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Believe it or not, I have something to share this week.
I found myself having to "cowgirl up" last week which I guess is quite fitting since I do live in the West.
One would think that after being in my profession for 25 years that I would be ready for anything, but obviously not as you will read.
Over the past 25 years, I have braved the cold to trudge through snowdrifts and stood in the rain and heat to cover accidents, fires and whatever came my way. I even photographed a tractor-trailer/train fire when I was six months pregnant with our youngest child.
All the while I was dressed appropriately for the conditions.
But not so last week.
In my attempt to grab a photograph for the cover of the upcoming Brush Rodeo program last Friday, I was asked to meet my party at High Plains Livestock where we would take photos near the cattle pen area.
I didn't figure it would be anything huge but since I wasn't sure if I would be climbing into the pens, I donned a pair of jeans that morning, along with a pair of flip flops.
After all, how much trouble could I get into by sitting on top of a fence to take a few photos? More than you think.
Upon arriving at my location, the suggestion was made to travel to an area about half-way between Brush and Fort Morgan where we could get the "feel" of the West by adding longhorns to the photo, which I felt was a fantastic idea.
But it was on the drive out, and seeing where my subject was taking us, that I realized I was going to be in a little bit of trouble since I was not wearing the appropriate footwear. Hmmm, this could get very interesting I thought to myself.
And, as usual, it did.
Although the location was just off of I-76, we had to go off the beaten trail to arrive at our destination. Then it was through a gate and into an area that had received the much-needed moisture, so needless to say I had to put the four-wheel drive into action.
Add about 80 head of longhorn cattle into the mix and you know what I had gotten myself into.
The only thing I could do was get out, literally roll up my pant legs and get to work.
Since I grew up around cattle, I wasn't afraid of a few cow patties but I was afraid of stepping in one with nearly bare feet.
So between wearing flip flops, the sloshy puddles and what, I believe, were a few thousand cow patties, I found myself looking down and doing quite a bit of side-stepping to get the photos.
But it's all in a day's work when you're in this business.
My new motto should be that of the Boy Scouts…be prepared…and carry an assortment of footwear in my vehicle. One never knows where they will find themselves out here in the West.


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Dyed Banana Leaf 4 Drawer Tower
Catalogue Number: 209-4471
- Sturdy banana leaf and steel construction
- Ideal for bathroom storage
- H67xW27xD24 cm
Product Details
The natural look in home décor is well displayed in Tesco's range of furniture partly made out of banana leaf dyed in brown. As all the pieces are handmade, each one is slightly different from all the others in measurement or colouring. This storage tower consists of four of these handmade drawers/baskets placed in a sturdy metal frame, together with a mat covering at the top. Matching products made the same way are also available. Combined, they make an impressive decorative impact in any home. Some self-assembly required.
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Key Information | |
Type | Storage drawer |
Material | |
Material | Banana leaf |
Features | |
Design | Dyed Banana Leaf |
Folding | N |
Handles | Y |
Lid | N |
Set | 1 |
Wheels | N |
Assembly | Self assembly |
Storage | |
Capacity | maximum loading: 2 KGS |
Number Of Compartments/Drawers | 4 |
Stackable | Y |
Nestable | Y |
Dimensions | |
Product Height | 67.0 Centimetre |
Product Width | 17.0 Centimetre |
Product Depth | 24.0 Centimetre |
Product Weight | 2.6 Kilogram |
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Miriam Aguirre Santos gave her son life. In her death, she gave him sight.
Aguirre Santos, 61, died Sept. 30 in Miami Beach after a heart attack, but not before repeating and writing down her final wish: that her eyes be used to restore her son's vision.
Days later, doctors at Miami's Bascom Palmer Eye Institute performed what they say is the first mother-son corneal transplant in the history of the institute or the Florida Lions Eye Bank. Juan Aguirre can see clearly out of his left eye for the first time since he was a boy.
"It's like a whole new world has opened up," Juan Aguirre, 39, said Thursday in an examination room at Bascom Palmer, part of the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine. "I'm seeing things like I never did before. Everything is very, very colorful."
Aguirre's eyesight was damaged at age 5, when a drunken motorcyclist struck him as he walked with his family in their native Cuba. His left cornea became badly scarred, and Aguirre struggled to see out of that eye.
"The cornea is like the window of the eye," said Dr. Guillermo Amescua, the ophthalmologist who operated on Aguirre. "Juan's injury was like if you smashed the windshield of your car. It's very cloudy and hard to see anything in front of you."
Aguirre and his family moved to South Florida in 1980, about two years after the motorcycle accident. Despite Aguirre's injury, he managed to forge a successful music career, living and performing in New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans and elsewhere.
He has recorded and released six albums of roots, Americana, blues and jazz under the name Diablo Dimes. His music — and growing collection of body art — appeared on several episodes of the South Beach-based reality show "Miami Ink," and he has upcoming musical gigs booked at Art Basel and the South Beach Wine & Food Festival.
Aguirre said his eye disability made him a better guitarist.
"I couldn't cheat when I was learning chords," he said. "Even if I looked down to see where my fingers were, it didn't do me any good."
Aguirre relocated to White Post, Va., in the rural Shenandoah Valley about a year and a half ago with his wife and two children. His younger sister, 38, also lives there.
They found a place in Virginia for their mom, hoping that the slower pace and country air would be good for her. In recent years, Aguirre Santos had developed diabetes and high blood pressure and struggled with depression, her son said. Her husband died about 20 years ago.
"We thought we could get her to settle there, but she wasn't having it," Aguirre said. "She loved Miami too much to leave. She loved being with her friends here."
So Miami is where she stayed. Her death late last month — on her birthday — set off an unlikely chain of events.
When doctors discovered that Aguirre Santos, an organ donor, had healthy corneas and a request to donate one to her son, the clock started ticking. Corneas can be preserved a maximum of seven days after death for a transplantation to be successful.
"When I talked to the family, I told them there was basically a slim-to-none possibility that everything would fall in line for this to work. It would take a miracle," said Elizabeth Fout-Caraza, executive director of the Florida Lions Eye Bank. "His cornea could have been too scarred. He could have had a cold and we wouldn't be able to operate. Any number of things could have happened."


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Firefighters say a 2,800 acre fire east of Eureka is currently 90% contained.
Authorities say arcing power lines started the Pinto Fire around 12:30am on June 26th.
The fire is burning in critical sage grouse habitat about five miles north of U.S. Highway 50 and just west of State Route 892.
Authorities say fire crews evacuated six people from two ranches on Tuesday morning. The structures were saved. Additional ranches are located four to five miles west of the fire. Neither the ranches nor the Bald Mountain Mine, located 30 miles north of the fire are immediately threatened.
Efforts are underway to restore electric service to Newark Valley residents and local mining operations.
About 120 personnel are fighting the fire.
Full containment is expected by Thursday.
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Mon, Mar 26, 2012 | 19:34 BST
Video: Assassin's Creed III's dev director opens up at last
With Assassin's Creed III's first info now well and truly out of the bag, Sam Clay caught up with IP development director Tommy Francois to get all the details on Connor Kenway and his traipse through the American Revolution.
Tue, Mar 27, 2012 | 12:58 BST
Connor goes loud: Assassin's Creed III gets first showing
Can the turbulent backdrop of the American Revolution match the passion of the Renaissance era? Stace Harman attends the Assassin's Creed III unveiling in London to find out.
Tue, Mar 06, 2012 | 15:44 GMT
Quick quotes: Kinect support for Child of Eden came from Ubisoft CEO
"Yves is a unique CEO. He is obsessive with ideas, and he likes to get involved with games. Using Kinect in Child of Eden, for example, was his idea. He had seen this cool new technology and had the idea." – Ubisoft director of IP Tommy Francois, speaking at a GDC dinner on how Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot inspired the Kinect support for Child of Eden.
Thanks, Develop.


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RICHMOND ã More than 20 residents were present Tuesday for a public hearing on the proposed town tree ordinance, which the Richmond Town Council approved in a 4-1 vote.
The purpose of the ordinance is ãto preserve and maintain trees on town property and to protect the public health, safety and welfare of the residents of Richmond.ã
According to Town Solicitor Karen Ellsworth, this ordinance would impact property owners ãvery, very, very little.ã She said the ordinance would only apply if the tree were right on the edge of the property impeding the townãs right of way and posing a potential public safety hazard.
Residents and tree activists began calling for the ordinance after a historic oak was cut down to allow for improvements to Hillsdale Road. The legislation was vetted by Town Administrator Steve Sette in December, presented to the town council in January and presented again at a public hearing on Feb. 5, but never made it to a vote.
Ellsworth presented four additional amendments to the ordinance before a vote was taken, which she said were made Tuesday afternoon.
The changes included giving Richmond Rural Preservation Land Trust, overseen by the Richmond Land Trust Committee, authority over cutting down or trimming trees on land trust property.
The amendments were made after Ellsworth had a conversation with Denise Poyer, chair of the land trust committee.
Councilor Paul Michaud, who voted in opposition to the ordinance, expressed concern with these last minute changes.
ãWhy didnãt we get this revision,ã Michaud asked Ellsworth who had just read the changes aloud. ãWe should we vote on it? I donãt like this idea of making changes to it at the last minute.ã
Another change included giving the town administrator or the town council the final determination whether a tree should be removed or pruned if the tree warden, public works department and the utility company are unable to come to a mutual decision.
Councilor Peter Fangiullo asked how often this would affect the public works department and their work.
ãIf thereãs a project in place, we would know well in advance if we needed to do any trimming,ã Sette said.
Council President Joseph Reddish added that Scott Barber, public works director, does not see this identification and protection of ãspecimen treesã coming up in the near future based on the road projects the town has planned.
It came to light that the town currently does not have a tree warden, as required by state law, and has not budgeted for one. They are in the process of looking for a licensed arborist to fill the position, which is on an ãas-neededã basis. In the interim, Ellsworth said the conservation commission could identify specimen trees.
Resident Gary Whitney said he is concerned that the tree warden would act as a ãtree czar.ã
ãIt seems like an awful lot of power to put in the hands of one person,ã he said. ãAm I to understand that any tree that I have on my property that overhangs the town right of way just a little bit, Iãm essentially subject to the whim of this tree czar?ã
Reddish said this would not be the case and the tree warden identifies specimen trees based on guidelines set by the Department of Environmental Management and the U.S. Forest Service.
ãWe will not have a ãtree czar,ãã Reddish said. ãThis [ordinance] allows for a process to identify and communicate about a situation. If itãs in the road, thatãs a safety concern. We donãt have time to be running around town trimming trees that donãt need to be trimmed. Weãre putting in a process so specimen trees can be saved or protected because they add value to the community history.ã
Ellsworth said this ordinance would not stop property owners from cutting down a tree that is on the edge of their property.
ãNobody cares if you do anything to your own tree,ã she said.
Dennis Erkan, a resident of James Trail, spoke in support of the ordinance.
ãThis can help maintain the quality of life in the town as well as identify and protect trees,ã he said.
The ordinance requires that at least 30 days notice be given before any work on trees is scheduled to take place, except in the case of emergencies.
The notice period was originally 45 days and residents expressed concern that 30 days isnãt long enough.
Ellsworth pointed out that there isnãt anything in the ordinance that says the 30 days canãt be extended.
Council Vice President Henry Oppenheimer said that the ordinance was mostly aimed at National Grid and their work doing preventative maintenance in the town.
ãOne of the problems weãve had in the last few storms is National Grid not doing the preventative maintenance that they ought to do,ã Oppenheimer said. ãI think they ought to give at least 30 days notice.ã
He pointed out that it is a minimum of 30 days.
ãIf you make it 45 days, Iãm very concerned that National Grid will do preventative maintenance in other towns,ã Oppenheimer said.
The council then voted 4-1, with Michaud dissenting, to enact the ordinance as amended.
In other council business, the council unanimously approved an amendment to the townãs ordinance pursuant to the ãEntertainmentsã section. The amendment pertains to the duration for licenses granted for entertainment events and now states that a license shall be for one month, three months, six months or one year, in addition to the ãone more 24-hour periodsã clause previously in the ordinance.
The amendment also adds a stipulation to the article that events shall commence no earlier than 10 a.m. and conclude no later than 11 p.m. of the same day, unless the event takes place at an establishment with a victualing license or license to serve alcohol, the town council then has the authority to establish the hour at which the entertainment must end and the days of the week on which the entertainment must take place. Furthermore, the licensee may not permit an event at such an establishment to continue beyond the established closing time.
The council also unanimously adopted amendments to the townãs comprehensive plan, as presented by Town Planner Denise Stetson.
Stetson said the town mostly got favorable comments back on the plan from statewide planning, and only needs to make minor changes to data and tables.
The council renewed a refuse collection and hauling license, granted to D. Lewis and Son, Inc. The council also had a discussion on implementing single stream recycling in the town and at the Washington County Fair.
ãItãs a process beginning with education,ã Reddish said of working to implement new recycling practices.
The council adopted a resolution relative to ãAn Act Relating to Tax Exemption of Certain Property in the Town of Richmond,ã which they will send to local legislators.
However, council members noted their opposition to House Bill 5565 relative to early in-person voting.
This bill would allow voting to take place 21 days ahead of schedule and would cost the town a substantial amount of money to staff the voting booths with at least two people seven days a week for 21 days.
ãThis would be detrimental to the town budget wise,ã Reddish said. ãThis doesnãt make sense because there is an absentee ballot process.ã
Council members said they thought only a few people might take advantage of the early voting, which wasnãt worth the cost.?ãItãs multiple hours, on multiple days, for multiple thousands of dollars,ã Oppenheimer said.
Prior to adjournment, Sette said the council would have the budget by Friday and the council scheduled a budget work session for March 26 at 6:30 p.m.


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31 CFR 543.408 - Charitable contributions.
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Charitable contributions.
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Pharr House - 7BDR oceanfront home on Golden Mile in Myrtle Beach
- bedrooms 7
- baths 7½
- sleeps 19
- pool no
- hot tub no
- pets allowed no
- type House
- community Ocean Boulevard
rates (USD)
/ night
$ 5,546 - $ 6,710 / week
vacation rental description
The moment you step foot on the grounds you will understand why generations of families have traveled many miles to spend their summer days at this property. The Pharr House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and was one of the first beach cottages built back in 1934. You will find countless ways to enjoy your time outdoors at the Pharr House; whether it be watching the sunrise, playing on the beach, exploring the large oceanfront yard, or relaxing in a rocker on the porch taking in the scenery.
property availability
Last modified on 05-7-2013 at 11:11 AM.
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Jeff Cline 843-293-7332
house rental amenities
This property is managed and rented by "Palmetto Properties of Myrtle Beach". You can find us on the web or use the contact information on this page for more information. We will provide you with an updated availability calendar, floor plans, a Virtual Tour, property amenities, nearby attractions, an area map, and much more.
activities and attractions in Myrtle Beach South Carolina
The following attractions are less than 2 miles away:
Broadway at the Beach
Myrtle Waves Water Park
Ripley's Aquarium (SC's #1 attraction)
Hard Rock Cafe
Planet Hollywood
NASCAR Speed Park
Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville
Ripley's Believe It or Not
Oceanfront boardwalk (old Pavillion area)
Celebrity Square (bars & nightclubs)
Myrtle Beach Pelican's stadium (minor league baseball)
IMAX & Carmike cinema
Pavillion Nostalgic Park
Cal Ripken baseball venue
Myrtle Beach Convention Center
Ripley's Haunted House
vacation rental rates
All rates include linens, departure cleaning, taxes and fees.
We accept Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and personal checks.
There is a 7 night minimum during the summer months and a 3 night minimum during the non-summer months.
Jeff Cline 843-293-7332
accepted payment methods
Prior to paying a reservation deposit, always verify payment instructions by calling the phone number displayed on this listing page. By contacting the owner directly and paying by an approved method - credit card, paypal, check or bank transfer - your reservation payment will be protected up to $1,000.
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Innovation & Improvement
Parent Involvement
Parent Involvement is a requirement of NCLB Title 1 Part A
Subpart 1 SEC 1111-1118. Districts are required to have a district parent involvement policy, a school parent involvement policy and a school/parent compact. Other requirements are to have an Annual Parent Meeting, annually review these policies and to involve parents in decision of the use of the parent involvement set aside funds for Parent Involvement Activities.
Samples of these policies
- District wide Parent Involvement Policy
- School Parent Involvement Policy
- School Parent compact
- Parents Right to Know
- Parents Right to Know Spanish version
- Parent Notification Regarding "Highly Qualified" Status of Teacher
- Parent Notification Regarding "Highly Qualified" Status of Teacher Spanish Version
- ISBE Introduces Family Engagement Webinar Series
The Illinois State Board of Education's Division of Innovation and Improvement conducted a series of 60 minute Family Engagement Webinars as part of a statewide family engagement initiative. Each webinar in the 2012 series features practitioners from the 2011 Regional Summits. The practitioners share their experiences in the successful implementation of evidence-based family engagement strategies in their schools or districts. These Webinars are good tools for district staff, school staff, parent facilitators, and parents. The following list of 2012 Webinars can be accessed at: http://www.illinoisparents.org/Toolbox.htm
Improving High School Family Engagement through Parent Support Centers - January 26, 2012
Improving High School Family Engagement through Social and Emotional Learning - February 23, 2012
How to get Families Engaged in an Early Childhood Setting - March 2, 2012
Parent Involvement in High Poverty Schools - March 22, 2012
Very Important Parents (VIP): Utilizing Parents during the School Day as a Resource to Improve Reading Outcomes for Students - April 26, 2012
Involving at Risk Families in RtI supports with an ELL Focus - May 10, 2012
- Achieving Excellence and Innovation in Family, School, and Community Engagement webinar series is an opportunity for stakeholders representing national, regional, and local organizations to learn about family, school, and community engagement research, best practices from the field, and new innovations that are making a difference in school improvement and student learning. Leading practitioners, researchers, and policymakers will share real-life examples from the field about what it takes to effectively engage family and community with schools.
- Family Engagement Tool.
Districts and schools are required to review their parental involvement policies annually. To help with the review and in creating new policies, we encourage you to use this tool. For more information contact Marci Johnson at email@example.com
- Title I Parent Involvement Notification Requirements
- District Parent Involvement Policies and School-Parent Compact
- SES & Choice Requirements for Title I schools
Family Engagement e-Newsletter
- Family Involvement Brochure (October 2010)
- 2009 Parent Involvement Workshop
- Academic Develpment Institute
- Family Engagement Tool
- Publications
- U. S. Department of Education Helping Your Child Book series


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So, it's a shame that there was that whole bad Chobani yogurt ordeal this summer. But, it kind of happens far too often with a lot of companies. If you have decided to judge the yogurt now that all of the products are back on track, well that's too bad, because this brand produces one heck of a delicious yogurt.
I'm actually obsessing over their Flips — specifically the Tropical Escape one that has pineapple, coconut, hazelnuts and granola. Yum. I think I eat one every day. Until this specific Flip flavor came out I don't think I ever really enjoyed yogurt.
While wandering around Soho a few weeks ago with my lovely friend from PSU, we walked by Chobani SoHo. First of all, I have to tell you that I had just finished eating brunch. Was I hungry? No, not at all. But I just had to jump into the shop because it was long over due. I pretty much got the same combo as my favorite Flip but the freshness was obviously completely different. The fruit wasn't blended like it is in the grocery store version, this pineapple was freshly chopped!
It was an exceptionally tasty experience and I can't wait to take my out of town friends here. Hopefully, Chobani considers opening other locations like this. It would be incredible having this down in the Financial District where I now work. One of these shops just isn't enough.


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Theology of mission Contextualization Cultural Anthropology – the anthropology of witchcraft in AfricaBiography
Tim grew up in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as the son of American Baptist missionaries. He gave his life to Christ early in life, and after graduating from the American School of Kinshasa in 1969, he went to Easter College, where he did a BA in Sociology under Tony Campolo at Eastern Baptist College (now Eastern University). It was during his subsequent MAR studies at Westminster Seminary that he felt the Lord was leading him to mission work in the country where he had grown up. On the way there, he met Susan, and they were married in 1982. They have four children, all born during the years that they were working in Congo (1982 to 1996).
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"Rethinking Contextualization and the Gospel in Africa" published in the Africa Journal of Evangelical Theology 24, no. 2 (2005): 165-78.
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Ars takes a close look at the technology underlying Google's Linux-based Android platform.
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So while you can run background processes, aren't they going to be unstable like this? If one VM crashes does that take down the others? |
Blasting a Java related technology in favor of Mono?
Blasting the Eclipse-based SDK and holding Microsoft Visual Studio as the gold standard... Quoting an ex-Microsoft .NET developer with some rigged benchmarks? Was it even relevant to bring that kind of politics into an article on Android? There probably is some awesome engineering in Mono and Visual Studio, but this site is so heavy-handed and evangelical about it, it's hard to take this seriously. |
One more thing: Just *glancing* at that Fibonacci test...
Why is he wrapping a single integer in a class and allocating 10000 instances? Why not just allocate 10000 integers, which is the simpler and much faster, common sense approach? Because he's bending over backwards to showcase the advantage of structs vs classes. That's so obviously political... |
I'm a bit rusty on my programming skills, however don't you need wide character support to provide for asian languages such as Japanese and the written Chinese text? One would think that Android would require this support if they wanted to break into the asian market |
No, you don't need wchar_t in the C library to handle Chinese/Japanese. Android uses ICU to deal directly with UTF-8 and UTF-16 strings in memory, handling internationalization, a very large range of character encodings needed for the Web, and much more. There is was no point to duplicate this in the C library. |
all in all it sounds like android is a rerun of what powers the hiptop/sidekick.
not really surprising as the person that runs the android show is the same person that started the company that makes hiptop, and i think he also started the company that google bought and whos "IP" formed the basis for android... |
So why did they use the Linux kernel instead of one of the BSD kernels or perhaps Darwin?
BTW, GPLv3 FTW. I wish it was possible for Linux to go GPLv3.
whats the support level for ARM on the BSD's? |
When I attended Google I/O last year, I went to listen to the talks about some of the things they were doing in GWT, and the then-fairly-new Google App Engine. Due to the demand for those two services, I found myself attending Android-related events when the GWT and GAE events were too full.
I found myself happily surprised by the things they discussed regarding Dalvik, and the software stack as a whole. It's been very interesting to watch Android evolve and grow, and I think this article was a great overview into how to begin working with Android. I've found it less fun than digging into the iPhone platform, but I think that's purely because I've had more time to spend with the iPhone SDK and toolchains, as well as its resemblance to Mac OS X. That said, Android is definitely a great environment in which to develop, and it's only getting better as time goes on. |
As for me, Android is a very boring platform.
Not compatible with anything else. Everything from scratch (and uhm, you can develop quickly stable and featured program but you can only choose 2 out of these 3 in any time). You are forced to use Java (but what about C, C++, Python, and more... ??). No real desktop environment. And officially you are even forbidden to run native code (i.e. not a smart phone-grade device but rather J2ME-like dumb dialer). All this comes with huge device size. Pretty useless brick with toy-like Java apps. As for me, I'm personally like Maemo platform design. Much more than this Android stuff. For example, try to beat something like this: http://tigro.info/blog/images/173.png This is Psi, great and featured Jabber client, preferred by many users on desktop. But now you can carry it in your pocket with Nokia n800\n810 and wonderful QT libraries. I bet years would pass before any Java craplet can really compete with Psi in terms of features and good protocol implementation. So, Android haves ton of apps. But these are usually toy-like useless stuff. Just like it was with J2ME and I do not see how Android is better and how it can really compete with WinMobile, iPhone and whatever else with such stupid and restricted platform design. My bet: Nokia needs to replace Symbian and Maemo would be a thing which replaces it in top smart phones of Nokia. And this will be Linux. Powered by it's whole community power and using tons of impressive libraries like QT. And this thing will be able to compete with WinMobile or iPhone on par. With fast and lightweight native apps and without dumb limits on which language you are granted rights to write code. As for me, it is pretty abusive tactics to restrict developers to certain selected languages only. This is not even in Open Source spirit to put such moron restrictions. And it very little differs from J2ME devices with proprietary OS. You can't use Linux power anyway so there is no real benefits on it's usage. So yeah, this is not Linux. This is just strange and boring stuff from Google with bunch of non-friendly restrictions, pushing Google's services over others in anti-competitive manner. |
Dalvik is an interpreter on steroids, but no interpreter will EVER compete with compiled code - even against code produced by the relatively limited JIT compilers targeting mobile devices. Those tests against Objective-C/Mono/JavaME are credible, it's just what I'd expect when comparing interpretation with native execution. And it's not going to get significantly better in future Android releases; interpretation is a DEAD-END. Unless, of course, they go the way of JIT. And in that case, they'll end with basically no advantage over JavaME VMs for code sharing and loading time. So much for a Radically Innovative VM...
Quoting myself from another recent thread, "[i]The only chance for Android apps to have competitive performance is relying a lot on native components, like the GUI toolkit, SQLite, OpenGL etc.; or being I/O-bound.[i]". Android seems to rely so much on native components that I suppose that Dalvik is very optimized for that (Java/native interface); but this is also a tradeoff: a lightweight native interface is not compatible with high-performance JIT compilers and advanced Garbage Collectors; if Android ever evolves to have great JIT and GC, the native interface must become thicker and suddenly Android's Java frameworks - mostly designed as thin Java layer over native code, requiring massive Java/native calls - ain't a great idea anymore. Try writing an Android app that depends on CPU-intensive code that can only be written in Java (not "accelerated" by any system API); let's say, a program that captures the camera's input and performs real-time processing of each frame... say, to detect movement for devices without accelerometer, or to detect region of interest (human faces for photos, etc.). You can do that with JavaME in current feature-phones (not smartphone-class devices with state of the art mobile CPUs/GPUs that cost your eyeballs); and of course also with native code. But I'd be surprised if you can do it with Android. |
I wrote my first Android app the other night, and I have to say it was a pretty great experience. The APIs make it terribly easy to bootstrap a new application with useful functionality. The Eclipse plugin and the Android/ARM emulator that comes with the Android SDK makes for a well integrated development environment. (Though I've not programmed for any other mobile device, and all my previous (very heavy) Java development was done with Emacs, so a lot of the pleasure is probably just from finally getting why people like Eclipse so much..)
I've not programmed J2ME, but I have done quite a heck of a lot of Swing, and I have to say that working with the Android GUI stack has been much more pleasant so far. Good performance, support for really nice accelerated 2d and 3d rendering, an API for animation, GUI widgets designed for handheld use.. all very modern and enjoyable to use. Having integrated support for using WebKit for rendering, SQLLite for data storage, the Intents and Content Provider system.. all significant advantages over basic J2ME devices, as well, I should think. Using the G1 is not nearly as charming as using an iPhone, and there are definitely rough edges still, but programming it is a great experience, and I think I'll be writing a lot of apps for it as I go along. |
Oh, lookie what we have here, the opinion of an expert. Tell us, oh wise one, what these other platforms do that Android can't. |
Each VM runs in its own Linux process. They share memory for the Android SDK classes, but the VM is designed for that, and the shared memory is never written to after the system starts creating VMs. One of the things that makes Dalvik a bit different from other VMs is that it maintains the GC metadata on separate pages from the non-writeable shared object/class data so that the different VM processes are strictly separated despite the memory sharing. So, no, the VMs are independent in all the ways that matter for matters of stability and security partitioning. |
Hi. I'm the Dan Bornstein quoted in the article.
This isn't quite accurate. Dalvik incorporates many many classes from the Harmony library but none of the VM implementation from it. A condensed version of the history is that the VM and libraries were originally written from scratch. At the point when the system was "up and limping" we evaluated many options for how to bulk up the library to the point that it would be generally useful. At the time (early 2007), the Harmony library codebase was, relatively speaking, immature, but it seemed to have promise. So, we selectively imported code from it, made changes to it to make it better fit with our environment, and did rounds of bugfixing and stabilization on the results. We also continued to write some of the library code from scratch, in cases where the Harmony code simply didn't make sense to use in the Android / Dalvik environment. And that's what we shipped with. Since shipping 1.0, we have diligently been merging in more recent code from Harmony while also very explicitly marking places in the code where we have intentionally modified it. We are doing the marking for two reasons: (1) to help us identify potential patches to send upstream; and (2) to help maintain these intentional differences (so we don't inadvertently clobber them when we merge in newer Harmony snapshots. Modulo the intentional differences, we have in fact gotten the salient code in Dalvik pretty close to Harmony's tip-of-tree. We still have some general source tree cleanup to do in order to make merging (in either direction) straightforward, and we are very explicitly working towards that goal now. |
"For example, try to beat something like this: http://tigro.info/blog/images/173.png"
Tufte would be proud. But for the rest of us, that's why all the Maemo devices come with a stylus and run a non-smartphone 5-6" screen just to barely read stuff. And Styluses are sooooo 80's . Android is looking for 1 hand, efficient operation. No everyone's going to have a 800x400 6" screen and a full qwerty keyboard + stylus. That's one (or many) reason multitouch was not included too--and considering there are more efficient gestures to mimic the functions where Apple uses multitouch. Android is looking at what combining J2ME's MIDP and CDC profiles--which should have been done by Sun in the 1st place. As for performance, yes, you'll never go as fast as native code touching the metal, BUT, if you can get the same concurrent, parallelism, multimedia, and data processing behavior as those other languages, you're 90% there... where the 'customer' really, only cares about 40% of that stuff. Android applied K.I.S.S. and guess what? It works. |
I'm disappointed: this is rather weak for an arstechnica article. It's called "A developer's introduction", but has a whopping zero lines of code shown. Where's the part for developers? Do developers really care primarily about licensing, screenshots, and performance comparisons with Mono?
In comparison, Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.5 review for arstechnica has a couple of DTrace scripts and some sample CoreAnimation code, and it doesn't even claim to be for developers. Maybe you could get him to write a follow-up review of Android with some more depth. P.S., I love the line "It gives application developers virtually unprecedented access to underlying platform components". I suppose "virtually unprecedented" does actually mean "with precedent" (e.g., OpenMoko), but it's a hilarious turn of phrase. :-) |
Thanks for the correction! I've changed the article accordingly. |
Simple. Android can not officially have fast and lightweight apps, libs, modules, codecs or whatever else. At very best, it can live as unofficial hack and with ton of headache due to lack of usual libraries. When it comes to intensive computations or intensive RAM access, with VM you're simply done. Especially on weak CPU of mobile device. Try to implement Vorbis encoder\decoder with Java? You will be awfully lucky if you will manage to fit real-time decoding on such CPU (not to mention that CPU load will be much higher anyway). Or what about H.264 encoder\decoder? Or, maybe, Theora and Dirac? (Yeah, I'm bastard, I know...). Then compare speeds and CPU loads with native versions, especially asm-optimized ones. How about data compression? According to http://quicklz.com/ very decent Java implementation loses 2..3 times to native code when there is real need for speed. Should I mention that mobile's CPU is weakling on it's own and does not needs to be slowed down further? Also, 2-3 times more CPU cycles means 2-3 times more battery power used to implement SAME algo. Each CPU cycle costs on mobile device. It costs you battery life. Very simple. The more cycles CPU doing, the more power is gone. That's how CMOS logic works. Maybe this is one of root causes of Android's awful battery life? Yes, you can run lots of Java stuff. But it does haves certain costs in terms of CPU load and battery power consumed Well, how about running Doom with decent FPS? I can do this on Nokia n8x0 devices. Even without 3D accelerator. Wow. What I will have on Android with Java (if someone bothers to port Doom into this non-standard Java?) I can imagine cool slide-show. Instead of game . And btw, on n8x0 I can run decent IRC client like X-chat and it can also run scripts. But hey, I neither can run it on Android nor Android is willing to run scripts on "foreign" scripting languages (at least officially). On my Nokia tablet I can also run OpenVPN and compress traffic on slow\expensive links like GPRS and protect it from sniffing in untrusted places (like public access points, etc). Not just it written on C (so I am out of luck with Android). It also does compression and encryption. Something like this will be awfully slow and consume battery like the hell if rewritten in Java and running on mobile CPU (but actually there is no such things for Android at all and they're officially impossible, only as unofficial hacks which can't be easily supplied to end users anyway so they're pretty useless waste of time). I also almost can not write apps on C, C++, scripts or apps on Python for Android. Nor I can really reuse existing code, apps, libs, codecs, modules, ... - that's really sucks. Of course you can stick to "our non-standard Java should be enough for everyone" point of view. But let's remember about another person's (old) mumblings that 640Kb ought be enough for everyone . This (pretty famous) person fortunately has been wrong. And Google doing just same kind of mistake? Of course you can hack stuff a bit but ... this is prohibitively hard and well, you can not easily package result and give it to others. And writing cool stuff for myself only or developers only or few geeks only is a waste of time. So, I'm do not consider Google's platform as an interesting target for me. P.S. I actually have just one question: why Google decided to take away freedom of choice? You can not use any programming language except one allowed by Google. That's weird. Especially for OpenSource project where I did not expected to encounter such proprietary-like and truly artificial limitations. What next? They will also forbid me to connect anywhere except google.com and it's services "for my own security" tomorrow? That's not funny. |
Maemo devices are pretty flexible. You can use it with just fingers most of time (and I do prefer it). Of course things like Psi are much better with stylus. But then you're rewarded - you can use a REAL program. With tons of working features and already debugged by years of hard work of it's dev team and users who use it daily for years. So at least you will not be hit by stupid protocol implementations bugs, etc. And it is fortunately not a notepad-like
JFYI, N8x0 are coming with 4.8" screen so N810 can easily fit some pockets. And 4.8" 800x480 screen is a very cool thing. With Gecko and decent screen you can browse web like it looks on your PC. Webkit (and things based on it) are good in their speed but have rendering issues on some sites which are critical for me. And if choosing between speed and ability to render site into something usable... choice is clear for me.
There was almost no handhelds in 80's, dude. Yeah, I dislike to use stylus BUT it allows to use screen much better so I do not have to stick ONLY to primitive apps with couple of buttons (and more controls will be pretty problematic to hit with fingers on a cat-a$$-sized screen). So, I have a freedom of choice. I can use a bit primitive native IM client and operate it with just with fingers. But when serious stuff getting needed I can resort to heavyweight and fully-featured decent IM client. And if there is choice between stylus and fail mission at all, I'm choosing stylus. Not to mention that drawing lines in graphic apps much better with stylus and turns into a real nightmare with fingers. Or I'm expected do not use any graphic editors at all by Google? Also for things like editing Open Street Maps same goes here. To pinpoint some location you need precision and stylus much more precise than fingers. So in some cases stylus can help so much. While I prefer to use fingers for basic device operations, I should have options for tricky and precision-sensitive operations anyway. And I value freedoms I have with Nokia's tablet. It haves comparable size but can do much more and does not restricts me. I'm really like this. I can even download torrent with transmission, etc. Feels like a small but real computer.
I can hardly imagine how can I use such brick with one hand. Especially when it comes to sliding it and using qwerty keyboard. Is this a, uhm, such joke?
It 4.8" so if fits pockets...and btw, screen is one of best things on tablets. I really like such wonderful screen :P
But G1 does... and what is a clue to have a qwerty-enabled brick-sized device with features comparable to my old dumb J2ME dialer with cat-a$$-sized screen and single slow CPU to run both java and GSM? If device looks like a brick, it have to offer a decent features set. Or it is simply not worth of it's size and weight.
Probably main reason is Apple threat. I wonder if Apple also keeps patent on Ctrl-Alt-Del multitouch gesture btw
Well, my bet is that Android will not beat Apple. Btw, Apple also allowed to run native code. As well as WinMobile. It is pretty amazing that proprietary stuff ... less restrictive to developers than open source project. Does Google thinks it's funny? Good luck to them to compete with iPhone, huh.
But actually at the end of day it looks like useless toy similar to J2ME mobiles but with pretty huge handheld-like size which also causes me to expect much better feature set than J2ME cheap devices are offering. I expect that smart phone is thing which is smart enough to handle some tasks previously required me to use PC or PDA. And even dumb Symbian can run native code stuff like 3rd party multimedia player if I dislike built-in one. So I can choose between many 3rd party players. I can install codecs (so, I can have OGG ringtones). I can use 3rd party camera apps and they will even have horsepower to post-process image (for example, do noise reduction or resize) or save into format not supported directly by underlying operating system.And so on. So in some cases even stupid and ancient Symbian stuff is much smarter phone than Android. Amazing.
This means also that you will waste more battery power to do same things. Every CPU cycle costs. It costs you battery life. And there is no "but" and no excuses. Because when device is off due to exhausted battery, it's just useless brick.
Nice joke. You're "90% here" but several times slower and eating battery several more times than with native code. And virtually cannot use most of C, C++ libs, write on Python, etc. And when it comes to a real time (be it audio decoder for not-yet-supported audio format or just a 3D game) there is no 90%. You're either fit real time or you're not. So, Android is great for writing notepads. But I do not need such brick just to be able to launch notepad-like text editor.
It works? Huh? As a dumb and useless brick with dozens of restrictions and harcoded programming language? Wasting battery power quickly as the hell? And with such moron platform design you hope to compete with something like iPhone or WinMobile? IMHO, not a chance. I'm simply do not see how this device better than other things on a market. It ates battery like a hell, haves PDA-like size but features are rather resemble J2ME-like cheap and small phones. Do you really think such platform can compete on par with WinMobile and iPhone? |
One thing to remember with Android is that there is not the assumed homogeneity of hardware that iPhone or Maemo has. Both iPhone and Maemo are restricted to a specific platform.
Android is aimed at being a cross-manufacturer standard for the operating system and for an application development and distribution stack. Using code compiled to a VM makes sense in that kind of context, particularly when vendors who might be interested in shipping Android devices might not be interested in letting their customers muck around at the non-constrained userland level, let alone at the kernel level. Now, should Anroid be able to compile .dex classes to native ARM? That seems like a very fine idea. Would Android be better off if developers could write low-level C code and then be required to get all their apps approved by Google and/or the carriers before letting them be distributed or installed? I'm not sure that such is the case. |
I do not see any use of such decisions except bothering customers. Look, I can use sim card in another phone and\or I can then use (unrestricted) notebook or N8x0 from Nokia with full Root-level access. Then, nothing prevents my native code with unrestricted access from communicating over wireless. Actually, it makes little difference if GSM\3G modem is built-in into device or attached by external (usb, bluetooth, ...) connection. So such restrictions are pretty stupid since they're ONLY harm fair legal customers and do not achieve anything else. What is the clue to harm people who is not willing to do anything bad anyway? And these skilled enough for hacking or tampering with will work-around any restrictions anyway. And do you really expect many opensource-minded people will support restrictive platform? Well, let's see. And about "homogeneity of hardware": there is no universal stuff in the world. And attempt to use same programs without changes on 176x220 (medium-end phone) and 1024x600 (Netbook) screen will result in simple fact: Either users of phone will feel horrible when using programs developed with 1024x600 in mind or users of 1024x600 netbooks will be pretty unhappy with child-toy-like interfaces of programs intended to run on 176x220 screen and only 12 buttons available. So, dreams about cross-platform stuff which works anywhere without re-compilation and any adaptation are good but result will be quite disappointing. Even best intentions often do not lead to best results. So the result will be slow and restricted platform where developers have to broke their heads what they can expect - netbook sized device allows to comfortably place far more controls on screen than 176x220 cat-azz-sized screen for example.And Android said to support both. As for compiling, C and C++ compilers have gone a long way in optimizing code (and still skilled programer can outperform them up to several times in optimized assembly, that's why almost all real-world video codecs, players and so on contain asm-optimized code blocks in critical places). I'm really doubt Java can compete here anytime soon. Well, when Java implementation of H.264 will beat asm-optimized x264 on the same hardware (without help of hardware accelerators since they support limited set of algos anyway), I will have to take my words back. But I doubt I will be able to live long enough to see this moment and I doubt it will happen ever |


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Vacation Retreat.... Just Steps to the Beach, River and Pool in Melbourne Beach
- bedrooms 2
- baths 1½
- sleeps 4
- pool yes
- hot tub no
- pets allowed no
- type Townhome
- community Beach Woods
- rates (USD) $ 1,500 - $ 1,850 / month
vacation rental description
Located in gated Beachwoods community on Melbourne Beach, this beachside vacation townhouse offers two bedrooms (1 queen and 2 twin beds) with one and a half baths. This completely renovated, fully furnished property boast granite counter tops, Breakfast Bar, Stainless Steel Appliances, Flat panel TV/DVD includes free cable and Wi-Fi, Tile and wood floors, Ceiling fans, Master bath with double vassal sinks, Washer and Dryer, New deck off both the bedrooms on the second floor, Private courtyard with a BBQ and outdoor shower. Also for you to use, beach chairs, beach towels, etc! And relax with a cup of one of the special teas I have in the kitchen for you!
property availability
Last modified on 12-2-2013 at 10:55 AM.
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Jennifer or Tom 321-217-0799
townhome rental amenities
During your stay please enjoy our beachside community, with river to beach life style; Private community beach, Beach sunrise and Indian River sunsets, Two pools, Tennis/Racket/Basketball counts, Fishing at the beach or from our fishing pier on the Indian River, free use of the fitness room and sauna.Close to grocery stores restaurants and shops.
activities and attractions in Melbourne Beach Atlantic Coast Central
- The Beaches of course.
- Historic Downtown Melbourne.
- Golf Course just down the street.
- Brevard County Zoo (30 mins)
- Sebastian Inlet StatePark (15 mins)
- NASA Spacecenter (50 mins)
- Disney World (60 mins)
- Universal Studios (55 mins)
- Orlando Intl. Airport-MCO (50 mins)
- Shopping
- Many Resturants to choose from.
vacation rental rates
May - Dec 1500./Month
Jan - Apr 1850./Month
Minumin one month stay
Includes: Water, Electric, Cable TV and WI-FI.
All rentals require a cleaning fee of $75 and refundable damage deposit of $500.
Beachwoods community requires a refundable gate/key deposit of 50$.
Taxes are not included in the monthly rate.
Jennifer or Tom 321-217-0799
accepted payment methods
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I just want the lock screen wallpaper to be shown, nothing else. How can I do this?
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Tommy Milone
Ever hear of him? Probably not, unless you're a reader of the Baseball America Prospect Handbook or a fierce Nationals fan. Tommy Milone is a left-handed pitcher, in the Nationals' system, currently with the Syracuse Chiefs. Baseball America rated him the #17 prospect in the Nationals' system. He's been a classic left-handed, college-trained control-type pitcher; in 2009 he went 12-5 with High-A Potomac, with a 2.91 ERA and a 106/36 K/BB ratio. In 2010 he went 12-5 with AA Harrisburg, with a 2.85 ERA and a 155/23 K/BB ratio. He's not a top prospect because his fastball tops out at 90 MPH.
And he was the Syracuse starter last night against Norfolk. It was impressive to see him work; throwing strikes, moving the ball around, retiring batters without throwing a lot of pitches — all but but three plate appearances were five-pitch or fewer (and the others were six-pitch). Milone needed only 84 pitches to work through 7 2/3 innings. He walked no one and struck out seven.
While he was fun to watch, his weaknesses were apparent as well. He gave up five hits, but three of them were extra-base hits. That's why he gave up three earned runs. And he seemed to tire quickly; he retired 18 of the 19 batters he faced in the first six innings and 24 of his 84 pitches were to the eight batters he faced in the seventh and eighth innings. But even though he (probably) won't be a major league star, he was fun to watch and I'll remember his outing for a long time.


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Hey gang!
Here's an early morning surprise for you... an announcement of the DLC arriving on the week of 2/10! We're probably going to be posting the DLC announcements around this time (10am EST) for the foreseeable future in an attempt to sync up with the European rockers waiting for the announcements, so get up early and keep your eyes peeled on Fridays from now on.
This week we're releasing a 3 pack from The Fratellis, featuring tracks from their 2006 album Costello Music!
Here's the track listing
The Fratellis - Creeping Up the Back Stairs
The Fratellis - Flathead
The Fratellis - Henrietta
All tracks are original master recordings.
These tracks will be $1.99 (160 Microsoft Points) a piece, or $5.49 (440 Microsoft Points) for the full 3 pack.
You can find these songs in the Xbox Live Marketplace on Tues Feb 10th, and in the Playstation Store on Thurs Feb 12th.
*** Dates for Rock Band game tracks are tentative and subject to change. ***
For all DLC song credits please go here.
And, as always, for awesome background information on our DLC and other articles please visit the Rock Band 'Zine
Feel free to discuss this week's DLC in the official discussion thread over in The Community's Greatest Hits!


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