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WYEP began broadcasting in 1974, started by a group of volunteers from the Pittsburgh community. Since then, the faces and locations have changed, but WYEP remains committed to providing a fresh alternative music choice in the city.
Below are a few milestones in the history and development of the station where the music matters and our sister-station, 90.5 WESA, Pittsburgh's NPR News Station.
John Sutton is appointed General Manager of 90.5 WESA, and Patrick Doyle is appointed News Director.
WYEP produces its first all-digital version of its Year In Review (December).
The boards of directors of independent public radio stations 91.3 WYEP and 90.5 WESA merged under the rules of the Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corp., creating a single 501(c)3 nonprofit entity positioned to serve western Pennsylvania with quality news, information and music programming. Longtime media executive Terry O'Reilly is appointed CEO and President of Pittsburgh Commmunity Broadcasting in August.
Martin Sexton, Lone Bellow, Kopecky were featured performers at WYEP's annual Summer Music Festival in June; Reimagination artists Bridget McCrum, The Annajames Band, and Vitamin TV opened.
WYEP celebrates its 40th anniversary.
WYEP spends more time out in the community than ever before! With music events like Final Fridays or Allegheny County outdoor concerts to philanthropic efforts like teaming up with Bike to Feed Families. The station also premieres a video component to wyep.org, featuring Live & Direct performances in our studio.
Lee Ferraro retires as WYEP General Manager after 16 years of service. Greg Joseph steps in as interim general manager (May);
Abby Goldstein, a veteran public radio executive, joins WYEP as general manager. (November)
Essential Public Media, a local, wholly-owned subsidiary of WYEP, is granted the license transfer of WDUQ-FM by Duquesne University. (July)
Essential Public Media takes official ownership of 90.5FM, formerly WDUQ-FM and is identitfied as Essential Public Radio, WESA-90.5 FM. It is Pittsburgh's only independent public radio news and information station. (September)
Afternoon Mix Host Rosemary Welsh celebrates 30 years of on-air service to WYEP. (September)
The World Cafe at the Warhol celebrates its 10th summer taping a week's worth of programs in Pittsburgh. This also marks the final year for this collaboration as World Cafe host David Dye decides to cut down his traveling to focus on his family and new World Cafe programming initiatives. (June)
WYEP adds two new staff positions: Director of Content & Programming and Education & Outreach Director. The Director of Content will be responsible for creative concepts for broadcast programs, internet content, and WYEP Community Broadcast Center venue programming. The E&O position will focus on developing a comprehensive education and outreach plan serving K-12, college and university, and adult populations. (March)
The WYEP Community Broadcast Center receives a LEED-NC Silver rating, making it environmentally friendly and "the first green station in the nation". (September)
Rosemary Welsch celebrates her 25th year as a WYEP on-air Host. (September)
WYEP opens its doors and welcomes approximately 2,500 people to tour the new facility and watch live performances from 14 acts including Dar Williams, The Holmes Brothers, and Raul Malo. (February)
The 19,084 square-foot WYEP Community Broadcast Center is completed. (January)
The "Turn It Up!" Capital Campaign goal is reached and culminates in a $350,000 Kresge Foundation grant. In all, $3.7 million is pledged by Foundations and 1,700 listeners to make the Center possible. (September)
WYEP hosts a "Raise the Roof" Gala at the on-going worksite of The WYEP Community Broadcast Center and in Bedford Square on the South Side. The fundraiser will become an annual fall fundraising event, called "Rock the Block". (August)
The official groundbreaking ceremony for The WYEP Community Broadcast Center at 67 Bedford Square takes place, and is attended by local political figures and celebrities including Allegheny County Chief Executive Dan Onorato, and former Pittsburgh Steelers Lynn Swann and Mike Tomczak. (January)
WYEP celebrates its 30th Anniversary with a month-long celebration which included a Patty Griffin benefit concert and the first time WYEP held a release party for "Live & Direct", which was a special three-disc collection that year.
The public phase of "Turn It Up!" Capital Campaign begins. (April)
WYEP starts research on, and eventually conducts, a feasibility study to determine if community support would be in place to launch a capital campaign. (January)
The WYEP Staff & Board concludes that the future of WYEP lies in creating a permanent home for WYEP, a structure that is something more than just a radio station. A Broadcast Center that would not only be a community gathering place, but one that would be environmentally sound in adherence to the station's mission and goals. (July)
The first "Live & Direct" CD, a two-disc collection of In-Studio performances is released. (December)
WYEP celebrates its 25th Anniversary with an open house and a block party celebration with other local organizations. (April)
WYEP forms a new partnership with The World Cafe and The Andy Warhol Museum to produce the first WYEP Summer Music Festival and World Café at The Warhol. (June)
The Year in Review booklet, a look back at the top 50 musical releases and important WYEP and community events from the previous year, debuts.
WYEP moves its studios from Chatham College campus to 2313 East Carson Street on Pittsburgh's South Side. The new studios have twice the space of the old studios, and win an architectural design award. (October)
WYEP installs new transmitter, increasing signal strength to cover a radius of approximately 50 miles. (July)
WYEP hires Midday and Afternoon Hosts, thereby having fulltime on-air staff mornings, middays and afternoons. (June)
WYEP receives a grant from NTIA/PTFP for the purchase and installation of a new transmitter. (September)
WYEP launches Kaleidoscope with host Rosemary Welsch, the station's first paid Host and the beginning of the station's music mix. (June)
WYEP moves to new studios at Chatham College, hires first paid staff in nearly a decade, improves visibility in community, revamps programming and begins broadcasting in stereo.
WYEP obtains foundation and government grants to purchase equipment for new studios to be constructed at a yet to be determined location.
WYEP hosts largest fundraising concert in its history, marking an important beginning in the station's turnaround. WYEP signs off the air leaving Cable Place to begin critical reorganization.
WYEP moves transmitter to a tower in Hazelwood, increasing power from 850 watts to 18,200 watts and changes frequency from 91.5FM to 91.3FM.
WYEP expands to a full time staff using a CETA grant.
WYEP signs on the air at 91.5FM from the studios in the basement at 4 Cable Place in South Oakland.


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My friend Mel has scolded me for letting Veterans Day go by this month without writing something about Our War, as he calls World War II.
Mel spent three years in uniform during that conflict, as a multitude of other now-rickety grandfathers did. He didn't do any fighting because the Army found out he was good at fixing things, and he spent two of those three years teaching recruits how to maintain and repair airplane engines.
Which may mean he did more toward winning the war than most of the guys who flew the airplanes, but that's just a left-handed guess.
Anyway, Mel is always pushing me to write about that war. He seems afraid Our War will be almost forgotten, since several others have come along since the '40s. And new ones are threatening to flame up almost daily.
Those who'll never forget a war are the ones who took part in it. Being involved in such an upheaval is not forgettable. Even if your involvement was training airplane mechanics at Wichita Falls. Or doing without new shoes and waiting for somebody you love to come back home.
My memory of WWII has changed. I don't think about the shooting and the bombing any longer. But I can lie in bed at night and revisit dozens of places and faces from those times, more than 70 years ago. And they have nothing to do with fighting or killing.
Sometimes I think again of Billy P., nose gunner on our B-24 crew. When he wasn't flying, he was gambling. And he was good.
That dude almost never lost at cards. He'd come in the tent at 2 o'clock in the morning carrying a wad of lira big enough to gag a crocodile. He'd been up in the mess hall playing Seven-card Stud with the cooks, and the next morning he'd get a money order and send all that cash to his mother in Illinois.
He must have sent a junior-grade fortune home during the year we were in Italy. Thousands of dollars. He always talked about getting back home and opening a night club.
I can see the solemn face of a 12-year-old Italian boy named Gino. He wasn't supposed to be on the base, but he'd slip in, at night, and sell us bread his mother baked and sometimes a couple of fresh eggs. It always boosted my spirit, knowing that hens were alive, and laying, in that pitiful country laid waste by the war.
Last week, I woke up about 2 a.m. and thought I could hear Lt. Block singing. He was from Los Angeles and copilot on our crew.
The summer of '44, we were on Capri for rest camp. One afternoon we were all strolling on a street of that island city and suddenly Block jumped up on a bench and began singing. The Barber of Seville, in perfect Italian.
He sang in a strong, beautiful voice. A number of Italians stopped to listen, and applauded when he finished. We were amazed. He sounded like a pro. We'd had no hint he could sing a note, and I never heard him sing another after we went back to the base to finish the war.
Then here's one of my favorite memories from those strange years: In Nebraska, during training early in '43, I was on a softball team that just beat the whey out of everybody we played. I loved this because at home I was accustomed to being on teams that got beat all the time.
That GI team was just thrown together, overnight, from volunteers, and it was almost perfectly balanced. We had six states represented in the line-up.
We had two good pitchers and an experienced catcher. We had four infielders who could actually scoop up a hot ground ball and whip it over. We had outfielders with strong arms. The hitters ranged nicely from bunters to power. We didn't even need a manager to make out a batting order. It made itself out.
I wish you could have seen us play. And how long were we together? Maybe six weeks. Then the Army broke us up and scattered us overseas.
Now, before I quit: The other day after Mel had fussed at me about WWII, I heard Glenn Miller's old number, Moonlight Serenade, on the car radio. Made me think about the time I heard that record when I was most glad to hear it.
It was spun on short-wave radio by the Nazi propagandist, Axis Sally, while our old B-24 squadron was flying over the Adriatic, probably on the way to Munich, or maybe Vienna.
She was an American, and was eventually caught and tried and convicted of treason. Her broadcasts were intended to demoralize U.S. troops, make us homesick.
But thousands of us listened to her music and enjoyed it. We were already homesick anyway, and where else were we going to hear Glenn Miller?


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When a Japanese celeb reportedly lost 24 pounds on the Banana Diet, books on the regimen — touting all-you-can-eat banana breakfasts — flew off shelves, resulting in a countrywide shortage of the fruit.
How the diet works: Bananas contain fiber and "resistant starch," making them hunger-killers. Tepid water, consumed with the bananas, also promotes fullness. Nix sweets and add a sensible lunch and dinner (eaten before 7 p.m.).
Why it'll fail: Forgoing sweets is a prelude to a binge — so are one-note meals. Sooner or later, you'll be speeding off to IHOP.


text: For over three decades, Albert Griffiths and his Gladiators have been a major force within Jamaican music. Born in 1946, in St. Elizabeth parish, he grew up in poverty in Trench Town, and trained as a mason. However, music beckoned, and linking with David Webber, brother of the popular Webber Sisters, the pair auditioned around the studios, but to no avail. Thus it was back to masonry, where Griffiths was now working alongside the Ethiopians' Leonard Dillon under a foreman, Leebert Robinson, also looking to enter the music industry. Griffiths convinced Robinson to fund a recording session; with the Supersonics providing accompaniment, the Ethiopians cut "Train to Skaville," backed by Griffiths' "You Are the Girl," credited to Al & the Ethiopians. "Train" was a smash, while "Girl" confirmed Griffiths' own potential. The following year, in 1968, Griffiths and Webber joined forces with Errol Grandison, and the Gladiators were born. The trio continued recording for Robinson, whilst also branching out to cut singles for Clive Chin and Duke Reid. But it was with Coxsone Dodd that the group first tasted success, when "Hello Carol" topped the Jamaican chart in late 1968. Unfortunately, it was at this point, that Webber began exhibiting signs of serious mental illness, and while the Gladiators continued sporadically recording, it was evident that Webber was becoming increasingly incapacitated. In his stead would come country boy Clinton Fearon. Fearon had arrived in Kingston at 16, and formed the short-lived vocal group the Brothers with two friends. The Brothers went nowhere, but Fearon was serious about music, and began lessons at the music school that Griffiths was now running. By this time, the elder man was also employed as a guitarist at Studio One, where Fearon would soon join him, first as rhythm guitarist, before switching to bass. However, family commitments drew Grandison away around this same time, and the Gladiators were now reduced to a duo. During this period, at the tail end of the '60s, the pair backed the likes of Burning Spear and Stranger Cole. Eventually, however, Griffiths picked Gallimore Sutherland out of his pool of students, a youth the Gladiator had first met back during his masonry days, and the group were a trio again. As the '70s dawned, the Gladiators continued notching up hits, including "Freedom Train" and "Rock a Man Soul," both cut for Lloyd Daley, and "The Race" for Randy's. However, across the first half of the decade, it was Studio One that released the bulk of the trio's recordings. Classic followed classic, as the trio unleashed a stream of roots masterpieces. "Roots Natty," "Bongo Red," "Jah Jah Go Before Us," and "Mr. Baldwin" were all huge hits in Jamaica, as well as storming across the British reggae underground. In 1974, Vivian "Yabby U" Jackson asked Griffiths and Fearon to provided musical backing for "Jah Vengeance," which was recorded at Lee "Scratch" Perry's Black Ark studios. Impressed, Perry employed the pair on a number of his own productions, while also producing a handful of the Gladiators' own songs, including "Time" and "Untrue Girl." Sadly, Perry and Griffiths' equally strong personalities clashed in the studio, and their partnership came to a rather abrupt end. In 1976, the Gladiators inked a deal with Virgin Records in Britain, and began work on their label debut with producer Prince Tony Robinson. The end result was the glorious Trenchtown Mix Up album, a set stuffed with hits, phenomenal revisions of earlier Studio One numbers including "Mix Up," a re-cut of "Bongo Red," and a couple of mighty Bob Marley covers thrown in for good measure. The trio followed this masterpiece up with the equally essential Proverbial Reggae in 1978 and completed the triptych of classic albums with Naturality the following year. Sweet So Til, which arrived in 1980, was almost as good. Meanwhile, Coxsone Dodd was busily digging into the vaults, unleashing a stream of Gladiators' singles, before finally disappointing just about everyone with Presenting the Gladiators, a compilation of the group's Studio One recordings which infuriatingly omitted a clutch of crucial numbers. Still, even as the Gladiators were virtually untouchable in Jamaica, they'd yet to really break out abroad, and thus in 1980, the trio joined with the king of crossover Eddy Grant, who oversaw the group's eponymous album. It was a major mistake, and won the group few fans, and lost them many of their older followers. Interest in reggae was fading, and back home DJs ruled the roost. Virgin soon closed the door of their reggae subsidiary Front Line, and turned their attention back to homegrown talent. By the early '80s, roots bands were expiring faster than journalists could write their obits. But the Gladiators weren't willing to call it a day yet. Now working with the U.S. reggae label Nighthawk, they unleashed two fabulous albums, 1982's Symbol of Reality, followed by Serious Thing in 1984. In 1993, Nighthawk released the equally crucial Full Time, bundling up an album's worth of recordings from this period. In 1985, the group moved to Heartbeat, where over the last half of the decade they unleashed a trio of excellent albums; Country Life arrived in 1985, In Store for You followed three years later, while their final set for the label, On the Right Track appeared in 1989. The first two albums were later reissued on CD under the title A Whole Heap. The Gladiators continued recording high-quality albums throughout the '90s, including Valley of Decision and A True Rastaman. Even the departure of Fearon during this period could not quell the Gladiators' spirit or Griffiths' drive. The group kicked off the new millennium with the Something a Gwaan!, for the RAS label. Like the Wailers, the Gladiators vocal abilities are matched by their musical talent, making them one of the rare Jamaican groups that actually are a band in the true sense of the word. Thus, while every vocal group has its own unique sound, the Gladiators created a distinct style, one that shone forth regardless of producer. Griffiths lyrics, filled with Biblical passages and parables, is equally notable, as is his astonishing ability to take inspiration from other artists' songs. The album Father and Sons, released in 2005 on Ras/Sanctuary, finds Griffiths working with his sons, singer Al Griffiths and drummer Anthony Griffiths, and has been represented as Griffiths' farewell to his fans, with his sons taking over and continuing the Gladiators name in the future. ~ Jo-Ann Greene


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If you haven't yet been on a mission awareness trip with CFCA, you can still connect with your sponsored friend in other ways. For the next few weeks, we'll feature five ways you can "visit" your friend.
Liberty Sementelli, left, helps women in Guatemala with their chocolate business. Read her amazing story of how she raised $1,500 for a chocolate grinding machine.
The first is:
1) Cook a meal native to your friend's ethnic cuisine.
You can learn a lot about a culture from its cuisine. For instance, why do countries with hot climates have hot food? Do the main dishes contain meat, or can they be made with vegetables (usually much more economical)?
Here are just a few suggestions:
- Curries from India
- Hot chocolate from Guatemala
- Ugali (a type of African cornbread) from Kenya and Tanzania
You can find many of these ethnic recipes online.
These make great family dinners and conversation starters. For instance, what is similar and what is different from your usual dining fare?
After sampling food from another country, consider writing about your meal in your next letter. You could also ask what your friend's favorite food is, and why.
Have you ìvisitedî your friend through food? If so, what dishes have you prepared or sampled?
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I. Reason 10+:a. For "Vanilla" Reason (No extra content needed):
- Gothixia: A patch dedicated to a music instructor of mine. Contains Thor and Europa patches inside a combi. Creates a deep energy tapped from the magmatic core of the earth. Beautiful BASS sound for choral to gothic cathedral-like sounds such as organ or carillon.
- Xercephone: A trombone/bassoon like patch spruced up with none other than the RV7000! Portamento toggle from front panel. A dark sound, much like gothixia. What lurks in the dark... Haha...
- Starfield: A synthetic string patch made with the grains of the universe sparkling above. But really, this patch contains Subtractor and optional reverb. Good for texture. If you like stars.
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Kenny says the Sox won't risk Peavy's rehabilitated ankle in their Sept. 3 makeup game at Wrigley Field (NL park) . Peavy will make his 2nd start minor-league on Tuesday wsith Charlotte, and then make one more start in the minors after that. Gregor adds that it looks like Peavy will debut on Aug. 28, at Yankee Stadium. After that Peavy's next start should be on Sept. 2 in the Sox final game at the Metrodome. Kenny adds he doesn't want Peavy to rush back, and be sure his ankle is OK when he returns.
UPDATE: Peavy is scheduled to throw 65 pitches tomorrow (Tuesday).


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US Supreme Court Reignites West Virginia Marriage Debate
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - West Virginians can expect the issue of same sex marriage to resurface in the Legislature and in the crucial 2014 elections after the U.S. Supreme Court weighed in on the matter.
The push for a constitutional amendment defining marriage as being between one man and one woman is certain to continue after last week's pair of rulings celebrated by same-sex marriage advocates. A divided Supreme Court struck down a provision of a federal law denying federal benefits to married gay couples, and in a separate decision legalized gay marriage in California on a technicality.
"I do think there's an urgency to it," said House Minority Leader Tim Armstead. "At the very least, it should be taken up during the next session."
While the Kanawha County Republican hopes Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin will consider calling a special session on the issue, Delegate Stephen Skinner questions whether the momentum has shifted away from gay marriage foes. A freshman Democrat and the Legislature's first openly gay member, Skinner previously headed Fairness West Virginia, a group that advocates for the state's estimated 57,000 gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender residents.
"It lets the air out of their tires," Skinner said, referring to the Supreme Court action. "There's really not much reason for a constitutional amendment, except to promote discrimination and promote homophobia."
West Virginia already defines marriage as being between a man and a woman. It also does not recognize same-sex marriages granted elsewhere, under state law provisions enacted in 2000. Advocates of a constitutional amendment argue that the statutes are insufficient and vulnerable to a legal challenge.
"We don't know when someone might file a lawsuit or have some other issue come up where a judge can review that issue," Armstead said. "I believe a majority of West Virginians want it defined as between one man and one woman. I think that means we need to go to the next step."
Armstead and fellow GOP delegates have repeatedly led the charge to put a proposed amendment on the ballot. But the necessary measure routinely idles in committee each session, never advancing. That recurring fate has sometimes prompted Republican-led efforts to force the stalled measure to the House floor. Democrats have blocked each attempt, arguing it violates the committee process. Saying the 2000 law is sufficient, they've also accused the GOP of grandstanding on a divisive social issue for political gain.
The marriage issue has indeed become election ad fodder in recent years, particularly during a failed multimillion-dollar bid by Republicans to capture the House in 2006. It seems certain to play a role in the high-stakes 2014 midterms. After significant gains last year, the GOP holds 46 of 100 House seats and is girding for a takeover. The entire House and half the 34-member Senate is up for election next year. Republicans haven't had a majority in either chamber since the 1930s.
But defining marriage in the West Virginia Constitution isn't solely a Republican goal. Five House Democrats, including House Majority Leader Brent Boggs of Braxton County, helped co-sponsor a bipartisan "Marriage Protection Amendment" proposal during this year's session. Like the GOP-only version, it remained bottled up in committee.
While the marriage amendment proposals have failed, so too have attempts to add sexual orientation to laws barring housing and job discrimination. During this year's legislative session, Skinner successfully had a bill amended in committee to bar such discrimination during jury selection - only to watch fellow Democrats help strip out that change when the measure reached the House floor.
"We don't need to go down the road of making special laws for anything for unique lifestyles," Delegate David Walker, a Clay County Democrat and a marriage amendment co-sponsor, said during that April debate.
The Supreme Court decisions have interest groups from both sides poised to weigh in both at the Legislature and with voters.
"These historic rulings do not end our work in the Mountain State," said Casey Willits, Fairness West Virginia's executive director.
The Family Policy Council of West Virginia, an evangelical Christian group, is a leading advocate of a marriage amendment. It has enlisted ministers from across the state to lobby their local lawmakers and legislative leaders. The group also took on criticism in 2009 for running an online ad that likened same-sex marriage supporters to snipers targeting families.
"Whatever else it got wrong, the (Supreme Court) was right to allow the debate over this most central institution of marriage to our society to continue," said Jeremiah Dys, the group's president. "We will continue to encourage West Virginia's elected representatives to do all that they can to strengthen and support marriage."


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GNU EDMA - Summary
This project is part of the GNU Project.
GNU EDMA is an open and modular development environment similar to the Component Object Model or the System Object Model. GNU EDMA allows to use most of the classic OO task (inheritance,virtual method override,..) dynamically .
Registration Date: Tue 17 Apr 2001 04:34:19 AM UTC
License: GNU Lesser General Public License
Development Status: 4 - Beta
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GNU/EDMA 0.18.6 and its graphical related tools are available for download from the GNU FTP site (http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/edma/).
This is a bug fix for the automake security vulnerabilities:
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A new minor release of GNU/EDMA has been committed to CVS. This release fixes some bugs from previous version and includes some minor improvements. Check the ChangeLog for details.
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This is basically a license fix release and documentation update.The previous package didn't include the COPYING.LESSER file (needed for LGPLv3 packages) and a couple of files didn't provide the proper headers.
Hope everything is OK now, but it will be great to get some feedback on this topic.
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GNU/EDMA 0.18.0 and its graphical related tools are available for download from the GNU FTP site (http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/edma/).
The main changes in this version can be found in the NEWS and Changelog files included in the packages.
This version has been compiled but not yet fully tested on darwin systems and on BeagleBoard (ARM platform). Most of the development and testing has been done on standard i386 PCs.
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Audio RecordingThe nation in arms Speech by Franklin K. Lane, U.S. Secretary of the Interior. "We are fighting Germany because she sought to terrorize us and then to fool us... Germany has never asked forgiveness of the world [for sinking the Lusitania]...Belgian starving ...piteous cries of children...friendly, harmless, terrorized people."
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The sand was deep and warm, the temperature was perfect, the water was cold without being freezing...it was one of those moments in life of sheer "Aaaaahhhh".
An unexpected bonus on this road trip was all of the fantastic little bead and jewelry shops along the 101 Hwy throughout Oregon and California. I wish I'd had more time to explore them. If anyone has a favorite shop along that route, share the info with me. I'd love to hear about it!


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It is this year's highest award for bravery and has been presented to just one Australian, but for Lyndy Nerandzic, her late husband's posthumous Star of Courage is a bittersweet honour.
Michael Nerandzic died in June 2011 after the airship he was piloting in Germany caught fire. Lowering the craft to a safe height, the 52-year-old ordered his three passengers to jump from the gondola knowing that the loss of ballast would send the airship shooting into the sky. As the blimp ascended, it took just seconds for the balloon to be engulfed by flames, the gondola and its pilot then crashing to the ground.
"To know that he hasn't slipped away and somebody thinks that he deserves to be awarded for what he did, I think it's just wonderful," Mrs Nerandzic said from her home in Berkeley on the NSW south coast. "It's tremendous, it makes me very emotional, it's not that I don't think of him every single day as it is but when something like this comes up, it really makes me proud."
Mr Nerandzic's act of courage leads the 39th Australian Bravery Decorations which have been awarded to 67 individuals and 11 groups across the country by Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove, who offered his congratulations to all recipients.
"We are fortunate as a community and as a nation to benefit from your contribution," the Governor-General said. "You now join the company of men and women whose actions have enriched our community and whose values we hold dear."
Mrs Nerandzic said the award had come out of the blue and that she was unaware her husband had even been nominated. While Mr Nerandzic has already been presented with two other bravery awards, a decoration from Australia, she said, was particularly touching.
The pilot flew businessman Alan Bond's blimp before going on to fly the Virgin airship for entrepreneur Richard Branson. He was one of the world's most experienced blimp pilots and boasted to his wife that there were more astronauts on earth than airship pilots.
"He loved what he did, he absolutely loved it, he always wanted to fly," said Mrs Nerandzic. "I wasn't aware of the dangers and each time he was interviewed on TV, the one thing he always said was 'Don't worry, you'll never die in an airship, they're so safe'."
After his death, Mr Nerandzic was praised by Mr Branson, who hailed the "selfless and courageous last act" of a "true hero".
Celebrations for the recognition would be muted, said Mrs Nerandzic, who will collect her husband's award from Government House.
"It's a great honour, but my husband's dead for it. Maybe I'll just visit his grave and tell him all about it."
Jarrad Townley, winner of a Bravery Medal, joins 21 others in the category, including his friend Troy Jorgensen. The two men helped rescue a dozen people from rising floodwaters in Kotara, Newcastle, in 2007.
"It's one of those things that you hope the next person would do, it was nothing outstanding," said Mr Townley, 27, a carpenter from Brighton-le-Sands. "It definitely wasn't something I thought I'd get a medal for. It's a proud moment, we just thank whoever nominated us - we have absolutely no idea who could have done it."
Two of 44 Commendation for Brave Conduct awards have been given to brothers Damien and Jacob Berry, who in 2012 rescued a woman from a Penrith petrol station fire after a botched robbery.
Group Bravery Citations include honours for paramedics involved in the Beaconsfield mine rescue in 2006, members of the Marysville Country Fire Authority who were involved in the Victorian bushfires in 2009 and members of the public whose efforts saved the lives of people caught in a rip in Yeppoon, Queensland, in 2012.
The highest bravery award in the land is the Cross of Valour, of which just five have ever been given.


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Find out what some of our students have to say about why they chose Loyola's Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program—and how they're using it in business, education, health care, research, communication, and countless other applications in their everyday lives
Jason Noe, M.A. '06, is a recruitment manager based in New York, N.Y., for the Northeast region at Wyndham Vacation Ownership.
I knew from what I had experienced working at a law firm and in corporate culture that I wanted to pursue an education that would help me develop a timeless and well-rounded set of skills and a deeper knowledge base about just about everything...
I started searching for educational options that would make sense and embrace free thinking. Loyola's Liberal Studies program came onto my radar and was immediately appealing for its rich diversity of topics.
The beauty of Liberal Studies is there is not much you don't or can't study. This program asks questions about everything: the past, the present, the future; history, politics, governments, countries, cultures, careers, and companies—everything that informs what goes on in our everyday lives.
You are reading and discussing and debating a whole host of topics which broaden and deeply enrich your knowledge base, topics that explain how we got we are and inform where we are headed. Classes cover things that should be important to us as Americans, including our history, our politics and economy, and bigger global issues.
This program certainly helped me build skills that translate to engaging with the people in my work and building better relationships.
It can help you do everything and anything, from conceiving a strategic plan to writing a white paper to even heightening your email skills through use of analogies and concise communication. This is a thoroughly interesting, broad-based degree that you will use every day.
Jeanne Hein, M.A. '13, is a manager for corporate communications at Baltimore Gas and Electric in Baltimore, Md.
After a successful 25-year career, I decided to challenge myself by applying to the Liberal Studies program at Loyola University. Although there were other academic choices, Loyola was highly recommended by BGE colleagues who had graduated from the both the Liberal Studies program and the MBA program.
I hadn't been in a traditional classroom setting in years and didn't quite know what to expect. Most of the students were years younger than me, some having just received an undergraduate degree. The class size was small, so there was no hiding, no blending in.
As each week passed, I became more confident, buoyed by the fact that although my first college experience had ended years earlier, I had considerable life experience—along with many years in a professional work environment. The curriculum was challenging, and learning how to successfully carve out enough time to read, write, study, and prepare for discussions each week took self-discipline. The teaching staff in the Liberal Studies program presented thought-provoking assignments and had high expectations for each student.
After my last class in December 2013, I walked out the door feeling a tremendous sense of accomplishment.
The liberal arts experience helped me grow, both personally and professionally. Every day, I put the skills learned during my time at Loyola into practice. Now I fully understand the Jesuit ideal of cura personalis—the education of the whole person.
Being part of the Liberal Studies program, with its emphasis on academic excellence and individual development, is something that will remain with me forever.
Starting a graduate program is a big investment. I knew the program I chose should have some substantial payoff, professionally speaking. Loyola's Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program was certainly the right choice. I'd leave each class feeling like my classmates and I dug deep into the bedrock of the universe. I'd wrestle with the material for days, teach it to others, blog about it, use it… I think this is what grad school is supposed to be about.
This program provides the perfect combination of collaboration, reading, discussion, and communication—all skills that I've needed for each career move I've made. I've been a youth pastor, a marketing agency CEO, a law firm communications guy, and the director of communications at an interactive and branding agency. The critical thinking and leadership skills I developed through this program are skills I use everywhere, all the time.
In addition, this program is about as flexible and student-focused as you can get, even if you have kids or commute. From the multiple locations to the non-linear course offerings, Loyola has created a program that really gets itself out of the way and lets students jump right into the learning experience. Every program should be like this—it's a model that actually makes sense for how people live and work today.
Pursing my master's degree at Loyola was extremely rewarding and probably the most fun I've had in a classroom. The friendships I've made with both professors and students are ones that I still maintain today, and for that I'm very grateful.
Astha Chopra, M.A. '14, is the director of Risk Adjustment Operations at Tenet Healthcare in Seattle, Wash.
What you learn in Loyola's Liberal Studies program, you'll find yourself recognizing and applying in your work. There were daily instances where what I had just read or learned or discussed in class came back into my job. In today's world, every one of us is a citizen in a global society. To really appreciate where we all come from and understand how we got where we all are, we need to understand history and cultural awareness and sensitivities. This is helpful for all of us, regardless of industry or profession.
The thinking and discussion and debate that go on in this very supportive and fun learning environment is stimulating and exciting. I highly recommend anyone who considers themselves a curious person to pursue this degree.
Deciding to pursue a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies will be the beginning of an exciting personal journey where you will be really made to think in ways you never have before about the world—and about yourself. It will challenge you to reflect on the world and how it all interacts, what is important to you and why, and what you are willing to do about it.
Jason Brown, M.A. '14, is currently pursuing publication for his memoir, which he started writing during the program, and has plans to apply to the doctorate of liberal studies program at Georgetown University.
I came to Loyola looking to change my life through educating my mind, spirit, and body. Through the Liberal Studies program, I found all of this possible.
I found the classroom discussions in liberal studies to be catalysts in developing new patterns of thinking. I was encouraged to question what had been generally accepted by most people, and fundamentally examine the basis for human interactions.
This analysis sent me on a search to find a whole new philosophy of life, one that could explain my existence to myself and (hopefully) to others.
The theory I have arrived at encompasses the Jesuit traditions in a modern manner that reflects the tremendous impact that this magnificent setting has had upon my education and my spiritual renewal.
Prior to commencement in May 2014, Jason Brown spoke to Loyola magazine about his personal story of redemption and what the liberal studies program meant to him. Read Jason's full interview.
Garrett McPartland, M.A. '13, teaches English & Theory of Knowledge, a course created by the International Baccalaureate Program, at Saint Edward High School in Lakewood, Ohio.


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'Man of Steel' review: Hardened 'Steel'
Man of Steel
Action. Starring Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Kevin Costner and Russell Crowe. Directed by Zack Snyder. (PG-13. 143 minutes.)
We had an abortive rebooting of the Superman saga seven years ago ("Superman Returns"), but with Zack Snyder's "Man of Steel" we have ignition. The movie answers the inevitable question - "No, really, this again?" - by doing two simple but difficult things: It hits the story from a different angle, and it maintains a reasonably high level of quality throughout.
The only inhibiting factor is that, here and there, "Man of Steel" shows symptoms of "Iron Man"-itis, with long battles that confuse the eye and call to mind a computer screen, not a movie screen. This is, alas, a modern disease, most virulent in June and July. It's also worth noting that of all of Snyder's pictures, "Man of Steel" is the least identifiable as his work.
The movie lacks the strong directorial signature, the strange dark intuition that made "Watchmen" and "300" so successful and even the failed "Sucker Punch" interesting. Yet if "Man of Steel" is Snyder at his most conventional, he's still more inspired and innovative than his competition.
Written by David S. Goyer and Christopher Nolan, the team who wrote "Batman Begins," this new entry could just as accurately have been called "Superman Begins," with its concentration on the angst of growing up different.
Worse than Earth
In true Goyer-Nolan fashion, Krypton is a lot like Earth, only worse. Its leaders are complacent, and the planet has a serious environmental problem: It is about to blow up. Until it does, Snyder has the opportunity to create a world of rock and dark metal, with little metallic pods with sunflower-like faces hovering everywhere. The pods are robots and sound something like the iPhone's Siri, but without the wit.
After the baby Superman is sent in a rocket ship to Earth, the screenplay does something quite shrewd, in terms of audience patience. It skips ahead to show Clark Kent (Henry Cavill) as a grown man, but then accounts for his childhood, in considerable detail, through flashbacks.
Because "Man of Steel" dares to take the Superman story seriously enough to pursue its real-world implications, we get to see how difficult it is for a little kid to live with X-ray vision. And we witness the gravity with which Superman's adoptive father (Kevin Costner) goes about raising a boy who can either save or wreck the world. Though he often comes across as a chatterbox in interviews, Costner is the best living actor at playing quiet American integrity and decency.
Emotional turbulence
We tend not to talk about Supermen the way we talk about James Bond, but if TV's George Reeves was Sean Connery, Cavill is Daniel Craig. He is in remarkable physical shape, possesses an underlying emotional turbulence and makes us believe that he really cares about people.
The 2006 "Superman Returns" was hampered by a villain that was more appealing than Superman. Here that's not an issue, not with a truly menacing and unhinged Michael Shannon as Gen. Zod, flying through the universe all bug-eyed and raving, ready to depopulate the Earth. And not with a woman of substance, such as Amy Adams' Lois Lane, in Superman's corner. Adams is as inspired a bit of casting as Kirsten Dunst was in the first "Spider-Man" series.
Somehow no planetary calamity counts for anything unless it happens in New York - known here as "Metropolis, where the likes of Perry White (Laurence Fishburne) and his Daily Planet staff can watch from the large picture windows. And so Metropolis takes an even bigger beating here than San Francisco took in "Star Trek Into Darkness."
What will future psychologists and historians see in our era's recurring fantasies of urban destruction? When Zod takes over the world's TV screens, it's like a moment out of a Cold War sci-fi from the 1950s. And while we're posing questions with no answers, why is Clark Kent identified as 33 years old, even though the actor playing him is only 30? Is Superman supposed to be the returned Jesus or a second messiah?
Glorious overkill
"Man of Steel" runs 143 minutes but would have been better at 125, with 18 minutes of street fights between super-human beings trimmed. There's really nothing interesting about watching equally matched super beings fight it out because we have no sense of their power - anything is possible, so nothing has meaning.
However, in whatever cut, the shot of Superman flying through an oil tanker and then a gas station, causing two explosions in his wake, deserves to be retained as a magnificent example of glorious summer overkill.
Mick LaSalle is The San Francisco Chronicle's movie critic. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @MickLaSalle Blog: Maximum Strength Mick at www.sfgate.com


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Charities chasing big-money donations might do well to think locally.
Of gifts to nonprofits of at least $1 million, 47% of the donations and 52% of the dollar value came from donors in the same state from 2000 to 2011, according to a study sponsored by CCS, a global fundraising, consulting and management firm. Sixty percent of such gifts came from donors in the same geographic region.
American individuals and foundations were the primary donors of million-dollar-plus gifts to charity, according to the study, which was conducted by the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.
"The opportunity to strengthen one's community can be highly attractive to potential donors," Robert Kissane, president of CCS, said in a statement. "Nonprofit organizations that effectively communicate potential impact and seek out the right local donors may experience transformational gifts."
Individuals gave about a third of publicly announced gifts of $1 million or more. Add in bequests, and individuals contributed 40% of all such gifts and 65% of the total dollar amount.
Foundations made 43% of million-dollar-plus gifts, which accounted for 25% of the total dollar value.
The study analyzed data from the philanthropy school's Million Dollar List database of publicly reported charitable gifts of $1 million or more to 12 different types of U.S. charities.
The study found that a small but growing number of million-dollar gifts were coming from donors outside the U.S.
Foundations and higher-education institutions each received about a third of total dollar value of gifts at this level. Other types of organizations evenly split the remaining dollars, with none of the latter receiving more than 10% of publicly announced million-dollar-plus gifts.
These were arts, culture and humanities organizations, environmental groups and international organizations.
Million-dollar-plus gifts fluctuated dramatically in both number and dollar amount during the 12-year study period. Giving at this level to most types of organizations dropped from 2001 to 2003 and again from 2008 to 2010, with some pickup in 2011.
Donations to arts, culture and humanities organizations and environmental groups were most sensitive to economic fluctuations, whereas health and human services groups were least sensitive to shifts in the economy.
High-dollar gifts from individuals were more affected by economic changes than were those from foundations and corporations.
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Welcome to Diaz Farms
We are a three generation family owned and operated farm in Deming, New Mexico, near the Hatch Valley. Our farm started back in 1963 and since then we've been working hard to grow flavorful New Mexico Green Chile, red chile, onions, melons, hay, pinto beans and many other types of produce.
Through our website you'll be able to order great New Mexico red and green chile products, pinto beans and other products unique to Southern New Mexico. Take a look around our New Mexico chile shop and our growing collection of authentic New Mexico recipes.
If you are ever in the area, please stop by our lively market and pick up some chile or just say HOLA!
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~I'm no longer producing wine, but I like to keep abreast of what's going on in viticulture and viniculture, so I attend seminars that are offered locally by Cornell University's Geneva Agricultural Station, in the Finger Lakes region of New York, my hometown.
~Tomorrow I am on my way to the agricultural station for a seminar on yeast trials with Riesling, the regions' premier grape variety (I'll write about the results later).
~A few weeks ago I attended a Riesling clone trial at the agricultural station, the results of which may surprise one or two wine critics and globe-trotting consultants.
In viticulture, cloned vines are developed from parent grape species and varieties to try to capture certain characteristics both for viability in a region and for desired results in the wine.
One way to test whether or not developed clones—or clones in development—produce the desired results is of course a series of trials that subject the clones to the same treatment to see how they respond.
~The Riesling trial concerned two clones and wines produced from the grapes of each clone grown at four separate Finger Lakes vineyard locations.
~The grapes were handled in the same manner from site to site, all stats—sugar, acids, alcohol, etc.—were set at the same standards plus the winemaking process was also the same for all wines. The idea was to find out whether under the exact conditions one clone or another produced an identifiably superior or at least different wine.
~The experiment was done for winemakers and so the room was filled with them. Other than the academics who attended, I was the only non-winemaker in attendance. But like the local winemakers, I have had extensive experience with local Rieslings, so my familiarity with the various attributes of Riesling produced on each of the major Finger Lakes production zones was in line with the rest of the crowd.
~The eight wines we tasted represented three of the lakes: Cayuga, Seneca, and Keuka, and it seemed that piece of information turned out to be the most important in the trials, that and the specific location of the vineyard sites.
~Generally, the group was not much enamored with the wines—they were neither representative nor consistent with the quality we have come to associate with Finger Lakes Riesling. In fact, one or two samples didn't even taste like Riesling. The clones themselves did not impress us.
~What did impress us, however, was that we could tell the differences among the wines based on their site location.
~It wasn't that we could identify with accuracy exactly where the grapes had been grown, although in one case it was obvious to me. It was that, even though the grapes and wines had been produced with the exact stats and in the exact production method, as well as at the same production facility, there was something unique about each wine.
~We unanimously decided that the unique quality that we had identified in each wine likely had to do with the four separate vineyard sites—put another way: terroir appears to have made the difference.
In a great deal of winemaking, certainly in a great deal of wine criticism, prevailing wisdom places importance for wine's uniqueness and wonder squarely on the winemaking process.
In life, nothing is so damned conclusive, let alone self-assured, as a wine critic—and that can certainly be said both for what it is that influences wine the most and for the wine itself.
Sometimes a cigar really is just a cigar, just as sure as a fermented juice really is a reflection of its plot of land.
Incidentally, I don't see many critics at these trials...
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Ovando Palace
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Plaza de Santa María
10003 Cáceres (Extremadura)
- Autonomous region: Extremadura
- Province/Island: Cáceres
Renaissance palace reformed in the 18th century
Renaissance palace reformed in the 18th century. The entrance is a half moon arch.
House or Palace of the Ovando built in 1519, Renaissance, although reformed in the 18th century. One example of palace architecture of Cáceres during the 15th and 16th centuries. It was supposed to have had two towers, one on each side of the main facade however one of them was never finished. In the tower that was finished there is a window decorated with an arch. The bars of the windows of the facade, and above all, the entrance with half-moon arch are worthy of mention.
- Construction: Palace
- Artistic period: Renaissance
- Historic period: 16th century


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Foreword: Many, many thanks to Er Lern out in Malaysia for sending us this review of the CSL Mi700 tablet before posting it on his own blog. Er will be bringing part 3 of the review soon. Make sure you follow Er on Twitter.
Readers might notice that the Mi700 is the same as the Camangi FM600, the OlivePad and the Viewsonic Viewpad 7 that should be launching soon. (all product details here with links and videos) For a 7 inch tablet with 3G, voice, GPS, capacitive touchscreen and Android 2.2, this is shaping up to be a really nice product. The pricing should be competitive (we're hearing 399 Euros for the Viewpad 7 with 3G included) so this is one review to read carefuly. Take it away with Part 2, Er Lern….
See Full Mi700 Specifications here
Okay, the first part was the easy part. Now comes the hard part… the software aspect of the DroidPad. First of all, let us remind ourselves that this tablet is running on Froyo, Android 2.2. Take note that this is based on my full week's experience of the tablet. In the week that has passed, I have already installed about 30 programs (mostly free and some paid). Not only that, I have transfered over 2GB worth of media files. All in all, this should be a more balanced review and not just a 'first look' at the device. Onwards with the review:
1. Mflops: Mflops basically stands for Million FLoating point OPerations per second. It is a calculation intensive test where the higher the numbers, the better. Using Linpack for Android, the device scored 7.5 Mflops on average in 11 seconds. This is considered reasonable when we take into account the CPU which is an MSM7227 600Mhz (a slight upgrade from the older, and much despised, MSM7201A 528Mhz). Comparing with similar CPU devices, we find that the HTC Aria scores 5.2 Mflops with a slight overclock to 806Mhz while LG Ally/Aloha scores 9.1 Mflops with 30% overclock and HTC Legend scores 9.8 Mflops with 37% overclock. Certainly the Mi700 can hold its own.
2. BenchmarkPi: Basically the time it takes to calculate Pi. The lower the better. The DroidPad scores an average of about 2,800 milliseconds, not too bad considering a Snapdragon processor averages about around 2,000 milliseconds.
3. Neocore: This is an OpenGL-ES 1.1 graphics performance benchmark test. The DroidPad's MSM7227 actually shares the same GPU as the Snapdragon; Adreno. I am pretty surprised by the outcome, since the DroidPad performed slightly better than my HTC HD2 Android (using a Snapdragon CPU and running Froyo) with an average of 32fps while the latter only a paltry 30fps.
4. Boot Time
This was timed from the moment the power switch was pressed and slight vibration felt, until the time when everything was loaded and lock screen appeared (SD card finished mounted). The total average boot time was approximately 60 seconds (1 minute). Frankly, I think this is acceptable although it should be improved. Somewhere around 45 seconds would be good.
Home Screen Performance
1. Custom Shortcuts: This is the version that came with the DroidPad. It looks very much like Android 2.2 stock, but with the added difference of a strip to the left hand of the tablet screen which contains 4 distinct icons. The top most is for mails, followed by an e-book reader, media and social networking shortcuts. I found this to be a redundant add-on since the system already allows users to put on widgets of their own. However, I suspect that this is not part of CSL's customization but Foxconn's, since the same shortcuts strip is seen in the similar devices shown elsewhere (Camangi Webstation and Viewpad 7). I have to say that they were not efficient to use at all. I found that the mail program took time to load, and was laggy. Same also for the media player. To its credit, it had a 'cover flow' type interface, but again, it was laggy and I kept selecting the wrong song since it either went too far ahead or too short before the one I wanted. Same goes for the social networking program which incorporates Facebook and Twitter. They look too much like the old web 1.0 interface.
2. Scrolling: The saving grace comes in the parts that are untouched, mainly the apps drawer. There is no lag in using the apps drawer and it was all smooth no matter how many apps I had installed and have open at any one time. Scrolling between screens were slightly laggy on the stock version. I have no idea why, but it just is. Not noticeable if you have never used another Android device, but still, it is just a little annoyance that I wished they would have cleaned up a bit more before shipping the devices out. As a matter of comparison, it felt slightly jerkier than using CyanogenMod 6 (Froyo) on a G1/HTC Dream phone.
3. Resolution: Because the tablet shares the same resolution as many of the more advanced Android devices, the grid that is available for widgets remains 4 by 4 (in all, you can put up to 16 application shortcuts on a single screen). The stock version only allows 3 home screens. If there is one glaring weakness of the Mi700, it would be the resolution size. Even though we have a considerably large screen, stretching an 800 by 480 resolution on it wastes that spacious capacity. What we get is the same 4 by 4 grid available, which translates to widgets getting blown up double the size, making them look awkward at best and ugly at worst! And the result is big spaces between each widget or shortcut; wasted space! I think if it was using the conventional netbook resolution of 1,024 by 600 pixels, this would have made the DroidPad near perfect! For some people, this might be a dealbreaker. Certainly, it would improve on the utility of the home screen.
4. Live Wallpaper: One of the most loved features of Android 2.0+ is the introduction of live wallpapers. Basically these are your normal wallpapers plus added interactivity and animation that adds to the level of 'fun' and 'zazziness' of a phone OS experience. I found that the DroidPad could handle all live wallpapers fine, without any hitch in the interface. The only problem stems when you are coming back to 'home' from a memory intensive application; it takes time for the live wallpaper to reload. That is the only problem that I have encountered, and this is nothing to do with the device, but to the software itself.
5. Alternative (LauncherPro): Personally, I ditched the stock home screen launcher and installed LauncherPro from the market. Buy it. It is worth it. This made the home screen less of a bore for me, as I am able to reclaim the whole screen for myself (no pesky strip to mess with the symmetry), and have up to 7 home screens. Not only that, but LauncherPro allows the user to heavily customise the feel of the home screen. The transitions between screens were smooth and flawless. The app drawer opened speedily and scrolling is smooth when there are only a few apps installed. However, after more than 25 apps in the drawer, I notice that it does tend to lag just a little. But besides that, there is nothing else that I would recommend for speedy experience. LauncherPro also allows the user to change the size of the widgets on the screen to suit their wants. Resizing helps to save space, especially when there is a need to put as many widgets as possible into one single screen.
One last reason to change the home screen launcher to the new one? The stock version only allows the user to use the tablet in landscape mode. This limitation is very frustrating upon me because of my tendency to do work in portrait mode. Thankfully, LauncherPro allows for this.
Note that the more active widgets (auto update) the user uses on the home screens, the slower the UI performance will be. However, based on my usage, I found that the 512MB RAM is well worth its size; I rarely felt that the screen was lagging because of the many applications that are open and the widgets that are actively updating itself.
6. Inputs – Virtual Keyboard, Accelerometer and Touch
I have not much problems with the touch sensitivity of the screen (as mentioned in part 1). However, I notice that in some situations, my swipes are not registered at all. Somehow, at times, I notice that some applications cannot seem to register my swipes and touches. A good example would be in the app drawer (stock version); swiping using my left thumb would result in absolutely smooth scrolling. However, if I were to use my right thumb to do the same gesture or swiping motion, there would be no response from the application. Strange, but these small 'problems' appear almost randomly throughout the week.
The accelerometer worked well on games in general. The user is given the option to calibrate the accelerometer whenever the necessity arises. I could easily play the game "Labyrinth" and see how accurate the motions were. However, it is to be noted that the game "Abduction" was problematic to play, as the accelerometer just went haywire.
The virtual keyboard provided as default is the stock Android virtual keyboard. The keys are well spaced on the tablet, but it makes it a bit hard to thumb type, since our fingers will not be able to stretch that far out. Nevertheless, if the tablet is rested on a surface, typing is much faster and more accurate. It is unfortunate that the keyboard does not respond as fast as the iPhone's; there is a very slight delay and this is more noticeable when the haptic feedback is turned on. I do not think I can type fast using the stock virtual keyboard provided. As an alternative, I used Smart Keyboard Pro (paid version) which is much faster in response, and supports multi-touch points.
The best news concerning apps on the DroidPad is the access to Google's Marketplace. Depending on the country you are in, you will be able to either access only free apps (this limitation applies for places like Malaysia) or both free and paid apps (only selected countries). In this section, I will just give an overview of the type of performance experienced in using various types of applications on the DroidPad.
1. E-reader
The DroidPad comes with the popular Android e-book reader Aldiko installed in the system. Aldiko is the best reader that allows for offline reading, unlike other reader apps like Kindle. What makes Aldiko popular stems from its intuitive graphical user interface and ease of transitioning between pages. When the pages are rendered on the DroidPad's 7″ screen, I have to admit that the words are so easy to read. There is no more need to squint or to move the device closer to us like other smaller devices. The 7″ inch display allows for more words to be fitted into a single page. Though the resolution for such a device might be low, yet I did not find myself struggling to focus on the text. This is definitely one of the plus points of having a device with ample screen size. Just like LauncherPro, the user is able to customise the way they read using Aldiko, till they have satisfied their own requirement.
2. Video Player
The DroidPad's player only plays a very limited type of video formats (mp4 being the chief of them). I find the video player to be too simplistic. In order to test the video rendering capabilities of the DroidPad, I installed two video players; Rockplayer and Yxplayer. Both of the players could play a common .avi (dvix, xvid) file smoothly. The file played had a resolution of 624 by 352 pixels. However, the playback was not so smooth when playing a true HD 1080 video. On Yxplayer, the result was choppy at best. I tested MKV files and both players failed to play it adequately.
One of the missed opportunities for this device is to provide adequate coverage on video file formats that it can play. This is more surprising considering that this device has a graphical processing unit. Here's hoping for a better update for the customers, incorporating these suggestions.
3. Social Networking Apps
There are many in the market for free from which you can choose from. I have to confess that it is quite a joy to see a substantial amount of updates without having to zoom in and to subsequently zoom out from using the device. Sharing news, photos and other media are as provided under Android 2.2. Everything works efficiently (minimal battery usage). There are no real surprises here.
4. Games
Most games played well using the MSM7227 chip. The only thing to be careful is to know the limits of the CPU; cannot play certain emulators that are made for Snapdragon or Cortex chips. Zenonia (something like Legend of Zelda) played on the tablet at full screen. The controls and the performance of the game was really good, without any lag. Besides that, I tested a few emulators on the DroidPad. It seems that all emulators (e.g. Gameboid, Gensoid) can work well with the device, except for the PSX emulation. The screen size really helps to make the game more immersive for the most part.
5. Voice Search
This is a Google app that is integrated in Android 2.2. To enable this search, one needs to only hold onto the "search" button for 1 full second, and the app will start to receive the voice input from the device's microphone. It works well enough for me; I spoke the words, "Wikipedia" and "Great wall of China". The results returned was almost instantaneous, clocking in at 1 second. I am really impressed with this.
6. GPS Navigation
The device comes with 2 maps that can utilise the internal GPS; MapKing and Google Maps. The former is included as part of the DroidPad package. Malaysian buyers get to use MapKing products for free using the 1-year subscription that they offered. Somehow MapKing (from what I can see) is not a good GPS application. It is definitely not an attractive package (unlike Garmin). The only other option for me at the moment is to use Google Maps. Unfortunately, Google Maps can only be used with a data connection (either 3G or wifi). I found that the GPS fix was very fast on Google Maps, within a few seconds (with AGPS turned on and while I was in the house and not open air).
7. Music Player
The stock player is the same boring app that has not seen much changes since Android 1.6. There was no problem in detecting my whole library of songs which I transferred via USB from my desktop. I installed Mortplayer (free) from the Market and used the widget to play songs when I am on the go. Surprisingly, the widget requires a few taps before it registers my touch. Once the app starts, it works smoothly with not much delays.
8. CSL Custom Apps
You might be wondering what type of customization CSL made for the devices. There are a few that is quite obvious from the apps drawer; Blueberry Messenger, Blueberry Store, CSL Azan Alarm (for muslims) and CSL Fun Club. All these apps surprisingly (except 1) are web-based; the icons only bringing up a shortcut to the respective website. The Blueberry Messenger is their attempt to have an IM (Instant Messaging) app that encompass as many social sites as possible. Blueberry Store is their web-based online store, while the CSL Fun Club is just a sort of gateway for people to explore their offerings given to potential customers. The only useful application that I could observe was CSL Azan Alarm… basically it is an alarm clock to remind the user of their obligations for worship. I found that the work done on these apps were minimal and therefore quite deplorable.
Multitasking works with these apps. I am able to switch on the music player while surfing and reading an e-book from Aldiko. Again, this is the benefit of having ample RAM size, which I am glad this device have in spades! There is no need for the application to reload all the data all over again when you are switching between applications. I tried to test the limit of its multitasking by using several memory intensive applications and switching between them to see whether they needed to be reloaded (a sign of insufficient memory). I opened Engadget's app, Astro file manager, Aldiko, CadreBible, Market, Music, Browser (to a specific website that is graphically intensive), Angry Bird Lite (the game) and Mortplayer. It is surprising, but I actually had NO problems switching from one to the other. They were all still working without reloading the contents. I am thoroughly impressed because this is one of the aspects that are important in daily usage; worrying over memory management (I had a G1/HTC Dream and it was always a horror to switch applications).
Battery Life
According to the specifications, the DroidPad houses a 3,240mAh Li-Pol battery. I have done some test on this and have found some approximation of how long the battery can last. For simple usage, some surfing, checking of mails, typing, music and reading, you can easily squeeze nearly a day's life from it. For heavy usage, where the above are done more frequently, then you can squeeze probably 7 hours.
The playing of media files will drain the battery faster than surfing does. To test how durable is a single charge (from the wall charger and not from desktop) I performed the following things: I played a 20 minute divx clip for 7 times while at the same time playing music from Mortplayer (continuously) and also switching on the display to the brightest setting and watch the battery drain away. The test started at 10am and when the device powered down by itself, it was at 3.30pm. Based on my simple test, the device lasted for 5.5 hours of heavy media usage!
Take note: charging the battery takes time, even when it is done from the wall charger. It takes approximately 3 hours plus.
Flash Implementation
Unfortunately, for Adobe Flash 10.1 to run, the minimum requirement is for an Arm7 chipset, which the DroidPad does not have (it has only an Arm11 chip). Well, do not worry much, since the iPad also does not have this and people are well content with it. For small Flash usage, there are always alternatives that can be used on the DroidPad. A good substitute for websurfing Flash enabled sites is by using Dolphin HD browser. It is quite fast and shows off some Flash contents (I have not use it extensively). This is a limitation that is not due to the software, but rather the hardware of the device.
To round up this side concerning the software performance of the DroidPad, I would like to say that there are some other concerns that I would like to put forth. The main one being, there are a lot of ways that the DroidPad can be made more useful and attractive, and all these involves having more developers to thinker on the software itself. I can only imagine getting Cyanogenmod 6 working on this device, thereby solving any buggy code or inefficient coding. Many of the problems detected in this review can be solved. Unfortunately, in order to do that, we need to get 'root access' on the device. Something that is for now elusive.
I cannot even seem to get ADB (Android Debug Bridge) to work with the device! I found that even the "terminal emulator" that is 'installed' on the device cannot be accessed by users. I have to install Android Command Shell app to use command line actions. It makes me wonder whether the DroidPad and CSL is open to the developers community? For certainly, they can gain so much more when the developers are collaborating to extend the lifespan of this device.
From my initial discussions with them over the matter of open development, they have shown some interest in pursuing this, especially in line with the massive third-party independent developers for the first batch of Android phones. We can only hope that CSL will show their support for such endeavour instead of just seeing this as a product.
The last part of this review will cover the final parts of the DroidPad: Camera, Phone Functionality and Other Uses.
[Again, many thanks to Er Lern out in Malaysia for sending us this review of the CSL Mi700 tablet before posting it on his own blog. Er will be bringing part 3 of the review soon. Make sure you follow Er on Twitter – Chippy]


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Get to Know the Inside of Your Toilet Tank
This cutaway photo highlights toilet tank parts of a standard toilet.
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A toilet runs constantly because the fill valve that lets water into the toilet tank isn't closing completely. A toilet runs intermittently because the flapper valve opens slightly for a few minutes. In either case, you have to figure out why that toilet fill valve isn't stopping the incoming water flow and if there are broken toilet parts that need attention.
First, look for leaks. A leak in the toilet tank can make a toilet run constantly or intermittently. If your toilet is leaking, you've probably noticed it already. But take a look just to be sure. If you find leaks coming from the tank bolts or toilet flush valve, you'll most likely have to remove the toilet tank from the bowl so you can replace the toilet tank parts like, tank bolts, the rubber washers and the gaskets on the toilet flush valve. If there are leaks around the fill valve, tighten the locknut (see Photo 6). Leaks can come from cracks in the tank, too. In that case, the only reliable solution is a new toilet.
If you don't find any leaks, lift off the tank cover. At first glance, the array of toilet tank parts inside may look intimidating. But don't let the toilet tank parts scare you. There are really only two main toilet tank parts: the toilet flush valve, which lets water gush into the bowl during the flush; and the fill valve, which lets water refill the tank after the flush. When a toilet runs constantly or intermittently, one of these valves is usually at fault.
To determine which toilet valve is causing the trouble, look at the overflow tube. If water is overflowing into the tube, there's a problem with the toilet fill valve. If the water level is below the top of the tube, the flush valve is leaking, allowing water to trickle into the bowl. That slow, constant outflow of water prevents the fill valve from closing completely. We cut away the fronts and backs of new toilets to show you how to replace these toilet tank parts. Your toilet and toilet tank parts won't look so pristine inside. You'll find scummy surfaces, water stains and corrosion. But don't be squeamish—the water is as clean as the stuff that comes out of your faucets.
If your flapper valve has a ball that floats at the end of a rod, gently lift the rod and listen. If the water shuts off, you may be able to stop the running by adjusting the float. Some fill toilet valves have a float adjustment screw on top (see Figure A below). If there is no adjustment screw, bend the float arm. If you have a Fluidmaster-style fill valve, make sure it's adjusted properly (Photo 8). You don't have to empty the tank to make these adjustments.
This cutaway photo highlights toilet tank parts of a standard toilet.
Remove the fill valve cap. On this type of toilet valve, press down and turn counterclockwise. Remove screws on other types of valves.
Hard water, debris from old pipes or particles from a break in a city water line can prevent a flush valve from closing completely. Running water through it from the supply line will clear the debris. Photos 1 and 2 show you how to do this on one common type of valve. Even though other valves will look different, the clearing process is similar. However, you may have to remove a few screws on top of the fill valve to remove the cap.
When you remove the cap to flush out the valve, inspect the washer for wear or cracks. Replacing a bad washer is cheap and easy. But finding the right washer may not be. The most common washers are often available at home centers and hardware stores. Other styles can be hard to find. If you decide to hunt for a washer, remove it and take it to the store to find a match. Plumbers usually replace the whole fill valve rather than hunt for a replacement washer.
Replace the fill valve. Turn off the water at the shutoff valve. Flush the toilet and hold the flush valve open to drain the tank. Sponge out the remaining water or vacuum it up with a wet/dry vacuum.
Unscrew the coupling nut that connects the supply line. If the toilet valve turns inside the toilet tank, hold its base with a locking pliers. Tip: Throw a towel on the floor underneath to catch water that will drain from the line.
Remove the locknut that holds the toilet valve to the tank. Push down gently on the valve as you unscrew the nut. Pull out the old valve.
Measure the height of the overflow tube. Measure to the top of the tube, not to any water level label on the tube.
Adjust the height of the new fill valve by holding the base and twisting the top. The height from the base to the CL (critical level) mark should be the height of the overflow tube plus 1 in.
Remove the cap, press down to compress the washer and screw on the locknut. Connect the supply line and flush the valve. Reset the cap and check for leaks.
Slip the fill tube onto the fill valve. Clip the angle adapter onto the overflow tube. Then cut the tube to fit and slip it onto the angle adapter.
Replacing a fill valve requires only a few basic tools (an adjustable pliers and a pair of scissors) and an hour of your time. A kit containing the type of valve we show here and everything else you need at home centers and hardware stores.
Your first step is to shut off the water. In most cases, you'll have a shutoff valve right next to the toilet coming either through the floor or out of the wall. If you don't have a shutoff, turn off the water supply at the main shutoff valve, where water enters your home. This is a good time to add a shutoff valve next to the toilet or replace one that leaks. This is also a good time to replace the supply line that feeds your toilet (Photo 6). A flexible supply line reinforced with a metal sleeve costs about $7 at home centers and hardware stores. Photos 1 – 8 show how to replace the valve. If the height of your valve is adjustable, set the height before you install the valve (Photo 5). If your valve is a different style from the one we show, check the directions. After mounting the valve (Photo 6), connect the fill tube (Photo 7).
The fill tube squirts water into the overflow tube to refill the toilet bowl. The water that refills the toilet tank gushes from the bottom of the fill valve. When you install the valve and supply lines, turn the nuts finger-tight. Then give each another one-half turn with pliers. When you turn the water supply back on, immediately check for leaks and tighten the nuts a bit more if necessary.
Push down on the flapper with a yardstick and listen. If the sound of running water stops, the flapper needs replacing.
Remove the old flapper from the ears of the overflow tube and detach the chain from the handle arm.
When a flush valve causes a toilet to run, a worn flapper is usually the culprit. But not always. First, look at the chain that raises the flapper. If there's too much slack in the chain, it can tangle up and prevent the flapper from closing firmly. A chain with too little slack can cause trouble too. Photo 3 shows how to set the slack just right.
Next, test the flapper as shown in Photo 1. If extra pressure on the flapper doesn't stop the running noise, water is likely escaping through a cracked or corroded overflow tube. In that case, you have to detach the tank from the bowl and replace the whole flush valve. Since the overflow tube is rarely the cause of a running toilet, we won't cover that repair here.
If pressing down on the flapper stops the noise, the flapper isn't sealing under normal pressure. Turn off the water, flush the toilet to empty the tank and then run your finger around the rim of the flush valve seat. If you feel mineral deposits, clean the flush valve seat with an abrasive sponge or ScotchBrite pad. Don't use anything that might roughen it. If cleaning the flush valve seat doesn't solve the problem, you need to replace the flapper.
Replacing your flapper may require slightly different steps than we show (Photos 2 and 3). Your flapper may screw onto a threaded rod or have a ring that slips over the overflow tube. If you have an unusual flush valve, finding a replacement flapper may be the hardest part of the job. To find a suitable replacement, turn off the water, take the old one with you to the home center or hardware store. (Turn off the water before removing the flapper.) You may not find an identical match, but chances are you'll locate one of the same shape and diameter. If not, try a plumbing supply store (in the Yellow Pages under "Plumbing Supplies") or search online.
It helps to know the brand and model of your toilet. The brand name is usually on the bowl behind the seat. In some cases, the model or number will be on the underside of the lid or inside the tank. Matching an unusual flapper can become a trial-and-error process. Even professional plumbers sometimes try two or three flappers before they find one that works well.
Toilet flush handles are another part of a toilet that can cause toilets to keep running. Often handles are toilet parts that get loose or corroded and no longer pull the flap up or drop it back down properly. It's an easy repair, but there's a trick to getting the flush handle out. The retaining nut inside the tank is a reverse thread. So, if you're in front of the toilet, turn the nut to the left to loosen (Photo 1). Then remove the old handle and lever, slide the new handle into place, and thread on the retaining nut. Tighten by turning to the right (Photo 2).
Have the necessary tools for this DIY toilet anatomy project lined up before you start – you'll save time and frustration.
Avoid last-minute shopping trips by having all your toilet parts and materials ready ahead of time. Here's a list.