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A User-Centered Approach To Web Design For Mobile Devices
- By Lyndon Cerejo
- May 2nd, 2011
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For the past few years, we've heard pundits declaring each year as "year of the mobile Web"; each year trying to sound more convincing than the previous. Whether 2011 will be the real "year of the mobile" remains to be seen, but what is indisputable is the fact that the mobile usage of the Web is growing and evolving. As it evolves, so does the mobile user experience, driven by advances in mobile device technology — from better browsers on basic mobile phones (or feature phones — remember the Motorola RAZR?) to the increased adoption of smartphones and tablets.
The term "Mobile Web" (although often criticized1) is commonly used to describe accessing the internet using a mobile device. This definition is broad enough to cover everything from using a browser on a feature phone, to using highly customized apps on smartphones or tablets. "There's an app for that" has made device-specific applications the rage of the day.
Further Reading on SmashingMag: Link
- How To Build A Mobile Website2
- A Study of Trends in Mobile Design3
- How To Use CSS3 Media Queries To Create a Mobile Version of Your Website4
Some companies starting off backwards with "we need an iPhone app" instead of first understanding what their users actually need when they are mobile, the devices that they use, and then deciding the best approach for going mobile, which may not be an app, but could be a mobile website instead. Mobile websites are universally accessible, less expensive to develop and maintain, and can be searched and accessed by most mobile phones.
(The term "Mobile Web" is criticized because it implies that there are "different" Webs which just isn't true — there is no Desktop Web, for example. It makes more sense to speak of the websites optimized for users accessing those websites through mobile devices. We will be using this perspective in this article. — Smashing Editorial Team)
This article focuses on designing the user experience for mobile websites accessed from mobile phones with small screens, though the process can be applied to building apps as well. As a Web designer, the good news is that the process is similar to designing desktop websites — with some additional mobile-only considerations that go hand-in-hand with small screens, device features and constraints, and connectivity issues. The user-centered mobile design life cycle can be thought of as an ongoing process as shown below:
The ongoing user-centered mobile design life cycle
Let's discuss each phase of this life cycle in more detail.
1. Assess Current Situation: Do You Really Need A Mobile Website Now? Link
Silly as this may sound in an article about creating mobile website user experiences, it is important to first figure out whether you actually need a mobile website. True, there will be 91.4 million mobile internet users in the US by the end of this year, but how many of them are in your target audience? Mobile commerce sales in the US in 2010 were $3.4 billion, but if you are not selling anything online, does that matter to you? The more relevant statistic is how many of your users are accessing your website using mobile devices. A quick way to find out is of course by looking at your existing desktop website analytics to identify the percentage of mobile visitors, along with the types of devices and operating systems they use to access your full desktop site.Dig deeper to understand why these users visit your site using a mobile device — what they are trying to do, and the content and functionality they are using.
Now, think about what else would be relevant to these mobile users, and for some competitive insight (and possibly inspiration), take a look at what similar sites are doing with their mobile presence. Your desktop site was created to support some business goals — it may have been a simple goal of creating awareness or a more complex goal of generating revenue through online sales. How will a mobile website complement that existing website? Identify the content and functionality that will be useful for your mobile users while supporting your business goals, including any new goals for mobile. Save these "business requirements" — we'll need them when deciding what goes on the mobile website.
If, at the end of this exercise, you realize that you have very few mobile users, and they occasionally use just a couple of features (like finding your phone number, or hours of operation), you may be better off for now just optimizing your desktop site to make that information easily accessible by mobile users instead of building and maintaining a separate mobile site. If your website happens to be running on WordPress, there are plugins that can easily mobile-enable that website with little effort.
Not all websites need to go mobile now. Companies that need to extend their core services to their users (like those in travel and banking) certainly do, but a manufacturer of commercial jetliners and military aircraft or a provider of specialized industrial gases would probably not need a separate mobile website now, though that may change in a few years. But if you realize that you need a mobile website, let's focus on the reason you need it: your users!
2. User-Centered Mobile Design Starts With The User Link
User-centered design relies on user involvement throughout the design process, leading to a solution that users will find useful and want to use. To achieve that, you first need to have a clear understanding of your users, grouped into a prioritized set of user groups whose needs can be thought of individually. For a pharmaceutical company, those groups could be patients, healthcare professionals and caregivers, with the first two groups being the primary user groups, and caregivers being a secondary user group with very similar needs to patients. Identifying your key user groups and creating personas will help you design better for your main users, the way BBC did when building their future mobile strategy65.
BBC's mobile user groups (taken from their future mobile strategy65)
To develop a mobile user experience that aligns to the needs and expectations of your targeted users, you must involve representative users and their feedback throughout the process. Direct input from your users through primary research methods like observing users, contextual interviews and focus groups will give you insights about their mobile behavior, including what they want to do on the mobile Web, and when and how they will use it. Primary research will give you answers to questions like:
- Why do they use your site on a mobile device?
- What features are they using?
- What features are crucial for them when mobile?
- What are some sources of frustration?
- What devices do they use to access the mobile Web?
As you build a detailed picture of your users and their usage patterns, supplement it with secondary research about industry and mobile market trends from Forrester7, eMarketer8, Nielsen9 and comScore10, comScore Data Mine, DeviceAtlas11 and Opera's State of the Mobile Web12. Apart from an understanding of your user and their needs, you will also get a better understanding of the types of mobile devices you have to consider while designing.
3. Prioritize What Your Mobile Website Should Offer Link
While evaluating the need for a mobile website, you had a list of features you would like to offer on your mobile website. Ideally, these business requirements would align closely with the user requirements identified during user research. If they do not align, look at the requirements asking yourself "what value will this add to the users?" to ensure that your business requirements meet user needs and goals — this is user-centered design after all.
As is often the case, if you end up with more features than you can handle at launch, prioritize what you can initially offer, taking into consideration time, effort, and resources available. Hard as it may be, resist the temptation of trying to build in all the features right from the start. As 37signals so eloquently put it: "Build half a product, not a half-ass product13."
4. Mobile Design Considerations Link
Now that the groundwork has been completed, it's time to get to the fun part: actual design! The basic design steps and principles of desktop website design apply to mobile design, with the addition of a few important mobile design considerations. Mobile devices are personal devices with small screens, always turned on, have intermittent slow connections and are mostly used when the user is — you guessed it — mobile.
This brings us to the big "C" of mobile: Context. Mobile users are not captive like computer users are. A user using your desktop website is sitting comfortably, and in a worst case scenario, may be simultaneously listening to music and intermittently tweeting. They are however, not doing all that with one hand, while walking around. Picture a mobile user trying to find directions using a tiny phone with intermittent connectivity, while strap hanging and swaying in a subway train with sub-optimal lighting conditions, deafened by the screeching of wheels on tracks — that gives you some context of use. Simply put, context is about the environment and conditions of usage, including distractions, multitasking, motion, lighting conditions and poor connectivity as you can see in the video below:
Designing for Mobiles: Users & Context from Niek Dekker on Vimeo14.
In Tapworthy – Designing Great iPhone Apps, author Josh Clark boils down the mobile user's mindset to one of three possibilities:
- Microtasking: Using the phone for short bursts of activity.
- Local : Finding out what's around the user.
- Bored : Using the phone for distraction/entertainment.
Keeping all these factors in mind, here are some specific mobile design considerations to pay attention to while designing for the mobile Web:
Design for Smaller Screen Sizes Link
The most visible difference between a mobile device and a desktop is the screen size. For years, we have been increasing the minimum screen resolution we design for (remember the days of "optimized for 640 x 480"?). Mobile phone screen sizes have also been increasing, but even the gorgeous screen of the iPhone 4 is still small in comparison to a standard 1024×768 desktop design (designed by someone using a 2560×1440 display).
From a designer's big screen to smaller laptop and mobile screens
This gets more complicated when you factor in the range of screen sizes used by your mobile users. And let's not forget that some smartphones can change orientation and their users' expect the website to resize accordingly. Even though many smartphone browsers today can miniaturize desktop websites, they inadvertently break the user experience by making users zoom in and out, which brings us to the traditional approach of creating a separate website for mobile devices.
Bryan Rieger addresses the issue of designing for multiple screen sizes15 with a 4-step process:
- Define device groups by grouping screens with similar widths together resulting in a manageable number of groups,
- Create a default reference design that will adapt to smaller and larger screens,
- Define rules for content and design adaptation for it to display well and
- Opt for Web standards and a flexible layout.
While you should ideally be designing for mobile devices used by your users, for a more generic list of browsers to support, follow Peter-Paul Koch's recommendations of supporting Safari iPhone, Opera Mini, Android WebKit, BlackBerry (WebKit & older for US), Nokia WebKit (Europe).
The other approach advocates a single website that caters to all devices, mobile or not, based on Luke W's Mobile First16 principle (see presentation17). Mobile First starts with a design for mobile, which can then be progressively enhanced for desktop websites. To see it in action, take a look at Yiibu's
proof of concept site based on Mobile First.
Selecting your design approach is not a black and white option. Think about which will work better for your situation. Irrespective of the approach you select, there still are other considerations that go into building a mobile Web.
Simplify Navigation Link
Without a mouse to point and click, mobile users have to rely on tiny keypads, trackballs and touch to navigate mobile websites. Add in the small screen with the need to complete tasks quickly and efficiently, and clear and intuitive navigation becomes crucial:
- A common approach that works for the start pages of most sites is a list of links to main features and content, prioritized based on user needs. These often end up being presented vertically instead of the horizontal model used on desktop websites.
- Reduce the number of categories and levels of navigation, and rearrange based on priority, presenting the most important categories first.
- Use clear, concise and consistent labels for navigation across the site.
- Provide access key shortcuts for feature phones, so users can enter a keypad number (0-9) to quickly access a link (AA and CNN examples below).
- When designing for touch, make sure the tap size (width or height) for the navigation item is at least 30 pixels.
- Make links obvious, and provide clear and immediate visual feedback to show the selected link.
- When displaying the main navigation links on internal pages, put them at the bottom instead of the top, to avoid users having to tab through all of them to get to the main content on the screen (CNN example below). If not displaying all the links, Southwest's approach of listing key links (Home, Air Reservations and Flight Check In) on secondary screens works well.
- At the bottom of the mobile homepage, offer a link to the full site so users can switch over to the desktop site, and vice versa.
- Breadcrumbs are not usually not used on mobile sites since navigation is not usually so deep that users need a trail back.
American Airlines, CNN, and Southwest simplify mobile navigation
Prioritize Content Link
Be succinct. Smaller screen sizes require even more careful attention to the content displayed to the user. Put on your editor's hat and cut unnecessary content, then cut some more. When you're done, prioritize the content and display the most important content first.
Amazon's mobile site prioritizes what it offers users on the homepage
Minimize User Input Link
Having used tiny numeric keypads and touchscreens on these Casio DataBank watches for over 20 years (yes, I admit it), I know the pain involved with entering data on miniscule screens. Feature phones have tedious numeric keypads for input, while smartphones have tiny keyboards, either real or virtual, which are subject to fat-finger errors.
- Keep your URL as short as possible, keeping in mind, feature phone users have to repeatedly press a key for most alphabets (key presses for "com" are 222-666-6). Follow URL naming conventions that users are used to, like m.site.com or mobile.site.com.
- Use alternate input mechanisms where possible. While apps can use device capabilities for input including motion, camera, gyroscope, and voice, mobile websites are slowly starting to use some of these features, like geolocation.
- Limit input to essential fields. For instance, if registration is required, limit it to the minimum required fields, and use shorter alternatives like a zip code instead of city and state. Volkswagon mobile captures geolocation, but does not use it when trying to schedule a test drive. Not only that, the mobile form is longer and more tedious than the desktop one.
- Select the best mobile input option (e.g. allowing users to select from a list of options is often faster than typing).
- Use smart default values. NJ Transit's mobile website remembers your last selections and defaults the date to today's date.
- When users need to log in, offer the option to stay signed in, especially since mobile devices are personal and not usually shared.
NJ Transit uses geolocation, remembers selections and defaults to today's date
VW asks for location, but fails to use it (the mobile form is also longer than the desktop version). See larger image18
Design for Intermittent Connectivity Link
Even with mobile service providers rolling out faster G-speeds, mobile connectivity remains intermittent and does not even approach broadband speeds we are so used to on our wired and wireless connections (not even Justin Bieber's 6G phone19!). Users pay for internet access on their phones, and not everyone has unlimited data plans, so as mobile designers, we should think small when designing for mobile:
- Keep page sizes small so they can load quickly and are within the memory limitations of most phones.
- Remove unnecessary code, comments and optional tags.
- Reduce images to sizes and resolutions appropriate for mobile devices.
- Minimize the number of embedded images to reduce the number of HTTP requests and to speed up page load time.
Offer Cross-Channel Consistency & Integration Link
When you create a mobile website, you cross over into multi-channel territory, and with it, the need to maintain a consistent and integrated user experience across channels.
- Balance form and function. Continental Airlines20 takes a minimalistic, no-frills approach, using just their logo for visual branding, while Southwest21 makes their mobile website a little more visual with color and icons.
- Maintain continuity. By signing in on the Amazon mobile website, users can view and manage their shopping cart, wishlists and view and track orders, just as they would on the full site. Another good example in the making is Kindle for the web22 which, when launched, would allow you to continue reading a Kindle ebook where you left off, irrespective of the device you last used. It would also synchronize your library, bookmarks, notes, and highlights.
- Extend the user experience. Sephora mobile users can look up user reviews and ratings of products (by UPC or name) when trying to decide between two or more products in-store.
- Build a consistent user experience. Citibank users going from the full site, to the smartphone website or an iPhone app have the same user experience across all these channels (though some feature phone users cannot use the site at all).
Balancing form and function; Sephora extends the experience for the mobile context
Other Considerations Link
- Detect if your users are using a mobile browser and direct them to the mobile website (with a link on that screen to switch to the full site).
- Do not rely on technology that is not universally supported by your audience devices like Java, JavaScript, cookies, Flash, frames, pop-ups and auto refreshes.
- If you must make the user scroll, make them scroll in only one direction (most sites scroll vertically).
- Use short, descriptive titles for your pages for easy bookmarking and recall.
- While there are advocates for creating separate mobile sites for feature phones, smartphones and iphones (yes, their own website), others have gone down this road and are opting for a single mobile site. Facebook, one of the most visited mobile properties, recently decided to unify its mobile websites into one interface23.
5. Prototype Review & Refine Link
Prototyping is important in an iterative user-centered design process, allowing designers to quickly visualize parts of the website, review with users and refine the design. Prototype early and often through the design process, starting with low fidelity paper sketches, refining them into medium fidelity wireframes and subsequently into high fidelity designs, continually testing with users and iterating based on their feedback.
The rapid prototyping process (from Design Better And Faster With Rapid Prototyping24)
Double check your code for compliance by validating your mobile site using the W3C mobileOK Checker25 or mobiReady26 to uncover and fix potential issues your users may face. Mobile emulators27 and simulators are useful during development, but nothing beats testing your site on actual devices that your users are using.
Ongoing Improvements Link
Your job is not done when you launch your mobile site — you've just come full circle. It's time to monitor site usage and user feedback to identify changes and requests for new features, in addition to any features that did not make it in the first release. Periodically evaluate your mobile site against competitors using a scorecard (sample from Yankee Group [pdf28]) to identify potential areas for improvement.
In Conclusion Link
The mobile Web is different, and may be daunting, but the design process is similar enough for Web designers to ease into mobile design. Designing the perfect mobile website is an impossible task even for experts, but using an iterative user-centered design process can help create the best experience for our users with their help.
Resources Link
- Browser statistics (drill down for mobile): http://gs.statcounter.com/29
- Browser overview of the mobile market: http://www.quirksmode.org/mobile/mobilemarket.html30
- Mobile browser list and test advice: http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2010/04/mobile_browsers.html31
- Mobile data and trends by Nielsen: http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/category/online_mobile/32
- HTML5 capabilities of mobile devices: http://www.netbiscuits.com/external_content/marketing/Netbiscuits_Mobile%20Web%20Metrics%20Report_11-1_Feb.pdf
- TIME's 50 Best Websites: The Mobile Edition (more apps than web): http://techland.time.com/2010/08/25/times-50-best-websites-the-mobile-edition/33
- Mobile Web Best Practices: http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/34
- The 2010 Mobile Year In Review: http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Presentations_Whitepapers/2011/ 2010_Mobile_Year_in_Review35
Tools Link
- Nokia Mobile Web Templates:
- 8 Tools For Easily Creating a Mobile Version of Your Website (Mashable):
- HTML5 Mobile Boilerplate Template: http://html5boilerplate.com/mobile37
Books Link
- Designing the Mobile User Experience by Barbara Ballard
- Mobile Web Design by Cameron Moll
- Strategic Mobile Design: Creating Engaging Experiences by Joseph Cartman and Richard Ting
- Mobile Design and Development: Practical Concepts and Techniques for Creating Mobile Sites and Web Apps by Brian Fling
Footnotes Link
- 1 http://www.the-haystack.com/2011/01/07/there-is-no-mobile-web/
- 2 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/11/03/how-to-build-a-mobile-website/
- 3 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/12/02/a-study-of-trends-in-mobile-design/
- 4 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/07/19/how-to-use-css3-media-queries-to-create-a-mobile-version-of-your-website/
- 5 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2010/02/bbc_online_our_mobile_future.html
- 6 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2010/02/bbc_online_our_mobile_future.html
- 7 http://www.forrester.com
- 8 http://www.emarketer.com/blog/index.php/category/mobile/
- 9 http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/category/online_mobile
- 10 http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/
- 11 http://deviceatlas.com/explorer
- 12 http://www.opera.com/smw/
- 13 http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch05_Half_Not_Half_Assed.php
- 14 http://vimeo.com
- 15 https://mobiforge.com/design-development/effective-design-multiple-screen-sizes
- 16 http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?933
- 17 http://www.lukew.com/presos/preso.asp?26
- 18 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/vwbig.jpg
- 19 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS9sUm5Y0sg
- 20 http://pda.continental.com
- 21 http://mobile.southwest.com
- 22 http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000579091
- 23 http://mashable.com/2011/03/31/facebook-launches-mobile-website-for-all-phones/
- 24 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/06/16/design-better-faster-with-rapid-prototyping/
- 25 http://validator.w3.org/mobile/
- 26 http://ready.mobi/
- 27 http://www.mobilexweb.com/emulators
- 28 http://www.keynote.com/docs/news/Yankee_and_Keynote.pdf
- 29 http://gs.statcounter.com/
- 30 http://www.quirksmode.org/mobile/mobilemarket.html
- 31 http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2010/04/mobile_browsers.html
- 32 http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/category/online_mobile/
- 33 http://techland.time.com/2010/08/25/times-50-best-websites-the-mobile-edition/
- 34 http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/
- 35 http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Presentations_Whitepapers/2011/2010_Mobile_Year_in_Review
- 36 http://mashable.com/2010/12/16/create-mobile-site-tools/
- 37 http://html5boilerplate.com/mobile


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Over 1,500 Bangalore students came out in the streets and formed a human chain on Thursday to protest against the recent bout of moral policing and attacks against women by some right-wing fanatics.
This human chain protest was organised by Dr Rajeev Gowda, a professor at the Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore and a political activist.
The streets near several colleges, including Mount Carmel College and St Joseph's Commerce College, were lined by hundreds of students who enthusiastically joined hands to lodge their protest.
Not only students but even senior citizens and school-going children participated in the human chain at Coles Park.
Image: Students protest against moral policing in Bangalore

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Bus Driver Problem
ok let's say you're driving a bus and it's empty. At the first stop two(2) people get on. At the second stop five(5) people get on and one(1) person exits. At the third stop six(6) people get on and four(4) people exit. How old is the bus driver?
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Garmin nuvifone G60 Review
0. phoneArena posted on 16 Oct 2009, 10:18
The Garmin nuvifone G60 has been in the works for a long time now – almost two years. Taking some design cues from their lineup of standalone GPS devices, the nuvifone G60 has that traditional GPS look and feel...
This is a discussion for a review. To read the whole review, click here
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1. Dadler22 (Posts: 161; Member since: 11 Dec 2008)
lol this phone sucks
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2. ostranderterry (Posts: 61; Member since: 14 Apr 2010)
lol seems like it - they have done 3 updates to the device, I don't know if it's helped it at all - here's the address if anyone is interested -https://www.garminasus.com/en_
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* Conference to decide on rules of 6-month national debate
* Emergency measure to be announced in support of renewables
* Green jobs may double by 2020 if output target met-lobby
By Muriel Boselli
PARIS, Sept 13 (Reuters) - France's government begins a review of the world's most nuclear-dependent country's energy policy on Friday, strongly in support of its small and ailing renewables sector.
Ministers, NGOs, unions, industries, parliamentarians and consumers will converge for a two-day conference to agree on how to conduct a six-month national debate that will seek to reshape the way energy is produced, consumed and taxed in France.
Its new Socialist government is expected to announce immediate measures to help the crisis-hit renewable energy sector - which employs 100,000 people - as part of its battle to tackle soaring unemployment.
"There are businesses which are struggling and we can today save jobs," said a senior official at the energy ministry, who declined to be named. "Our concern is the notion of ecological patriotism, which is to ensure that support to the sector actually translates into jobs in France."
France's renewable energy lobby reckons the sector could generate 225,000 jobs by 2020 with investments totalling 80 billion euros, provided production targets are met.
In 2011, renewable energy revenues in France reached 10 billion euros ($12.89 billion), puny when compared to the $257 billion worldwide.
The conference is a follow-up to a series of political debates under former President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007 - dubbed the Grenelle de l'environnement - that set ambitious goals to raise the share of green sources in France's energy mix and cut CO2 emissions.
But the economic crisis, a speculative bubble in the solar sector that led to dwindling feed-in tariffs, and increasing red tape in the wind power industry, have slowed down growth in renewable energies over the past two years.
Renewable energy makes up 13 percent of the energy mix, well below the 23-percent target set by Sarkozy for 2020. Nuclear power still represents 78 percent of the electricity mix, wind power stands at 2 percent and solar power less than 0.5 percent.
While President Francois Hollande has pledged to cut France's reliance on nuclear power to 50 percent by 2025, Industry Minister Arnaud Montebourg has described it as a "promising sector." Low electricity bills have become essential to France's strategy to regain lost competitiveness.
One key measure that could be announced this weekend is a second tender to build offshore wind farms, a sector where France massively lags neighbours such as Britain, an industry source told Reuters this week.
Another keenly awaited move is whether the government will temper a slowdown in the drop of feed-in tariff for solar power. The tariffs are paid by state-controlled utility EDF and consumers to subsidise renewable energy sources.
The struggling sector hopes the government will agree to limit the drop to 10 percent per year instead of per quarter.
Also a thorny issue for the wind power sector is the urgent need to cut red tape, which the industry says has led to 1,000 job losses. The gap between submitting a request to build a wind farm and its commissioning could be as many as 7 years.
The government could also decide to tax kerosene for internal flights to generate income and to set a more ecological taxation system, sources taking part in the debate told Reuters.
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Banks have won a partial victory against some credit card customers who have been trying to avoid paying their debts.
Claims management companies have argued that a debt cannot be enforced without a copy of the original credit card agreement.
But the High Court in Manchester has ruled that banks need only provide a "reconstituted" copy of the original loan agreement.
Money Box is joined by Guy Anker, news editor of the website MoneySavingExpert.com, who explains what this ruling means.
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Loans secured against a vehicle could face ban
An expensive form of borrowing secured against the value of your car or motorbike could be outlawed under Government proposals.
More than 1,000 people have complained to the Office of Fair Trading about this form of borrowing. The loans allow the lender to repossess your vehicle without a court order if you fall into difficulties paying back the money.
The Department for Business Innovation and Skills is consulting on plans to ban this method of borrowing.
The programme hears from the Consumer Minister Kevin Brennan and from Robert Shaw, who took a case to the High Court last month over a loan he took out.
VAT increase to cause confusion
The temporary cut in VAT ends shortly and consumers are facing confusion as retailers dither over when to re-impose the full rate of VAT at 17.5%. The sales tax was slashed to 15% a year ago to boost consumer spending, but returned to 17.5% on New Year's Day.
But while some stores are imposing the increase from January 1st, others have decided to hold on until February or even longer to maintain the post-Christmas shopping boom.
And confusingly, some store chains will operate a two-tier pricing system, with selected goods kept at the current price while others bear the full weight of the rise.
John Whiting, tax policy director of The Chartered Institute of Taxation, joins the programme to explain how the changes in VAT will affect you.
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As we prepare to try and pay off what we've spent on debit and credit card bills in the run up to Christmas it's worth checking that all the items on the statement are for things we've actually bought.
Although the banking industry insists the introduction of chip and pin has dramatically reduced card fraud, experts believe criminals are getting better at cheating the system.
When we looked at some of the possible weaknesses in chip and pin security at the end of last year we got a big response from listeners. So we sent Bob Howard to visit Steven Murdoch, an expert in Chip and Pin fraud at the Cambridge Computer Lab, to put some of your theories to the test.
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Despite an increasing number of savings products to choose from in 2009, interest rates are at record lows, hitting people who want an income from their savings.
The situation's not set to change in the short term either - with economists predicting that the Bank of England base rate will not rise significantly over the next twelve months.
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Plight of the Honey Bee
Plight of the Honey Bee
November 29, 2012
Bees are the guarantors of life on Earth.
Since times immemorial bees have been the greatest indicator of overall environmental quality and general well-being on planet Earth. Honey bees are one of the most unique animals roaming our planet, having evolved 35 million years ago from wasps; they possess the most precise navigational ability of any animal known on Earth! They are literally electro-magnetised and orientate themselves according to the magnetic poles of the earth (a process known as 'magnetic remanence').
No other animal on Earth has this unique sense of orientation. Furthermore, bees are one of the only animals (together with sharks and electric eels) that have the ability to exploit the electrical properties of nature during their day-to-day activities. When feeding on nectar, a bee will build up an electrostatic charge whilst flapping its wings against its coat (200 times per second,) which in turn causes the pollen from a flower to stick to their coat due to the charge differential.
The Significance of Honey Bees
Why are bees so important to humans and life on Earth as we know it?
Contrary to animal reproduction, plants need to be pollinated. Some plants can pollinate themselves (known as self-pollination) but most require the presence of certain mediators to disperse their pollen from one plant to another. These mediators appear in the form of animals, insects and the wind (cross-pollination). Honey bees pollinate between 80 and 90 percent of all flowering crops, constituting one third of everything human beings eat on this Earth. Without honey bees, humans can say goodbye to cucumbers, apples, strawberries, nuts, broccoli, asparagus, blueberries and alfalfa- to name but a few species. Their disappearance would threaten the entire beef and dairy industries (as a knock-on effect from alfalfa disappearing - as it is requisite in their feed). In the US alone, it has been estimated that honeybees pollinate approximately $14 billion worth of seeds and crops, every year.
If honeybees were to disappear completely, they would take almost all of our insect-pollinated plants with them, hereby essentially reducing our diet to nothing but water, another scarce commodity on this planet.
Philosopy of the Bee
Honey bees form a matriarchal society where females make up 95% of the population. The sole function of males is fertilising the queen. Honey bees are 'honourable' animals not because they work hard, but because they work hard for others. Prompting Shakespeare to say in Henry V:
"For so work the honey-bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom."
It seems that the perfect benchmark for any given society would be having the bee community/ethos as a role model. What we should really be striving to emulate is the conscious empathy and life sustaining duties that the bees do selflessly (with a little more work input from human males over and above insemination duties).
A bee colony is more like one holistic entity than it is a collection of individuals.
Ultimately, for humans it all boils down to philosophy. What view of the world is most in line with everyone's thoughts? What is the truth? What is the best way for us to live as humans? This essentially brings up two polar opposite historical views in philosophy namely;
Thomas Hobbes vs Baruch Spinoza
Are we merely a collection of individuals or part of some holistic collective? Should we care for each other or is it really every human solely looking out for their own good? Imagine what would happen to a bee colony if they adopted this philosophy.
Thomas Hobbes' philosophical views heavily influenced the political doctrines of his time and also hundreds of years later. Especially in the newly formed America, his notions of individuality vs collective group interest fell on fertile ground. Over the centuries it subtly influenced economists and in turn the global community collectively.
Spinoza said that for a concept of god to make any sense at all, it must be part of Nature, not separate from it. God could not be something outside Nature controlling it, but must be part of it. According to Spinoza, God IS Nature. Einstein loved Spinoza.
Einstein's God:
Hobbes: "The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone."
Underlying the fundamental question: Are we responsible for each other's well-being? What is the social contract? Is compassion important as the head corner stone of society, if yes, are we neglecting it?
The French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau described such a binding human contract in his genius doctrine: The Social Contract. Here he set out to describe exactly what these duties we have to each other are and why they were necessary? He believed all citizens should be bound to this contract, that it shouldn't be voluntary like Hobbes would advocate in his slightly cynical view of human society. Incidentally Hobbes paved the way for social Darwinism before Charles Darwin had ever even been born. He wasn't a great believer in people or their place in the animal kingdom. On Tolstoy, alluding to the mystery of bees, said that they "occupied territories beyond our comprehension" and as such would never be fully understood. And truly enough, much of the behaviour and unique abilities of honey bees still baffles biologists.
But what is happening to the bees?
Colony Collapse disorder (CCD) was first recorded in North America and Europe in late 2006 where whole worker bee populations of many hives vanished for no apparent reason, in turn causing the collapse of the entire hive/colony.
Possible causes outlined by science:
• Varoa Mites and other insect pathogens (Nosema apis – fungus – most common … Israel Acute Paralysis virus also infects bees though not believed to be responsible for CCD)
• Industrial monoculture crops (soy/corn from Monsanto seeds) leading to environmental stress (due to unnatural conditions) coupled to use of pesticides causing degradation of digestive tract (malnutrition) and in turn weakening of immune response making the worker bees more susceptible to diseases and pathogens.
• Systemic pesticides initially employed to get rid of certain parasitic aphid and locust population in major crops, spilling over into bee population, in turn leading to cascade of genetic abnormalities in 2nd and 3rd generations of progeny
• Extreme weather fluctuations
• Conditions in which honey bees are kept (1 beekeeper for every 65 000 hives vs. 65 000 bee keepers with one hive each)
Most likely it is a combination of all the above factors (a synergistic event) causing the overall weakening of the species. Fluctuations in bee populations have been noted before historically but never entire colonies disappearing across the whole world.
Nonetheless it has been proven scientifically that certain systemic pesticides are directly responsible for the decrease. In particular the neonicotinoids, a neuroactive class of insecticides, have been shown to impact the bees directly by causing specific neurodegenerative effects that can lead to a worker bee's loss of navigational ability and in turn a neglect to feed the rest of the colony, hereby bringing about its collapse. The build-up or 'bioaccumulation' of these chemicals is what is really hurting the bees as a species. We are now seeing the effects across generations of unrestrained human use of pesticides. One of the scariest facts about these substances is that some can directly interfere with a process known as DNA methylation (an essential step in gene expression and replication,) which means that once they enter the food chain, their interference with DNA replication can lead to mutations on a meta level - with whole species extinction, on a scale unimaginable and a scope that reaches far beyond just our own immediate vicinity, not being out of the question.
The potential knock-on effects through bioaccumulation are so grave, that the collapse of the entire food chain is a possible scenario. The French, German and Italian health ministries, all banned the use of neonicotinoids in 2008-2009 due to public protests and targeted collective pressure by the local bee keepers unions.
Furthermore, a study of bumble bees published in the scientific journal Nature in October this year showed a distinct, statistically significant correlation between neonicotinoids and bee behaviour related to colony collapse disorder. Here the scientists showed that chronic exposure to these pesticides is adversely affecting worker bee behaviour; hereby jeopardising the survival of the colony and in turn the entire species. This is the sixth study published this year implicating pesticides as the culprit in the collapse phenomenon. We need to re-evaluate our approach to farming.
The extreme weather fluctuations of the past 40 years (in particular temperatures) have lead to environmental strain and the appearance of novel pathogens. These weather fluctuations are happening due to global warming and climate change through the excessive burning of fossil fuels and pollution that causes natural habitats to become increasingly volatile, in turn not providing the stable homeostatic environment required for animal and plant populations to live and grow healthily.
The practice of mass cultivation apiaries of bees and industrial crops has given rise to conditions never seen before in Nature and some bee keepers believe it is this unnatural, artificially created environment that is giving rise to new diseases that are affecting bee populations.
Bee farming on a commercial scale results in genetic engineering through artificial insemination of the Queen Bee, where Queen Bee replacement strategies are employed (here a biologist will remove the queen from the hive after just 5 months, replacing her with a younger, more "productive" queen that has been genetically selected for- this action alone causes massive unrest in the colony and could be why some worker bees abandon the hive – it's a bit like a young child having their mother replaced every 5 months). These industrial bee farmers also remove the honey (the food for the colony) and replace it with high sugar-content sugar syrup as substitute – organic farmers liken this to taking a child off a healthy diet and instead making them eat fast-food for the rest of their life (results in metabolic disorders and neurodegenerative diseases). – (VISUAL)
Industrial monocultures with genetically engineered seeds (soya and corn) also create an unnatural environment- there are whole patches of the Mid-western US that are only one type of crop over thousands of acres. Bees cannot survive in these types of environments as they rely on the presence of a multitude of species for overall survival and wellbeing.
"Take the
bees out of their natural environment and Mother Nature
comes along brings fungus/parasite to get rid of what is not
supposed to be there"
(Dee Lusby, bee researcher and co-inventor of the descriptor: colony collapse disorder)
Both types of industrial cultivation (of bees and crops) are driven by the profit incentives of Big Agriculture (Big Chemical and Big Seed companies). These corporations are responsible for creating the demand for certain products by inadvertently advertising the numbers they can reach with wholesale growing approaches. In an-ever growing market place (world population) these targets dictate local customs due to the fact that at such volumes, the produce from these Mega farms often undercuts local pricing of traditional farmers, hereby putting them out of business.
Hence this laissez faire approach has subjected the entire discipline of farming to the influences of the market and capitalistic forces – hereby not only affecting our local environment (genetic cross-contamination of species, general pollution of this scale of production) but also slowly destroying local communities by putting their farmers out of business. So the business of mass-scale monoculture not only affects the human species on a physiological but also on a psychological and sociological level.
History of the Bees
Bees were given a divine status in Ancient Egypt – their honey was referred to as the "Nectar of the Gods" and symbolises Mother Nature and the sacred feminine in Greek and Roman tradition.
A sign of good fortune: a bee landing on your house was a sign of a celestial blessing in Ancient Egypt. The bee was thought to be prophetic, an omen of sorts bringing health and balance to all she visited upon. In many cultures, honey was used as a panacea for every malady under the sun – it seems ironic that nowadays our panacea appears to be the large scale use of chemical intervention to solve problems of productivity in Nature – this panacea in turn leads to the death of another historical panacea (namely honey) by targeting its makers, the bees.
Recently it has also been discovered that bee venom has medicinal properties, it has been used for treating arthritis, multiple sclerosis and even fibromyalgia, and more recently to treat sexual dysfunction, cancer, epilepsy and depression.
It is important to note that the systemic pesticides used today were designed in the same labs used for the purpose of research into chemical weapons during World War I and II.
"Pesticides moved from the battlefield on to the dinner tables within a generation" (P. Mimkes, Coalition against Bayer Dangers)
What can we do?
In conclusion, it is as much a fault of our out-of-control industrial-style farming practices that inadvertently abide by the laws of free-market economics by being under the control of corporations, as it is our own misunderstanding of what the best system for society really is. Should we be solely focussed on wealth accumulation i.e. profit above all else capitalism by putting profit before more holistic goals like keeping the planet safe and in balance?
Bees are responsible for the fertilisation of nearly 80% of the food on Earth and it is estimated in the US alone for $15 billion worth of fruits and vegetables.
So it is a commodity with value – this presents a double-edged sword regarding the traditional cultivation vs industrial "milking" of the commodity to maximise the profit for the large corporations (their legal obligation to their shareholders). It almost seems as if the bees presents a powerful opportunity for us to address the proverbial elephant in the room regarding our collective attitude towards certain economic principles (i.e. for profit ventures that result in the decimation of intrinsically important stalwarts of our environment, over and above the obvious pollution of the Earth through large-scale industry itself). It's almost as if the decline in the global bee population is the alarm bell for us. Nature is ringing in order to wake up those of us still sat in the corner with our blinkers on hoping that "the whole problem will just go away" or worse haphazardly sweeping it under the carpet. If the bees disappear, this planet will become uninhabitable for Homo sapiens and most other living beings. They are essential to the entire system, yes we could eventually manufacture food ourselves in Petri dishes and utilise hydroponic indoor vegetable farms, but would we be able to make the food mimic the quality of what it is we would normally grow according to the way the food was designed to grow i.e. come into being?
Without Nature what is this Earth? In the US, a 96% decline of some species of honey bees has been recorded in recent years, whereas in New Zealand over the last years the decline witnessed has been relatively 'mild' in comparison (at last consensus 2011, the population has decreased by 30%).
But then something happened that held the world in awe. It was reported in September 2012 that the bee hives in Auckland region had gone silent indicating that the worker bees had abandoned their hives. What was worrying was the rate at which this started happening. Over 70% of the bee hives were believed to be affected by colony collapse disorder. And it all happened over a period of two months. This was the fastest rate witnessed at such a high volume in the entire world. Auckland bee keepers were stunned.
As opposed to the continuing decline in North America and New Zealand, certain countries in Europe have seen a stabilising effect of their bee populations. The difference between these geographic regions is primarily the response of the respective Ministry of Environments in European countries that have voted to ban systemic pesticides like the neonicotinoids, from use in farming and the curbing of the industrial scale approach.
In contrast to the US, New Zealand does not really employ industrial farming or monocultures, but our local farmers are still allowed to pollute the environment by using the toxic pesticides banned in most of Europe. The push has to come from somewhere as these pesticides have an environmental impact over and above affecting bee populations, their neurotoxic qualities affect our food supply and whilst mammals do not get affected as extremely as insects, these chemicals do exhibit certain neurodegenerative effects in mammals, including humans, too. This alone should cause enough concern for people to act.
The fact that the majority of the environmental strain on our planet is being caused by corporations seeking profits, spurs an anthropomorphic thought analogy regarding the ecological and behavioural differences between wasps and bees, as this is actually quite an apt metaphor for what is happening here. Bees evolved from wasps about 35 million years ago, long before the first Homo sapien species walked the Earth bipedally.
Wasps are predators that feed on the weak and defenceless in the animal kingdom- they are often greedy and often parasitic, some wasps eat so much that their abdomens literally burst. Bees feed on nectar and are the providers for the entire ecosystem of our planet, consciously pollinating almost all food crops and plants that exist. They are selfless and live in an egalitarian, matriarchal society. Wasps are mostly solitary looking out only for themselves, if they pollinate flowers and plants, it happens by accident.
Colony collapse disorder is the direct result of the last 150 years of human industrialism, of us recklessly polluting the environment like we owned the planet, all in the name of profit. There are specific products that have been empirically linked to the collapse phenomenon.
One company in particular is a massive culprit. Initially they produced chemical weapons during the Second World War, then they used the exact same chemical processes and compounds to make pesticides when the war was over and their profits waned. Literally in the same laboratories.
This chemical warfare was extended to the animal kingdom and the bioaccumulation of these toxins in animal species is causing an environmental catastrophe on a scale never witnessed before in history. Over 50% of all species are on the decline or going extinct.
Over and above bees, whole species are disappearing due to deleterious mutations caused by these novel chemicals. Whenever nature senses something that is not supposed to be there, it gets rid of it.
It's not only the flora and fauna that is affected, we are all eating these toxins every day, they are in our food chain. The bizarre and slightly surreal part is that we don't have this technology because we have to use pesticides to sustain farming, no; we needed pesticides in order to do farming on an industrial scale.
No communal farmer uses these products. Only the giant food companies use them because it increases their crop yield and in turn their cash flow. No one talks about the fact that over 50% of all this food produced from this type of farming gets thrown away before it even reaches any dinner plate. This scale of farming brings production price down and profits up. Nothing else.
We don't need these crop yields to 'feed the world' because the corporations don't care about that and never will. Their sole motive is profit; to feed the defenceless and in turn make them weak and eat them.
Corporations are wasps. Human beings are bees.
Something has to change. If bee pollination ceases completely this world will be in a serious bind, we are already manipulating entire crop genomes to prepare for this event. When it happens and it seems like we're pretty close to that tipping point, our lives as human beings on this fragile planet will change forever. Imagine for a second a world without bees? What will our environment look like with no plants and flowers? No more cross pollination, a process that is so essential in order to ensure the natural genetic diversity required for the survival of all living things.
But there is a way out. There is hope. A solution that we can all take part in and proactively help make things better and in the process it will bring us closer together as a species: Because we are all to blame. The funny thing is, we actually control these corporations; with our forks, with our brains, with our knowledge and with our collective awareness.
It just takes a bit of a shift of behaviour on everyone's part. Every person everywhere has to change their ways and use their brains. Vote and shop intelligently and most importantly, sustainably. If anything, for the bees and for our own survival. We don't own this planet, we are mere visitors.
Auckland city bees are disappearing, at an alarming rate, over a short period of time. Three quarters of all hives in two months. An unprecedented rate, never seen before in the world (average collapse rate is 6-8 months.)
Now with New Zealand affected, colony collapse disorder has officially become a global phenomenon.
Alarm bells are ringing.
Poland and Hungary have already banned most Monsanto corn from use on their land. France, Italy, Germany and Slovenia have decided to ban certain neonicotinoid products that were deemed harmful to the environment by the effect they were having on bee populations.
Furthermore, November saw a large debate stirring in the UK parliament regarding pesticide usage on seeds and subsequent ramifications on pollinating insects, with a particular focus on the honey bees. Various British MP's are arguing that UK laws are outdated and do not take into account the full impact that chemical industries are having on our environment. What is being called for is a legal framework that protects our environment from the harmful effects of industrial pollution.
It's time us Kiwis pulled our socks up and started living up to our reputation as a "100% Pure" green folk that has no qualms about rising up to what is possibly the most important challenge we will ever face in our entire lives.
Namely saving the bees. And in turn, saving the planet.
Restoring balance.
Maui Ora.
The three P's- (how to react proactively):
Petition ---> Avaaz
honey bee petition
Petition to Legalise and facilitate personalised bee keeping all throughout NZ. Talk to local farmers regarding their use of pesticides (quote the latest study by the University of London in Oct 2012 http://www.nature.com/news/the-buzz-about-pesticides-1.11626) Sign up to become a bee keeper:
Protest ----> Outside Beehive in Wellington (ban the neonicotinoids from use in NZ) - here the Berkeley protests in May 2012 http://www.cbgnetwork.org/4466.html
Organise a local screening of http://www.queenofthesun.com (see link on how to get permission) – invite your local MP to come!
Personal ----> Vote! We vote 3 times a day. Vote with your fork! Choose organic produce, shop at local farmers markets http://www.biograins.co.nz , plant a garden, join a co-op in your local community.
Start an apiary! http://www.nba.org.nz
sustainable. Buy honey from New Zealand
Question the intelligence of using a capitalist system as the economic benchmark for global food production. Ponder the logical consequences of our current system (i.e. profit before quality etc)
Prominent Twitter Bee Activists
twitter.com/helpthebees (12,000
twitter.com/HelpSaveBees (11,000)
twitter.com/vanishingbees (5000)
twitter.com/SeaOfBees (2000)
twitter.com/shekeepsbees (600)
There is another sky - Poem by Emily Dickinson
"There is
another sky,
Ever serene and fair,
And there is another sunshine,
Though it be darkness there;
Never mind faded forests, Austin,
Never mind silent fields -
Here is a little forest,
Whose leaf is ever green;
Here is a brighter garden,
Where not a frost has been;
In its unfading flowers
I hear the bright bee hum:
Prithee, my brother,
Into my garden come!"
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• National Pesticide Information Center. Imidacloprid: General Fact Sheet. May 2010.
• Lu, Chensheng; Warchol, K. M.; Callahan, R. A. (2012). "In situ replication of honey bee colony collapse disorder (13 March 2012 corrected proof)" (PDF). Bulletin of Insectology 65 (1). ISSN 1721-8861. Retrieved 7 April 2012.
• Carrington, Damian (March 29, 2012). "Pesticides linked to honeybee decline". The Guardian. Retrieved April 7, 2012.
• Didier, Elizabeth; Vidau, Cyril; Diogon, Marie; Aufauvre, Julie; Fontbonne, Régis; Viguès, Bernard; Brunet, Jean-Luc; Texier, Catherine et al. (2011). "Exposure to Sublethal Doses of Fipronil and Thiacloprid Highly Increases Mortality of Honeybees Previously Infected by Nosema ceranae". PLoS ONE 6 (6): e21550.
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• McDonald, Kim (23 May 2012). "Commonly Used Pesticide Turns Honey Bees Into 'Picky Eaters'". UCSD News Center. Retrieved 30 May 2012.


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"This post makes a reference to this article, which has an explanation about why 4G service can be intermittent. It doesn't address the kind of system-wide outages we're seeing; but the now-and-then loss of signal may be due to authentication problems between phones and the network. It's a short article and pretty easy to follow; worth a read."
which article are you referring to? PM me. CSRs won't respond on here but the Mods are overzealous in redacting...
Seattle has been down for a couple hours. #sadtrombone
Still out here in Jax, FL...at least with my phone. Hearing from Droid Charge users that they still have 4G service. What the bleep? Why is this TBolts (again)...and why did they pass a stupid patch on Dec. 21. The day of the last outage?
Verizon needs to get their head out of their{word filter avoidance} and deal with this problem!!!! There are just too many people with their service and yet we do not get service. I believe they don't have a clue as to how to fix this 3G/4G problem. They are just trying to by time. They just told me that it "may" be because there are alot of people who just got 4G phones and it is taking away from the service. WHATEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm in Long Beach, CA. Both the 4G and 3G were down at about 10:30 am. The 3G was sometimes on, but stopped working after a few minutes. I called customer service. All i heard was ads ads and ads.
Wow.....this is what we pay for....4G LTE no service since morning.....intermediate connections in 3G and dropping off in San Jose. All day long I am having this problem.
What a pathetic way to pay for these Greedy Corporations?
oh look at that...i mention redaction and the links "magically" work again... too bad it shows [ Edited ] next to the subject line..and i know i didn't edit my own post...
Just purchased a new phone yesterday paid extra for a next day charge and now i cant even use my new phone. I can't even use my old phone. Extremely Dissapointed
4G services seem to be restored in Houston, TX as of 15 minutes ago. Will continue to monitor to see if it stays up. YAY!


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Trena Gayle Wilson and Jamie Russell Smith, both of Campbellsville, exchanged wedding vows on Friday, June 6 at Twin Eagles Estates in Lebanon.
Bro. Don Gowin performed the ceremony.
The bride is the daughter of Roger and Judy Wilson of Campbellsville.
The groom is the son of Henry and Kelly Smith of Campbellsville and Patti and Bill Hartman of Hanover, Ind.
The outdoor wedding ceremony took place on the lawn, which was scattered with white rose petals.
Peggy Pyles, associate matron of Pitman Chapter #157, Order of the Eastern Star, congratulates Norma Swafford and Nadine Milsap on receiving their 50-year membership pins. Also receiving pins, but not pictured, were Pearl Blevins, Florence Curry, Ruby English, Mildred Gabehart, Gertrude Mizer and Kathryn Smith. The chapter meets the second Tuesday of each month at 7:30 p.m.
Richard and Virginia Barnett of Campbellsville celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on Saturday, Aug. 2.
The Barnetts were married on Aug. 6, 1948.
The event took place at Campbellsville Country Club. It was hosted by their son and daughter, Ricky Barnett and Elizabeth Sanders.
Margaret Ann RoBards and Karl Henry Feige, both of Louisville, exchanged wedding vows on Thursday, Aug. 7 at Beech Mountain Country Club in Banner Elk, N.C.
The Rev. Paul Bader of Gray, Tenn. performed the ceremony.
The bride is the daughter of Richard and Linda RoBards of Campbellsville.
The groom is the son of the late Herbert Feige Jr.
Emma Louise Feige of Louisville served as matrimonial witness.
Bree Russell and Mallory Russell, both of Bowling Green, served as the flower girls.
A dinner reception followed the ceremony.
Bible Baptist Tabernacle of Campbellsville hosted a special "God and Country Sunday" on Aug. 3. Missionary Chaplain Joe Adams, who has ministered to state and local officials for more than 25 years, was the featured speaker. The church also honored a number of public officials with special recognition and personalized certificates. Pictured are, from left, State Rep.
Jessica Watson of Campbellsville and Troy DeWitt of Summersville exchanged wedding vows on Friday, July 4 at Summersville Church of the Nazarene.
The bride is the daughter of Charles and Debbie Humphress of Campbellsville. She is employed at Cox Interior Inc.
The groom is the son of Grady and Cora Mae DeWitt of Summersville. He is employed at Kentucky Tie and Lumber Co.
Jennifer Neagle of Summersville served as the matron of honor. Lainey Watson and Brittany DeWitt, both of Summersville, were the bridesmaids.
Josh and Jessica Skaggs of Campbellsville announce the birth of a son, Brayden Cole, at 10:45 p.m. on Friday, July 11 at Spring View Hospital in Lebanon. He weighed 9 pounds, 15 ounces and was 22 inches long.
Grandparents are Terry and Tammy Skaggs, Charles Brockman and Debra Brockman, all of Campbellsville.
Great-grandparents are Helen McClurg of Elizabethtown, Albert Skaggs of Campbellsville and the late Geneva Skaggs, George and Mildred Holmes and Walter Barnes.
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Roy Lee and Sarah Laurene Benningfield Tedder of Campbellsville will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on Aug. 30.
The Tedders were married on Aug. 30, 1958, at Roley Christian Church in Roley, Ky. The Rev. T.R. Bledsoe performed the ceremony while Charles and Marjorie Campbell of Campbellsville were the attendants.
The couple have two sons and daughters-in-law, Evan and Elizabeth Tedder and Kent and Michelle Tedder, all of Bowling Green. They also have six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren, all of Bowling Green.
Senior Airman Trevor "Trae" Sprowles was promoted to sergeant at Kirkland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, N.M.
He is the son of Bobby and JJ Sprowles of Campbellsville.
The Taylor County Junior Miss Committee has announced that the Campbellsville Rotary Club is sponsoring the 2009 "Be Your Best Self" Award to be given away Saturday night at the Taylor County Junior Miss Scholarship Program at Hamilton Auditorium.
The Campbellsville Rotary Club was organized in 1937 and over the last 70 years has provided meaningful service to the Campbellsville/Taylor County community. The club has long held a special interest in supporting young people and has provided several thousands of dollars in college scholarships over the years.
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Jennifer Segal is an attorney specializing in education law at the Washington, DC office of Brustein & Manasevit, PLLC. Jennifer assists clients with fiscal and programmatic compliance under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act, and the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act.
Jennifer represents clients in adverse audit and program review determinations and in civil rights complaints filed with the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights. She also participates in individualized education program team meetings on behalf of charter schools throughout the DC area and represents local educational agencies in IDEA due process hearings.
Prior to joining the firm in 2012, Ms. Segal clerked in the abuse and neglect division at the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and worked as an associate at a special education law firm in Baltimore.


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Edit: After half day, my wife's Mac started having the same problem. I have then applied the solution that I found in the Apple
New features in OS X Mountain Lion latest developers preview update
One week after Apple has released last developer update of OS X Mountain Lion,a few brand new features,including hints of automatic app downloads have been discovered in the upcoming operating system.There is still more to be found.Two new features were found recently:offline Reading List mode and iOS-like dictation.
Some people compare Offline Reading List to regular Bookmarks.And that make some sense,although,unlike Bookmarks, offline Reading List will also let you know which articles you have read and which ones you haven't.Another good aspect is that it will give you a text preview of each one of them.And you may also read Reading List items even when you are offline in OS X Mountain Lion.
"When you aren'-t connected to a network and pull up Safari, you get a message that tells you that you aren'-t connected to the Internet, but that your "-Reading List articles are available for viewing while you are offline."
Pretty useful option when you really need to read some stuff but have no way to get online.
It is not a secret that one of the most obvious technologies Mac could benefit from is dictation.The rumor has it that such capabilities may be built in the next-generation Macs.
"According to a resources file inside of the latest build of Safari in the newest seed of the upcoming OS X Mountain Lion, Dictation might be making its way to Macs next. Since Macs do not sport virtual keyboards or physical keyboards with a microphone-labled key, users (by default) will apparently need to simultaneously click both command keys to start voice input."
This feature would allow users to speak to their computers,while Dictation would spell out their words on the screen,saving users a huge deal of typing.Users will be able to activate the feature by tapping both command keys on the keyboard.
Besides the ability to dictate text,including voice recognition directly into OS X would actually open a way for deeper voice control in the future –- there could be a possibility to use this feature for opening a certain app,finding a specific file,send emails or perform any other tasks.Although,for now all this is nothing more than just a rumor,so,we just have to wait for WWDC 2012 and see what Apple is going to surprise us with this time.
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The Penfolds, Rosemount and Wolf Blass winemaker is expected to make deep cuts in its middle management ranks and also to trim travel expenses, office space and production facilities.
The crackdown on discretionary spending inside the company, including slashing the use of consultants, comes as Treasury closely scrutinises some of its lesser-known brands.
Mr Clarke and a group of senior executives are preparing to whittle down its 83-strong portfolio, which has been built up over 15 years of acquisitions.
While no decisions have been made, it is understood that brands including Tollana, Metala, Robertson's Well and Ingoldby are among those second-tier brands that are being looked at closely.
It has also emerged that Bank of America Merrill Lynch is one of the key players in a syndicate of banks that are part of the financing package which Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has signed off on.
But BAML has stipulated that it is subject to KKR doing full due diligence with complete access to Treasury's books.
This makes it highly unlikely that KKR would contemplate a hostile bid.
KKR has been attempting to get access to Treasury's books since its initial $3.05 billion takeover approach on April 16, but has been unsuccessful.
One wine industry executive said Mr Clarke would easily be able to make the job cuts – representing roughly 175 jobs – because Treasury had grown too large in recent years on the expectation that demand for its wines would rise.
"They're still selling a lot of cheaper wine, which you could argue they shouldn't be in any more," the source said.
"I don't believe for a second that KKR is buying it to manage a turnaround. It has to be a break-up. I think they've probably got people lined up for some of the assets."
Treasury says KKR's $4.70 cash-per- share, highly conditional offer undervalues the company.
Treasury's firm stance has shifted focus to whether a rival bid may emerge.
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But Bright, which was believed to be eyeing Treasury in 2011, has been aggressively expanding across the globe.
Last week it agreed to pay British private equity firm Apax nearly $1 billion for a 56 per cent stake in Israel's largest dairy manufacturer, Tnuva.
Bright bought a 60 per cent slice of Britain's Weetabix in 2012 and is well known in Australia.
It has recently bought dairy group Mundella and in 2011 bought a 75 per cent stake in Manassen Foods.
Its adviser on the Manassen deal was Nomura, which is advising KKR on its Treasury bid.
Treasury's shares have surged 40 per cent since April 16. The rally is opportune for some of Treasury's largest shareholders. Commonwealth Bank's Colonial First State lifted its holding from 7.6 per cent to 9.1 per cent a fortnight before KKR made its approach to Treasury. Wellington increased its stake from 5.7 per cent to 6.8 per cent in February.
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On Thursday, New Rochelle High School is going green. Sustainability Day, which grew out of a just-introduced elective on sustainability, will offer a day of workshops and discussions about how best to reduce one's impact on the world around them.
Experts in a wide range of fields will lead presentations on doing more with less, on reusing and recycling and on using alternate sources of energy. Workshop topics include: "Compost: Put Your Organic Resources to Work," by Pamela Davis, a master gardener; "Sustainable Eating: A Look at Sustainable, Eco-friendly Farms," by teacher George Gierer; and "Sustainable Development: Helping the World Economically, Socially and Environmentally," by Dan Bena, PepsiCo's director of sustainable development.
"A lot of people have no idea what sustainability means," said Joyce Kent, chairman of the high school's science department and one of two lead organizers of the event (Julia Chillemi, who teaches the sustainability course, is the other). "It's not just about global warming. It's trying to maintain within reason your lifestyle without using up the resources found on this planet."
One of the goals of Sustainability Day is to show people how they can make small adjustments to their day-to-day routines that have significant results, Kent said.
About 2,800 students are expected to participate in the Thursday's events.
And in additional Science Department news, the high school's Science Olympiad team will head to the New York State Championship later this month. The team finished second at a regional competition in February, earning a berth in the finals. The championship competition takes place at West Point March 18 and 19.


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Santa Ana
Santa Ana, a town near San José in Costa Rica
Everybody who wants to escape from the hustle and bustle of San José is in the right place here in Santa Ana.
Approximately 30.000 residents live in this calm and attractive town. In less than half an hour you can get to the center of San José as well as to the Juan Santamaria International Airport .
The climate is very pleasant and dryer than the other parts of the country. This is why Santa Ana was elected to the place with the fifth- best climate on earth. Nevertheless, the town that is protected by the mountains "Cerros de Escazú" is not too touristy.
Santa Ana was founded in 1907 and declared a town in 1970. Life takes place around the church where the weekly market is held and different trade fairs and events reflect the real Costa Rican culture. The old center, where workshops for ceramics are located and remarkable wood carvings are sold, is still alive.
the village Santa Ana
the church right in the center of Santa Ana
Cerros de Escazú- view at Santa Ana
One of the recommended hikes.
Hiking in Santa Ana
Very nice landscape in Santa Ana.
Santa Ana Center:
Only 3 minutes walking distance from the Posada.
Tours around Santa Ana
View of the central valley
Have a look over the town.
A small, tranquil village
On the one hand, Santa Ana offers a large number of familiar restaurants and so called "sodas" with very cheap prices that give an insight into the traditional Costa Rican kitchen. On the other hand, there are first class and expensive restaurants, a paradise for gourmets. Close to our hotel we have an 18-hole golf course and an outdoor tennis complex with 6 courts waiting for you.
Every Sunday, fruit and vegetable retailer come to the center of Santa Ana in order to sell their goods for low prices. Fish, meat and other prepared delicacies can be bought, too. It is very interesting and worth to go.
The onion is the symbol for this canton. This is why every year around the Easter season an "onion market" attracts masses of visitors because of the variety and the excellent quality. Especially the red onion is in demand due to its unusual flavor.
Other very interesting events:
- March:Iinternational Market of Craftsmanship (Feria de Artesanía)
- May: International Yango Festival "Luz de Luna".
- July: The Feast of San Joaquin, the patron saint of Santa Ana (two weeks)
- August 31st: Foundation day of the canton with various activities, traditionall food and ceremonies
- October 25th: Baroque festival, the cultural highlight of the year (two weeks). Musicians from all over the world come together in the different churches of Santa Ana to give concerts. All events and activities are free and you have to be there in time because masses of visitors are expected.
- December: The cultural year comes to an end with it's marvelously decorated Christmas Fair the weekend before Christmas Eve.
Santa Ana is a beautiful place with a relaxed and friendly atmosphere where tradition and the modern age are in perfect harmony. You will feel absolutely comfortable here and find gentle people that are willing to help. The green surroundings like the nature reserves "Cerro Escazú" and "El Rodeo" invite you to go out on a hike or to go riding.


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When the San Francisco 49ers lost, in overtime, to the New York Giants in the 2011 NFC championship game, one area of the roster that the team desperately needed to improve was the wide receiver position.
In that 20-17 loss, 49ers wide receivers were targeted just nine times, with Michael Crabtree accounting for the only reception. That catch gained three yards on a 3rd-and-5 play from the Giants' 10-yard line with six minutes to go in the fourth quarter, forcing the 49ers to kick a game-tying field goal instead of having another crack at a potential go-ahead touchdown.
The 49ers were aggressive in upgrading the receiver position last offseason. Mario Manningham and Randy Moss were signed in free agency and the team used their first round pick in the 2012 NFL draft on Illinois wide receiver A.J. Jenkins, who may need general manager Trent Baalke's help to get a roster spot in 2013, writes Tim Kawakami of the San Jose Mercury News.
Jenkins was a complete non-factor as a rookie, receiving a jersey in only five of 16 games. In 35 offensive snaps, Jenkins was targeted with just one pass, which he dropped. With Michael Crabtree tearing his Achilles, the 49ers could use Jenkins to step up and earn not only a roster spot, but a starting role this season. If the preseason opener against the Denver Broncos was an indicator, that is unlikely to happen before the season open on Sept. 8.
In 39 snaps, Jenkins caught one of three passes thrown his way, an 11-yard gain in the second quarter that concluded with Jenkins fumbling the ball over to the Broncos. 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh discussed Jenkins progress on Monday.
"I think there's a lot of things he does well, very well," Harbaugh said. "I don't know that I'd pick one. He makes some spectacular catches. He's got big strong hands. Makes good catches. Is getting better with his route running. He's improving really in everything he does. It's just a matter of down-in down-out consistency. I think there's a lot of, we all need to strive to be better day in and day out, play in and play out."
Could the 49ers actually pull the plug on Jenkins after one season? It is very rare for a first-round pick to be released so quickly, and it is unlikely to happen with Jenkins, but the new rookie compensation system has made it somewhat easier for teams to admit they made a mistake after one season and move on. All first-round draft picks now receive signing bonuses, which puts between 55-67 percent of the total value of their four-year contracts into the first year of the deal. In the previous collective bargaining agreement, most first-round picks received league minimum base salaries and moderately-sized roster bonuses in Year 1, with the bulk of their five- or six-year contracts coming in Year 2 via large option bonuses or salary advances. After receiving a large signing/option bonus (which ranged from $2.33 million to $17.974 million for first-round picks in 2010) in March, first-round picks from the previous draft were all but assured of a roster spot in September.
If the 49ers were to release Jenkins, they would owe him $1,727,391, the amount of the fully guaranteed base salaries from 2013 and 2014 that remains on his four-year, $6,947,529 contract. In terms of the salary cap, Jenkins' fully guaranteed base salary of $1,021,594 would accelerate onto the 49ers' 2013 cap, increasing his cap number this season from $1,578,984 to $2,600,578. The 49ers are currently $7.117 million under their adjusted cap number of $125.773 million. In 2014, Jenkins would eat up $1,746,374 in "dead" cap space, which is about $150,000 less than Jenkins would count against the 49ers' cap if he were on the roster.


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Back to the Future - In Concert
30th Anniversary
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David Newman, conductor
About This Performance
Power up your DeLorean, recharge your flux capacitor, and celebrate the 30th anniversary of the original Back to the Future as never before: in HD on the Bowl's big screen with the LA Phil performing Alan Silvestri's dazzling score live – with approximately 20 minutes of new music!
Fans of the film are in for a treat, as the evening begins with a special appearance and introduction on stage by producer and co-writer Bob Gale, who will be joined by members of the film's cast, including: Christopher Lloyd (Emmet "Doc" Brown), Lea Thompson (Lorraine Baines), Donald Fullilove (Goldie Wilson) and Claudia Wells (Jennifer Parker); as well as composer Alan Silvestri. In different areas of the Bowl grounds, outside the amphitheatre, three DeLoreans, replicas of the car used in the film, will be on display, as well as a replica of Marty McFly's 4x4 truck.
This film is rated PG.
Back to the Future ™ & © Universal Studios and U-Drive Joint Venture
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Barbara Pollastrini is a chef who was a food stylist on J.J. Abrams' Star Trek in 2007. [1] Trained at the prestigious Cordon Bleu in Rome, Italy, Pollastrini specializes in Italian cuisine.
Pollastrini had her own school of Italian cuisine in Rome from 2000 through 2005 and also ran a catering and private chef service establishment in Casalpalocco from 2001 through 2005. She has appeared on the Italian food program Questo l'ho Fatto Io as well as a Japanese program in Tokyo.
In 2004, she won third place in the Accademia del Peperoncino's prestigious culinary competition in Sanremo, Italy. In 2007, she participated in the Food Network's Ultimate Recipe Showdown.
In addition to Star Trek, Pollastrini was a food stylist on the upcoming romantic comedy film He's Just Not That Into You. She has recently been working as a private chef for wealthy Italian families.


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Scholarship session for college-bound teens
A workshop on college scholarships will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday for college-bound students and their parents.
The program will be at the Largo Community Center, 65 Fourth St. NW, Largo.
The discussion will include representatives from the American College Foundation, a private organization based in Cambridge, Mass.
Although the event is free, reservations are required. Call (727) 596-2237.
History writer talks about women in Florida
Speaking of History, a program featuring guest speaker Linda Taylor, will be presented at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Pinellas Room at Heritage Village, 11909 125th St. N.
Taylor is author of Great Women Exploring Nature: How Wild Florida Influenced Their Lives.
For more information, visit www.pinellascounty.org/heritage or call (727) 582-2123.
Democrats to discuss legislative session
State Sen. Charlie Justice will be joined by state Reps. Bill Heller, Rick Kriseman, Janet Long and Darryl Rouson at a meeting of the Greater Pinellas Democratic Club on Thursday.
They will discuss the latest legislative session in Tallahassee.
The meeting will be held at Banquet Masters, 8100 Park Blvd., Pinellas Park. It starts with a reception at 6 p.m. followed by a buffet dinner at 6:30 p.m. Cost for dinner is $15.
Call Betty Morgenstein (727) 360-3971.
Basketball league for men has openings
Registration for Largo's 35-and-over men's recreational basketball league has been extended.
Teams have until May 21 to sign up. Games will be every Thursday starting June 3 at Highland Recreation Complex, 400 Highland Ave., Largo.
Cost is $275 per team for residents; $345 for nonresidents. Payment is due at time of registration.
For more information or to register your team, visit LargoSports.com or call (727) 587-6740, ext. 5007.


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The Food and Drug Administration has decided not to ban the extra-label use of cephalosporin antimicrobial drugs (in food-producing animals) after all.
The FDA announced Tuesday it is revoking its previous order so that it may fully consider the many substantive comments it has received.
The order, which would have taken effect this coming Sunday, was originally published in the Federal Register on July 3, with a 60-day comment period and a 90-day effective date for the final rule. However, on Aug. 18, the agency extended the comment period to Nov. 1, thus delaying implementation until Nov. 30.
Now, the order is revoked.
For more information, click here.
And, to read an article in this month's issue of Dairy Herd Management that refers to the proposed ban, click here.


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Rupert Grint Promotes 'Cherrybomb' (PHOTOS)
Rupert Grint is a busy guy these days. Not only does he turn 22 years old today, but the revered movie ginger is also working overtime to pave the way for his post-Harry Potter career.
Setting aside the birthday celebration for the time being, Grint took time out in London on Monday to promote the UK DVD release of his latest movie, Cherrybomb. In the gritty flick, Grint plays Malachy, who goes on a drug-and-crime spree with a couple of pals, only to find his life quickly spiraling out of control. (Don't you just hate when that happens?) If you haven't yet seen the trailer for Cherrybomb, check it out here.
Check out the photo gallery to revel in Rupe's tireless work ethic. And make sure to hit up Paparazzi-Razzi to see more pics of your favorite celebs.