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IKEA? Nope… Hac-KEA
James Harrigan's sister had wanted to buy a dining table bench for more than $200, so he built her one using the hardware and form of a $10 Ikea chair, plus some untreated wood.
IKEA, Winnipeg's newest and biggest furniture retailer, is a marvel of standardization, rationalization and mass production. The reason we love the IKEA Malm dresser is because it's so cheap. But the reason it's so cheap is because there are about seven billion of them on the planet.
Enter the IKEA hacker, who uses imagination, ingenuity and duct tape to individualize IKEA products, transforming sober flat-packed Scandinavian design into something strange and new.
Britt McMaster, a 22-year-old blogger from Vancouver, and her huband used a dainty $700 bedside table from Anthropologie as the inspiration for a $96 project. (CP)
For some hackers, it's just an extension of their devotion to IKEA ideals, as they dream up more ways to love that Ekne room divider. (Headboard? Garden trellis? Jewellery holder?) Other hackers are staging a glue-gun-powered rebellion against the clean-lined tyranny of the Billy bookshelf. And for some very ambitious practitioners, hacking is a way to investigate, maybe even subvert the assumptions of modernism, capitalism and consumerism. (Consider the abstract sculptural assemblages made out of Stefan chairs or an entire IKEA catalogue distilled into Colour Field paintings.)
The motivations are mixed, and the results are decidedly uneven. When hackers start pimping IKEA basics — Lack tables and Expedit shelving systems are particular favourites — you see everything from idiosyncratic works of genius to tragically misguided messes. (A Marius stool with a vinyl album seat? Really?) Customized IKEA objects range from the practical to the daffy to the downright bizarre.
Since 2006, the movement has been chronicled on the blog IKEA Hackers. IKEA interventions also pop up regularly on sites like Apartment Therapy, Lifehacker, Instructables and Design*Sponge.
Sometimes hacking involves upscale professional products. Swedish company Bemz sells luxe slipcovers specifically designed for IKEA furniture. You can upgrade your ubiquitous Klippan sofa with Marimekko flowers or linen-weave stripes from Designers Guild. (Sometimes the slipcovers cost more than what they're covering.) PrettyPegs supplies specialized furniture legs, using a bolting system that allows you to swap out the bases on many standard IKEA chairs and sofas. MyKea manufactures stick-on decals made to fit IKEA bestsellers.
Most IKEA hacks are DIY projects, however, powered by the cheerful — often insanely cheerful — urges of individual creativity. Drawing on Etsy, Martha Stewart and the hipster artisan movement, these hacks add a little personality with paint, dip-dye or downtown decoupage.
Special interest groups are often obsessed with creative repurposing. Animal lovers, for instance, have a positive flair for morphing basic IKEA storage into camouflaged litter boxes and stealth cat beds. Operating in the no-man's-land between inspired and icky, one determined lady turned a Kullen wardrobe into a giant playground for her pet rats.
The tech-obsessed tinkerers, meanwhile, craft hidden TV cabinets, clever cord-control systems, pop-up laptop stations and elaborately customized home theatre centres. Geek hacks can be alarming (a Poang chair wired so that it heats up) or adorable (a Tertial table lamp formed into a replica of R2D2).
In the "fake it till you make it" wing of hacking, an IKEA Fira chest with some glued-on moulding and a lick of high-gloss paint replicates a pricey Anthropologie objet. An IKEA Rast dresser, which started life as a stolid stack of rustic knotty pine, morphs into a glam Dorothy Draper fantasy with brass pulls and baroque detailing. Another hack impersonates a high-end Bouroullec Joyn desk using affordable IKEA Lagan countertops.
Perhaps the sneakiest IKEA design hack of all involves changing the Frosta stool from a four-legger to a three-legger to make it more closely resemble its iconic Alvar Aalto inspiration.
Of course, IKEA itself, which is not exactly behindhand when it comes to the whole marketing thing, is now getting into the hacking game. The 2013 catalogue featured an IKEA dresser whimsically covered with stapled-on IKEA fabric. But isn't this missing the point? The appeal of hacking involves taking an IKEA piece out of the blue-and-yellow reach of a global corporation and into the home-grown realm of artsy-craftsy originality.
As IKEA expands — and expands and expands — IKEA hacking will remain a hot trend. Sure, most of us will be lining up at the new store in the coming months to benefit from the awesome power of IKEA's economy of scale. But some intrepid individuals will also be experimenting with hacking, proving that the drive to shop hasn't quite overcome the human impulse to make, invent and express.


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1 John 3:8 King James Version (KJV)
8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
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2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons flour
1 cup whole milk
4 slices French loaf bread*
4 slices Gruyère or sharp Swiss cheese
4 slices high quality ham, medium thickness**
For the béchamel: In a small pan, melt the butter. Add the flour along with a sprinkle of nutmeg, salt and pepper and stir until smooth. Add the milk and whisk together until slightly thickened. Set aside.
For each sandwich: Heat a large skillet. Place the bread on the (ungreased) skillet. Place the ham beside the bread on the skillet. Cook for about 1-2 minutes or until the bread is slightly toasted, then flip the bread and the slice of ham and cook 1 additional minute on the other side. Place the ham on top of the bread and turn off the heat. Drizzle with béchamel sauce and top with one slice of cheese. Place on a oven safe tray and broil for about 2 minutes or until the cheese is hot and bubbly. Remove to a plate and serve.
*Trader Joe's sells a presliced French style loaf bread that works really well here.
**I like to buy those boneless hams and cut a slice off of that rather than to use presliced meat.
Yield 4 sandwiches


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"Write the vision and make it plain on tablets; that he may run who reads it." Habakkuk 2:2 (NKJV)
Another translation of this verse says it this way: "Write my answer on a billboard, large and clear, so that anyone can read it at a glance and rush to tell the others."(The Message)
This verse makes it very plain that God has a vision, not just for the Body of Christ, but also for you and me. If this verse is not proof enough to persuade you, here's another one that is more specific in meaning: "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." (Jer. 29:11) If there has ever been any doubt in your mind as to whether or not God has a plan for your life, you can banish that doubt now.
God gave Mary a vision – she was to be the mother of the Savior of the world. Put yourself in her place. Just imagine how she felt. Awestruck? Afraid? Nervous? Can you see this young teenager in your mind? What would you do if an angel of the Lord appeared before you to give you God's vision and plans for you? Would you agree? Or would you look around the room to see who the angel was speaking to because, surely, it's not you. But it is you. You are the only one in the room. He loves you enough to want only the best for you.
When Mary questioned the angel who brought the news, she was not doubting—just curious. "How can this be, since I do not know a man?" (Luke 1:34). The angel explained to Mary that it would be by the Holy Spirit and went on to say, "For with God, nothing is impossible." (vs. 37). Mary accepted God's vision for herself: "Behold the maidservant of the Lord! Let it be done unto me according to your word." (vs. 38) She never doubted, never questioned whether or not the angel had visited the right person. She believed and moved forward in the vision.
God gave Jesus a vision. He was to be the Savior of the world. He was to live on earth as God-made-man for 33 years, die on a cross for the sins of the world and rise again in three days. Jesus didn't balk, protest or do anything that would have indicated a lack of obedience. He went willingly into cities and countries preaching the gospel of Christ. He went willingly to Gethsemane. He went willingly to Golgotha and He went willingly to the grave. But God's vision for Jesus did not end at the grave. Three days later, the vision continued as Jesus rose from the grave, triumphing over death, and the vision was completed as Jesus ascended into heaven.
God has a vision for YOU. If He has shown you that vision, be obedient and walk in it. If He has not shown you the plans He has for you, ask Him to share it with you. In His time, He will show you His vision and it will be better than anything you could ever ask for or think.
Abba Father, thank You for the vision – the plan – that You had for Mary and for Jesus. Thank You for the vision You have for each one of us. I pray that You will give us courage and help us to walk boldly in that vision with confidence in You and Your plan for our lives. Amen!


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Decapitated body may have been work of serial killer
Name: Harry Redden, 46
Body found:In field behind Union Station
Investigation agency: Denver Police Department
Date killed: Nov. 17, 1999
Cause of Death Decapitated
Suspect: None
Harry J. Redden Jr. was one of hundreds of anonymous vagabonds who slept on heating grates and begged for money along the 16th Street Mall.
The only way his identity became known to the thousands who streamed by him every day was on days his presence annoyed someone so much he called the police.
There were arrests for public urination, violating park curfews and public intoxication. On Christmas Eve of 1997 he was arrested at 800 15th St. for trespassing – a common arrest for him. The pattern continued for years.
On Sept. 8, 1999, he was arrested for public consumption of alcohol on the 1500 block of 15th Street.
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by Jennifer Katz
While a vast amount of attention in recent weeks has fallen on a small group of "near neighbors" whose negotiations with Chestnut Hill College have soured over rezoning the college's campuses to an Institutional Development District, the question punctuating the conversation is "can the college still be good neighbors."
After more than six years of planning and 18 months of negotiations with community groups, the college is making its final offer. In return for procuring conservation easements on 50 to 60 percent of the SugarLoaf campus, the community groups must agree not to sue the college.
"If we cannot build on SugarLoaf, we cannot give the easements," said Sister Carol Jean Vale, president of the college, during a June 1 meeting organized for the community to learn about and ask questions about the master plan and IDD process.
Vale was responding to Arabella Pope, a near neighbor, who commented that she felt the college was threatening the neighborhood. Whether or not it was a threat, it was a clear statement of will to the more than 200 audience members, most of whom appeared to support the college.
Shortly after the college announced its intention to obtain an IDD, it entered into an agreement to discuss the details of its expansion with representatives from several community groups. A nine-member negotiating group was formed under the auspices of the Chestnut Hill Community Association.
At Wednesday's meeting, Vale made it clear that the college would only pursue additional conservation easements (10.1 acres is currently eased with funding from Growing Greener, a state funded conservation program) on the SugarLoaf campus if all nine members of the negotiating group signed a Community Development Agreement.
The CDA restricts the college's development, prescribes the treatment of the SugarLoaf site and requires additional measures related to building and utilizing the site. It also states unequivocally that none of the parties associated with the CDA can pursue litigation against the college. (It is unclear if this just applies to the development of the sites).
"SugarLoaf has no meaning to us if we are embroiled in a legal battle," Vale said.
The college has already agreed to substantial changes to its original expansion plan in response to neighbor's concerns. Further, Vale reiterated her commitment to meet with the community to finalize an agreement.
"The college is committed to giving 50-60 percent of the property (regarding the conservation easements) as a gift from the college to the community," Vale said. "It is when and how, not whether we are going to do it. Until the easements are in place, the college will treat the property as eased and we are prepared to sign a legal document to that effect.
"Whether or not we get the IDD, we are committed to working these issues out."
For neighbors such as Brad Bank, of Chestnut Hill Avenue, reassurances are simply not enough to assuage the growing concern over allowing any parcel in Chestnut Hill to be zoned as an IDD.
"My issue is with the permanence," he said. "The IDD is a dangerous tool and it's troubling that the college is able to obtain it without the support of near neighbors or the Friends of the Wissahickon."
A hearing for the ordinance to establish the IDD was scheduled for City Council's Rules Committee on Tuesday, June 7.


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Designing foods for a living keeps Robert Sturm experimenting with flavors, combinations and ingredients on a regular basis. More than likely, you've tried one of his creations at a popular or fast-food restaurant. Read how Robert turned to The Daniel Plan to get control of his own health, and the impact it's having in his life, his family, and other marriages at Saddleback Church.
I was overweight, weighing in at 264 pounds and 6'1" tall. So I was just too short for that weight. My back hurt, my knees hurt. I couldn't walk up a flight of stairs without being out of breath. This started to scare me. I didn't want to have a heart attack. I was in horrible shape. I was just sick and tired of being sick and tired.
When Pastor Rick talked about the Decade of Destiny in church one Sunday, I lit up. It really got me excited. The church teaching practical ways for the people live. Wow!! Now that's what the church is suppose do be doing. The hard part about participating in The Daniel Plan is I have to walk the talk.
I'm a chef and a food designer. I've created food that millions of people eat every day. I have had my hand in creating foods like Outback's Bloomin' Onion, McDonald's McRib, Chili's Southwest Eggroll, Jack In The Box Panido Sandwiches, El Pollo Loco's Chicken Carnitas, Taco Bell's Chilito, KFC's Chicken Twisters, food for The Cheesecake Factory, Olive Garden, Red Lobster, Marie Callender's and the list goes on. I've done a lot of damage. Daniel Amen told me "I have a lot of penance to do."
My wife and I started a small group in our home. Our whole family is on The Daniel Plan like it or not. The kids and the dog too. The Herd Saturday started a "BIG" small group. Steve Komanapalli does the Biblical teaching and I started teaching the men how to cook healthy. I started a website www.RobertFood.com for all the recipes. Free for everyone. We give lessons every couple of weeks or so at The Herd Saturday in the morning and of course we all get a bite to eat. You wouldn't believe the results. Amazing!!
Personally, I lost 27 pounds, I found a few back a long the way but I am back on track with 40 more pounds to go. I want to lose the weight. I want to get healthy. That's for me. My wife is excited about me losing weight. I have a beautiful godly wife and I want to keep her happy. Our family is getting healthier. We had a lot of bad diet habits to change but we are making the changes. The Herd Saturday guys have been amazing. No women or wives around so the guys really open up. It's safe for them. Nobody to say, "I told You So". We support each other like brothers. Because I'm involved with The Herd Saturday, I realized that I am not alone in this battle. Being on the journey with a great group of guys has given me the confidence and inspiration to continue to get healthy. Because of The Daniel Plan and our Herd Saturday meeting I am a better man, a better husband, a better father and a better Christian. I'm healthier.
My family is stronger. Not just healthier but just better together. Our small group has become much more close together. But the "BIG" results – because of The Daniel Plan and the cooking lessons we give on Saturday morning -- men are getting healthy. The guys are cooking for their wives. The marriages are getting better. You wouldn't believe the number of wives that are excited about their husbands. The guys are getting off diabetes medicine, off the cholesterol medicines. They're losing weight, getting in shape. They're shopping for smaller clothes and the wives are out there with them. Now we're teaching how to cook together as a couple. Some guys have even said, "This has saved my marriage." The results have been unbelievable.
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Angolan Poverty, Multinational Wealth
According to Angolense, a newspaper based in the capital, Luanda, ten Angolans have fortunes exceeding US$100 million, while another 49 have more than US$50 million. President José Eduardo Dos Santos was rated as the richest of the rich
(de Morais, with Allimadi in background. Photo credit: William Farrington).
Angola's vast oil supply is making billions for multinational oil companies thanks to generous contracts signed with the former socialist government of Jose Eduardo dos Santos.
Meanwhile, the gap between rich and poor in Angola, Africa's second biggest oil exporter, is widening. More than two-thirds of the country's 16 million people live on US$2 or less a day, and 4 million of those survive on US$0.75 or less a day.
Those were among the many tragic images of modern Angola asserted by independent journalist Rafael Marques de Morais. Marques, in New York this month to receive the Northcote Parkinson Fund prize in Civil Courage, was speaking at the African Roundtable of Global Information Network, co-hosted by Milton Allimadi, publisher of Black Star News.
Marques noted that not only in New York are apartments renting and selling for astronomical prices. Million dollar homes are also available just outside of Luanda, the country's capital. The country's wealth is "concentrated in the hands of a small elite, who often use government positions for massive personal enrichment," he explained.
According to Angolense, a newspaper based in the capital, Luanda, ten Angolans have fortunes exceeding US$100 million, while another 49 have more than US$50 million. President José Eduardo Dos Santos was rated as the richest of the rich, followed by a parliamentary deputy, two officials in the president's office, an ambassador, a former army chief of staff, and the minister of public works. The seven richest Angolans were all in the ruling MPLA government.
Marques also noted that non-governmental organizations from western countries fail, in many cases, to listen to the people they are assigned to serve and for that reason, their projects use a lot of money wastefully.
The African Roundtable is intended to bring unique and thoughtful voices and perspectives from the continent that rarely find a platform in the U.S. The online edition of Black Star News can be seen at www.blackstarnews.com
The Civil Courage Prize honors steadfast resistance to evil at great personal risk — rather than military valor. More information about Marques and the prize can be found at the website of Northcote Parkinson: www.civilcourageprize.org
The Roundtable's host was Lisa Vives, Executive Director, Global Information Network (GIN). www.globalinfo.org. 212-244-3123 (voice)
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Paul Sabatier and Hank Jenkins Smith introduced the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) in the late 1980s, to refine the theoretical and methodological tools available for the study of the policy process. In the past two decades, the framework has grown in use outside the United States, and it is now applied to study a broad range of policy arenas in all continents. ACF scholars have created a core community that regularly synthetizes findings from applications of the framework, giving the ACF the form of a true research program.
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Yes, that Morgan, builder of cars that still use wood as a structural element. Charles Morgan is working with a research firm called Qinetiq on a high-performance, fuel cell-powered sports car, to be called the LIFEcar. Due to drop in about three years, the LIFEcar is designed to show folks that hydrogen can be more than just a performance-enhancer for nuclear weapons and fuel for iconic album cover art. Quoth Morgan: "What's really exciting about driving? Perhaps the noise has nothing to do with it. Perhaps it's possible to make a car that's completely quiet, that drives like a sports car makes you feel every bit of the road but all you hear is a whoosh." We'll take ours with the Ferrari V-12 quadraphonic soundtrack option, thanks.
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PARIS (AP) -- French investigators began taking DNA samples Monday from 527 male students and staff at a high school -- including boys as young as 14 -- as they searched for the assailant who raped a teenage girl on the closed campus.
Testing began Monday at Fenelon-Notre Dame high school in western France. All those who received summonses last week were warned that any refusal could land them in police custody, and no one rejected the sweeping request to test the high school's male population.
The testing of students, faculty and staff at the school is expected to last through Wednesday, with 40 DNA swabs recovered inside two large study halls. Prosecutor Isabelle Pagenelle said investigators had exhausted all other leads in the Sept. 30 rape of the girl in a dark bathroom at the school.
"The choice is simple for me," she said. "Either I file it away and wait for a match in what could be several years, or I go looking for the match myself."
While there have been other situations in which DNA samples have been taken en masse, the case is complicated for France, where acceptance is widespread for DNA testing and a national database maintains profiles of people detained for even minor crimes. But children's civil liberties are considered sacred, especially within schools.
France has stringent privacy protections -- Google, for example, has come under legal attack for storing user data, as well as for lapses in images from Street View. Questions of criminality are a different matter -- the government's DNA database has expanded radically since it was first created in 1998, and now encompasses 2 million profiles, or about 3 percent of the population.
"It's clearly a situation where people do not have a choice," said Catherine Bourgain, a genetic researcher and author of "DNA, Superstar or Supercop." ''One you have a DNA file it's very difficult to get that information erased."
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Police recovered genetic material from the girl's clothing but found no matches among current profiles.
"This happened during the school day in a confined space," Chantal Devaux, the private Roman Catholic school's director, told French media. "The decision to take such a large sample was made because it was the only way to advance the investigation."
Summonses went out last week to 475 teenage students, 31 teachers and 21 others -- either staff or males who were on campus at the time. Pagenelle's office, which required parental permission for minors, promised to discard any DNA results from people who were eliminated as suspects.
"Even if they have the agreement of their parents they could refuse," Jean-Francois Fountain, La Rochelle's mayor, told RTL radio. "I'm trying to put a more positive view of things: If you do this, you clear yourself. There are hundreds of people today who will be cleared."
Devaux acknowledged that all the results could still come back negative, sending investigators back to the drawing board.
From a legal standpoint, the decision is completely logical, said Christopher Mesnooh, an American lawyer who works in Paris.
"Of the 500 or so men there's really only one who should have any concern," Mesnooh said. "What you have to do in this kind of case is you have to balance each person's right to privacy against what happened to this girl."
Such testing has occurred in the past. A small town in rural Australia, Wee Waa, tested the entire male population or about 500 men in 2000 after the rape of a 93-year-old woman. It led to the conviction a farm laborer, Stephen James Boney.
English police trying to solve the rape and murder of two teenage girls in the village of Narborough were the first to use mass DNA collection in 1986, sampling 5,000 men in the earliest days of genetic testing. Police found the killer, Colin Pitchfork, after he asked a friend for a substitute blood sample.
France has also used DNA dragnets, including in 1997 when police trying to solve the rape and murder of a 13-year-old British girl ordered testing for about 3,400 men and boys. In 2004, investigators trying to solve the murder of an 11-year-old boy took 2,300 samples. Neither crime was solved.
Last year, a judge in Brittany ordered DNA tests for all 800 men and boys ages 15 to 75 living in a town plagued with arson fires. The man ultimately charged, a local grocer, had been tested but was arrested only after two more fires and more investigation.
When the DNA database was created, French privacy rights advocates said they were comfortable with it because it had clear limitations, said Jean-Pierre Dubois of the French League of Human Rights. Over time, he said, those limits have blurred.
"We are very surprised that the police officers have not been able to be a bit more precise. When you make an inquiry, you have other evidence and other testimony," Dubois said. "Otherwise, you could say why only the people in the school? Why not all the inhabitants of the town or the region?"


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Does anyone know of any non-religious charities? I really want to donate money and/or time to a worthy cause (currently I want to donate to less-fortunate children in South Africa) but have found it…Continue
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Greetings, Jennifer! I see you haven't been active at Atheist Nexus since March. We have a new group where you might feel more at home. Please consider joining Hang With Friends , where we can share our stories and laugh, and discuss anything on our minds.
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Jennifer, you are absolutely superb in making such a very kind donation to the Kasese Humanist Primary School in Uganda. I also got my donation away today, and in addition I wrote to Robert Bwambale to which he has very beautifully replied.
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I had to cut short my previous entry to you because there is a 2000 character limit when using this comment wall.
Robert Bwambale joined Atheist Nexus and the "Origins" group about three months ago (see under Bwambale Robert). Very farsighted, he has founded this freethinking science-based school in Uganda. I know of no schools in the US or in Britain with the word humanist in the name. I intend donating $1000 shortly.
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There are several web sites to visit regarding this splendid school, e.g.
Dear Esteemed visitors to Kasese humanist primary school website,
I welcome all of you for visiting our site.
Unlike most schools that exist in Uganda where most schools are built on Christian foundations and Islamic Foundation, our school is strictly set up on the Foundation of Science. . . . . [see the next web site for the rest of this description. . . and many photos]
Enjoy exploring and reading more about Kasese Humanist Primary School, i thank you for visiting our school website.
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It's something in my ankle, I'm not sure what. It's always concerning. That's my power leg. ... It's definitely stiff. ... I felt it on the second-to-last pitch. It felt a little bit different on the last pitch I threw. ... It felt like it was locked up and then like it popped in and out of the socket or something. ... It's pretty bad timing. But I could be back out there in six days. ... I could wake up tomorrow and feel like playing basketball. We'll just see.WEEI's Rob Bradford:
Beckett does not have what we would classically define as a sprained ankle.Jason Varitek:
The diagnosis of the injury suffered by the pitcher in the fourth inning Monday was originally classified as a sprain, but has since been identified as something different. It isn't clear if it is more promising, or potentially more threatening. As the pitcher said after the loss, he has never experienced anything like this so answers will have to come when he visits with foot specialist Dr. George Theodore Tuesday.
He just came off the rubber funny. I can't tell you what I saw. Something looked weird, and he was kind of making a face.Beckett also mentioned that he fell in the bullpen, before the game.
[I was] trying to get off the mound and take a shirt off. I didn't feel it between there. I didn't feel it until those last two pitches. ... I was just trying to change shirts and they have concrete or something down there. I fell. I don't know, but I don't think it had anything to do with it. I think I would have felt it earlier than that.Daniel Bard:
Obviously, he's been our best guy from Day 1. Talking to him, it didn't seem as bad as we first thought.If Beckett is hurt, it's serious, of course (and Erik Bedard will not start on Friday because of a strained ligament in his left knee), but several reporters noted that after the game:
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The Globe's Peter Abraham said the wild card standings are suddenly of great importance:
When Josh Beckett walked slowly off the mound in the fourth inning favoring his right ankle yesterday, did any hope of the Red Sox advancing deep into the postseason go with him? ...John Tomase of the Herald acknowledged that this injury could be serious or it could be nothing:
[The Red Sox] now trail the Yankees by 2.5 games in the American League East, their largest deficit since July 2.
Of suddenly greater significance is that the Sox lead Tampa Bay by seven games in the wild card with 22 to play. The teams will play each other seven more times.
All we know at the moment is that the surest thing in the Red Sox rotation just became a question mark with the playoffs less than a month away. ...Michael Silverman, Herald:
Until Beckett receives a full workup, we're left in the dark with our worst-case scenarios and fears of the Sox trying to win a playoff series with him at less than 100 percent. ...
Now Beckett's next start is a giant question mark. Maybe it'll be next week. Maybe it'll be at the end of September.
It's hard to script a tougher or sadder opening act to a road trip than the one managed by the Red Sox yesterday.
Not only did [Beckett sprain his ankle], but the team went on to eat up nearly all of its bullpen ... [and] the Red Sox fell 2.5 games out of first place in the American League East.
Other than that, it was a nice afternoon 25 days before the playoffs begin. ...
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It isn't every day a phone like Samsung's Galaxy S III comes into the world. The Galaxy S III is practically a celebrity, thanks both to the massive public interest surrounding it and the Olympic-sized promotional pushSamsung's providing.
Hype and presentation, however, don't always equal greatness -- and these days, there's no shortage of eye-catching smartphones available. So does the Samsung Galaxy S III do enough to stand out from the pack?
Samsung Galaxy S III
I wanted to find out. I've been using the Galaxy S III in place of my own personal phone for the past several days -- going back and forth between a white AT&T model and a blue T-Mobile model -- and I've learned a lot about where the phone shines and where it falls short. So dim the lights and get ready: Our latest rock star is about to take center stage.
(Note: The Galaxy S III will be sold by all four major U.S. carriers as well as U.S. Cellular. We've included a chart that lists some of the details; you can find the full rundown of launch dates, prices, and model availability in my carrier-by-carrier guide.)
Body and display
Samsung has made much of the fact that its Galaxy S III is "designed for humans" -- not only that, but it's "inspired by water, wind, leaves, and pebbles." (Please, someone gag me now.) Here's the truth: The "magical" marketing speak is great for commercials, but it has little to do with the real world. The Galaxy S III is just a phone.
That said, it's a very nice phone, and its quality is apparent the second you pick it up. The Galaxy S III is a sexy piece of hardware, all angles and curves; its back panel is so smooth and glossy that you can actually see your reflection in it.
The Galaxy S III's casing is made of plastic, like most Samsung phones. Though the back panel feels a bit flimsy when removed -- bend it too far and it might just snap -- the material feels durable when in place.
The Galaxy S III is 2.8 x 5.4 x 0.34 in., making it slightly longer and thinner than the HTC One X or Samsung Galaxy Nexus (U.S. versions). The phone weighs 4.7 oz. -- a hair more than the One X and 0.4 oz. less than the U.S. Galaxy Nexus.
The new Galaxy doesn't feel overly large in the hand, which is quite a feat when you consider its supersized 4.8-in. screen. Samsung has managed to include a large display while still achieving a sleek-feeling form; the phone is well-designed and quite comfortable to hold. The glossy back feels somewhat slick compared to the textured material on a phone like the Galaxy Nexus, but despite my initial concerns, I never felt the device slipping from my hands.
One thing I did feel was heat: Both the white AT&T model and the blue T-Mobile model occasionally became quite warm to the touch during use (and not even resource-intensive use -- just casual Web and social media browsing). The phones never got so hot that I couldn't physically hold them, but they got hot enough that I was acutely aware of the temperature, both on the back casings and on the glass displays.
Speaking of displays, the Galaxy S III packs a 1280 x 720 HD Super AMOLED screen. The screen looks good: Colors are bright and blacks are satisfyingly deep. Display aficionados may balk at the Pentile-based nature of the technology, which is generally considered to be less impressive than the LCD-based alternative seen on phones like the One X. While there's certainly merit to that argument, it's hard to call the Galaxy S III's display a weak point; even looking at the Galaxy S III and the One X side by side, the difference in display quality is difficult to detect. Unless you're finely tuned into subtle display differences, you're going to be pleased.
A warning, though: The autobrightness feature on the phone isn't so great. The display frequently adjusted itself to a too-dim setting during my use, which proved to be mildly irritating. (You can, of course, set your brightness manually, but that sort of defeats the purpose of having an autobrightness tool.) Hopefully Samsung can correct this via a future firmware update.
The Galaxy S III has an LED notification light on its front that alerts you to missed calls and messages; if you want, you can use a third-party LED notification control app to make the light even more useful. The phone has a volume rocker on its left side, a headphone jack on the top, a power button on the right, and a charging port on the bottom. The charging port can be used to connect the phone to a TV or monitor via HDMI, though you'll need a special adapter to make it work. (Adapters from older Samsung phones won't do the trick).
It's worth mentioning that unlike past-generation models, the Galaxy S III will be relatively constant from carrier to carrier. The back-of-phone branding and app additions (a.k.a. bloatware -- more on that in a bit) are the only real differences in the various networks' phones.
Samsung Galaxy S III carriers and pricing
The buttons -- oh, the buttons
With Android 4.0, a.k.a. Ice Cream Sandwich, Google is moving the platform toward a button-free environment: Instead of devices relying on physical navigation buttons, as they once did, Android 4.0 revolves around the concept of virtual on-screen buttons that rotate to match a device's orientation.
Some manufacturers are resisting this change -- perhaps in an attempt to achieve consistency with past designs or maybe just because their hardware was conceived before Android 4.0 came around. Samsung's Galaxy S III is among the 4.0-level devices whose design is clinging to Android's past instead of embracing its future, and that takes an unfortunate toll on the quality of the user experience.
In stock Ice Cream Sandwich (left), all options are accessible via on-screen icons. In Samsung's version (right), many options show up only if you press the phone's physical menu button.
The Galaxy S III has three buttons on its face: a centered hardware "home" button and a capacitive button on either side. This is where Samsung's decision-making gets most vexing: One of the capacitive buttons is a "back" control, which is sensible enough, but the other is a "menu" control -- something phased out of Android after the 2.3-level release in order to move away from having hidden functions and make the platform more user-friendly.
Having a menu button on the Galaxy S III makes the phone feel dated and results in a far less fluid and intuitive user experience. Functions remain hidden and hard to find, and the menu button doesn't even work consistently throughout the system (in the Camera app, for example, there's an on-screen menu button; pressing the physical button does nothing).
Samsung also elected not to include an app-switching button of any sort -- something that's now standard in Ice Cream Sandwich -- and instead requires users to long-press the physical home button in order to activate the multitasking tool. The multitasking tool is one of the high points of Ice Cream Sandwich and something you'll likely want to access often; having it buried in a place that requires a two-second long-press is a serious downer and another ding that makes the phone feel dated.
Sadly, the Galaxy S III's button problems don't stop there: Philosophical approach aside, the mix of a hardware home button with capacitive back and menu buttons simply doesn't work. Once you get used to gently touching the capacitive buttons to activate them, having to forcefully press the adjacent physical home button is jarring and feels bizarre. I can't count the number of times I found myself touching the home button only to realize I had to press it firmly to make it work.
On top of that, the phone's capacitive buttons are frequently not lit up -- and when they aren't illuminated, you can't see them at all. When the buttons are lit up on the white model of the phone, you see quite a bit of light bleed around them. And for some reason, Samsung opted to put the back button on the right side of the phone instead of the left, where Google has it placed in Ice Cream Sandwich; this seemingly trivial decision makes the phone unnatural to use for anyone accustomed to any other ICS phone or tablet.
When the buttons are lit on the white model, there is light bleed around them.
Much ado about buttons, I know. But all in all, I feel like Samsung made some very bad decisions with its Galaxy S III button design -- and with buttons being such a crucial part of the phone-using experience, the impact is significant.
Under the hood
While the international Galaxy S III model runs on a quad-core processor, the U.S. models utilize a 1.5GHz dual-core chip made by Qualcomm. They also have a whopping 2GB of RAM -- twice the RAM of their international brothers as well as all current high-end phones on the U.S. market.
So what's that actually mean? The phone is fast -- really fast. The Galaxy S III flies with most any task: Swiping between home screens is smooth, apps load instantly and Web browsing is as speedy as can be. No amount of multitasking seems to slow this sucker down.
That said, it's hard to quantify the effect of the extra RAM in real-world terms; even though the phone's speed is impressive, other recent high-end devices like the One X and Galaxy Nexus have similarly snappy performance. Based on my experiences, I'd say the Galaxy S III has a little extra zip in certain areas, but with the other top-tier phones being as fast as they are, it's tough to tell any major difference in most everyday usage.
The Galaxy S III uses a 2100 mAh battery that can be removed and replaced. I found the phone's battery life to be good but not incredible: One day, for example, I spent about an hour reading online content and a half-hour streaming music with Pandora. By lunchtime, my battery was down from a full charge to 58%; by 5 p.m., after a seven-minute phone call and a few minutes of quick on-and-off Internet usage, it was down to 36%.
Still, with moderate to heavy use, I was generally able to make it to the end of the day -- or close to it -- without getting a low-battery warning. The Galaxy S III is no Razr Maxx when it comes to stamina, but it's certainly no slouch.
The Galaxy S III comes with your choice of 16GB or 32GB of internal storage. It also supports up to 64GB of external storage via a microSD slot located beneath the back cover. Some models of the phone include 50GB of free Dropbox storage for two years; the AT&T and Verizon models, however, do not.
Samsung's Galaxy S III is 4G-ready, though connection type and speed will obviously depend on your carrier. The AT&T and Verizon models run on LTE right now, where such service is available, while the Sprint model will be limited to 3G data speeds until Sprint's LTE network has launched. The T-Mobile version, meanwhile, utilizes the carrier's HSPA+-level 4G network.
I had no issues with voice quality on the Galaxy S III; calls were loud and clear, and people on the other end of the line reported being able to hear me just fine. The Galaxy S III does have a series of in-call EQ settings, but I was unable to detect any difference with the optimizations on vs. off.
The Galaxy S III has full support for near-field communications (NFC), which enables you to use contact-free payment and phone-to-phone data-sharing services. Samsung has built in support for some interesting types of contact-free interactions; I'll explore them fully in a blog later this week.
Camera quality is becoming an area of distinction for high-end smartphones, and with its Galaxy S III, Samsung doesn't disappoint. The Galaxy S III's 8-megapixel main camera consistently captures sharp shots with vibrant, true-to-life colors and fantastic detail.
In some ways, the Galaxy's camera lags behind the lens used by HTC on its One series -- Samsung's camera lacks a dedicated image chip, for example, and has a more limited aperture range than HTC's -- but it took great-looking photos in almost any environment.
Samsung's Galaxy S III camera is capable of capturing images in HDR mode, which quickly snaps shots at different light exposures and then combines them into a single photo.
A sample photo taken with the Galaxy S III's camera.
The camera also has a "burst shot" mode that allows you to hold the shutter and capture 20 photos in rapid-fire paparazzi style. The interface for this mode is a bit of a letdown, though; whereas HTC made the function available on-demand on its One phones, Samsung requires you to scroll through a menu to find and activate the function before it'll work with every use.
The Galaxy S III has a face-detection tagging feature that's supposed to recognize faces automatically and make it easy for you to share photos with friends. In my tests, the feature was very hit and miss; it worked as promised some of the time but just as frequently failed to recognize faces that had been programmed in.
The Galaxy S III's camera is capable of recording 1080p HD-quality video. The phone also has a 1.9-megapixel front-facing camera for vanity shots and video chat; its photos aren't studio-quality, by any means, but compared to the majority of front-facing mobile cameras, they're actually quite good.
The software
The Galaxy S III runs a version of Android 4.0 heavily customized with Samsung's TouchWiz interface. The result is a mishmash of interesting features and inconsistent design; you could call it a Neapolitan version of Google's Ice Cream Sandwich.
The Galaxy S III interface (right) feels cluttered and busy compared to Google's base Android 4.0 UI (left).
In terms of the actual interface, Samsung trades the subdued gray-and-blue design introduced in Ice Cream Sandwich for a far more busily colored alternative. Many of Samsung's UI changes seem to have been made merely for the sake of change and at the expense of the user experience: For example, to create a home screen folder in the stock ICS software, you simply drag one icon onto another; with the Galaxy S III, you have to first drag an icon directly from the app drawer onto a "Create Folder" command at the bottom of the screen, then drag a second icon on top of it. Samsung essentially altered the process to make it more cumbersome and less intuitive.
Samsung packed plenty of bloat into the S III, too, ranging from its usual set of content-purchasing "hubs" to a series of Yahoo News applications. (The carriers have tacked on their share of garbage as well; thankfully, most of it can be disabled and hidden from view.) Even elements like the home screen widgets -- of which Samsung has added several of its own -- are visually random. The net result is an OS that feels cluttered and busy, which is a sharp contrast from the sleek simplicity Google achieved in its base ICS software.
Interface aside, Samsung made some innovative feature additions to the Galaxy S III's operating system -- things that actually do add value to the user experience. One of the most useful additions is something called SmartStay: When enabled, it allows the phone to use the front camera to "see" when you're looking at it and keep the screen from turning off.
Samsung also put power controls into the phone's notification area -- a feature that's handy, even if it could be achieved just as easily via third-party add-ons -- along with an option to display your exact remaining battery percentage at the top of the screen. Samsung's nature theme provides some pleasant visual flourishes, too, such as a rippling water effect that happens when you unlock the phone.
Some other noteworthy feature additions:
- Samsung created a cool "Pop Up Player" that lets you watch a video while simultaneously conducting other tasks. The video plays in a floating picture-in-picture-style box that can be moved around the screen. The feature is wildly impressive and a great demonstration of the phone's power, though I question how often one would actually use it (particularly considering that videos have to be on the phone's local storage to work -- YouTube isn't supported).
- The Galaxy S III has a host of new motion-based commands. Some of them are more novel than practical -- being able to tilt the phone to move an icon around on your home screen, for example -- while others are legitimately useful, like the ability to have the system automatically call someone when you move the phone to your ear while texting.
- Samsung has provided a handful of gesture-based commands, like the ability to swipe left on someone's name in the Phone app to text her or swipe right to dial her number. It also, however, removed Google's ICS-level People app, which offers a centralized place to view your contacts and all their connected social network info.
Finally, there's S Voice, Samsung's voice-powered personal assistant that's clearly an answer to Apple's Siri. Like Siri, unfortunately, S Voice feels more like a gimmick than anything. In general, I found its accuracy and responsiveness to be inconsistent and unreliable.
The Galaxy S II's S Voice in action.
The few areas where S Voice shines are those in which it expands upon Google's own Voice Actions technology, which is integrated into Android by default. S Voice has a few useful additions to Google's simple command-driven tools, such as voice-activated options to set timers or toggle the phone's Wi-Fi mode. But it lacks some of the basic commands that make Voice Actions useful, such as the ability to compose and send an email.
The more natural-language-based functions are a waste of time. S Voice rarely understood me correctly, and even when it did, it almost always responded by apologizing for not having the answer and then prompting me to search the Web. (This happened even with easy queries like: "How tall is Michael Jordan?") Most tasks could be accomplished more effectively and with less aggravation by using Google's Voice Actions or just searching the Web directly.
Other elements of S Voice are integrated throughout the Galaxy S III, such as the ability to use voice commands to unlock the phone or to capture a picture while in the Camera app. Some of these functions are novel, but I found their reliability to be around 50% at best, which basically renders them useless.
(An observation: You can't talk about Samsung software without talking about upgrades. From the early days of Android through now, Samsung has been notoriously bad about providing timely OS upgrades to its users. The past doesn't necessarily predict the future, of course, but if fast and frequent upgrades are a priority to you, buying a Samsung Galaxy S phone sure seems like a risky bet to make.)
Bottom line
The Galaxy S III has a lot of great things going for it. The phone has a sexy, sleek design; a big, beautiful screen; and perhaps the best performance of any smartphone on the market today. The new Galaxy has an excellent camera, too, and some nice perks like NFC-based sharing and external storage support.
At a Glance
SamsungPrice: Varies according to carrier (see chart).Pros: Sleek design; big, beautiful screen; top-of-the-line performance; excellent camera; removable battery; supports external storage; has innovative features like "SmartStay" and "Pop Up Player"Cons: Dated button setup; awkward combination of physical and capacitive buttons; capacitive buttons can't be seen much of the time; has a tendency to run hot; busy and inconsistent UI compared to Google's base Android 4.0; lots of bloatware
For all its strengths, though, the Galaxy S III has some drawbacks that can't be ignored. Samsung's button approach is riddled with problems, ranging from an awkward combination of physical and capacitive buttons -- the latter of which frequently can't be seen at all -- to a dated choice of button commands. The phone's software has some commendable bonus features, but the overall user interface feels bloated, busy, and inconsistent compared to Google's base Android 4.0 OS.
Whether or not these things are deal-breakers is dependent on your perspective; if you're more of a casual smartphone user, you may not even think twice about them. For many people, the large number of positive qualities will outweigh the negatives. But if you're an Android enthusiast or someone who values a cutting-edge, optimal user experience, Samsung's choices may leave you feeling let down.
All considered, the Galaxy S III is a standout smartphone that easily earns a place among the Android elite. It isn't without its flaws -- no technology is -- but it's a mighty fine device with an awful lot to offer.
JR Raphael is a Computerworld contributing editor and the author of the Android Power blog. You can find him on Google+, Twitter, or Facebook.
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