered -- a metal snap on my pants set it off. Once through that hurdle, I boarded, climbed up, sat down, watched them preparing the 777 to NRT out the window to my left, and soon the sun was coming up and we were pushing back. By the time we were rolling on 2L, it was fully light out, and I watched the ground until I couldn't see anything anymore, then drifted into a short nap.
The cabin crew were Hong-Kong based. The purser was American and Caucasian. The two FA's on the upper deck were reasonably young, an Asian man of nationality I couldn't determine and a Caucasian American woman. They were both very nice, and service overall was good. All announcements were in English and Cantonese, and maybe half were also repeated in Mandarin. For the first time I've seen, C wasn't full – the upper deck had about 8 empty seats, including the one next to me. Breakfast choices:
With only 3 days and some meals out of my control, I hadn't had time to try every "signature" dish in Singapore, and knowing Hainanese Chicken would likely be an option on this flight, I skipped it on the ground. I know, I know, an airline meal is no way to experience a unique dish, but I hope to go to Hainan some day anyway, and like I said, I couldn't eat everything in 3 days. In any event, it was the obvious choice, compared to yet another no-win option of eggs with meat & taters or yogurt with fruit. I took one bite, and asked the FA if there were any Asian beers, because a Tiger or similar would have gone great with this. Alas, all he had was American crap, so I just ate without drinking. Even without the beer, it was good stuff. Again, nothing that would win any awards, but for the time and the place, it was perfect.
After eating, I grabbed a little more sleep, then woke up somewhere in the Vietnam FIR and put Channel 9 back on. Was a pretty quiet morning. ATC was asking us and other flights to report next waypoint on the airway – SIN-HKG stays on M771 the entire way between the terminal procedures, route of flight looks something like this:
She asked another UA flight on frequency (I think UA862 from SGN, which would be my HKG-SFO flight) to confirm RVSM compliance, that seemed unusual. After getting handed over to Hong Kong, we started hearing some outbound flights passing us – SQ001, the famous SFO-HKG-SIN flight; CX717 to SIN; CX767 to SGN; CX793 to HAN; CX723 to KUL. Also MH75 and FX8, not sure whether they were inbound, outbound, or transit. Eventually we were given the DUMO1B approach to 25R. This was great for someone with a left-side window – I've never been to Hong Kong and don't know the geography well, but we flew past several islands with lots of very tall buildings. Unfortunately it wasn't clear at all, and through the clouds plus looking south into the sun it was hard to get a good view or good pictures, though that didn't stop me from trying. Oh, first, being the nerd I am, I had to take this picture:
But then there were these, and if anyone can explain what any of this is, that would be great, and it was cool seeing it all anyway.
We landed as advertised on 25R and then had a short taxi-in to gate 63, where we saw the other UA B744 (from SGN) already parked next door. When we got to the end of the jetway, there were agents directing all passengers continuing to ORD or connecting to SFO to the left and everyone else to the right. To those of us who were going to SFO or ORD, they offered a little piece of paper with the flight info:
Throughout March, the aircraft had been switching flights in HKG, with the SIN-HKG UA896 aircraft next flying HKG-SFO UA862, but with the schedule change as of 2 April due to the US going to summer time (75 mins connection for me in HKG instead of 135), I figured that would stop, and indeed this paper confirmed that the aircraft were sticking with their flight numbers today. That was my preference, since I agree with PlaneHunter's sig to a point (it's kinda cool to repeat a reg in a totally different place years apart, but on the same day, you'd definitely rather have two different ones than two of the same!).
We followed the hallway to a security checkpoint, and then I had about half an hour to kill before boarding. First grabbed a few pictures from the terminal. Hate those window reflections. Included in the bunch are N116UA which I'd just gotten off, and N198UA which I'd soon be getting on.
In my few minutes in Hong Kong, I went to the Red Carpet Club, checked email (they have a hilarious password for the wireless network, reminiscent of Spaceballs), hoped for dim sum, of which there were only BBQ pork pastry puffs, several of which went down very nicely with a couple of San Miguels (where were those on the flight, would have been great with that chicken and rice!):
Very soon, though, it was time to go board.
6 April 2006
Seat: 18H (upper deck window)
Dep 1145 local, Arr 0847 local (same day – the "time machine" flight)
Settled into my seat, talked a bit more with home (it was 8-something pm the night before) on my mobile phone until they shut the door. Amenity kits on this leg were the same ones as on the trans-Atlantic flights, no slippers. Menus came out:
For the first time I encountered the order-taking method of going straight through the cabin but asking for a second choice, which I've heard is how they're supposed to do it. Does anyone get stuck with their third choice? My first choice was fish, second chicken; my neighbor was beef then chicken, and we both got our first choice.
We pushed back, and Channel 9 was on , and I took many pictures as we taxied to 25L, a few of which I'm willing to share:
When we switched to tower, the A319 in the last photo (B-2222) was lined up, and we were cleared to line up after his departure. Meanwhile a China Southern B738, B-5020, was holding short off our right and instructed to line up after our departure:
We took off, and I immediately fell asleep – so quickly that I had no idea until much later that we turned left after departure and flew south before turning back east. I later found that our filed route had been:
which was on PACOTS track 3 that day, and looks something like this:
Honestly, I don't remember a whole lot about this flight. The nuts were again not warm (is that a departing-Asia thing?) or maybe they were but by the time I woke up they'd cooled. I was pretty full from the pork puffs and beer so I put my nuts over on the side-bin shelves (absolutely love upper-deck window seats!) for safe keeping. Food came, and it was good, somehow the Asian meals all seem better than the filet mignon or many of the domestic-F meals. I think I drank champagne with it, but I'm not sure. I know I had cheese and port. I don't remember the FA's much but they were cheerful and seemed attentive. I can't even remember what languages all the announcements were made in. Nice trip report, eh? But a few more things I do remember.
This was my most distant flight ever, with a great-circle distance of 6005nm and filed distance of 6265nm, but not in my top few time-wise. We had sick tailwinds, 100 knots or so most of the way, and our actual flight time was about 11.5 hours -- but these winds and time are pretty normal for this season on this sector. We also got a tiny short-cut from our filed plan – Fukuoka control gave us direct IMPAL from SE of Miyazaki, skipping MADOG and MANEP. We were at 290 in Fukuoka, requested 330, but only got 310 due to traffic. Very soon thereafter, though, I fell asleep, and didn't wake up for many hours. When I did, I drained my magic water glass, nibbled on some of my carefully reserved nuts, and then went straight back to sleep. Woke up again just a couple of hours out, more water, more nuts, and couldn't resist a picture of the early morning sun lighting up the front of the nacelles:
Soon it was breakfast time, and the Dr. Rumack came out in me. Faced yet again with the eggs or yogurt torture, I asked if I could instead have a bowl of the noodle soup they have for mid-flight snack. It took a couple of tries for me to successfully communicate this – I was still only semi-coherent and apparently the correct terminology is "hot noodles" – but I got a cheerful smile and "oh sure, of course, just a moment," and they were in fact exactly what I needed, hot, salty, not too much food, woke me up. I think I had tea with them too, maybe a whole pot in fact. Or coffee. Maybe both.
It wasn't long before everything was getting cleaned up for landing. With nothing better to do, I pulled out the camera, as we crossed the coast, flew just west of Stanford, and then crossed over the San Mateo bridge, which had less traffic than I'd expect for 8am on a Thursday.
We landed about 45 minutes early on 28L and taxied to G95, with my trip ending pretty much the way it started, with yet another Skywest CRJ out my window:
Forgot to mention that on check-in in SIN they gave me a coupon for entry to "Arrivals by United" in SFO, which was great. My only complaint is it was a bit hard to find. There are no signs at all if you exit customs in the direction of SFO final-destination traffic. After finally getting a chance to ask a check-in agent, once I got headed down the correct way (on the walkway towards the domestic terminals), there was a sign placed at an unfortunate angle that sent me off in the wrong direction again, past all the inbound international connecting passengers and baggage re-check. Those of us getting off 20 hours of flying might not be the sharpest knives in the drawer, so a little more help would have been nice. But it was really good to have a shower, a little transition time, etc. before encountering anyone back in the real world.
Thanks for reading, I know this was long and somewhat random and uneven in terms of detail, and my sleep-dominated approach to IFE is not terribly exciting – I hope everyone found a little bit that made it worth the time to read.


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by Cathy P. Ross
Feb 19, 2013
12:56 PMCulture Cat
Beat the Winter Blues
I hadn't been ice-skating in more than a decade, but when my daughter invited me to accompany her to the Sports Center of Connecticut in Shelton recently, I jumped at the chance.
There are two skating rinks at the Sports Center—one for recreational skating on the main floor, and one for hockey upstairs (it's billed as the world's only double-decker ice arena). There was a feeling of excitement as we headed for the main rink where a skating session had just begun. Families with small children, teens and couples took the ice like seasoned pros. I squeezed my feet into the skates I'd rented, and then awkwardly wobbled onto the ice behind a group of giggling young girls, as my daughter whizzed off. I didn't remember my ankles hurting so much in the past, but I found my balance, pushed off with my right foot and coasted for a while. Then my arches began to ache, a lot. Hmm, maybe I had the wrong size skates? This seemed like the perfect time to exit the ice and explore the other fun activities here.
On the upper level, high school hockey teams were practicing before a scrimmage while fans watched from the stands. And young boys and girls and their parents were lined up at the laser tag arena waiting to strap on vests with flashing lights, and embark on a heart-pumping adventure through a fog-filled jungle-themed maze.
In the golf center next door, players filled the Game Zone, a large area with row upon row of interactive, video and old-fashioned arcade games. Over in the bowling alley, a dad was having a great time showing off his skills on the lanes for the guests attending his daughter's birthday party (the grandparents snuck off to the café).
An 18-hole miniature golf course is open day and night, year round—hooded ponchos are available if it rains. No matter how cold it is, you can practice your golf swing on an outdoor driving range with 25 heated stalls (you control the temperature). Golf clubs are provided, or bring your own. This is a popular lunchtime activity with golfers from local businesses and college teams who practice here. You can also take a swing at a softball toss or a baseball pitch from 28 to 91 mph in eight outdoor batting cages.
For those with artistic sensibilities, the Glitter Arts & Crafts Place offers a multitude of projects and classes for kids and adults. I'll make sure to drop in here first on my next visit.
Classes and lessons are also available in just about any sport you can think of at the center, which is open every day of the year. And a variety of special events and discounts will make your return trip even better. Check for daily schedules on the website.
For info: 203/929-6500, sportscenterct.com.


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It was only a matter of time before trolls got automated. Last week, George Monbiot in the Guardian pointed out a U.S. Air Force tender for something called "persona management software" — in other words, a system that would let an online operative appear to be someone they aren't. In fact, to appear to be 10 people they aren't.
Here's a chunk of the tender: "(The) software will allow 10 personas per user, replete with background, history, supporting details and cyber presences that are technically, culturally and geographically consistent. Individual applications will enable an operator to exercise a number of different online persons from the same workstation and without fear of being discovered by sophisticated adversaries. Personas must be able to appear to originate in nearly any part of the world and can interact through conventional online services and social media platforms. The service includes a user-friendly application environment to maximize the user's situational awareness by displaying real-time local information."
Online personas are the way you appear on your Facebook profile — it's online personas, more often than real people, who sign off on the comments at the bottom of this column and on other comment sites, telling you that the author of the story they're commenting on is an idiot or a Tory or a Liberal. Or whatever.
Comments are often nasty and brutish, but writers can console themselves with the thought that people who can't even bother to sign their own names don't actually have much courage backing up their convictions.
Now, writers can stop and wonder not only who they are, but if their critics are even actually real people.
Editorial page editors, of which I am one, are used to manufactured letters. I get them from the anti-seal hunt industry regularly, and what makes them particularly comical is the people who feel so deeply about the issue that they can't even be bothered to string together a few of their own words, rather than relying on the cut-and-paste of someone else's boilerplate letter. Lately, there's also been a series of earnest letters from "real" Canadians across the nation, concerned about the CRTC allowing billing for excess Internet bandwidth: problem is, 25 or so of those earnest letters were exactly the same, except for the names on the bottom.
This fake grassroots support for an issue in letters to the editor is often described as "astroturf."
Now, astroturf is going Internet.
The fake Internet commenting business involves companies going high-tech enough to rotate their messages through several dozen IP addresses, and to companies that actually design and maintain long-term "sleeper" commenters who appear to have been posting on a variety of topics for months, and then can be released on a specific issue at the behest of the latest customer who needs to manufacture a little online support.
Now, Internet manipulation is nothing new. All you really need to do is to watch the way VOCM's poll of the day can suddenly be hijacked by tens of thousands of "voters" supporting some government initiative or other — I can only imagine how boring it must be to the political employee assigned to pressing "return," "return," "return," for as many times as you possibly can in the run of an afternoon.
Just as parties have dragooned supporters to call open line shows to announce their undying support, it's in no way surprising that companies would harness the Internet to do exactly the same thing.
What's surprising is that it could become such a technological process — and that it would be worthwhile, and even necessary, to win the hearts and minds of other Internet users by dint of the equivalent of technological sleight of hand.
I wrote this. My name's on it, and it's even my real name — unless, of course, I am some sort of corporate persona developed to meet some other kind of nefarious end.
And you — who are you, really?
Russell Wangersky is the editorial page editor of The Telegram. He can be reached by email at email@example.com.


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TROY, Alabama - Fresh off a dominating four-game sweep to open the season, the Troy baseball teams hits the road for the Wawa Weekend Classic hosted by Central Florida.
Troy (4-0) opens the round robin classic with Texas Tech (4-0) on Friday at 11 a.m. before taking on Connecticut (1-2) on Saturday at noon and Central Florida (2-2) on Sunday at 2 p.m.; all times listed are Central. All three games will be broadcast live on the Troy IMG Sports Network with local coverage on 94.7 FM and free worldwide coverage online at TroyTrojans.com.
The Trojans outscored Florida A&M 53-10 in the season-opening series and did so with several standout performances at the plate and on the mound. The most notable weekend came from junior Danny Collins as he swept both major national player of the week awards (Louisville Slugger & National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association) and was named the Sun Belt Conference Hitter of the Week.
Collins went 8-for-14 (.571) with two doubles, two triples, a home run, nine runs scored and nine RBIs. He hit Troy's first cycle since 2009 after going 5-for-6 in game two of the series. Collins finished the four-game series with 17 total bases, a 1.214 slugging percentage, a .667 on-base percentage and a 1.881 OPS. He did not strikeout over 18 plate appearances and was perfect on his lone stolen base attempt.
The Trojans enter the Wawa Weekend Classic with a team OPS (on-base + slugging percentage) of 1.199 and seven regular starters have an OPS of over 1.000.
Trae Santos drove in nine runs and tallied 10 total bases in the series and nearly joined Collins in making baseball history; the Trojan slugger finished the run-ruled shortened game a double shy of hitting Troy's second cycle in the game.
Justin Hancock and David Hall both enjoyed breakout weekends in their first outings as Trojans. Hancock finished 4-for-9 with a pair of doubles and three RBIs while Hall was 5-for-12 with five runs scored, two doubles and six RBIs. Of the 11 Troy players who started at least two of the four games, eight hit over .350 and nine drove in multiple runs.
The Trojans tallied 21 extra-base hits in the series - seven more than anyone else in the Sun Belt over the opening weekend - with 12 doubles, five triples and four home runs.
Troy was just as impressive on the mound as all 15 available pitchers saw action and 10 of them didn't allow a run.
Junior right-hander Will Starling (1-0, 0.00) will get the call on the mound for the Trojans in the opener with Texas Tech. Starling struck out five, walked one and allowed just one hit in his Troy debut last week.
The Trojans will turn to junior southpaw Shane McCain (1-0, 2.25) on Saturday against UConn. McCain made his return the mound last weekend after missing the 2012 season due to an injury and didn't miss a beat. He struck out four, did not allow a walk and scattered four hits over four innings of work.
Tanner Hicks (1-0, 4.50) will start the finale against Central Florida. The junior right-hander allowed two first inning runs in his debut, but recovered with six strikeouts to just one walk over his four-inning outing.
Texas Tech opened its season in impressive fashion with a pair of victories over Northern Illinois and single wins over Northern Colorado and BYU. The Red Raiders allowed just two runs over the four games and hit .317 with an .879 OPS. Sophomore right-hander Dominic Moreno is scheduled to start on the mound for the Red Raiders against the Trojans. Moreno struck out 11 over six innings in the season opener against Northern Illinois; Moreno threw 97 pitches in the outing.
Connecticut dropped a pair of games to Purdue and beat Indiana in the Big East / Big Ten Challenge last weekend. The Huskies are just two seasons removed from a trip to the Super Regionals and are led by preseason All-America second baseman LJ Mazzilli. Sophomore right-hander Carson Cross is scheduled to start on the mound for the Huskies; he took a no-decision after striking out four and walking two in his first start of the season. Cross allowed three runs - two earned - over six innings of work.
Central Florida took two-of-three from Siena over the opening weekend before dropping a 5-3 decision to No. 17 Florida at home Tuesday night. The Knights advanced to a Super Regional last year and finished the season ranked in the top 25. Central Florida will announce its pitching starter for the game later in the weekend.


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I am 19 years old turning 20 soon and I have been dating my boyfriend for about 5 years now. We started dating in grade 9 and now we re both in college and still togeather. I have come to a point where I am curious about other guys, my boyfriend is the first and only guy I have ever been with. I feel my boyfriend and I are like an "old married couple" and this scares me because I am only 19 I don't want to settle down yet. I feel like I am missing out on a whole section of my life when I listen to all my single friends. And I have now become curious about being single and meeting other people. But I feel my boyfriend is someone I could marry down the road, but I am not ready yet. What should I do?
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Editorial: Massachusetts should think twice about replacing MCAS exam
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on May 21, 2010 at 12:34 AM, updated May 22, 2010 at 7:14 AM
on May 21, 2010 at 12:34 AM, updated May 22, 2010 at 7:14 AM
The 1993 Education Reform Act – and the adoption of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System exam – has put the commonwealth ahead of many states in the nation for setting a standard of excellence for high school graduates. Students in some urban school districts continue to have trouble passing the high-stakes MCAS test, and that is a failing that must be addressed. But for the most part, the Bay State has succeeded in improving student performance – making the exam a model for other states to emulate. That's why we urge the state to proceed with caution as it considers messing with the test to make it conform with a national standard – something it has resisted in the past. State Education Commissioner Mitchell Chester said on Thursday that the Bay State is working with other states to develop a new test that eventually could replace or even be administered in parallel with the English and math portions of the MCAS. Glenn Koocher, executive director of the Massachusetts Association of School Committees, told The Boston Globe, he didn't think adopting a national standard as "something better or worse, but as something different." However, Koocher, did raise the question of whether the move was designed to improve the Bay State's chances of winning a grant of up to $160 million in Race to the Top funding. Massachusetts lost out during the first round of funding allocated this spring, but is preparing a second-round application. We'll take Chester at his word when he says that Massachusetts won't relinquish its role as a national leader. Any new tests will have to be at least as rigorous as the MCAS, he said, adding that any changes are at least four years away. We hope the fine educational standards the state has developed won't be watered down in any way; they must remain high. Educational standards must be a moving target – especially in a world that is growing more complex by the millisecond. It is critical that Massachusetts continue to adjust its sights to produce students who are second to none.