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Game 82: Toronto at New York pregame
Asked about the old Yankee Stadium last week, Blue Jays manager Cito Gaston called it a "dump", saying "All it has is history."
Now, it's a reversed situation. The new Yankee Stadium is a luxurious facility for fans, press and players alike. What it lacks, though, is history. The Yankees are at least doing their best to add some early lore to the building.
On the lower level, in the tunnel that leads to the clubhouses, there is a hole in the ground that is sectioned off by some piping (pictured right). It is where the David Ortiz jersey was dug out of the foundation during the stadium's construction. Click the link to read more about the history of the hole.
They could've easily filled the hole in, but where would the fun be in that?
Sitting in the visiting dugout this afternoon, us scribes were chatting with Jays second baseman Aaron Hill. He said heading to the old Yankee Stadium for the first time was a special moment for him as a young player. He showed up early, walked around the stands, walked out in the outfield, soaking it all in.
That's something that is missing from the new park. But, maybe a century from now, some Blue Jays manager will be asked about this Yankee Stadium, and maybe it too will one day be called a "dump" with nothing but history going for it.
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okay is this just me in my bad mood today, or is this sportsnet telecast completely yankee biased. i am so tired or hearing how many times the yankees have won in the late innings, how great arod has been hitting blah, blah, blah. I feel like the announcers gave up on the Jays a couple of innings ago.
That's just Rance being Rance, tanandmur,


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KDE Announces the Calligra Suite
The KDE community today announces the start of the Calligra Suite project, a continuation of the KOffice project. The new name reflects the wider value of the KOffice technology platform beyond just desktop office applications. With a new name for the Suite and new names for the productivity applications, the Calligra community welcomes a new stage in the development of free productivity and creativity applications for desktop and mobile devices.
Read more for the details
Calligra Overview
The Calligra Suite contains the following applications:
More applications will be added as we get more contributors. Currently all applications except Calligra Words will be maintained by their respective KOffice developers.
The Calligra Suite introduces the Calligra Office Engine which makes it easy for developers to create new user experiences, target new platforms and create specialized versions for new kinds of users. Currently, there are two main user experiences: the desktop UI with the applications mentioned above, and FreOffice which is the only free mobile office suite in existence.
Calligra and Users
It is a goal of the Project that users will see only positive changes. In addition to new names, we expect that the move to Git will make development speedier and higher quality. New user experiences will be added and the existing ones will see more usability work.
The community will release KOffice version 2.3 as planned in approximately 2 weeks, and will maintain it with bugfix releases during the KOffice 2.3 life cycle. Starting with version 2.4, we will continue development of most of the applications under the new names.
Calligra and the Past
Nearly everyone in the KOffice community has joined together to make this move. Leaving the past behind us, we are excited at this opportunity to make our software more innovative and widely-used. At the same time that the Calligra project is created, we will move from Subversion to Git, making it an even better platform for innovation in the free office space.
Calligra and KDE
KDE is one of the largest open source communities in the world. KDE software is one of only two projects that has reached a million commits in their repositories (the other is Apache).
KDE publishes several workspaces (Plasma Desktop, Plasma Netbook and soon Plasma Mobile), a development platform, and many sets of applications like the KDE EDU applications, KDE games, Amarok and K3b.
KOffice has always been part of the larger KDE community. Calligra will continue to use the KDE infrastructure such as bugtracker, forums, and community wikis. The Calligra team is very much a part of the KDE community and proud of it. The applications we develop will continue to be KDE offerings.
Find out more about Calligra Suite here:
For users:
For developers:
Existing web sites for individual applications like krita.org and kexi-project.org will continue to work as before.
More Information
The Calligra marketing contact is:
Inge Wallin
So all the (sponsored)work on KOffice logos/icons etc is wasted?
That does not seem right, although I think all the Knaming(KMyBum) is the plague.
By kragil at Mon, 2010/12/06 - 10:02pm
Nice choices on the names. Apple will be pissed :-)
Do they have some kind officially sanctioned 'long-form' way to refer to them, though? Saying "I use Plan to plan my plans" sounds funny and might encounter parse difficulties; so, "Calligra Plan"? "KDE Plan"?
By Gábor Lehel at Tue, 2010/12/07 - 12:48am
We invested a lot of brainjuice in the names. So this makes us very happy to hear that you like them :)
By Mark Kretschmann at Tue, 2010/12/07 - 8:25am
I find the names a bit inconsistant. Why is het "Words" and "Tables" but not "Stages", "Flows" or "Plans"? Why has Kexi not been renamed to something to match?
Anyway, I wish KOffice^H^HCalligra all the best, and I hope this new start will also lead to a better uptake and more sustained development of all of the applications in the suite. Good luck!
By andresomers at Tue, 2010/12/07 - 9:02am
Yeah, I see inconsistency there - why Kexi and not Bases? Forms? And use plural form for all names. It actually sounds really great - much more better than KSpread etc. - but is it ok to Words? As it's very similar to one product, everybody knows, by company everybody knows with army of lawyers.
Good luck guys! And thanks for your work! We already discussed Calligra at our Fedora KDE SIG meeting today - looks like we have winner...
By Jaroslav Reznik at Tue, 2010/12/07 - 5:06pm
The reasons for some of that are historically based: Some of the application (like Krita) have already established a brand. So their maintainers decided against renaming them.
About the other inconsistencies: It was a trade-off. It's very hard to find good names, and we chose what we found fits best. Overall, I am personally very happy with the choices.
Regarding Google: You are right that googling for "Words" will not work, but "Calligra Words" is easy to search for. So I think that's a non-issue.
By Mark Kretschmann at Tue, 2010/12/07 - 5:29pm
Kexi: How about Cranium -
Kexi: How about Cranium - shell for your brain?
The other names are nice though.
edit: on second thought, too complex and doesn't fit in. Something simple like 'Data' maybe.
By Rithvik at Wed, 2010/12/08 - 8:12am
More about names
As illissius and andresomers I would like to hear more about the thoughts behind the names. I realize that you've spent a lot of time and effort on them, and I hope you take this as curiosity rather than criticism. :)
I like that the names reflect the use of the applications, but on the other hand I find them very generic - "Words", "Tables", "Stage", "Flow", "Plan". One problem I see is that it makes it hard to Google. And as illissius wrote, it can sound funny in a conversation with someone who doesn't know what Calligra is.
It seems to me that you want something similar to the OpenOffice.org naming - for example, I always say "OpenOffice", not "OpenOffice.org Writer". Do you want people to mostly use the name "Calligra", (optionally) the "subnames" (Words, Tables, ...) to refer to specific applications and "Calligra Suite" for the whole thing? For example, "I used Calligra to write this report" or "I used Calligra Words to write this report".
By Hans Chen at Tue, 2010/12/07 - 12:16pm
Kexi and Krita sound bad in
Kexi and Krita sound bad in English, and they and Karbon aren't descriptive in English, which ruins consistency. The new names are better in terms of consistency and descriptiveness in English.
By yman at Thu, 2010/12/09 - 1:49am
I get it, but...
I can see why it makes sense to package this as a more general office suite, and I understand where the name is coming from, but... it sounds like the name of a birth control pill.
"I recently switched to Calligra..."
Anyway, hopefully it'll grow on us :-/
By keka at Tue, 2010/12/07 - 12:48am
About the name
The name "Calligra" was actually created as a reference to "Calligraphy", the art of writing text in a beautiful and harmonic way.
We found that this fits our project well.
By Mark Kretschmann at Tue, 2010/12/07 - 8:28am
fictional Latin
Drug brand names are usually a fictional Latin word that's a cognate to an English word synonymous with "lively". Don't know how he got birth control in particular, lol.
Calligra has the advantage of being a real Latin word. :)
By eean at Tue, 2010/12/07 - 5:57pm
I was mostly being facetious
I was mostly being facetious ;) Like I said, I understand the origin of the name. Just sounded a bit weird to me, that's all. Hope it grows on me. Kudos to all involved.
By keka at Tue, 2010/12/07 - 11:03pm
Callegra Suite vs KOffice?
It is not completely clear to me what is meant by "a continuation of the KOffice project". Here [1] I read that Callegra Suite is to be understood as a fork of the KOffice project. Also, the sentence "Currently all applications except Calligra Words will be maintained by their respective KOffice developers" might be read as KWord/Words now being without maintainer, or that KWord will separately be developed as KWord outside of the Callegra Suite. The remark that "Nearly everyone in the KOffice community has joined together to make this move" seems to support that notion. Has there been some shism in the KOffice community? That would be really unfortunate.
It would perhaps be good to shed some light on this.
edit: It seems that we are talking about a break in the KOffice community. This [2] email on the KOffice-devel list confirms that. That is really sad news. I think it is also sad that an article on the Dot does not bring this news in a clearer way. Calligra is now presented as if it is the only continuation of KOffice and a positive change only, and you have to read very carefully to see that something may be amis.
[1] http://andreascarpino.it/2010/12/the-calligra-suite/
By andresomers at Tue, 2010/12/07 - 9:23am
1. KWord becomes Calligra
1. KWord becomes Calligra Words and new maintainers.
By Sebastian Sauer at Tue, 2010/12/07 - 9:36am
I am not saying that the
I am not saying that the change is not positive. I really hope it will be! I just think that the way the news is brought, is not very transparent. I also think it is not very fair to bring it this way. Although differences in views on what should be the focus may be exist, and there may be personal issues, I think it would only be fair to recognize the efforts of all involved into bringing KOffice this far.
It has come to a clash and the conclusion that it would be better to continue in separate teams, as I have gathered now. To me, it is sad news that it has come to that, without placing blame anywhere. I do really hope that it will bring new energy to both ends of the fork, and that it will turn out to be a positive change in the end. We have seen more these events in the FOSS world in the past, like with X11 and more recenty with OpenOffice.org. For the first at least, I think the fork was beneficial. I hope the same will be true for Calligra Suite.
I would just have hoped that the Dot would have shown both sides of the story, and just be open that it was decided that a split would be the best way forward. The focus of both ends of the split could be shown. We are all adults here, right?
By andresomers at Tue, 2010/12/07 - 10:08am
No sense in harping on the past
The past is the past -- we decided not harp on it but leave it behind us in this announcement, figuring it wouldn't be very interesting or exciting. Except for one person, all the KOffice community is moving forward under this new umbrella, all excited to make Calligra the umbrella project for great and innovative productivity and artistic applications, on the desktop, on tablets, on phones -- everywhere. Words is already moving forward really rapidly, and next week there'll be a focused effort by the new maintainer, Camila Boemann, and the Calligra Words hackers to bring stability and performance to the text layout engine.
The main reason for choosing this name was actually that it sounds nice and relevant both for the office apps, as for the creative apps, karbon and krita, that were always a bit weirdly placed in the KOffice suite.
The main cause that made us think about a new name was an unfortunate situation in our community, and that's something we're really eager to leave behind us. Let's just leave it at that and have fun hacking on Calligra!
By Boudewijn Rempt at Tue, 2010/12/07 - 10:17am
Calligra is a very beautiful name!
Calligraphy (from Greek κάλλος kallos "beauty" + γραφή graphẽ "writing")
The word has a greek origin but is world wide used and sounds nice
I would like to be part of this efforce! Good luck!
By Ulisses Leitao at Tue, 2010/12/07 - 9:10am
You *can* be part of it!
KDE applications are always looking for more people to help out. I am sure that is no different for Calligra, and you'd be more than welcome to help out in any or all applications that are part of the suite.
By andresomers at Tue, 2010/12/07 - 9:14am
Oh yes!
We're trying to be a fun and welcoming community where everyone's contributions is respected and valued -- where beginners can learn a lot and everyone can have fun. So join us on #calligra on irc.freenode.net, or on the mailing list!
By Boudewijn Rempt at Tue, 2010/12/07 - 10:19am
By Sebastian Sauer at Tue, 2010/12/07 - 9:36am
Can someone explain what actually happened?
As far as I understand it you fork KOffice because of some disagreements with the maintainer of Kword. But what disagreements are this?
And why is the whole community switching instead of the maintainer just forking kword?
And will that mean that future kword and future words will share a common codebases until a certain level? Will there be a koffice basis for all three of them (New koffice, Calliga, Freoffice)?
Some Clarification would be nice.
PS: Who is maintainining the new words now and will there be more development in the future? I really like kword and would love to see it become more and more advanced.
By Rob at Tue, 2010/12/07 - 10:21am
Lots of questions... I really would prefer not to go into the details of what happened in the past. It's painful and not terribly useful.
The important thing is the way forward. Once we actually arrived at the point where we started thinking about a new name, we noticed we were having fun and that things started making sense, pieces falling into their place.
So, FreOffice is and will be based on Calligra; what will happen to the old KOffice codebase isn't certain. I doubt it will ever be possible to install both at the same time, and I expect that distributions will prefer to package Calligra Suite.
Camila Boemann is the new maintainer for Words. She has worked, together with Sebastian Sauer, Pierre Ducruquet and others for a long time now. And they're all on board. In the past month or so, in the koffice-essen feature branch, KWord^Words has already made big strides, though we still need to spend a lot of work on it.
By Boudewijn Rempt at Tue, 2010/12/07 - 11:40am
because of some
because of some disagreements
Not even close to. Please just accept that this is past and we already moved on.
And will that mean that future kword and future words will share a common codebases until a certain level?
Sure. We will see what can be done. I guess that's one of the very next steps.
Will there be a koffice basis for all three of them (New koffice, Calliga, Freoffice)?
I don't know about "New koffice" but Calligra will continue the mission-goals defined during the koffice 2 planing phase (in no particular order and probably incomplete).
By Sebastian Sauer at Tue, 2010/12/07 - 12:45pm
Website theming
Is there any plans or has it been thought of to start using the same website layout that kde.org and edu.kde.org use? The current one looks off as it is and shared effort is almost always a good thing.
About the news itself, I gotta to say that I like the names and hope the best for the project.
By teho at Tue, 2010/12/07 - 4:04pm
no there is no such plan.
no there is no such plan.
By cyrille at Wed, 2010/12/08 - 3:07pm
install.exe planned?
Personally I use KDE on Windows when I'm forced to work on this system, but it is far too complicated for non-user of linux. So I've never been able to advise KOffice to Windows users. Is an install.exe planned? I mean a very simple wizard wich install Calligra and only Calligra, with only the questions that are accustomed to Windows users:
Please, I wish I could recommend Calligra Suite to Windows users.
By idoric at Sun, 2010/12/12 - 10:54am


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I Want To Be That Guy
I was at a bar the other day, and it hit me. I know what I need to do.
I'm going to start working out more. Not just a little bit more, but a lot more. So much so that my arms become the size of Emanuel Lewis. My chest will be just as big, but I won't have abs. No, abs are for suckers. Because you can't get abs when you drink as often as I will.
But arms and drinking are not enough. With Emanuel Lewis-sized muscles, I'll need shorter sleeves. I'll buy shirts with sleeves so short, they will actually go the opposite way of normal sleeves, so that they rise up and cover my neck. No, that won't work – I won't have a neck to cover, because my bulbous shoulders will have out grown it. It won't matter – necks are for suckers.
So I'll instead buy shirts that don't even have sleeves. But not just any sleeveless shirts. Shirts that were designed to look like they once had sleeves, and my arms were just too big for them, and POP! The sleeves exploded, leaving fabric corpses strewn everywhere! But there won't really be fabric corpses strewn everywhere because these shirts will come without sleeves, remember? It's just a trick to make my arms look even bigger. Shhh, don't tell.
And I will take my best sleeveless shirt (which could be any of them because I won't care what it looks like as long as it doesn't have sleeves) and I'll wear it to a bar, even in the winter. Because I'm that tough. Cold won't hurt me! It will just make my nipples stand up on my muscle breasts, which look great in shirts that never had any sleeves, even though they look like they had sleeves. The shirts, not my muscle breasts.
I'll get to the bar, and alternate between ramming people I don't know with my bulbous shoulders and high-fiving acquaintances who act like they're my friend simply because I'm bigger than them. I would shake their hands, but the muscle mass on my shoulder blade will be so dense that it's difficult to do anything other than bench press or high-five. So dense, that I won't be able to touch my arms behind my back. Which will work to my advantage, since it will be hard for the police to handcuff me after I get arrested for constantly ramming people I don't know with my bulbous shoulders. High five!
But I need to make sure I don't forget the entire purpose for my Emanuel Lewis muscles – sex with stupid women. That's right, the whole reason I will work out three hours a day is because growing Webster muscles and wearing a previously-ripped shirt is the easiest way to have sex with stupid girls.
Once I'm that guy, I will no longer have game with smart girls. I will only be able to hit on utter idiots, who are distracted by puppies and shiny things and bare arms. And I'll hit on them by ignoring them when they're looking at me and grabbing their ass when they're not. It's a delicate game. I have to balance ignoring with the exact right amount of grabbass. Everyonce in a while, I will grabass too much and I lose the game, and sulk for the next two minutes before I set my sights and palms on someone else.
I will glare at any other guy that tries to talk to the girl whose ass I'm grabbing, especially if he's her boyfriend. And I will flex my muscles so much that my sleeves would have ripped off, if they hadn't already been removed by the factory. If I actually get introduced to another guy, I will grip his hand as if I was holding onto it to prevent myself from falling off a balcony when I was drunk, which I will have done. But it will take me a while to extend that grip because of my bulbous shoulders.
If the other guy has still not left yet, I may be required to have a conversation with him. This conversation will most likely consist of me saying my name and then grunting to any of his questions. I will be very proud to pronounce my own name correctly, having forgotten everything else I knew in favor of the correct way to do lateral squats. I will also have forgotten how funny the phrase "lateral squats" is.
I will eventually bore the other guy into leaving, at which point I will have sex with the dumb girl. It will be my right as a guy who doesn't wear sleeves. By then, her boyfriend will want to kick my ass, as will all the guys I will have been shouldering all night. But he can't because one of my arms will be bigger than he is, unless he is Emanuel Lewis, in which case he will be the same size. No one in the bar will be able to kick my ass. Well, one person. I will be so muscular, I'd probably be able to kick my own ass.
And if I ever get like that, I sincerely hope that I do.


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This tutorial will show you how to make a few simple verb commands for players to chat with each other, and to see who else is online.
If you haven't already read Tutorial #1 we recommend you begin there.
Creating a verb
A verb is the most basic form of player action in a BYOND game.
Step 1.1 To get started, lets first create a new Code File in our Tutorial Environment named "Verbs.dm"
Step 1.2 Add the following code:
Say(t as text)
view()<<"[src] says: [t]"
What does this do?
It creates a verb called "Say" that is available to all mobs by default.
When you activate this verb you will have to input the variable "t".
The "as text" part determines which input type you will be prompted with.
The verb then outputs "<<" to everyone in view of the player "view()" a message.
You can use brackets [] to easily enclose variables inside a text string.
In this case we enclosed src (the source object of the verb) and t (the message they typed).
We also put our own text " says: " to distinguish this from other chat methods.
Step 1.3 You can now run the game to see this in action (its always nice to see what you've wrote actually doing something =P)
Step 1.4 Lets create another verb, this time for outputting your message to the entire world (game server)
Say(t as text)
view()<<"[src] says: [t]"
//new code below
World_Say(t as text)
world<<"[src]: [t]"
As you can see the World_Say() verb is almost identical to the original Say() verb.
Lets look over the changes made:
The message is now output to "world", instead of to view().
HTML has been used to enhance the message that is output.
Step 1.5 Finally we will create a "Who" verb
Say(t as text)
view()<<"[src] says: [t]"
World_Say(t as text)
world<<"[src]: [t]"
//new code below
for(var/mob/Player/M in world)
src<<"[counter] Players Online"
What does it do? lets go line by line:
For starters, you can see this verb has no default input with it, no "t as text" type line
"var/counter=0" declares a local variable named "counter" and initializes it to the numerical value of 0
"for(var/mob/Player/M in world)" will loop through every mob/Player in the world, 1 by 1, assigning them to M
The next 2 lines are tabbed in under the for(), meaning they will happen each time the for() loop assigns a Player to M.
"counter+=1" will add 1 to the counter for each M found in world
"src<<"[M]"" will output M as text to the player, which will be whatever M's name is currently set to.
"src<<"[counter] Players Online"" will output the final count to the user of the verb. Since it is tabbed back out, it will execute only once, after the for() loop has finished.
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Robbie Williams has admitted he constantly needs reassurance that his new music is up to scratch.
The Take That star's last solo track Candy shot straight to the top of the UK charts.
But Robbie, 38, told TV Times he'd been bruised by the reception to some of his previous efforts.
"I need a second opinion, and a third, and a fourth, and a fifth," he said.
"Especially since I've been so excited about other stuff in the past and then sometimes it's not been a hit with the audience.
"Anybody passing my house gets dragged in and I'll say, 'Sit down and listen to these four songs'.
"The dustbin man and the gardener sit in the studio looking confused, going, 'yes it's brilliant, Mr Williams'."
Robbie admitted: "I drag everybody up there - it's really sad, ageing pop star stuff!"
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It seems like a theme in CONCACAF Champions League play: Real Salt Lake give up an early goal. They battle back, playing good soccer – not their best – but good enough. And then somehow they find out a way to get a result.
It's happened in every match to this point, with the exception of the Cruz Azul match on the sloppy pitch in Mexico City – but it nearly happened there as well.
As a result, RSL are 3-1-1 in CCL play and, with their 1-1 draw against Toronto FC at BMO Field on Tuesday night, have clinched a spot in the knockout stages. Salt Lake still top Group A, and can win it with a victory at home on Oct. 19 against Cruz Azul.
But perhaps the team's habit of coming from behind is more concerning to the fans – who hold their breath for the rest of the match – than it is for the players.
"We're not too worried about giving up the early goal," explained midfielder Andy Williams. "We have the mentality that if we don't worry about anything, don't force the issue, play our style of game and our play will speak for itself. Eventually, we'll get the goal."
On Tuesday, Javier Morales came on in the second half, playing in his first match in 19 days with his side trailing by a goal, and managed to accomplish something that no other Real Salt Lake player has: Score a goal in Toronto.
The equalizing strike was a wonderful free kick from just outside of the area in the 68th minute. Morales is one of the most capable in the league from that spot, and didn't disappoint, despite having been out for an extended period with a quadriceps strain.
The Argentine was able to get the ball up and over the wall, and headed toward the near post in a spot impossible for TFC 'keeper Jon Conway to cover.
Williams was impressed with the quality.
"To tell you the truth, he and I were fighting for the free kicks," said Williams. "A couple of days ago, he said he couldn't kick at all. It's a trust thing, and Javier's the No. 1 free-kick taker on our team. And if he says he wants to take it and is confident, then I have faith in him."
Coach Jason Kreis had put all in his eggs in this game's basket as he wanted to clinch a spot in the CCL knockout stages now rather than let it linger and have his team potentially require a victory against Cruz Azul at Rio Stadium. To come away with a loss would have been a failure.
For much of the match, it appeared the result wasn't going to come. Toronto chose a predictable approach against RSL, playing very compact defensively while giving the wings to the Salt Lake squad. They especially were intent on shutting down RSL striker Alvaro Saborio, who has been on a tear in Champions League action.
Toronto pounced quickly on a counterattack when given the chance, and put RSL down a goal after 20 minutes. Jacob Peterson's breakout goal in a one-on-one with Chris Wingert was disappointing to Kreis.
"We didn't take care of business like we normally do on a corner kick," the coach told ESPN 700 Sports Radio after the game. "If they put a player high up, we put one directly in front of them, and one directly behind them.
"And I felt like we didn't do that quite right. At the end of it all, Jacob Peterson made a nice individual play."
Kreis was, however, happy with the team's performance given the circumstances.
"We knew we were heading into a match with a lot of difficult circumstances, and a lot of baggage from the difficult travel situations," he said. "So I was very, very pleased that we could put just enough effort in to get the result and advance."
Real Salt Lake will now take a quick breath before heading into New England this weekend, and will now be able to focus on league play for the remainder of the season as they try to get a rhythm going prior to the start of the playoffs.


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Situated in the great natural beauty of the Argentario coast, with spectacular sandy beaches, clean sea and yachting clubs, this villa has been recently restored to offer all the best comforts for a relaxing holiday. Particular attention has been put on the outdoor area of the property, with pleasant spaces furnished with wicker sofas and gazebo for outdoor dining while enjoying spectacular sunsets with the Argentario and Giglio Island in the background.
Main features: 15 minutes from the beach, private country setting yet close to town for basic supplies and restaurants, Wi-Fi internet connection, mosquito screens, mosquito nets, Dolby Surround system in the TV room, satellite flat screen TV, i-pod dock station, stereo, CD and DVD player, Home Theatre.


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More than a week before Hurricane Sandy became a superstorm that would zero in on New York and New Jersey, while it was just a tropical depression bouncing around the Caribbean, the captain of the tall ship Picton Castle decided to play it safe and stay home.
It was scheduled to leave Nova Scotia on Oct. 22 but delayed by 12 days, said Susan Corkum-Greek, general manager of the ship's operator, Windward Isles Sailing Ship Co. Ltd.
Capt. Daniel Moreland thought it better to stay put than sail south while the storm could be churning north.
Another captain sailing roughly the same route headed out to sea instead. The HMS Bounty sailed dead into the path of Hurricane Sandy. Amid 30-foot waves, the diesel engines died and the ship took on water. The crew eventually abandoned ship, and the Bounty sank 90 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras on Oct. 29.
One crew member died. The captain was never found despite days of searching.
Next week, a federal safety panel will open a hearing into the fatal sinking of the Bounty - a replica 18th-century tall ship built for the 1962 film "Mutiny on the Bounty" and used in other seafaring dramas.
Investigators with the Coast Guard and the National Transportation Safety Board have scheduled eight days of testimony in Portsmouth, Va., to hear from crew members, people from the shipyard where the Bounty underwent work weeks before sinking, and captains of similar multi-mast sailing ships.
"It's really the first time the public will get a better understanding of what happened," said Ernest DelBuono, a retired Coast Guard commander who once inspected U.S. vessels. "This is a unique case because the person who probably everybody would like to hear from was a casualty. The captain is dead."
Capt. Robin Walbridge, 63, of St. Petersburg, Fla., is presumed dead after a three-day search failed to find him. Claudene Christian, 42, was confirmed dead. The Coast Guard rescued the other 14 crew members from two lifeboats while a strobe light atop the vessel's mast identified the wreck.
The hearings are an opportunity to hear from survivors and people who spoke to the captain before the ship left New London, Conn., for St. Petersburg, said DelBuono, now a crisis management consultant in Washington.
Moreland is expected to testify by phone from the South Pacific, where the Picton Castle is cruising. A likely line of questioning is what led to the decision to postpone while Sandy was still days away, Corkum-Greek said.
"There was no dissent among our team of mariners that postponing was the correct thing to do," Corkum-Greek said. "The safety of the ship and all hands is always the primary concern."
Coast Guard Cmdr. Kevin Carroll, the hearing's lead officer, is scheduled to open the hearings by questioning the Bounty's operators, the HMS Bounty Organization of East Setauket, N.Y. The organization's director, Tracie Simonin, did not respond to messages last week. She said in October that though Walbridge was aware of the hurricane's power, he thought he could steer clear of the worst.
The ship's Facebook page acknowledged the risk in the days before the sinking. "This will be a tough voyage," read one posting.
More than a day before the Bounty was lost, another post read: "Rest assured that the Bounty is safe and in very capable hands. Bounty's current voyage is a calculated decision ... The fact of the matter is ... A SHIP IS SAFER AT SEA THAN IN PORT!"
But another tall ship captain said he's mystified by what Walbridge was thinking.
Jan Miles, captain of the clipper ship Pride of Baltimore II, is scheduled to testify and said Walbridge apparently knew he was headed toward an unpredictable hurricane moving faster than his ship. He said he expects to be quizzed about piloting, operating norms, and decision-making on a tall ship.
The public also will hear from officials with Boothbay Harbor Shipyard in Maine, which posted on its blog less than three weeks before the Bounty sank that the ship had been undergoing minor repairs for about a month. The shipyard's president and other officials did not return calls seeking comment.
Some of the most dramatic testimony could come during the three-plus days designated for Bounty crew members, who did not return messages from The Associated Press. Survivors had agreed not to give interviews until the Coast Guard's findings are released, said Larry Jones of St. Augustine, Fla., the father of crew member John Jones.
But 12 of the 14 crew members sat down for a group interview with ABC News about a week after the ship sank.
Crew member Dan Cleveland told ABC he had been through two other hurricanes aboard the Bounty with Walbridge and "the ship was in great shape." But with dead engines and the ship taking on water, the crew waited for a relatively calm spell to clamber onto deck to abandon ship, crew member John Svendsen said.
"That was a very difficult decision," he said.
Coast Guard spokesman Chief Petty Officer Nyx Cangemi said a final report could still be months or years away.
Though the hearing isn't a criminal proceeding, any evidence of wrongdoing would be referred to federal prosecutors, Cangemi said. Witnesses will be under oath and have the right to be assisted by attorneys during testimony.
The testimony could lead to additional hearings or investigations, Cangemi said. "Whenever there's casualties involved, we just need to make sure we are doing our due diligence for the families and the victims."
Emery Dalesio can be reached at https://twitter.com/emerydalesio .


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Israel Today partners with US Christian media
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 | Jonathan David
At a time when all sorts of ground breaking and biblical activity is happening in Israel, there's a strong new connection between Israel and the United States. Israel Today, the only independent news agency in Israel run by Jewish believers in Yeshua (Jesus), has begun providing complimentary news service from the Holy Land to Christian radio stations in the United States.
Thus far, the complimentary audio news service from Israel Today has been a resounding success, and is now heard on over 120 Christian radio stations in the United States, reaching millions of listeners.
After 35 years of successful service in Israel's news industry, Israel Today is now able to provide daily news service that Christian radio listeners connect with and appreciate. The timing of the alliance appears to be perfect as more news of Israel's biblical past, present and future is unfolding right before our eyes as well as our ears.
"Israel Today is providing a professional news service that is helping our listeners learn more about the Holy Land," said John Geli of Life Talk Radio.
Dan Rosecrans of AM730 KDAZ said they "recently added Israel Today ... [and] It fits beautifully with our emphasis on the Holy Land and what is truly happening there. I love the daily updates that tell us the truth."
Horizon Radio has had "multiple listeners express gratitude for a daily Israel Today news update," said station manager Johnny Wall. "Keep up the great work!"
Family Life Radio's Amy Phillips said of the Israel Today updates that she was "very impressed with the quality of information that makes a different culture understandable."
But we didn't stop with radio! Israel Today has also teamed up with quality Christian and Messianic publications in the US to provide timely feature stories for their websites and magazines.
"Israel Today provides a unique and needed perspective on the news from the Middle East," said Joseph Farah, editor-in-chief of WorldNetDaily.
Ari Hauben of the Messianic Jewish Alliance of America (MJAA) added, "Our ministry is honored to use and promote the Israel Today articles on a continual basis. What a blessing!"


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The calendar is now sortable by category and by tag, both at the top of the calendar. You can use the button at the foot of the calendar to add this calendar to your own (Google, Apple, Timely etc). The print button at the top will print the page you're on. Clicking on the main calendar bar (top left) allows you to choose a date to jump to. PLEASE NOTE – where an event is marked as 'ALL DAY' it may be best to check with the organisers in case they have not submitted a start and/or end time to us …
To submit your event to the ECF calendar – click here. This will also enable you to submit your event to the International Rating Office for registration with FIDE if it is FIDE-rated or has a FIDE-rated section(s)* | For a PDF of the ECF Event Calendar (updated every 4-6 weeks) – click here (PDF updated May 8th 2020)
* English events or events covered by the ECF only, obviously …
Official FIDE events … http://www.fide.com/calendar … and the rest – worldwide chess events from the FIDE website – http://www.fide.com/calendar/tournaments.html
To submit your FIDE-rated event to the FIDE Events Calendar, click this link – https://www.fide.com/calendar/tournaments.html?view=calendar&task=uregister
A new badge system has been introduced whenever possible from 26/3/18 onwards. An amber wheelchair (below) means that the venue has at least some disability-friendly aspects, whereas a green wheelchair (also below) means it's particularly so. In all cases, but especially where no badge is evident, PLEASE contact the organisers for more details …
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All rounds of the North East Individual Championships will be rearranged after the public health situation re: Coronavirus improves
Contact: Tim Wall Email: email@example.com Web: http://foresthallchess.org.uk/ [MAP]
Three 6-round Swiss tournaments – Open, Major (Under 1975 FIDE / 170 ECF), Minor (Under 1700 FIDE / 140 ECF). Open to all players born in, or resident in, Northumberland, Tyne & Wear, Durham and Cleveland. Rounds to be played at the same venue on 3 Sundays in Spring 2020, 2 rounds per day. Round times: 10:30am-2:30pm, 3:30pm-7:30pm.
Time limit: All moves in 90 minutes, plus 30 seconds increment per move. All games will be FIDE-rated (Players will need to be ECF Gold members). There will be a combination of cash and non-cash prizes, to be announced in June 2019.
The winner of each section will additionally be awarded a trophy and receive a medal. There will be additional prizes for Best Rating Performance (compared to published grade/rating), Best Junior (Under 18) and Best Female Player in each tournament | Entry form
Contact: Noel Boustred Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Web: http://www.noelschess.weebly.com [MAP]
More prizes this year (being the 10th year) and – unlike other competitions – you can bring your own food and drink! Bacon sandwiches may be offered with tea and coffee. Minor U146 and Major U191 with July 2019 or Jan 2020 grades – you choose. £9 for ECF Silver and above members. 2nd and 3rd prizes doubled in each section with more than 20 people in | Entry form
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Four 9-round Swiss tournaments. Total prize fund – £5,500
Northumbria Masters Prizes – £1,000, £600, £400, £300, £200, £150
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Challengers (U2050, FIDE-rated) Prizes – £400, £200, £100
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Harrogate Chess Congress has more prizes this year being the 10th year and unlike other congresses you can bring your own food and drink. The venue is in beautiful grounds away from noise. An exciting part of Yorkshire with the MINOR Under 141 and MAJOR Under 171 – you choose your 2020 January or 2020 July grade and £9 discount for ECF members of Silver or above grade. 2nd prize, 3rd prize and grading prize double for each section with over 20 people in | Entry form
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Bower, Peter, Byford, Sarah, Barber, Julie, Beecham, Jennifer, Simpson, Sharon, Friedli, Karin, Corney, Roslyn, King, Michael and Harvey, Ian (2003) Meta-analysis of data on costs from trials of counselling in primary care: using individual patient data to overcome sample size limitations in economic analyses. British Medical Journal (BMJ), 326 (1247). pp. 1-6. ISSN 0959-8138 (Print), 0959-535X (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.326.7401.1247)


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UH Manoa Climate Research Center to Partner with TaiwanUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
International Pacific Research Center
The climate research center at UH Mānoa, the International Pacific Research Center (IPRC), has been approached by the National Taiwan University (NTU) in its efforts to create international partnerships in climate and weather research.
An exchange program for both faculty and graduate students is planned between NTU and the IPRC and the UH Meteorology Department. Initially the focus will be on NTU visits to the University of Hawaii: NTU faculty visits may range from one month to one year; NTU students will audit courses and participate in research at the IPRC, but receive their degree from NTU. The program could be in place as early as Spring 2008.
The partnership began in summer 2007 when NTU Atmospheric Science Department signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the IPRC and the Meteorology Department to collaborate in research on regional climate and the water cycle. Upon invitation by NTU, IPRC and Meteorology Department faculty traveled to Taipei in early November for a workshop to discuss the details of the partnership and the plans for the exchange program.
IPRC's mid-Pacific setting places it well to become a leader in climate and weather-related, collaborative research with Asian scientists and institutions. It is expected that more such IPRC exchange programs in climate research and education will follow with other Asian countries and regions.
The International Pacific Research Center (IPRC) of the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa, is a climate research center founded to gain greater understanding of the climate system and the nature and causes of climate variation in the Asia-Pacific region and how global climate changes may affect the region. Established under the "U.S.-Japan Common Agenda for Cooperation in Global Perspective" in October 1997, the IPRC is a collaborative effort between agencies in Japan and the United States.


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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — EU foreign ministers stressed the need Saturday for Russia to defuse tensions with Ukraine following a two-day informal meeting that ended with leaders insisting that all options remain on the table — including further sanctions.
Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt stressed the need for resolve in dealing with Moscow after it annexed the Crimean Peninsula in March — arguing that Russia had deviated from accepted norms. Unity among the 28 member states was critical.
"We should be very firm on international law and the rules that must apply," he said.
Bildt took it a step further, underscoring Western unease with the Crimean referendum, which was called just two weeks after Russian forces had overtaken the Ukrainian region. Ukraine and the West have rejected the vote and the annexation.
Bildt, who served as a mediator in the Balkan conflict, said that outsiders must start thinking about Russia's motives in the complex interplay of faith and power.
"We are having a profound debate on what is the nature of Russia ... I think it's pretty clear that Russia has changed in the last few years," he told reporters outside the session in Greece. "There is a new political mentality, at least from the Kremlin. They are intending to build up... an Orthodox bastion against the West."
Referring to a public rally last month in which Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke in front of a banner reading "Crimea is in my heart," Bildt said, "You have to ask yourself, what else is in his heart?"
Speaking just before the meeting got under way Friday, British Foreign Secretary William Hague urged EU partners to develop stricter sanctions for possible use against Russia should they become necessary. The EU has so far imposed sanctions against individuals.
The informal meeting involved just the 28 ministers, without the presence of assistants, to facilitate debate, in a tradition reaching back to 1974. Foreign ministers of EU candidate countries, as well as the chairman of the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs committee, were invited to join on Saturday, the final day of the meeting.
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The World War I Service Statement Cards, 1917-1919 (Department of Veterans Affairs), indexed by Washington Historical Records Project volunteers, are available and searchable online at the Washington Digital Archives.
Information contained in the records includes full name, serial number, race, place inducted, place of birth, unit assignments, ranks attained, engagements fought in, wounds received, dates served overseas, date of demobilization, and degree of disability (if any).
Choose Military Records from the drop down "Record Series" Menu. There are other Military Records online too. I searched for MASSEY and got these hits:
* Department of Veterans Affairs, World War I Service Statement Cards, 1917-1919 4
Pierce Military Records - 9 hits
* Snohomish Military Records - 11 hits
* Spokane County WWI Soldiers Miscellaneous Lists - 2 hits
* Washington State Department of Veterans' Affairs, Orting Soldiers' Home, Member Files, 1891-1987 - 4 hits
* Washington State Department of Veterans' Affairs, Veterans' Home - Retsil, Member Files, 1910-1977. - 1 hit


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(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner)
JPGB readers will of course remember the great American film Happy Gilmore in which Adam Sandler plays a hockey player who joins the pro golf tour in order to save his Grandma's house. Happy's nemesis, Shooter McGavin, employs a heckler to get under Happy's dome while golfing.
Happy, easily frustrated, loses his cool and gets beat up by Bob Barker.
So taking a page from the Shooter McGavin playbook, the left has given me a stalker of my own. David Safier, a retired teacher and blogger, has taken to spending his time playing the role of "Jeering Fan" to my Happy Gilmore. Safier blogs at Blog for Arizona, a multi-author blog of the Tucson left.
Some time ago, Safier claimed that I had simply manufactured a $9,700 per student revenue figure for the Arizona public school system. Making the assumption that Safier was open to evidence, I produced links to the Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction's Financial Report and the Arizona's legislature's research arm documenting the figure.
Chuck Essigs of the Arizona School Business Officials, not someone inclined to often agree with me on education policy, nevertheless had the intellectual honesty to admit that the full spending per pupil figure is around $9,500. Sadly, the response from Safier essentially amounted to putting his hands over his ears and muttering talking points from his teacher union pals. Something about lunch money for Twinkies getting into the revenue report. No word yet on how this nefarious twinkie money made it into the expenditure report.
The Tasty Magic * of the Arizona Left- We spend $6,000 per pupil-Nothing to see here-Move along
Slowly but surely BfA references morphed from "friend of the blog" to "right wing propagandist" and such. Ah well, no good deed goes unpunished. A little tour of the Arizona left wing echo chamber proved educational if not satisfying.
Safier has now blogged up a series about Florida, but can't get even the most basic facts straight. For instance, Safier tries to claim that the improvement in Florida's 4th grade reading scores began in 1994, before the reforms. If one visits the NAEP website, however, one learns that Florida's reading scores were 208, 205 and 207 in 1992, 1994 and 1998. On a 500 scale point test, the technical term for that is "as flat as the highway between Dallas and Fort Worth." Mere bouncing around with very low scores.
After 1998, however, scores increase to 214 in 2002, 218 in 2003, 219 in 2005 and 224 in 2007. A rough rule of thumb is that 10 points approximately equals a grade level worth of learning on NAEP exams. So during the 1992-98 period, scores dropped by a point. Between 1998 and 2007, they increased by 18 points.
So, the average Florida 4th grader is merely reading at a level almost two grade levels higher than Florida 4th graders were in 1998. Also, Florida's minority students began outscoring multiple statewide averages back in the early aughts. Nothing to see here! Move along!
In the imaginarium of Safier, the Florida reforms are advancing at the behest of a vast right wing conspiracy foisted upon an unsuspecting Arizona at the behest of the evil Dr. Ladner.
The truth is that other states have adopted Florida reforms, still others are considering adopting Florida reforms. The vast majority of people, regardless of ideology, want to see public school improvement. Sadly, some are so emotionally wedded to the idea that such improvement is only possible if we spend $30,000 a child that they make themselves look silly. Hopefully this crowd will eventually put on their big boy pants and join the adult conversation.
Until then, I guess they can continue to heckle from their self-imposed exile on the sidelines. In the end, Happy wins the tournament, gets the girl and saves Grandma's house. The heckler gets stood up by Shooter McGavin at the Red Lobster.


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FMF necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 366 diseños de 55 diseñadores freelance.
Free Money Finance
Free Money Finance (http://www.freemoneyfinance.com) is a four-year-old personal finance blog designed to help readers grow their net worths. While the site does have a header image, a professionally developed logo is long overdue. This contest will select one.
In addition to an icon and the brand name, the site's tagline "grow your net worth" should also be incorporated into the logo, though it should be small and unassuming – similar to the size it is on the header of the site currently.
Free Money Finance is written by a single author (with occasional guest posts and book excerpts) named "FMF". FMF details his thoughts on a wide range of personal finance topics (making more money, saving money, retirement planning, investing, etc.) and readers chime in with their thoughts, opinions, suggestions, and so forth. To get a more detailed feel of what the site is about, check out the site's archives here: http://www.freemoneyfinance.com/archives.html. In addition, you can browse around the various posts in the "About FMF" section on the right sidebar.
Free Money Finance is read by people looking to grow their net worths (manage their money more effectively) from all walks of life. They vary by age, sex, race, nation (though most are in the US), and so on, but the common thread is that they want to earn more, save more, and keep more of their money. Free Money Finance helps them do this.
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See the attached logo guidelines summary for all the logo requirements. I've included as much as 99 Designs would allow here:
I want a logo that has: 1) a symbol/icon of some sort, 2) the name of the brand (Free Money Finance) and 3) the tagline (Grow your net worth). If you look at the current site header, you'll see how all three are currently there.
There are three suggestions for the icon that I'll offer:
• some sort of a unique star – I post "Star Money Articles" – articles that I feel are unusually good – and hence a star makes sense in this context.
• a unique antique/skeleton key – I often write pieces titled something like "five keys to doing this or that".
• some sort of icon that suggests "growing your net worth". For one example, see my recent contest for the Best of Money Carnival (http://99designs.com/contests/22007). Design #64 is one way that "grow net worth" could be illustrated (a modern version of an increasing stock table).
These comments aside, I am open to new/different icons/treatments too, so don't let the above limit you if you think of something you believe works better.
I'd like to keep the green and yellow colors that are currently part of the logo at the top of the site, though I'm open to ideas/suggestions.
The logo should look good in color, white (on color background), & black.
The ultimate logo for the web needs to be lightweight.
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Anjelica Jackson
Anjelica Jackson '10 wanted to go to a really big school, far from home—until at her mother's urging she visited Washington College.
"From the moment I stepped onto campus, this felt like home," she says. "This is a very close-knit community of people who care about you—just like family."
Anjelica knows that family is the most important thing. A psychology major in the clinical/counseling track, she plans to pursue graduate studies in marriage and family counseling. She picked up a second major in business management, in anticipation of one day operating her own family counseling center.
"I see so many hurting people, especially in the family dynamics," says Anjelica. "You never realize how your family affects everything you do. Those relationships form the basis of who you are. I'd like to teach people how to be the best person they can be."
Her Washington College experience introduced her to those teaching tools. "I had the most amazing behavior modification class," she exclaims. "In the lab, we ran experiments modifying our own behavior, the behavior of our friends, and the behavior of a group."
During an internship at the American Psychological Association in Washington, DC, she also had the opportunity to meet some of the leading psychologists in the field. As an intern in the APA's minority fellowship program, Anjelica sat in on sessions focusing on research methods, grant writing and publishing. She also talked with family therapy professionals about career paths and collected some great contacts for graduate school applications.
And every day, she gets to practice making someone feel better. As a peer mentor, she helped first-year students settle into the routine of college life. "Everyone wants to know if they'll be homesick. I tell them yes, just like I was at first. Then I got involved—Campus Christian Fellowship, Black Student Union, the Honor Board, my job as an Admissions tour guide—and I've been busy ever since."
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Hometown and high school? Bowie, MD; Riverdale Baptist School.
Favorite class? Theories of Personality taught by Dr. Ralph Surette. I've had some amazing classes since I've been at WAC – there's no one semester that I can say that I haven't had at least one life-changing class. But there was something about the way that Dr. Surette taught this class. He didn't just teach theories of personality, he taught life experiences. TAKE THE CLASS. I promise it will change your life.
Recommended professor? Dr. Lauren Littlefield is among the rare breed of professors that truly cares about the students. She challenges you not only to be good, but to be better than you ever thought you could be, and she presents the information in a way that is practical and applicable to real life. Now that I think about it, that type of professor may not be common everywhere but they're definitely common at WAC.
Most memorable experience as a first-year student? One of my best friends, Tri, and I got to record a song (a legitimate song in a recording booth with background singers and everything). It was probably cruel and unusual to everyone we subjected to listening to it, but for us it was one of the most unforgettable experiences of our lives.
If you could be a condiment, which one would you be and why? Barbecue Sauce- I bring the flavor. If you don't know what I mean, just let it marinate.
If you had a superpower, what would it be and why? The ability to walk through walls. I'm kind of clumsy, so most of the time I'm running into walls :( I think it would be kind of nice to not run into them all the time.


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Must Have An iPhone 5 Right Now? Maybe Your Carrier Will Effectively Pay You To Leave
Good news, Apple fans: if you absolutely must have the iPhone 5 right now, take the time to do some math and talk to your current carrier. It might be cheaper to just break up with your carrier, pay the early termination fees, sell your existing phone (or phones, on a family plan) and get a subsidized phone from a new carrier. One customer discovered that this was the case: that AT&T would effectively be paying him to leave, since the price of upgrading was so high.
He wrote on Apple stock blog Bullish Cross:
During the process of figuring out whether everyone on my family plan is eligible for an iPhone 5 upgrade, I came to discover that only my line was eligible. That my other two lines would have to pay a $250 early upgrade fee in order to be eligible to purchase the iPhone 5 tonight.
But get this. Upon discovering that I had to pay $250 for both my wife and sister to get them iPhone 5′s, I inquired as to how much it would cost me to essentially cancel my account at AT&T and go to Verizon instead. I wasn't seriously considering leaving, but just sort of wanted to know out of curiosity what it would cost to not be under contract.
And this is precisely where AT&T completely and totally fails. This is why Apple is Apple and why AT&T is AT&T. For me to cancel the entire family plan and move to another carrier, it would only cost me $320.00.
So essentially, what AT&T told me today was that I can stay at AT&T and pay $500.00 to upgrade two of our iPhone 4S's to iPhone 5′s, OR I can leave AT&T pay $320 and then get the iPhone 5′s for the normal $199 price elsewhere. AT&T more or less told me that they would pay me $180.00 to go to Verizon. And no one would budge to fix this. I must have talked to at least six or so people at AT&T today until finally someone realize how idiotic this sounded and decided to pay me $173.82 (via account credits) not realizing that doing so put me under no obligation to hang around. I can leave anyways.
All I wanted AT&T to do was to give us 1 early upgrade for free. Since I could leave AT&T and save $180, it makes sense that they give me one $249.99 upgrade for free as an incentive to hang around. Instead, some idiot decided to just credit my account for $173.82.
But what did that do exactly? Pretty much nothing. They just paid me $173.82 as a parting gift. Now instead of having to pay $320.00 to cancel my contract with AT&T, I only have to pay $146.18. And do you know what? I have zero moral qualms leaving because they should do their own due diligence and realize that I'm not under any obligation whatsoever to hang around. That they just essentially paid me $173.82 for the hell of it. What they should do is figure out a much better system than saying, "you can pay $500 to stay with us or $320 to go to Verizon."
What they should have done is what I asked for. And that is to upgrade one of our lines for free. That way I can't screw them over. Now they're just inviting me to do so. Because I've generally been made whole, I'm inclined to want to stick around. But the fact that their system is so freaking broken, the only way to get them to fix it is to expose the problem.
No customer should ever be put in a situation where by canceling their contract, they get to save $180.00. What the hell is that? What kind of business is that? One of two things should have happened today. I should have either been able to upgrade two out of my three lines without any further investigation OR upon further investigation I should have come to find out that it would be far worse for me to leave AT&T. Why in the hell would they ever employ a system where I would have a $180.00 incentive bonus to leave AT&T? That doesn't make any sense at all.
So the moral of the story is this. When checking to find out whether you are eligible for an upgrade, you should always ask how much it would cost to just rip-up your contract and move on to another carrier. I can't imagine that I'm the only person in the U.S. where it would have been cheaper for me to cancel my service at AT&T than to upgrade to the iPhone 5 at Verizon.
How AT&T paid me $173.82 to go to Verizon [Bullish Cross] (Thanks, David!)
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Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany are expanding their beautiful brood.
The actors, who met while filming "A Beautiful Mind" and wed in 2003, are expecting their second baby together, People mag reported.
The pair is already raising their 7-year-old son Stellan, and Kai, 13, from Connelly's previous relationship with photographer David Dugan.
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The day's top national and international news.
"Parenthood changed the way I do everything," Connelly told the UK's Daily Mirror last year. "The biggest thing for me is wanting my kids to grow up safely and have happy lives. To me, that's enough."
News of the baby on the way comes two days after Connelly marked her 40th birthday, Usmagazine.com reported.


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Treading | Red Wing Iron Rangers Black Harness
Our love for the craftsmanship by the hand of Red Wing grows deeper with each encounter. Put through the toughest of paces, the Red Wing Iron Ranger's in Black Harness have the swagger for the meditatively formal and for the outright tough. Part of their Heritage collection, the No. 8114's are a cap toe boot made of Black Harness leather featuring an even more durable Nitrile cork sole. Channeling the classic with a 6″ ankle, its form is reminiscent of boots built with a nod to sophistication in comparison to its tactically inspired contemporaries. In conditions threatening the worst of outcomes, a light wash restores them to in-rank inspection passing status. Rakish attitudes may ensue. For a list of stockists, head over to Red Wing Heritage. More to come of the Iron Rangers on foreign soil.


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It had been a brutally hot summer. Sangiovese came up to me and announced, "I can't take it here anymore with you. There's too much tradition, it's too provincial and it's just too damn hot. I'm heading to the coast to live with Cabernet. I need someone strong and vibrant, and I need to feel the cool sea breeze between my leaves." And just like that, she was out of my life.
We had grown up together. We were inseparable. In the early days people said I was the one who had the character, the depth and the lasting power. But the years passed, and Sangiovese seized the ascendant spot in the relationship. I was content to fill in for her. She had the backbone and was favored among the local marcheses and nobles who saw in her a bright fire and an even brighter future.
She took very little with her. She was easily uprooted. I mourned through the dog days of an even more miserable August and limped to an uninspiring harvest along with some of my pals, Malvasia, Colorino, Trebbiano and Ciliegiolo.
I didn't know what to do with myself. I was always in the company of others, never a solo player. There was no in purezza in my vocabulary. I needed others.
Colorino occasionally asked me to join him and Malvasia for an evening out. We would sit and talk about the sweet old days. Malvasia was always so sympathetic. Ciliegiolo and Trebbiano would often join, trying to persuade me there was life after Sangiovese. "Just mark two years off the calendar," Ciliegiolo would say, "and when the day comes you'll never know she was even here." Easy for him to say. He was so strong, so versatile, so confident. I was not Ciliegiolo, though, and so I mourned and lamented the loss.
Time passed: autumn, winter and the issues of the seasons. When spring arrived, I'd poke my head out to see what was happening. It was quiet without Sangiovese. It was is if someone had drained all the blood out of me and left me standing in a field, like a dried up stalk waiting for death. I preferred the dread of winter to the promise of spring. But, alas I had no choice. I had to press on.
I heard from my cousin Grecchetto that she went to Umbria and took up with Montepulciano. They would vacation on the Adriatic in the Marche hills.
On a pilgrimage to Assisi, I ran into Sangiovese, in Torgiano. She was having a sip of water. She told me that Cabernet had kicked her out because she was too high spirited and strong willed. He wanted someone more supple, someone softer. And he ran into Merlot's arms and their affair is still going strong. I felt pity for her. She told me she needed warmth and softness, too, and so she found Montepulciano and they are living a wonderful life in Umbria and the Marche. I missed her, but I wasn't as raw as I had been years before. We said goodbye, and I ventured to Assisi before returning home to Tuscany.
And then one day, she blew back into town. She had the look of a wizened woman, the kind that are more attractive to older ones like me because they've gotten some character in those facial lines. Still, I guarded my heart. I was no young pup; I'd been around Tuscany for what seemed like ages.
"What are you doing here?" I asked her. "I grew tired of Montepulciano," she said, seeming tired, sad, even wilted. "He was too soft, too overbearing, too dependent on me. It was always the same vertical position and predictable finish. I needed something more."
"With Cabernet it was exciting, especially after all the years I had with you. You have to understand I needed to find out if that was for me. I was looking for deep love, for commitment, for something new. But Cabernet grew impatient with me, and Merlot was so comely and easy. I never had a chance.
"When I moved to Umbria, Montepulciano was a godsend. He was jovial and mellow, unlike his cousin, Sagrantino, who was so stiff and haughty. And Montepulciano was such a good dancer. But after some years, he grew so predictable that I thought to myself, 'Is that all there is?' And so I'm coming home to my place, to those I grew up with, hoping you would take me back."
I didn't know how to respond. So I told her, "Welcome back to your home. If I don't warm to your entreaty immediately it's not because I have stopped caring. But a lot of harvests have gone by the crusher, and I have made a life for myself. My friends and I have found a way to get through the snow and the hail and the frost and the blistering heat, together, while you were off living the life you wanted. You traveled. You saw the world. I heard you even lived in California for a time. And there was that period when you lived so scandalously in Montalcino. And now you want to come back here and act as if the last 20 years never existed? I'm not sure how to answer your pleas."
And with that I saw in her eyes the regret of someone who had made a youthful mistake and was now reckoning with its fruits. I still loved her, but I wasn't going to uproot my life. Not now. Not yet.
written and photographed (at Rosemary's)by Alfonso Cevola limited rights reserved On the Wine Trail in Italy
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A celebration of small
Artists have created miniature shops in Malmö, Sweden – the right size for a mouse. A tiny table and chairs stand in front of the Bistro Il Topolino (Italian for Mickey Mouse), and a miniature bicycle leans against the wall. The artist collective Anonymouse MMX says further such establishments will follow.


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Three decades after snowboarders barged their way onto the mountain, Shaun White is a household name and the sight of an iPod-wearing teenager carving turns down the hills of a family resort doesn't even raise an eyebrow.
Those are good things, industry leaders say, because snowboarding is now firmly entrenched in the mainstream it once disdained.
Those are bad things, those leaders also say, because snowboarding is susceptible to the same ups-and-downs other snow sports face - especially since the Great Recession hit in late 2007.
Recent studies by industry groups show snowboarding is no longer growing at the relentless pace that defined much of its first 30 years. Sales in 2011-12 fell between 19 and 31 percent, depending on the region of the country studied. Participation fell 7.5 percent nationwide.
Jake Burton, the man who perfected the modern-day snowboard and brought it to the masses back in the 1980s, recently sent a letter to his employees stating his concern about the trends but downplaying the well-circulated idea that snowboarding is losing its edge.
"I take exceptions to some of the comments and people trying to reach conclusions," Burton said in an interview with The Associated Press at the annual Snowsport Industries America Snow Show. "Last year was an incredibly rough year for snow sports in general. It just didn't snow anywhere across the country. Skiing took a hit. Snowboarding took a hit. Everyone took a hit."
Indeed, warm weather and light snowfall around the country caused a big downturn in snow sports; participation in alpine skiing also fell - by 11.4 percent, according to a study by RRC Associates, also known as the Kottke National End of the Season Survey.
Burton, however, also recognizes the need to be more active in bringing people into snowboarding.
"We were relying for so long on just this magnetism of snowboarding," he said. "Now, we've got to work harder to figure out how to get more kids in the products and more women into the sport. It's a wakeup call."
The SIA statistics show 65 percent of snowboarders are males, while 72 percent of the boys are between 13 and 34.
Eleven percent of skiers fall in the 6-12 age group, while that group makes up 10 percent of snowboarders.
There are no statistics for kids under 6. Burton wants to see on snowboards almost as soon as they can walk.
As the core group of Burton employees have grown older and had kids, they've looked for ways to realize that. Among them is a contraption called the riglet - essentially a leash that parents can attach to their young children's snowboards to keep them close and help them stay upright.
The snowboards themselves are being built smaller, geared for young children. New, kid-sized terrain parks are also being added at some resorts. The main message here: Snowboarding is hard to pick up and the industry has to do more to help kids get involved.
Another factor in snowboarding's lower numbers is that all the edgy pastimes that used to be exclusively for snowboarders have made their way into the ski world, as well. Skiers ride on halfpipes, go down slopestyle courses. The curvier, sidecut technology that was once unique to snowboards made its way to skis, as has much of the sensible, young-looking gear that used to be exclusively for snowboarders.
While White goes for his third straight gold medal in the halfpipe next year at the Sochi Olympics, he'll share the halfpipe with skiers, who will make their debut there. Slopestyle is being introduced for both snowboarding and skiing. In short, action sports are, more than ever, the domain of both skiers and snowboarders, not only the latter.
"I think there was a huge wave of popularity for snowboarding, probably a decade ago," said Chris Stiepock, the vice president of ESPN's X Games events. "Then, the ski technology changed, so you had twin tips and skiers could start to ski backward and go into jumps backward."
Tom Wallisch, the 2012 Winter X Games champion in skiing slopestyle, represents the highest level of a growing number of athletes who experimented on skateboards and snowboards as a kid, but eventually found he could enjoy all the same opportunities on skis.
"Skiing is the only thing I've ever been truly good at in my life," Wallisch said. "On skis is where I'm the best I can be. It's where I feel most comfortable."
Burton figures there's no use fighting that trend. Yes, he says, skiing has co-opted some of its advances from snowboarding.
"But what can we complain about?" Burton said. "Skiing gave us all these resorts. They gave us steel edges. We certainly grabbed our share from them."
The RRC Associates study caught the eye of many in the snowboarding industry and created some angst.
"Today, there is every indication that the growth in snowboarding we took for granted has stalled, and visitation from snowboarding is headed toward a path of substantial decline," wrote Nate Fristoe, RRC Associates director of operations, in the National Ski Areas Association Journal.
That triggered Burton's letter to the employees at his company, based in Burlington, Vt. Burton has between 40 percent and 70 percent of a market, depending on the sector, that's valued at somewhere between $500 million and $1 billion each year, depending on whether apparel is included in the math.
The message: No reason to panic.
"We just have to keep nurturing our sport and lifestyle as best we can," he wrote.
AP Sports Writer Pat Graham in Denver contributed to this report.