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The Nexus Experience Galaxy S 4 - What We Knowby Brian Klug on 5/17/2013 2:40 PM EST
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ExodusC - Friday, May 17, 2013 - linkI'm assuming the white Nexus 4 is the same Nexus 4 we've seen before (I know you didn't get a chance to check any details about it, so I know you don't know). The most disappointing thing from I/O for me was the lack of any details about Android 4.3. I am glad to hear from the one fireside chat that they plan to continue working on getting rid of jank in the UI.
The Nexus-experience SGS4 sounds nice, but I would have loved to see both a Nexus-experience SGS4 and HTC One. Now that would be a tough decision to make. Reply
Brian Klug - Friday, May 17, 2013 - linkSupposedly the white Nexus 4 is the same thing as the black Nexus 4 internally, same SoC and cellular band support (no official LTE, etc).
I'd also like to see a Nexus experience HTC One. :)
-Brian Reply
tipoo - Friday, May 17, 2013 - linkI wonder if they'll have a manufacturing tweak to fix the throttling, it's a *very* easy fix and a lot of phones use this method as stock so it seems safe enough. People have been putting 0.5mm copper shims and thermal grease between the SoC and metal frame, which acts as a heatsink and mostly fixes things. Reply
darwinosx - Friday, May 17, 2013 - linkHTC has already said it isn't going to happen. Reply
ZeDestructor - Saturday, May 18, 2013 - linkYou got a source on that? Reply
Cinnabuns - Friday, May 17, 2013 - linkI agree. The lack of Android 4.3 or even 4.2.3 was very disappointing. The Nexus 4 has a slew of bluetooth bugs that are still not fixed and Google is taking forever to address them. Reply
ArmedandDangerous - Saturday, May 18, 2013 - linkWhy would Google need to release a "numbered" update for it to matter? All the goodies they announced at the I/O are still great, regardless of your ROM saying 4.2.2 or 4.3 I just don't understand it. Reply
Cinnabuns - Monday, May 20, 2013 - linkWait...did you completely fail to read my comment? A "numbered" update matters because I'm waiting for fixes to at least 3 different broken bluetooth functions. If Google wants to surprise us with a bugfix without updating the version number, I'd be happy with that, too. But they haven't done it with the Nexus 4 so I'm not holding my breath. Reply
TO11MTM - Saturday, May 25, 2013 - linkCinnabuns, it's Google Distortion field. They ignore all of the bugs in the current version because new shiny things are dangled in front of them.
They do the same thing with Google Earth; 7.0 Did not fix many of the issues in 6.2, introduced new ones, AND they made horrid changes to the UX that no one is happy about. Yet Google basically said 'meh' because the feature makes it look flashier, even if it's less useful for the paying users who need it the old way for production.
As for your bluetooth, I feel your pain. have you tried any of the custom kernels out there? I was having all sorts of stupid Bluetooth issues with my Nexus 7 until I switched to a Motley kernel. Before It would take 5-10 times to connect to certain devices. Now I'd say ~95+ percent of the time it connects on the first go.
Crap like this is why I am giving the Lumia 521 a shot; At 150 with no contract it's fairly obvious that it's a desperate grab by Microsoft and Nokia, hopefully they're just the right amount of desperate to make the thing halfway decent... Reply
macs - Friday, May 17, 2013 - linkBrian, does this mean that this device will work with European Lte bands? I really want this device here in italy (imported obviously) but maybe the best way is to buy un unlocked i9505 here and flash an xda port... Reply
s44 - Friday, May 17, 2013 - linkThe band table is confusing. Surely that's not *all* the radio frequencies M919 works on? The official specs list GSM 900, and surely GSM and UMTS on 2100 have to work as well...
Perhaps it's just the bands that would be active in the US? Reply
xdrol - Friday, May 17, 2013 - linkIt is a shot from an FCC document. I'd be surprised if they did testing for bands that is not available in the USA. Reply
Brian Klug - Friday, May 17, 2013 - linkCorrect, that isn't the canonical complete listing of bands the device supports, but what was tested and approved as far as the US service markets are concerned. There's no doubt Band 1 and quad band GSM.
-Brian Reply
DLeRium - Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - linkwhat about LTE bands? Should we be expecting the same compatibility the AT&T/T-Mobile S4s currently offer? IMT and IMT-E? No DCS... Reply
bleh0 - Friday, May 17, 2013 - linkSince HTC isn't providing the stock experience I and many others want I might as well pick up the "Nexus" S4. Reply
Jambe - Saturday, May 18, 2013 - linkYeah, I'd prefer a Nexus version of the HTC One, but since there is no such stock option the Nexus S4 seems better. HTC's just losing monies there, I figure. Reply
Nehemoth - Friday, May 17, 2013 - linkAny chance that HTC One get the Google treatment?, would love to get an HTC One (CDMA) with Android Stock. Reply
darwinosx - Friday, May 17, 2013 - linkHTC announced its not going to happen. Reply
darwinosx - Friday, May 17, 2013 - linkWhich is dumb of them. Reply
eaanders22 - Friday, May 17, 2013 - linkGoogle probably did this because Samsung doesn't sell Its phones to anyone but telcos in the US and they don't service unlocked phones in the US that were imported from countries where Samsung sold them. I'm one of the people who wanted an unlocked Samsung Galaxy Note with the exynos processor. Samsung only sold it outside the US, but Amazon sold me an imported one. They assured me in writing that it was warranted for two years. It crashed and Amazon wouldn't stand by the warranty and Samsung wouldn't service it since it wasn't sold by them in the US. Now people are able to get the S4 from Google and get it serviced by Google and won't be left out in the cold by Samsung and importers who don't stand by the products they sell. There are many reasons not to buy phones from the telcos, locking being only one of them, bloatware, different processors, shorter battery life and telco bloatware being others. Reply
darwinosx - Friday, May 17, 2013 - linkThe price is what you'd pay for any other SGS4 unlocked without a subsidy, $649
Every non-subsidized S 4 I've seen, including direct from Samsung, is $749. Reply
Deusfaux - Friday, May 17, 2013 - linkI want to remind everyone that not even all Samsung manufactured Galaxy Nexus (Nexus 3) models were created equally. Updates were not bleeding edge for several variants. There was a way developed around this in time, but for the average user, you could get stuck with a phone that was still waiting weeks/months to get the latest update, as they were controlled by Samsung instead of Google. Reply
Brian Klug - Friday, May 17, 2013 - linkYou're referring to toro and toroplus, the Verizon and Sprint variants. Those were basically not Nexus after it became obvious they were subject to operator approval for pushing updates to.
-Brian Reply
eallan - Saturday, May 18, 2013 - linkHe's not referring to that, he's referring to the Yakuja (I think) and other type of Galaxy Nexus. The firmware updates came from different sources so you could reflash one to the other type. http://forums.androidcentral.com/google-samsung-ga... Reply
Doh! - Saturday, May 18, 2013 - linkIt doesn't matter. It will be available only in the US for now so there will be only one version which will receive OTA updates directly from Google. Even for Yakjujp users, they could've installed a vanilla Yakju ROM and receive OTA updates from Google. Reply
plastic101 - Friday, May 17, 2013 - linkWhat about TMo WiFi calling? Reply
icrf - Saturday, May 18, 2013 - linkOne of my big problems with getting the SGS4 was when a few big names behind CyanogenMod came out and said they weren't going to support it due to Samsung's lack of support of the development community (or something like that). This sounds like it changes that, as they don't need Samsung to support the hardware, they have Google for that.
So my question becomes how close is this T-Mobile handset compared to the Verizon one? In my part of the country, Verizon is by far the best carrier. If I get a subsidized carrier locked version, and someone cracks the boot loader to allow third party firmware, how useful will this open Nexus Experience Device be to third party software efforts to the cracked Verizon handset? Reply
novastar78 - Saturday, May 18, 2013 - linkVery easy actually... In fact its probably a much better deal to get the S4 on contract, flash a custom recovery and then flash the stock Nexus firmware when Google releases it. Most likely it will not even require modification. If it does someone on XDA will do it and make the ROM available for download.
As far as "cracking the bootloader" on the S4 is concerned it's already good to go...just head over to XDA they have all the instructions there. Reply
novastar78 - Saturday, May 18, 2013 - linkProbably the best part of this announcement is not the Handset itself but that now all S4 users will be able to get a very easy to flash stock Google android experience with little to no modification. This essentially makes every S4 a "Nexus" phone.
Spending 700+ for a smartphone for me is outrageous especially considering I can get a very comparable Nexus 4 for half that. Reply
fahadfreid - Saturday, May 18, 2013 - linkI wanted to ask if you'll be doing the review of the Exynos version anytime soon? Reply
marc1000 - Saturday, May 18, 2013 - linka lot of people asked about a HTC One with nexus experience. I would like to see that also, as it would surely help HTC survive - having already owned 2 phones from HTC on the early smartphone race I know they are really creative folks. And they should not get smashed by samsung like they are being right now. that's bad for market and for us in the future.
anyway, I guess this is not gonna happen. for me personally it doesn't matter, as the One is not even sold in my country, and I believe that the software HTC has put in the One outweights the stock android interface. but now i'm not sure HTC will survive much longer... Reply
PC Perv - Saturday, May 18, 2013 - linkHTC not joining the program (even if they could) is a smart move. $649 the One v. $649 the S4..
People will get to see what the geeks will be buying. And for the HTC, Google Play provides them witheven footing since those who buy there end to be better-informed.
Doesn't take a genius to predict the outcomes.. Reply
JimmiG - Friday, May 31, 2013 - link"Nexus Experience" S4 sounds nice. I installed SuperNexus on my S3 and it totally transformed the phone. So much smoother, more streamlined and IMO more user-friendly than Touchwiz. In fact when my mom was getting a smartphone, I made sure she got the Galaxy Nexus, and she always comments how simple and easy it is to use.
I don't think anyone wants TouchWiz, Sense, etc. It confuses beginners, and enthusiasts just want to get rid of the bloatware to improve performance and battery life. Reply


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Launch Event: Welcoming remarks by Ambassador Braun on the REN21 Renewables 2014 Global Status Report
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Madam Vice-President of the World Bank,
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"but what better way to allow a new I/O to grow and become dominant than to include it in University computer labs across the country. These are definitely neutered iMacs."
I see these computers as intended for K-12 and not higher education. You aren't going to be finding thunderbolt equipped peripherals at the lower levels of the education ladder.
PCs can be extremely secure as well. And Macs can become just as vulnerable....it's just a matter of time.
lol half the specs for $200 less? **** that, you're better off paying for the $1,199 model.
They have macs at my college, but they run windows. lolz. What's the point?
*whenever i run windows on Mac I always delete the partition on there same day or in a few days, either way, with me, i never run windows (i am more familiar to Mac cause my school is based on them, yet 95% of my schools Macs still run Tiger, which really sucks)
oh and 90% of the macs running tiger are old iMacs and iBooks the other 5% are the slightly heaver* Tiger-based MacBooks
*Compared to leopard MacBooks.
Most schools run on server storage, or is that just here? So there would be no point in a lot of local harddrive space. The kids (K-12) aren't going to be pushing the computer to the max anyways, so the processor and ram isn't a problem either. Last year we had these local brand computers with quad, or dual processors. And we played lots of Halo on that. (We used to load it up on a flashdrive and put it on the server so everyone could access it, drove the "techs" and teachers crazy lol). Anyways and the laptops we had were some i3 Dell Latitudes. So they were decent, the Dells were a lot better than the desktops, but they were also newer. Then there were these old HP Pavillions with the huge battery packs, those were terrible.
These specs aren't bad for grade school, heck there better than the crap they kept given us. What really was annoying when the teachers and "techs" kept giving stupid advice.
Meh is right. Any semi-clever educational institution will not buy new iMac hardware, instead buy servers, put VMware ESXi on them and run VMs. ESXi 5 will support Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7.
The days of Universities, etc, buying PC/Mac hardware are over. They are buying servers and virtualizing their desktops.
Me, I'm into productivity, and I just spent my evening working with a brand new PC, and I could have done the same work in ten minutes on my Mac....


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ALPHARETTA, Ga. (AP) — Members of the Southern Baptist Convention's disaster relief organization are making plans at their suburban Atlanta offices to send help to the Oklahoma City area after Monday's tornado.
The volunteers were gathering at the group's North American Mission Board office in Alpharetta, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported .
Mike Ebert, a spokesman for Southern Baptist Disaster Relief, said Oklahoma Baptists have a large disaster relief operation, but they've requested additional help.
Ebert said his team spent Tuesday morning loading a semitrailer with pallets of bottled water and big rolls of roofing tarp "so that our volunteers can patch up the homes that were damaged that are still functioning, still standing."
Authorities said the tornado killed at least two-dozen people, including at least seven children.
"The devastation is so massive," Ebert said Tuesday morning. "We're hearing a 30-square-mile area."
Ebert added that an assessment team would be on site Tuesday in the disaster zone to determine other needs, how many volunteers will be needed, and which states would provide those volunteers.
"We have the capacity to send in several hundred (volunteers) if that's what's needed," he said.
"Once we get to the point where we're able to get in and help clear trees and help patch roofs, we will need a lot of volunteers to help with that," Ebert said.
He said the response will several crews with chain saws that can clear trees and other debris, as well as feeding teams that can run mobile kitchens.
"Georgia does have a lot of chain saw teams and mobile kitchens, so Georgia could very well be one of the groups that is mobilized for that," he said.
Other groups in Georgia are mobilizing efforts as well.
Rubin Brown, a spokesman for the Atlanta chapter of the American Red Cross, said his organization had two people deploying to the disaster zone Tuesday, and "200 volunteers in the state have raised their hands to volunteer."


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October 2, 2012
Santa Clarita, CA - Sixth-ranked Concordia scored early then often in a 6-1 victory over The Master's College Tuesday afternoon on Reese Field.
The loss dropped the Mustangs to 5-6 overall and 1-2 in the GSAC where they sit all alone in fifth place. Meanwhile, Eagles improved to 3-0 in conference play (9-1-1 overall) and stayed in first place.
It didn't take very long for the Eagles to start an offensive onslaught that would result in a season-high number of goals scored against the Mustangs. Just 8:25 into play, Concordia's Edgar Orozco beat Mustang goalie Andrew Bussell (Bakersfield, CA) for a 1-0 lead.
It stayed that way for over 30 uneventful minutes until a Mustang foul in the box at the 38:17 mark gave the Eagles a penalty kick which Jose Tamayo converted for a two-goal edge. That 2-0 margin was the way the first half ended, one in which the Mustangs managed only two shots, neither of them on goal. But, the defense played well enough to keep the Mustangs within striking distance, allowing just four shots and the two scores.
That all changed in the second half as the Eagles started to really pound away at the net while the Mustangs could do little to answer. Concordia made the assault pay off 10:14 into the final half when Christian Ramirez scored for a 3-0 advantage.
It looked like the Eagles were on their way to a shutout but TMC's AJ Rochow ruined that hope just over three minutes later (58:20) when he tallied his team-high fifth goal of the season in unassisted fashion.
However, that proved to be only just a bump in the road for the Eagles who answered back with a trio of goals over the match's final 21 minutes.
After the game, Mustang coach Jim Rickard pinned the blame on himself but his decision to attack more in the second half, which exposed his club's defensive lapses, was more out of his desire to make a game of it than poor strategy.
The Mustangs will attempt to right the ship on Saturday when they hit the road to Fullerton for a match with Hope International. Kick-off is scheduled for 2:30.


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My code:
echo $ip_address = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
Thank you!
Hmmm. I thought I had an answer but when I tried your code it (strangely) exactly what I think you wanted. It showed my ip. So I don't know what your were outputting but this line shouldn't have given you what you got. Unless you are running this locally and not from a web site.
Is it something to do with local host? Are you running this on your machine? Just a guess.
you are echoing the boolean of the result of the set method a = b. It correctly set a = b so returned a 1.
Oops, I just noticed ginerjm suggested what I suggested. Silly me. I reckon that's it.
> you are echoing the boolean of the result of the set method a = b. It correctly set a = b so returned a 1.
That's definitely not the case.
Thank you guys!
It's a local host (XAMPP). I expect 127.0.0.1 Why is that? I don't understand.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localhost :
On most computer systems, localhost resolves to the address 127.0.0.1, which is the most-commonly used IPv4 loopback address, and to the IPv6 loopback address ::1.
Thank you very much
You may want to check for a FORWARD FOR address as many spammers etc will bounce off another ip.
if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']) && $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARTDED_FOR'] != '') {
$ip_address = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'];
} else {
$ip_address = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
Thank you so much
I went to the wikipedia reference and I recognize all the words written. But have not the slightest idea what it means.Can I safely change my code below to replace "127.0.0.1" with "..1" and still have it recognize when I'm on my production host?
$currentHost = pathinfo($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'],PATHINFO_BASENAME);
echo("
currentHost is " . $currentHost); // DEBUG
// determine whether current host is local or production
if($currentHost == "127.0.0.1"){ // no place like home
$theUsername = "root";
$thePassword = "";
} else {
$theUsername = "omitted";
$thePassword = "omitted";
exit("
username {$theUsername} *** password {$thePassword}");
Since this code was written, I've purchased a new laptop and downloaded / installed a new XAMPP and what I get is
currentHost is ::1 and the production username and password
try like
echo $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
// or
$ip_address = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
echo $ip_address;
What it means is that localhost in IPv4 is usually 127.0.0.1 In IPv6 it is usually ::1
So, yes you can change your code to use ::1 instead, though you may want to catch both cases.
in_array( $currentHost, array( '::1', '127.0.0.1' ) )
I would advise against using IPs to detect which environment the application runs in. Instead I would use global variables from Apache. For example put this in the .htaccess file
SetEnv ENVIRONMENT production
or, use a auto_prepend_file on your development machine with something like
define('ENVIRONMENT', 'developent');
and then in your code
if (!defined('ENVIRONMENT'))
define('ENVIRONMENT', 'production');
// or, an equivalent which some people find harder to read but I personally like it
defined('ENVIRONMENT') || define('ENVIRONMENT', 'production');
So that if you're on development the ENVIRONMENT will be set to development, and on production where you don't have the auto_prepend_file ENVIRONMENT won't be set initially, so you set it to 'production'.
That way you can use the code on as many machines as you like without having to add all the different IPs
That is an elegant solution. And, without question, the better one.
If only I trusted my memory. But if I ever buy a new computer and download a new XAMPP version, I'm certain I'd not remember to make this change. And I can see my silly subsequent posts to SitePoint now.
Hence why the htaccess is a good decision, that way you can check it into your code base. So when you change computers, upgrade, whatever, as soon as you pull down your code again, it defaults to the environment you'd want.
If you default to development, be sure that any deployment process you use, change the file to say "production" before copying that file (or alters the file on the production box accordingly).
I have followed this thread because I use similar tests extensively.
I have always tested for $SERVER['SERVERNAME'] and it has proved to be reliable for quite a number of years:
if ( ! defined('LOCALHOST') ):
define('LOCALHOST', 'localhost' === $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] );
// test
echo LOCALHOST ? 'localhost' : 'production/online'; die;
I get the impression that using .htaccess to set "SetEnv ENVIRONMENT production" and the include file would require two files with the same name but having different content!!!
Testing and setting the LOCALHOST constant eliminates the problem of overwriting files with the same name but with different content.
Ami I missing the point?
Not necessarily. I typically use phing or my deployment script to alter the .htaccess at the time of deployment, so the actual source code isn't altered, the deployment process handles it.


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— September 2001
By Ben Ellison
Saltwater Cellular
|Your range not what it used to be? Here's the problem and ways to fix it.
It's a mystery why cellular communication gets so little ink in the marine press. Usually you read that cellular is no substitute for VHF or SSB safety and ship-to-ship transmissions--which is true--and that's it. The larger truth is that cellular has become a valuable part of many boat communication systems, and it has its own particular marine-related problems and solutions.
I experienced my first marine cellphone call while delivering a yacht across the Gulf of Maine in the early 1990s. A ringing phone and the owner's voice were a surprise 30 miles offshore, but the range was impressive. Nowadays, while wending amongst the Maine islands, my mobile phone is terrific for all sorts of noncritical communications like staying in touch with home or checking out a dock-and-dine possibility. And I'm barely using the technology. More than once I've called an executive at work only to discover during the conversation that he was actually on his yacht, taking advantage of call forwarding to conduct "business as usual." I also regularly receive e-mail from cruisers who are struggling to use cellular for data communications--even Web browsing--along home and foreign shores.
It's no surprise that cellphones have become nearly ubiquitous on yachts; the shocker is that their effective range--particularly along urban coasts--is decreasing. Users off Fort Lauderdale and other cell-dense areas report losing their connection barely two miles out, when once they could use their handhelds five to 10 miles out. At first the notion of a hyper-growth technology like cellular losing functionality seems illogical, but upon closer examination it makes sense.
As a cellular provider gets more customers and expands its system, it adds transceivers to create a higher density of cells over the same area. For most users that means fewer dead spots and more available channels. But as the transceivers multiply, they are made less powerful and/or more directional, so they have less range for those of us on boats taking advantage of unobstructed sight lines to get distance. In short, long range over the water was a happy side effect of providers trying to cover large areas with minimal equipment.
That's not the whole story. My 30-mile cell call was on a bulky 3-watt analog portable phone with a four-foot antenna, a unit commonly used in cars and rural areas in the early days of wireless. As cellular has moved to more efficient and better quality digital protocols, phone engineers and marketers have focused almost entirely on making smaller handheld phones with longer battery life. A tiny 0.6-watt phone can now work so well in the dense cell networks ashore that there is almost no demand for a high-watt digital portable phone. They could exist, but they don't; and the relatively miniscule market of marine cellphone users is left in a quandary.
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This article originally appeared in the June 2003 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.


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Nick SigmonClass: Junior
Position: LB
Height: 6-1
Weight: 245
Previous School: Northside HS
Hometown: Roanoke, Va.
2012 (So.)
• Big South All-Conference first team
• VaSID All-State second team
• Big South Preseason All-Conferece team
• Twice named Big South Defensive Player of the Week (Nov. 5, Nov. 12)
• Tabbed College Sporting News National Weekly All-Star on Nov. 12
• Named National Defensive Player of the Week for College Sports Journal and Sports Network (Nov. 12)
• Played in 10 of 11 games and started nine a middle linebacker
• Recorded 52 tackles (32 solo, 20 assisted), tying for Big South lead with 11 tackles for a loss
• One of three Big South players to return an interception for a touchdown
• Tied career high 11 tackles (1.5 for loss) at Montana (Sept. 15)
• Made six tackles, 1.5 for a loss (including one sack) against Garnder-Webb (Oct. 6)
• Eight stops, including four for a loss, against Charleston Southern (Nov. 3)
• Had career game in upset over Stony Brook (Nov. 10), with a forced fumble and an interception return for a touchdown
• Had nine tackles (eight solo, one assisted), including two for a loss, against Stony Brook
2011 (R-Fr.)
• Big South All-Conference second team
• College Sports Journal All-Freshman team
• Started all 11 games at middle linebacker
• Ranked third on the team with 60 tackles (30 solo, 30 assisted)
• Second on the team with 7.5 tackles for a loss
• Intercepted one pass on the season against VMI
• Had career-high 11 tackles (five solo, six assisted) at Charleston Southern
• Totaled 10 stops (seven solo, three assisted) in next game, against Presbyterian College
2010 (Fr.)
• Redshirted the season
• Graduated from Northside High School
• Second team all-district honoree as a junior with 156 tackles (118 solo) and 12 tackles for loss
• Helped Northside High School to a state title as a senior
• Blue Ridge District Player of the Year
• Region 3 co-Defensive Player of the Year
• Va. Preps and Associated Press first team all-state selection
• Roanoke Times All-Timesland Defensive Player of the Year
• Son of Ronnie and Carrie Sigmon
• Birthday is on Jan. 18
• Kinesiology major


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SAINT LEO, Fla. – The Saint Leo men's tennis team (11-5) posted its third consecutive shutout, and ninth of the season, as they overpowered New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), 9-0, Friday afternoon from the Saint Leo Tennis Center.
Surrendering just six points in a doubles sweep of the Bears (5-3), the Lions netted six consecutive wins on the singles side to oust the visitors.
The Lions began the afternoon with a dominating performance in the doubles portion as Jake Fleischer and Aloua Adjenak dusted Filip Van Eylen and Vojaslav Pecikoza, 8-1, at the No.3 position. Meanwhile, the Lions' top-flight tandem, ranking No.21 in the country, of Matt Nicholson-Lewis and Victor Lozier conquered Dustin Wenchel and Julian Marcon, 8-2, while Jacobo Gonzalez-Tarrio and Jose Morales concluded the sweep with an 8-3 win at the No.2 slot.
With each player posting consecutive-set wins in singles, Fleischer used a 6-2, 6-1 win at No.5 singles to clinch the match for the Lions. Gonzalez-Tarrio and Nicholson-Lewis also highlighted the win with impressive 6-2, 6-0 and 6-3, 6-0 victories.
"Today was a great complete team performance," said Head Coach James Bryce. "From the start we came out with energy and kept it rolling all day."
The Lions will return to action on Sunday, March 25, when they host Lindenwood in non-region action. Opening serve is set for 1 p.m.
For more on the nationally-ranked men's tennis team, visit SaintLeoLions.com.


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Long promised (and long overdue) to the True Summer Sisterhood Facebook group, I present the pink lipstick swatchfest. Pink might seem like an odd color to feature this time of year, but it should not matter. Some of us do not wear autumnal shades well, and as long as the color harmonizes with skin tone, the color cannot be wrong, no matter how warm or cold it is outside, because it looks like YOU—only better.
But if pink seems too springlike, you could choose your version of plum or berry or red or rose.
This will be a pictorial review, not a product review. If I've already featured a lipstick mentioned in this post, I'll include a link to it. Most of those posts will have their own swatches and comparisons.
TOP ROW, left to right:
- YSL Rouge Volupté Spicy Pink 20
- MAC Matte Lipstick, Please Me
- Revlon Revlon® Just Bitten Kissable™ Balm Stain, Honey
- MAC Matte Lipstick, Pink Plaid
- Maybelline SuperStay 14HR Lipstick, Perpetual Peony
- MAC Matte Lipstick, Snob
- Revlon Matte Lipstick, Pink Pout 002
- Revlon Color Burst Lip Butter, Berry Smoothie 050
- Maybelline ColorSensational Lip Color, Pink Wink 105
- Revlon Matte Lipstick Sky Pink 012
- Chanel Boy Rouge Coco Shine, Boy 54
- Chanel Boy Rouge Coco Shine, Fétiche 52
- Chantecaille Super Sheer Lipstick, Venus
- Estée Lauder Signature Lipstick, Chelsea Rose 51
- MAC Lustre Lipstick, Syrup
- MAC Lustre Lipstick, Lovelorn
- Bobbi Brown Sheer Lip Color, Cherry Pink
- Dior Addict Lipstick, Millie 680
- MAC Lustre Lipstick, Sweetie
If you're wondering why so few of the above colors have their own post, it's probably because I didn't like them enough to give them that much space. Elea Blake's Dreamy should have made the list, but you can see it here. Perhaps later I can update this post to include some of my newer additions: Chanel Rouge Coco Shine in Rendez-Vous (posted on Facebook here), Trish McEvoy Sheer Lip Color, Vibrant Pink, and a couple more from tarte.
|All three Summer palettes
As in the recent past, I will include comparisons to the three SciART-based, 12-Tone Summer palettes. I often find that more important than seeing a good match is seeing a bad one because it helps me unlearn misinformed habits.
After I'd arranged all the swatches and assembled the fans, I was surprised by the number of pink lipsticks that harmonized with the Soft Summer (SSu) palette, shown above.
The same lipsticks did not fare so well with the Light Summer (LSu) fan, a palette that is brighter and more clear than the muted tones of Soft Summer (above).
Though not perfect against the purely-cool hues of the True/Cool Summer (TSu) palette, there were a couple keepers.What I see against the TSu fan is too much brown (I don't see how they can call that YSL lipstick at top left pink). Even more unfortunate for the uncompromising True palette, the brown I see leans orange. Finally, how unfair is it that both SSu and LSu get THREE pink/rose/red strips and True Summer gets only two.
In any case, it is fascinating how a color I think I see looks completely different in context with other colors.
Soft SummerI'll start by comparing the pink lipstick swatches to the SSu fan deck, since those colors seem to harmonize best.
MAC's Please Me and Bobbi Brown's Cherry Pink are the the biggest outliers in the above SSu comparison, with the former being too orange and the latter too blue.
Revlon's Sky Pink might be too warm for Soft Summer ... though, as always, existing lip pigment can vastly change the way a lipstick appears. For example, in Facebook's True Summer group, the litmus test lipstick for a TSu color, MAC Plumful, was perfect for some and barely showed up on others.
Chanel Rouge Coco Shine Boy is described as a blue pink, but it doesn't have enough blue for me. It looks perfect next to the Soft Summer 5.1 chip. Fétiche might be a tiny bit too cool for SSus; it's a shade I wear when I want a no-makeup look.
|Chantecaille Venus, Estée Lauder Chelsea Rose
MAC Syrup above center, which is often another recommended color for True Summer, is too muted for me. It's a sheer, slightly shimmering, cloudy pink. Ideal for Soft Summers, who do so well enrobed in shadowy mist.
Estée Lauder Chelsea Rose is another soft lipstick, possibly good for Soft Summers, though perhaps too cool. You'd have to try it on to be sure.
MAC Syrup against the ss 5.1 chip. Not too bad.
MAC Lovelorn might be too cool for Soft Summers, but it wasn't cool enough for my True Summer self.
Above are some of my warmest pinks: MAC Please Me, Revlon JustBitten Honey, and MAC Pink Plaid. You could color right over that ss 4.3 chip with Honey. What a great match.
MAC Pink Plaid was a surprise. It looks so cool in the tube, but look at it compared to the 5.5 brick pink of the SSu palette above. It's a bricky (browned) pink to be sure.
The matte MAC Snob looks like a great color for Soft Summers.
|Maybelline Perpetual Peony, MAC Snob, Revlon Pink Pout ... all good
Light SummerAnd now let's have a look at the lipsticks compared to the Light Summer palette. These will not be as good, but we have to try for our sunny sisters.
|No great matches here; the LSu palette is far less muted than SSu
|Not so much
|MAC Syrup and Lovelorn
|MAC Lovelorn
|Chanel Boy and Fétiche, Chantecaille Venus, EL Chelsea Rose
|Revlon Sky Pink, Chanel Boy and Fétiche, Chantecaille Venus
|Revlon Sky Pink + sl 5.1 ... OK, but ...
|Revlon Sky Pink + sl 6.2 ... better?
|Revlon Berry Smoothie and Maybelline Pink Wink—the best of the bunch
True SummerNow for the True Summer comparisons.
|Chanel Boy and Fétiche, Chantecaille Venus, Estée Lauder Chelsea Rose
Above (and on me) Chanel Rouge Coco Shine in Fétiche (second from left) is a good match. Chantecaille Super Sheer Lipstick in Venus looks like it should be good match, but for a "super sheer" product, it has a white base, so it doesn't work as well against my True Summer skin as it might on a Soft Summer, but your mileage may vary. My existing lip pigment is moderately dark and somewhat blue.
|Chantecaille Venus ... decidedly not sheer on me
|MAC Syrup
MAC Syrup looks pretty good compared to the sc 2.7 chip, but it's too muted for my lips and coloring.
|Bobbi Brown Cherry Pink
|Chanel Rouge Coco Shine Fétiche ♥
The above two swatches did not make it into the group photo. The horror, because they are so lovely. They are (left to right) Dior Lip Addict Millie 680 and MAC Lustre Sweetie.
|Quite harmonious against the TSu palette
|Compared to Soft Summer
|And Light Summer (perhaps too blue, though Millie might be OK per sl 7.3)
Sweetie and Millie find a happier home in the True Summer palette.
Though I prefer the Lip Addict formula and packaging, Mille is warmer than MAC Sweetie. In truth neither shows up on my lips much at all, but aren't they pretty? They'd be a good option for the pale lipped, low-contrasting faces among you.
|Perhaps there is too much blue in the lipsticks to blend with the SSu pinks
|MAC Sweetie—too cool? Apparently no cool could ever be too cool
|Dior Millie—slightly warmer than Sweetie
I hope you enjoyed this post. For other groups of lipstick swatches see the following:
- Lipstick Comparisons: Corals
- Lipstick Comparisons: Reds
- Lipstick Comparisons: Plums
- Lipstick Comparison Monster Map
- Lipstick Comparison Teaser
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The cast speaks about filling the big shoes of the original cast and performing in perhaps the most popular American musical in decades.
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Thornton talks about playing a character that some would say is fairly typical for him as well as his career as a whole.
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>Racing>10k or HM?
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Your toughness is made up of equal parts persistence and experience. You don't so much outrun your opponents as outlast and outsmart them, and the toughest opponent of all is the one inside your head." - Joe Henderson
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Why don't you wait until tomorrow to make the decision.
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Roc, Jan 2002, 6.99, 352 pp. ISBN 0451458656 To the people of the Headland of Slaughter, there is nothing more important than The Tree. The villagers of this small-secluded hamlet make their living through the bounty of the sea and are dependent upon the Tree to keep the fisherfolk safe. The Woodsinger is the villager who communicates with the tree through the bavins it grows enabling her to guide the fisherfolk on the water. The nomi...
The Glasswright's Journeyman - Glasswright Saga 3
Roc, June 2002, 6.99, 352 pp. ISBN 0451458842 In the kingdom of Moren, the capital city of Morenia is almost burnt to the ground by a fire whose origins are shrouded in mystery. King Hal, once thought daft by his own people, wants to rebuild the city but his coffers are practically bare. The people who helped put the fire out are suffering and dying from a plague known as firelung. When the disease spreads to other castes and classes, Hal bo...
The Glasswright's Test
Roc, June 2003, 6.99, 352 pp. ISBN 00451459318 Eleven years ago, Rani was at the wrong place at the wrong time and as the results of her actions the Glasswright's Guild was destroyed, its guildhall torn down, and its members tortured then sent into exile. Rani stayed in the kingdom of Morenia and became close friends of the king. She worked to build up a new Glasswright's Guild and she sponsored a troupe of entertainers, one of which, Tovin be...
The Glasswright's' Master
Roc. June 2004, 6.99, 340 pp. ISBN: 0451459822 The kingdom of Morenia ruled by King Hal is under siege by a fleet of Liantine ships blockading the harbor and a Briantan army surrounding the city. A battering ram is being used to open the gates to the city while the army of Morenia is getting ready to fight. Their efforts are doomed by traitors from within the castle so King Hal, his wife, Rani Trader and a few trusted allies flee through a secr...
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In the land of Morenia people are born into one of four castes. Rani was born into the merchant caste, but she is so skilled with artwork, her family pays a huge sum of money to buy her an apprenticeship into the glasswrights guild. Her guild has been working on a stained glass window for presentation day, where the beloved Prince Tuvashanoran will be anointed Defender of the Faith. Rani has been sent to deliver lunch to the master working on the fini...


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Villa Giada
Canelli, Piemonte
We first met Andrea Faccio in 2003 and have imported his wines ever since.
The family home and cellar are in the hamlet of Ceriole just north of Canelli, where they have worked the vineyards for over 200 years.
The original 7 hectares of vineyard has steadily expanded to 25 hectares, the most prestigious acquisition being Cascina Dani (1999), a farm that used to house Andrea's collection of rusting motorbikes and is now a restaurant with rooms as well as being his home.
The bikes have gone (mostly) and have been replaced by an old Range Rover and yes, he is a bit of a petrol-head and has had the hardship of supplying the Ferrari F1 team.
Andrea stubbornly supports the wines of his territory with an unerring belief in their qualities.
By dint of study and hard work he has fine-tuned the qualities of each individual wine and carved out a niche for each one.
His work is meticulous in the vineyard and he has earned his reputation for being 'a bit of a geek' (rough translation) in the cellar.
His friends Giordano (La Montecchia) and Sergio (Rocca di Macìe) recognise this strength and allow responsibility to fall on Andrea for the final stages of their joint wines, the Primo Volo and Tre per Uno.
All of the estate's grapes are hand picked by locals who have helped the family for many years.
Spraying and treatments are kept to an absolute minimum. The energy and funds that could have been wasted on certifications have been spent on real benefits to the environment, the petrol-head thing may not quite fit, but nobody is perfect.
The lifeblood of the estate is Barbera and Andrea makes five versions, each one recognising the potential of the vineyard.
The opening wine 'I Surì' epitomises Barbera d'Asti, vibrant and fresh it is made to be enjoyed the second it leaves the cellar.
Fermentation and ageing are in temperature controlled steel tanks.
The Ajan is a beefed up Surí and then come the prized wood-aged wines.
These can compete in terms of power and complexity with their illustrious cousins to the west, the mighty Barolos and Barbarescos.
The first is the Quercia (The Oak), this is aged in large 'botti', traditional barrels that hold 4000 litres.
We buy it in exceptional vintages as for a little bit more you can have a Nizza in Bricco Dani whose barrique flavours are irresistible, or the 'Dedicato', whose power and elegance is supreme.
The oddball of the estate is 'Gamba di Pernice', it is one of Piemonte's oldest vines and is a 'recovered varietal' with real promise. We have imported it for years on the understanding that yet more years are required to soften out the aggressive tannins, 2012 was the first vintage which may be quite popular, it is now eccentric rather than insane. Other red wines are from Merlot and Dolcetto and more recently, a Nebbiolo called Tre Ponti which is already truly exceptional.
Of the whites, the most important is Moscato d'Asti; it is a wine that requires precise technical skills and perfect fruit, in many ways it is the most difficult wine of all to make.
Where it succeeds is in keeping a bright freshness to the fruit, so even though it is technically sweet, there is nothing cloying about it.
There are two other white wines, the Surí Bianco, which is based on Cortese and the Mané, which is an old vine Chardonnay, both are expressive and beautifully made.
The last wine Andrea insists on calling Rosé, I prefer to call it Monferrato Chiaretto; it is a Barbera with a little Nebbiolo and after a few years of experimentation is becoming an accomplished wine.
Villa Giada. Barbera D'Asti 'Suri' 2014
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It's hard to believe that tomorrow will be the first day of March.
We've got lots of fun activities coming up this month and we wanted to share a few things with you.
Thanks to so many great creators and sellers on TpT we are happy to announce that we are having our very first Dr. Seuss day . . . EVER . . . on Friday!!! We know it's probably hard for you to believe that we have NEVER done anything to celebrate Dr. Seuss's birthday until now . . . but it's true. We've got TONS of fun stuff planned for our kiddos on Friday. We have even invited them to bring their favorite Dr. Seuss books from home.
We wanted to start off the day the "Seuss" way so we made a little Word of the Day worksheet and poster to display.
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Today we made these cute little lion art projects to decorate our classroom bulletin board. We began by reading the book In Like A Lion Out Like A Lamb by Marion Dane Bauer. We talked about what it means when the weather comes in like a lion during the month of March and goes out like a lamb. Then we did a writing project to go with it.
Here's a folder cover that tells you exactly what you need for this art project along with tracers and writing paper.
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For all of you who will be celebrating St. Patrick's Day, here is a graphing center we always use. Just laminate and cut out the shamrock cards and let your students sort them by color. Then they can use their graph to record how many of each color they have and use them to solve some basic addition math problems.
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Here is a worksheet you can use with any book during the month of March. We usually pair it up with one of our St. Patrick's Day listening centers. After reading (or listening) to a story let your kiddos go on a sound hunt through the book.
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NY Post Pushes Myth That Marriage Equality Is A Threat to Religious Freedom
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The New York Post used three examples of anti-discrimination law violations to scapegoat marriage equality as an infringement upon religious freedom.
In a Tuesday editorial, the Post suggested that marriage equality might undermine religious freedom by highlighting instances where religious institutions supposedly had to violate their beliefs in order to accommodate same-sex couples. From the Post:
The answer is that without clear conscience protections, we will see more religious institutions and individual citizens forced to violate their beliefs or be driven off the public square because their moral views have been deemed officially bigoted.
These fears are not hypothetical. In New York, Yeshiva University was forced to accept same-sex couples in its dorms for married students. In New Jersey, a Methodist association was sued after it would not allow a lesbian couple to use its boardwalk pavilion for a civil union ceremony. In Boston, the Catholic church was forced to get out of adoption because it would not place children with same-sex couples. Without clear conscience protections, we will see more, on everything from access to government facilities to licensing or accreditation.
All of these examples, however, resulted from violations of non-discrimination laws. Yeshiva University was sued on the basis that its housing policy for married couples discriminated against gay and lesbian students who at the time were denied the right to marry. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, only Yeshiva's rabbinical school is religious while the rest of the university is "a secular institution open to students of all religions." The New York Court of Appeals found that Yeshiva's policy was a threat to New York's discrimination laws because its policy of providing housing to married couples had a "disparate impact on homosexual students, because they cannot marry and thus cannot live with their partners in student housing."
The Post's second example is equally as irrelevant to marriage equality. The New Jersey Methodist Church was found to have violated the state's Law Against Discrimination when it refused to allow a same-sex couple to celebrate their civil union in a pavilion owned by the church. In doing so, the church violated the requirements of their "Green Acres" program tax exempt status. One condition of the "Green Acres" tax exemption was that a pavilion the Methodist church owned was to remain "open to the public on an equal basis." Though the church lost its tax exempt status under the "Green Acres" program, it was able to replace its "Green Acres" tax exemption with a similar religious exemption, which allowed the church to continue engaging in discriminatory practices. Currently, New Jersey does not have a marriage equality law.
Finally, the Catholic Charities of Boston were not forced out of facilitating adoptions but instead voluntarily stopped providing public adoption services after Massachusetts' four Catholic Bishops found out that gay parents had been adopting children through the service. The Catholic Charities were free to continue discriminating against same-sex couples in private adoptions, but doing so in public adoptions would have violated a 1989 anti-discrimination law because they received public funds. Even the former board chairman of the Catholic Charities, Peter Meade, spoke out against a Maine anti-equality organization's attempt to paint the Catholic Charities case a violation of religious freedom.
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- "Zis is nothing. At ze Palace of Beauxbatons, we 'ave ice sculptures all around ze dining chamber at Chreestmas. Zey do not melt, of course… zey are like 'uge statues of diamond, glittering around ze place. And ze food is seemply superb. And we 'ave choirs of wood nymphs, 'oo serenade us as we eat. We 'ave none of zis ugly armour in ze 'alls, and eef a poltergeist ever entaired into Beauxbatons, 'e would be expelled like zat."
- —Fleur Delacour on the Dining Chamber[src]
There was a Dining Chamber in the Palace of Beauxbatons in France.
According to Fleur Delacour, who studied in that school, the dining chamber was decorated with ice sculptures that didn't melt around Christmastime. Wood nymph choirs also sang for the students while they had meals.[1]
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Where I'm from, Spring is all about grilling! So I wanted to put a fresh and healthy spin on the traditional burger for dinner parties with my friends at home.
I am a burger man, love to grill out and enjoy my beef burgers, but my fiance does not eat red meat. So I had to divise a recipe using Turkey that she would like as much as I like a beef burger.
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