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With the passing of Thanksgiving, shoppers know that Christmas is just around the corner.
Options for Christmas charity are abound in Yadkin County with organizations like The Salvation Army, Toys For Tots, Stop Child Abuse Now, Willowbrook Rehabilitation and Nursing Home, Yadkin Christian Ministries and Yadkin Valley Cruisers.
The Salvation Army offers a couple of options in giving this season. The most popular and well-known effort is the angel tree. Pre-approved needy children in the area are each listed on a paper angel. The angel will list the child's toy wish list, clothing sizes and any other needs the child might have. The gifts will be picked up and packaged for the parents to pick up and give to their children on Christmas day.
The Salvation Army also offers a Christmas stocking program. This allows you to stuff a stocking for a needy local child with suggested items listed on the stocking as well as other non-perishable, non-breakable gifts you would like to include. You can specify whether your stocking is for a boy or a girl.
The angel tree and stocking program began on Nov. 9 and will run through Dec. 10. All tree gifts and stockings must be returned before 5 p.m. on Dec. 10. The angel tree and stocking locations in Yadkin County are:
Yadkin Family YMCA at 6540 Service Road in Yadkinville, the Yadkin County Public Library at 233 E. Main St. in Yadkinville, Yadkin Valley Bank at 117 Flint Hill Rd. in East Bend, East Bend Public Library at 420 Flint Hill Road in East Bend, Boonville Restaurant at 109 W. Main St. in Boonville and Jonesville Public Library at 150 W. Main St. in Jonesville. Please call the location for their business hours.
Willowbrook Rehabilitation and Care Center in Yadkinville will host its own elderly angel tree this year. The angels on the tree each represent a resident at the center and include a list of general gift ideas that might be helpful.
Activity Director Angel Parrish said that the angels are numbered but if the gift giver would like to learn more about their recipient for more detailed or personal gift ideas they can call her at 679-8028.
Those interested in picking up an elderly angel can do so between the hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. at Willowbrook's lobby. All angel gifts must be returned to Willowbrook by Dec. 10 so the staff can prepare for the residents' annual Christmas party on Dec. 13.
Yadkin Valley Cruisers is holding its annual toy drive. The club will have a toy drop off station at the Yadkinville Shell and Service Station located at 700 S. State St. in Yadkinville. Club President David Garner said that they are most in need of gifts geared towards teenagers but any age gift that is donated will be used. The club asks that any gifts dropped off be in its original packaging and unwrapped. The club will deliver these items to homes of needy Yadkin County families close to Christmas.
If you don't have time to make it out to the store to shop you can always donate your time or money to any of these organizations or others in the area like Yadkin Christian Ministries, which provides bill and energy assistance, food and other miscellaneous items. Yadkin Christian Ministries has offices in Yadkinville and East Bend and serves Yadkin County as a whole. To learn more about donating or volunteering your time you can call 677-3080.
Tri-County Christian Crisis Ministry in Jonesville is also accepting monetary donations and volunteers. Tri-C Ministry also provides a food pantry, bill assistance and other miscellaneous needs to underprivileged Yadkin County residents. To learn more about making a donation or volunteering your time with Tri-C call 526-1089.
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The fourth annual Dancing with the Tri-State Stars
WHAT: The fundraiser for Ebenezer Medical Outreach features local community members paired with dancers for a performance. Ebenezer Medical Outreach provides medical care for those who cannot afford insurance.
WHEN: 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10.
WHERE: Big Sandy Superstore Arena.
WHO: Local stars who are participating are: Brian Sipe, general manager, Big Sandy Superstore Arena; Jill Francisco, Huddleston Bolen LLP; Alissa Stewart, Southwestern Community Action Council; Izzy Cross, Mountwest Community and Technical College culinary chef/21 at the Frederick owner; Joe Murphy, Trifecta Productions; Ed Tucker, Edward Tucker Architects; Lynn Tucker, Cabell County Board of Education; John T. Collins; Tammy White, Farrell, White & Legg PLLC; Mary and Tommy Smirl, Tri-Data Inc.; Mic Nichols, Lee David Salon; Roz Bradshaw, owner of Monty's Original Pizza in Barboursville; and George Snider.
TICKETS: General admission is $25. Tickets are available at the Big Sandy Superstore Arena or through ticketmaster.com

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As we were fanning ourselves while watching Nicholas Hoult play a weirdly hot zombie in Warm Bodies, we had to come to terms with the fact that this strapping young actor was the adorable young-un who helped Hugh Grant get the girl in About a Boy 10 years ago. Wow, we thought, what a pleasant surprise to see these cute child stars make good … and yummy. But really, we shouldn't be that surprised. As we started combing back through the boy stars of the early 2000s, we discovered a nice number of them had made this transition quite nicely. From big movie names like Daniel Radcliffe and Bow Wow to TV stars like Shia LaBeouf and Zac Efron, these kids are making good — and are now totally legal and not at all creepy to stare at. Enjoy 15 of them in the gallery below:
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Jungle fun for the stroller!
Wooden teether and rattle keep baby happy on the trail. Shake to hear a rattle or chime, and keep small fingers busy with multi-textured details, including a wooden teether.
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For those who wondered "when do we get folders in Gmail?", there's a good news: even though Gmail still uses labels, you can treat them like folders starting from today.
Gmail added a "move to" drop-down that combines two actions that were difficult to find or difficult to understand: labeling and archiving. Instead of clicking on "More actions", selecting a label and then archiving the message, you can now click on "Move to" and select a label.
Those who like keyboard shortcuts will be happy to know that the "Move to" drop-down can be selected by typing "v" and you can type the first letters of a label to select it.
A similar functionality is available for the new "Labels" drop-down, but you can select multiple labels.
So what's the difference between the two drop-downs?
"Move to" applies the label selected from the list and removes the label of the current view. Keyboard shortcut: v.
"Labels" lets you add or remove labels from the list in a single action. You no longer have to repeatedly click on "More actions" to add multiple labels. Keyboard shortcut: l.
"One of the features that makes Gmail different is its use of labels instead of folders. Sure, labels can serve pretty much the same purpose -- they can help organize mail or flag messages for follow up. And unlike with folders, messages can have several labels, so if I get an email from a friend about a trip we're taking together, I can add both a "Friends" and a "Travel" label to it. But it's not always obvious how to use labels, especially for people who are new to Gmail and used to using folders, and it hasn't helped that some common tasks have been more complicated than they should be," mentions Gmail's blog.
If you don't see the new features in your Gmail account, they'll be enabled in the next few hours. While the new functionality is a huge improvement, the design refresh is a step backwards. "Gmail just changed its archive, report, move icons from their fun bubbly shape to rectangular attached uglies," commented Garry S., a reader of this blog.
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Hanukkah Foods
The ever-popular potato latke heads the list of traditional, oily Hanukkah treats.
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On Hanukkah is it customary to eat foods that are either fried in oil, or made with cheese.
The fried foods custom recalls the miracle of Hanukkah, which centered around oil (one cruse lasting for eight days). Latkes (fried potato pancakes) are traditional, topped with applesauce or sour cream, but there are many creative variations to the pancakes and the toppings. Other fried foods for Hanukkah include jelly doughnuts, and other kinds of fritters.
The cheesy foods tradition is based on a story from the apocryphal Book of Judith which takes place during the time of the Maccabbean revolt that we commemorate on Hannukkah.. There we read that in his quest to conquer Judea, an Assyrian warrior named Holofernes besieged the town of Bethulia. Though Bethulia's elders were ready to surrender, Judith, a widow, entered the Assyrian camp and gave Holofernes salty cheese to make him thirsty, and wine to make him drunk. After he became intoxicated, she seized his sword and beheaded him, bringing the head back to her village in a basket. The next morning when the Assyrian troops found the headless body of their leader, they fled in terror. In honor of Judith's victorious and brave use of cheese, we incorporate the food into our Hanukkah menus.
Easy Latkes
Parsnip Latkes
Sweet Potato Latkes
Gingered Sweet Potato Latkes
Curried Sweet Potato Latkes
Sweet Potato Latkes with Toasted Marshmallows
Grilled Cheese Latkes
Pulled Brisket-Topped Latkes
Green Latkes
French Onion Latkes
Colorful Veggie Latkes
Cajun Potato Latkes
Cheese Latkes
Coconut Latkes
Pear and Ginger Sauce
Apple Cranberry Sauce
Pesto Latke Topping
Jelly Doughnuts
Peanut Butter Jelly doughnuts
Bimuelos, honey drizzled fritter
Torzelli, deep-fried curly endive
Tostones, fried plantains
Mozzarella in Carrozza, a fried cheese sandwich
Deep Fried Chocolate Cupcakes
Jelly-Filled "Sufganiyot" Cupcakes
Lemon Olive Oil Cupcakes
Beer-Battered Pumpkin Rings
Hanukkah Cookies
Chocolate Covered Hanukkah Oreos
Bourban Pecan and Chocolate Gelt Pie
Spiced Hot Chocolate, made with leftover Hanukkah gelt
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Day 1 of the 2014 Southern Scuffle, presented by Defense Soap and Flips Wrestling, has wrapped up with another record-breaking crowd. Today's attendance of 2,894 is a new single-day high and the third day in the row the tournament has grown since coming to Chattanooga in 2012.
Fans were treated to some excellent wrestling throughout the early rounds. No. 2 Minnesota (53.5) leads the team race by just ½ a point over No. 1 Penn State (53.0). No. 4 Oklahoma State is right in the mix in third place with 50.5 points. No. 7 Cornell 40.0 and No. 14 Iowa State (39.5) round out the top-5.
Intermat posted updated top-20 individual rankings for each class today. Cornell's Nahshon Garrett moved into No. 1 at 125, as did Oklahoma State's Jon Morrison at 133. That gave the Scuffle field seven of the 10 top-ranked wrestlers in nation. The other five who stayed at No. 1 are Minnesota's Nick Dardanes (149), Scott Schiller (197) and Tony Nelson (285) and Penn State's David Taylor (165) and Ed Ruth (184).
All seven are still alive as most of the top seeds advanced to the quarterfinals. Only three top-4 seeds at any weight did not make it to the Round of 16. Penn's Calet Richardson had the first big upset when he scored a 6-0 decision over No. 4 Corey Keener of Central Michigan at 125.
Navy's Peyton Walsh upset 165's No. 4 seed Michael Moreno (Iowa State) with a 3-1 decision. Cornell's Michael Nevinger was No. 4 at 141, but forfeited his third round match against Kent State's Tyler Small.
"It was a great opening day for the event," stated UTC head coach Heather Eslinger. "You always want to do better, but I think our guys competed hard and the crowd was outstanding. To break a record for the fifth day in a row shows that this thing is really growing."
The Mocs have six wrestlers competing on day two, led by junior Nick Soto. Soto entered the tournament as the No. 6 seed and is in the Round of 16 at 133. He opened with a technical fall against Army's Austin Marsico (18-2) and followed that with a 4-0 win over Central Michigan's Tyler Keselring. He eeked out a 3-2 decision over Oklahoma State's Brian Crutchmer in the third round.
Soto will take on No. 3 seed David Thorn of Minnesota in tomorrow's action. Thorn was the top seed in 2012 when Soto knocked him out with a 5-1 overtime win in the semifinals.
Freshman Michael Pongracz bounced back from an early loss to advance in the consolations. He fell to Cornell's Eli Bienstock (5-3) in the first round, but came back with a 3-1 win over Navy's Quentin Leadbetter. He finished his day with a 12-3 major decision over Duke's Xaviel Ramos.
Junior Shawn Greevy is still alive in the consolations at 149. He lost to Stanford's Donovan Halpin (4-3) in the first round, but scored two wins in the back draw.
Junior Levi Clemons had three wins on the day at 174. He opened with a 12-3 major decision over Kent State's Mike Vollant. After losing in the second round, he did not give up a takedown in his two consolation wins.
Sophomore John Lampe also had three wins, opening with a 5-3 decision over North Carolina's Michael Macchiavello. He was knocked out of the main draw by No. 6 seed Lawrence Thomas of Penn in a 7-4 decision. His two consolation wins were nail-biters, including an 8-7 decision over teammate Clay Dent and a 3-2 win against Army's Ryan Tompkins. Lampe forced a stalling call against Tompkins with six seconds left to grab the win.
Freshman Scottie Boykin was impressive in his first Scuffle. After a 7-3 opening round win over Pittsburgh's Ryan Solomon, he lost a 9-4 decision to Duke's No. 11 seed Conner Hartman. He bounced back with two bonus-point wins in the backdraw, including a 16-1 technical fall against Cole Breigel (Northern Colorado) and a 19-7 major decision over Army's Bryce Barnes.
"Scottie wrestled great," stated head coach Heath Eslinger. "He is getting better and better every time he goes out. He is fun to watch and could go on a run tomorrow."
Action begins at 9:00 a.m. on Thursday with the Championship Quarterfinals and the fourth round of consolations. The semifinals are at 1:30 p.m. with the Finals and Medal Matches at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are available on GoMocs.com or at the UTC Ticket Office.
If you can't make it to the final day of the Scuffle, be sure to follow all of the action on TheSouthernScuffle.com. Here you will find links for the Flowrestling live broadcast, as well as live scoring and updated brackets provided by Trackwrestling.com.
Don't forget to use the hashtag #LetsScuffle when talking about the event on social media. Look for updates on the Chattanooga Strong twitter account @UTCWrestling.
2014 Southern Scuffle Results for Chattanooga
Byron Smith
Champ. Round 2 - Caleb Richardson (Penn) won by tech fall over Byron Smith (UTC) (TF 16-0)
Cons. Round 2 - Byron Smith (UTC) won by fall over John Martin (Cleveland State) (Fall 3:54)
Cons. Round 3 - Tyler Dorrell (Oklahoma State) won by fall over Byron Smith (UTC) (Fall 3:57)
Nick Soto
Champ. Round 1 - Nick Soto (UTC) won by tech fall over Austin Marsico (Army) (TF 18-2)
Champ. Round 2 - Nick Soto (UTC) won by decision over Tyler Keselring (Central Michigan) (Dec 4-0)
Champ. Round 3 - Nick Soto (UTC) won by decision over Brian Crutchmer (Oklahoma State) (Dec 3-2)
Michael Pongracz
Champ. Round 1 - Eli Bienstock (Cornell ) won by decision over Michael Pongracz (UTC) (Dec 5-3)
Cons. Round 2 - Michael Pongracz (UTC) won by decision over Quentin Leadbeter (Navy) (Dec 3-1)
Cons. Round 3 - Michael Pongracz (UTC) won by major decision over Xaviel Ramos (Duke ) (Maj 12-3)
Shawn Greevy
Champ. Round 1 - Donovan Halpin (Stanford) won by decision over Shawn Greevy (UTC) (Dec 4-3)
Cons. Round 2 - Shawn Greevy (UTC) won by major decision over Nick Montgomery (Cleveland State) (Maj 14-5)
Cons. Round 3 - Shawn Greevy (UTC) won by decision over Gerald McGinty (Air Force) (Dec 7-3)
Austin Sams
Champ. Round 1 – No. 6 Augustus Sako (Virginia) won by fall over Austin Sams (UTC) (Fall 1:34)
Cons. Round 2 – No. 5 Scott Sakaguchi (Oregon State) won by major decision over Austin Sams (UTC) (Maj 13-4)
Alex Hudson
Champ. Round 2 - John Nicholson (Iowa State) won in sudden victory - 1 over Alex Hudson (UTC) (SV-1 6-4)
Cons. Round 2 - Alex Hudson (UTC) won by major decision over Nick Hall (Appalachian State) (Maj 11-3)
Cons. Round 3 - Brandon Kingsley (Minnesota) won by fall over Alex Hudson (UTC) (Fall 1:55)
Michael Hooker
Champ. Round 2 – No. 10 Thomas Gantt (North Carolina State) won by decision over Michael Hooker (UTC) (Dec 4-0)
Cons. Round 2 - Michael Hooker (UTC) won by decision over Andrew Romanchik (Ohio ) (Dec 5-2)
Cons. Round 3 – No. 8 Tristan Warner (Old Dominion ) won by decision over Michael Hooker (UTC) (Dec 4-0)
Trey Stavrum
Champ. Round 2 – No. 6 Zach Toal (Missouri) won by major decision over Trey Stavrum (UTC) (Maj 10-0)
Cons. Round 3 - Alex Elder (Oregon State) won by fall over Trey Stavrum (UTC) (Fall 2:11)
Barrett Walthall
Champ. Round 2 – No. 11 Mike England (Missouri) won by fall over Barrett Walthall (UTC) (Fall 5:31)
Cons. Round 3 - Johnny Watson (Navy) won by decision over Barrett Walthall (UTC) (Dec 9-2)
Levi Clemons
Champ. Round 1 - Levi Clemons (UTC) won by major decision over Mike Vollant (Kent State) (Maj 12-3)
Champ. Round 2 - Scott Marmoll (North Carolina) won by decision over Levi Clemons (UTC) (Dec 6-2)
Cons. Round 2 - Levi Clemons (UTC) won by decision over Samson Imonode (Army) (Dec 7-1)
Cons. Round 3 - Levi Clemons (UTC) won by decision over Eric Des Lauriers (Boston) (Dec 8-1)
Clay Dent
Champ. Round 1 - Michael Sojka (Stanford) won by decision over Clay Dent (UTC) (Dec 2-0)
Cons. Round 2 - John Lampe (UTC) won by decision over Ira Dent (UTC) (Dec 8-7)
D.J. Franklin-Smith
Champ. Round 1 - Ryan Garringer (Ohio) won by major decision over D.J. Franklin-Smith (UTC) (Maj 14-2)
Cons. Round 2 - Devin Hightower (Air Force) won by major decision over D.J. Franklin-Smith (UTC) (Maj 9-0)
John Lampe
Champ. Round 1 - John Lampe (UTC) won by decision over Michael Macchiavello (North Carolina State) (Dec 5-3)
Champ. Round 2 – No. 6 Lawrence Thomas (Pennsylvania) won by decision over John Lampe (UTC) (Dec 7-4)
Cons. Round 2 - John Lampe (UTC) won by decision over Clay Dent (UTC) (Dec 8-7)
Cons. Round 3 - John Lampe (UTC) won by decision over Ryan Tompkins (Army) (Dec 3-2)
Scottie Boykin
Champ. Round 1 - Scottie Boykin (UTC) won by decision over Ryan Solomon (Pittsburgh) (Dec 7-3)
Champ. Round 2 – No. 11 Conner Hartmann (Duke) won by decision over Scottie Boykin (UTC) (Dec 9-4)
Cons. Round 2 - Scottie Boykin (UTC) won by tech fall over Cole Breigel (Northern Colorado) (TF 16-1)
Cons. Round 3 - Scottie Boykin (UTC) won by major decision over Bryce Barnes (Army) (Maj 19-7)


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Let me preface this by saying that this is not a jab at Brazil. This is actually a story that shows how Brazil's rising tide is lifting all boats. The poor have more opportunities than ever before. They are earning more money (for some, how's 56 percent sound?). And for the middle class that used to depend on them to wash their dishes and make their lunch, those days of luxury are over.
Bemvindo a vida Americana, meu bem!
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Ask an expat what they love most about living overseas and they will inevitably tell you this: the taxes and the maid service. That's right. Maids. And not for the rich, mind you, but for middle-of-the-road, beer-from-a-can drinking, 2.5 GPA achieving riff-raff professionals. Whether they're living in Dubai, Mumbai or Brazil, they all love their maids. It's a luxury they cannot afford back home.
I lived in Brazil for 10 years. I left in March 2010. Maids cooked my lunch, always a three courser. Rice. Beans, sometimes black, sometimes Carioca-style, which meant brown. Meat. Salad. Desert. Fresh squeezed orange juice or Swiss lemonade. Passion fruit. Guarana. Then, she did my dishes. Afterwards, she washed my clothes and pressed them.
As time went on, maintaining a daily maid became too costly. I cut back. I had a maid just twice a week. She cleaned. She did laundry. I cooked. I paid her R$80 a day, or R$140 a week, which was around $78 for two full days of work. Her name was Hélia. Me and my girls loved Hélia. I hope she is doing well. Anyway…
We lived in this beautiful building pictured here in São Paulo, in the Higienopolis neighborhood. A colleague of mine from one of the big U.S. newswires lived there, too. Our children hung out together a lot, especially in the swimming pool, which was surrounded by palm trees that housed these small green parrots that blended in with the palm leaves. He too had a maid, only his maid was there every day and sometimes on the weekends. A female columnist from Folha de São Paulo newspaper lived in the building, too. She also had a daughter. Only her daughter had a maid and a nanny, seven days a week. This was an early 40-something year old newspaper columnist, not a rock star.
Like me, my colleague was an American living a life we could never afford in the States. Ever. We were both scum sucking reporters waiting for the ax to fall on our necks. He, a little richer and hopeful; me, a little younger and angrier. One thing we all appreciated was being able to afford the extra help.
Over the last 8 years, the income of Brazil's domestic workers has risen by an estimated 56 percent, according to the Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics, IBGE. It's a hard number to quantify because every single maid in Brazil is paid under the table in cash. By comparison, the average income in general rose by 29 percent. Nationwide, the average salary paid to domestic servants runs around R$721 a month, or around $360. However, that figure is double or triple in big cities like São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The income of Brazilian maids has risen by an average of 6.7 percent in just one year in real terms. Adding to the price tag is a steady decline in the number of domestic workers in the market.
Quite frankly, Brazil's economy is getting richer. The poor have better things to do than clean up after middle class teenagers who still haven't learned to fold and put away their own T-shirts.
Short supply, high prices. Many Brazilians cannot afford the help. Welcome to your American Dream, Brazil!
Carol Campos is an administrator at Banco do Brasil in São Paulo. It's a nice, full-time middle class gig. She lives in Higienopolis. I've been to her house many times. Our kids are friends. They went to school together. She used to have a maid every day when her first child was born, then down to a couple days a week and now — because of the rising cost of living — she tells me, "We are now down to just one day per week. It's too expensive." She pays her maid R$90 ($45) a day.
A host of new labor laws designed to protect informal workers drove up costs. The government wanted the working poor, most of them women, to have enough money to save for retirement and, of course, healthcare. That started driving up prices around the year 2000.
"About four years ago, when me and my sister were in college and working, my family all decided to just hire a 'diarista'," says , Leoberto José Preuss, a systems analyst at Brazilian IT firm TOTVS in Joinville, Santa Catarina, one of the more middle class states in the country. Back then he says, a diarista, a maid that just comes once in a while and charges a flat day rate, charged just R$60 a day to cook and clean a house. "You're lucky if you find anyone for less than 90," he says. "We have someone come three days a week. It's difficult to find anyone available these days."
It will get harder. And as time goes on, it will definitely get more costly. So costly, in fact, that the majority of middle class Brazilians will no longer have a maid.
The government recently required full time domestic workers to receive the coveted "thirteenth salary", a whole month's work of pay in December, plus workman's comp through the FGTS tax. Brazilian maid service is becoming professionalized, and that has pulled the rug out from the middle class that has come to depend on them to keep their house in order.
A poll from Folha de São Paulo this month asked respondents if they would be able to afford a maid given the new labor laws. Out of the 1,177 on line respondents, 44 percent said no, 26 percent said they'd have to cut back on hours. So a total 70 percent are starting to get used to the fact that the good ole "Banana Republic" days are gone.
Sarah Castro, 28, is also from Santa Catarina. She is one of the Brazilian middle class that grew up with a live-in maid, her very own Mary Poppins. For Americans, this is an imperial wet dream. All that's missing is Tinkerbell. In the dream, you're from the rich nation before the days of labor rights, and your family can afford to hire your neighbors wife to clean the house, while he cleans your chimney. Those days are gone in London. They are ending in Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, where Sarah was raised and now works as a reporter.
"Our maid was named Nice. She lived with us and was part of our family. I miss her. There was no one like her," she says. "Nowadays, we only have a maid once a week. A good maid is hard to find."
Let's rephrase that. Barring a dystopian future, by the time Sarah is in her 40s, an affordable maid will be impossible to find.
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I still don't have Gaussian blur effects on iPad 3, but it's noticeably faster, that's for certain!
iOS 7.1: What did it fix for you and what's still broken?
iOS 7.1 is live for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, and with it a whole bevy of fixes and additions. Since Apple makes updates so easy, and adoption rates are so high, that means many of you have likely taken the plunge already. It also means you've likely scoured through every change to find what's really been fixed and what still remains broken. There's no changelog or quality assurance in the world that can match millions of people hitting a new piece of software. And that's just what the iMore Forums are doing right now!
If you're looking to read about, report, or discuss the iOS 7.1 changes, the fixes, the bugs, and anything and everything else, there's no better place to do it!
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iOS 7.1: What did it fix for you and what's still broken?
5S seems faster, and TouchID has yet to fail me once since the update this morning. Seems like there are a lot of new accessibility options as well. No real drawbacks, except the shift key is retardedly confusing to figure out.
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I agree with you Mike, the TouchID is working so much better, or should I say actually working. I couldn't even use it before the because 9.95 times out of 10 it failed! I even had one thumbed saved 3 or 4 different ways at one point & STILL couldn't get it to work!! Whenever I would delete and reset the fingerprint it would work the first 2-3x then quit after that. I also agree with you about the shift key change, it is very confusing now. I often find myself going back & forth several times, I hope they will revert that.
When I paste something into either an iMessage or Text Message it deletes the last word that I had typed ... really was hoping it was fixed in 7.1 but the issue still remains.
When using multitasking sometimes when you close some apps the cards move but the icons below don't, so the icon app doesn't match it's card... it's kinda annoying... But the worts issue I had was when using the iPhone sometimes al buttons stopped working and after few minutes it resets, haven't seen that since the update thank god and Touch ID works perfect...
The icon thing is by design. While the icons won't necessarily stay centered under their tile, the center tile will always have its icon centered below it. The row of icons doubles as a quick scrollbar of sorts. Try swiping across the icons instead of the thumbnail to speed through your open apps.
I downloaded and installed it on 3 Apple devices all within 25 min. Must be a lot of people trying to download it right now.
It keeps error-in out on me when I try to search for the update on my iPad 4
Liking everything so far on my 5s. Downloaded ota and installed in about 10 min.
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I also lost my picture of the person calling. Any fixes
I hate the new contact missing pic...can it be fixed
I agree, animations are faster. everything works faster than before
For me, they've fixed volume control on lock screen and in the music player. The touch precision was inacurate and everytime I tried to put the exact volume I wanted, it used to move beside or worst the lock screen will move trying to "slide to open". Now its perfect. The bullet volume is more precise.
I lost my wallpaper still images
You can now disable/enable only the parallax when choosing a wallpaper.
I agree...everything else in the update seems great...crashes fixed..etc..but then they just cut the animations all together if you turn on the reduce motion...for example in Weather app...now there is no animations...and you need to turn the reduce motion off to have it...no sense in that..
Hope they can have separate customization in next updates.
I've been able to use Siri over Bluetooth for a while now (over a year) using Ford Sync and MyFordTouch...it's brilliant.
I'm still working through apps and playing with features. So far no crashes or the white screen.
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What i've noticed so far on my 5s:
- Animations are much faster so I now leave them on.
- Touch ID so far has no issues when my finger is not in the optimal position
- Notification and Control Center are far less transparent, much easier to read.
- Auto HDR is pretty nifty.
- In addition to the indicator showing when a photo will use HDR, there is an indicator for when the flash will be engaged.
Remaining issues/missing features I would like:
- Low light video still darker than expected (http://www.imore.com/how-quality-your-iphone-5s-low-light-video)
- Still no autofocus for video (seems so easy to do)
Darker bolder headings and keys when selected!!! Much faster response opening and closing apps, almost like ios 6 but not perfect yet. Still need a dark theme, they darkened the icons(option) a little which is nice!! Not so pastel like. But still need a dark theme
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iPad 3 more responsive. iPad mini retina looks the same. Icons do not look as bold as the iPhone, but much better. iPhone 5S very fast open, and closed apps. Display very sharp looking. Improved fonts on all devices. No more wifi issues so far, and Touch ID working every time now.
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mine just says "music" ~iPhone 4
For some reason I updated and am missing some 7.1 features like the "Buy Album" option in iTunes Radio... Could it have something to do with iTunes Match subscription or do I need to re-install?
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I didn't like the keyboard at first, but it's growing on me. I really like the new phone calling/dialing UI. Also setting pictures as backgrounds is way better, it has the option to zoom in and out, not automatic anymore. The enhancements with Touch ID is fantastic, I usually get an error every few times but since updating it has no happened.
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on my iphone 5c the lock screen seems a bit lag ...when I type the security code the click sound its delayed ...and when accessing the camera from lock screen it has a lag when pulling up (I reset the phone and delete all data from it after update to be a clean install)...anyone else have the same issues in lock screen?...no darker keyboard :((
I have a C and haven't seen such issues. But the "Slide to Unlock" is darker and kinda weird.
I have a 4s and I experience the same problem. I did a clean install but the problem persists. Sliding down notification center or having dynamic wallpapers is also slow.
Like I said in other thread mine overheats to the point of getting a pop up saying "iPhone needs to cool down"
I did a hard reset and restored from scratch, we'll see what happens.
Anyone noticed this?
-At settings/sound/sent mail- listening any ringtone while vibration is turned on, only works ringtone, no vibration reaction
The good: Everything on the 5S & iPad 4 seem faster and more stable. The email issue, where sliding to delete a message near the bottom of the screen would kick the app into edit mode, has been fixed. TouchID seems better too. I also like new keyboard - mostly.
The Bad: AirDrop still has issues. My iPad, and my iPhone, both have _my_ iCloud contact info correct, so the should work at "Contacts Only". But, I can't AirDrop between them unless the recipient device is set to Everyone. Contacts Only works fine between my phone a my wife's, but not my own two devices. Also the shift key on the keyboard being white on grey feels ON to me, but that's minor and I'll get used to it.
Thanks for the idea. I've actually tried many things since iOS 7 was released, and while some work, they are not useable. AirDrop uses the logged in iCloud account to access the synced iCloud contacts, and the other devices primary Apple ID must be in the contacts. So it's not easily changeable.
My belief is my issues stems from two Apple IDs, with both logged in as iCloud accounts - although contacts only enabled on 1. One original I bought all my apps through, and 1 that was my me.com address. My wife is setup with just 1 and hers works fine. Various tests get it to work but in the end I need both active which kills it.
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I love it so far threw my thoughts on YouTube (http://youtu.be/qTWEMg9y8JQ). Need to test my iPad Air though
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What does Darken Colors do?
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Contrary to the video walk through posted somewhere, it does NOT make app icons, and "everything" darker. What it makes darker are the text "buttons" - for instance, go to Settings > Accessibility > Increase Contrast. Notice the color of the < Accessibility text. Now toggle "Darken Colors" on (or off if you have it on). That is what it does. I prefer the Darken Colors on.
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"Flat is ugly" Must be why every major tech company that u can buy is going flat in OS design. Stick to the burger flipping boss.
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Sorry, but he hit a nerve.
I find it horrific to see someone use mass acceptance of something as proof it's right. That's why I used superlative examples to the contrary.
I wouldn't have gone for the jugular if he also didn't cross the line by adding an obnoxious personal attack on the guy.
When shooting video at 60fps each frame in the video is 1/60th of a second. When shooting video at 30fps each frame is exposed for 1/30th of a second (twice as long). So video won't look as dark as 1/60 of a second of exposure. You can shoot a picture for 1/15 of a second, effectively doubling the exposure time again. This has nothing to do with software, it's a limitation of physics. The longer you expose a photo using a set amount of light the "brighter" the picture is. Yes, same lens, it may be the same aperture, and most definitely is not the same exposure setting.
Really great improvements and enhancements already mentioned. Above that, it's nice that there no longer is a ghosted app when attempting to swipe/close out all the apps. There was always one icon that needed closed that didn't show a preview. Thanks for tightening that up, Apple.
I can't speak of Touch ID improvements, because I have already "overtrained" my fingerprint impressions on my device.
Whew.. Apple did rectify a LOT of the touch responsiveness issues. Jumping between apps in the multitasking pane doesn't require so much waiting now; just double click and quickly hit the app card you wish to return to, as it should be. General fluidity between multitasking and home screen transitions has seemed to improve. It's still not android-fast, but it's headed in the right direction, and I'm glad because I really like iOS 7's design language.
-It still takes way too long to actually close apps from card view. Still cannot quickly fire them off the screen, must be patient and deliberately flick them off every second or so, only as fast as apple wants you to close them.
what about the pictures from contacts calling me? the pictures dont appear in full screen, thats annoying, excuse my english.
Really was hoping they would have addressed the iMessage bug in this update. No fix yet or solution.
Finally I have continuity with my contact pictures. No more round button for some and full screen for others. I absolutely love it. I haven't had any issues. Yet
I would've loved a 'close all' option on multi-tasking. Can't Apple make it so if we swipe the home screen up in multi tasking mode, all apps that were open close?
This would be the easiest way in my opinion - and really useful/time saving.
That would be awesome.
Great update. I'm in love with my 5s even more now. It's still not perfect and Apple still has a lot of ground to cover, but much was addressed in 7.1. I do however have a few gripes, albeit rather small and personal. The first is the keyboard and control center. For one, I wish they had more options available in control center. Something like side swiping to preview messages or a task manager for apps would be godsend! Also, I was actually digging the translucency of both the updated keyboard and control center. I see that with the new update, they have now made it much less transparent and I think that took away from its beauty a bit. I understand that some people didn't like it so much and it made it hard to read text for some, but I just wish they would include an option to increase/decrease contrast and transparency. Having the keyboard's color manipulated by it's by background made it a truly stunning visual. It still retains this capability, but not to the same degree as before, and i must say that it's kind of a bummer for me.
The last thing that I believe is in dire need of an update is the spotlight search. It's convenient to pull up (or down, haha), but it's still not as intuitive and helpful as should be. This especially stands true for when searching for messages, as even when you're lucky enough to have the message you're looking for pop up in search you are still left with the daunting task of endlessly scrolling through the thread until you finally get to that message. It should be that the message in the search pops up and it just goes to that message upon selecting it, but nope...scroll and find it on your own. I find this to be a nuisance and I think this system needs to be reworked entirely. Hopefully they do this in future updates. Other than that, Apple has prettying retained my claim of best mobile OS overall, even if it still lacks a few key features. Apple is on track and iOS 7.1 is great step forward in the right direction, but if they can just fix these three things I've mentioned then I'll consider every future update as a gift lol
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iPhone updated with no problem. iPad Air took 2 hours to download, then Air went into Recovery Mode. 6 hours later, it is restored. What a pain.
For me, not only is TouchID just as unreliable as before, it's slower. Even after deleting and re-adding my fingerprints, multiple prints for the same thumb, it still only works about 30% of the time.
Other than that, the few changes I do notice are so trivial they are of no concern to me.
Car Play isn't trivial, but I have to buy a new car in order to use it - Fail.
Still no fix for deleting Facebook account under settings on iPad. I changed my email address and password on Facebook and can't delete account to update to that same account just with a new email address and password. Any suggestions? I've tried deleting and redownloading and restarting. Nothing seems to work. Can't access old school email address account now that I've graduated which would fix the problem.
iCloud (including Find my iXXXX), Facebook and GameCenter still randomly get disabled or log out on my iPad 2 when running games that use GameCenter cloud saving.
That bug was introduced in iOS 7 and it's still broken in iOS 7.1. It affects all older devices: iPhone 4, 4S, iPad 2, iPad Mini and iPod Touches.
I agree.
Exactly, also too bold in a way. Doesn't everyone know where all the letters on a QWERTY keyboard are now anyway? I can type on my iPhone without even looking at the thing.
Best comment by far! Haha!
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MUSIC PLAYER???? What?? I'm so pissed how they continue to screw up this app. First with the cover flaw, then with the artists lists, then the horrible pinky UI, then with the random internet icon pictures, and now the albums artists are not in chronological order anymore, but from more recent to older? That's a big deal for me.. I've always liked my albums in chronological order... :((
Sad they don't let you change your preferences.
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they should change the keyboard ... let it be in different colors not just white
I actually like the black keyboard when you pull down for Spotlight. Think they should give us an option, without having to invert colours.
This exactly. Much better looking keyboard.
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i agree, there should be more options to customize the keyboard
The new button to end a call is odd…
Nooo I like it better.
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Im on iphone4s, what i experienced uptill now is:
1. Bold font in keypad
2. Control center is fast popping up
3. Shift key have changed
4. Battery is a bit stable
5. Brightness is more bright
6. Keypad lock have a new place in settings
7. Overall useable performance is same
- im hunting more...
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Can someone out there confirm something for me or tell me what I'm missing?
I have an company provided iPhone 4 and a personal iPhone 5s. Both are running iOS 7.1. Navigating in Maps on the 4 allows me to scroll and tap on the distance and direction to turn box at the top of the screen. When I tap the map below moves to and highlights that turn. There is no direction list at the bottom of the screen when navigating. However, if you go back to the overview screen, tap on the list view at the bottom of the screen, then tap on a direction in that list it takes you to that turn or direction.
Maps on the 5s is a different set of maps below, the distance and direction box cannot be tapped on or scroll, and when you to tap, the map sort of spins around. Clicking on the directions list gives you the list, but you can't do anything with them.
I truly wish Maps on the 5s were like Maps on the 4.
However, I do like my 5s, I do like iOS 7.1 as a whole.
iPad Air still stutters when opening spotlight. Seriously, wtf?
My iPhone 5s' Touch ID is greatly improved only been denied once. I can also see that it tries to recognize the fingerprint a lot longer before denies you.
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It's better in many areas than previous versions of iOS 7...but I have no thanks for Apple. They certainly don't have any economic pressure to release what was, in every sense, a beta OS's on it's user base.
Plus, the new features of iOS 7 could have been implemented without changing to a UI theme that is fundamentally a florescent mutant lovechild of Android and Windows 8.
This is the type of design and product quality we can expect in the future from Apple, now that time has passed to complete all the product and design legacies of Steve Jobs.
I like the new calendar views a lot. Overall I think it was a nice update.
Yeah, not entirely sure why full screen contact photos had to go away, why was that change made?
No kidding! I just noticed that files played in the video app (Home Videos) only play at half volume. Anyone else have this problem? I have no other sound issues = weird.
performance is amazing on my iphone 5 BUT battery life is even worse than before.
Yes it is way worse on my iPhone 5 too, did a hard reset and set it up as a new device, but it's still draining pretty quick.
It also gets hotter than before, I even got one of those "iPhone needs to cool down" pop-ups.
I have a 4s and now the lock screen seems a bit laggy. Sliding down the notification center, sliding up the control center or the camera using the camera icon in the right down corner from the lock screen are very sluggish. Also the lockscreen dynamic wallpapers have low fps now and it's not pleasant at all. I tried a clean install from itunes but the problem persists. Anyone having these issues? I read on the comments someone experiencing the same on a 5c.
I don't have the ability to update applications. I have a few notifications from applications on the App Store that need to be updated but they will not download/load on WiFi or LTE. Anybody else experiencing this?
iPhone 5,2 CDMA & GSM Global
Capacity: 64GB Black Slate
Model: ND209LL/A
OS: iOS 7.1 (11D167)
Bug List:
1. Enhanced Quality Voices
2. Ring Tone & Vibrations
3. Crazy Crazy Battery
Number One
Selecting Enhanced Quality causes strange pause followed by the the UI saying "Preparing Download". Loading "blue line" appeared and goes crazy back and forth as it downloads it's very confuseing and definitely a bug.
Number Two
Settings/Sounds/Ringtone or Text Tone
When selecting a specific text or call vibration (any of them) and then tapping a specific ringtone or text tone sound the custom vibration will play with it as part of a preview. This is all inside Sound in the Settings.app
However if you then go to Contacts.app and go to contact to set a custom Text/Ringtone and Vibration something weird happens. Let's say I select S.O.S and Tweet as my system wide vibration and sound for Text Alerts but I want to set set Heartbeat and Chord for my Girlfriend. When I select Chord sound it will play that sound but instead of performing the Heartbeat vibration it will use the system wide S.O.S vibration and in fact sometimes just use weird vibration patterns that don't even exist in unison with different sounds you select. This is very confusing when trying to set Vibrations and Sounds. Also in Text Tones the default sound is a ringtone not Note (Default). It's very hard to explain over text so go try it yourself.
Number Three
Simply put the battery status has list its mind.
1. iPhone at 5%
2. Connect to Charger
3. Time Passes
4. iPhone at 35%
5. Unplug iPhone
6. Mins later iPhone is at 1%? How
7. Plug in iPhone battery instantly at 35%?!
9. Unplug drops to 29%
I have been having these battery problems on my iphone 5 64gb since i first got ios 7!!!! It shuts off whenever it wants! Last week it was at 71% done!!! I plugged it in and it was fine. But for the most part it shuts off between 10-35%, so i charge it 3-4 times a day to keep it above 50%!!!! Cant wait to upgrade! Convinced apple does this to force upgrades! Fu&$ing ridiculous!
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The 7.1 update has rendered my on/off switch useless. Some touch controls such as slide to answer are not working as well.
Petty i know...but I've never liked the new plugged in/charging sound that came with ios 7, perhaps bring back the old, or make it an option etc...
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My Air seems slower since the update. I am starting to see the little spinning circle more than I use to. I am definitely not seeing the speed increase others are experiencing.
Maybe my ISP is throttling.
I am seeing it more too, even when my phone doesn't have any apps running. I'm not sure what this means.
It's a little bit zippier. That's about it. Oh and the power off screen is different.
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Oh and I like the new/old Calendar view.
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My Reminders quit working. When I click on Reminders on homepage, a "New List" pops up with a + sign on the left. Noting happens when I tap on New List or the + sign. There is a search area on top but when I type anything in that area and click to search nothing happens. There is also a clock to the right of the search area. Nothing happens when I tap on it, either. Can someone please help me? I use the reminders all the time but now they are all gone......
On my iPad mini the home screen header covers the apps. It is rather annoying. Does anyone know of a fix?
Is anybody having issue with the alarm not ringing?
this morning the alarm did not ring, and I have two separate times set.
Please check these wireless charger for iphone5/5s. It's available in amazon store. Check these.
i love how all the animations are faster and the way everything has been made easier to use like turning month view into list view in calendar and the x turns into it's own clear button oh and most importantly touch id works much better for me now works first time pretty much 100% where as it would work 2 or 3 time before
Having a ton of problems downloading pics PDFs and attachments. I live on the road and now both my iPad and iPhone are screwed up.
My typing is really slow it won't speed up I tried shutting it off but it's still slow!
Please help! (Iphone 5s)
There is a major user experience issue. See here:
the new update seems to have broken more things than it fixed for me. I am unable to use any of my apps. They open and then close immediately. I'm currently restoring my phone to see if that will fix it but that's such a pain in the butt. I HATE having to restore it and set everything up again.
I am an iPhone 4 user and I've noticed that on my home screen, there is a shadow above my wallpaper. Others that have updated do not have the same issue & I am really curious how to fix it! Please help
I was hoping the bluetooth syncing issues I have bee having in my 2013 Honda civic would have been addressed. Ever since I updated to ios 7 the music will start playing automatically, Bluetooth connection drops, etc. Hopefully apple and Honda will have it fixed by the next update.
Good day!
I was moving around some of my apps, and... well, my game center has disappeared :P
Luckily i can still spotlight search it (obviously) :D
also had huuuge issues syncing it with my laptop... it took about an hour to sync, i shit you not.
But i'm loving 7.1 because my iphone 4 hardly lags anymore.
Touch ID, Touch ID, TOUCH ID FINALLY WORKS! Prior to 7.1, I'd suffered 4 Genius Bar trips, 5 complete reinstalls of system and all 350+ apps from scratch (at Genius insistence), 3 new iPhones -- and had read countless user forum posts -- all in pursuit of making Touch ID work. Got under the skin that so many iFriends were merrily enjoying it and saying "What, it isn't working for you? Works for me!"
Got to know fellow sufferers on the forums pretty well, all enraged that the marquee feature of iPhone 5s -- the reason we bought it! -- was an utter fail.
So imagine the joy of having this suffering suddenly lifted! Before 7.1, Touch ID never survived longer than 24 hours. Since the update, haven't needed to re-set main print once.
1. For best results, set up just one print.
2. Carefully program the fingerprint by dividing it mentally into a tic-tac-toe grid, then filling it in, starting at bottom center, then bottom right, bottom left, center center, center left and so on, being careful to overlap fingerprints.
3. If Touch ID seems to err more often, use an app like Sys-Activity to restore your supply of Free Memory. Touch ID seems to need it. Always, when Touch ID errs, Free Memory turns out to be 29mb or lower on my phone. Bringing Free Memory back above 350mb always fixes the problem.
4. Touch ID never stops learning, it seems. If it seems to have "forgotten" part of your print, you can re-teach Touch ID by starting from the sector that still works, locking the phone, then unlocking using an overlapping sector of your print, and repeating as often as desired.
I have noticed that does not happen all the time but some of the messages do not come up when I drag the notification center down.
It works fine for emails, app notifications and all. But for some strange reason some text messaages / imessages come up and others do not... It is pretty frustrating.
I just updated to iOS 7.1 and I am having sound issues... I need help
I can't believe they have removed the full screen caller id picture. I loved seeing the big beautiful pictures of my family when they called. It was so easy to see who was calling at a glance and from a distance. Now I have to pick up the phone and look closely at the tiny picture in the circle or small name next to it. I don't understand why they would do this. They could at least offer both options. I've sent my comments to Apple on this issue and hope many other people will too. The feedback link is: http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
when you get a text or a regular notification and you want to and you want to dismiss it by pulling it down then pulling it up to hide it, it worked flawlessly back when IOS 7 was released but ever since the first update after the official IOS 7 release it's been very ugly and buggy to dismiss the notification..
With the iPhone 5S, I had many resprings before 7.1. Not even 1 since I started using 7.1
But they toke away the full photo caller on the incoming calls and they implemented something really stupid, tinny circular thumbnail. I hope they do change it to how it was or come uo with something better on the next versions of iOS.
iPhone 5s - I've noticed around 24 hours after I installed the update - actually within a few hours this morning - that it's no longer automatically going to lock screen. If I'm on Spotify and viewing the app, then leave it for 1 minute, it doesn't fade to black / lock it.
If I'm on the apps screen it fades to a dark colour / shadow but I can still see the icons and it doesn't lock.
If I'm already on lock screen and click to check up what message I've just received, what track I'm on, missed call, etc, then it goes back to black just fine.
Anyone else having this issue??
Have only had the iphone for 2 weeks so a bit confused!
Installed newest version of iOS today and now my facebook app won't load. Suggestions?
MAIL now crashes back to springboard ( the main iOS 7 screen ) mail looks like it just quit but its still running. This happens as I'm typing a reply usually if it happens as its random. Never had a problem using mail with any other release on my iPhone 4S. My partly typed reply is just gone when i go back into mail !
(iPhone 5s) I didn't see but 1 person mention the issue with the screen not rotating with the phone. The screen locks in portrait mode, and is no longer switching to landscape when you rotate the phone either way. If you watch a video in the YouTube you have to click the button for it to expand, but it stays locked in that mode regardless of whether your phone is turned that way or not, but at least you CAN watch it on fullscreen. If you try to view a video any other way it won't even allow you to view it in full screen. You can select the 2 arrows for expanding, but that's all it does is make it larger. So it basically zooms in, cutting off the right & left sides at the screen's edge, making over half the video to be completely out of view.
Yes it is way worse on my iPhone 5 too, did a hard reset and set it up as a new device, but it's still draining pretty quick.
My wife is on iPhone 4 and since iOS 7 she's been experiencing accident buttons pressing while talking on the phone. I can see by looking between her face and the phone that proximety sensor doesn't shut down the screen. Does anybody have the same issue?
Now I have to pick up the phone and look closely at the tiny picture in the circle or small name next to it. I don't understand why they would do this. They could at least offer both options.
Someone help, as soon as I upgraded from 7.0.4 to 7.1.2 my lockscreen slider text has gone black even on dark wallpapers! Can somebody please help? It seems un-natural to have all text white but the slider text colour.


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Stonewall is delighted that the Charity Commission has approved a request to extend its strategic lobbying to include overseas work. For the very first time, the charity will be permitted to 'promote human rights as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and subsequent UN conventions throughout the world'.
'We're delighted at the Charity Commission's decision,' said Stonewall Chair David Isaac. 'After our biennial supporters' survey last year a number of supporters raised the importance of international work with us now that the legislative landscape in Britain is almost equalised. Having canvassed a wide sample of our supporters during the last 12 months and reviewed our obligations under charity law, we're clear that our lobbying and research teams now have the opportunity to influence overseas without undermining the important work – such as our pioneering Education for All programme – to which we're absolutely committed in Britain. We look forward to working with other groups seeking to deliver change internationally. As Stonewall will seek to influence from within the UK our focus will, we hope, complement the work of others.'
'When we became a charity in 2003 there was an extensive outstanding legislative programme which we thought would take 10-15 years to secure,' said Ben Summerskill, Stonewall's Chief Executive. 'Having achieved almost all of those legal changes, we're now in a stronger position to commend Britain's legislative framework to other countries around the world. The dogged support of tens of thousands of individual donors means that we're one of the few charities in the country whose income has continued to grow throughout the recession. That commitment means that involvement in overseas advocacy will not dilute any of our existing domestic activities; we retain our ambition to make Britain a worldwide beacon for equality.'
1) Homosexual acts remain illegal in 77 out of over 190 countries worldwide, more than half of which are members of the Commonwealth. In six countries it is punishable by death – Mauritania, Sudan, Southern Sudan, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Yemen – as well as in parts of Nigeria and Somalia. Many countries which do not impose the death penalty sentence individuals to life imprisonment (e.g. Pakistan and Barbados) or hard labour (e.g. Angola and Mozambique).
Recent examples of states imposing (or trying to impose) new or tougher sentences on gay people include the 2010 'anti-homosexuality' bill in Uganda proposing extension of the death penalty to a range of homosexual offences, and the extension of the Malawian penal code to cover female couples. A number of gay equality campaigners have been murdered, notably David Kato in Uganda in January 2011. Some regions and states have recently repealed homophobic parts of their penal codes, notably India and most South American states, however hate crimes and persecution remain commonplace. For example, it is estimated that over 250 lesbian and gay people were murdered in Brazil in 2010.
2. Stonewall's 2010 No Going Back research into the experience of lesbian and gay asylum-seekers highlighted the range of persecution gay people overseas had experienced including beatings, attempted murder, abuse, sexual abuse, rape, being outed in public, arson and a range of other crimes. The perpetrators included members of the public, the police, family members and religious leaders.
3. Measures to equalise Britain's legislative agenda campaigned for by Stonewall and secured since 2003 include:
Repeal of Section 28 of the Local Government Act
Aggravated sentencing for homophobic offences (Criminal Justice Act 2003)
Civil Partnership Act 2005
'Goods and services' protections against discrimination in the delivery of commercial and public services (2007)
Equalisation of Fertility and Embryology legislation (2008)
Offence of incitement to homophobic hatred (Criminal Justice Act 2008)
Introduction of a public duty to promote equality in the delivery of public services (Equality Act 2010)
Consequently Britain now has some of the strongest legislative protections in the world for lesbian, gay and bisexual people.
4. Stonewall's Diversity Champions programme now provides advice and support to more than 600 major employers, with more than 5.5 million staff between them. It is the largest non-governmental intervention of its kind in the world. Stonewall's Education for All programme, established in 2005 to help tackle homophobic bullying in schools, is supported by a coalition of 120 charities, professional organisations, unions and education authorities.
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PITTSBURGH, PA – The Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) released the All-Sportsmanship Team for the 2009-10 winter sports teams. Two student-athletes from Hilbert College are being recognized for their abilities on and off the field of play. AMCC Commissioner Donna Ledwin initiated this program during the 2007-08 academic year to complement the "Be Loud, Be Proud, BE POSITIVE" sportsmanship program originated by the AMCC. Since its inception, the NCAA has begun to use the same tag-line in its publicity materials and it is now accepted as the DivIIICA (Division III Commissioners Association) Fan Sportsmanship Program.
All AMCC institution sport teams may select one member from their team who displays good sportsmanship throughout the season to be a member of the All-Sportsmanship Team. These individuals are selected by the team members. The student-athlete selected must consistently demonstrate a high level of ethical conduct, respect and fair play in both practice and competition, whether on the sidelines or as an active competitor. He/She must also serve as a positive representative of school spirit when a spectator at other teams' sporting events.
Hilbert College men's basketball team members chose junior college transfer Cody Troutman (South Dayton, NY/Pine Valley/JCC) as their team's Sportsmanship Award winner. And sophomore Julie Bossard (Arkport, NY/Canisteo-Greenwood) was the women's basketball representative.
"These students embody all the qualities we want in our student-athletes," said athletic director Richard Walsh. "They are fine representatives of the college both on and off the athletic field. We are very proud of their recognition for these qualities."
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The Camp Friedlander Dining Hall is ideal for trainings, Blue and Gold Banquets, Courts of Honor, wedding receptions, family reunions, or just about any major event. A large deck provides for outdoor dining. The building is air-conditioned with seating for 600 people. An industrial kitchen makes meal preparation for large groups possible. Soft drink fountains and coffee pots can be reserved. Full AV support is also available, and includes a projector, microphone systems, and a DVD player.
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Orefield, PA. December 7, 2011 – Two charitable organizations that dedicate their efforts to helping kids have formed a partnership that will enrich the lives of deserving children and teach them important life lessons. Community Bike Works and KidsPeace are launching the inaugural "Community Bike Works at KidsPeace Earn a Bike" program at the Orefield, PA, campus. Selected boys and girls in KidsPeace residential programs will attend the three month program that will teach bicycle repair and maintenance, safety and teamwork. Each child who successfully completes the course will be given the bike he or she has fixed up, along with a helmet and a certificate of course completion.
Rob Scott, who is the Facilities and Recreation Supervisor at KidsPeace, read about Community Bike Works (CBW) on the Internet (www.communitybikeworks.org) and contacted Executive Director and founder Stefan Goslawski to see if the two nonprofits could work together. The more he learned, the more Rob believed that the program would be a great benefit to KidsPeace kids. "Last spring I took a few kids to attend classes at CBW in Allentown," Rob says. "They did really well and were thrilled to have earned their own bikes to take home with them when they left KidsPeace." There is a vocational aspect to the program that particularly excited Rob because the education department was able to obtain Title 1 funding, as well as a grant from Just Born to purchase supplies to run the program at the KidsPeace facility.
After that, Rob actively recruited KidsPeace associates as volunteers to start up the program on the KidsPeace residential campus in Orefield. Rob and the volunteers attended 12 weeks of classes at Community Bike Works and learned how to take bikes apart, repair them and put them back together. They also learned about Stefan's philosophy and the more subtle aspects of the program that help the kids learn life skills and develop strong work ethics.
According to Stefan, a retired teacher and bike shop owner, he founded Community Bike Works in 1994 after reading about a similar program that taught parents how to fix their kids' bikes and after receiving a letter from an elderly lady who urged him to teach Allentown kids important skills. With the assistance of the Allentown Conference of Churches, which helped him gain nonprofit status, Stefan launched the program.
Today, the 12 week program teaches students from the Allentown and Bethlehem School Districts at certain middle schools and at the organization's headquarters at 235 North Madison Street in Allentown's 18102. "It is the most enjoyable job I have ever had," Stefan says with a smile. The program currently works with around 250 kids a year, and Stefan expects that number to reach 350 in 2012. "We really need more volunteers in order to expand even more," Stefan adds. "It is hard because we need a 12-week commitment from our volunteers to facilitate one of our classes."
Additionally, Stefan has a group of enthusiastic volunteers from Cedar Crest and Muhlenberg Colleges who help the kids with their reading skills through one on one tutoring. "It is so exciting when the school districts tell us that kids we have taught and tutored have increased their reading levels by one to four grade levels and have improved their state test scores dramatically," Stefan reports. "We also teach our kids that working hard for something will be rewarding," Stefan points out. "They need to sign a contract, make and fulfill a commitment, help others in the class with their bikes, take pre and post-class tests, learn safety rules, write a thank you letter to the bike's donor and keep a journal in order to earn their bikes." According to Stefan, there is also a vocational skills development component to the program that teaches kids how to read manuals, use tools and do repair and maintenance work. These skills may help them secure a job when after they leave school.
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This report finds that the 813,000 U.S. children under the age of 10 who have Black immigrant parents from Africa or the Caribbean generally fall in the middle of multiple well-being indicators, faring less well than Asian and white children but better than their native-born Black and Hispanic peers. Citizenship status, English proficiency, parental characteristics, poverty, housing, and access to social supports are examined.
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"Do it with love."
It's the Frances Smith Herron Dance Studio's motto, and Northwest Florida State College dance faculty take it to heart.
"It's about doing what you do with grace and love for both the art and the student who creates the art — to help make our students become better persons and live life to the fullest, just as Frances did," professor of dance Joseph Taylor told News Bulletin reporter Brian Hughes.
The motto — which embodies Herron, the studio's late founder and former department head — offers words to live by.
People who put passion into their work tend to leave a mark with ripple effects that last for days, months, years and even generations.
An endowment to name NWF State College's dance studio in Herron's memory has surpassed $105,000 and funded $5,000 in dance scholarships and program support, according to Hughes' report.
And this past weekend's American Cancer Society Relay For Life definitely left its mark.
The Crestview Relay committee's efforts, led by event co-chairs Megan Bowersox and Loney Whitley, attracted just under 300 participants, 37 teams and, as of this writing, more than $87,000 for cancer research.
The spirit came alive during Relay's opening ceremony as we watched residents from different walks of life unite to fight cancer. Walking for loved ones with cancer, remembering those who died from it, and working together to raise money and one day beat it.
It was truly inspiring.
Knowing the great commitment involved — particularly from Bowersox and Whitley, who worked tirelessly raising all that money and handling the main event's logistics; spending a full 24 hours at Shoal River Middle School for event preparation and breakdown — there's no doubt that they did it with love.
I've always believed businesses should operate similarly.
Over the weekend, a reader asked, "How long does it take to produce an article?"
Well, reporters get a news tip, test its accuracy by making several calls to various sources to corroborate it, call more sources for depth, write an outline of the story's key points and draft the article before spell-checking and submitting it.
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The copy desk receives the next version of the story, lays it out with pagination software, checks for style and cuts for space.
Finally, the news team receives proof pages to review the story's final version, as it will appear in the paper, and checks for spelling and style. (You'd be surprised how many things you could miss just by seeing a story on the monitor; something about the hard copy changes that.)
Stories never die on the web, so something in the print edition might be tweaked even more for clarity or ease of reading.
Done right, it's definitely a labor of love — you usually see the fifth or sixth version of a story when you open the paper — and that passion surpasses the newsroom's walls.
To properly cover the community, you have to love the community — and take all that goes with it: the long hours, the sleepless nights and ramping up community involvement to enrich residents' lives.
Soon, we will release a campaign that shows you how much our staff loves the Crestview area, and how that helps us better able to serve you.
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Responding again today to questions of whether the main event of UFC 162 was fixed, UFC President Dana White ranted at conspiracy theorists and then targeted one of the most respected institutions in sports reporting.
"Who's going to throw a fight by getting viciously knocked out?" the UFC executive ranted during an appearance on ESPN2's "Highly Questionable." "You know how stupid you'd have to be to even think that?"
"Speaking of morons, Sports Illustrated had this group of people together, and they actually Sports Illustrated! had this panel saying, 'Yeah, so I heard over the weekend, this fight might have been fixed.' First of all, these people looked like they covered tennis not fighting and you could tell none of them even watched the fight."
White was referring to a panel of reporters that mused on whether Anderson Silva took a dive against the newly minted UFC middleweight champ Chris Weidman during a segment on the web series SI Now, which covers hot topics in sports.
"For somebody like Sports Illustrated people are supposed to be credible journalists to go out and say something that stupid when they never even watched the fight, it's just a testament to how bad reporting is getting these days," White continued. "It's more about the shock factor than the fact factor."
It's not the first time White has let expletives fly on the topic. Immediately after the pay-per-view event, which took place July 6 at MGM Grand Garden Arena, he said people who thought that Weidman's knockout was predetermined were "f---ing idiots."
Yet for several days, the topic hung in the air, which likely prompted the SI panel to address the situation. None of the journalists, however, were MMA reporters for the storied news outlet.
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HAZARD — Heart health in Eastern Kentucky has been an issue addressed many times by many organizations and physicians in the last two decades; however, heart disease rates in this area still double that of the state as a whole.
As part of the college's Operation Heart community service event, "Hearts for KY," University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy students and faculty volunteered to spend part of their spring break in Hazard earlier this week offering screenings for cardiac risk factors, such as blood pressure, blood glucose, and cholesterol.
Teia Brandenburg, second year pharmacy student at the UK college of pharmacy and one of the program directors for "Hearts for KY," said this is the first time the program has come to Eastern Kentucky.
"We're trying to reach out to new areas so we just picked Hazard for this year," Brandenburg said. "We've been here for three days, and as of right now we've screened about 350 patients, so we've had a really successful event."
Operation Heart has been offering these screenings for a few years, Brandenburg said, with the goal of increasing awareness of heart diseases across the state.
"We want to impact patients, screen for cardiovascular diseases, and stuff like that across the entire state. That's our goal, and we're trying to get there one community at a time," she said.
Roy Milwee, cardiovascular administrator at UK, said since heart problems are more prevalent in the eastern part of the state, he and his staff hope to provide another venue for people in the area to be educated and learn if they are at risk.
"The University of Kentucky recognizes the need of cardiovascular services and health screenings throughout Eastern Kentucky," Milwee said. "Cardiovascular disease rates are higher in these communities in Eastern Kentucky, so these screenings should help create some awareness, create some opportunities for some patients to be treated with some preventative care and help with controlling some of those diseases."
According to the Kentucky State Data Center, 40.8 percent of adults in Perry County had hypertension, and the number of deaths attributed to heart disease were almost double that of the state as a whole.
Tracy MaCauley, cardiology specialty pharmacist and Operation Heart faculty advisor, said heart problems are an issue across the state.
"Heart disease accounted for 30 percent of all deaths in Kentucky in 2009, ranking us eighth highest in the country. We hope that 'Hearts for KY' screening events help teach Kentuckians about prevention, and that we start to see improvement in the heart health of Kentucky," said MaCauley.
For those patients who do test positive for high blood pressure, sugar levels, or bad cholesterol (LDL), Brandenburg said there are simple steps the students at the screening are suggesting those screened do to improve their health, including reducing salt intake and exercising more.
"We're not really asking any patients to do anything crazy, not running a marathon or completely wiping out salt. We know that those are difficult lifestyle modifications to make. Really, we're just asking them to make slight changes," she explained.
Cynthia Christian was screened on Wednesday at the Perry County Public Library, one of three locations the screenings took place, said she was very glad she came out to be screened because she had not been feeling well lately.
"I think it's a very good thing, what they're doing here," she said. "People need to be aware of things like this."


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yep - still here, but don't get a chance to post much as so far this year i've had the following on my plate:
- 10 month-old son
- wife has cancer (hopefully now in remission, but not 100% sure yet)
- two months of building work of our house
- wife was made redundant in september
- i was made redundant last week
...but, apart from that, it's been a pretty good year!
catch up with you all soon.
ps. interesting to see Lionel D back, as the reason i had a spare Optibuk for John was that i had got it (and Outpost Transmission) for Lionel - and Lionel then stiffed me on the money for it! hmmm...