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The man arrested for killing his mother has a history of violent sexual fantasies. But experts say law enforcement could have done little to prevent last week's crimes.
Sac County Sheriff Ken McClure leads Kirk Levin to a district courtroom in Sac City on Tuesday. It was Levin's second court appearance since he was arrested last week for kidnapping. McClure found Levin's mother dead in the upstairs bedroom of her rural Early house with stab wounds and a belt around her neck.
Marilyn Schmitt, 45, was found dead in this rural Early house on Ira Avenue last week. Her son, Kirk Levin, 21, was released from prison on New Year's Day and came to live with her.
Early 2008
Levin, 16, is arrested for breaking into five or six houses and stealing a car near his Ridgeway, Wis., home, which is about 20 miles west of Madison.
June 2008
Levin is evaluated for two weeks at Mendota Mental Health Institute in Madison, Wis. He tells a psychologist that he has violent sexual fantasies but has not acted on them.
Sept. 29, 2008
Levin steals a car to escape the Eau Claire Academy for juvenile delinquents in Eau Claire, Wis. He uses stolen credit cards to buy gas and food.
March 13, 2009
Levin, now 17, and two other boys confined to the Eau Claire Academy flee in a stolen car. They steal gas in a town near Madison on their way to Milwaukee and are eventually arrested after a 17-mile high-speed chase
after the car catches fire.
May 1, 2009
Levin pleads no contest to operating a motorized vehicle without consent.
June 15, 2009
Levin is sentenced to 15 months in state prison and two years of supervised release. An Eau Claire Academy counselor testifies that his actions and thoughts "seem to be getting more extreme."
Spring 2010
Levin, now 18, is released from prison and moves to Early. He works odd jobs with an uncle and lives with his mother and her fiance.
Aug. 23, 2010
Levin breaks into a house and semitrailer tractor in Early. He posts on his Facebook page: "People...im sorry...ill be in jail tomorrow."
Aug. 27, 2010
Levin is charged in Sac County with two counts of burglary - a felony and a misdemeanor.
Oct. 5, 2010
Levin pleads guilty to the felony burglary charge.
Nov. 19, 2010
Levin, now 19, is sentenced to five years in an Iowa prison.
Jan. 13, 2011
Levin is incarcerated at Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wis., for breaching the terms of his supervised
Nov. 10, 2011
Levin, now 20, is transferred to the Iowa Medical & Classification Center in Oakdale, Iowa - the entry point for criminals who serve time in Iowa prisons.
Jan. 1, 2013
Levin, now 21, is released from Fort Madison Correctional Facility in eastern Iowa, where he served part of a five-year prison sentence for the Sac County burglary.
Jan. 2, 2013
Levin posts on his online Facebook page twice. In one, he says: "to stay out of prison.....yup. i like it." He also puts up his cell phone number for "any one who DOES care."
Jan. 3, 2013
Levin allegedly kills his mother and kidnaps a 21-year-old Storm Lake woman. He is arrested on three felony charges for the kidnapping.
Jan. 7, 2013
Levin is charged with first-degree murder for his mother's death after an autopsy shows she died from stab wounds.
Jan. 8, 2013
A judge sets Levin's bond at $1 million. He is held at the Sac County Jail in Sac City.
EARLY - Kirk Levin drove early one morning last week to Storm Lake, where the 21-year-old parked his car just off of a busy street and walked eight blocks to an apartment building.
Inside was a young woman he had known for several years, whom he wrote notes from an eastern Iowa prison, court records show.
In the trunk of the car he drove was a broken knife blade, a notebook stained with blood, rope, a cheap pair of brown cloth gloves and other items that Sac County investigators have tied to his mother's murder - which they allege happened earlier that morning. She had been stabbed over and over in the upstairs bedroom of her rural Early house, where she was found face-down on the floor with a belt around her neck.
The young woman in Storm Lake, Jessica Vega, awoke about 6:30 a.m. when she heard keys clank against her window. There was a young man below who yelled her name and said his car had broken down.
Vega went to another bedroom in the apartment and told her sister that she was going to leave to help someone. Come find me, Vega said, if she didn't return in 10 minutes.
Vega went downstairs and opened the apartment building's front door.
"I was shocked to see Kirk," Vega, 21, wrote in an official statement to investigators. "We talked for a minute, then I told him I had to go tell my sister that everything was OK."
In March 2009, Levin pumped seven gallons of fuel at a Wisconsin gas station into a stolen car.
Levin, who was 17 at the time, and two other boys had fled Eau Claire Academy - where some of the state's juvenile delinquents live and are counseled - and planned to drive to the Milwaukee area, where they would steal to live, court documents show.
Levin had attempted to flee twice before from the western Wisconsin academy and was there for just seven months.
Court records show he had a history of theft - that he had stolen at least five vehicles and broken into at least five houses near his Ridgeway, Wis., home, just before he was sent to the academy.
Further, he told a psychiatrist at the state's Mendota Mental Health Institute that he had violent sexual fantasies about drugging and raping girls.
He said he bought cold medicines and used them to drug a girl. He tried later to drug the girl with alcohol.
"And when asked, 'What would you do if she drank it and it worked,' meaning it put her to sleep, 'would you have gone through with raping
her?' " a Wisconsin prosecutor told a judge. "His answer was 'Yes.' "
Levin allegedly admitted that he researched how to build a soundproof room, where he could rape without worrying that someone outside would hear.
"I hate to try to quantify the risk, but things seem to be getting more extreme," an Eau Claire Academy counselor said of Levin in a court report. "Treatment isn't doing him any good."
At the Wisconsin gas station near Madison, Levin finished refueling the stolen car and climbed back in. Another boy drove.
At about 3:40 a.m., the driver did not stop at a stop sign, and a police officer attempted to pull over the car. The boy driver sped off and led the officer on a 17-mile chase that exceeded speeds of 100 mph. Another boy in the car tossed out the window a hammer and screwdriver they had stolen from a Kmart and planned to use for future thefts.
Near the end of the pursuit, the boy drove over a set of spiked strips that law officers use to puncture car tires. The boy continued to drive without tires until sparks from the wheels - rolling bare on the roadway - ignited a fire on the rear of the car.
The car stopped, and Levin and the two other boys were arrested.
Unpredictable crimes
Despite the signs that Levin's crimes could become more severe, there was little anyone could have likely done to prevent them, said Mark Day, superintendent for the State Training School for Boys in Eldora, Iowa.
"We have 30 Kirk Levins on our campus at any point in time," said Day, whose training school houses about 130 of the state's worst juvenile offenders. "But it's impossible to say who among them will devolve into real severe mental illness. ... It is almost impossible to effectively treat a true psychopath."
Wisconsin court documents reveal some of Levin's deviant behaviors and broken-home circumstances before he was 17 years old:
- He neglected and harmed animals. The full details of those incidents were not available, but court records mention that he intentionally starved a pet bird.
- He spent his teenage years with his father, who was controlling and verbally abusive, claimed Levin, his mother and her fiance. Levin's father could not be reached for comment.
- Levin had periods of extreme depression and attempted suicide by taking too many pills of cold medicine.
- He was not officially diagnosed with a specific mental illness, but his mother's family has a history of depression and bipolar disorder, in which people experience periods of higher-than-normal highs or euphoria and lower-than-normal lows or deep depression that alternate over the course of months.
- He had violent sexual fantasies of raping girls and wrote out plans and drew pictures of those fantasies.
But the documents also show that Levin was an intelligent kid who always apologized for the crimes he committed and promised to do better.
Levin's mother, Marilyn Schmitt, and her fiance pleaded with a Wisconsin judge to spare her son from prison for the 2009 car theft and, instead, send Levin to live with the couple in Early.
"I'm a hundred percent with Mike (her fiance) on getting Kirk and helping him out and getting him a good life and getting him into college and having a good future," she said in June 2009.
With the right treatment, most children who exhibit violent tendencies like Levin's can rejoin society, said Day, of the Eldora training school. But others reach a tipping point where they lose their sense of right and wrong.
"It's a disease - it's more like a cancer," he said. "Some people have a body chemistry for it. In some cases, it's completely out of their control."
The switch to a psychopath or sociopath often occurs between the ages of 17 and 25, Day said, and when Levin was 17, "he might have still been manageable."
A Wisconsin judge, Daniel Moeser, who sentenced Levin for the 2009 car theft, glimpsed Levin's darker side and sentenced him to more than a year in prison and two years of supervised release after.
"And that's why I say perhaps (the car-theft arrest) is one of the best things that ever happened to you, is you have a chance to do this before you do something really serious where you'd be locked up the rest of your life," Moeser said at the time.
Another arrest, another warning
Levin was released from a Wisconsin prison the next year and moved to Early.
He worked odd jobs with an uncle and lived with his mother and her fiance. He met Vega, the Storm Lake woman.
In October 2010, Levin broke into an Early house and car.
"My mother was thinking of declaring bankruptcy, and I felt I should help," he later wrote to a judge. Levin wanted "to sell items for money to help my mother pay her rent."
Despite that, an Iowa judge later found him guilty of felony burglary and sentenced him to up to five years in prison.
Levin, now 21, was released early for good behavior from prison on New Year's Day, and Schmitt drove from her rural Early house on Ira Avenue about four hours to Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility in southeastern Iowa to get him.
"She was a sweetheart - always smiled at you," Gary Schramm, a neighbor, said of Schmitt.
Schramm, 58, said Schmitt drove Levin to Wisconsin to visit Levin's father and might have returned on Jan. 2.
The state Department of Corrections notified Sac County Sheriff Ken McClure of Levin's release because he planned to live in the county - as they do with all inmates who leave prison - and warned that Levin kept a notebook that had words and drawings that described "the sexual assault and rape of a female," court records show.
McClure declined to comment about the notice, but Day said there's little that law-enforcement officers could do to prevent future crime based on tips from prison officials.
"He can't do a damn thing," Day said of McClure. "There is no crime in drawing about something."
The kidnapping
Schmitt, 45, was likely stabbed to death on Jan. 3 between 1:30 and 5:45 a.m. in her bedroom, investigators allege. There was a broken knife handle left in the room, and Schmitt's blood was everywhere.
Vega, the young Storm Lake woman, hadn't spoken to Levin for six months before she said he threw his keys against her apartment window at about 6:30 a.m. that day.
He told her his car had broken down.
According to Vega's statement to investigators:
Vega agreed to give Levin a lift to his mother's rural Early house about 15 miles away. Vega told her sister that she'd be back in 40 minutes, in plenty of time to get her daughter ready for the day.
Sleep in, Vega told her sister.
Levin had trouble finding the house on Ira Avenue. They got lost but found their way.
Vega pulled into the driveway, and Levin told her there was something she should see in the barn.
Vega said "no." She needed to get home to her daughter.
So Levin turned off the car and snatched the keys from its ignition. Vega reluctantly agreed to get out.
"OK, but we got to hurry," she told him.
They went into a barn with no lights on inside, and Levin walked around and claimed he couldn't find the switch. Vega eventually found it and turned on the lights as Levin closed the barn door.
He took her to a part of the barn with a tree and twigs and other logs and told her to sit.
She looked around for a weapon or way to escape. There was neither.
"I'm kidnapping you," he said.
She thought it was a joke and reminded him that she wasn't a "kid."
"I'm woman-napping you," he replied.
She laughed again but realized he was serious when he picked up the yellow nylon rope.
Levin said he didn't want to hurt her. Stop struggling.
Vega knew that she needed to get to a place with more people, and asked him to take her back to her Storm Lake apartment like they had originally planned.
He bound her hands.
Vega laid herself down in her car's backseat, and Levin drove south, away from Storm Lake. She protested, and he eventually turned the car around.
He got nervous about her being in the backseat. Someone might see.
So Vega offered to go into the trunk, which Levin opened and had to remove a child's tricycle and some boxes to make room.
"I had the opportunity to hit him with the car, but I didn't want to kill him so I decided to go in the trunk," Vega later told investigators.
He picked her up and put her in the trunk and closed it. She felt like she couldn't breathe and kicked the trunk lid. He pulled her back out and put her in the front passenger seat and covered her face with her daughter's sweater.
They drove toward Storm Lake, but Levin went too fast on the snow- and ice-covered gravel road, lost control of the car and went into a ditch.
'She's a lucky gal'
Schramm, the neighbor, was driving back to his house after coffee in Early about 8 a.m. when he saw the car in the ditch just south of U.S. Highway 20.
School buses with children and cars and trucks passed by.
Schramm turned his pickup truck to help. He stopped and offered to pull the car out of the ditch, like he's done so many times for kids on their way to school.
He couldn't see Vega in the car as she struggled to loosen the yellow rope.
"No," Levin declined the help, "everything is all (expletive) up."
And Vega burst from the car with the rope and what looked like torn bedsheets hanging off.
"He's taking me! Don't let him hurt me!" she yelled.
"Help me!"
She kept screaming and ran to the truck and got in.
"Lock the doors, lock the doors," she repeated.
Levin took a few steps down the road and turned and looked at Schramm, waiting for him to give chase. Vega called her foster father, who dialed 911.
Levin ran over snow-covered grass to the Boyer River and under a highway bridge and out of sight.
He was found by law officers - who followed his footprints and used a dog to track him - more than a mile away, sitting cross-legged rubbing his cold feet.
The sneakers he wore apparently came off in the deep snow.
He shivered in a light jacket.
A bloody end
Levin was arrested and charged with felony kidnapping and later for murder when a State Medical Examiner's autopsy found that Schmitt died from the stabbing.
Levin allegedly admitted to the kidnapping but was less forthcoming about the murder. He allegedly told investigators that he probably killed his mother because he choked her with the belt.
He didn't mention the broken knife and the blood.
Sheriff McClure found Schmitt face-down on the bedroom floor with stab wounds and a gaping gash near her left knee.
Levin again told investigators of his fantasies of kidnapping and rape.
He has since stood in a Sac County courtroom twice in an orange jumpsuit and socks and tan sandals. He was quiet and kept his eyes low. He has told judges several times that he regrets how much of his life he has been locked up.
He now faces life in prison for the murder and is held in jail on $1 million bond. It's unclear whether the case will go to trial.
Schmitt's funeral was Thursday.
- Reporter Paige Godden contributed to this article
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"It's a disease - it's more like a cancer," he said. "Some people have a body chemistry for it. In some cases, it's completely out of their control."
Rubbish. It's sin. Even psychopaths know right from wrong and they choose which path they are going to take.
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That's enough goals. tough part is going to be some of those mileage goals and the Christmas thing. We are away for a long ski weekend this month, as well as Christmas, and while I will be skiing, the mileage tends to take a dive during those trips. I may have to start doing some doubles on off days to get some extra mileage in.
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My goals are easy:
Run 250 miles for the month
Weigh 190 pounds (or less)
I had 190 as my goal for November, but it wasn't a good weight loss month. I'll probably end up losing 5 instead of 10. So with Christmas and everything else, I'll go for 5 more.
My total miles should end up around 1250 - 1300 for the year, which is fine as I didn't do any running until basically July due to ankle problems. (Surgery in May.)
Looking forward to next year. Already looking at some track races in January...
Getting back in shape... Just need it to be a skinnier shape...
Finally have an easy month. Only 1 goal
BQ Las Vegas Marathon (3:20) on Dec. 4th
And all of the hard work is DONE, so hopefully this will work out.
Other than that, recover and fatten up again for Xmas!
2016 Goals
2000 miles
Get ready for my 2nd Boston Marathon
No race goals, just stay healthy and work on flexibility and strength.
I fly.
1. Run (finish) Roxbury Marathon & become a maniac (officially, I've always been crazy unofficially);
2. Run 2100 miles for the year;
3. Finish strong; and
4. HAPPY NEW YEAR - Start strong for next year!
Bring it on.
Hmm. Well first trail marathon is Sat so I guess finishing that in less than 4:30 would be good. Agressive but good.
Miles are more complicated. I have some beers riding on it so I will run whatever it takes to get to 1750 which is 286. Yikes. Oh well go high or go home.
"He conquers who endures" - Persius "Every workout should have a purpose. Every purpose should link back to achieving a training objective." - Spaniel
I'm just trying to learn to balance lower body strength training with running. This will, at least in the short term, mean a little less running. I started this process in Nov. I'm not really sure how to state this in terms of a goal but it is what I'm working on...
I'm at that same weird slump I was in when I was near 1500 miles...not wanting to go out and run these last 30 'cause then I will have hit my 2000 miles in 2011 goal and then what the hell will I do? I will be without a goal for 3 whole weeks...what will I do??????
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1. Let my foot heal. Again. 2. Start training mid-month for a March '12 50K. That is all.
Question for you Cassie...do you post anything here or elsewhere on how you approach 50K training? I'm thinking of tackling a 50K next May.
I've done my best to live the right way. I get up every morning and go to work each day. (for now)
1. Enough miles to get to 2,263 and stay ahead of the 10KM a day pace dingo
2. Speedwork or hills at least once per week.
3. Loose some damn weight, geez.
4. Find a chip timed 10-miler somewhere in northern New England and run 10 mile PR. Anyone have any pointers to races?
5. Do something about my right heel and knee always hurting. (amputation? what? who knows...)
Most places will say that training for a 50K is just like training for a marathon. That can be true depending on what 50K you are running. If it is a trail 50K with technical terrain and/or hills, the training will be a little different because it just takes longer to run those types of races. That said, I'm still in the learning process of figuring out the best way to train for things but here are a few things I am putting into my schedule:
1. I want to run at least three 20 (or slightly longer) mile runs before the event. I have two 20s and one 22 planned. In the past, I have gone longer, but things I have been reading say that can be tough on the body so I'm giving this a try.
2. I have three back to backs that put me around the 30 mile mark weekend total.
3. I am including a speed work weekly. This should keep me from getting bored.
4. I am including some hill workouts. Hills make everything else seem easy.
5. I do 3 or so weeks of higher mileage and then drop down every 4th week. Helps prevent burnout mentally and gives the body a rest.
6. On some of my longer runs I will run the last miles at my target pace.
7. I include recovery runs weekly.
8. I will do most of my running on roads as I am training for a road 50K. If I were training for a trail 50K, I'd run a fair amount of trail.
9. I include a lot of miles close to race pace for shorter runs. My race pace isn't crazy fast. That might be a bad move for super speedy folks. For me it should be fine.
10. I want two weekends of lower mileage between my longest weekend and my race which will decrease my weekly mileage for my taper. I also won't do any hills during that time. I'll keep my paces the same.
I'm no expert, but that is my plan. I will send you a link to my training schedule. Hope that helps!
Which 50K are you looking at running?
1. Reach 2000 miles for the year
2. Finish two more states on my marathon/states quest (CT & DE)
This is all about slow and steady, just looking to get my mileage in and stay injury-free.
Lose some weight.....and this being the height of the eating season, that will be quite a challenge.
Running is stupid
1. 180 miles
2. Stick with No-S
Speed my steps along your path, according to your will.
2. Stick with No-S


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'Way Late Play Date' at cMoe Lets Adults Act Like Kids Again
Grab some friends, send the kids to Grandma's, and get ready to have some adult fun at the Children's Museum of Evansville!
The Museum's annual "Way Late Play Date" for adults is coming up Saturday, June 1st beginning at 7pm, and will feature activities and entertainment, including live comedy with CJ Harlow, dancing in the streets, karaoke, diamond dig, photo booth, and access to all of the cMoe exhibits.
If you're anything like me, it's hard to tell who's having more fun when you take the family to cMoe. However, as adults we often worry too much about what other adults may think if they see us not only playing with building blocks, or staging a stop-motion film (both of which are possible at cMoe), but enjoying it. The "Way Late Play Date" gives you the chance to throw those worries out the window since that's why everyone will be there!
Tickets for the event, which also includes food and beverages, are available now for $25 per person by calling 812-464-2663 ext. 230, or online through the cMoe website. An additional $10 will get you a beer bracelet.
"Reserved Sandboxes" are available for parties of eight for $250, and there's a "Stay Late" option where you get shuttle service to and from cMoe, hotel accomodations AND breakfast Sunday morning all for $79.00 at the Evansville Holiday Inn Airport. Those reservations can be made by calling the Holiday Inn Airport directly at 812-867-7999.


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Love It or Hate It? Rooney Mara, Angelina Jolie and More – Oscars Fashion Face-Off
Some things we can agree on … others, like Angelina Jolie's Oscar's dress, we fight to the death!
-April Daniels Hussar and PJ Gach
The red carpet has been rolled up, the official Seat-Filler has gone home and (presumably) sent his baby blue tux to the cleaners, and somewhere in France a handsome man is perhaps gazing at himself in the reflection of a golden statue ("J'adore America!"). Yes, friends, the Oscars are over, but that doesn't mean that we're ready to stop talking about them. Or — to put it more accurately — fighting over the red carpet finery. You see, we here at BettyConfidential take these things very seriously. Oh yes. We do.
We agreed that Viola Davis needs work on her cleavage exposure, we both swooned appropriately over Michelle Williams and her pretty peplum, and we were equally perplexed by Meryl Streep's golden get-up (It's pretty on TV! But, photographs oddly! It's too brassy-gold … or, is it??? Help!). However, we simply could not decide on the following ladies, so here we present our arguments and let you decide.
Battle to the Death! (or something like that…)
Angelina Jolie in Atelier Versace
PJ: When her leg wasn't attempting world domination, the skirt was soo big, she could've doubled as a tour guide for a southern plantation. The fullness of the skirt just emphasized that she's Skeletor. Not chic, not flattering.
APRIL: YES, OK I get it — her weird leg pose nearly eclipsed the whole evening and is, apparently, headed for world domination. HOWEVER … the dress is gorgeous! Divine! Sleek and glamorous and sultry and different! Also, I would like to add that I officially award Angie Best Lipstick of the Night.
Emma Stone in Giambattista Valli
PJ: The bow that ate Emma Stone.
APRIL: This girl can do no wrong on the red carpet, in my humble opinion. However, I do concede that this dress, while gorgeous and adorable and something I would love to wear, is a dress only another chick would love. This is not a man-eating dress. And that's ok!
Kristen Wiig in J. Mendel
APRIL: Tell me, Kristen, why do you fear color? Why? This is a night to sparkle and shine! I guess I'm not, in general, a fan on fleshy-tones dresses. Emerge from your Beige World, Kristen!
PJ: I've hated every red carpet outfit that she's had on … except this one. I love the loose waves, the layered tulle, the whole outfit. I think she looks stunning. Queen Tatiana of the forest.
(APRIL: More like a Midsummer Night's SNOOZE!)
Rooney Mara in Givenchy Haute Couture
PJ: YAWN! Does this woman have anything in her closet besides black or white? It's the same thing every at every red carpet event. She must love her character from Dragon Tattoo, 'cause she's channeling her fashion sense with every gown. Poo.
APRIL: She does have a red carpet theme, but so do a lot of celebs. And this theme — edge, sexy, unusual — is a great one. LOVE this dress; love the whole look. Poo on you, I say!
Penelope Cruz in Giorgio Armani
APRIL: I once read a magazine article in which the writer described Penelope Cruz as "freakishly beautiful." So apt, so apt. Nothing can take away from her beauty, but that odd fake helmet bob isn't adding to it, and to the dress I say, "Meh."
PJ: Oh "meh" to you too. I love the whole deal. The faux bob, her mom's necklace, the gown. Tres chic!
Rose Byrne in Vivienne Westwood
PJ: She looks like a bedazzled licorice stick.
APRIL: Maybe I'm prejudiced because I loved her white jumpsuit at the Globes so much, but I think this is a gorgeous dress. She does look painfully thin. But sparkly! I love the low-cut, asymmetrical back.
Tell us: Who wins this fashion face-off?
April Daniels Hussar is BettyConfidential's Executive Editor and PJ Gach is Senior Editor, Style+Beauty. Winner buys the next manicure!


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NIMH is soliciting proposals for its Outreach Partnership Program from organizations in 22 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Non-profit organizations that conduct outreach focused on mental health are invited to submit proposals. Organizations with experience in mental health disparities as defined by race or ethnicity, age (e.g., children, adolescents, transitional age youth, older adults), education or income, disability status, geographic location, risk status related to sex and gender, and among other populations identified to be at-risk for health disparities such as immigrants, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI), and military service members and their families are encouraged to apply.
See full solicitation. [1]
Links:[1] http://www.nimh.nih.gov/outreach/partnership-program/solicitation-process/outreach-partners-solicitation-process.shtml


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FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. - A 17-year-old Farmington Hills boy remains in critical condition since he was beaten April 16 at his home.
Sal Cipriano is at Botsford Hospital where he is responding to commands and pain. He is undergoing physical and occupational therapy.
He was one of three people beaten at the home in April. His father, Bob Cipriano, was killed. His mother, Rose Cipriano, was in critical condition but was moved to a private rehabilitation center which specializes in closed head injuries.
More: Special section for Cipriano family attack
The family's eldest son, 19-year-old Tucker Cipriano, faces murder charges for the attack on his family members. His 20-year-old friend, Mitchell Young, faces the same charges after police said the men broke into the Cipriano home and beat the family members with baseball bats.
Tucker's young sister and brother, Sal's twin, were also at the home during the attack. Police said the boy called 911 from a closet and his sister allowed police into the home where they reported finding a gruesome murder scene.
A swim-a-thon fundraiser for the Cipriano family raised nearly $10,000, according to the Cipriano Support Page on Facebook.
Copyright 2012 by ClickOnDetroit.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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SAINT LEO, Fla. – After falling to Tampa in a 59-57 heartbreaker back in January, the Saint Leo men's basketball team rallied for a 57-51 win over the Spartans, Wednesday night from the Marion Bowman Center on the Saint Leo campus. The victory pushed the Lions' overall record to 19-6, while earning them a 7-5 record in the SSC.
The first half was a battle for both teams, as the Lions and Spartans fought nearly basket for basket in the first 19 minutes of play. With the clock at 1:18 in the first period, junior Taylor Basset sank a three-pointer and back to back free throws, giving the Lions the momentum they needed to take a 28-25 lead heading into halftime.
After the buzzer sounded to begin the second half, however, Saint Leo surged ahead of their opponent, taking a lead that they would not lose for the rest of the contest. With the final seconds winding off the clock, the Lions cruised home to a 57-51 victory.
Holding Tampa to just 35 percent from the field, the Saint Leo defense forced ten Tampa turnovers, while also collecting six steals and 35 total rebounds. Senior Spenser Mitchell and junior Taylor Bassett combined for the Lions' three blocks.
As a team, the Lions shot 20-48 (42 percent) from the field in the win, sinking ten of 14 free throws (72 percent) and hitting one-third of their three-point shots. In addition, the squad tallied 13 assists.
Individually, sophomore Jaylon Bell led the Lions' team in scoring, with ten points. Senior Jerrel Harris and junior Cale Girten also contributed with nine points and eight points, respectively. Junior Ron Foxx and Taylor Bassett each recorded seven points.
The Lions' squad will return to action on Wednesday, February 19 when they head to Lakeland, Fla. to take on the Florida Southern Mocs. Tipoff for the SSC contest is set for 7:30 p.m.
For more on the Saint Leo men's basketball team, visit SaintLeoLions.com. Also, be sure to 'Like' the Lions on Facebook and 'Follow' Saint Leo Athletics on Twitter and Instagram.


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From a personal story by a veteran hockey announcer to a beach volleyball gallery, here are the most-read Sports stories of the year
1. CBC's Scott Oake shares story of his son's fatal addiction
Hockey Night in Canada host Scott Oake and his wife Anne bravely shared the tragic story of the loss of their eldest son Bruce for the first time to help raise awareness and money for an addiction facility in Winnipeg.
Oake's openness about the family's struggle struck a chord with Globe readers, with the story by Bruce Dowbiggin.
"That's the one thing we learned," the sportscaster said. "That addiction knows no socioeconomic boundaries. We're just an average family."
(Courtesy of the Oake Family)
2. Canadian skier Sarah Burke dies from injuries
Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke died nine days after crashing during a training run in Utah, cutting short the brilliant career of a winter sports pioneer at the age of 29.
A four-time Winter X- Games champion, Burke was the best-known athlete in her sport and will be remembered for the legacy she left for women in freestyle skiing.
"Sarah was certainly someone who lived life to the fullest and in doing so was a significant example to our community and far beyond," Canadian Freestyle Ski Association CEO Peter Judge said in a statement.
Thanks to her tireless efforts, superpipe skiing will make its Olympic program debut at the Sochi Games in 2014.
(Nathan Bilow/Associated Press)
3. Canada's Olympic soccer squad in shock after heartbreaking semi-final loss to U.S.
No one single game or match seemed to capture the attention of our readers in 2012 quite like the Canadian women's soccer team's 4-3 semi-final loss to the U.S. at the London Olympics. More than 1500 comments were left on this Jeff Blair story.
Canadian captain Christine Sinclair and forward Melissa Tancredi were among several players highly-critical of the work of Norwegian referee Christina Pedersen during the match, who made several awkward calls impacting the game, the worst of them against Canada.
"We feel cheated," Sinclair said afterward. "It's a shame that in a game as important as that, the ref decided the result before it started."
The team would bounce back to win a bronze medal by beating France 1-0.
(Mike Ridewood/CANADIAN PRESS/HO, COC)
4. Sex (maybe) and the Italian swim sensation
Eric Reguly's story on Italian swim and media sensation Federica Pellegrini ahead of the London Olympics brought plenty of strong reaction from readers.
"The British and international press in London are in for a treat when they spot her," Reguly wrote. "Tall, tattooed, beautiful and occasionally blond, she is fond of shedding her clothes in photo shoots."
Pellegrini's boyfriend Filippo Magnini, the former 100-metre world freestyle champion, made headlines before the Games, telling the Italian gossip magazine Chi that he and Pellegrini would avoid sex ahead of Pellegrini's London swim events. To which "La Pellegrini," as she is known in her home country, responded: "Abstinence! Are you mad?"
Pellegrini failed to medal in London, finishing fifth in the 400-metre freestyle and the 200-metre freestyle.
(The Associated Press)
5. Team Canada and others dig in for beach volleyball
Here's an important lesson about the Internet: If you assemble a collection of images of taut, ripped athletic physiques straining in competition on a beach while wearing very little, people will click on it.
Like, a lot.


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I have previously worked on asp.net language. I found that people feel I can do UI kind of work better then back-end programming. I started Playing with PHP but it's not something I can easily play with.
I found Javascript & bootstrap (Twitter) is more interesting for work with.I am doing JS , jQuery and Bootstrap kind of work from last year. I want to know how I can increase my skill so I can compete with people.
When I work with bootstrap I don't do responsive design and other people do. Most of people move to other because of this same reason. Now I feel doing front-end work is better then doing PHP, Wordpress.
I want to get paid very few/months and want to love what I do (I already doing coding). I want to know what should I do for make my career better.
Wordprss, PHP :- I can't programmer better and this is suggested by many people. people told me to do focus on UI work better then something else.
Front-end kind of work :- I want to get skill in front-end work. I haven't done anything in responsive web. I want to learn front-end work. I want to grow my skill to make me best.
I have no good skill and don't have good funds. I want to do work to make money. My motive is doing something to learn and help people on their work. The big problem I have is my skill is not good.
I have made many good sites. Someone please help me to grow my career.
First of all never ever underestimate you, always stay ahead one point! You seem to be hardworking, and try to work with some people instead of working alone, its better to contact a web designer who can design and you can then code the website accordingly.. Now a days wordpress is very popular so you can learn it and move forward in this!
the only things i can advice is :
1- Be organized2- First Question to Ask : How do web users (Customers, Clients) think?3- Remove distractions : The Web designers are constantly surrounded by distractions. Twitter, Facebook, email, the telephone and indeed the web itself are constant distractions that prevent us from getting stuff done.4- Find your focus5- Consider outsourcing6- Recycle : When rushing from one task to the next, reinventing the wheel becomes all too easy
It isn't hard to learn enough PHP to use it in an effective way to build a site that uses a template (or two, or three) for pages, using the PHP to plug in different content into the template. That's what I do, and it makes it very easy to update a site, and add pages, etc., because you only need to write the code for the template once.
I'd stay away from Word Press. Too many people use it and all those sites look basically the same. Boring! And most are ugly besides. It's an easy way for people to get into the business, but they are not designers. Besides, it is my experience as a user that the Word Press sites take forever to load. I absolutely hate a Word Press Website. Avoid it!
If you want to make a mark in your area, become a real designer, and learn to code (and sharpen your artistic skills as well) so that you can build unique Websites that don't look like everybody elses. I say this, but I will tell you that I am barely getting started myself, with only a few Websites under my belt. But I look at the competition, and I see that there are many Websites that have a "sameness" about them. Very little innovation or originality, and, frankly, most of them are just plain UGLY. Too many people in the business who haven't a clue about art. They write code. Period.
Too much emphasis on "content," too. Content depends on the purpose of the site. If you are creating a site that is intended to inform on some topic, then yes. Content is king, but not at the expense of good design. Good design should always be kept in mind. There are people here that will argue with me on that, saying that people don't care if the information is there that they want. Maybe. But that is no excuse for building an ugly Website!
If you are building a business Website, it better look good. You are building a company's image. More than likely, a company Website is for purposes of advertising the company and it's products or service, so it should be treated as advertising. That means that the 'content' will be intended to sell. You'll have to become a "copy writer." "A copywriter is a sales person behind a typewriter." — Judith Charles, President of Judith K. Charles Creative Communication.
Buy a book on copy writing. Writing copy is a special skill. This has to be learned, or your copy will not do it's job, and will be full of words and phrases and (as we see too often on the Web) stuffed full of "keywords" aimed at getting the attention of search engines, but doing nothing to attract potential clients. They will quickly leave your page. And, forget the rules you learned in English classes. Short sentences are best. And, it's okay to begin a sentence with 'and.' Or 'but,' or 'because.'
Buy a couple of good books on advertising if you intend to create Websites for businesses. One of my favorites is "Positioning: The battle for your mind" by Al Ries and Jack Trout.
Forget the sounds, the pops, clicks and other annoyances. Those things are for games. Keep things simple and clean. Personally, I think too much animation is an annoyance as well. These are "thumb suckers."
If you intend to get into the design business, learn the craft and aim to be the best. The Web has too many crappy Websites created by people who write code, but wouldn't know good design if it slapped them in the face.
Check my site: http://www.dreammakergraphics.com
A web designer must be focused on the user's need at all times - usability, accessibility, user experience and user interaction.


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WINTER PARK, Fla. - Saint Leo freshman Erin Bobsein has been named Sunshine State Conference Women's Swimmer of the Week presented by VALIC.
Bobsein (Jupiter, Fla.) claimed a pair of individual wins and a relay victory to help lift the Lions to a 153-109 victory over Rollins. Bobsein won a pair of backstroke events, posting a time of 28.67 in the 50-yard event and a mark of 1:00.57 in the 100-yard race. She also swam the leadoff leg in the 200 medley relay, which SLU won with a time of 1:52.86.
In less than three weeks, the Lions will take the next step in their journey to the NCAA National Championships as they compete in the Sunshine State Conference Championships in Clearwater, Fla. Hosted by Nova Southeastern University, the four-day battle is set to begin on February 13th at 8:00 a.m.
For more on both swim programs, visit SaintLeoLions.com. Also, be sure to 'Like' the Lions on Facebook and 'Follow' the Lions on Twitter.
For more than half a century, VALIC has served as a leading retirement plan provider for higher education, as well as for K-12 schools and school districts, healthcare, government and other not-for-profit institutions. VALIC has more than $65 billion in total assets under management and manages plans for nearly 25,000 groups serving nearly two million plan participants. VALIC represents The Variable Annuity Life Insurance Company and its subsidiaries, VALIC Financial Advisors, Inc., and VALIC Retirement Services Company.


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Video: Arrest of Steven Brooks (Warning: Contains expletives)
Gallery: Nevada assemblyman Steve Brooks arrested in desert after chase
BARSTOW - Ousted Nevada Assemblyman Steven Brooks is scheduled to appear in court here Tuesday after leading law enforcement officers on a wild car chase that ended with him beating and choking a police dog, authorities said.
Brooks, 41, a Democrat from North Las Vegas, fled from police after a dispute with a tow truck driver on Lenwood Road near the 15 Freeway in Barstow at 6:11 p.m. Thursday.
"Brooks continued to accelerate at a high rate of speed and was traveling in and out of multiple lanes in an attempt to get away from officers," Barstow police said in a news release.
Officers said Police Chief Albert Ramirez was the department's spokesman for the incident, but officials said he was unavailable Friday.
Brooks' sport-utility vehicle emitted sparks and smoke as he fled because one of his tires was flat, police said.
The California Highway Patrol and the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department joined the chase south on the 15. The CHP eventually took the lead, with Barstow police remaining at the back of the line of law enforcement officers.
Police said Brooks began tossing metal objects out of his window while driving.
The CHP placed a spike strip on the freeway, causing Brooks to finally stop north of Stoddard Wells Road.
Brooks eventually got out of his car after receiving orders to surrender. Police said he was acting irrationally and refused to listen to officers' orders.
Barstow police released their dog, Buck, to take Brooks into custody, but before the dog could catch him, Brooks ran back to his car. Buck jumped through the back window of the vehicle.
Police said Brooks began choking Buck and hit the dog with a metal socket wrench. The dog suffered a cut to his left leg and above his right eye.
CHP and Barstow police officers tried to handcuff Brooks and then used a Taser gun on him when he continued to resist arrest, authorities said.
Jennifer Simpson, who lives in an apartment complex next to the freeway where the chase ended, saw the end of the pursuit and was with people who took a video of it.
"We thought maybe this guy robbed a 7-Eleven or something," she said.
But then she began receiving phone calls from Nevada media outlets after uploading the video to Youtube.
"I really didn't think it was going to be this big of a deal, that maybe a couple people would see it," she said.
The video appears to show officers pulling Brooks from the vehicle and laying him on the ground, where he was struck several times by an officer.
Paramedics took Brooks to Barstow Community Hospital. He was later booked into West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga on suspicion of felony evading arrest, throwing an object at vehicles with the intent to cause harm, resisting arrest and harming a police dog.
He was held in lieu of $100,000 bail.
Charges had not yet been filed against Brooks, but San Bernardino County sheriff's booking records showed he was set to appear in Barstow Superior Court next week.
The Nevada Assembly voted Thursday morning to oust Brooks after Assembly Majority Leader William Horne called him "potentially dangerous" and said lawmakers didn't feel safe with him in the building.
This was the third time the Brooks has been arrested since January. He's accused of making threats toward his colleagues, including Assembly Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick.
Brooks also was denied the purchase of a gun in Sparks, Nev., last month after he was banished from the Assembly chambers. Mitchell Posin, Brooks' attorney, said there's been a misunderstanding and Brooks doesn't pose any real threat to anyone.
Brooks won re-election in November by a 2-1 margin over an unknown challenger.
Horne said Thursday that Brooks' unpredictable behavior - which included missing meetings, calling news conferences he never showed up for and posing shirtless for a Las Vegas newspaper - had made the session look "more like a circus and daytime drama than a serious legislative body. "
It was the first time the Legislature initiated the expulsion of a member since a lawmaker was accused of libeling other members in 1867, although that case never came to a formal vote.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Introducing AnandTech Mobile: A Responsive Design Updateby Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/15/2013 9:47 AM EST
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franz899 - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkFinally, nice work. Reply
gnx - Monday, July 15, 2013 - link+1 for both "Finally" and for "nice work" Reply
Sabresiberian - Monday, July 15, 2013 - link"Nice work" of course, but I don't get the "finally" part. Did they make some kind of promise that they were behind on? Reply
wifiwolf - Tuesday, July 16, 2013 - linkDon't need to promise, users expect it. We are AT readers for many years and use smartphones for at least 4 years. Responsive design is a must for any website ATM. Reply
vol7ron - Tuesday, July 16, 2013 - linkSeeing how Anand tested the original iPads until his hands hurt, and other mobile testers test against Anandtech all the time, I would say they are also AT readers - they read and review the same articles and comments - and most likely wanted something like this for as long, if not longer.
However, I proposed a better comment system, similar to DailyTech, but more like the Stack Exchange network, which I would prefer to see implemented. AT articles bring a lot of information, but you can learn a lot from the readers/commenters that also work in the field. Reply
PalmerWoodrow - Friday, July 19, 2013 - link"Responsive" doesn't tell us anything. Reply
Montago - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkThis is so freaking nice ! Reply
xinthius - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkI feel rather guilty for having Adblock installed now.
Looks solid on my HTC One X, good work! Reply
karasaj - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkJust disable it for AT. Their ads aren't exactly intrusive. :P
Redesign looks fantastic y'all, everything is great! I always wondered when that mobile site was coming. Reply
turbosloth - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkLove it guys, looks hot on my Nexus 4. Box have set you up with a proper treat there :) Reply
crazylocha - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkWorks great on DX2 w/ Dolphin(+jetpack). Super smooth switch to landscape and all. Like it!
Is there going to be an addition to the menu for Pipeline/Dailytech/Etc? Reply
skiboysteve - Monday, July 15, 2013 - link2nd this. I visit on my Lumia 920 regularly and its nice to see pipeline and major stories. Now I can only see major stories no matter if I set desktop or mobile mode for my user agent Reply
TrackSmart - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkAgreed! There is no obvious way to view pipeline stories, which is unfortunate.
Maybe they should just fall in line with the "regular" stories. You could differentiate them with a "Pipeline" logo, but they would fall in the normal article list.
Overall, the mobile views are a wonderful addition and function well. Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkPipeline stories are visible on all tag pages, it's just the front page that we don't have an ideal solution in place for yet. We talked about adding another dropdown for pipeline, will discuss it with our developer again. Reply
jibz - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkWhy not just let us see the desktop, non responsive site when we select a desktop user agent? I prefer it this way, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkResponsive designs don't give you a different view based on user agent string, instead they deliver a different view based on reported browser resolution.
If you want the desktop view, simply set the desktop cookie under About on the mobile view. Reply
jibz - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkOk, didn't see the Full website button there. Good to know. The user agent toggle is simply a shortcut so I don't have to find that button in every single web site. I let my browser tell the website if I prefer the mobile, responsive view or the classic site. Reply
TrackSmart - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkThat is unfortunate. I always hit the front page to see if there are new stories (of any kind). I would not think to check individual sections (e.g. Smartphones) to find articles that are may (or may not) be missing from the front page. It would be too much work.
I'll be curious to see how you guys approach this problem. As it stand, content is "hidden" behind those category walls and is unlikely to be viewed by folks with similar browsing behavior to my own. It is too much work to check each and every section and scan for something that looks new, but isn't on the front page.
A dropdown isn't a great fix for this problem, but it would be better than the current situation.
I think the fundamental question is whether Pipeline stories need to be physically separated from 'normal' stories for those reading on mobile platforms. Or can you find a clever way to distinguish them.
Some random ideas to get the brainstorming started:
- Pipeline icon/logo instead of a photo that directly relates to the article?
- Different color text and background?
- Larger box for 'big' stories and smaller box for Pipeline stories? Reply
eanazag - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkI miss the pipeline too. But I can certainly deal with setting the view back to desktop. I had no issues with your website not being mobile designed. Reply
kenthaman - Tuesday, July 16, 2013 - linkI think another dropdown would make sense. I didn't see any way to check for podcast otherwise. Reply
n0x1ous - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linklooks great. Huge improvement. Ultimately I would still prefer a dedicated mobile app but this largely makes up for it. Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkThanks for the feedback. We were actually talking about this over the weekend. I'm curious as to what makes you say that you'd prefer a dedicated mobile app. Reply
domboy - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkI agree, why does it need to be an app? This solution seems so much better than having to have an app for a website. Reply
n0x1ous - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkShare link/post type integration that I use frequently if I want to text or email an article to a friend. Easier than having to copy url etc etc.
When I use my mobile browser I prefer the full site. I realize I can still get that so these are just nitpicks. Ultimately, I read anandtech every day of my life because of the quality and content of the writing and that won't be changing regardless of these formats. Cheers Anand. Your the best in the biz. Reply
crazylocha - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkAs an example of app goodness... The current mobile issue with Pipe/Tweets/etc..
Bring app up to home (main page as shows mobile browser now)..
sidescroll to pipeline...
again for Dailytech...(tapping article can be set in options to take you to browser or in app view, withtop of app button to go to webpage for further links, etc)
sidescroll again for tweets... (ability for app to retweet or post new tweet to conversation easier with app collaboration than browser, my understanding!)
and the ease of mobile gmail and other mail apps to send feedback, or to forward links, in all mobile OS's to be considered also.
If anyone can get their mobile app right, this site and their brains ought to blow away many dev's and set the standard. Reply
Quidam67 - Tuesday, July 16, 2013 - linkI may be wrong, but in addition to a level of functional customization and design that is simply not possible via a web-browser, an app would offer at least the potential for better optimization/performance, especially in relation to network traffic. Frankly, here in NZ mobile streaming (outside of a wifi network) keeps me well away from my mobiles web-browser, but in most cases I find mobile apps (for example trademe, out equivalent of ebay) to be quite tolerable and usable. Anyway, just want to say Anand I've been following your website for years beyond count, and am filled with admiration of where you began to where you are now. Keep up the great work. Reply
Zink - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkNice! Reply
smithkt - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkI don't see a way to jump to the forums from these mobile pages. You should consider adding a link somewhere in one of the menus. Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkDone, check the home menu up top :) Reply
smithkt - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkNice. Now you just need to get rid of the left hand menu when looking at the forums and I will be a happy guy. Takes up valuable real estate for navigation which already has other methods. Reply
mrob27 - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkThis is really cool -- I can view the different layouts on my PC using windows of different widths. No user agent spoofing required! Reply
skiboysteve - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkwow agreed. Just resize your window and it changes on the fly. dont even have to refresh. so cool!
thanks Anand and Box! Reply
quiksilvr - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkNo podcast section? Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkAdded Podcast link to the Home menu at the top :) Reply
Firebat5 - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkThanks for making a mobile version of your site. It's much easier to read and navigate. Reply
Chapbass - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkWow, looks awesome on my Galaxy Note 2, loads really quick too. AT just got a ton more enjoyable on mobile, IMO. Also looks great on my work ipad gen 3. One thing I noticed, I don't see a link for Forums or Bench, would be awesome to have personally. (yeah, I guess I could just favorite them, but it'd still be nice to have :D).
Great job, bravo to the Box devs as well, this looks excellent. Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkBench is there (try the home menu up top, or scroll down). Just added links for Forums and Podcast. Reply
Rick83 - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkNow if only the site would scale up as well.
Maybe a two-column or side-by-side layout might work to make use of all that currently useless horizontal space that everybody has on their 16:10/16:9 displays.
Considering how much horizontal scrolling most articles currently take, I'm seeing definite room for improvement on that front. Reply
coder543 - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkThis is excellent!
My one complaint -- the nav icons in the top right corner (in the nav bar) are so low resolution. On high-PPI screens, they look blurry.
Otherwise, this is a huge step in the right direction! Reply
Storkme - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkWould it be possible to reveal some more technical details about the implementation? I'd be interested to know if it's purely responsive (same content in the DOM, restyled only using CSS/JS) or there is still some backend user-agent sniffing magic going on? Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkIt is indeed purely responsive - we are restyling/hiding content on the fly, which is what enables you to see both tablet and desktop views depending on how you orient something like the iPad mini. The only exception are the ads which are loaded based on initial resolution target to avoid serving ads that will never be seen. Reply
ananduser - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkAnand...no more pipeline section. Make it all a single wall that would perpetuate as you scroll. Like the blog view of Gizmodo or Cnet's "load more stories" button or Tumblr's auto scroll. Why clutter the front page with different sections. Simple is best. Thanks! Reply
blacks329 - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkFantastic job with the redesign and responsiveness, but I do find it a bit odd that it goes between desktop and mobile versions of the site when changing orientations.
I would much rather have the mobile design continued in landscape orientation on something like my iPad rather than it going to the desktop version.
But nonetheless, a welcome change to consuming AT on my phone or tablet. Kudos to everyone involved in the process. Reply
makerofthegames - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkThis is cool and all, but I'm disabling the mobile view for now.
I often browse in a half-window - effectively 960x1080. On the desktop version, that just means I have to side-scroll a bit to see the pipeline stories (which I only need to do if they're new - I can spot ones I've already read just from the fragment).
With the responsive design, though, instead of letting them be cut off, it just hides them. They're not moved anywhere, they don't get merged in with the other articles, they're just gone.
Until that gets fixed, I'm sticking with the desktop version. On my desktop, at least. Reply
ashita - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkThe first link to Box's site is missing the "http://" (1st paragraph) :) Reply
uhuznaa - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkBeautiful, responsive (in more than one way) and very well done. Until now I hated reading Anandtech on any mobile device, this will be different now. Reply
chesterzen - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkMaybe I'm alone in this, but I just hate when websites force me into some downgraded experience because I went there on my phone. I feel like I'm being punished for using a mobile device. The regular site works just fine on my gs3... I'm baffled why I would want a lesser version or why effort goes into that at all.
meh. Reply
Touche - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkI agree. Why can't they respect my user agent setting?! I hate mobile versions with a passion. I hated them on my 2.6" N95 and I hate them now on my large smartphone. If I set a specific user agent, respect the damn thing. And I can't even change the setting in the About section because it doesn't work in Opera Mobile I'm using. Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkWhat device/OS/version of Opera Mobile are you using? Reply
Touche - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkSamsung Captivate Glide/2.3.5/Opera 11.50
It is an older version of Opera, but the smoothest one. I don't expect everything to work on it, as Opera is known for compatibility issues, but user agent should be respected. Dolphin's one wasn't respected either, but at least the About section works there. Reply
Zandros - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkAgreed. Double-tapping the text column worked perfectly well with the old design in portrait view, with the added benefit that I could zoom further to get a better look at pictures, slides and graphs.
Since I can't zoom now, graphs are virtually unreadable on my iPhone 5 in portrait, and I don't think turning it to horizontal every time is a good solution. Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkThis is exactly why we allow for the ability to force the desktop view at all times. Scroll down to the bottom of the mobile view, under about you should see an option for requesting the desktop view. Reply
Zandros - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkYeah, I got that (I might be misremembering, but it seems somewhat different to what it was before, double tap leaves a bit of the sidebar in view for some reason). I still think that it would be useful to get a good look at the graphs in portrait mode with the responsive design somehow. Reply
Moizy - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkAwesome! Nice work, thank you! Reply
quiksilvr - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkWhere is the podcast option? I have to go to full site in About and click it on the top right on my phone. Reply
quiksilvr - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkNevermind, had to click the home button which brings up a drop down menu. Odd placement but its better than going into desktop mode. Reply
twin-pt - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkFinally, my only complaint about Anandtech's site is over! Brilliant! Reply
GauravDas27 - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkFinally! I was getting tired of using Currents on my phone. Reply
geniekid - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkLooks really good. Way better than a lot of other "mobile" sites Reply
457R4LDR34DKN07 - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkI miss the dailytech headlines :( Reply
synaesthetic - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkI've been waiting for this for practically forever! I hate trying to wrangle websites intended for pointing devices like mice on a touchscreen.
Lovely mobile site. :) Reply
danstek - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkThe AnandTech logo and the icons to the left of it are low res so there're a little blurry. Also, is there anyway to see pipeline articles? Otherwise, I'm definitely liking the new layout. Reply
toyotabedzrock - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkWorks great except for one problem. It does not respect the browser calling for the desktop version of the site. Which means I cant see the Daily Tech news feed.
I'm using Opera mobile 12.1x Reply
g33kd0m - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkThis new design is very nice indeed. Works great on the desktop and mobile. Seems to load faster as well. Reply
adt6247 - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkThank you so much! This is much appreciated! I actually read your site on my phone about 70% of the time during my commute. This will make my life much easier! Reply
MonkeyPaw - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkLooks good on my Lumia 521. This officially moves Anandtech from awesome to super awesome. Reply
eutectic - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkReally impressive work on this. Have you rolled in any solutions for Retina/HiDPI assets, or is that still not mature enough to deploy on a news/review site? Reply
calyth - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkWorks on BlackBerry Z10. +1 for not ignoring the Z10 browser even though it IDs itself as a mobile safari Reply
lukewayne - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkLooks great. Very happy that you made this step. Reply
meacupla - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkhow about getting the main site to accept touch inputs in firefox?
It's really annoying not being able to scroll through articles by swiping with fingers on anand with surface pro. Reply
Malih - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkLooks good here, posting this comment from WP8 😁
I always mostly read news mobile. Reply
TheRealArdrid - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkBeen waiting a long time for a mobile edition of this site. Nicely done! Reply
c0pperbottoms - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkNOOOOOOO, Anandtech was my mobile-browser-assessment-page. Perfect mix of text, images and some animated ad content.
(I know, I know, I can enable desktop at the bottom) Reply
Abelard - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkWorks perfectly on my iPhone. Great work! Reply
armodons - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkBeen waiting for a good mobile version for a long time....thanks! Reply
Csfalcao - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkI just disabled it. I'm not a fan of responsive design: it disrupts the experience of the full browser, creating like a mirror site - and not a better one. You can see this in Anandtech too: 1st thing when I visit it (almost daily) I check the main article and then 2nd - Daily News (ok, Jason Mick's articles are shallow, but the news keep me updated) and then some twitter. Wheres's #2 and 3 in responsive?
Another bad bad thing is replacing the graphs bar for...colored boxes...very lame, just totally break the experience, the boxes are difficult to read and you have to keep think about the relationship between the score, the percentage etc terrible.
I think it's just better to have one site to all devices, just double tap and zoom the section you want to read.
A good thing is Anand partnership to some tech companies, in this case BOX. I prefer Dropbox, but BOX is OK. Just don't overuse the BOX logo all over the pages.
Have the option to turn off responsive is good.
I read Anand almost 8 years and this is the first time I have something bad to say about it. Sorry! Reply
kgh00007 - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkGreat, but the text is still too small on mobile, smaller than every other web site I visit and increasing the browser don't size results in other websites text being huge and not much change in anandtech, please fix this!
I also miss the pipeline stories, so hope you come up with a solution for that, maybe a split screen with most recent pipelines above main stories. The pipeline stories seem to have more frequent updates and are the reason I check in at anandtech so often! Reply
watersb - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkLooks great on Opera Mini on my antique, still-working iPhone 2G. Both "single-column view" and "native". Good work, everyone! Reply
watersb - Tuesday, July 16, 2013 - linkOpera Mini version 22.214.171.124701 on iOS 3.1.3 (7E18) Reply
WhitneyLand - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkAre you guys aware Pinch-Zoom no longer works on iPad? How are we supposed to zoom small image or chart details? Or what if our vision is just not good? Reply
Pratheek - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkwow.. what a cool feature... 320px support is appreciated... Reply
aryonoco - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkGreat job Anand, and thanks Box for their sponsorship. Also so glad you went with a responsive design as opposed to breaking the web.
It works brilliantly. Typing this now on my HTC One and even the comments section and posting comments works a treat.
I think not being able to view Pipeline is an issue for the casual user who stumbles upon your main page, that content is effectively hidden from them. Not an issue for me as they still show up in my RSS and that's how I follow AT, but I can see where others are coming from. Reply
HYPhoenix - Tuesday, July 16, 2013 - linkthank you. Reply
Kill16by9TN - Tuesday, July 16, 2013 - linkFor me as a desktop user the new design is a step backwards.
With the same browser window size as before I now lose the right hand column with the "PIPELINE STORIES" and "Dailytech News", unless I increase the browser width by a significant margin.
Apparently the main section of the page now requires a larger minimum width/character count per line, before text stops flowing and breaking into the next line. There is no horizontal scrollbar coming up as a possible compensation for this issue.
With two browsers side by side on a fHD screen, I now have more overlapping of those windows than before, reducing the usefulness of such a setup. Reply
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NesuD - Tuesday, July 16, 2013 - linkVery nice. My son who is a developer was just this weekend telling me about pushing his company to start offering responsive design sites and used anandtech as anexample of a site that he thought would benefit greatly from a responsive design update. Now all that is left is to implement a full screen width design. Reply
ShieTar - Tuesday, July 16, 2013 - linkNot bad, but i can't find a way to see the pipeline stories on my phone? Reply
WhitneyLand - Tuesday, July 16, 2013 - linkPlease see why disabling Pinch-Zoom is a bad idea: http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/37511/should... Reply
Tinmanhk - Tuesday, July 16, 2013 - linkSigned up for first time to make this comment. I very often look at AT on my iPad and the inability to pinch zoom or double tap to enlarge text is a serious flaw in the new design as it appears that viewing AT in landscape mode forces a desktop view which cannot be zoomed etc. Please can this be fixed Reply
bobbozzo - Tuesday, July 16, 2013 - linkThe new design mis-detects my laptop as a mobile device.
OS: Fedora 17 64-bit
Computer: Dell Latitude e6410 laptop
Screen res: 1440x900
Browser: FireFox 22
Furthermore, I get an error when clicking About - Show Full Site (it does work though, despite the error). Reply
MassiveTurboLag - Tuesday, July 16, 2013 - linkThe font size is too small. I still find it better to use Reader on my 3rd gen iPad. Reply
Red Storm - Tuesday, July 16, 2013 - linkI guess I'm the only one that does not like this new look at all. Maybe it's more view friendly for smaller iPhone screens, but I prefer the desktop view over this by far. Now the forums button is gone, as is the Pipeline and DailyTech boxes on the right. Reply
Red Storm - Tuesday, July 16, 2013 - linkAnd now I can't even skip the mobile site and force load the desktop version by choice! :( Reply
Kill16by9TN - Wednesday, July 17, 2013 - linkThat's what I thought at first, too. You need to increase your browser's window width until the right-hand column pops back up. Strangely there is no H-scrollbar showing up, when the width is insufficient to display everything at once, instead stuff then just disappears.
As a mostly desktop (fHD) user, I don't like this new behavior either, since I now am forced into overlapping side by side windows. Reply
amicrozen - Thursday, July 18, 2013 - linkBeautiful job. Finally a website which looks correct regardless of the device or orientation. Reply
djorgen - Thursday, July 18, 2013 - linkTested this on my Nexus 4, and the site looks & works very well! Great job Box & AT! :-) Reply
MadMan007 - Thursday, July 18, 2013 - linkI didn't read all the comments to see if it was mentioned elsewhere, so here goes...
It's nice to have a mobile-friendly layout, but on my Nexus 4 some of the articles get *really* screwed up by ads that don't scale at all. So there will be a few words along the left, then a huge ad picture that takes up the rest of the screen, then the rest of the article text. It just looks horrible and makes the mobile site frustrating to use. Could you please move to real mobile ads instead of just putting the desktop site ads into the mobile version? Reply
PalmerWoodrow - Friday, July 19, 2013 - link"Responsive" to what? Reply


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