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Fotor - Camera & Photo Editor
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Published: 2012-08-28, by Ana Gracia.
Fotor for Android is one of Google Play's best cameras, a really complete photography tool with beautiful editing tools.
The app presents four main options from the main menu. The first one of them is, of course, the camera. With this well-developed camera you can take pictures with a grid, burst, stabilizer and even the timer. All the buttons are visible and the usability is excellent. It'd be hard not to capture a good moment.
With the HDR tool, you can capture an extensive range of light and color, even with moving objects (it includes an anti-ghost feature) and the final quality is really good.
As for the editing tools, Fotor for Android is extremely complete and has lots of features for you to try and make your pictures even more impressive. The 1-Tap Enhance button immediately enhances your original pictures (high, medium or low enhancement). The other tools include cropping, rotating, adding frames, contrast, saturation, temperature, shadows, highlights and many many other things like Big Aperture, which gives your images a professional effect based on focus and blurring. Of course, let's not forget all the amazing FX Effects that this app includes, from Lomo to Orchid.
The last feature is Collage, which allows you to create original collages based on a template, a free disposition or Photo Stitching. And, as you could expect, there's the Sharing, so you can show off your beautiful creations to your friends and family and even choose the sharing quality you want to use.
Everimaging.,Ltd is the developer of Fotor for Android, one of the best photography apps we've ever tried out. If you want to experience all the steps from taking a good picture to editing and sharing, we highly recommend this one and we're pretty sure you won't regret it.
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Aug 28, 2012
Fotor -Camera & Photo Editor for Android is the best all-in-one HDR Camera and full-featured photo editor in Google play Store!
Because we provide the most professional tools and no advertising, also it's free.
Fotor -Camera & Photo Editor packed with more features than in many paid apps,perfectly capture and produce amazing photos with the one tool that gives you all you need! And also lets you take photos with various effects just for one tap!
Cutting-edge tools including Basic Editing Tools, Brilliant Visual Effects, Frames, Realistic HDR, Tilt Shift, 1-Tap Enhance, Text, Enhanced Camera, Collage and In-App Album Management, all bundled together in one powerful package!
Enhanced Camera - The Grid, Big Button, Burst, Square, Timer, and Stabilizer features will help you always capture the sharpest photos!
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1-Tap Enhance - 1-Tap Enhance quickly transforms "dull" or "bad" photos with a pixel by pixel enhancement, all with only one touch. Analyzing brightness, contrast, saturation and exposure value, Fotor optimizes the source image to become an amazing photo!
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At first glance, the September-quarter results announced last week by Nokia AB, Texas Instruments Inc., and Conexant Systems Inc. would seem to indicate a breakdown in commun- ication between wireless-equipment OEMs and their component suppliers. While Nokia is projecting solid growth for the foreseeable future in the handset market, other manufacturers are warning of a slowdown in consumer demand.
Bucking the trend, Nokia reported both stellar quarterly financial results and promises of an even better fourth quarter to come. Nokia insisted there is no evidence that the industry's double-digit growth pace is flagging.
However, the combination of results announced by TI and Conexant, along with Motorola Inc., is a potpourri of sweet and sour news. Their revenue rose in the last quarter, but a slowdown is inevitable in the current quarter because wireless-component sales will be lower, executives said. That potent mix casts doubts on suppliers' fortunes despite their attempts to reassure investors that business will pick up once OEMs work through inventories piled up earlier this year.
"We're entering the first quarter of fiscal 2001 with a clear market environment of weakening demand in digital cellular handsets and consumer PCs," said Dwight Decker, chairman and chief executive of Conexant, Newport Beach, Calif.
It's the same song at Dallas-based TI, the world's No. 1 supplier of chips for the wireless market. TI reported a 26% increase in third-quarter revenue, to $3.2 billion, but projects slower growth in the fourth quarter.
"We expect wireless revenues to be down sequentially [in the fourth quarter], but up from a year ago, as certain handset customers continue to absorb inventory," said Bill Aylesworth, TI's chief financial officer.
That's not exactly how Jorma Ollila sees it from his perch as chairman and chief executive of Nokia, the world's No. 1 mobile- phone manufacturer. The Helsinki, Finland, company rebounded in the third quarter-after slipping in the June quarter-by cutting prices and introducing new handsets. Nokia's operating margins fell, but it gained market share at the expense of competitors like LM Ericsson, which last week said it will post a fiscal loss of $1.6 billion in its consumer product sector due to component shortages, increased price competition, and restructuring charges.
"Our view of the market fundamentals remains unchanged, with more than 400 million mobile phones estimated to be sold in 2000," Ollila said. "For 2001, we expect the mobile-phone market to be in the region of 550 million units."
For those watching from the sidelines, the signals couldn't be more confusing. The perception among analysts is that forecasting the fortunes of the wireless market-the range of units likely to be sold this year and in 2001, and the optimal manufacturing capacity and inventory mix that OEMs, suppliers, distributors, and CEMs should carry-will continue to elude everyone involved.
Industry executives and observers alike want to know what's really going on in the wireless- and mobile-equipment markets. Are OEMs really facing lower-than-expected demand and, if so, will this continue into next year? And how can the industry untie the ugly knots of inaccurate forecasting and component shortages that have hurt results this year?
Those supply-chain issues first came up in June after some OEMs and CEMs reported high inventory loads, yet were unable to ship enough finished equipment due to shortages of certain components.
"Motorola's management has lowered its forecasts for fourth-quarter 2000 and for 2001 with regard to revenue, earnings per share, and its expectations for the growth of the handset market," said Michael Ching, an analyst at Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., New York. "This was a surprise to us."
Motorola and its rivals are trying to shake off the nasty hangover that resulted from inflated wireless-equipment sales estimates at the beginning of the year. Those forecasts ranged from 440 million handsets to more than 500 million. By the middle of the year, it had become apparent that while handset shipments will rise handsomely from the prior year, they will not be as high as expected.
Every move since then by industry players to trim their estimates has only triggered more concerns. Vishay Intertechnology Inc. and its rivals in the capacitor market have been hammered by investors as a result of the lower projections. Vishay's stock price had risen to a high of $62.63, but now trades in the mid-$20s.
Motorola's stock has not been spared, either. It closed at $23 on Thursday, well below the 52-week high of $61.50. Two weeks ago, the company said it now expects global handset sales will be between 410 million and 425 million units this year and between 525 million and 575 million units in 2001.
"This will have a negative impact," Merrill Lynch's Ching said. "It'll reduce revenue contributions from handsets, ... and it'll also likely reduce contributions in the semiconductor business, as Motorola consumes a lot of its semiconductors internally."
Perhaps this explains the reluctance of TI's Aylesworth to estimate 2001 handset sales. TI will stay out of the forecasting business, he said. "We're not going to try to forecast the market for next year; our customers do a lot better job of that than we do."
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CARSON, Calif. (Monday, August 30, 2010) – The LA Galaxy will look to get back on track and snap their first losing streak of the season on Saturday afternoon when they head east to take on the Chicago Fire at TOYOTA Park. The Fire scored three times in the opening 20 minutes on August 1 at The Home Depot Center to hand the Galaxy a 3-2 defeat, which snapped the club's 11-game home unbeaten streak.
Despite losing their last two games, the Galaxy remain three points clear of Real Salt Lake in the race for the top spot in the Western Conference and two points ahead of the Columbus Crew for the best record in MLS.
This Saturday's game will be broadcast live nationally in Spanish on TeleFutura and locally in English on Fox Sports West, starting with the Galaxy Live pregame show at 12:30 p.m. Additionally, the game will be live on the radio in English on KTLK 1150 AM and in Spanish on ESPN Deportes Radio 1330 AM KWKW.
Sat., August 28, 2010: Galaxy 0 – Kansas City Wizards 2 – The Home Depot Center – Attendance: 21,112
Davy Arnaud and Jimmy Conrad scored on either side of halftime as the Galaxy dropped their second straight game, falling 2-0 to the Kansas City Wizards. The loss was also LA's second straight at The Home Depot Center and gave the club a 1-3-0 record to close the month of August.
Galaxy Injury Report
OUT – David Beckham (Left Achilles tendon surgery – Disabled List)
DOUBTFUL – None
QUESTIONABLE – Gregg Berhalter (viral complications)
PROBABLE – None
SIMILAR SCENARIO: For the second straight season, the Galaxy head to Chicago on the heels of a 2-0 home loss. In 2009, David Beckham and Eddie Lewis were sent off as LA fell to the Seattle Sounders FC at The Home Depot Center on August 15. Four days later, they travelled to TOYOTA Park where goals from Landon Donovan and Mike Magee gave LA a 2-0 victory over the Fire. That win started a run that saw the Galaxy go 5-2-2 in their final nine games of the regular season to claim first place in the Western Conference.
BOUNCING BACK FROM BEING BLANKED: The Galaxy were shutout for just the seventh time this season on Saturday night, falling 2-0 to the Wizards, going 0-4-3 in those seven games, including 0-1-1 against Kansas City, who LA failed to scored against in two games this season. However, the club has shown an ability to respond well after being shutout, going 4-1-1 and outscoring opponents 9-3 in the game immediately after they were shutout, with the only loss coming on Saturday night.
In 2009, the Galaxy were shutout six times, going 4-1-1 in the game immediately after they were shutout.
IN THE LIGHT OF DAY: For the second time in three weeks, the Galaxy will have an afternoon kickoff when they take on the Chicago Fire this weekend. The game will kick off at 1 p.m. (PT), just as the 1-0 loss at San Jose did on August 21. On the season, LA are 3-2-0 in games that kick off at 6 p.m. local time or earlier, including 2-1-0 on the road, having beaten Seattle 4-0 on May 8 in a game that started at 1 p.m. (PT) and beaten New York 1-0 on August 14 in a game that started at 6 p.m. (ET).
After Saturday's game in Chicago, the Galaxy will play two more games that start before 6 p.m., on October 3 at Chivas USA and on October 24 against FC Dallas to close out the season, with both games kicking off at 5 p.m. at The Home Depot Center.
PENULTIMATE TRIP: This weekend's game in Chicago will be the Galaxy's next to last road trip of the season of the 2010 regular season. After this weekend, the club has only two road games remaining on their schedule, with one of those to take place at The Home Depot Center on October 3 against Chivas USA. Four days after that game, LA will travel to Philadelphia for the first time ever for a game against the Union at PPL Park.
So far this season, the Galaxy are 7-3-2 on the road, including a 3-1-2 mark against Eastern Conference opposition.
AN EVEN SPLIT: The Galaxy currently have the best record in MLS with 43 points, leaving them two points ahead of the Eastern Conference leading Columbus Crew and three points ahead of their closest competition in the Western Conference, Real Salt Lake. All three of those teams have played 22 games, leaving them with eight left apiece.
Of the Galaxy's final eight games, four are against teams that would be in the MLS Cup Playoffs if the season ended today, including a meeting against Columbus in Carson on September 11. Three of the Crew's remaining eight opponents would be in the postseason today, while six of RSL's final eight games are against teams that would be in the postseason if the regular season ended today.
TWO IN A ROW AT HOME: Saturday's loss to Kansas City was the Galaxy's second straight home loss in the league and extended their winless streak at home to four games in all competitions. LA is 0-3-1 at The Home Depot Center since a 3-1 win over Seattle on July 4.
By losing their last two games at home; against the Wizards and the Chicago Fire on August 1, the Galaxy have now lost consecutive home games in the league for the first time since 2007. On August 23 of that year, LA lost 3-0 to Chivas USA before falling 2-1 to Real Salt Lake a few days later on September 1.
Since moving into The Home Depot Center in June 2003, the Galaxy have only lost three or more consecutive home games once, dropping four straight from April 22-June 8 during the 2006 season.
VOTE FOR GALAXY TO RECEIVE A $50,000 PEPSI REFRESH GRANT: The LA Galaxy are asking fans to vote for the club's Pepsi Refresh Project idea in order to help receive a $50,000 grant. Edson Buddle is the Galaxy's Pepsi Refresh Project Ambassador and fans can view his video online at http://www.mlssoccer.com/pepsirefresh/la to learn more about the club's Pepsi Refresh Project idea. They can then cast their vote for the Galaxy's idea up to 25 times per day at the above link. Voting is open now and runs until Monday, September 20 at 8:59 p.m.
GALAXY FOUNDATION SHOT OF THE WEEK: At each LA Galaxy home game, fans are invited to visit the Galaxy Foundation Booth to place your bid on the Galaxy Foundation's Shot of the Week presented by MoraPhotography.com. Each photo will be signed by the player or players featured. All proceeds benefit the Los Angeles Galaxy Foundation.
CUP OF JOE WITH DEMA KOVALENKO: Galaxy midfielder Dema Kovalenko will join Galaxy radio announcer Joe Tutino on Thursday afternoon at 12:30 p.m. for Cup of Joe, the Galaxy's weekly live web show. Kovalenko will stop by to answer all the questions that the fans are asking about his recent return from injury and this Saturday's match against his former club, the Chicago Fire. The show will air live on the Galaxy's website, www.lagalaxy.com/cupofjoe, where it will also be archived for future viewing.
Fans can participate by asking questions either beforehand or live during the chat. Start submitting questions for Dema now to firstname.lastname@example.com.
LOOKING FOR MORE UPDATES?: If you are looking for continuous updates from the Galaxy all week long, be sure to visit the club's official websites www.lagalaxy.com and www.lagalaxyfutbol.com, or the club's official blog at www.thelagalaxy.blogspot.com for all the latest news from the club. The Galaxy can also be followed on Twitter at www.twitter.com/lagalaxy and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/lagalaxy.


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Originally Posted by Niceguy
I'm not a lin hater. I'm a lin hype hater. It's not a tebow thing. He's not a limited player. He is a legit NBA player, with size, quickness, and vision. His jump shot isn't terrible. His turnovers are a function of rookie-like indecision. There is no reason the story should be as big as it is. He can ball. The majority of the dislike is due to the blind ye people are having and just just admitting why they are so shocked and surprised is because he is some ivy league asian kid. Mostly the asian thing. It's all hush hush. "Oh it's not the asian thing, it's the he went to harvard thing" But he barely got recruited out of highschool. "oh it's not the asian thing, it's the he was ONLY 6'1, 175 state champion thing". What???? You can't tell me in 8 years his game took off to such a point that he overcame such an apparent lack of talent his recruiting implied he had. He got dogged all this time cuz he was asian and no one wants to admit it like they're some color-blind pious muthafuckers. That's what I hate. Me and Lin are cool.
yeah, simmons has been tilting as hell recently. He has some really dumb shit of late.Edited By: AMARTIN1181 Feb 21st, 2012 at 06:02 AM
one of the reasons yes. But you think the NBA teams that cut him did so because he was Asian? You guys seem to think it would be a relatively non story if he was white or black. Again, never has this been done before. Where a player goes back and forth from the D league and cut from multiple teams to all of a sudden playing all star caliber b-ball
please.Edited By: FenwayKing Feb 21st, 2012 at 06:09 AM
random people in the world don't give a fuck about bball enough to give a shit if some random black dude got cut from some d-league teams and that started balling the fuck out. if his name was Tyrone Smith and he was black, obv basketball junkies would be going nuts over the kid, but this thing would nowhere near the national phenomenon it is---not even 5% as big, if 1%.
linsanity is like 96% because he's Asian, 3% because he went to Harvard, and 1% because he went back and forth from the d-league. it's really annoying to hear people to make the case that it's not just because it's uncomfortable to deal with the fact
Jamal JacksonEdited By: AMARTIN1181 Feb 21st, 2012 at 06:12 AM
Marcus Mack
Jerrod Haines
Jerome Wilkens
Marlon Simpson
Denard Walker
(just thinking of some standard black guy names)
lol. oh and that 3% harvard thing is generous...it's prob like 98% asian, 1.5% harvard, .5% this random d-league/getting cut bullshit that people are spewing is the main reason
Hopefully Amare and Caremlo get injured again and are both out for the rest of the season. Id love to see how far this team can go without the selfish players who don't play defense and are black holes on offense.
Lin is the perfect package to resonate with this many people but to say that its solely because he's asain is just a crock a shit. He's humble, charasmatic, morally grounded, religious. It all adds up to possibly the greatest underdog story the NBA has ever seen.Edited By: hookey91 Feb 21st, 2012 at 06:43 AM
Amartin- All those players put up insane numbers in their first 10 starts, turned their team into contenders, are undrafted, and made basketball relevant again in a city that has not been in decades
basketball is the most predictable sport there is. Scouting reports know exactly how good players are going to be, translating from high school to college to the NBA. its amazing to see a player come out of no where and defy the odds. And not only because he's Asian.
Originally Posted by hookey91
basketball is the most predictable sport there is. Scouting reports know exactly how good players are going to be, translating from high school to college to the NBA.
Yeah, well, that's just like your opinion, man.
name another sport that is more predictable?
Because if there's anything we all know, D'Antoni will teach his guards how to play lock-down D
Very predictable, 2002 McDonalds All AmericansEdited By: Zeppelin Feb 21st, 2012 at 07:04 AM
8/25 aint bad. And thats your one year sample size you show. hate to see other years
lol zep i get what u are going for, but kinda retarded to choose a random mcdonalds all american team.
baketball is the most predictable as far as scouts getting it right. you also gotta remember theres only 12 spots on a roster. Pointing out busts here and there doesnt really change much. of course there are always gonna be guys that never pan out or whatever but that doesnt make him wrong. it also doesnt make him right about it not being an asian thing. clearly thats playing a huge role in all this. nothing wrong with admitting thatEdited By: XXEDPXX Feb 21st, 2012 at 07:18 AM
shit, go look at a high school footbal top 50 list. half those fuckers are dropped out or playing at some division 2 school by their senior year cause they never saw the field
the NBA scouts got it wrong because the vast majority of evaluation drills are 1 on 1 to 3 on 3... Lin excels in a 5 on 5 real-game atmosphere, not summer ball and drills.Edited By: TheWacoKidd Feb 21st, 2012 at 07:19 AM
until a few weeks ago, he never got a legit chance after high school because he is Asian, we all know that.
they do shit like 1 on 1 and 3 on 3 cause the NBA puts a huge emphasis on being able to create on your own and mainly being able to get up your own shot. thats how they knew lebron was gonna be a phenom. He would go to these AAU All Star camps when he was still like a sophomore. during them they would always have these one on one tournaments. they said when he was a sophomore he was already beating the best seniors in the nation and winning these little 1 on 1 tournaments and thats when they knew then how special he was gonna be. obviously there were other things but thats the main thing they all pointed to.
Originally Posted by FenwayKing
it's def pretty annoying how people pretend that the reason he wasn't recruited highly etc wasn't because he was asian when that clearly was the primary reason. the way simmons glossed over it in his mailbag column when someone spelled it out pretty well bothered me a lot---i thought he'd be one of the few guys not to hide from the plain and simple fact that the main reason he wasn't recruited/sought after (and the reason we're all so pumped about him) is because he's Asian
lin got injured his junior year, which really killed his recruiting prospects. that's the MAIN reason he wasn't recruited. harvard still offered him, so he was verbally committed to harvard for his entire senior year. maybe, if he wasn't asian, other schools would press harder to get him to change his commitment, but i think the fact that he was asian did not affect his recruitment as much as it appears on first glance
some background on it: http://www.pacifictakes.com/2012/2/1...lto-recruiting
Originally Posted by TheWacoKidd
uhh, so 1 of the best PGs in the league goes off on him from 3 and that kills the story?
Lin had 21 points 9 assists 7 rebounds and 4 steals with only 3 TOs... I'd say the story is on track still, regardless of the result of 1 game when they brought 2 players into the mix that weren't a part of that success (3 if you count J.R.)
Melo made 4 shots, had 6 TOs and was -16 for the game. if anyone is going to kill Linsanity, it will be him.
Lin isn't a story because of his d
I haven't seen the numbers on how many more possessions the knicks get versus an "average" team bc of the style of offense they run. I would suspect that it is more and that, coupled with his adjustment to the league as a newer point would place the turnover numbers in a context that isn't troublesome to me
According to Jason Terry, Lin's success is 95% due to D'antoni's "system"Edited By: Hallettcopta Feb 21st, 2012 at 06:47 PM
Not really sure which system he is talking about:
1. The one where they dont play an ounce of defense?
2. The one where they chuck 3's and take horribly contested shots?
3. The one where the ball is super glued to Carmelo's hands?
Those were the systems before Jeremy arrived on the scene so I'm curious to hear which one Jason thinks benefits Lin the most.
Originally Posted by Hallettcopta
According to Jason Terry, Lin's success is 95% due to D'antoni's "system"
Not really sure which system he is talking about:
1. The one where they dont play an ounce of defense?
2. The one where they chuck 3's and take horribly contested shots?
3. The one where the ball is super glued to Carmelo's hands?
Those were the systems before Jeremy arrived on the scene so I'm curious to hear which one Jason thinks benefits Lin the most.
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How a Dying Church Can Save Itself
The most successful congregations are those that do not seem to have much going for them, according to a renowned urban evangelist.
First Presbyterian Church of Pomona, Calif., had more than 2,000 members in 1939. With membership down to 80 people 50 years later, the church was on the verge of extinction, the Presbyterian News Service reported.
At that time, the once thriving church was only interested in preserving itself and returning to "the glory years," evangelist Robert Linthicum had said at a Presbyterian Church USA social justice conference in New Orleans recently.
"If the church is caught up in trying to preserve itself and its institution, then preservation and continuance is exactly what is going to slip out of its grasp," he said, according to the denomination's news service. "Trying to save the store is the surest way to lose the store."
Rather than trying to save itself, Linthicum said the church has to focus on its changed surroundings and serving the community.
"The church will not be saved by trying to preserve it but by giving its life away in service to the world. Such service and ministry to the world is the surest way to salvation."
First Presbyterian Church of Pomona, which was on its way to closing its doors permanently, launched "Pomona Hope" in 2003 with the help of six college students. Students from Claremont College chose the church as "the sorriest church they could find" to use as a learning laboratory, according to PNS.
These students redirected the church focus out of itself and to the community with the launch of Pomona Hope. The new approach, focused on community education and community economic development, drew the collaboration of other churches in local presbyteries as well as the Synod of Southern California and Hawaii.
Just a little over a year ago, PNS reported, the Pomona church sanctuary was filled with attendants as it formally established Pomona Hope.
"We consistently found that the most successful congregations were those who didnt seem to have much going for them - located in the worst slums and squatters settlements, occupying abandoned factories or other buildings rather than fancy church buildings, said Linthicum. They had nothing to lose and everything to give and their Christian love and ministry showed it.
The urban evangelist listed three common factors that successful evangelistic congregations have. They are: a church focused on a single, primary mission which was affirmed by most of the congregation, not just the pastor; a mission that is outside itself and focused on reaching out; and a church that sees its essential task as empowering and equipping its people to carry out the church's mission together.
Pomona is the poorest small city in the United States, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Today, Pomona Hope continues to serve the people in the city, carrying out its mission to bring hope, peace and well-being to the city.


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Don't worry :) We will run this trial together! LOL I am sticking with it. I have heard good comments in another group on here, and it's already at my house so we're going to give it a try. What level is DS on?
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Oy this thread has me worried because we're starting with Saxon this year. I was making my own curriculum but now that DS's math skills are getting up there I feel the need to use an actual curriculum so I don't "miss" anything.
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I found some of So's photography on Audizine and immediately fell in love with this car – So agreed to let me re-post the photos here, and I think many of you will agree. We don't get S4 Avants in the US anymore, so seeing one, yet alone a Sprint Blue one, is a special treat. So has taken it one step further by adding some tasteful mods that makes this one avant that is hard not to fall in love with…Best of all, So is a great photographer, so we can enjoy this beautiful Avant even if we're thousands of miles away from Toyko, where the car is located…
So's mod list starts with a great wheel & tire setup. The wheels are ADV.1 5.2.1 in 19×10 and are wrapped in Continental DWS 255/35/19 tires. Matched with some KW coilovers, the stance of this car is really spot on. In addition to the wheel & suspension setup, the car has an RS4 grille, a GIAC ECU tune and OEM facelifted LED tail lights.
When I look for cars to feature here, I look for a combination of a great car and mod list, plus great photos. As you can see in this post, So is a talented photographer, and the Toyko backdrops to these photos are really neat. I have never been to Toyko, but these photos have given me a small taste for how beautiful it is. I also really enjoy the picture above with the white led lit trees, which looks awesome beside the LED headlights of this car. You can check out more photos by So on Flick here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/64521074@N04/or on Instagram under the username SO_LENS.
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damn not a bad way to spend $50k+
Indeed, hard to find a better car than this in that price range!
My lord is Audi making a run for the preferred sports car. What happened over the past ten years? Audi has never been this popular but even up here in Canada I'm seeing them everywhere. Great pics on your blog, nice work.
is there anyway to buy S4 avant here in US?? can you order it through your dealer?? thank you
I really really like this. Great shots and great looking car. I've saved these pics to build myself one next year 🙂 Cheers for the ideas.
(Really like the Tokyo lighting shots!)
I hope someone is still here at this site, can you help me with the name and the size of the wheels on this car?


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At war Obama speaks about taking difficult decisions
PRESIDENT Obamas inaugural address was Churchillian in tone, but lacking in concrete content, limiting itself to spelling out that the US ruling class was threatened and was at war, at a time when many saw the decline of US imperialism as being inevitable, and that very tough decisions would have to be taken.
It was also cowardly in that the battles ahead were hinted at but the enemies left un-named, and the deeds to be done left to the imagination.
He did not spell out that the US working class would have to settle for big cuts in its jobs, wages and conditions, and giving up its right to strike in the major industries.
Also in a speech that sketched out a world crisis, he did not say a word about the slaughter of the Palestinian people in Gaza by Israel, which had shocked the entire planet, but had ended on cue, that Tuesday morning, so that his inaugural ceremony would be undisturbed by the bloodletting and the screams of the injured.
He told the vast two million strong crowd, that was celebrating the USAs first black president, that every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms.
He added: Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices. . . .
He spoke of a nagging fear that Americas decline is inevitable, and that the next generation must lower its sights.
He lauded the risk-takers and the doers, saying: Our journey has never been one of short-cuts or settling for less. . . . Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things some celebrated but more often men and women obscure in their labour, who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.
Getting to the point he declared: The state of the economy calls for action, bold and swift, and we will act, but proceeded no further in outlining the necessary action. He added: But our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions, that time has surely passed. . . . For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The nature of the work remained under wraps.
He did declare his loyalty to capitalism: Nor is the question before us whether the market is a force for good or ill. Its power to generate wealth and expand freedom is unmatched . . . .
Touching on foreign policy he said that: We will begin to responsibly leave Iraq to its people, and forge a hard-earned peace in Afghanistan.
The reality is that he is planning to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, and has not disowned the Bush policy of hot pursuit into Pakistan.
He added: To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. The Muslim world remains unconvinced by these few words, especially since there was not a word said about Gaza.
He concluded: Let it be said by our childrens children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and Gods grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.
This is the hope. However, the battle against the US working class and the oppressed nations with the stepping up of the Afghan war and intervention into Pakistan, lies ahead.
With the election of the first black president, the US ruling class has bought itself a certain amount of time.
However, directly ahead the US working class will discover that Obama cannot keep his pre-election pledges to the trade unions that organised his victory. Workers will reject his policy that they must sacrifice their jobs, wages and living standards and right to strike, to save US capitalism.
This will hasten the break of the US trade unions with the Democratic party and see the emergence of a Labour Party. The struggle for a socialist USA will begin.
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Carbonite CEO Apologizes for Planted Amazon Reviews, But Bristles at Critics
Boston-based Carbonite, whose online backup service is the main competitor for Decho's Mozy, has gotten some good publicity over the last few months for its tongue-in-cheek promotions on Jimmy Kimmel Live and other TV and radio programs. But the company is taking a public relations hit this week over a recently uncovered case of reviews planted on Amazon by Carbonite employees who didn't identify themselves as such. The reviews were published three years ago—and it's just one of many cases of people trying to game Amazon's customer reviews—but they've attracted widespread publicity this week thanks to a blogger whose criticisms of Carbonite were highlighted Tuesday by New York Times technology reporter and columnist David Pogue.
I called Carbonite CEO David Friend yesterday to get his company's side of the story. He didn't try to spin or shift blame for the episode: He says it was "totally wrong" for Carbonite staffers Swami Kumaresan and Jonathan Freidin to post positive reviews of Carbonite's service on Amazon without making it clear that they were Carbonite employees.
"We apologize for it," says Friend, who also wrote to Pogue after Tuesday's post, apologizing to Amazon visitors who may have been misled by the reviews. "We pulled the things down the day we found out about them," he says.
The Amazon case was an isolated incident, Friend says. "Some people are alleging that this is a pattern of behavior," Friend says. "It isn't. It was just one thing that happened back when Carbonite had eight employees and there were a bunch of young guys who didn't know any better…This was just two overenthusiastic employees who decided to post these things on their own. To be honest they thought it was cool."
Since January of 2007, he says, Carbonite has had a policy requiring anyone affiliated with the company to disclose that relationship whenever they contribute to blogs or review sites. He says there will be no disciplinary action against Kumaresan or Freidin, since they published the reviews before the policy was put in place. "I'm not going to punish somebody for something they did three years ago," he says. "Everyone has been well aware of the policy since it was put in place. Had anyone violated the policy since 2007, they would have been in trouble, but there have been no infractions since then."
But while Friend is apologetic, he's also a bit miffed about Carbonite's treatment in the blogosphere over the past couple of days.
The controversy got rolling on Sunday when a blogger and former Carbonite customer using the pseudonym "Bruce Goldensteinberg" published a long post describing his frustrations obtaining technical support from the company. Goldensteinberg wrote that in early 2008, after experiencing a computer crash and then running into problems restoring his data from Carbonite's backup version, he spent "literally hours on the phone" with customer service representatives and a member of Carbonite's sales department. (He had opted not to pay Carbonite's $19.95 fee for priority support—i.e., immediate access to telephone representatives.) Eventually, he was able to restore some of his data, and "after much complaining" he was offered a refund worth a year's subscription, which he accepted.
In a search later to see whether other people had experienced similar frustrations, Goldensteinberg writes, he found the Amazon reviews by Kumaresan and Freidin. He became suspicious about the sources of the reviews, and discovered through more searches that both men work at Carbonite. The remainder of his post details his detective work and criticizes Carbonite's actions as "dishonorable," "unscrupulous," and "brazen."
Quite apart from the matter of the Amazon reviews—the impropriety of which Friend does not dispute—I wanted to know whether Friend thought Goldensteinberg had a legitimate beef with Carbonite's custom service department.
He did not think so. "It says right on our website that we do not provide free telephone support," Friend says. "If you want to talk to Carbonite for free, you can use text chat or e-mail. This guy called up and was told that the premium telephone service is $20—which is a lot cheaper than [telephone service at] Dell or Microsoft." The conversation between Goldensteinberg and Carbonite's representatives became heated, Friend says. "We finally ended up giving him an hour of help. And there was nothing wrong with Carbonite—all of the things were his issues. He has just never gotten over that."
I e-mailed Goldensteinberg Wednesday afternoon asking for a response to Friend's comment. Goldensteinberg wrote back: "Was the customer service experience with Carbonite great? Not at all. It was terrible. But I wouldn't have gone to David Pogue, and he surely wouldn't have written about this issue if the only thing I had to write about was bad customer service. Honestly, I only included the part in my review about the lousy customer service as a background to how I discovered the fake reviews on Amazon. Any attempt to divert attention from the main issue here…is a red herring."
Indeed, the whole matter might have ended with Goldensteinberg's post, if the blogger hadn't contacted Pogue. The famed columnist wrote in his own blog "Pogue's Posts" on Tuesday that Goldensteinberg offered the Carbonite story to him as an exclusive. Pogue recounted how Goldensteinberg had linked the reviews back to Carbonite. Then he came down hard on the company, saying:
"It doesn't matter to me that Carbonite's fraudulent reviews are a couple of years old. These people are gaming the system, deceiving the public to enrich themselves. They should be deeply ashamed, and I thank Bruce Goldensteinberg for helping me embarrass Carbonite's sleazy practices as publicly as possible."
Friend sent Pogue an e-mail response, which Pogue swiftly published as an update. Friend's message said:
"These 'reviews' on Amazon from 2006 should have sourced the authors as Carbonite employees. I will personally see that the reviews are updated to disclose their employment affiliation. Had they been brought to my attention, they would have been removed long ago. We do have a policy about such things. I apologize to anyone who was misled by these postings."
To which Pogue added his own postscript:
"That's great that Carbonite is cleaning up its act—now, after it's been caught. But Mr. Friend's implication that he didn't know about the phony Amazon reviews is a bit suspect. In fact, they WERE brought to Mr. Friend's attention-in the comments for this Bits blog post from this past September. Mr. Friend himself replied. (His comment is #29.)"
The Bits blog comments to which Pogue referred were in response to a September 11, 2008 post on Carbonite and Mozy by Times writer Claire Caine Miller. As Goldensteinberg explains in his own post from Sunday, he left a comment on Miller's post under another pseudonym, "Joe," in which he wrote, among other things, that "some of Carbonite's reviews on Amazon.com are written by Carbonite employees—no joke! and of course they dont [sic] admit their conflict of interest." (It's the fourth comment in the series, if you want to check it out.)
Friend later contributed a comment on the same article. Pogue seems to be implying that since Friend had contributed a comment, he must also have seen the earlier comment from "Joe," and that he must therefore have known about the planted Amazon reviews for several months before doing anything about them.
But Friend says he never saw "Joe's" comment. "That's not the way I post," Friend says. "There are probably 20 or 30 mentions of Carbonite in the blogs every day, and our media person here cuts out the ones she thinks I ought to respond to and e-mails them to me."
Friend told me he was unhappy about the way Pogue handled the story. Specifically, Friend said he would have liked to have the opportunity to respond to Goldensteinberg's revelations before Pogue posted his piece.
"I wish Pogue had had the decency to call us before he started dragging up stuff from three years ago, without even a chance for us to reply," Friend says. "I've been a subscriber of the New York Times for 25 years, and I'm really surprised that a reporter of his caliber would…sensationalize something like this without even seeking a comment from the so-called offender."
In regard to Pogue's postscript, Friend says: "I thought it was kind of snotty. He printed my letter explaining that it happened once, that policies have been put in place, that it hasn't happened again, and that I apologized to everyone who was misled. Then he goes on with innuendo that I should have known about it, which is just false."
I e-mailed David Pogue early Wednesday afternoon to ask for his responses to Friend's comments. I haven't received a response as of this writing; if I do, I'll update this post.
Goldensteinberg, meanwhile, told me via e-mail that he thinks his September comment and later comments on the Miller post should have tipped Carbonite off about the problem: "Even accepting the dubious premise that Friend did not read all 28 comments, at the very least, [Carbonite customer service manager] Len Pallazola appeared twice on the thread, and responded specifically to the comment made by me, 'joe.' In my first comment as 'joe,' I mention the issue of the reviews on Amazon. I mentioned it again in my 2nd comment as 'joe. ' And finally, at comment 26, I mentioned how three favorable reviews appeared after Len's posting, as being suspicious. Friend's comment was #29. At the very least, he had to go to the Web page where this thread was, and scroll down to the end of the comments (28 at that time), and then type in his name before posting. This means he had comment 26 right in front of his eyes. While I don't mention the Amazon reviews in comment 26, I do mention fake reviews and Carbonite. Any diligent CEO should have seen that, and it should have made a light bulb go off and investigate the matter of fake reviews further."
And that's the whole gory story of Carbonite, Amazon, and the New York Times—so far.
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President Goodluck Jonathan and his family today celebrated Christmas at the Presidential villa in Abuja today.
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What are your thoughts about Nick Van Sicklen?
"We only saw him a couple of times, but we got a lot of information from the coach. We felt this was our primary need. We can talk about all these players from the combine and from the draft, but we still have to train them and make them better. We felt that Nick has a great up side. He's similar to Josh (Gros) last year. As I said, it will be a matter of time as to what we can do with him. It's our job to make him better. I hope he's going to develop the same way Josh did."
What need does he fill?
"He's a flank player. He's very versatile. He can play on the left or right, or up front. He's got great speed. He scored a bunch of goals in college. And he's a great kid. That's what our need was in the end."
Were you surprised that he was available at the 19th pick overall?
"I thought that there were a lot of good kids available at that point. But we knew what we wanted to make this team better."
What is Dema Kovalenko's status with his foot injury?
"Hopefully, he's going to be back soon. I know he's going to come back as soon as possible. In four to six weeks, he's going to be ready to go. As I said, bad things happen. We have to figure out what we need to do to get him back on the team. I know Dema personally and he's going to do everything he needs to in order to be ready for the season."
Did Kovalenko's injury influence your decision making in the draft?
"No, not really. We he have Josh and Dema that can play on the wings. Also, we have (Brandon) Prideaux that can play there in our system. We made our choice to make our team better, and Nick was the best choice we had."
What is the status of Mike Petke's contract negotiations?
"We're still working on it."
Are there other players that you are looking to draft?
"Yes. There are a couple I would like to have, but the other teams want them, too. We don't want to just draft a body. We want to make sure we get somebody that's going to help our team."
What do you think about the quality of the draft overall?
"I think it's pretty good. When I watched the final four and the combine, I thought the level of play was pretty good. Everyone wants to show their best qualities and I think the first 20 or 30 players will be good choices. As I said, it's our job to make them better players so that they can make an impact in Major League Soccer."
Do you feel that D.C. United needs to make small tweaks to the team rather than major changes in order to defend the championship?
"We didn't change anything last year when I was hired. It was almost the same team. During the year, we made a couple of moves and brought in a couple of new players. Our job is to train the players, make them better and get them ready for the season. The season is long. It doesn't matter if they are young or old players, we have to make them professionals. I think we did a pretty good job last year and I expect that we're going to do the same job this year."
With the loss of Ezra Hendrickson and Ryan Nelsen during the off-season many expected D.C. United to draft a defender ..."
"Because I play offensive soccer, right?"
What are your thoughts on the team's defense? What are the possibilities of bringing in a foreign player before the season?
"It will be difficult to replace Ryan with the same qualities and mentality and leadership, but we are looking in a couple of different places. We are going to wait until we're sure we pick the right guy. It was the same thing with Christian (Gomez). It's not like just picking someone and hoping it's going to work out. We want to make sure that he's going to be a great asset to our team. We want a player that the team will respect and that the fans will look and say, 'That was a great choice.'"
Is there a definite player that you are looking at or is the team still scouting?
"Yes, there are specific players. There are a couple of options. Like I said, we have to make sure that they are the players we want. We have their names on the list, and we just want to make sure."
Are there any concerns not having Freddy Adu available during the U-20 Championships (June 10-July 2)?
"That's part of it. We just lost Ryan Nelsen, Ezra Hendrickson was away with qualifiers, and it's all part of it. It's our job to make sure that we have enough players and they are ready to step in and play. I assume at that point Freddy will be playing regularly in our team, so it will probably be difficult to fill the spot for him."
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How do you feel you did with your two draft picks?
"I think we're pretty happy. We were astounded that (Tim) Merritt made it to the 48th pick. In some of our mock drafts, we had him going in the first round, some in the second round. We didn't think he would drop that far. We thought that he was the best passer of all the defenders in the combine. So we're very happy. Also, we really like (Nick) Van Sicklen. He reminds us a lot of Josh Gros. He has a lot of the same kind of qualities on the field. He has the same moves, he's kind of tall and lanky."
"We tried to make one or two moves to get a hold of an additional player, but we weren't able to do it. We weren't going to do anything stupid. A lot of teams get caught up in a sort of 'draft fever' and they just start making deals. They act like the draft is a sort of competition in itself. We weren't going to do anything just to get draft picks."
With the reserve draft upcoming, how will this team continue to build?
"We have three picks in the reserve draft, and we'll use all of those. There are a few other players that might not even go in the reserve draft, and we'll talk to them ... some local products."
Goalkeeper John O'Hara from George Mason?
"The issue with O'Hara is that he's an international player. We'll have to see where we end up on our transitional and full international slots."
Where does the team stand in respects to possibly signing a foreign overseas player?
"It's progressing. We've looked at a lot of defenders and we've narrowed it down to three or four. There is one in particular that we are interested in, but we are waiting for some tapes on him that show him against players that we know. That will allow us to gauge (him) a little better. We're hoping that that one works itself out. There are some people that we respect that recommend that player highly. We've seen him already in some tapes. We'll see what happens with that."
"On the defender front, there are four or five guys, of which two or three are more serious. There's one in particular, based on what we see next, we're hoping is the guy that is the answer."
Is that specific player a free transfer?
Timing is a big issue because D.C. United will be playing in the CONCACAF Champions Cup ...
"Yes, but as long as we have these players together at the beginning of pre-season it will be all right."
Do you expect to be active in the market through trades?
"Right now, there isn't anything on the table. We're pretty pleased with the group we have right now. We tried very hard over the last few years to manage our salary cap in a way that will give us an opportunity to keep a group together. I think that has happened. Obviously, we would have liked to keep Ryan Nelsen, but we didn't have any control over that. I'd be pretty surprised if we make any important trades."
What is the status of re-signing Mike Petke?
"I think we're pretty close. It's always a type of death march with (Agent) Ron Waxman. I would hope that it would be done within a week or two."


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Good Points
Cheap easy to start. And has good cutting power for up to 30 seconds at a time.
Bad Points
Line does not extend has to be stripped down every 30 seconds to get line out for next 30 seconds operation.
General Comments
As with most strimmers I have owned the auto line feed is non existent. It ran through its entire line in less than 5 minutes operation over 30 minutes of disassembly and manual refeeding of line. This is a good engine powering but a rubbish line, do not buy unless you like the tedium of start/stop/disassemble/start/stop/disassemble/start ad infinitum........


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Zorin 7 very slow on Asus netbook
Hello all, I'm a complete beginner with this sort of thing and hoping someone who knows what they're talking about can help me please....
Today I installed Zorin 7 on my netbook and it is running extremely slowly. By which I mean whenever I open a file/folder, or just click on anything, it takes a good 10-15 seconds before anything will happen. And when it does, it'll do it in slow motion. I've googled and found a few threads of similar experiences, but none of which have had a satisfactory, or clear resolution.
Can anyone please help? Here's all the info I think you'll need for my Asus Eeepc netbook...
Memory: 991.0Mib
Processor: Intel Atom CPU N2600 @ 1.6GHz x 4
Graphics: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.2, 128bits)
OS Type: 32-BIT
Disk: 313.8GB
The netbook originally had Windows 7 Starter on it and I installed Zorin via SD card. (I used Yumi to install it on the SD card when it still had Windows on).
I did see something somewhere about booting up in recovery mode and selecting DPKG and FSCK, but I have to be honest, I don't fully understand what these do and didn't seem to make any difference anyway.
If anyone can point me in the right direction, i'd be very grateful :)
Sorry? You've completely lost me there lol
Here's what I'm thinking, and I welcome any and all input if I'm going down the wrong route here...
It's possible it's not using enough RAM and I have to somehow tell it/allocate it more RAM, but would only be able to do this by completely reinstalling Zorin? If so, I've no idea how - Bit of a stab in the dark, but I think I read something along these lines on another forum on my phone earlier and now cannot find the same thread lol
Or what I'm hoping is that it's just the graphics drivers needing udpating?
Failing that, I could install Zorin 7 Lite instead as it doesn't have as high system requirements to see if it works any better?...But then again my netbook surely should meet the minimum spec for Zorin anyway?
Or my final option is to consider a new operating system alltogether.
Like I said, I'm a complete beginner at this stuff and basically just want something which runs alot quicker, looks more pleasing than windows 7 starter and something I can use as a learning tool.
How did Windows 7 run on this machine?
It wasn't as responsive as I'd liked. Sometimes infuriatingly slow when waiting for something to open up, but mostly just ran "alright". It was regularly scanned for nasties in the background and never had anything show up.
Honestly, I would have installed the Lite version. It will run much better on 1gb of RAM.
I retired my EEE a while back; if I still had to use it today, I would probably choose a lightweight distribution such as AntiX or CrunchBang. It would not be high-performance but might give me some basic functionality. Good luck!
Totally lost? Ok.
Maybe the above may help you find your way. I know it is for Zorin 6 but Zorin manuals are scarce from
what I can see. All I see is how "like windows 7" and reviews.
Maybe the developer will weigh in on this thread or another ZorinOS user
Me mention top in terminal is like watching what is taking up most cpu and ram while running so as to narrow down the problem. Just a generic linux troubleshooting device I use in any Linux install.
Good luck with it. Me, I run Window Managers instead of Desktop Enviorments on my Atom Netbooks Mostly.
I do how ever run a SolydX install on one of my Atom, 2gig ram netbooks. Just because I run AntiX on the other made by the same company with 2gig of ram but a 64gig SSD on that one. It is screaming fast.
The SolydX is just a tad slower being a platter IDE zif drive and XFCE on it vs Icewm and Fluxbox on the AntiX one. I know. All greek to you. Must be the egg nog talking.
Edit: Good eggnogg. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...8/#post5069621
I installed the lite version of Zorin on a netbook with almost the exact same specs and it ran great. The full featured version is just too much for the Intel Atom and 1gb of RAM to run smoothly.
But yes, atoms arent meant to be 'high performance'. The N2XXX has one of the PowerVR 'GPUs' that have awful linux support as well. Its never going to be quick with a 'bloated'/heavy OS like zorin 7, or anything running a heavy desktop (like gnome 3 or KDE4). Though the 'lite' version might work, why bother? But I'm no fan of ubuntu. Rebranded ubuntu 13.04 with 9 months support (yes, you'll have to risk upgrading or reinstall in a very short amount of time) and a paid for, opps, 'donate to support our project and get Zorin OS 7 Ultimate' option that always annoys me doesnt seem like a great distro to me.....
I'd be trying something like snowpine suggested, like AntiX or CrunchBang.
Thanks for all the replies so far.
If this fails, I'll look into what cascade9/snowpine has suggested with AntiX & CrunchBang.
Well I'm happy to report that after installing Zorin 7 lite, it is now lightning fast! :D
Next I just have to get my head around installing new themes etc - personalising it to my own taste.
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Your weekly guide to TV's best and worst one-hour shows
Mama heads into dangerous territory this week — the land of beautiful young people and their series:
"Supernatural" (Wednesday, 9 p.m., The CW)
For the past two seasons, series star Jensen Ackles has directed an episode, but they've always been installments where his character was mostly MIA. But this year, he not only directs and has a prominent role in the episode, Ackles' real-life dad also pops up in a cameo role. This week, brothers Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Ackles) are investigating the murders of victims who all received organs from the same donor. Minor spoiler alert: Check the title of the show if you want a clue about who the murderer could be.
"Hart of Dixie" (Tuesday, 8 p.m., The CW)
Laura Bell Bundy, who's best known for her Tony nomination as Elle in "Legally Blonde: The Musical," but who'll always be Marah from "Guiding Light" to Mama — guest stars on this soapy serial as a reporter for Zoe's (Rachel Bilson) alumni magazine. Zoe's upset after the mag listed her as "retired" amid her classmates' accomplishments, because that's the natural assumption when someone moves south. Problems with this storyline: Who reads their alumni magazine? And what kind of college has an alumni magazine that employs reporters who aren't just the alums still living in their dorm rooms?
"Switched at Birth" (Monday, 8 p.m., ABC Family)
Somehow, despite the show premiering in June 2011, this is the penultimate episode of the everlasting first season. It's been a tumultuous first year for Daphne (Katie Leclerc) and Bay (Vanessa Marano), who started the series discovering the hospital mistakingly switched them as newborns, leaving Bay to grow up in a privileged family and Daphne exposed to meningitis, which caused her to go deaf at an early age. Both families have changed drastically since their initial discovery — think lots of teenage rebellion — but it all culminates in the upcoming trial to determine negligence (and the ensuing payouts)
Whoa, Daddy
Mama's not sure who's up for all of the mayhem, sex and violence at 10 a.m., but at least you can feel better about the boss you're avoiding by staying home to watch the second season marathon of Starz' "Boss" in honor of National Boss Day on Tuesday. If you can't call in sick, you can at least DVR it to help you prep for the season two finale on Friday at 9 p.m.


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Discussion Questions
The Forgetting: Alzheimer's: Portrait of an Epidemic
1. What is the difference between a healthy brain and a sick one?
2. What comparisons might be made between early childhood development and Alzheimer's?
3. By what processes—historic, scientific, semantic, cultural—have certain forms of dementia come to be known as Alzheimer's?
4. By holding the story of Ralph Waldo Emerson's mental decline in a light cast by the story of the molecular biology community's efforts to combat Alzheimer's, Shenk's prologue illustrates the principal juxtaposition that frames The Forgetting. And by including in that prologue not only an excerpt from Emerson's poem "Brahma" but a reference to the Barbara Walters/Monica Lewinsky interview that coincided with the keynote address of the Molecular Mechanisms in Alzheimer's Disease conference, Shenk prepares his reader for the broad scope of the rest of his book, a book as likely to quote from Plato or Shakespeare as to refer to The New England Journal of Medicine and gaze at William de Kooning's paintings. Why do you suppose Shenk elected to work with such a broad canvas?
5. Plato "insisted that those suffering from 'the influence of extreme old age' should be excused from the commission of the crimes of sacrilege, treachery, and treason." Keeping in mind that Plato was talking about people suffering the influence of old age, but keeping in mind as well that the onset of Alzheimer's is gradual and often undiagnosed, do you feel that old age alone should be a mitigating factor in any other crimes? Would you take this a step further and argue that society should make a legal distinction for elderly people, jut as it does for juveniles?
6. "We are the sum of our memories. Everything we know, everything we perceive, every movement we make is shaped by them." Despite the truth of Shenk's statement, most people go through their daily lives entirely unmindful, if not unaware, of the role played by memory in their behavior. Try to articulate the ways in which your memories have made you what and who you are.
7. Short of medical treatment, what options would you like to see available for people who learn that they have early Alzheimer's? How would you plan for your future and the future of you family if you were to become one of those people?
8. Shenk writes of Alzheimer's patients and their families struggling to create meaning out of their loss. Do you think that such meaning exists? Do you, too, desire to find meaning in suffering?
9. Should the government continue to allow Alzheimer's patients to give away all assets to their children in order to qualify for government-sponsored care?
10. Nonfiction books can be as suspenseful as novels. Discuss the ways in which Shenk achieves suspense in The Forgetting.
11. Are you encouraged or discouraged by the advances that have been made in our understanding of Alzheimer's over the past century?
12. Many of us are caregivers to Alzheimer's patients. Discuss Shenk's proposal that "the caregiver's challenge is to escape the medical confines of disease and to assemble a new humanity."
The Forgetting: Alzheimer's: Portrait of an Epidemic
- Publication Date: January 14, 2003
- Genres: Health, Nonfiction
- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Anchor


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Today, India's booming economy relies heavily on coal. But coal comes with big environmental costs and so the country is exploring other sources of energy.
�We're trying to maximize our nuclear energy,� says B B.K. Chaturvedi, of the government's power Planning Commission. Today, nuclear power supplies roughly 3 percent of India's energy. But the government wants to boost it by nearly 10 times in the next 20-30 years.
To meet those goals, India is looking for help from other countries including the United States. Two years ago, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and former President George Bush signed a landmark nuclear deal. India agreed to separate its civilian and military nuclear sectors. The US in turn agreed to let companies like General Electric and Westinghouse sell reactors to India. Supporters say the treaty is one of the most important agreements ever signed between the two countries.
But as President Obama heads to India, many in the U.S. are apprehensive about its future.
�It would be a shame to see this agreement fail in the last minute because of a very poorly designed law passed by the Indian parliament,� says Nicholas Burns, a former undersecretary of state in the Bush administration and a key player in the 2008 deal.
The law Burns is concerned about is a nuclear liability law recently passed by India's parliament. Most other countries that have nuclear plants protect the manufacturers from financial liability in case of an accident. The Indian law does shield shield manufacturers from lawsuits by victims. And it puts the burden of compensating victims on the operator of the plant, not the supplier.
However, the law allows operators of nuclear power plants to sue manufacturers in case of an accident. The reason behind this clause in the law is partly because of India's history of industrial accidents involving foreign companies.
The worst industrial disaster ever happened 26 years ago in the town of Bhopal, India. A poisonous gas leaked from a factory owned by the American company Union Carbide. More than 15 thousand people died instantly, half a million were poisoned, and thousands more are still sick. Union Carbide paid $470 million in compensation to victims, years after the disaster.
�In the public perception, Bhopal is a living example of how not to compensate,� says Siddharth Varadarajan an editor at the Indian national daily The Hindu.
�In other words, the people expected the government to frame a legislation to take care of all the negative aspects that we saw in Bhopal � the cause of the accident, to the holding of whoever was responsible liable to providing compensation.�
But without blanket immunity from liability, American nuclear suppliers are nervous about doing business in India.
�The Indian government needs to act quickly, and resolutely to modify it so that the United States and other countries can have some confidence that, as we move forward commercially, the interests of our companies will be protected,� Nicholas Burns says.
And that is part of what is on President Obama's agenda in his talks here next week. The prospects for a change in the nuclear liability law are uncertain. But even a new agreement with the US may not clear the way for India to achieve its nuclear energy goals. That's because local people in many parts of the country are refusing to give up land for nuclear power projects.
One such place is the village of Gorakhpur, in northwestern India. The government wants to build a nuclear power plant in that village, on farmland owned by village residents.
Hansraj Shivaij is the local chief of Gorakhpur. He says there's no way he'll give up his land for the power plant. His neighbors share that determination. And for the last two months they've been protesting against the proposed power plant.
It isn't nuclear power per se that they're opposed to. In fact, they admit they don't know much about nuclear energy. But they've seen the government take farmland for industrial projects around the country, often disregarding public opinion and even its own laws along the way.
India's environment minister recently promised to ensure that government projects like nuclear power plants follow environmental laws.
But journalist Siddharth Varadarajan says without wider changes, the government will have a hard time building new nuclear plants, even if western countries like the US are willing to build them.
�If the government tries to sweep opposition under the carpet, tries to mislead people, tries to present environmental impact assessment reports that are fudged, as we have seen in several large scale projects,� he says.
�So, if that's the way the government is going to go, tries to ram this down the throats of people I think it'll have a fight on its hands.�


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The best advice this agency can get about our websites comes from you, the people that make up our online audience.
To meet that goal, our team recently launched a new way for users to make a direct impact in improving our sites. Our user feedback tool will play a hugely valuable role in helping us design better and more useful websites.
There are several challenges we're keeping in mind as we work to improve. These sites need to be accessible, efficient, and easy-to-use for a broad range of users. Throw in some government rules that haven't quite kept up with the technological times, and the job gets even more challenging.
That's what makes your input so important. Your voice will help us make data-driven decisions about how we can improve the FCC.gov experience. And you can be a part of our continued emphasis on public participation and engagement in our online work.
Oh, and one more thing. Behind the scenes, we're preparing for a major redesign of FCC.gov this year. This feedback will be a valuable part of the data we consult in this redesign process -- and we want as many website users as possible to take part. The National Archives recently solicited citizen feedback on how to best serve their audiences through a redesigned page. The team at the National Archives deserves recognition for running an open and participatory process – and their work will definitely inform ours moving forward.
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BARTRAM TRAIL GUARD Neil Ragland rolls off a pick set by Eric Sorensen during a game this season. Ragland, a role player last season, has developed into one of the most dependable scorers in the county. His 15.5 points per game is nearly a six-point boost from his 2002-03 total and ranks fourth in the county.
Neil Ragland is the easiest player to ignore but one of the toughest in the Bartram Trail boys basketball lineup to put a body on.
At 6-foot-2, he's almost the smallest player in the Bartram starting lineup but one of the highest point producers in the county.
Ragland's 15.5 points per game average is fourth in the county, trailing only Menendez's Terrill Humphrey, Nease's J.P. Clark and teammate Zach Cooke.
It's a sizable boost in production for a three-year varsity player who averaged 10 points a game as a junior and even less as a sophomore. But now Ragland finds himself on the verge of supplanting Adam Holmes as the second-leading scorer in program history.
Ragland's 911 carer points are just 100 short of Holmes' mark.
Last year, Ragland was solid, but he fit snugly into the role of a role player, content to shoot the open jumper but preferably distributing the ball to his teammates. It didn't stem from Ragland's lack of confidence. It was more of his knack to do the unspectacular things that fans blink at and often miss.
"The hustle thing is the biggest thing to me," said Ragland, a large part of Bartram's 59-19 mark over the last two-and-a-half seasons.
"It's a thing that people can lose sight of, but I do my best to get the little things done."
The little things, to Ragland, are what win games, and what he's comfortable doing. Whether it's shadowing a ball handler to make a shot a little tougher to get off, Ragland is there, hand in the face.
"He hustles after balls and chases people down, really does the little things," Bartram coach Chris Phelps said.
"I remember as a sophomore, he tried to block a dunk by Chet (Stachitas, former Nease star).
"He just didn't want to let him get that dunk, and he didn't."
As Ragland has matured, his statistics have, too, and so have his chances to do other things as opposed to just being a gritty, hard-nosed player.
Ragland doesn't have Adam Holmes, Bartram's do-everything guard now lighting it up for more than 15 points a game at Florida Community College, playing alongside him.
"Last year, he was more of a supporting cast member," senior center Zach Cooke said. "He realizes it's his senior year and his time to shine."
Without Holmes as the escape clause and option No. 1, Ragland has found himself more interwoven into the thread of Bartram's team fabric, both offensively and defensively.
He still does the non-descript things like run sneaker for sneaker down the floor trying to pilfer the ball from quicker players, but his offensive workload has increased, too. "I'm running out of time, I'm a senior, so I've got to give it all I've got," Ragland said. "I'll value my time to play basketball because I don't know how long it'll last." Behind Cooke (16 ppg), Ragland is Bartram's best scoring threat, an inside-outside option who is surprisingly good at both spot-up 3-pointers and driving the paint. Despite being slightly undersized alongside Eric Sorensen (6-foot-4), Cooke (6-foot-7) and Tyler DeRuiter (6-foot-4), Ragland still stands out in Bartram's talented and experienced lineup.
"The thing about Neal that a lot of people don't realize is his athleticism," Phelps said. "He's a pretty good athlete. He just makes plays."
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TORONTO— A high-profile coroner's inquest into the death of a 19-year-old woman in an Ontario prison may be broadcast live over the Internet once it resumes.
In a news release Tuesday, the Ontario coroner's office says the proposal to webcast the Ashley Smith proceedings will be discussed with lawyers for the media and parties involved during a meeting on June 21.
Smith died in October 2007 after she tied a ligature around her neck at the Grand Valley Institution for Women in Kitchener, Ont. It's contested whether the mentally disturbed teenager meant to die or was just repeating an attention-seeking behaviour that was not stopped by prison guards who witnessed the incident.
The inquest, mainly tasked with determining the circumstances surrounding her death and whether similar deaths could be prevented in the future, has faced numerous delays since it was announced last year.
The coroner's jury heard three days of evidence early last month, while three other days were set aside for arguments over whether evidence presented — including surveillance videos of Smith's death — should be distributed to the media.
Presiding coroner Dr. Bonita Porter is also considering motions on whether the faces of the prison guards in the videos should be blurred and whether graphic evidence of Smith during a prison transfer involving her being duct-taped on a plane should be included in the proceedings.
More than 100 witnesses — the majority of whom are Correctional Service of Canada staff and psychiatrists — have been scheduled to testify.
When the inquest resumes, it is unclear whether the webcast will affect access to the evidence. Those involved in the inquest, including Smith's family and civil liberties and prisoner rights' groups have long advocated more transparency in the proceedings.
Porter had adjourned the hearing indefinitely on May 25. No new start date has been given but it was previously anticipated that the proceedings would recess during July and August for the summer and resume in September.
The inquest is expected to last anywhere from six to nine months.
In the year before her death, Smith was transferred 17 times to federal prisons in Ontario, the Maritimes, the Prairies and Quebec because of bad behaviour, staff fatigue and overcrowding.
Smith was first incarcerated at 15 for throwing crab apples at a postal worker in her hometown of Moncton, N.B. Her continued imprisonment was the result of racking up multiple charges while incarcerated. She was kept in isolation for the vast majority of her imprisonment and often engaged in self-injurious behaviours.
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EUR/USD (a 4-hour chart)
General overview
After the FOMC meeting minutes publication the American dollar strengthened against the major currency pairs. The single currency has fallen by 65 points down. Then it tried to recover the losses.
The trading volumes remain in the increase area with small divergence signs. The pair is being traded in the direction of a narrow descending channel, to the upper bound of which at 1.3290 a corrective rates growth is observed.
The price is finding the support at 1.3230. The price is finding the first resistance at 1.3290, the next one is at 1.3360.
There is a confirmed and a strong sell signal. The price is under the Cloud and it is above the Chinkou Span. The Tenkan-sen shows a downward movement and the Kijun-sen shows a horizontal movement and form a "Dead cross". The downward movement will be until the price is under the Cloud.
The MACD indicator is in a negative territory. The price is correcting.
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Review for West Place Animal Sanctuary, Tiverton, RI, USA
West Place Animal Sanctuary is a remarkable haven for all sorts of fauna and fowl. I have known the caretakers of this property for many years, and can truly attest to the fact that they develop a deep and personal relationship with each and every animal who arrives and spends any amount of time there. Whether it's a migratory bird with an injured foot in need of a few days' rest and rehabilitation, or a displaced farm animal in need of long term care and permanent shelter, all new arrivals and residents alike receive the same impeccable care and utmost attention to their every need, while benefiting from the safety and security of a beautiful facility which somehow seems to be constantly expanding and improving.
Indeed, West Place has grown in recent years from a small part -time operation to a full scale refuge for all kinds of animals in need. I have witnessed firsthand this transformation, which can only be explained as a labor of love. From the contruction of a brand new barn with state of the art stall and feeding facilities, to the redesign, landscaping and detailing of the onsite pond which provides an astonishingly natural-like habititat for birds and fish alike, or the seemingly ever-expanding area of paddock designated for the happy grazing of the numerous four-legged residents, it is obvious that at West Place, the wellbeing of all furry and winged residents takes precedence over everything else. It has been a truly enjoyable and spiritually rewarding experience to watch West Place become what it is today, and it is good to know that so many of our animal friends here in Rhode Island can now have a chance to benefit from such a perfect sanctuary where they are provided with round the clock treatment, care and love in order to get a much-deserved second chance.
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Pro-government militias clashed Friday with fighters in a former stronghold of the late dictator Moammar Gadhafi for the third consecutive day, the spokesman for the Libyan military's chief of staff said, after talks to end the standoff broke down.
Violence has flared periodically over the last year in Bani Walid, the most significant town in Libya still resisting the country's new authorities since the end of the country's civil war last year. (AP)