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Destination Guide
San Francisco
Surprisingly, San Francisco is compact, occupying a land of only 47 square miles. This has enabled the city to keep its small-scale appeal despite a superlative skyline that is Manhattan in miniature and despite a city proper population of 750,000. Much of San Francisco's charm lies in its ability to sell itself as both diminutive and grand, both intimate and grandiose. Its fabulous location certainly helps – 42 hills overlook water on three sides providing breathtaking views of the Pacific. Even though San Francisco is pocket-sized, it has a city presence that commands attention. It is crowded with nightclubs, art galleries, fine museums, and more restaurants per capita than any other major city n the U.S. Its weather is cooled during the summer by fog, giving unsuspecting tourists a good jolt. Whereas winters are mild, rarely dipping below 10ºC (50ºF).[3]
Another charm of San Francisco is the visions it instills in people. Which other city has two official songs, both being national favorites? San Francisco, sung by Jeannette MacDonald as the title song of the 1936 movie, and the more recent I Left My Heart in San Francisco sung by Tony Bennett are both hummed perennial by Americans throughout the country. Then there are the books and poems written about the city whose name alone evokes thoughts of beautiful people, glamorous hotels and restaurants, and spectacular bay and mountain views. Like any other city, San Francisco has a respect for wealth and success, but it is balanced by a sense of fun and the knowledge that there is a "riches to rags" story for every tale of success.[4]
San Francisco is also the most European-like city in North America. A potpourri of migrants and immigrants bandwagoned their way westward during the Gold Rush, giving San Francisco the cosmopolitan air it enjoys today. There are more than 200,000 Chinese people in the city and over 115,000 residents of Italian descent who call North Beach or "Little Italy" their home. Blacks and Hispanics each number 100,000, while Japanese number over 15,000. Then there are the newcomers – Cambodians, Hmong, and Laotians. And they have been quick to stitch their own patches into the city's multicultural quilt.[5]
San Francisco ranks only third in California in population with about 750,000 people, mainly because of its limited size – 47 square miles of area. By comparison, Los Angeles measures over 463 square miles. The same area in and around San Francisco accommodates over 6 million people, which is twice the population of Los Angeles proper. Not surprisingly, San Francisco has the highest density of population in California. This is what gives the city a neighborhood atmosphere that other California cities lack.[6]
The best way to begin touring San Francisco is to get a good look at what you'll be touring. The Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill is the best place to get great views of San Francisco. This tower stands 500-feet or 152 meters high in the heart of the city. The hill was bought by a group of citizens and given as a gift to the city in 1876, so that the unique qualities of San Francisco could be appreciated by all residents. The tower's open-air viewing platform has a range of about 46 square miles or 120 square kilometers. The view up there is incredible and makes it easy for any visitor to understand why residents consider themselves lucky to be living where they live.[7]
Among the sights you'll see through the large open arches of Coit Tower include the world-famous Golden Gate Bridge to the west. Few structures in the world are better known around the globe. It is a masterpiece in engineering and San Franciscans have an understandable awe and affection for this man-made structure. Many of them seem to be an authority on the bridge, volunteering facts and figures to others like they cared.
From the tower, you can also see Sausalito, Angel Islands, and Belvedere. Sausalito is tucked into a bay at the other end of the Golden Gate Bridge while Angel Islands and Belvedere are actually in the bay.[8]
Another sight is the Gibraltar-looking Alcatraz. In Spanish, it means amiable pelican. At one time, Alcatraz was the most feared prison in the entire country. It was maximum-security jail for the worst criminals. The currents encircling the island made it dangerous for anyone attempting an escape. Only one man ever managed to swim away from these currents successfully.[9]
Farther east is the sprawling college town of Berkeley and the nearby industrial city of Oakland. This latter city is reached by crossing the low-lying Bay Bridge, which is a masterpiece of engineering by its own right and would be a major landmark in any other city. Unfortunately, the Bay Bridge is overshadowed by the Golden Gate.[10]
Besides the major landmarks, San Francisco has simpler structures that are just as appealing. Rows and rows of Victorian houses, for example, spread out over the city's 42 steep hills, including the Queen-Anne styled "Painted Ladies of Alamo Square" – made even more famous by that cheesy hit sitcom, Full House.[11]
These houses are so treasured that city law prohibits any change to the exterior design and interior structures. Moreover, new buildings must employ the same bay windows in their design.[12]
But some say the real charm of San Francisco is its people. If you walk down the stairs of Coit Tower, you might understand why. The sign dispels the myth that the Coit Tower was built to resemble an upturned fire hose nozzle, but that the design was judged the best on its own merits. The fire hose legend has a basis in fact. Lillie Hitchcock Coit's (1843-1929) had a predilection for riding on fire trucks, so much so that she was dubbed the mascot of the fire department. She was also an eccentric one, dressing up in men's clothes, shaving her head to fit wigs, smoking cigars, gambling at men-only saloons in North Beach, and entertaining the city with her antics. Her family and relatives were outraged by her behavior. One of them took a shot at her at the Palace Hotel, which prompted her to move to Europe and travel the world. And she became a darling of royalty wherever she went, just as she was in San Francisco. In her will, Lillie Coit bequested $125,000 to the city and specified that it go towards "adding beauty to the city which I have always loved." This triggered the fire hose legend that circulated for years.
Another sight of interest is Grace's Garden at the foot of the hill. It is a beautiful flower garden that can be reached by trodding down some old wooden steps. The garden had its beginnings in the 1940s after Grace Marchant, a beautiful silent film star in the days of Mac Sennett, moved into a house on the hillside. She began cleaning up the unused hillside that was being treated as a garbage dump by locals. Eventually, the dump became a beautiful garden. Her neighbors loved it so much that they chipped in to buy it after Grace died in the 1980s.[13]
The Golden Gate Park is definitely a must in San Francisco. It is one of the world's greatest city parks. The Strybing Arboretum and Botanical Gardens is a park highlight; it counts more than 6,000 different plants, including the celebrated California Redwood. The Golden Gate Park has many nature trails that are used by residents for jogs, strolls, and bike rides. There is also a golf course, which explains the number of folks you see on golf carts. You'll also find tennis courts, baseball fields, flyfishing ponds, miniature pools for yacht racing, a polo stadium, and a football stadium. Don't miss out on less obvious points of interest such as the five-acre Japanese Tea Garden, a children's carousel that dates back to 1912, and two huge Dutch Windmills. The windmills were once inoperable due to deterioration. It was initially designed as part of an irrigation system for the park, but nobody maintained them after they fell into disuse. Some private citizens raised enough money to restore them a few decades ago. Be on the lookout for the police horse patrols surveying and safeguarding the park.[14]
Another can't miss is the Palace of Fine Arts. This is in San Francisco's Marina District. If you've watched The Rock, you'll recognize this example of Roman and Greek Architecture. This was where Sean Connery met his daughter, played by Claire Forlani, for the first time after decades of being locked up by the FBI. Built for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition, it has a dome and a number of colonnades providing support. It is the only dome remaining of the eight identical ones built for the exposition. In the 1960s, the structure had to be demolished and rebuilt to ensure its survival. The Palace is fronted by an expanse of water swum by ducks and swans.[15]
Of course, a visit to San Francisco would not be a visit without experience the city's most famous form of public transportation – the cable car. Not too long ago, the cable cars had to be shut down due to safety concerns. Fortunately, federal and city grants totaling more than $60 million combined with public subscription, which raised $10 million, returned the cable cars to their original working condition. These cars move at 15 kilometers/hour or 9 miles/hour in a circular route.[16]
San Francisco was founded in 1776 by the Spanish who set up a fort and mission. At the time, Yelamu and Ohlone natives resided in a series of small villages in the area. Despite the city's Spanish origin, San Francisco has always been an American city from the get-go. The Spanish and Mexicans made Monterey their capital and established only a small fort and mission in San Francisco. When U.S. Navy Captain John B. Montgomery sailed into the bay, he did not have to fire a single shot to capture the city, raising the American flag on July 9, 1846. The town's square is named after his ship, the Portsmouth. At that time, the settlement in the Bay area was called Yerba Buena, which means "good herb" in Spanish. The Americans renamed the community San Francisco.[17]
Almost immediately after the Mexican War ended, gold was discovered. San Francisco was suddenly the destination of thousands of gold rush seekers from all over the country. Most of the gold lay east of San Francisco, but the city was where people spent their fortunes. The city during those tumultuous years was twice captured by vigilante committees. Nob Hill became the choice of residence for the very rich. Mansions were built high above at a safe distance from the boisterous city.[18]
San Francisco was dubbed "Barbary Coast" at the time by many sailors around the world. Everyone had a tough time navigating the treacherous red-light district of San Francisco's bay. Like most cities out west in that era, San Francisco was a corrupt pleasure capital, but somehow earned a reputation as well as a city of the arts.[19]
In 1906, San Francisco was hit by the worst natural disaster in American history. An earthquake leveled the city and triggered outbreaks of fire. Over 3000 people died and 250,000 left homeless. 28,000 buildings were completely destroyed. All told, the damage was more than $400 million. With determination, the city cleared the ruins and restored more than 20,000 structures. Only three years after the quake, San Francisco was already discussing plans of hosting a World's Fair.[20]
Interestingly, the earthquake revealed not only a fault line running underneath the city, but also the deep-seeded corruption of its officials. The Beaux Arts City Hall was left in shambles by the quake, revealing a spindly steel superstructure where a dome was supposed to be instead. City officials had cheated the public out of millions of dollars. "They was all a-grafting," remarked one old-timer. By 1915, when the Panama-Pacific International Exposition was held, San Francisco had been reconstructed completely.
In the 1930's, San Francisco suffered another disaster, the Great Depression. The city survived the economic crisis with two construction projects: the Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Both projects were completed in 1939. WWII brought more prosperity to the city, as it was used as a major port in the Pacific War with Japan.[21]
In the 1950's, San Francisco was the home of the "beat" generation. The city teemed with dropout artists and poets who were termed "beatniks" by San Francisco columnist Herb Caen. A cultural movement began, with poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights Book store as its headquarters and Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Gregory Corso as its prominent members.[22]
In the 1960s, the city became the center of another movement: free speech. Social and political activism had its birth on the campus of University of California Berkeley in autumn of 1964. It spread to the rest of America. The activism decrying the Vietnam War and promoting peace and love was dubbed "Flower Power". The original "be-ins" and "love-ins" took place in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, which was near the Haight-Ashbury district – at the time was a neglected slum area. The "flower children" or hippies made it the capital of their anti-war movement. "Flower power' spawned hit songs such as Scott McKenzie's "San Francisco": "If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair…."[23] The movement peaked in the 1967 "Summer of Love" when more than 100,000 made their way to Haight to enjoy free food, free drugs, and free love.[24]
While "Flower Power" began with flowers, it ended with bloodshed in Washington, DC. The city, however, had made its mark, forever changing free speech, civil rights, and folk and rock 'n' roll music. In regards to the latter, Bill Graham's Fillmore Auditorium in Haight-Ashbury had become a rock 'n' roll Mecca with numerous musicians launching their careers from there.[25]
The "me" decade of the 1970s witnessed an increasing "New Yorking" of the city. Many San Franciscans became concerned with the rate at which skyscrapers were being built. The conglomeration of new buildings included a pyramid soaring 48 stories high. This William Pereia-designed monument served as the headquarters for Transamerica Corporation. Initially praised, it soon became a source of derision. Today, it is a reminder to residents that San Francisco is not just a center of culture but the financial capital of the west.[26]
Other social issues arose in the 1970's as well. Local religious leader, Jim Jones, led a mass suicide of more than 900 men, women, and children; the deed was done in a remote village in Guyana. Mayor George Moscone, an early proponent of gay rights was assassinated in 1978, igniting the city in outrage.[27]
In the 1980's, San Francisco was the first to discover the deadly AIDS virus, or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. The city's large homosexual population was hit hard, but its AIDS program has developed into one of the most advanced in the country. One doctor once remarked "If I had AIDS, I would crawl to San Francisco to get help."
On October 17, 1989, Northern California was struck by another devastating earthquake, which measured 6.9 on the Richter Scale. The catastrophe is remembered around the country, as it occurred in the middle of a World Series game between the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics. Houses in the marina area were the most damaged, thanks to leaking gas lines that resulted in fire outbreaks. The Oakland Bay Bridge also collapsed in the dead of rush-hour traffic, burying several cars. Damaging fires and outbreak of violence and disease struck Santa Cruz and Carmel.[28] As usual, San Franciscans shone through and the city recovered quickly.
In the late 1990s, the city experienced a dot-com boom that saw a large wave of computer programmers and entrepreneurs move into the city. This reinvigorated the city and many poor neighborhoods. Unfortunately, when the bubble burst in 2001, many companies folded and the people moved out. Today, high technology has made a moderate comeback and the city is seeing new life.
Baker, Christopher, Judy Wade, and Morten Strange. California. New York: Macmillan General Reference, 1994. ISBN: 0671879065.
"Palace of Fine Arts." < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_fine_arts>
"San Francisco." < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_francisco>
"Summer of Love." < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_love>
Young, Perry Deane. Insider's California Guide, 2nd Edition. Edison: Hunter Publishing, Inc., 1997. ISBN: 1556507518.
[1] Young, 31
[2] San Francisco
[3] Baker, 249-50
[4] Young, 31
[5] Baker, 250-51
[6] Young, 31
[7] Id.
[8] Id.
[9] Id.
[10] Id.
[11] Id.
[12] Id.
[13] Id. at 31-32
[14] Id. at 39
[15] Palace
[16] Young, 40
[17] Id. at 35
[18] Id.
[19] Id.
[20] Id.
[21] Id.
[22] Id.
[23] Id. at 35-36
[24] Summer
[25] Young, 36
[26] Id.
[27] Id.
[28] Id. at 36-37
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Team Jewson-MI Racing enjoyed a successful day at the Boxing Day cyclo-cross event on Kenilworth Common, which is now in its 62nd year.
Veteran rider Carl Sturgeon finished in third place and second veteran behind Raleigh GAC professional Steven Roach who also won the event in 2014.
Sturgeon's team-mate Steve Knight finished sixth overall and third veteran, while Mark James was fourth veteran.
Kirby Bennett narrowly avoided serious damage to his eye after a fall on the opening lap and despite blood pouring from a wound and blurred vision, recovered to finish fifth veteran.
Pete Busby was not so lucky, however, after slicing the end of his little finger off while making adjustments to his front wheel while riding.
Busby caught his finger in the disc brake and had to be taken to hospital.
Ride Coventry's Darren Atkins finished second overall, while Isla Rowntree (Islabikes) was first female and 24th overall.
Cotswold Veldrijden's Dave McMullen was the first veteran 60-plus.
World masters' champion Phil Roach (Rugby) retired after puncturing midway through the race.
Selected finishers: 18, Jason McNulty (Royal Leamington Spa Cycling Club); 26, Graeme Davidson (Kenilworth Wheelers); 28, Richard Lewis (Kenilworth Wheelers); 32, Andy Webb (Kenilworth Wheelers); 41, Gary Brookes (Kenilworth Wheelers); 42, Stuart Hepburn (Kenilworth Wheelers); Charles Brown (Kenilworth Wheelers); 63, Michelle Paget (RLSCC): 65, Claire Murphy; 72, Ian Forrester (Kenilworth Wheelers); 74, Adrie Breugelmans (Leamington C&AC).


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The Best Wurst is a genuine Austin Institution serving great grilled sausage sandwiches to Austinites for over 20 years. The first and longest running mobile food vender in the city, Best Wurst has sold over 1 million sandwiches from their 6th street location alone and has been touted as "the most efficient kitchen in Austin."
While Austin boasts the title 'Live Music Capital of the World' it's no coincidence that touring musician Jon Notarthomas landed in Austin in the early 90's. With a passion for local fare the world over, Jon saw a void and created The Best Wurst which is now cited as the original trailblazer in the mobile food-vending trend of recent years.
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iMobileJanuary 09, 2007
So we've all heard by now of the new goodness that is Apple's iPhone, right? Wow. The wait is going to be painful for this one, it will be at the back of my mind every time I reach for the old Treo. I have a short checklist of things I absolutely need from a phone, and it delivers. I have a much longer checklist of things I really want from a phone, and it delivers in spades. I think it's safe to say that what Apple announced today far surpasses anyone's wildest expectations.
I have no doubt the iPhone is going to be a huge kick in the mobile web pants. It doesn't run a stripped-down mobile browser that delivers a sub-par experience, it runs Safari — a customized version with special UI tweaks, but that's still WebKit under the hood. It will render your site the same way your desktop does. Multi-touch is an inspired new interaction method that makes using a mobile phone a less painful experience than what we've had thus far. And with an accelerometer built-in, the switch between viewing a web page in portrait or landscape mode couldn't be easier. Just flip the thing over.
In fact, mobile web expert Brian Fling expects that if competition manages to catch up to it, this pretty much spells the beginning of the end for WAP 2.0. Provided using the web is a seamless experience on the iPhone, I have no doubt this will be the case. There will be no need to continue referring to a "mobile" web.
There are a few reasons why I could see this not quite going according to plan however. The device itself is brilliant, but the services that will support it are traditionally horrible. Somehow there has to be reconciliation between a bandwidth-hungry device like the iPhone promises to be, and the bandwidth-stingy mobile plans that many of us are stuck with. It doesn't seem likely that buying an iPhone will make much sense without a relatively generous data plan to match.
Given that the new visual voicemail that requires special carrier integration that has resulted in a (currently, hopefully temporarily) exclusive partnership with Cingular in the US, it seems like Apple might be making inroads into changing business-as-usual. I'm hoping that carriers will start climbing over each other for a chance to offer it to their own customers, giving Apple leverage to dictate their own terms for supporting service plans.
However, for a customer to get the phone when it launches, they will need to sign a two year contract with Cingular. The price point revolves around that assumption. That it's an exclusive to Cingular at the moment suggests that, at least at launch, the phone will be locked to one provider. This is typical for the mobile industry, but disappointing for those of us who'd prefer to buy an unlocked phone at cost and transport it to our network of choice, visual voicemail or not. (Which is particularly relevant when, say, you don't live in the US…)
So I guess the question is, was the contract a method of offsetting the original price and driving up demand? There's no way this phone was going to come cheaply at first. I suspect even an entry price of $499 seems high to many people, but this is certainly down from what an unlocked phone would cost. Or, is the contract a sign that Apple needed to make concessions to partner with existing service providers, and the telcos will end up calling the shots?
Time will tell. It's comforting to have the precedent of Apple's taming of the music industry, and their in-progress repeat with the film industry. If history is any indication of what they can pull off with mobile carriers, the mobile web is going to be a very big story indeed. Hey Cameron, does this mean a new chapter in the book?
: It looks like Canada might be getting it around Q4 2007 or Q1 2008, and both Rogers and Telus are making noise. (Thanks Paul) If Telus gets it, that means a CDMA version is forthcoming. Interesting.
It still remains to be seen whether anyone will offer a special iPhone service plan, or whether carriers will continue calling the shots. Non-Canadians really need to see Rogers data plans to understand why this is such a concern here (the rest are equally as bad).
> "It doesn't seem likely that buying an iPhone will make much sense without a relatively generous data plan to match."
I'd happily get the phone even without being able to use the web features, given how nicely it appears to do phone calls, SMS, music, photos, contacts and (I presume) calendar stuff.
However, yeah, data rates from phone companies are a joke at the moment. We're used to fast, flat-fee broadband. Mobile web is stuck in the dial-up days, EVDO etc. excepted.
"…the phone will be locked to one provider. This is typical for the mobile industry, but disappointing for those of us who'd prefer to buy an unlocked phone at cost and transport it to our network of choice, visual voicemail or not."
— certainly not typical in the UK, and I'll be interested to see how that sort of deal will weather this side of the Atlantic.
And a 24 month contract? That sounds like quite a long time to lock yourself into a specific network provider.
It's intriguing, though, as I'm sure Apple have done their sums; 18 month contracts are becoming more common in Britain, which perhaps is an indicator that people are less fickle than they were a couple of years ago.
Still, I'd have to think pretty hard before signing myself up for an iPhone on this basis.
"And a 24 month contract? That sounds like quite a long time to lock yourself into a specific network provider."
Though mobile all generally sucks at the moment, North America seems to really take it in the chin. 2 years is standard in the US, and *3* is standard in Canada. (We're world leaders in broadband, and bass-ackwards in mobile data. Go figure.)
Kudos to Apple for including Wifi on the phone though… they could have easily locked it down to only support Cingular's medicore EDGE. if you have plenty of hotspots nearby, you can easily tap one of them to get your mail without springing extra.
At least one less device I'll have to carry come June…
Ya I was watching this closely today as it was being annouced. I work over in Nova Scotia for Aliant, which is now Bell Aliant. I have a feeling were gonna be doing some fixes to our infrastructure in order to support such a device as the iPhone, since honestly bandwidth has never been a 'major' issue to our customer base.
Now seeing what a mobile device such as this can do I see no choice but to upgrade our systems quickly in order to accomdate it. Otherwise were looking at a mass exodus from our younger customer base.
I am now thinking my current hopes of designing a new mobile website for our customers is out the window now that it looks like the days of WAP 2.0 are numbered. This by the way is a great thing.
Hopefully the iPhone will allow widgets to be added to it so these can be customized for our local customer bases.
I hope this doesnt sound like a plug, just trying to point out how its going to effect the telco's in Canada cause I agree we are behind times and this will force a change, though im only a lowly peon here I know this is going to be a hot topic over the next few months.
Yeah - my little Razr is dying and I've been looking at getting a blackberry, but I think now I'm just going to wait. But I wonder how long we'll wait up here in Canada? Traditionally, it seems that AT&T/Cingular and Rogers have played nice in the past, so hopefully that trend will continue. But if this phone is, say 75% of what Jobs promises it to be, it'll be more than enough for me to slap down some big dollars, and if I have to, to jump to a different provider up here.
Dave S said: "We're world leaders in broadband, and bass-ackwards in mobile data. Go figure."
World leaders in broadband, you? *Giggles* Yeah, so maybe you should visit Sweden some time.
(DS: Yeah, in the top ten. Sweden isn't exactly leapfrogging us, you know. 22.7 vs. 22.4 ain't a huge difference. http://www.oecd.org/document/9/0,2340,en_2649_34223_37529673_1_1_1_1,00.html )
I'm actually the most excited about the new Airport Extreme which supports the 802.11/n standard, finally I'll be able to actually use all my broadband, instead of just a small piece of it. ;-)
"But I wonder how long we'll wait up here in Canada?"
Europe gets it Q4 2007. Asia sometime in 2008. I'd be happy with any time this year up here, but I'm also thinking a trip down south to get an unlocked version might be more likely.
"However, for a customer to get the phone when it launches, they will need to sign a two year contract with Cingular. The price point revolves around that assumption."
Where did you hear this? I missed it if it was in the keynote and I don't see it on Apple's site. Also, I heard in the keynote that Cingular's exclusivity with the iPhone is "multi-year." So don't hold your breath on waiting to see it on other American providers.
(PS - "heard" = read in several accounts of the keynote, as the video isn't working so well right now…)
Which part?
The two year contract was on a slide within the keynote.
The contract subsidizing the phone price is just industry standard, so I'm assuming that's what's happening here.
My guess is that Rogers will be the network to pick this up in Canada. I think they currently have the EDGE technology that the iPhone relies on and are usually the first kid on the block when it comes to getting the newest and greatest phones. Unfortunately, as you said, Canada is far behind when it comes to the mobile world. So, even if one of our networks gets the phone you can bet that for us to use it to its full potential is more than likely going to cost a small fortune.
I too think this is, more or less, the end of the "mobile" web …ie, serving up a different presentation of content just for those devices. Since the iPhone connects to the web like any standard desktop machine, it just doesn't seem necessary to worry about it any more.
Of course, this assumes the iPhone will have as big an impact on that industry as we think it will. Then again, that's almost a guarantee at this point ;)
After reading the specs on the iphone and seeing the photos of it…I'm blown away. Its completely software based, one hardware button on it from what I can see. I'm a fan of both mac and PC (yes, we do exist) and this in my eyes is a BIG deal. Both for us as developers and the consumers looking for shiny new toys. I currently have a treo 650, and I can see going to the iphone just for the size difference (Q has no touch screen). I read that cingular has exclusive rights with apple till 2009 on the iphone, but I cant verify that. Does anyone subscribe to the cingular edge service? If so, how much is it? We currently work with verizon and have multiple phones on the EVDO network and boy its not cheap. In any event, I agree with you Dave, the wait is going to be painful for this one…I cant wait.
About the data transfer: I live in Norway, and we probably won't get the phone until December. Luckily we have great prices for data transfer in Norway. For about $4, I can surf as much as I want per day. That's a fair price, I'd say.
I currently have a W900i, which is 3G-enabled. I must admit that I was completely fanatical about the fact that 3G was required when I purchased a phone. But I can count on one hand how many times I've used the video conference feature.
The current technology just isn't good enough, and I think Apple has realized that.
iPhone = iDrool
But the 2 deal killers for me for the iPhone are the 2 mega-pixel camera (hello, my Nokia has 3 mega-pixels) and the 2 year contract with Cingular. Blech.
2 mega-pixels for 2 years. Blech.
Apple, let me know when you have a 5 mega-pixel camera with a Carl Zeiss or better lens on an unlocked phone. Then I will pay happily.
This product will obviously define a new era on the mobile market, but it still needs some improvements.
It is a great object, but it lacks UMTS connectivity, and the built-in battery is a really bad point..
Anyway it has a great interface, I hope Nokia and others manufacturers will think about it for the future.
Here it Europe the iPhone will be available only in the last quarter of 2007.. I'll wait :)
I like the phone realy. Despite the lack of 3G I want one. Edge is crap, but it has wider coverage then 3G and I suppose it is used when a WiFi node is not available.
Henrik, we're being robbed in bright daylight by the two mobile network owners here ;-)
Hopefully you can also add other widgets than those shown in the keynote.
Then this could get the best part of the iPhone: Every Web-Developer would be able to develop services for the iPhone by using widgets.
No expensive or complicated programming ressources needed, just use plain xhtml, css and xcode to create small apps for free ;-)
Hopefully that works, we'll see when it comes to market.
By the way: The interface is a nice preview of what comes in Tiger and where the story goes, isn't it?
"Hey Cameron, does this mean a new chapter in the book?"
Short answer? No :D I've got a post drafted arguing the iPhone *won't* change the mobile web landscape much. (If time affords I'll post that in the next day or so.)
But can you count me in for one? Absolutely.
What I'm curious about his the 'new' and 'patented' multi-touch interface.
It looks awefully similar to the work of Jeff Han, as demoed at TED:
"Then this could get the best part of the iPhone: Every Web-Developer would be able to develop services for the iPhone by using widgets.
No expensive or complicated programming ressources needed, just use plain xhtml, css and xcode to create small apps for free ;-)"
This would be excellent.
"So I guess the question is, was the contract a method of offsetting the original price and driving up demand?…Or, is the contract a sign that Apple needed to make concessions to partner with existing service providers, and the telcos will end up calling the shots?"
Unfortunately I'm thinking the latter is true. I hope the end result is not what you predict though. Right now, Apple needs Cingular more than Cingular needs apple. In order for this device to be internationally viable, it HAD to be GSM quadband. The only other national carier for GSM in North America is T-Mobile, and I can't see apple partnering with them. Don't get me wrong, Cingular will enjoy plenty of market gains because of this phone, but Apple was basically locked in to using cingular in the USA regaurdless of what Cingular did.
I have a suspicion that this deal is still countering the current mobile phone pricing structure though. Most current phones are arbitrarily overpriced in order to give the phone companies leverage in forcing customers to sign a longer term contract and make them 'feel' like they are getting a good deal. Apple really didn't want to do this, but had to concede something (multiyear exclusive deal) in order to get Cingular to invest in the necessary infrastructure improvements.
We will reallly get to see if Apple is having any influence positively for the customer when we see how much the data plans are costing. Hopefully they are leaning on Cingular HEAVILY to get them to only charge $5-$10/month for data access, with the rationalle that 95% of the time the thing is going to be using wifi, so Cingular should give away unlimited low speed (EDGE) data access for fairly cheap. Sorry Apple, but if Cingular is going to charge me $40/month for access to email and google maps while I'm on the road, I'm not going to buy the current iphone.
Eric (above) makes a good point — what are the extras involved? DOES the phone really switch to wifi for calls? The carrier(s) would lose out on quite a bit if the technology nascent used it at home as a VOIP phone.
Even bigger than that, I wonder how this thing would fare in a car. Not that I (or anyone) should be on a cell for long if at all while driving, but sometimes ya gotta do it… It was a pain to adjust to the RAZR with it's shallow keys. Once upon a time I could dial all of my previous phones solely by feel. Also, what about a vibrate function. It wasn't mentioned because I'm assuming it wasn't perceived as that important. But I use vibrate frequently. I can envision this thing being dangerous or at not very useful in certain situations. Thoughts?
From the slides of the keynote I saw that a bluetooth headset is included with the iphone(not positive on this though). That would solve the driving issue(for most people). I cant imagine how many 3rd party accessories will be developed for this device. Look at all the ipod gadgets out there, its crazy.
Interestingly, I think if Apple pushed to try make it more of a global release they would have pounced on the market a lot more. Of course that is a huge feat.
My main comment though is that for us Australians, who really knows when we'll get it. From watching his Keynote he went as far as mentioning Asia next year sometime, so we are to follow sometime late in 2008? The problem I see is by that stage other phone makers will have decent alternatives so there won't really be a need to jump on the iPhone bandwagon.
I'd go out a buy one as soon as I could because it is pretty much the best mobile device I've ever seen, but in a year and a half, it's not going to look to great.
I could be wrong though!?
@ tom: Yeh I would definitely miss vibrate if it wasn't a feature… but I'd imagine that and voice prompts/dialing will be standard features… as they are on most other phones. Since it runs a modified version of Mac OS X, Apple's voice recognition and text-to-speech capabilities could easily be added.
Dave S: Wouldn't want to derail the discussion or anything, so I'll end by saying that I was talking about *speed*, not just percentage of users with *some* kind of broadband.
The current Nokia N and E series phones also have a pretty useable webbrowser. I seem to remeber it being KHTML based, but I'm not sure.
The Bluetooth headset was an accessory that Apple is also making, but not included. Included are new earbuds with a microphone/switch on the cord.
AFAIK the automatic switch to wi-fi is only for data, not voice, so this is not a significant drop in billable service for the cell company. There was no mention of VoIP related to the iPhone in anything I've seen from apple.
I wonder if the widesreen iPod will surface on its own at some future date (please include PDA functionality and wi-fi).
It looks awefully similar to the work of Jeff Han, as demoed at TED: [url]
Except it's not. What is generally overlooked from Han's multi-touch screen, something he purposefully doesn't mention, is that his screen "runs dry" after a while; you need to keep wetting your fingertips to continue using it, otherwise it loses sensitivity and eventually just stops working until you wet them again.
The iPhone's screen is not like that.
I have a feeling that Apple is going to be calling the shots with the service. Apple in general, and Steve Jobs in particular, are pretty anal about those sorts of things. And if the iPhone is anything like any of the other phones to come out over the years on an exclusive contract, after a couple years you'll be able to get it for any carrier.
But I don't know. Everything is still unknown; we don't even know how it's going to be in the US. Pretty exciting stuff, though, if you ask me.
I used to think Australia's mobile data rates where bad until I saw Canada's and one of our providers here just halved their prices (1Gb a month for AU$50 = US$40).
Can not wait for the iPhone, I will end up buying a Noika next week. I will wait for the 2nd generation and replace the Noika in 2 years. Os X is the big selling point for me.
Two year contracts are the go in Australia too, a few offer one year deals, but a little more expensive upfront.
FYI - Canadian carrier data-rates did have an impact on our decision to move our (mobile content) business from Canada to the UK.
In Vancouver (on Rogers/Fido) we were paying about $3CDN per/mb - in the UK (T-Mobile) I'm charged a maximum of £1 per day for data usage.
If I (as a mobile content developer) am not willing to pay those fees for mobile data charges, then there is little hope that Joe Public will. I remember hearing countless horror stories from friends 'testing' out a web site, or downloading a game/song and being charged around $10-$30CDN in data charges in addition to any fee being charged for that SINGLE piece of content.
Hopefully the Canadian carriers pull their heads out of their ***** before Blackberry is/was the only mobile success story to come out of Canada. Broadband data in Canada is fantastic, but mobile data is a joke.
Can't wait to see what Bell (CDMA network) does for the upcoming Winter Games in a couple of years as the world (largely on 3G,GSM networks using SIM cards) converges in Vancouver.
Why wait for the mobile web?
Get Opera Mini on a lot of phones already on the market.
It handles normal web pages, no real specific coding required, it uses the Opera rendering engine and transforms it to be suitable for a mobile phone screen.
How does the iPhone Safari handle things? Download the entire page and make you scroll around? or does it shrink the whole lot? Or do something intelligent like Opera and make it more useable on a small screen?
Opera's also chunks the downloads and I believe compresses images so you don't have such big data bills.
Opera has already signalled the end of WAP, and I've already talked elsewhere about the uselessness of the new .mobi TLD's because of it.
And though Opera make a desktop browser that will run on OSX, it seems Apple are enforcing a software lockin, and won't let you install 3rd party stuff on it. So even if I wanted an iPhone, I wouldn't be able to use my browser of choice on it.
I just find everyone's going all gooey legged over it because it's an Apple product, and saying it's completely ground breaking, when in actual fact, it doesn't seem to be really. Battery life issues, the lack of tactile feedback on touch screens, software lockin, forced use of iTunes, jsut a few reasons I'm not bothered.
iPhone is available with Cingular ONLY!? And what if I am stuck under contract with a carrier OTHER than Cingular but still want a iPhone?
Well, the only solution I could fine was http://www.Cellswapper.com - they get you out of any cell phone contract!
I was pleasantly surprised with the way apple decided to implement the keyboard for the phone. The multi-touch screen with the gestures is a great design. I especially like the web browser, but I disagree on what many of the other posters on other blogs have said about the software locking. I see it as a way to make sure that no crap software or bloatware can get on to the system. There's alot of crap out there today, and by limiting the developers allowed to access/post software for it, they keep the Phone's version of leopard (Yes it runs leopard) as clean as the Desktop version of leopard will be.
I think it would be better off if it was 3G network compatiable and a little less exspensive. Also the fact it has no FM radio kinda stinks but overall I would say it is quite lovely device in design and useablity even without any of the above features.
i believe the iphone is all hype… sure the interface is nice, but theres too many ties to apple and you know you're going to have to pay through the nose for just about everything.
That maps would integrate nicely with google maps ( or another map service ) if it had GPS. I think one thing also stopping inception of this phone is lack of 3G signal, but I bet the battery life will be even more abysmal.
Yeah - my little Razr is dying and I've been looking at getting a blackberry, but I think now I'm just going to wait. But I wonder how long we'll wait up here in Canada? Traditionally, it seems that AT&T/Cingular and Rogers have played nice in the past, so hopefully that trend will continue. But if this phone is, say 75% of what Jobs promises it to be, it'll be more than enough for me to slap down some big dollars, and if I have to, to jump to a different provider up here.
I don't know about you guys, but are you willing to seriously pay 500 or $600 US for a iphone??? the 8gb is 600 i believe. and that's alot of money to just upgrade your blackberry or normal cellphone. I assume that phone prices will be dropping in June for other companies. this device does look very kool i have to admit.
Love the idea of this phone. We're not going to get these in the UK for some time, but the demand will be pretty huge. Let's just hope there's not battery or screen issues, since Apple's latest releases have been plagued with malfunctions.
I think the iphone won't be really a success for apple. Now everyone is talking about it. But the other big phone companies won't sleep and will push much better mobiles on the market.
The iphone will only be a mobile for apple fans - and that is not enough to really annoy Nokia or Motorola.


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Product Design Takes The Higher Ground….as In-house Teams Move Up
Jones Garrard's quiet disclosure of its new "brand" Think is timely, given the continuing debate on the role of product design, not least on Design Week's Letters page. It fuels the argument that product designers are capable of far more influence than most allow themselves in shaping the future, but that it is up to them be proactive in changing clients' perceptions of what they can do. Though not yet a company in its own right, London-based Think allows the Leicester design group to broaden its offer beyond the product design for which it is best known, especially in transport. The theory is that the facility can help a client "design" its own structure, or design management procedures – it has already helped the Royal National Institute for the Blind develop design guidelines for its Rights of Way mobility campaign (DW 28 May). Think can also collaborate with groups specialising in branding or other complementary areas to provide a total service, and talks along these lines are already underway. This is not new thinking, particularly among branding people. But it is relatively rare for what is essentially a product design group to take the lead and a good move for design. Jones Garrard director Mike Rodber even talks of working in the fmcg sector – a bold bid, it seems, until you realise that the consultancy's previous projects, such as British Airways' plane seating, have put consumer needs first – a fundamental aim for good fmcg design. Still on product design, an emerging issue is the growing prowess of in-house designers. In-house teams have long been regarded as poor relations by some, perceived as attracting less creative folk keen on a nine-to-five life. But that is no longer so. Apple Computer's in-house team, led by British designer Jonathan Ive, has put the computer giant back on the map through products such as the award-winning iMac. Clive Grinyer's influence at Tag McLaren Audio is about to show, with the first tranche of products soon to be revealed, and Grinyer's former colleague at Fitch, Bill Sermon, is beavering away at Nokia. It could well be that product design's new heroes will emerge on the client side, if, like fashion designers, they are are sufficiently respected by their employers to be named. Then more manufacturers might move forward through design, fielding a top-flight in-house team working alongside specialist consultants.
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- LOCATION: El Paso, Texas
- HOME FIELD: Sun Bowl Stadium (capacity 51,500)
- CONFERENCE: Conference USA (West Division)
- 2015 RECORD: 5-7, 3-5 in C-USA
- PLAYERS TO WATCH: RB Aaron Jones, WR Jaquan White, TE Hayden Plinke, OL Derek Elmendorff, OL Will Hernandez, LB Nick Usher, LB Alvin Jones, K Jay Mattox
- HEAD COACH: Sean Kugler (4th season, 14-23)
- OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR: Brent Pease (1st season)
- DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR: Tom Mason (1st season)
- Brent Pease, Quarterbacks (1st season)
- Tom Mason, Linebackers (1st season)
- Brian Natkin, Tight Ends/Special Teams Coordinator (5th season)
- Cornell Jackson, Running Backs (4th season)
- Spencer Leftwich, Offensive Line (4th season)
- Andrew Browning, Defensive Line (4th season)
- Derrius Bell, Cornerbacks (1st season)
- Don Yanowsky, Safeties/Recruiting Coordinator (1st season)
- Theron Aych, Wide Receivers (1st season)
- 9/3 – New Mexico State
- 9/10 – at Texas
- 9/17 – Army
- 9/24 – Southern Miss*
- 10/1 – at Louisiana Tech*
- 10/8 – Florida International*
- 10/22 – at UTSA*
- 10/29 – Old Dominion*
- 11/5 – Houston Baptist
- 11/12 – at Florida Atlantic*
- 11/19 – at Rice*
- 11/26 – North Texas*
*Conference game
- Keith Sullivan, DE (Houston, TX)
- Antonio Dupree, RB (Baltimore, MD)
- Quardraiz Wadley, RB (Kennedale, TX)
- Joseph Pickney, S (Crosby, TX)
- Walter Dawn, RB (Mesquite, TX)
- Amorama Noel, TE (Houston, TX)
- Brannon Bullitt, WR (El Paso, TX)
- Kolbi McGary, LB (Cedar Hill, TX)
- Tiano Tialavea, DT (Seattle, WA)
- Richie Rodriguez, WR (El Paso, TX)
- Christian Johnson, DE (El Paso, TX)
- Justin Rogers, CB (Los Angeles, CA)
- Bobby Deharo, OL (El Paso, TX)
- Mark Torrez, QB (El Paso, TX)
- Broderick Harrell, CB (Wolfforth, TX)
- Tanner Stallings, OL* (Sterling, KS)
- Josh Ortega, DT (El Paso, TX)
- Dedrick Simpson, LB (Houston, TX)
- Kevin Dove, FB (El Campo, TX)
- Jared Goldwire, OL (Covington, WA)
- Dylan Parsee, LB (San Angelo, TX)
- Eric Foster, CB (El Paso, TX)
- Sione Tupou, LB (Allen, TX)
- Ronald Awatt, RB (Wolfforth, TX)
- Peytton Pickett, RB (Arlington, TX)
*Junior college transfer
Bold indicates early enrollee.
- QB – Zack Greenlee (Jr., Stockton, CA)
- RB – Aaron Jones (R-Jr., El Paso, TX)
- FB – Darrin Laufasa (Sr., Bothell, WA)
- WR – Jaquan White (Sr., Lancaster, TX)
- WR – Tyler Batson (Jr., Spring, TX)
- TE – Hayden Plinke (Sr., Hillsboro, OR)
- LT – Jerome Daniels (Sr., Little Elm, TX)
- LG – Will Hernandez (Jr., Las Vegas, NV)
- C – Derron Gatewood (So., Odessa, TX)
- RG – Derek Elmendorff (Jr., El Paso, TX)
- RT – John De La Rosa (Sr., Bay City, TX)
- DE – Luke Elsner (Jr., Seymour, WI)
- NT – Christian Harper (Sr., Houston, TX)
- DE – Mike Sota (So., Placentia, CA)
- LB – Nick Usher (Sr., Los Angeles, CA)
- LB – Cooper Foster (Sr., Cedar Park, TX)
- LB – Silas Firstley (Sr., Mesquite, TX)
- LB – Alvin Jones (Jr., El Paso, TX)
- CB – Kalon Beverly (So., New Orleans, LA)
- CB – Nik Needham (So., Buena Park, CA)
- SS – Dashone Smith (Sr., Spring, TX)
- FS – Devin Cockrell (R-Jr., Port Arthur, TX)
- K – Jay Mattox (Sr., Las Vegas, NV)
- P – Alan Luna (Sr., El Paso, TX)
- New offensive coordinator Brent Pease brings experience and enthusiasm as he attempts to breathe life into a sluggish Miners offense. Four starters return on a big, physical offensive line, and running back Aaron Jones is back after a knee injury wiped out almost all of his 2015 season.
- The Miners have the makings of a quality defensive line, recording multiple sacks in spring scrimmages. UTEP is transitioning from a 4-3 to a 3-4 front under new coordinator Tom Mason, but the adjustments have been relatively smooth. Mason, most recently the DC at Hawaii, adheres to a bend-but-don't-break philosophy that emphasizes speed.
- The Miners have both continuity and consistency on special teams. Placekicker Jay Mattox and punter Alan Luna, both seniors, could push for all-conference honors.
- Who is the quarterback? The Miners lost their presumed starter, junior Mack Leftwich, to a season-ending shoulder injury in spring practice. Sophomores Ryan Metz and Kavika Johnson, both of whom split time with Leftwich in 2015, battled in the spring without an obvious winner. The 6'4″ Metz has a strong arm and led UTEP to a few victories last fall, but Johnson is more athletic. However, neither QB impressed in the spring game, and the job will remain open until Fresno State graduate transfer Zack Greenlee arrives in the fall. Greenlee will have two years of eligibility remaining at UTEP.
- There's not much depth at linebacker, and in a new 3-4 scheme, that could be troublesome. Leading returning tackler Alvin Jones (twin brother of Aaron Jones) is talented and experienced, but he needs help.
- The Miners were vulnerable to the pass last season and need to create more turnovers. Depth and experience could be concerns at cornerback. Sophomores Kalon Beverly and Nik Needham were picked on as true freshmen, but they'll be key cogs in the rotation again.
The Miners have a friendly schedule – they only leave the state of Texas twice – and there's a good mix of talent and experience on the roster. As usual with Sean Kugler-coached teams, there's a lot of talent and size in the trenches, and running the ball should be a strength if Jones stays healthy.
Questions remain at quarterback and in the secondary. A group of undersized receivers also needs to take a step forward. Six new assistant coaches will bring with them new philosophies, and it all needs to mesh well in order for UTEP to go bowling again.
6-6 (4-4 in C-USA)


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Judd Apatow sat down in his cluttered home office not long ago and introduced himself to Ram Dass, the spiritual teacher and author of the seminal book on meditation, Be Here Now. Apatow, the comic visionary and director of the seminal scene on male body waxing, has long been a fan of the octogenarian guru. So when someone from Ram Dass's staff reached out to see if Judd would interview the old seeker, who lives in Hawaii, via Skype, Apatow had eagerly said yes.
Now, with Ram Dass's Santa-at-Woodstock visage filling his computer screen, Apatow launched into a personal plug for the sage's books, all of which he owns. "People, you need to get them," he told those who might someday be listening on ramdass.org. "I'm still a deranged man, but they help me with that." When he asked Ram Dass about his most famous work—"You don't think it should be Be Here 10 Minutes from Now?"—a chuckle could be heard from 2,500 miles away. Then Apatow, who estimates he's read 10,000 self-help books (with titles like _Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism _and The Wisdom of Insecurity), admitted his limitations as an interviewer: "I really only want to ask you questions about me."
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Things got a bit more serious, though, when the topic shifted to storytelling, and Apatow told Ram Dass that connecting to emotion is always "where the obstacles are" in his films. At that, Ram Dass pointed to his own mostly bald head. "Here is the judge," he said. Then he pointed to his heart. "_Here _is the yuck. There's really humor here—the humor of wisdom."
This idea resonated with Apatow. The heart-head split, after all, is central to his work. Whether co-writing an episode of HBO's Girls with Lena Dunham or hammering out the script to his next directorial effort, _This Is 40, _due out just before Christmas, Apatow is usually striving to create likable, flawed characters who have good intentions but bad communication skills. Their heads, in other words, sometimes fail their hearts.
At the same time, he has spent the last decade mentoring so many actors and writers and directors with similar narrative goals that he has seemed almost a mini-studio unto himself. Since his breakout film in 2005, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Apatow has had a hand in writing, directing, or producing eighteen movies, from _Superbad _to Knocked Up to Bridesmaids. More than anyone working in entertainment today, he has shaped what an entire generation finds hilarious.
"He is a brand," says his friend Paul Feig, who created Freaks and Geeks, the short-lived but critically heralded TV show that Apatow ecutive-produced and helped write and direct back in the '90s. "You go anywhere in the Midwest, you walk into any mall, you say 'Judd Apatow,' and most people know who you're talking about."
The Skype session with Ram Dass came at a time, however, when Apatow was reevaluating his place in the Hollywood superstructure—or at least how he wanted to spend his working hours. Apatow says this latest film, which is largely inspired by his relationship with his wife and chief collaborator, the actress Leslie Mann, and their kids, has been great fun to make. And yet when Ram Dass noted that people too often get stuck in the roles they play—"role of funnyman, role of teacher, role of giver"—Apatow found himself really leaning in.
"Ram Dass was talking about how people tend to take on a role and it closes you off from so much of who you are and what you could be. It blew my mind," he told me in August, when I visited him at his three-story production office in Los Angeles. He was wearing his standard uniform that morning: a Penguin polo shirt, long khaki cargo shorts, and Nikes with ankle-high tube socks—a look that Dunham likens to "your handsome cousin who is not aware of his own power and so continues to wear shirts he was given for free at bar mitzvahs." But though Apatow appeared exactly like he always does on the outside, he was soon to reveal that something was different within. Evidently Apatow had taken the guru to heart. As he prepared for his fourth and most personal film to hit theaters, he intimated that it might also be his last personal film. He has, he told me, a new role for himself in mind.


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Zarah Coombs
A murderous Brooklyn mom can't remember any of the grim details from the night she allegedly beat her 4-year-old son to death, reports Daily News.
The woman identified as Zarah Coombs wept during jailhouse interview Saturday, claimed she blacked out — and didn't learn of her boy Zamair's death until hours later from police.
"My life is over," said Coombs before breaking down in sobs. "Nothing will ever be the same. My baby's gone and it's my fault ... I wish I could hold him, and hug him, and tell him that I love him."
The 26-year-old woman had told the police she killed Zamair by beating the helpless child with a broomstick in their basement apartment Wednesday night, sources said.
She was said to have become angry when Zamair accidentally dropped an egg on the floor of their home, sources said.
But Coombs said she only remembers that the boy was trying to help her with the cooking. Now the lost little boy's face dominates her tortured thoughts.
"Every time I close my eyes, I see his face, hear his voice," said Coombs. "I just talk to him all night."
Her two younger kids, ages 1 and 1 month, were crying as the TV blared and Zamair tried to get her attention, recalled Coombs.
"I just heard noise," she said. "Noise from my own head. TV. Crying." When she snapped out of her funk, Coombs said she saw Zamair lying on the floor. "He was humming," she recalled. "He looked at me, but didn't say anything. I said 'OK, baby.' I just thought he needed to be held, loved, to be sang to, given a warm bath, a good meal."
The mom then placed the little boy inside a plastic storage tub that doubled as their bathtub. Coombs says she fell asleep while feeding her infant and woke up when her boyfriend came home. By then it was too late for Zamair.
Boyfriend Jamari Richardson woke her up to say the little boy had slipped under the water in the bin. "And I said, 'What do you mean, under? There's barely any water. There's nothing to go under,'" recounted Coombs.
Richardson performed CPR on the dying child, who was revived another three times at the hospital before passing away. The helpless victim had cuts, bruises and abrasions on his neck and body, according to police.
The medical examiner, in ruling the case a homicide, found the cause of death was multiple blunt-impact injuries.
Police sources indicated that Coombs claimed she was stressed out by caring for the two younger siblings. She had four kids, and three of them lived with her and Richardson.
Neighbors said Coombs showed no emotion as her son's battered body was taken out of their Brownsville apartment building. The mom was home alone with the three kids because her live-in boyfriend was out buying marijuana, sources said.
Coombs was placed on suicide watch after her Thursday arrest on murder charges. She only realized that her son was dead while in police custody, she says.
"I lost it," she said. "That was a panic attack, not an anxiety attack. If I could have banged my head any harder and banged it open, I would have done it. My heart was ripped out. My blood ran cold."
Coombs worked at a Bushwick day center owned by her family, with past customers there recalling her fondly.


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The IABC International Executive Board – aka #IABCieb – recently held its fifth board meeting of this term and here's a quick recap of what was on the table in addition to the usual reports from the Chair; Vice Chair Dianne Chase (with a specific focus on the work of the Council of Regions (#IABCcor); Financials from Treasurer Ginger Homan ABC and last definitively but not least, the report from our Executive Director, Carlos Fulcher MBA CAE:
Following on from the discussion at the September board meeting, the board reflected further on the decision to focus more tightly on our core audience at the international level.
Another recommendation that came out of the portfolio review is to bring clearer definition to the value of membership. Now this is of course work that is already well underway in the form of the Membership Task Force, led by Claudia Vaccarone with support from our Director of Membership, Stephanie Doute CAE – and with a strong team of leaders providing input. In parallel, and in order to accelerate this broader work, the board has directed the senior management team to explore how IABC's website might enable better differentiation of access to content based on whether one is a casual visitor or a full member. The work on further refining and focusing in IABC's portfolio and the association alignment work will continue meanwhile.
Linked to the above, the board discussed the latest membership figures and Carlos Fulcher MBA CAE reported on the latest work on the iabc.com website which has made joining (and renewing) a smoother experience. Moving IABC's technology infrastructure into the 21st century after ten years of underinvestment continues to be hard work, but progress is being made. I continue to be in awe of the effort being put in by our hard-working HQ staff – and our leaders in the field – to serve members around the world. Thankyou!
October is an incredible important time for IABC as it is the time of year when many are coming up for renewal. With support from our hard working Director of Global Communication, Melissa Dark ABC, a set of fabulous campaign materials are out there, ready and available for leader use.
I count on you to help create connection and grow the value of our shared network. You can read my full call-to-action here – and I hope you will do your bit to be recognised as a Very Important Communicator (to find out what that entails, you'll have to read this).
The board approved the work plan for 2016 Theomary Karamanis PhD brought to the board, with support from our Education Director, Ron Hansen EdD and his staff. The next step being budget discussions.
Since the June 2015 report the Academy has progressed significantly.
The Academy identified two subcommittees to provide a focus on
key objectives, as described in the approved Terms of Reference:
a) The curriculum subcommittee, focusing on pedagogy, curriculum and related tasks
b) The strategic plan subcommittee, focusing on strategic planning, branding and policies and procedures for the Academy
Meet the international team behind this here – and also big thanks to Sharon Hunter for her ongoing strategic liaison work with this team.
The board received an encouraging progress report from Stacy Wilson ABC for the 2016 World Conference coming up in New Orleans. Hundreds of applications to speak have been received. The next big challenge is for the super-sized Programme Advisory Committee (PAC) to work through all these applications, using the objective review process and then the creation of the final programme. I am pleased to say that a number of exciting keynotes are also being shortlisted.
The PAC is also working on rethinking the Foundation Luncheon and the Circles of Wisdom.
I am also pleased to report that PAC Vice Chair Sarah McLaughlin is working closely with the leaders of the Gift of Communication as well as liaising closely with the local New Orleans Chapter for support around Dine-Around and more.
People go to World Conference – [and the many Regional Conferences such as those coming up next week: Denver, Baltimore, Calgary, and Rotterdam early next year] – in order to build their communications skills.
Leaders also go to Leadership Institutes. To build their leadership skills. And again, they happen around the world: Minneapolis and Johannesburg earlier in the year, Basel just last week and Sydney in November – to mention a few of the Regionals.
These tend to be smaller and more tightly focused on the unique challenges within a Region – and the board appreciated Dianne Chase's update from her attendance at the Europe, Middle East and North Africa Leadership Institute in Basel. The board is grateful to the teams who put events like this together (and thanks to IEB colleague Ron Fuchs for hosting). Not to mention all the leaders who turn out to share their ideas, insight and passion. Whilst the market continues to be challenging, it sounds like there is a clear plan in place to face it head-on.
Global leaders also need a global perspective – as good practice knows no borders. To that end IABC leaders from across the globe convene once a year at what we call fondly call #IABCLI. Dianne Chase presented the preliminary programme from the Council of Regions, who oversee this programme with support from Micayala Felicion MBA.
Whether you've been to one or not, I hope to see you this coming February in Los Angeles. Please mark your calendar:
One of the cornerstones of the current three-year strategy is increased reputation in the profession and better brand positioning – and one of the routes to achieving this is by stepping up our own practice of communication. Here's a direct quote from Katie Macaulay's report from the Communications Committee to the board – a first sharing of ideas to test the ground:
The next few years can be viewed in two ways – as a struggle for survival in a competitive and demanding marketplace, or as an exciting and unique opportunity.
Membership associations around the world are struggling to remain relevant and commercially viable due to the countless ways professionals can now connect with each other, receive support and promote their disciplines.
However, there is good news. The value of communication – in business and society – has never been better understood.
Communicators are playing an increasingly strategic role inside their organizations as the business community recognizes that success hinges on having a clear, credible and differentiating message.
So, despite a tough market, there has never been a better time to promote our profession and connect with communicators.
To help in this task, we have a new vision for non-member communication – to demonstrate the power of our profession.
The board welcomed the initial thoughts shared and asked Katie to come back to the board following further work by her Committee as well as broader stakeholders. Also big thanks to Ron Fuchs and Melissa Dark ABC for their ongoing liaison work.
At the November meeting, in addition to the Comms Committee returning, the Membership Committee reporting initial findings we will also look at board evaluation.
Before that? Well, a fair number of us are hitting the road next week: Dianne is heading to Calgary for the Canada West conference and Carlos, Ginger and I will be at the Southern Region Conference in Denver. Both Carlos and I will then go onto the Heritage Region conference in Baltimore. I hope to see you there – even if you're not planning on travelling.
How? Join the next IABC Leadership Forum online. Details here.
Meanwhile, thanks for all you do.
Let's #createconnection like never before.


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Warning!!!! great images of fully clothed women.
Note: Steve McCurry is an extremely well known National Geographic photographer whose work in Afghanistan (inlcuding the iconic woman against the green wall) made him world famous.
Hit this link for an interview. When you see the top photo you'll know exactly which image I was referring to: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/100best/multi1_interview.html
Lots of amazingly talented people out there. He's one.
Thanks to ultra observant VSL reader, Gerald, for the heads-up on this one. Well done.


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The Aquincum Hotel Budapest is a five star spa hotel located on the banks of the Danube (Buda side) facing Margaret Island, very close to the city center. It offers wellness services and a thermal bath to those who want to relax in the Hungarian capital, as well as excellent conference facilities for those coming to the city for bussiness trips.
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number of rooms: 310
number of floors: 4
refurnished in: 2000
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text: Coloring is one of the most beneficial activities for all kids as it gives your kids many advantages for their development. Coloring can help children develop the muscles in finger, hands and wrists which will later help them with writing and all the other activities they do with their hands. The activity of coloring can also play a big role in bringing you and your kids together as this is something you can do together and just have fun coloring. Here are some Kids coloring pages.