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I know the term "nanny state" is supposed to be derogatory but I don't have a problem with it. Especially if the nanny is British, old-fashioned, strict and spiny, like Margaret Thatcher.
So Carl Kruger doesn't really fit my image of the archetypal nanny statesman. Kruger is a Democratic state representative from Brooklyn and he has the accent and schlumpy bearing to prove it.
Wednesday, he became my current hero as he introduced legislation to ban iPods from pedestrian use in the intersections of big city streets in New York state. If Rep. Kruger's wisdom prevails, anyone nabbed crossing a street with iPod pods crammed in their ears will get tagged with a $100 ticket. If only Barney Fife could have lived to see this day.
Kindly Kruger is doing this for our own good. He's concerned about the safety of pedestrians. Apparently, a 21-year-old man in his district was, um, permanently unplugged when he stepped into traffic while listening to his music-spewing device. Personally, I am inclined to think that such incidents, however tragic, show Darwinism at work. Perhaps I am being uncharitable. Whatever: my interest in Kruger's legislation lies elsewhere.
Portable devices such as the iPod and the cell phone are dangerous to the mental health of homo sapiens living together in crowded quarters, if not to actual life and limb. They foster rudeness and public narcissism at a time when those vices need no encouragement. Kruger aptly calls it "iPod Oblivion."
Many mobile technologies foster this obliviousness: BlackBerrys, GameBoys, those hideous Bluetooth dealies that jut from your ears like Frankenstein plugs, portable mini-DVD players and cell phones have some tactile, addictive quality that makes people fondle them incessantly.
These devices not only "connect" people, they disconnect them, too. Talking full volume on a phone in a crowded waiting room to your old roommate about his long battle with eczema may connect you to your faraway friend, but it alienates you from the people in the room. Indeed, it signals disrespect to them and their privacy.
Now, it appears these mobile e-tools of Satan provide precisely what many people navigating the outside world want and need: obliviousness. Indeed, young people see it as a basic human right, like free speech and gun-toting.
Lots of people want to tune the world out, a feeling to which I am thoroughly sympathetic. But the time to tune out the world is not when you are in the world. The guy at CVS today who let the door swing shut on me because he was yakking on his gizmo should not be oblivious in that situation. Yes, that is a moral, normative declaration: he ought to have held the door for me.
Nanny Kruger rightly says that if you want to listen to music outside in the city, take a walk in the park or sit on a bench. Do not impose your oblivious, impervious, me-first self to the world in a way that communicates, "You don't exist."
A friend who has lived in a large Washington apartment building for many years reports that as the neighborhood yuppifies and her "neighbors" in the building become steadily more affluent, and younger, they have also become ruder.
She blames the pods. Plugged into music, phones or PDAs, her neighbors don't hold the elevator, hold the grocery bag while a neighbor fiddles for a key, or even say "hello" in the lobby. Pod people: I wish they'd all go away, as Frank Zappa might have sung.
I spent a week on a university campus recently, playing amateur anthropologist. I noticed that as students left class, most of them instantly got out their cell phones or attached their umbilical iPod cords. I rarely saw groups talking or laughing or just interacting. It seemed isolating.
Am I making technology a scapegoat for the decline of common courtesy? Sure, what's so wrong with scapegoats? But, really, I am not a Luddite; I am a crank.
Actually, this kind of use of technology as a shield, I think, reflects a social isolation — and a real desire to be oblivious to a nasty, snarky world — that is very real. I think there is no established etiquette for using this technology around others and that creates a vacuum: rudeness abhors a vacuum. Jugular-seeking marketers know this perfectly well and they make ads that try to make us feel OK about being hedonistic, unencumbered consumers.
But the march to rudeness is not inexorable. Grownups respond to skilled nanny-ing just like children. For example, many stores, restaurants, trains and waiting rooms now prohibit cell phones. People often scold cell phone boors in public. And I actually think that as a result, cell phone manners are slowly improving.
Similarly, we will increasingly tease and torture goons who use BlackBerrys during conversations, at the dinner table and in meetings. A few companies now have "no CrackBerry in meetings" rules. Perhaps PDA-etiquette will also improve.
Probably the law or civic initiative that most influenced my own behavior was anti-litter signs. That may seem silly (OK, it is), but I am constitutionally incapable of littering. That's because I vividly recall being terrified by signs on Sheridan Road outside Chicago threatening litterers with fines of $15.00. (I thought it was $1,500!) We were taught about it in school, too. Now, littering was probably a big problem in the '50s and '60s when car ownership, suburbs and "to go" exploded. Nothing is more disrespectful of your surrounding and neighbors than littering. And nannies helped curb it. There is hope from e-tool litter and rudeness.
Obviously, manners and basic courtesy are meant to be taught by parents (and communities), not state representatives. But it doesn't logically follow that the government we fund and participate in can't try to contribute.
So Rep. Kruger is part of that great invisible hand that helps keep us mildly predatory, featherless bipeds from violent anarchy. He's part of the nanny state. I don't know why conservatives hate that idea so much. Who else but nannies will discipline us brats and teach the manners, traditions of respect, and high culture that conservatives are supposed to like so much?
As much as I might wish for it, I don't expect a surge in courtesy-vigilantes to hit the streets. But I do at least expect that if you're reading this indoors, you'll take your hat off.
Thank you very much.
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With no major international tournament to fill the long winter ahead, football fans are staring down the barrel of a barren couple of months.
But the new Pro Evo isn't far off, so to break up the barrage of preposterous transfer rumours and seemingly neverending will-he-won't-he saga that is Arsene Wenger's future, here are five things coming in the next version of Pro Evolution Soccer that we're pretty convinced will make it better than FIFA.
That's something to look forward to, right?
In PES 2017 we loved the way passes zipped about the pitch, and the sense of satisfaction when a perfectly weighted through ball scythed open a defence and sent your striker through on goal, but there's always room for improvement.
Konami has fine-tuned the pace of the game, adding better dribbling skills and Real Touch+ to increase the ways your player can take control of the ball. There's also 'contextual shielding' that should make it easier for your big number nine to hold the ball up. Of course, you'll need dextrous mastery of the analogue stick to put it all to good use, but the potential's there if you can unlock it.
It might not have as many real-life arenas as FIFA but Pro Evo's reproductions of the Camp Nou and Borussia Dortmund's mighty Signal Iduna Park are certainly impressive. How much of them you can see when you're concentrating on breaking down a stubborn back four is another matter, but with more than 20,000 pieces of data collected from the grounds themselves (even from inside the players' tunnel) they'll be even more intricate in PES 2018.
It's not clear whether Anfield will return, or if any new grounds will join the real-life roster, but those that do appear will have more realistic lighting and turf, so you can't blame your bad performances on poorly rendered grass anymore. The players have had a spruce-up too, with a reworked animation system, plus true-to-life in-game tattoos. Finally.
If we had to choose between a fancy menu system and a better game of football we'd take the latter 11 times out of 10, but there's really no excuse for Pro Evo's interface to be so meat 'n' potatoes. It's the UI equivalent of a typical Sam Allardyce team – functional but not very pleasant to look at.
PES 2018 has promised the kind of overhaul that would turn Big Sam's Palace into a slick-passing machine of a team, giving the game what Konami calls a "broadcast feel". In both cases, we'll believe it when we see it.
The Master League alone gives Pro Evo players plenty to keep them playing from one year to the next, with newly added pre-season tournaments and a better transfer system aiming to steal away even more hours of your life.
Outside of that there's a new online co-op mode that'll let you have guest players sitting on the sofa next to you, plus the return of the Random Selection Match mode, a kind of randomly selected fantasy football that first appeared in the PS2 era.
Last year's PC version of PES 2017 was criticised for being a bit of a bodge job – a bit like when an outfield player has to go in goal, but not as fun. Konami has promised that this year's version of the game will be on a par with the console edition, which is the least you should expect really.
If all of the above changes work as well as Konami says they will, it'll make PES 2018 quite the game. But still not quite perfect, unless they also fix these three bugbears of ours...
If aliens were to land tomorrow and we decided to teach them about football using PES 2017's online leagues, they'd think there were only two teams on the planet: Barcelona and Real Madrid. The game's non-existent matchmaking means there's no incentive to choose a weaker team and it's a problem that fact which ruins the online modes, forcing many people to FIFA for their multiplayer football hit. Fix it, Konami.
If we hear Peter Drury bellowing "and the comeback is complete!", or an incisive daisy cutter of a pass being described as "spooning it forward" one more time, we're going to set Robbie Savage on Pro Evo's tediously repetitive commentary team.
Expecting Pro Evo to suddenly start competing with FIFA for official licenses would be like expecting a team like Leicester to win the Premier League – it's just never going to happen. But when you've got a Champions League licence but can't reproduce the final without having to resort to an unofficial edit file from a fan site, there's something seriously wrong.
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At the recent SXSW expo, Marvel comics displayed a new iOS app that turns characters on a printed page into larger than life 3D heroes. Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso says that the company wants to use the new technology to grab new readers. Alonso said that Marvel has viewed printed and digital comics to be complements of each other, not competitors. He added that Marvel needs to strike a balance between the print comics they need to survive, and an awareness of future technology.
Marvel Digital Media SVP Pete Phillips added that Marvel is bringing in a new group of readers which is exciting for him and the company. "Print and digital, that's the Holy Grail for us," said the executive as the new 3D app was displayed at the expo. Discussing how fast technology is changing, Editor-in-Chief Alonso said that all of the things that Marvel displayed at SXSW that drew oohs and aahs from the crowd will be laughed at and seen as corny in the next year or two. To Alonso, that is a good thing. "The future," said the executive, "is limitless."
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There's several different things that could be wrong. Could you please give more details? Are there any error messages? How far into the boot does it get each time before restarting again? What is the last thing you see on the screen before it restarts?
Basically, any and all information would help us figure out what is going on in your specific situation.
Aug 22, 2009 at 10:47 UTC
Niagara Technology Group (NTG) is an IT service provider.
Well the obvious question would be, are you rebooting the machine? Or has the power been going on and off? Could the computer be plugged in to a wall port that is connected to a light switch?
All of these are possible given the tiny bit of information given.
This is like saying "My car doesn't run, why?" when, for all we know, you don't have an engine in your car, or no fuel or maybe you just don't have the keys.
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An A-Z journey with Reggie - The Learning Lab - teaches children to read English! Filled with all kinds of wonderful photographs of nature and one page dedicated to each letter of the English alphabet, for children 2-5 years of age. Designed for children who are:
1. Learning their letters/alphabet.
2. Learning to recognize simple English words that begin with certain letters.
3. Speaking English words that begin with specific letters.
4. Learning to sound English letters and words and phrases.
5. Learning to Read English.
6. Learning to associate images with English words.
Designed as a book that adults, parents, grandparents, siblings, caregivers, nannies, caregivers and friends --- share with children --- reading aloud to children --- and teaching children to read aloud as well.
Learning Together --- A superb story-telling book...invest in the magical experience of reading with a child.
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Apaisado grande, 33×28 cm
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Bill has been characterized as a gifted story teller. He has won numerous awards for his photography. He is published in an array of professional publications, journals, magazines, e-zines, websites, newspapers and newsletters. He enjoys nature and exploring the outdoors with Reggie. Bill and Jacki Dahl make their home in the western U.S.. They have 4 children and three grandchildren. They are foster care providers to at-risk children. They have an adopted Greyhound, Rosie, as well as one Black Lab, Reggie, - who accompanies Bill EVERYWHERE (both would be terribly disappointed if they weren't mentioned here). They enjoy the arts, photography, baseball, travel, pets and people.
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"In the photo, the center stone seems to be bigger than the ones on the sides. Since I see no details about it like on other rings shown. how many carats are each stone?"
The diamonds are very sparkly.....simple yet so elegant...
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ITEM#: 11082690Place this ring on a loved one's finger and later add compliment to it with the matching wedding band that comes included in the purchase.The round center diamond is flanked by four smaller round-cut diamonds. This ring can be purchased in white gold, rose gold, or the traditional yellow gold so you can be sure she will love it.
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- Metal: 14-karat white gold, yellow gold, or rose gold
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- Band: 3.82 mm x 1.40 mm W
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- Cut: Round brilliant
- Total weight: 1/4 carat
- Color: H-I
- Clarity: I1-I2
- Setting: Prongs
Side stones:
- Diamond: 4
- Cut: Round
- Total weight: 1/4 carat
- Color: H-I
- Clarity: I1-I2
- Setting: Channel
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- Band: 1.40 mm wide
- Metal: 14-karat white gold
Diamond total weight: *1/2 carat TW
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Can I legally force my dad to go to the ER?
My "dad" is getting more and more forgetful. He is delusional at times, and doesn't remember if he took his medications (even though I have a pill sorter for him). His balance is getting worse, and yesterday he fell. He broke his elbow and all they did was semi-immobilize it and send him home with instructions for us to call the orthopedist on Monday. He lives alone and I cannot be there all day every day. I went in at noon today and it's out of the sling and he's using it freely. He says there is no pain and its a minor injury. I looked at his hand at the end of the wrapping and it's swollen twice its size with a big lump on it. He insists its fine and we got into a big argument about it and I lost my temper. I am his DPOA but not his biological daughter, and I don't know how much I can MAKE him do, despite his dementia. He hasn't had a formal diagnosis, it seems like it takes weeks to get anything done. Should I call an ambulance or just wait it out until Monday. Can I legally make him go to the ER even though he refuses? I don't know what to do.
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Depending on a few more facts, your situation may have either a legal or a practical solution""maybe both.
Your first order of business may be to find out whether the power of attorney is in effect. Take a hard look at the wording on the power of attorney appointing you as agent""particularly where it mentions when and how the document takes effect.
The most common types of DPA for healthcare specify that the agent is empowered only if the person for whom the document was made""the principal""is considered to be incapable of making his or her own decisions. Most also specify a particular way that mental capacity must be determined""usually by a doctor, or sometimes two of them, setting it out in writing.
If you are concerned that your dad's mental capacities have slipped to the point where he can no longer make cogent decisions for himself, then it is time to get the medical declaration you may need to get the POA to take effect. Once that happens, you will be responsible for making decisions for your dad that are "in his best interest "and those decisions might clash with his. So you may need to steel yourself for a bit of battle of wills.
One thing that may help with this is to involve another person""a visiting nurse, a home health aide, a social worker, a daycare worker, even a savvy and caring family friend""who might be willing to convince your dad about the care he needs. An outsider can also be helpful if your dad's condition doesn't yet require that the POA take effect, but he seems to be ignoring the need for more care.
Contact the local Area Agency on Agency by searching www.n4a.org. Explain your need to get "another pair of eyes" on your dad, which might help him help himself to live more safely. A representative there should be able to put you in touch with the best resources available in your area.
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As I'm sure you're aware by this point, Studio Mir will not be animating Book 2 with the exclusion of the two episodes focussing around Avatar Wan. Instead, it will be animated by Studio Pierrot, because The Boondocks and The Legend of Korra had the same animating schedule the studio had to choose, and picked The Boondocks because it's a lot easier.
However, Mir has now confirmed that they will be back on board for animating Book 3. As I don't have a facebook nor knowledge of the site I couldn't pull up the exact message but I do have a screenshot of the conversation I found online.
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Attended Cheltenham General A & E Sunday 19th at 11.30 am with my daughter who had fallen and hurt her wrist. All the A & E Staff were excellent, very professional and courteous. Despite the ambulances being diverted from Gloucester to Cheltenham that day and, as a result the department being very busy, we were seen by a Triage nurse within 20 minutes, x-rayed at approx. 2pm and then had a plaster cast put on (it was broken) and were on our way home with an appt for the fracture clinic for this week by 3.30pm.
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girl is sitting a table away... I have noticed her before staring... neways this time I feel someone is looking at me .. and I turn around .. girl just moves her head a little right (looks away) and keeps staring in space ... after a minute I look again.. and this time she is looking right into my eye .. no smile .. just blank stare.. Is it out of interest?
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Jürgen Klopp believes he has a number of difficult decisions to make for his Liverpool squad selection ahead of Sunday's Capital One Cup final at Wembley.
Reds supporters will travel south in their thousands in the hope that they can wrap up the first piece of silverware of the season and their first addition to the trophy cabinet in four years.
And though they're unlikely to see many changes in the starting line-up from the team that squeezed into the last-16 of the UEFA Europa League, Klopp admitted that he's even got "too many players" to decide who makes the substitute's bench.
The German travels to the capital for his first final as Liverpool boss with a near full-strength side, as they lock horns with Manchester City in an intriguing showpiece, but he acknowledged he has some tough calls to make as to who travels with him in his matchday squad.
Reds boss acknowledges tough selection decisions
"I spoke about it this morning with the lads," Klopp told journalists at his pre-match press conference on Friday afternoon as he described that they've been used to having "a few [injury] problems" since his arrival but "never" the problem of having "too many players" to pick from.
He insisted that selecting a squad for the game is both the "best thing" he could ever do but also the "most difficult" thing he's had to do since joining the club in October, admitting that "a few players will be disappointed with our decisions, for sure."
"This morning I had 13 players in training and it was the highest level," said the boss after taking a session involving all of those who didn't start in Thursday night's second-leg victory over Augsburg and captain Jordan Henderson, joking that he didn't "want to say it was because of the final, but it was the highest level."
Klopp declared that all of his squad are "ready" and said he now has to "make decisions - overnight, not today" to decide who starts and who else features on the bench, but said: "I will make them, that's no problem."
Klopp: Entire squad have played their part until now
The Reds boss was keen to stress that even those who are left out of the team on the day have made their contributions throughout the Merseyside outfit's road to the final.
He insisted that it has been "a real competition for the whole squad" and spoke about the first game, before he took over, against Carlisle United in the third round when Adam Bogdan made "three decent saves in the penalty shootout" to see them through after a nervy 1-1 draw at Anfield after extra-time.
"The second game was a really different line-up," he admitted, talking about their 1-0 home win over Bournemouth courtesy of Nathaniel Clyne's goal, saying it was "a young line-up" and Joao Carlos Teixeira, Cameron Brannagan and "a lot of players were involved."
Klopp called their win in the next round, a 6-1 thrashing of Southampton at St Mary's, "a perfect game" and said that "everybody could enjoy it" as Divock Origi stole the headlines with a hattrick.
He also spoke about Jordon Ibe scoring in the semi-final first-leg away at Stoke City, before Joe Allen netted the winning penalty in yet another shootout in the return leg.
"At the end, if we win this competition, it's a win for the whole squad," said Klopp, who insisted Sunday's game would not just be a triumph for "the players who are involved" in the final.
He admitted that the players themselves will "feel a little bit different in this moment" but said they should hopefully be "smart enough to see it like it is" which he revealed is what he told them earlier in the day.
City's Kiev trip offers no advantage to us, he insists
The Reds' opponents City faced an arduous trip to Kiev in midweek for the first-leg of their Champions League last 16 affair with Dynamo Kyiv, coming away with as impressive 3-1 winners.
But Klopp believes the travel they faced will make no difference, insisting: "They flew, they didn't walk."
He said that he doesn't think travel and the timing of the game should "be an issue" and declared: "I don't think we should think about this. They [City] will be fit and we will be fit."
"It's a final, so nobody cares where you came from or where you played your last game," he added, explaining that there's "nothing to think about" and that it's been "a long season until now" with both clubs having had "a lot of games" so Liverpool won't have an "advantage" and it's "open" for the final.


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Technical Sales Engineer - Derby
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Technical Sales Engineer Permanent Role Based: Derby, East Midlands Salary Bracket: Negotiable up£38,000 annual bonus Pension / Excellent Working Hours / Training Opportunities OVERVIEW V Selective are currently working with a long standing client who are a world leader in the design, manufacture, supply and support of high quality specialised products and services for the aerospace and turbo-machinery industries. This organisation currently have a brand new exciting opening for a Technical Sales Engineer. Along with some relevant customer facing sales experience,we are looking for someone who is very practical and hands on and can assist with installing equipment on site, providing customers with training, and testing products at customer sites. The objectives of the role are to: - Protect and grow a valued, loyal client base. - Work to develop and test our products and systems to build the basis of a service and support function. - Work to ensure we capture and create technical papers for presentation at industry conferences. The company have a global client base, therefore travel is essential to the role and the Technical Sales Engineer needs to be willing to travel overseas, sometimes at short notice. This is a client facing role so suited to a well presented individual with superb personal interaction skills. The Technical Sales Engineer needs to be confident, technically credible and approachable. This is a varied role that would suit an individual who is a quick learner, highly organised, technically minded with a commercial flair to spot opportunities and drive sales. The Technical Sales Engineer will ideally be degree level educated in an Engineering discipline (preferably Electronics Engineering), have experience in a commercial / client facing role and experience in preparing and delivering client presentations and technical product support. Abackground in Aerospace / aero engine / gas turbine markets would be beneficial, as would experience of instrumentation. Please apply for full details This role is based in Derby, East Midlands. Free onsite parking, easy access from Derby Train Station. Easily commutable from Nottingham, Chesterfield, Leicester, Loughborough, Burton, Staffordshire - even Sheffield and Birmingham Keywords: Aerospace, Engineering, Gas Turbine, Sales Engineer, Technical Sales, Electronics, Instruments, Instrumentation, Turbo-Machinery


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OH MY GOSH... SOOOOOOOO sorry to everyone .. If you follow me on Facebook/Twitter you've seen what I've been up to, but if you don't then you probably thought I got kidnapped huh? Ha.. BUT NO just so busy I haven't been able to keep up w/anything until now. Or so I hope so.
For starters my Craft Fair date went very well and I had such a blast! I am so happy I did it. They are suppose to have one another one in the Spring I hope to be in it as well. Also yesterday was my Bday! I had such an awesome and amazing birthday and I want to thank my friends and especially family for making me feel so spoiled.
One of my gifts was from my beloved who well has made it possible for me to come back and actually post again. My hubby got me a new camera! SQUEAL.. I am so excited so I will be able to share again my creations.
I am working on that today as well as trying to put my stamp room back together again. I will be posting pictures and their info (if I remember Ha) that way at least you can have some eye candy since I feel I owe you guys as I know you are stopping by and saying HEY nothing new? So Since I just got my camera How about I share a little picture of two of my sweet babies...
This was right before we left for church yesterday :) Well I am off as I have some heavy chores to finish up and then picture taking so stop by tomorrow for my first of say it with a Picture series!
As always thank you so much for stopping by!
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BlackBerry has had a tormenting time in the smartphone business in the last few years. With major players such as Samsung and Apple now ruling the roost, it has been hard for the Canadian handset maker to create more demand for its hardware.
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However, that hardly means that BlackBerry is already bowing out of the competition. On the contrary, the company just launched its brand new square shaped BlackBerry Passport to meet with the growing number of other handsets.
The smartphone has also arrived only recently when Samsung just made its brand new Galaxy Note 4 phablet open for all. Hence here are the 5 top differences between the handsets.
BlackBerry Passport And Samsung Galaxy Note 4 In Pictures
So basically, the new BlackBerry is huge. It's 5.03 inches tall, 3.55 inches wide, .37 inches thick and a weighs in at 194 grams. With the wide form profile of the handset, it's could be a but problamatic fitting into your pocket.
The Note 4, on the othe hand, has the same shape and form factor that we have known since the arrival of the previous Note 3. However, the handset has a faux-leather back and feels softer in hand. There's also a metal band that has been wrapped around the edges of the device.
The new BlackBerry Passport offers a 13 megapixel primary camera in the rear with support for OIS. There's also a 2 megapixel camera at the front for selfies and video chats. The Galaxy Note 4, on the other hand, offers a industry standard 16 megapixel camera in the back with OIS, apart from a 3.7 megapixel camera up front.
The Blackberry Passport offers a 4.5-inch IPS LCD display with a resolution score of 1440 x 1440 pixels. It also offers an excellent pixel density of 453 ppi. The Galaxy Note 4, in comparison, offers a 5.7-inch Super AMOLED 2K display with a resolution of 1440 x 2560 pixels and a pixel density of 515 ppi. In fact, the handset was recently rated by DisplayMate for offering the best smartphone display to date.
BlackBerry makes sure it keep on track with offering one of the massive batteries in the business. Likewise, the Passpost houses a 3450 mAh battery, promising more juice than usual. The Note 4, however, uses a 3,220 mAh that also falls in the big battery category.


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Prince Albert Canning PLC had a net loss of £ 37,543 on sales of £ 345,182. What was the company's profit margin? Does the fact that these figures are quoted in a foreign currency make any difference? Why? In dollars, sales were $ 559,725. What was the net loss in dollars?
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Disney World Adds Warning Signs On Beaches as Family of Boy Killed By Alligator Speaks Out
In a bid to ease the minds of partents left anxious in the wake of the death of a toddler in the jaws of an alligator, Disney World has erected warning signs and barriers on its resorts' beaches.
"We are installing signage and temporary barriers at our resort beach locations and are working on permanent, long-term solutions at our beaches," Walt Disney World Resort VP Jacquee Wahler said in a statement.
The announcement was made three days after Nebraska 2-year-old Lane Graves was snatched from shallow water in a lake at a Disney hotel and dragged to his death.
"We continue to evaluate processes and procedures for our entire property, and, as part of this, we are reinforcing training with our Cast for reporting sightings and interactions with wildlife and are expanding our communication to Guests on this topic," the statement continued.
The gator, described as up to 7 feet long, snatched the boy around nightfall on Tuesday at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort and Spa.
The beach had "no swimming" signs but no warning about alligators.
The signs posted this week read "Danger Alligators and Snakes in Area. Stay Away From the Water Do Not Feed The Wildlife."
On Thursday, the family of Lane Graves spoke out for the first time.
In a brief statement released by a family member, Matt and Melissa Graves of Omaha said "We are devastated and ask for privacy during this extremely difficult time."
The statement also thanked authorities for their efforts in locating Lane.
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Author | Abid Hasan | Thursday, Jun 11,2015 2:37 PM
Sanjay Tandon has decided to move on from FCB Ulka after six years, confirm industry sources. This was his second stint with the company. Tandon joined Ulka in 1997 as Client Servicing Director and worked for seven years. In his second innings he joined as Senior Vice President in February 2009. He was elevated to the position of COO in September 2011.
According to industry sources, he is serving his notice period at present. Tandon was one of the key members of the group and was responsible for core business of the company.
In his career span of more than 22 years he has handled brands from different categories such as telecom, automobile, e-commerce, FMCG, healthcare, technology and lifestyle.
An alumni of IMT Ghaziabad, Tandon started his carrier with Lacoste as Marketing Manager. In his long career he has also worked with Bates Advertising for one year and seven months as VP and also with JWT as VP for two years.
His next destination is unknown as of now.
Emails sent to FCB Ulka were unanswered at the time of filing this story.
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Staff reductions at Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. could be larger than expected, although chief executive officer Hunter Harrison has so far said little about layoffs.
Instead, in a series of town hall meetings with employees at locations across the country, from Calgary to Toronto, Mr. Harrison has indicated that the natural attrition of employees retiring and quitting could be greater as the railway becomes more efficient.
Last December, CP announced that it expects to lose 4,500 employee and contractor positions by 2016, and that is the guidance the company is still giving industry watchers. However, that number could easily fluctuate, company insiders say.
"We have talked about the various implications of the head count, and where that can be. And it might be even larger than I initially said. We've talked about that," the CEO reiterated in an interview on Business News Network on Wednesday. Following the interview, he spoke to a number of CP employees in Toronto.
"That's why I'm out here [talking to employees directly], because people want to know what we're doing and why we're doing it. And when they understand that, they can support the cause much better than if they are kind of left in the dark," Mr. Harrison told BNN.
He added that most of the major rationalization of CP's network, primarily its rail yards, has been implemented and that the railway is now working on myriad incremental steps to improve efficiency. By the end of the year, the company is shooting for an operating ratio, which measures expenses as a percentage of revenue, in the low 70s. The lower the ratio the better. The ratio for 2012 was in the low 80s.
As CP looks for new areas of growth, transporting crude oil by rail is a major factor, but questions loom, Mr. Harrison said. "How big that opportunity is, I think we're still trying to determine." He also cautioned that there are many variables, from uncertainty over regulatory approval for pipelines to fluctuating oil prices and environmental concerns.
"Clearly it's going to be the driver in our growth, which we've talked about will probably be in the high single digits [in 2013]. But once again, I'm not sure that everything is going to fall exactly in place as some would suggest … This whole energy play is one that I think we need to proceed with cautiously," he said.
Helping assess that strategy is the company's new president and chief operating officer Keith Creel, a long-time protégé of Mr. Harrison from their days together at Illinois Central Railroad and then at Canadian National Railways Co.
Mr. Harrison described Mr. Creel as his clear heir apparent. "I think it's pretty safe to say he was the leading candidate all along," Mr. Harrison said.
Mr. Harrison officially poached Mr. Creel from CN this week, in a move that involved settling a legal fight between Mr. Harrison and CN, which he led from 2003 to 2009, over Mr. Harrison's CN pension and a dispute over non-compete restrictions.
"Clearly, early on, people recognized his talents and his abilities and qualities he had and possessed. He stayed with us as we merged with Canadian National. He moved pretty well throughout Canada. I know he was in Winnipeg for a stint, Toronto for a stint, he had an office in Montreal. So he's got a pretty great background," Mr. Harrison told BNN.
Coming from a military background, having fought in the Persian Gulf War in the early 1990s, Mr. Creel, who is 45, has a son who has recently won a spot to study at the United States Military Academy at West Point and a daughter who is an equestrian, which is also one of Mr. Harrison's passions. Both men began their railway careers in operations.
"Railroading is an operating business. Ninety per cent of our employees are operating employees," Mr. Harrison said. "Now, having said that, one of the reasons for putting Keith in the president role and as COO is that he will also be in charge of sales and marketing. And that will be the first time directly that he will supervise that side of the business. So that will hopefully further round him out to be ready to take over when I walk out the door."
Mr. Harrison foresees staying on as head of CP for another three or four years, as expected when he took the job last year to restructure the company. He added that he might like to sit on CP's board of directors after that. "Yeah, that's something I might like to do," although he suggested a certain ambivalence about assuming the role of chairman when he leaves his current job.Report Typo/Error
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