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One week after arrests of six King City police officers shook Monterey County, prosecutors on Monday announced the arrest of retired Pacific Grove police Cmdr. John Nyunt for allegedly threatening to kill his now ex-wife more than a year ago.
Prosecutor Steve Somers said Nyunt was arrested at his Monterey home early Saturday and held on $500,000 bail for suspicion of making criminal threats.
Nyunt's bail is considerably more than what is typically charged for the offense, indicating investigators apparently asked a judge to set it around 10 times higher than usual.
The arrest came after months of speculation Nyunt might face some kind of charge related to the upcoming identity theft and fraud trial of his ex-wife, Kristin Nyunt.
Somers said a recording of the alleged threats, made in 2012, was recently discovered on a cell phone that had been seized as evidence in his office's ongoing case against Kristin Nyunt.
"They were in a giant pile of evidence," Somers said. "The recording was on a phone that we have had in evidence for over a year."
The statements were not voice mail messages, but were recorded with special software during a phone call between Nyunt and his then-wife.
The retired Pacific Grove officer faces up to three years in years in prison if convicted.
"Context is everything, and we will show that the statement at issue was made after Kristin repeatedly victimized and threatened John," his attorney Juliet Peck said.
Although a Monday afternoon press release from the Monterey County District Attorney's Office said Nyunt was still locked up in lieu of bail, Monterey County Jail records did not indicate he was there on Monday night.
Peck said, "It is always very sensitive when a law enforcement officer is in custody, and his or her location is not something that I will ever disclose."
Nyunt's ex-wife, however, is still housed at the jail awaiting her own trial.
Peck said Kristin Nyunt used "master manipulation, deception and technological sophistication" to bring Nyunt "to his melting point."
The recording, Peck said, was made when Nyunt was "at his absolute worst. Over a year ago he said things about the people closest to him that he deeply regrets."
She also said Kristin Nyunt apparently never reported any threat.
"There is no evidence to suggest she repeated this to law enforcement 14 months ago or today," Peck said.
According to testimony at her preliminary hearing last year, Kristin Nyunt is suspected of using her husband's police password to log into Accurint, a subscription online database that has a law-enforcement-only component.
Somers said that through Accurint, Kristin obtained personal information that she used to set up phony credit cards in the names of her victims, including John Nyunt's previous wife.
Although no evidence presented at Kristin Nyunt's preliminary hearing indicated Nyunt took part in her alleged criminal activities, he did become the subject of three investigations.
One was conducted by the Monterey County District Attorney's Office, another by the FBI, and the third was an internal affairs investigation by the Pacific Grove Police Department.
The inquiries were looking into whether Nyunt may have taken part in his ex-wife's alleged crimes, or whether he violated conflict of interest rules or worse when, as commander of the Pacific Grove Police Department, he took on the investigation of cases in which his then-estranged wife was the suspect and his relatives the victims.
Nyunt's arraignment will likely take place Tuesday, Somers said.
Kristin Nyunt's trial date has not yet been set.
Julia Reynolds can be reached at 648-1187 or email@example.com.


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New plant hardiness zone map means changes for mountain gardeners
February 12, 2012
If you grow any plants in Colorado, your zone is everything!
The USDA has just released the 2012 Plant Hardiness Zone Map that could put you in a whole new zone.
What is a hardiness zone?
The USDA's zones are based on the average low winter temperature for an area. In Colorado, our zones range from the cold Zone 3a (-40 to -35 degrees F. ave. low winter temp) to our warmest Zone 7a (0 to 5 degrees F. ave. low winter temp). Across the United States, many areas have gone up to be one-half zone warmer. But USDA cautions this is often less about global warming than it is about more accurate monitoring of temperature data. And in mountain areas, because we now have better data, many areas have been re-classified to a colder zone.
What does this mean for Colorado gardeners? Even if your area has moved up from 5b to warmer 6a, you need to know that any given year, the low temp could still bottom out below the average noted in the zone. So if you start planting 6a plants, put them in protected areas and know that in extremely cold years, there could be winter die back.
We need to pay attention to our zones because they relate to winter hardiness – one of the most critical factors for ongoing plant survival. Still, bear in mind that zone shifts don't mean that scorching heat, high winds, poor soils, lack of water or an occasional extremely cold winter will go away. All of Colorado's challenging growing conditions make up our bottom line.
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Success in the garden means checking seed packets and nursery catalogs to make sure plants you buy grow in your zone. And, planting in the right exposure, using soil amendments and grouping plants based on similar water requirements are still the name of the game.
Courtesy Associated Landscape Contractors of Colorado and Neils Lunceford, a landscaping company based in Silverthorne that is a member. You may contact them at (970) 468-0340.


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141XM has launched a new Web site promoting Visa International's sponsorship of Paralympic Summer Games next year in Athens. The Web site is highly accessible and, for example, contents can be synthesized and read aloud by special Web browsers for the blind. Read more on AdWeek.
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Plenty of my friends are looking
for one too. Find a pet to adopt.
I am already spayed, up to date with shots, good with kids, good with dogs, and good with cats.
The adoption fee of $300 includes all the medical care received to help ensure the delivery of a healthy kitty. Medical care includes the first set of kitten boosters (for kittens), rabies vaccine if old enough, deworming, spay or neuter, and a negative feline luekemia and feline AIDS test.
Beatrice, a Foster American Shorthair cat was adopted! Here's how you can benefit by looking at adoption as an option to buying a American Shorthair for sale in Foster, or seeking a American Shorthair cat from a breeder in Foster.


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Zero Motorcycles' 100% electric powertrain significantly reduces CO2 and noxious fumes emissions while also saving oil reserves. Regardless of any one personal or political reason, conserving oil and reducing tail pipe emissions offer a wide range of benefits. In fact, because the electrical grid is becoming increasingly efficient year after year, a Zero will become more energy efficient and cleaner with age. And for those who truly aspire to absolute energy independence or eliminating emissions, it is even possible to power a Zero using completely renewable energy sources. Regardless of where the energy comes from, there's something very freeing about passing the gas station as the prices continue to hit new highs.
Here is an example from America about time and money spent on commuting to work, and looking at local studies and surveys, the findings are very similar to those in Europe:
"Americans spend in excess of 100 hours commuting to work each year. For the nation as one, the average daily commute to work lasted about 24.3 minutes in 2003. A motorcycle or a scooter does not offer a lot of passenger room or storage space, but most get far better mileage than even a hybrid car and at a far cheaper price. Moreover, two wheelers have the added advantage of maneuverability to beat the rush hour traffic. With fuel prices skyrocketing, motorcycles and scooters can be a practical fuel-economy transportation option for the typical half hour drive to work."
– American Community Survey (ACS) Data released by the U.S. Census Bureau March 2005
More than 50 studies and analyses conclude: fewer emissions from plug-in vehicles


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Safety, Acceptability and Preliminary Effectiveness of Carraguard™ (PC-515) in Preventing HIV/STI Transmission
This study has been completed.
Population Council
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Medical Research Council, South Africa
University of Cape Town
University of Limpopo
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Information provided by:
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: September 13, 2005
Last updated: August 11, 2017
Last verified: August 2017
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Detailed Description:
The primary aims of the study were to assess the safety and acceptability of Carraguard ™ (PC-515) when applied vaginally at least three times weekly for 6-12 months. Secondary aims were to gather preliminary data on Carraguard's effectiveness in preventing male-to-female transmission of HIV.
The hypothesis was that Carraguard would cause little or no significant irritation, including lesions; that women would find Carraguard acceptable. The study was not powered to determine effectiveness, but based on safety, acceptability and feasibility parameters, the outcome of the Phase 2 trial would enable a decision whether or not to proceed to a Phase 3 efficacy trial.
|HIV Infections Chlamydia Trachomatis Neisseria Gonorrhoeae Trichomonas Vaginitis Syphilis
|Drug: Carraguard (PC-515)
|Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double
Primary Purpose: Prevention
|Official Title:
|A Trial to Assess Expanded Safety, Acceptability and Preliminary Effectiveness of Carraguard™ (PC-515) in Preventing STI/HIV Transmission
Resource links provided by NLM:
MedlinePlus related topics: HIV/AIDSU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Population Council:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Safety (toxicity): Symptoms 14 days after enrollment and monthly thereafter (6-12 months); tests (monthly) to detect change in vaginal flora;
- Compliance: collection of applicators and interview(monthly)
- Acceptability: interview (quarterly)
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Preliminary effectiveness: Swabs taken to test for sexually transmitted infections - gonorrhea, chlamydia, trichomoniasis (monthly) and blood drawn for syphilis and HIV testing (Month 1 and quarterly thereafter).
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Actual Study Start Date:
|October 1999
|Study Completion Date:
|January 2002
Carraguard™ (PC-515), the Population Council's lead candidate microbicide, was tested in a triple-masked, randomized, placebo-controlled trial fielded in two sites in South Africa. The primary aims of the study were to assess Carraguard's safety (toxicity) - including signs of irritation, such as itching or burning; changes in vaginal flora; and incidence of abnormal external genital, vaginal, and cervical findings - when applied vaginally for durations of 6-12 months, and to evaluate several dimensions of the acceptability of Carraguard and placebo products. Secondary aims were to investigate whether study participants using Carraguard had lower rates of HIV seroconversion or other sexually transmitted infections (including C. trachomatis, N. gonorrhoeae, T. vaginalis, and T. pallidum) than the placebo (methyl cellulose gel). In addition, when it began, this trial was the first to explore the feasibility of large-scale microbicides testing in a non-sex worker population. Last, the trial gauged women's reactions to using a non-contraceptive product (in vitro testing had shown that Carraguard has no contraceptive effect), as well as potential use-dynamics in communities where drying agents and other traditional vaginal products are used with high frequency.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- In good health as determined by medical history, physical examination and results of laboratory screening tests for RTIs
- Aged 18 years or older
- Resident in the area for at least one year and planning to stay for at least 12 months
- HIV-seronegative at screening
- Willing and able to comply with the study protocol (including being tested for HIV, learning the results, and undergoing clinical evaluations), and,
- Able to give informed consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- Pregnant or desire to become pregnant during the trial
- Delivered or aborted a pregnancy within the six weeks prior to screening
- History of surgery on external genitalia, vagina or cervix in the six weeks prior to screening
- Recent history of non-menstrual vaginal bleeding with intercourse
- Clinically detectable genital abnormality (including presence of warts, or a structural or congenital abnormality)
- Clinical suspicion of a RTI (defined as the presence of a genital ulcer visible to the naked eye, an abnormal vaginal discharge or purulent cervicitis, or untreated positive STI test result)
- Abnormal Pap smear
- History of sensitivity/allergy to latex
- Participating in another trial of a vaginal product
- Reported injection of recreational drugs
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00213018
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00213018
|South Africa
|University of Cape Town, Department of Community Health
|Cape Town, South Africa, 7925
|Medical University of Southern Africa
|Soshanguve, South Africa, 0204
Sponsors and Collaborators
Population Council
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Medical Research Council, South Africa
University of Cape Town
University of Limpopo
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
|Principal Investigator:
|Charlotte E. Ellertson, MPA, Ph.D.
|Population Council
More Information
Keywords provided by Population Council:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00213018 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
Population Council #210
R01AI045468-02 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|Study First Received:
|September 13, 2005
|Last Updated:
|August 11, 2017
Keywords provided by Population Council:
HIV prevention
sexually transmitted infections
female-initiated protection
expanded safety trial
HIV Seronegativity
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Trichomonas Infections
Trichomonas Vaginitis
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Neisseriaceae Infections
Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections
Bacterial Infections
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Bacterial
Genital Diseases, Male
Genital Diseases, Female
Vaginal Diseases
Treponemal Infections
Spirochaetales Infections
Protozoan Infections
Parasitic Diseases
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017


text: Hi, How long have u been in Dubai? I had a great time when visiting hmm about 2/3 yrs ago. The Burj was still 2/3 finished. My daughter and family lived there till last year July. Now in the UK. She goes back regularly. I have heaps of photos but still has to be processed in the digital dark room!! :-(


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'"It's a long schedule," Sabres co-captain Chris Drury said. "You want to win every game you play. There's certainly a little more emphasis with the rivalries within the division. But I wouldn't trade wins against the Central Division or the Southeast Division just to get wins against these guys."'
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When i hand code a webpage in Notepad++ and then open it in Dreamweaver the layout is all over the place but when i look in the browser it looks normalwhy is this and how can i correct it Thank you
That's just one of the many problems with Dreamweaver. I would encourage you not to use it.
For testing, I would recommend IE with Debugbar, and Firefox/Chrome with the Web Developer plugin and firebug extensions.
And it just does not matter at all how Dreamweaver displays your page.
No matter what software you use to create text and other characters, each program assigns its own information to the data so that when you copy and paste it into another program, there is always the potential for things to be lost in translation. For example copying and pasting text with embedded links from a word document into a wordpress editor causes links to break. Copying and pasting text from the web into a word document doesn't always show up as intended.
You should stick with editing in whatever program you started in and avoid copying and pasting things from one program to another.
While this might be true for word processors, this really has nothing to do with nicky8694's question...
Nicky asked why it was happening. I think my explanation (although I used other programs as examples) was pretty clearly related to her question. Notepad++ assigns information to the characters it produces just the same as Dreamweaver does and both programs interpret that data differently when its copied from other software. The OP also asked what they could do to fix it and I suggested that they not copy and paste from one program to another.
Dreamweaver's WYSIWYG integrated browser is the problem, not the copying and pasting of formatted code. It's a browser rendering issue--no amount of copying and pasting is going to solve the issue. The integrated browser is some sub-par quirks mode engine and as Dr John mentioned simply doesn't understand what to do with float layouts and newer CSS3 techniques.
Stick with Dreamweaver for the design only, i used to use Dreamweaver all the time for my sites but then i just got sick of how messy everything is with the coding. Vim is a good text editor, try that.
Agree for that .
As my little experiences in Dreamweaver, Dreamweaver itself has some tricky steps to follow .I crated my web in Dreamweaver and it show not correctly position also.
What you may try is check all code, It may help .
It may be due to some miss places of some codes.
Anyway after I finish code in Dreamweaver I use 3 Web browser ( IE, Chrome and Fire fox ) to check .And I use CSE HTML Validator to recheck for final.
This happens to me also, and it`s because Dreamweaver has some issues and is misplacing the code, throwing blank lines and spaces all over the place. I normally fix that manually , inside DW, then it will look ok everytime you open that file.


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David just doesn't like the Clippers. Probably only likes Chris Paul.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
The Clippers didn't want any part of West. Jordan just shrugged off that bump like it was nothing. Had it been someone else he may have gotten pissed.


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Winter-Special - "Fit through the winter"
For those who wish to keep fit and healthy during the cold months of the year, our "Fit through the Winter" package is the one for you. Enjoy the exhilarating experience of the world famous "Friedrichsbad", relish the region's light and healthy cuisine and let the stress of daily life be massaged out of your body by a professional masseur. What could be better
- 2 nights incl. breakfast buffet
- A tasty fitness feast in our Restaurant STERNTALER
- One entrance ticket to the Roman-Irish Baths in the "Friedrichsbad" (3 hours)
- Entrance into the Casino Baden-Baden
One major bonus of booking a "Winter Special" break is that you will receive a 25% discount off the admission price to numerous events. You will also benefit from a reduced admission charge to the highly acclaimed Frieder Burda Art Museum.
The rate for "Fit through the winter - special" is:
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North Carolina-based Lowe's Home Centers has been ordered to pay $1.6 million to settle a lawsuit by prosecutors from Marin and four other counties alleging inaccurate and misleading advertising, the district attorney's office announced Wednesday.
The settlement, ordered by Marin Superior Court Judge Paul M. Haakenson, is the culmination of a civil enforcement action filed in Marin Superior Court and led by the district attorneys of Marin, Los Angeles, Monterey, San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties. It was alleged Lowe's stores throughout the state unlawfully advertised structural dimensional building products for sale, such as lumber, using incorrect product dimensions. In some instances, Lowe's advertisements restated misleading or inaccurate product dimensions provided by the manufacturers or suppliers.
"Consumers should expect when making product purchases that retailers are providing accurate information especially when misinformation could adversely affect building projects that more often than not rely on precise measurements," said District Attorney Ed Berberian.
Karen Cobb, spokesperson for Lowe's, said in a statement: "Periodically, representatives of local Weights and Measures departments visit retailers and they expressed concerns about common product measurements, such as a 2x4 piece of lumber. These visits were initiated as a result of standards set by California's Division of Measurement Standards, which relies upon guidance from the National Institute of Standards and Technology concerning the sale of certain commodity products.
"Historically, Lowe's provided information about product dimensions received from vendors. Moving forward, customers will now be able to locate product by actual and common dimensions as provided by vendors for certain building products. For example, for a piece of lumber commonly known as a 2X4, customers will see both the common name (2x4) and the actual product dimensions (1.5 x 3.5 inches).
"Both Lowe's and the California DAs agreed that a settlement is in the best interest of all parties. It allows us to continue moving forward with our program to provide both actual and common product dimensions and meet our shared goals."
Under the settlement, Lowe's is required to immediately remove products from sale or correct false, misleading, deceptive or inaccurate product descriptions. Lowe's must pay $1.47 million in civil penalties and costs of the investigation. An additional $150,000 will be paid to fund further consumer protection-related activities including quality control and price verification programs conducted by the California Department of Food and Agriculture. The store will be bound under the terms of a permanent injunction prohibiting similar future violations of law.
According to the district attorney's office, Lowe's was cooperative throughout the investigation and has implemented enhanced policies and procedures designed to eliminate the use of misleading or inaccurate product dimensions in their advertisements.
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text: News Article The Power of Global Broadband Access Simon Dudley Published July 23, 2013 in Austin Business Journal The research firm Ovum has predicted that by 2015 approximately 3.6 billion people will have access to broadband Internet services - roughly 50 percent of the world's population. That's good news for many. But what about where broadband Internet is unavailable? What about that other 3 billion or so people? See the Report


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If you go to each player's profile page you'll see there some several tabs. Go to the 'Game logs' tab and what you see is something really cool:
There are videos of every single player's FG attempted/made, FT attempted/made, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks from every single game he has played so far. This is really good stuff.
Take a look for example at PG's page. http://stats.nba.com/playerGameLogs....rowsPerPage=25
Free time has just been diminished by a wide margin


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Suits 4 x 6 mm (1/4") screws (not inc.)
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Core Blocks™ are a true all round solution. A tuned 2-stage bearing system provides excellent performance across the full working load range with an integrated thrust bearing feature and the resilience to handle high dynamic or static loads. Acetal sheave, alloy cheeks and stainless fixings complete the durable package. For reliability and a long service life, these blocks are the right choice for sheets, halyards and control line applications for cruising and racing.
• Class leading performance and sleek, contemporary styling.
• Excellent dynamic and high static load performance.
• Less than half the friction of the nearest competitor.
• Central hub hole can be used as a becket take-off or tie-up point.
• Universal head with full 3-axis articulation.
• Shackle head lockable at 0 or 90 degrees.
• Alloy Rope/Wire sheave version also available.
• Sheave: U.V. stabilised acetal or anodised aluminium (AW models).
• Cheek plates: Aluminium alloy.
• Ball Bearings: High compression strength carbon black acetal.
• Shackle, post & hub: Grade 316 stainless steel.
Ideal for use on mainsheet, spinnaker sheet, vang, halyard and backstay applications on boats up to 14 m (46 ft), general applications on larger yachts, alloy sheave models are available for use with wire.
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'But he's making progress. While Robitaille has to wear a neck collar 80 percent of the time, his rehab is on schedule and the prognosis is good. He says he will "absolutely" be in the broadcast booth this fall when the Sabres begin their season. He's been an analyst for over 25 years and misses work, saying that his return will be a very happy day.'
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Have Cat Questions? Ask a Cat Vet Online.
I am so sorry your baby is troubled with these things.
If Gigi becomes stressed when she travels see if there is a mobile veti n your area that would come to her.
For the crusty nose just apply vaseline to the nostrils.
If she has earmites use Revolution.
If your baby does have a painful ear infection and maybe allergies, see will benefit from a corn and guten free diet and some natural solutions.
I printed this for you:
" Ear infections are very common in dogs, although less so in cats. Two types are most often seen: otitis externa, infection of the external ear canal, and otitis media, infection of the middle ear. Although any dog or cat can get an ear infection, some breeds appear to be more prone than others. Dogs with pendulous ears, like Cocker Spaniels and Basset Hounds, or dogs with hairy inner ear flaps, like Miniature Poodles and Schnauzers, tend to have a higher occurrence of ear infections. In cats, the Persian breed seems to be more prone to such infections.
Most ear infections are easily and successfully treated. But if left untreated, they could result in serious damage.
Causes Bacteria or yeast are most often the culprits of otitis externa. Other causes include an accumulation of wax, thick or matted hair in the ear canal, debris, a foreign body, a tumor or impaired drainage of the ear. Sometimes, infections of the external ear canal are a secondary result of some other bodily infection or ear mite infestation.
Otitis media usually results from the spread of infection from the external ear canal to the middle ear. Also, foreign bodies, debris, ulceration or improper ear cleaning can rupture the eardrum and allow infection to reach the middle ear"
Here is the rest of the link:http://www.healthypet.com/library_view.aspx?ID=27 .
Use white vinegar and water 50/50 mixture to dab on and in the ear to help with pain and itching.
Here is a list of natural solutions that I printed for you from a link:
Clean the ears with vinegar. If your pet's ears are filled with brownish-pink wax, there is a good chance that allergies have caused a yeast infection. To clear up yeast infections, clean the ears thoroughly.
Veterinarians often recommend using white vinegar (also called acetic acid), because it removes dirt and debris and helps restore a healthy chemical balance in the ears. Diluted vinegar works well. When using vinegar, pour a small amount into the ear canal, massage the area, then gently wipe the inside of the ear with a cotton ball. Do this once a day until the ear is better.
Stop infections with pau d'arco. The herb pau d'arco, which comes from the inner bark of a South American tree, is a natural antibiotic that quickly kills fungi and bacteria. At the first sign of infection, mix equal parts pau d'arco tincture and mineral oil and put several drops in your pet's ears. Give the drops two or three times a day for several days.
Reduce inflammation with vitamin C. The adrenal glands produce a natural steroid that can help reduce inflammation when ears get infected. Giving pets vitamin C can help the adrenal glands work more efficiently. Pets weighing under 15 pounds can take between 100 and 250 milligrams of vitamin C a day. Cats and dogs 15 to 50 pounds can take 250 to 500 milligrams a day, and larger dogs can take 500 milligrams two or three times a day. Vitamin C can cause diarrhea, so you may have to cut back the dose until you find an amount that your pet will tolerate.
Eliminate toxins with a healthy, all-natural diet. Giving your pet a healthy, homemade diet or high-quality commercial food that doesn't contain corn, additives or preservatives can greatly reduce the amount of wax that the ears produce while also helping to boost the immune system.
Air out the ears. Increasing air circulation inside the ears can control the growth of bacteria, yeast and fungi. Trim or pluck hair inside the ears periodically to allow more air to get inside.
Strengthen the digestive tract. Supplements such as bromelain and quercetin (with bromelain) can help prevent an allergic response in the gastrointestinal tract, making food allergies less of a problem.
Here is the source:It says "dog" however,it is for cats as well.
These products are all available in a human health store.I have used the white vinegar and vitamin C myself with great success.
She may become nauseated due to a vestibular disorder
I hope the natural solutions give her relief very soon.
Please let me know how your baby is feeling. I will always be here for both of you.
Sincerest best wishes,


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Skip to the 0:50 mark for Pierce's comment
"To me he's the greatest shooter of all time. I don't even know why there was ever a discussion with he and Reggie Miller. "
Just another reason for me to think Pierce is a jackass.
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Skip to the 0:50 mark for Pierce's comment
"To me he's the greatest shooter of all time. I don't even know why there was ever a discussion with he and Reggie Miller. "
Just another reason for me to think Pierce is a jackass.
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Was this comment before or after he flashed one of his gang signs?
ha-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.. Okay. Call me when Ray Allen goes 8 points in 9 seconds.
From the one time self declared best player in the game...
I disagree.
was this before or after he had to use a wheelchair?
Eh, I don't see the problem. He's Ray's teammate. He's going to have a high opinion of the guy.
You know...I gotta wonder what Larry Bird thinks seeing all these punks on the Celtics now. Sure, this one comment doesn't make him a punk, but the gang signs, calling himself the best, the whole wheelchair fake injury thing. Wasn't this guy stabbed multiple times too(I don't remember the details of this and don't care enough to look them up, but maybe they were crime related?). I don't know, between him and Garnett - plus the few things Rondo had going on..
Ray Allen is a guy full of class though, nothing bad to say about him. Congrats for beating the record and making a debate of whos the best.
I'm not surprised that Pierce would say that or even actually believe it, I've never though to highly of him.
Understanding that this is a Pacers fan website I totally get why everyone would be galled by the statement.
But to me it's no big deal because to me he is just propping up his team mate. He even made it a point to say that Ray was a much better shooter than himself.
Again I get the anger and everything but if had compared Ray to any other great shooter not named Reggie Miller no one on here would really care.
I have no issue with what he said however at the same time I understand why he was almost stabbed to death.
You mean to tell me that Pierce has a bias toward a teammate he won a title with?
If he had gone on and on about how Allen is the best blah blah blah, then that's a legitimate difference of opinion...and we have the right to disagree. And no one cares if he feels Ray was better than him.
What I think galls us is that he felt it necessary to be disrespectful to another player (named Reggie) in making his case.
But you're right, overall, Pierce "is irrelevant".
So tired of this conversation. Yes, Ray Allen is really, really good but he essentially did nothing remarkable outside of taking teams into the early rounds of the playoffs at best and hitting a lot of threes until he was traded to the Celtics. The best Reggie had during his real prime Davis, Smits, and Jackson who were fringe All Stars for a couple years but otherwise had glaring deficiencies in their games and don't even come close to the level of theg guys Allen is playing with now.
I think I'm most put off by his erroneous use of Reggie as the subeject of the preposition "I don't know why he and Ray..."
I'm also astonished that I got this before Anthem.
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"I mean, you'd walk into our dressing room and run into Mel Daniels holding a .45 -- it makes you wonder."
Bob Netolicky
Paul's just still mad that Artest pantsed him.
No problem with me.
Ray IS a great shooter.
Ray IS his teammate.
Pierce IS a toolbag. 'I'm the greatest player in the world!'
I honestly don't care what Pierce thinks, neither should you guys. He definitely shouldn't have his own thread which shares his biased opinion.
I'm not perfect and neither are you.
Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the esteem of Elohim,
Ephisians 4: 32 And be kind towards one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as Elohim also forgave you in Messiah.
Eh, I think the title of the thead should be changed.
Paul Pierce doesn't think Reggie should even be mentioned with Ray Allen
Suggested Change:
Paul Pierce doesn't think
Pierce is a chode. True story.
Lol.... congratulations, you challenged my vocabulary. You compelled my to look up the word; wish I hadn't.


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Jews Who Rock: A Musical History Tour
Explore 60 years of Jews in rock and roll with a new touring exhibit, JEWS WHO ROCK: A Musical History Tour, set to open April 27 at the Jewish Museum Milwaukee,1360 N. Prospect Ave.
The exhibit examines the Jewish influences in rock and roll and popular music through photographs, artifacts, memorabilia and informative panels that represent a sampling of the countless singers, songwriters, musicians, concert promoters and record company executives influential both in front and behind the scenes. Museum-goers will have the opportunity to get up close and personal with classic favorites such as Bob Dylan, Billy Joel and Bette Midler, through newer musicians such as hip-hop artist Drake, singer/songwriter Pink and Vampire Weekend.
How many personalities throughout popular music history are of Jewish heritage or strongly influenced by those who are? The answer is, almost too many to count. Storytelling and songwriting is a musical tradition that has always been strong amongst Jewish musicians. America's popular music history was practically written by the Jews, beginning with Irving Berlin and continuing with George S. Kaufman, George Gershwin and hundreds of others.
The exhibit runs through Aug. 10. Gallery hours are Monday-Thursday 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., Friday 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. and Sunday 12 p.m. - 4 p.m. Several special events for the exhibit will soon be announced on JewishMuseumMilwaukee.org. Admission is free for museum members. Non-member price includes both museum and special exhibit: $6 adult; $5 seniors; $3 students; $15 families. The core component of the exhibition was organized by National Exhibits & Archives, LLC, with additional pieces provided by local collectors.


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Nameberry guest blogger Andrea, whom many of you may know for her intelligent and thoughtful advice on our message boards, is both a newspaper reporter and a royal watcher. Here, her rundown of the names of the littlest princes and princesses of Europe.
The British royal family is traditional enough that it's fairly easy to make an educated guess about its naming habits. Other European royals are far more creative in their naming, sometimes reflecting the current styles in their countries or setting styles themselves. The Crown Prince and Princess of the Netherlands gave all three of their daughters "A" names: Princesses Catharina–Amalia (called Amalia), Alexia, and Ariane. (That's them with their parents on the right.)
Belgian Crown Prince Prince Philippe, the Duke of Brabant, and his wife Princess Mathilde, reportedly have a subtler theme in the naming of their children and have included the element "el" in each name. The children are Princess Élisabeth, born in 2001, and her younger siblings Prince Gabriel, Prince Emmanuel, and Princess Eléonore.
Young Princess Eléonore is one of several young European royals with variants of the name Eleanor. Spain has the Infanta Leonor, born in 2005, whose parents pored over the family tree to find the name, which honors a medieval queen. Royal watchers also tried to guess what name the new Spanish infanta would receive; none I saw got it right. The following year another royal baby was given the name in the Netherlands: the Countess Leonore, daughter of Prince Constantijn and Princess Laurentien. Will all the Leonors set off a naming trend in other countries? Well, according to at least one newspaper article, Leonor is currently among the five most common names given to baby girls in Portugal.


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If Anthony Barr's growing hype can be distilled into a single sequence, it would be one on Nov. 17, 2012. That day, the UCLA linebacker blew through USC's line untouched, crushing quarterback Matt Barkley on second-and-seventh.
Less than three minutes later, UCLA beat USC 38-28, winning the rivalry for the first time since 2006. Shoulder separated, Barkley never played another collegiate down.
Asked about the moment at Friday's Pac-12 Media Day, Barr laughed.
"I want to know why the tackle just let me go, for whatever reason," Barr said. "He should be standing up here and talking to you guys, because he's the reason why I was able to make that play."
Expect more of those moments from Barr this season - either assisted or not. Already an All-American, his decision to pass up the NFL draft is a major reason that UCLA, coming off a runner-up finish in the Pac-12 Championship, was picked as the South Division favorite. Despite an amped-up schedule that includes back-to-back trips to Stanford and Oregon, the Bruins received three votes to win its first conference title since 1998.
The running back-turned-linebacker likely would have been a top-20 pick with just one season on defense, but elected to stay to improve his pass coverage abilities. If he progresses as expected, he could be a Heisman contender. Head coach Jim Mora said this spring that the school should prepare a promotional campaign for the defensive star.
Usually soft-spoken, Barr insists he's ready for the limelight.
"This is the most attention I've got, ever, in my life right now," Barr said. "I have no problem being up here, so, yeah."
He looked the part Friday afternoon, handling questions with ease and arguably dishing out the best quote of the session.
His numbers excite as well. Barr reportedly ran a 40-yard dash in 4.46 seconds this spring. Even after rounding up for some error, it's an astounding time for a player who now stands at 6-foot-4, 255 pounds. Hardly a slim player a year ago at 240, the senior showed up Sony Pictures Studios with bowling balls for shoulders.
"The thing about him, he's gotten bigger but he's gotten faster too," Mora said. "It's scary."
It's stars such as Barr and quarterback Brett Hundley that make UCLA such a tantalizing team to watch -- even as questions abound across the roster. For starters, the Bruins must figure out life after all-time leading rusher Johnathan Franklin, for starters. They may use numerous freshmen in the offensive line rotation. They must tinker with a secondary that returns zero starters.
"I have no clue who's going to play where in the secondary," Mora said. ""No clue. But that's OK. Somebody's going to present themselves."
He hopes, like Barr did.
Waiting on Eddie
Five-star recruit Eddie Vanderdoes' may still have a chance to play for UCLA this fall. Because he broke his national letter of intent with Notre Dame, the Placer High product must sit out a season and lose a year of eligibility unless either he is released or receives a waiver.
The Irish have denied him the former, but he will appeal the NLI committee in person on Monday. The defensive lineman cited an illness in his family and switched to UCLA to stay closer to his Northern California home.
"Hopefully, we will have more information after that, but right now it's up in the air," Mora said.
Making moves
Given how Barr's position switch paid off, Mora isn't hesitating to experiment elsewhere on the field. Tight end Ian Taubler, arguably the team's best blocker at the position, will switch to defensive end for the upcoming season. He will still be featured in some goal-line packages on offense, but the 6-foot-4, 257-pound sophomore was once an all-state defensive end at Fresno's Bullard High.
"Ian, he's a big physical, good looking athlete," Mora said. "In our style of offense, he wasn't getting the playing time I think a guy with his skillset deserves or demands."
Senior Stan McKay, used as a mini-linebacker, will move back to safety to help balance the medical retirement of junior Dietrich Riley (neck). Freshman linebacker Jayon Brown, a Long Beach Poly alum, could potentially move to safety too.


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Survivors of fatal Oregon bus crash say some were ejected
PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) Survivors of the bus crash that killed nine people on a partly icy section of interstate in rural Eastern Oregon said Monday some passengers were thrown from the tour bus through broken windows after the vehicle skidded out of control, smashed through a guardrail and plummeted 100 feet down an embankment.
When the charter bus came to a rest, terrified passengers looked around for their loved ones.
"Some mothers screamed to find their son or daughter," said Jaemin Seo, a 23-year-old exchange student from Suwon, South Korea.
Berlyn Sanderson, 22, of Surrey, British Columbia, said she and several other passengers were ejected. "It's kind of like one of those dreams you have of the world ending," she told The Associated Press.
The bus, owned by a British Columbia company, was returning to Canada from Las Vegas, one of the stops on a nine-day western tour, when it crashed Sunday just east of Pendleton.
Aboard were about 46 people. Some were exchange students from South Korea. Some were from British Columbia, some from Washington state. All survivors were sent to hospitals.
The crash occurred near a spot on Interstate 84 called Deadman Pass, at the top of a steep, seven-mile descent from the Blue Mountains. That section of road is so notorious that state transportation officials have published a warning that says it has "some of the most changeable and severe weather conditions in the Northwest."
Still, a spokesman for the Oregon Department of Transportation, Tom Strandberg, said that while there were icy spots where the crash occurred, it was nothing unusual for this time of year.
The highway has been shut down several times this winter, mostly due to crashed trucks blocking the roadway, he said. The call on whether to close the road or require chains is made by the local maintenance crew, Strandberg said.
Seo said he was awakened by screaming passengers and was ejected from a broken window as the bus careened down the hill. Seo had a broken ankle, a gash in his arm that required stitches and shallow scratches across his face. He is an exchange student from South Korea studying in Vancouver, British Columbia.
The National Transportation Safety Board said two investigators were expected to arrive at the crash site Monday. It said they will look into why the bus left the road, the condition of the road at the time, the condition of the guardrail, the actions of the driver and operations of the company that owns the bus.
The Oregonian newspaper quoted one survivor, 25-year-old Yoo Byung Woo, as saying he and other passengers thought the bus driver was "going too fast."
"I worried about the bus," he said, adding it was snowing and foggy. Yoo said one rider was frightened and asked if they could take another route. He said some passengers were dozing when the driver slammed on the brakes.
Yoo said rocks smashed through windows after the bus crashed through the guard rail and rolled down. The NTSB said the bus rolled at least once.
A hospital official said it appeared 46 people were aboard, and the 37 survivors were sent to hospitals.
Fourteen were at St. Anthony Hospital Monday morning, one in serious condition, said spokesman Larry Blanc. Seven were discharged Sunday.
Blanc said 16 people were sent to other hospitals in the region.
Umatilla County Emergency Manager Jack Remillard said the bus was owned by Mi Joo travel in Vancouver, B.C.
A bus safety website run by the U.S. Department of Transportation said Mi Joo Tour & Travel has six buses, none of which have been involved in any accidents in at least the past two years.
A spokesman for the NTSB, Peter Knudson, said seatbelts aren't required on such buses. "We have been concerned about this for some time," Knudson said.
More than a dozen rescue workers descended the hill and used ropes to help retrieve people from the wreckage in freezing weather. The bus driver was among the survivors but had not yet spoken to police because of the severity of the injuries the driver had suffered.
The local Red Cross shelter has been offering food, clothing and hotel arrangements for survivors as they are released from the hospital. Relatives of bus passengers have also gone to the shelter, seeking information about their loved ones.
Jake Contor, a Pendleton resident who speaks Korean and helped translate for the Red Cross, said he's spoken with several crash survivors.
"The stories have been fairly consistent: braking, swerving, sliding on the ice, hitting the guardrail, then sliding down the embankment," Contor said.
He said the victims told him that the bus left Boise Sunday morning and was supposed to arrive in Vancouver that night. The survivors who spoke to Contor were seated at the back of the bus and said it appeared that the front and center of the coach sustained the most damage.
The interstate links Boise and Portland through the Blue Mountains and the Columbia Gorge.
AP correspondent Jeff Barnard in Grants Pass, Ore., contributed to this report.
- 9 people killed in crash - names are being withheld pending next of kin notifications
At St. Anthony Hospital in Pendleton
- Haeng Kyu Hwang, 54-year-old male, from Vancouver, British Columbia. He was the bus driver.
- Do Woo (Peter) Kim, 16-year-old male. Has been treated and released.
- Hyoung Jin Yoo, 16-year-old male. Has been treated and released.
- Young Hyun Yoon, 14-year-old male. Has been treated and released.
- Seong Iun An, 15-year-old male. Has been treated and released.
- Hyejin Kim, 40-year-old female.
- Min Su Kim, 15-year-old male. Has been treated and released.
- Junichi Hanada, 21-year-old male.
- June Lee Seong, 22-year-old female.
- Tae Woo Park, 16-year-old male. Has been treated and released.
- Soomia Kim, 12-year-old female.
- Ilmin Kim, 7-year-old female.
- Yoon Kim, 44-year-old male.
- Seongho Jo, 18-year-old male.
- Funsil Koh, 47-year-old female from Cloverdale, British Columbia.
- Jong Hyun Chae, 16-year-old male. Has been treated and released.
- Byung Woo Yoo, 25-year-old (gender unspecified). Has been treated and released.
- 65-year-old female whose name is being withheld pending notification of next of kin.
- An unidentified male between 20 and 25 years old.
At Grande Ronde Hospital in La Grande
- Berlyn Sanderson, 22-year-old female from Kelowna, British Columbia. Has been treated and released.
- Rachel Sohn, 53-year-old female.
- Yill Yeon Cho, 73-year-old (gender unspecificed).
- Jacmin Seo, 23-year-old male.
At Good Shepherd Hospital in Hermiston
- Kang SeoKwon, 24-year-old (gender unspecified). Has been treated and released.
- Alysah Koh, 21-year-old from British Columbia. Has been treated and released.
At Harborview Medical Center in Seattle
- 53-year-old female (name being withheld pending notification of next of kin).
At Oregon Health & Science University in Portland
- June Won Kim, 46-year-old male from Vancouver, B.C.
- Sungsup Kim, 45-year-old male from Port Coquitlam, B.C.
- Michael Sohn, 64-year-old male from Milwaukie, Ore.
- 55-year-old female (name being withheld pending notification of next of kin).
At Kadlec Medical Center in Tri-Cities, Wash.
- Eun Sook Uhm, 74-year-old female.
- Choon-Sook Yang, 67-year-old female from Issaquah, Wash.
- Hee Eun Kim, 46-year-old female from Burnaby, Canada.
At Walla Walla General Hospital in Walla, Walla, Wash.
- Victoria Huang, 22-year-old female.
- Shelly Tu, 23-year-old female.
At Legacy Emanuel Medical Center in Portland
- Man Sun Kim, 71-year-old male from Seattle, Wash.
At St. Alphonsus Medical Center in Boise, Idaho
- John Cho, 56-year-old male.


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National Capital Region's Chief Administrative Officers Brief Congressional Delegation on Emergency Planning and Preparedness
The chief administrative officers from the National Capital Region briefed members of the local congressional delegation today about the state of emergency planning and preparedness in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
The special briefing was held this morning in the Rayburn House Office Building before a bi-partisan panel. U.S. Representatives Tom Davis (Va.), Eleanor Holmes Norton (Washington, D.C.), Jim Moran (Va.), Frank R. Wolf (Va.) and Chris Van Hollen (Md.) received the briefing from the regional group.
The group updated the delegation on the state of the region's ongoing emergency planning and preparedness efforts, along with lessons learned from the recent hurricanes.
The briefing was opened by Mayor Pro-Tem Bruce Williams of Takoma Park, Md., who chairs the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments' Emergency Preparedness Council. Deputy Chief Administrative Officer Vernon Herron from Prince George's County; County Executive Craig S. Gerhardt from Prince William County; County Executive Anthony H. Griffin from Fairfax County; Deputy Mayor for Public Safety and Justice Ed Reiskin from the District of Columbia; Chief Administrative Officer Bruce Romer from Montgomery County; and Executive Director David Robertson from the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments briefed the delegation.
Thomas J. Lockwood, director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Office of National Capital Region Coordination, and Maj. Gen. Guy C. Swan III, commander of the Military District of Washington and the Joint Force Headquarters, National Capital Region, attended the briefing, along with other regional homeland security partners.
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The NCR encompasses the District of Columbia and parts of Maryland and Virginia, including the cities of Alexandria, Fairfax, Falls Church, Manassas and Manassas Park and the counties of Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, Prince William in Virginia and Montgomery and Prince George's counties in Maryland, which include the municipalities of Bowie, College Park, Gaithersburg, Greenbelt, Rockville and Takoma Park.


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text: Unplugging West Liberty gives UC program a jolt By Mitch Vingle January 14, 2013 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- University of Charleston coach Mark Downey has always been able to network.He's been able to network his way through the coaching maze. He's been able to network in order to land players.His hope now is through that networking, he's plugged in the right players to short-circuit West Virginia Conference and national power West Liberty.At least for a night, that hope was reality. At a packed Eddie King gym, UC downed the Hilltoppers, No. 1 in the Division II National Association of Basketball Coaches poll, 101-96."We're trying to get where they're at," Downey said Monday. "We're trying to do what we did at Arkansas Tech. I think we're kind of on track."At Arkansas Tech, Downey led the Wonder Boys to a 30-2 record in 2009-10 and a No. 1 South region ranking before being upset in the Division II South regional tournament.Now his Golden Eagle team is 12-2 with a win over No. 1."We want to get into the Top 25 and be a regular staple in the Top 25," Downey said. "It's just tough to get into the rankings. Without [Terrell] Lipkins and [Robbie] Dreher we lost in overtime at Shepherd. We started off 5-2 and it's hard to get into the rankings after that."Now, though, UC has won seven straight.Lipkins, a former Northland [Minn.] Community College player who once scored 47 points in a game there, scored 20 on Monday. He missed that Shepherd game for family matters in Canton, Ohio, but has been lights out since, averaging over 18 points before Monday. Dreher, a transfer from Winthrop who then enrolled at Marshall before moving to UC, has been averaging 10 points since becoming eligible. He hit the game-sealing free throws versus West Liberty and finished with 21."We want to get into the Top 25 and then into the NCAA tournament again," Downey said. "And we only have one senior [Evan Faulkner]. We do have a lot of juniors, but the future's bright."West Liberty went through a process. We're going through a process."If it sounds as if UC is trying to manufacture victories through junior college players and transfers, well, that's correct - to a degree.Dreher is from Winthrop, Faulkner is from Radford, Xavier Humphrey is from Marshall, Aleksander Kesic is from Iona - by way of Serbia - and the list goes on. Hayden Arnett is from Portland. Portland, Australia, that is. And community college transfers? There are less CC's in emergency rooms than after Golden Eagle roster names. Yet Downey is very happy with the results."We had 13 players on scholarship who were in town over the [Christmas] break," said the coach. "They went out to eat together a lot and all I heard back was how polite and great they were. They're doing well in the classroom. We're doing things the right way."Downey's overall game plan?"We try to bring in a mix," said the coach. "We try to recruit locally, if there are kids who can help us, which, sometimes there aren't. But we try to recruit locally. We have a junior varsity team and try to look for players that fly under the radar."As for transfers, [former WVU player] Paul Williamson didn't work out, but most are panning out. What we try to do is sign a freshman or two, a junior college player or two and a Division I transfer or two. We had more transfers this year, but we want to spread out the classes in the future and always have kids with experience."Last week, UC routed West Virginia State, which had dominated in these parts, 92-56. The torch has apparently been passed. "That win against West Virginia State really gave us confidence," Lipkins said.Monday's victory should as well. West Liberty is very well-coached. It is very disciplined. Its sharp shooters know exactly where their teammates are during frenetic games."We tried to contain [West Liberty] and give them no easy baskets," Lipkins said. "This proves that everyone can be beaten."It should also prove UC is finally ready to take that next step, into the NCAA Division II Top 25."I'd love to be No. 1, but I'll take Top 25," Lipkins said.Short-circuiting West Liberty is the first step toward that goal. Reach Mitch Vingle at 304-348-4827, email@example.com">email@example.com or follow him at twitter.com/MitchVingle. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Man charged after motorcycle pursuit early Sunday 2 Deer in 8 WV counties found dead from EHD 3 Former State Police captain now chief in Winfield 4 Preston County delegate Tony Lewis dies 5 Innerviews: Dual-identity surgeon riding high in horse racing world Pittman's attitude, Heater's aptitude, hoops attendance Previous Story No. 1 undone: UC knocks off West Lib Next Story


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A couple of nights ago my boyfriend and I got onto a discussion about our old mobile phones which made me think about the motorola V220 - this was my second ever mobile phone (I had a Nokia 3310 for 5 years!) and there were several reasons why I purchased it such as camera, colour screen and it was a flip phone.
I actually still have this phone although I haven't used it for some time - there is a reason for this and it's not because I want it as a back up, it's because I have some photos on there which I don't want to lose, but which I can't get off it! The phone doesn't have a memory card of any sort - instead the photos are stored to the phone itself. There is a mini USB slot (cable provided) which I expected to be able to use to transfer the photo between the phone and my computer, however this was not to be as there was no software provided with the phone and none available to buy or download. The only way I ever found to transfer the photos was to text them to someone else who could download them in some fashion - this really is more complicated that necessary and of course costs a fair amount.
Aside from the above I have to say that I was very happy with the phone and it served me well for 2 years. I never had any problems with the phone turning itself off inexplicably, freezing, calls or texts not coming through etc, all of which are things I have experienced with various other phones.
Physically the phone is quite small - roughly the height of the palm of an adult hand and half the width, it's also about 2cm deep. Although this is very thick in terms of modern phone standards, I still feel that the overall shape and size of the phone makes it nice to hold. Of course part of this bulk is caused by the flip phone aspect and when flipped open the length of the phone is just about right to reach from your ear to your mouth - something that smart phones don't do.
The body feels quite cheap and plasticy, but despite this it's very robust and I dropped it many times with no adverse effects. As the cover is plastic there is no enamel to chip off however the shiny metallic coating of the buttons on the side of the phone did wear off after a while. I have the black version of this phone, but it also comes in silver.
On the front of the closed phone is another small LCD panel (not colour) which displays the time, battery power and signal strength which is handy to have.
When in use the buttons all glow blue which looks good and makes use in the dark alot easier. The screen itself is about an inch sqaure and nice and bright (both the LCD and the buttons go off when the phone hasn't been used for some time). The button layout is a traditional numbers panel which several letters of the alphabet assigned to each key - despite this I actually find I can type faster on this type of phone as opposed to my current smart phone! Further more the predictive text is quite handy and accurate.
The menu is simple to navigate and adjustments/settings are intuitive - this was my first motorola and it didn't take me long to work out how to use it, if you've had a motorola before then this will be a breeze.
The camera is only capable of producing images to the size of 640x480 pixels which of course is very small - you could just about get a 4x6" print from this (if you could get the images off the phone!) and there is no flash but this was standard at the time the phone was made. Despite these apparent short comings the camera was still capable of taking decent quality images and was even decent in low light conditions. There is a 4x digital zoom available but this decreases the image size and quality significantly and isn't worth using. You could also use the camera to record video however this was very limited in length (seconds rather than minutes) and the quality is poor.
Functions available are of course phone calls, texting (limited character length), games (small selection provided with the phone) such as 'hungry fish' which I had endless fun playing and internet (I only even used it once as the screen wasn't big enough to be of any use).
When I bought this I believe it cost around £80 on pay as you go. I got it on virgin mobile and it is a locked phone although of course you can get this unlocked - this is something I haven't done but I've now lost the original sim card and as the phone won't let me use it with another providers inside or with no sim card at all, I now have to decide whether or not it's worth buying another sim or getting the phone unlocked.
Overall I was very happy with this phone - my main disappointment was that I couldn't get the photos off the phone, but aside from this it fulfilled all my requirements. For it's time it was a good quality phone and even now it is a good cheap phone that fills basic needs. If you want a cheap basic phone (don't buy if you want internet access (exists but not really in a useable capacity) or other advanced uses) then I'd recommend this one - the battery lasts for as much as a week with moderate use (takes a couple of hours to charge). Of course you can't purchase this phone new anymore. but there are quite a few listed on ebay and you can probably pick one up for less than £5.
I should start by saying that a lot of my opinion is based on a comparison with a newer, similarly basic, Samsung mobile phone that I have recently bought to communicate with my eldest daughter on a different network.
My old phone is really still my current one. I bought it in May 2006, and the Orange shop salesman saw us coming - I think it was already old stock even then. However, although he may have been relieved to shift the box out of the store cupboard, I have been very impressed with this simple phone's reliability and performance over the four years that I've had it.
First of all though it's the shape, not just visually but its feel, that I love. It's a clam shell phone, and when I first had it a friend mistook it for a Pebl, but it's not quite that streamlined, and I think it's slightly bigger. Mine is glossy black, and shows virtually no wear, despite it having lived in my pocket or bag ever since I got it. The only discernible wear is around the camera lens, where a little of the silver has worn off.
The shape of the phone when folded shut is very tactile, and makes a good substitute for a stress ball. Being a clam, it has very little wear to the screen. I have recently bought a slide phone, and had to go out straight away and buy it a sock as the screen was scratched within about 5 minutes. I'm not used to these 'technological advances'. My clam is protected from scratches, and from me inadvertently dialling someone from the depths of my handbag. This for me is a huge plus for this type of design.
As far as features go, this is pretty basic. It does proper voice calling, and has a speaker-phone option very plainly offered on-screen during calls. I've only used this once or twice but it worked very well. Texting is my favourite, specially following my recent experiences with my new phone . My Moto has intuitive predictive text., which is hugely appreciated. It does occasionally drop the odd clanger, but I can trust it to come up with words that I have used myself, not a library of someone else's idea of "what people today will want to text". There is no 'add to library' option as it's just not needed. It seems to automatically store words that I have spelt out, and over the years it's built up a pretty good personalised dictionary. For this reason alone I've realised that it's worth it's weight in gold, as my other phone wants every single word adding to the library, and I've given up on predictive text on it altogether and gone back to steam-powered letter-by-letter.
The camera is a very basic VGA, but it has a larger diameter lens than my new one, which explains why despite it being in theory the same size and resolution, the pictures that I've taken with my Moto are better. By posh camera phone standards they're laughable, but I'd say that they compare pretty well with the old 110 film format, for anyone that can remember those little cheap cameras, with the thin cartridges of incredibly narrow film inside. The photos always printed up pretty grainily, and that's more or less what you get here.
There are games installed on it, the only one that we've used is HungryFish which my youngest daughter will sit & fiddle with for ages if I let her. There is also a collection of wallpapers, although they're a bit odd, notably the sea photo that has a sloping horizon - presumably it's aimed at waterskiers? The variety of ringtones is by now quite old-fashioned but fun, it hasn't any concept of what a polyphone or mp3 sounds like, and has no slot for a memory card.
It has no Bluetooth, and no USB cable, although there is a port on the phone to plug one in. I've never got hold of one yet, as the one I got which claimed to match the phone didn't fit it, so I called time on that. Any photos that you take, if you want to save them, have to be inventively transferred to your storage of choice. My tried and trusted method has been to send them to my email address, which works roughly 7 times out of 10, better if I only send one in a day.
It did used to manage a rudimentary attempt at going online, but it was very slow to load, and for the most part had such a small amount of memory that it couldn't display the pages!
The original battery lasted ages, I only had to replace it earlier this year when the charge just wouldn't keep up anymore. On the whole, for the use that it has, it's not bad per charge, but with regular long phone calls it does go down pretty fast. As you may guess from the fact that I have two very basic phones, I don't do a lot other than texting and voice calls, so it doesn't get a hammering from extra-messaging activities.
The basic menu is pretty straightforward, with all of the functions and settings that you're likely to need at your fingertips, rather than them being buried somewhere in an obscure place in the menu (Samsung I'm looking at you). The keys are backlit during use with a rather lovely neon blue.
It has been an ideal phone for me, it's done everything that I originally bought it for, which was basically to function as an emergency phone, and for texting. The camera, although poor, is a bonus and has actually been able to capture some special images which I still value for sentimental reasons. Its therapeutic stress-pebble quality has been much appreciated too, as has its durability, as it's been dropped many times, with the most damage it's ever sustained being that the battery cover came off when it hit the ground at a particularly tricky angle.
Of course I'm aware that this phone is long gone in terms of availability, but I wanted to post an appreciation of the old thing as it's still going strong!
Motorola V220 a robust reliable unit,I bought mine about 5 years ago just before Christmas and its still going strong! There was a special offer at Sainsbuys,spend £50 in store and you can buy a Pay as You Go V220 Orange phone for just £20! What a bargain,so I bought two after making two trips and spending just over £100,all those lovely nectar points too,one for me and an extra Chrissy present for the wife.The phone is a simple flip phone in silver with small colour LCD screen,quite basic but has a reasonable camera for taking snaps,no good at distance though and can be a bit on the dark side.You can play games on it too,ok for amusing your 8 year old but thats better than nothing.The battery life is amazing,I am one of these people who forgets to charge it everynight,Doh! But it just keeps going and going day after day,even after 5 years use every day with the same battery its still good.I have dropped it a million times,it does have a leather cover I bought for it later which gives it extra protection.The case has no cracks,LCD screen still perfect,silver paint on corners just showing wear but its almost indestructable! Texting and using this phone is simplicity itself,if you can still get your hands on one this is a real no brainer.Its light,compact,fits in your jeans pocket no problem.If you want a phone to be just that a phone and not a know it all cutting edge piece of kit that will cost a fortune, this could be the one for you,it will probably become a collectors item! I still feel like Captain Kirk when I flip it open to answer,real retro cool!
Thanks for reading my review and I hope you found it interesting.If this has been useful to you and you take time to leave Your rating it will be appreciated and hope you will take a look at my other reviews sometime.I also leave reviews on the Ciao website about this and other items,many thanks!
I had this phone as one of my first and enjoyed using it. The screen is a little small however, which you will notice when you compare it with other phone's especially these days. However it is easy to use. It doesn't have an MP3 player but has MP3 ringtones and a basic camera. Not sure about video and bluetooth, I know it is quite a basic phone. I remember the annoying thing was that whenever you had an unread text or missed call it would bleep every few minutes, however this could probably be fixed by keeping it in silent mode if you're at work etc. The keys are quite big so it is easy to use. Also the phone is quite small when folded and quite light as well, although it is not the most compact phone on the market. You can use it in Europe without a problem and I think it's tri-band so you could use it in the USA if you had to. As for phone call quality - I never had any problems. It has a speakerphone as well. The colour screen is basic but good for the purpose of the phone. Also there's a screen on the fron which is useful for telling the time and whether you have new messages etc. without having to open the phone.
The Motorola V220 was the first phone that i brought and it did me well. It still works and has been used for at least four years before now. Anyway, this phone, is just that a phone. It dosent have all the latest features and everything but if all your looking for is a phone then this is a great.
I brought the phone for around £60, and its lasted well. It has a nice little camera that can be used to take a quick shoot hear and there. It also comes with some good games in case you go bored, including hungery fish.
The flip screen means that the main screen dosent get scratched and when open its nice and clean. However due to this design the camera can get easily scratched, and has now stopped working on my phone, so its not the strongest.
The phone is really easy to use, with medium sized buttons, and a quick call awnser by just opening it up. The sound that comes out of the phone is fairly impressive and really clear, except when its used in very busy locations.
I've got to admit - I am thoroughly biased towards this phone, my little phone, but I love it so much that I refuse to get something classier with more bells and whilstles. Although, I've got to admit that the origional reason I bought it was because it was a "flippy flippy" phone! (before this I had only ever experienced those dreadful nokias that everyone had with snake II on them) In addition, I was cheerful about the inclusion of (an admittedly really quite dreadful) camera and the delightful "hello moto" ringtone that greets me whenever someone is calling. I wouldn't get another phone now, as in my opinion, phones aren't phones anymore at all - they have become so much more, and all I really need to do is give someone a ring or a text every now and again. If I see something funny and don't happen to have my camera on me, I can take a little shot with my phone. Plus it has a hello kitty charm on it. Oooh, and it has this hilarious game on it called hungry fish, (in my opnion the best mobile phone game ever) in which you start off very small and if you eat enough fish you get bigger. And thats it. Genius
this was the last pay as you go phone i bought. Its a flip phone which was great because it avoids getting the screen all scratched up and not powering a colour screen all the time makes the battery last longer - the battery in there has lasted about two years, just bought a replacement now and that only cost £3.
its a nice size and fits well into a pocket or the palm of your hand.
it features a VGA camera which doesnt produce pictures in good quality, but then for a phone of this age and price thats to be expected, and it is plenty good enough for taking photos to use as a phone wallpaper which was about all i used it for.
it plays java games and polyphonic ringtones, but sadly it just doesnt play real music like most phones. if you want a bargain phone then this is durable and good, but dont expect to get the fancy features - they are simply not there, but then you aren't paying for them.
When I needed a new phone I decided I only wanted a basic one because I don't use it very often. I saw the Motorola V220 in a phone shop by me and it had been reduced to £35 so I brought it. The man in the shop had told me it is one of the easiest phones to use.
I am very pleased with it. There are plenty of basic ringtones to choose from and I can also download more if I want to which I don't. The ringtone volume is very easy to set from either the menu or 2 buttons on the side of the handset and I have mine loud because I keep my phone in my handbag and cannot always hear it if it is set too low.
The battery life is very good and each charge lasts for about 3 or 4 days.
When I am speaking to someone the signal is good but sometimes it goes very crackly and I cannot hear what the other person is saying.
I like that the V220 is not packed with features that I do not need or want. I like to text my grandaughters in the evening to see how they have got on at school and I think this phone is very easy to text on. I have turned off the predictive text because I cannot use it without wanting to throw the phone through the window. The phone is very easy to use and I find the menu is set out in a nice way that means I can get to where I want to be straight away with not too much messing about.
I like the way I can personalise my V220 because when I first turned it on the shortcuts were ones I would rarely use. I have changed it so that I can easily get to the phone book and camera and other fuctions personal to me at the touch of one button.
The camera is good for the price of the phone and it stores quite a lot of pictures before the memory is full. There is no video camera but it does play videos with sound so I can use the USB cable to download and videos I want from my PC.
There are 2 games already on this phone when I brought it and my favourite is a fun little game called Hungry Fish where I have to control my little fish and make him bigger by helping him to eat lots of smaller fish. My high score on this game is 193 and I was very pleased about that. There is also a little photo editing programme where I can put borders around photos I have taken and change the look of the pictures.
I do like this phone. It looks nice and being a flip it means I cannot accidentally phone somebody when the phone is in my pocket or my handbag. The alarm clock is handy for waking me up and I sometimes set it to go off when I have an appointment as well because I can't get to grips with the calender aspect of this phone. My son in law says it is the rubbishest phone he has ever seen but him and my daughter paid nearly £300 for each of their phones and mine cost £35 so who is laughing now?
I got this phone over two years ago, and it's lasted brilliantly. At the time I had it, I remember my brother saying that the new phone he picked was so much better and that the Motorola V220 was rubbish etc. yet a year later his phone broke and had to be replaced. So, the V220 is definitely great for durability. I've also dropped it quite a few times and it's still working fine, so it's got to be tough!
I love the fact that it's pink. It's just so much more personal to me because it's my favourite colour and it's a nice design as well. It's a good size and isn't heavy.
It has a reasonable camera, but it can't really store many photos, so it can be annoying when you want to take a quick picture but you have to free up some space first. It doesn't have Bluetooth or many other features though. It has got some games and the usual office features, but it doesn't have a great variety of these.
The battery life is pretty good, it just tends to run out if you use the camera a lot. It doesn't take long to charge either.
When I first had the phone I used the Fresh pay as you go service, by Carphone Warehouse. I would not recommend it to anyone. I chose it because texts were 5p and calls 15p/min, but it ended up being very expensive, and caused a lot of problems when using my phone. It continually froze in the middle of phone calls and the only way to fix this was to take the sim card out and put it back in. It also used up credit extremely fast. It cost money to check how much credit you have, as there was no free number to do this. It charged for calls I made where the recipient didn't pick up. Overall the service was very unreliable. However when I changed back to my T-Mobile sim card, everything worked fine and there have been no problems since.
It's pretty simple to use, texts are quick to do and calls are also simple. I also like how you can customise the home screen and menu style.
Just a little annoying thing is that sometimes when it's in my pocket and I move, the buttons on the outside get pressed and make loud noises.
I bought my phone for around £55, so it was definitely good value for money, and I expect it will still work fine for a while. I'd recommend it to anyone looking for a good camera phone.
(I've also posted this review on Ciao)
The Motorola V220 is a nice looking phone but it fails to deliver on features although the price of the handset suggests that this would be the case. One of the missing features is a video camera. There is a camera on the phone but it only takes pictures and I find them to be of quite poor quality. Apart from this the phone has a nice selection of games and a suprisingly good looking and user friendly interface. Overall I would say buy this phone if your on a tight budget or are looking for an easy to use phone.
A brilliant simple phone for those who want to make and recieve calls and send and recieve texts.Has voice dial, and a camera for the gadgety.A good range of ring tones and very important holds the charge longer than any of my previous phones.Easy to use and to switch off and on.I cant think of anything negative at all.Ok it not Bluetooth but I dont need that!
I purchased this phone last year on virgin 'pay as you go'. On comparaison with other phones, I found the v220 to be incredible value for money as one of the cheapest branded flip phones at the time. I have had no problems with this phone at all and found it to be the ideal size to fit in a pocket or handbag. It is very easy to use and even my aged mother is able to work it, however the phone lacks bluetooth and the camera quality tends to be poor but for a budget phone...one cannot complain.
Features of the Motorola V220 include:
Integrated VGA digital camera (640 x 480 pixels), digital zoom
Colour screen (STN)
Polyphonic ringtones / MP3 ringtones
MOTOMIXER™ (Remixable MIDI ringer software)
Java games - Hungry Fish & OptItOut, plus downloadable games
Predictive text input (iTap)
Built-in handsfree speaker
Picture phone book
Connectivity: Mini USB
Internal Memory: 1.8 Mbytes
WAP 2.0, GPRS Class 10
Tri-band GSM 900/1800/1900
Size: 86 x 44 x 24 mm
Weight: 100g
Talktime: 5 hours
Battery standby: 9.5 days
Purchased a Motorola V220 yesterday, found the manual rather technical, and somewhat daunting to start with. Moved from Nokia to Motorola as my past 3 Nokia phones have failed for technical reasons; Wanted a quality name for next phone. To me a mobile phone is a phone and nothing more. If I wanted a washing machine I would purchase a washing machine not a mobile phone, with a washer/dryer application on it. This phone has a camera on it, with apparently 4 x Digital Zoom on it. I have a digital Camera to take photo`s, so the camera on the phone is useless to me. This phone allows MP3 ringtones, which sound tiny (Not suprised - its a telephone not a music player); polyphonic ringtones and offers various download options for games, music and graphics.
Reliability, I am not certain about this yet; but will report on how it survives in my trouser pocket over the next few weeks or so.
Apparently it has WAP, which is the Internet for Mobile Phones; I would stick with a PC for the internet, and certainly not use a mobile phone.
I will report back on any other goodies or failures that I have found using this phone over the next few weeks.
I purchased this phone on a bit of a whim really, the model I was after was out of stock and this was the closest available.
Upon opening the box I discovered that this phone comes complete with the holy of holys, its own data cable, so no messing about trying to buy one!
The phone itself when closed is around the size of a credit card and when open is double that (obviously!).
This phone I found, is extremly light for a camera phne and is quite pleasing on the eye also.
The screen is good quality colour and is effective in most lights, apart from strong sunlight. The screen is also sufficiently large.
The keypad has solid keys (great, the numbers will not rub off) and is well designed. The only problem I have discovered is that the arrow keys are a little awkward.
The camera is of sufficient quality but won't win any awards, it features a zoom and contrast control. The mirror around the lens is a nice touch and aids in those drunken self-portraits.
The phone comes pre-loaded with a good selection of polyphonic ringtones, some of which really are quite catchy! Also included in the package are the usual calendars, alarm functions etc.
The V220 also allows you to upload videos to the phone, and this brings us to the dreaded motorola drivers mystery!
It makes you wonder what goes through the minds of phone makers when they fail to include a disc of drivers for a piece of hardware, or even make it plug and play, I ask you, what good is an included data cable if you have no drivers to make it work?
After much trawling of the net the relevent drivers are obtainable but be prepared to spend time searching and unless you have decent broadband, find yourself something to do as you are in for a long wait!
After you manage to find the drivers it is easy to transfer pictures and videos to and from the phone, but you may find yourself asking if the hassle is worth it.
All in all a good, sturdy little phone that does what it claims.


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Hi all, I am tasked with developing a small responsive website for a local restaurant. Nothing major...just about 5 pages and some menus with various dishes, pricing, etc. My question is...should I use a framework for this project or should I create it all from scratch? I'm a little rusty in my coding...have yet to work with HTML5/CSS3 but have done the lynda.com tutorials. I do have some experience with html/css from past projects I've created, but have yet to do any development in the past 6 months.
Will a framework (looking at foundation4) some me some time or as it overkill for my current needs?
Personally Foundation 4 running on SASS is what I would recommend as you can turn off features in real time which allows for a very small code base post-compilation and it fixes a lot of the headaches that you will find yourself getting trapped with for hours on end.
Is F4 running with SASS a huge learning curve? I've never used SASS/LESS. Will I have time to learn it and then develop this website at the same time?
SASS is just a language that sits on top of CSS, if you want a more natural feeling you can use compass which is a SASS extension and that provides a native experience without the learning curve.
I'm not exactly familiar with Foundation 4 on SASS as well. Is there a video tutorial somewhere to get us started with the grid framework?
On side note: I've just finished building my first responsive website, and I did it from scratch. Its not too difficult if your website holds a simple layout like what I have. You can check it out here: http://www.zell-weekeat.com
Skunker, if you're already familiar with CSS, Do take up SASS / LESS. It'll help your future projects and the syntax is not any different from CSS. Its pretty quick to learn and , I'd say pick SASS if you're going to. It's alot more robust and helpful compared to LESS in my opinion.
Are you using MAC? I can help you get started with SASS if you like.
Hey guys quick question...I'm reading as much as i can on the Framework docs.
What is meant by "small grid" and "large grid?" I know about grids, but didn't know there was differences.
am against frameworks , especially on small projects.Aside from their bulkiness, unless you are already super familiar with the specific framework AND CSS/HTML/js you also have to bone up on the framework specifics itself. if you are going to do that why not hone your CSS/html/js skills instead?
secondly, should the next project use a different framework you are set back to "scratch" on the learning curve, but should you be 'forced' to use a frame work and you already know your fundamentals ( css/html) then it would be that much easier for you to learn how/why the framework works.
thirdly, small projects are great for practicing learning fundamentals. If you were tasked with building a site for IBM .. I could see why ( if only from the logistic point of view) you would want to go with a framework. So in essence this might be your opportunity to hone your skills w/o breaking your neck.
tip: as you code keep a file for yourself of code patterns you find yourself using over and over again; snipets, if you will.
Dresden I love you take on this. I'm pretty much against using frameworks, but my programmer friends keeps insisting I use them, and I ignored them most of the time
Learning a new framework to me is like learning a new language, and I feel making a grid from scratch somehow builds up my ability to understand CSS better.
Anyway Skunker. I don't think there's a "big" grid nor a "small" grid per se, its probably referring to the amount of code that's included in the frameworks, and most of those codes are unnecessary for smaller projects anyway
I think the "small grid" is another name for "mobile grid". In the Foundation 4 framework, you have access to a "small" and "large" grid. I assume you use the "small" grid with a "mobile-first" approach to web development. So, you start off your design with the content "stacked" and then as you expand for larger screens, the content will unstack itself and fill the viewport to whatever the max-width is set to. This is different than using a "large grid" layout which I guess acts differently when you decrease the viewport down to mobile device ranges.
I don't know....still learning...all really fascinating..if anyone has any clearer explanation on the above, please share it!
Source: http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/components/grid.html
Skunker, I did a quick read and I believe the small and large grids are only applicable to Foundation though, since I don't seem to see them anywhere else.
Here's what the small and large grids are for:
In responsive design, there are times where the layout of your website on the mobile version is extremely different from the layout of your website on the desktop because of the space constraints.
Foundation gives you the opportunity to OVERWRITE the "small" grid with the "large" grid for this functionality in case you wanted a vastly different layout, at a specific given breakpoint. Just resize your screen on the page that you have given and take a look at the first example.
If you put it into Code terms, I would believe the "large" grid has more specificity, and are just given a "display:none;" below a certain breakpoint.
THank you, Zell. When looking at other frameworks like Gumby2 and Bootstrap they also have their own version of "small grid" but they simply call it "mobile grid", etc.
Thanks for the heads up. Let me know which framework you choose in the end!
I went with Bootstrap and I just completed my project a few weeks ago: http://www.ogmda.com/test/
I'm pretty happy with the results , but there was a slight learning curve in getting up to speed with all the elements that go into making a custom RWD project (css fonts, jquery, custom media queries, hidden/visible features, a bit of hacking the grid, image scaling, etc). I got to say that it was a great experience. Thanks all for your support!
1+ for foundation framework (using standalone with sass) but if your site is small it would be nice do it from scratch of that way you practice and really learn how do and works web site; I personally like start site from the scratch for learn... by example I like start with the fonts at 10px not 16px, using ems, so I know that 2em means 20px.
Perhaps you should [read this thread first; specifically [URL="http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?774212-Fonts-em-px-pt&p=4929261&viewfull=1#post4929261"]this comment](http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?774212-Fonts-em-px-pt&highlight=fonts-em-px-pt)
also there is a simple, easy to use, and compatible one, you can find here: http://cssze.us/ . responsive, adaptive, adaptive images, image sprites, just used HTML4 and CSS2, and many more features. you could read more about it in readme and cheatsheet.
Is it just me or is that an awkward site to navigate? :(. It took me ages to work out the bent paper clip was a link and then I just couldn't be bothered to read any more as I kept going around in circles and didn't know where I was going next.
OMFG!!!! That site has the WORST UI/UX I have ever seen. Not only that figuring out the paperclip navigation "puzzle" only rewards you with 8 lines of text total ??? I want to point out that, judging from the UXtheme, that site was "designed" by a client ( so don't blame a graphics guy, lol).
Also I was reminded of this by the discussion above about "small vs big" :
sorry, I couldn't get the point! Is there a big problem with the UI, that makes mistakes for you when trying to get library package?


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Category: elite names
by Michelle Shepherd–Barron of whatiwas wearing
Move to a different country, you'll encounter the unfamiliar – new culture, customs, food, weather and attitudes. I was prepared for that when I left America to live in Britain. Even the language –notionally the same in both nations – had its variants: biccy for cookie, jumper for sweater, lift for elevator and the English tendency to jam a silent 'u' into the middle of perfectly ordinary words. All of this was to be expected. The one difference I hadn't anticipated, and that took me by surprise, was in the way British name their children, and the coded meaning of those names.
For obvious reasons, baby names are still THE topic of the day in Britain, following the much anticipated birth and naming announcements of Baby Cambridge. To everyone's surprise, the string of names was shortened from four to three, beginning with the consistent front-runner George, followed by the somewhat less expected Alexander and Louis.
But despite the diminished thickness of the royal baby's name sandwich, the whole package will be distilled down to a single nickname. This nickname will be very affectionate. It may also be a little goofy, because that is what the upper classes do in Britain: they give a child a long line of important, reverent names, dripping with heritage, and then reduce them to one irreverent tag.


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Something's FishyMath brain teasers require computations to solve.
The fish market is selling several kinds of fish. But there aren't any prices listed. You ask about the prices, but all the seller will tell you is this:
1. A pound of salmon and a pound of bass are $12.
2. A pound of bass and a pound of swordfish are $10.
3. A pound of salmon and a pound of swordfish are $8.
4. A pound of swordfish and a pound of catfish are $5.
Each price per pound is a whole-dollar amount. How much is the price per pound for each kind of fish?
Hint1. Assign letter names to the different kinds of fish and write equations to decide each combination. For example: salmon = a, bass = b, a + b = $12.
2. If the salmon and the bass together cost $12, and the bass and the swordfish together cost $10, what is the price difference between the salmon and the swordfish?
AnswerSalmon = $5 per pound
Bass = $7 per pound
Swordfish = $3 per pound
Catfish = $2 per pound
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