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The 27th annual UCLA powwow kicked off this spring as many powwows do: with a Gourd Dance. Half-a-dozen men circle a large drum, singing as they pound it with mallets. Next to them, in a circle of grass, four older men in dress shirts and pants, draped with blue and red blankets and crowned with fur caps, shake rattles and bounce to the rhythm. A couple dozen families and friends watch from beneath canopies rimming the arena.
Others mill about at food and craft booths. When the dance is done, one of them--actor Saginaw Grant--addresses the crowd.
"These songs are very old songs composed by different ones throughout the years," said Grand. "They're for everyone around this arena, even our relatives who aren't here today our loved ones these songs are for them. I feel I'm following in the steps of my elders. I've heard many times when they talk about this drum they say it's the heartbeat of our people."
The Gourd Dance comes from the Kiowa and Comanche tribes. The steps are minimal. But other powwow dances—the grass dance, the women's fancy shawl—are more intricate and showy.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the US government tried to suppress Indian dancing, but only succeeded in driving it underground. Today men from many tribes perform the gourd dance, like Manny Mandivill, a Vietnam vet from Arizona's Tohono O'odham tribe.
"When I go out there and dance, I dance with pride I want to make people feel inside that we're still thriving and we're getting stronger," said Mandivill.
Mandivill says he introduced his 17-year-old daughter to powwows to connect her with her Indian heritage, even though the dances come from the American Plains not the Southwest.
Powwows trace their origins to dances performed by social groups within and across various tribes of the plains, from north Dakota to eastern New Mexico. The dances were often shared among tribes. And many honored warriors. Historian Clyde Ellis of Elon University says many were revived during World War II as Indians sought to honor their servicemen.
"These moments of sending men off to service also encouraged the use of particular songs, prayers and rituals that had not been lost," said Ellis. "But they had not been practiced as much in the 19th century.
And after the government stopped suppressing the dances, they spread across the country.
"By the 30s and 40s these dance traditions begin to get exported as Indians for example begin to get automobiles and travel more widely," said Ellis. "And we begin to see a number of urban Indian association. Taking on powwows as a form of gathering that brings Indians together and allows them to share this inter-tribal ethic of singing and dancing."
By the 1950s, the majority of American Indians lived in cities. Powwows allowed people from various tribes to assert a collective indigenous identity.
Today, California is home to more American Indians than any other state and LA County boasts the nation's largest urban Indian population. Powwows like those held at Cal State Long Beach and the Morongo Casino can draw a lot of people.
Last year's Miss UCLA Powwow, Nora Pulskamp, is a Navajo woman who grew up in the San Fernando Valley.
"For the most part Navajo customs are kept in our homeland," said Pulskamp. "When my mom came out here she was introduced to the LA urban native community and it was being connected with them we started dancing. We went through the proper protocol of having someone sponsor and teach you."
Today as the Navajos, California Indian Casinos, and others sponsor powwows, new traditions are cropping up. With dainty hops and flowing gestures, Whitney Bower of the Cahuilla Indian Reservation performs a dance from a cycle that chronicles the history of Southern California's Cahuilla people.
Steven John Garcia is a member of the Tongva tribe. He's also part Apache and Yaqui from Mexico. Dressed for the powwow, he looks more like the Lakota family he married into: in a feathered headpiece, beaded collar, and deerskin loincloth and moccasins. Deer and elk hooves jangle around his ankles.
"Mostly what I have on is things given to me by a lot of my elders for the way I carry my life, the way I lead my life," said Garcia. "Whenever my uncles go hunting I say make sure you bring me those hooves. Everything I wear has a meaning to me. If you look at people, if you look at their outfits you see subtleties in where you're from. I'm definitely Northern traditional but I'm wearing this elk shoulder blade with a dolphin inlined with my tribal insignia--that's a Southern California symbol. "
As powwows have changed--doling out trophies and prize money, incorporating plastic beads and dancers indigenous to Mexico, even becoming popular in Germany--historian Clyde Ellis says some question their authenticity. "My answer is that it's an institution that from the very beginning collected all sorts of influences, there's no one way to do it," he said.
Chuck Narcho, a Tohono O'odham man who participated in the Indian occupation of Alcatraz, is aware of the contradictions but still frequents powwows. "It takes me back, I get lost, I think what it was like 200 years ago," he said. "I think what it was like way back when."
In many ways, American Indians have assimilated into white culture. But as Manny Mandivill said when talking about bringing his daughter to powwows: "There are two worlds: the white world and the Indian world. I want her to know both."


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David Giardina teams with pianist Paul Bisaccia in a program of music Chopin, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and Tin Pan Alley hits that were based on work by these composers. Guest starring cabaret legend Steve Ross and songwriter Bernie Bierman. Join the fun with "Simply Chopin and Friends".
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I was born, raised and live in the Vancouver area. Through my experience as a buyer, seller, renovator of real estate and investment property owner, combined with my work as a REALTOR®, I have the ability to see each transaction from every side of the coin.
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A big believer that everyone should feel good and function well, I feel strongly about helping others and really listening to their needs. Having made major changes in my own lifestyle in recent years, I understand those in transition with regard to their health and am ready to lend a helping hand (yes, I love puns). My calm and compassionate nature has grown out of my exposure in Japan to meditation and Zen Buddhism.
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I graduated from McGill and lived in Japan for several years before returning home to Montreal to raise my family. After working for a non-profit and then in the health and wellness industry, I found my passion in massage therapy. I am a graduate of Kiné- Concept, a very respected massage school, and I continue to take a variety of courses in order to add to my toolbox.
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Dubai, July 31st, 2014: Flytxt, a market leader in providing analytics-driven real-time, integrated, closed-loop campaign management platforms for Communication Service Providers (CSPs), announced today that it has gone live at 3 MTN Markets in Africa. Flytxt has signed a group-level partnership with MTN to deploy its real-time, on-trigger decisioning and customer engagement solution across its group operations in EMEA region. With this roll out, Flytxt platform is live in Ghana, Rwanda, Guinea Conakry, Uganda and Zambia.
Pieter Verkade, Group Commercial Officer, MTN commented "Flytxt platform has gone live in 3 markets in last two weeks; we appreciate Flytxt team for supporting our aggressive roll out plans. Flytxt's real-time decisioning and customer engagement platform enables us to have more informed interaction with our customers and at the right time too, further enhancing their network experience."
Prateek Kapadia, CTO, Flytxt while speaking on the occasion said "Telcos are some of the largest and most complex IT environments for deploying analytics platforms as they have varied data sources, and volumes, running into many terabytes with millions of real-time events every day. Our deployments usually span 4 to 8 weeks; depending on the scale and scope of implementation. We could deliver our solution faster in MTN markets, thanks to their clarity on business objectives and proactive implementation support. It is also a reflection of the robust carrier-grade plug-and-play architecture of the platform and our trained field presence with rich domain expertise."
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If you\'re new to therianthropy, it\'s worth a read. If you\'re not, read it anyhow to find out how we respectfully welcome new folks to the community.
Welcome to Werelist. This is a safe and welcoming place for anyone who is prepared to be honest and thoughtful about who they are and why they are here. If you're new to therianthropy, it's okay to share honestly about your feelings and experiences and not worry that people will make fun of you for not knowing some stuff. This is a place for mature adults, and even though we do let younger folks on board, mature adult behavior is absolutely expected. We'll do our best to help you learn how to live up to that. We know it can be a tall order, sometimes especially for us "animal people", but we're here to help.
One of the most important things about growing up and learning to be an adult is to control your impulses and your behavior. It's no different for therians than for other people. Regular people who don't have an animal side sometimes get mad and want to punch people in the face, or want to take an item off the store shelf they can't afford to pay for. But part of growing up and not acting like a little child any more is learning to exercise basic self control over your impulses. There are consequences to acting out in ways that are harmful, annoying or disturbing to other people, and it is the behavior of a mature adult therianthrope to think about those consequences before acting out.
Always remember that therianthropy is a reason but it's not an excuse. That means we really do understand if you have a wolf inside you that makes you feel angry or violent, or a deer that wants to run and jump on the freeway, or a big cat that wants to snarl at people. But it is completely up to you to decide how your real human self physically acts. Some things that you may feel that you want to do are really not a good idea for an animal that happens to be living in a human body. In fact they're pretty stupid ideas, and it's not cool or admirable or True-Were behavior to do them anyway because you'd be more like your animal that way. Reality check: you live in a human body now. Deal with it. We\'re here to help. We\'re dealing with it too.
Whether you like it much or not, you are human in this lifetime. You can either learn to cope with that successfully, or you will fail at life. Whatever you believe your purpose is in this lifetime, I hope it is not to fail and to be permanently unhappy because you can't adjust or cope. You really can, even if you feel very deeply that you're trapped in the wrong body. There are lessons to be learned here and gifts to be appreciated. How you end up coping and adjusting is up to you. Some people find comfort in religious or spiritual beliefs or practices. Others prefer science. There is no one right answer, other than what helps you personally to grow and mature and become the best person you can be regardless of your current set of limitations.
If you do destructive, violent, harmful or socially unacceptable things because "your wereside made you do it", you will have a hard time being a self-supporting adult who can cope successfully in the real world. It really is possible to be a fully integrated adult therian and be sane, stable, successful, responsible, self-supporting and genuinely happy. There's a lot of us older folk on board who've been there done that, and some of us started pretty much right where you are now. While nobody online can (or should) tell you exactly how to live your life, you might be able to get a few good ideas for yourself from the roads we've traveled if they're similar to your own.
It was pretty neat finding out you weren't alone in the world, and that there were other people who felt just like you about really being an animal on the inside. Reaching out to those other people may feel very important to you right now. But please remember that not all those other people you will find online are necessarily good people, or smart people, or mature people. I guarantee you will run into people who are telling stories to make themselves feel more important and to get power over other people. You will also run into people who really mean well and believe they can help people, but who are too young to give good advice or set themselves up as "pack leaders". You will meet roleplayers who don't believe a word they are saying, but are only playing games online to have fun with people. Learn to recognize the warning signs of an unhealthy group or individual here: http://archive.werelist.com/modules7734.html?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=47
If you are a minor you need to be especially careful. Not only can you be in danger yourself from people who want to take advantage of you because they think they are bigger and smarter than you (and they aren't always, even if they are older), but you can be a danger to others. If you engage in adult activities on a site belonging to someone who isn't a minor, or with someone who isn't a minor, that person and possibly the site owner could get in real legal trouble. Don't, please, repay our hospitality here on Werelist by getting people in trouble and ruining things for everybody. I know it isn't fair, but wait until you're legal (by your local definition of legal) to talk about adult subjects here. Werelist really isn't for explicit stuff anyway, so it's not like you would find any porn even in a forum or thread here that was set aside for adults and adult issues. We would deeply regret losing you as a member if you did something that put us at risk, but we would have to do it to protect everyone else on the site.
We already think you're special and nifty just as you are. It's not necessary to make up fantasy stories, or to exaggerate experiences you've had, or to play a role, or really to be anybody but who you are. Once again we'd hate to lose you as a member if you felt like you had to tell stories or play a role to be liked, but we might have to do it to protect other people from being told stuff that wasn't true or healthy to believe. Just be honest about what you think and how you feel, and how you came to those conclusions.
We really value good critical thinking and logic. That doesn't mean we think it is cool to bash other people's beliefs or refuse to believe in anything spiritual or "magical". We do think it is important to think long and hard about the stuff you believe and why you believe it, and look for the best supporting evidence you can find before jumping to conclusions. Before deciding there is definitely a supernatural reason for something, think hard about all the possible natural reasons, even if it's more fun to believe (and to tell other people) that you're having a special supernatural experience. Gently encouraging healthy skepticism in yourself and others is good; being mean about other people's beliefs isn't. Keeping an open mind is good, keeping it so far open that anybody can use it as a trash receptacle isn't.
There are no wise old gurus, Grand High Pooh-Bahs or alpha pack leaders on Werelist. Run away from anyone who makes claims like that; they probably don't have your best interests in mind. We have helpstaff whose job it is to be helpful. Think of us as janitors and librarians who keep the place tidy and in order so everyone can get the best use of it. Sometimes we need to say "shhh" if people are being disruptive in the library, or even ask someone to leave if they are making it unpleasant or unsafe for other people to use the library. But mostly we're here to help people, even if we need to remind you of the rules and of your agreement to do your best to be a responsible adult member of Werelist.
So welcome, we're glad to have you on board. We hope you enjoy your stay.


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Using Spell study mode, students can review and test their vocabulary knowledge and "type what they hear" when they hear the audio. Users can also set up Quizlet to read descriptions of an object and have the student identify what it is that they hear labeled. Listening to audio allows students with accessibility challenges to participate and for all students to strengthen their listening skills.
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Quizlet.com | How Can Teachers Use Quizlet
A step-by-step guide to setting up your class on Quizlet
Edshelf.com | Quizlet Review
Video: Educator's overview of Quizlet used for a secondary English class
Ditchthattextbook.com | Game Show Classrooms
Educator's review of Quizlet, Kahoot and Quizalize features
PCMag.com | Quizlet Review
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Oct 8 - Fitch Ratings has published a new report that examines the financialperformance of the U.S. Commercial Auto Insurance Industry and the 20 largestmarket participants.
'Commercial auto insurance is not only the fourth largest commercial linesinsurance segment, but also is a barometer for performance in the broadercommercial insurance market' said Jim Auden, Managing Director in Fitch's NorthAmerican Insurance Group.
Commercial auto insurance has exhibited more consistent underwriting resultsrelative to other commercial lines, and has generated better results relative tothe much larger personal auto segment over the last five years. However, anextended period of declining premium rates and insured exposure declines fromthe economic downturn promoted deterioration in commercial auto underwritingperformance.
The commercial auto segment reverted to a calendar year underwriting loss forthe first time in nine years with a combined ratio of 103.6% in 2011. Fitchnotes that market fundamentals for commercial auto insurance are improving and areturn to a statutory underwriting profit is projected for the segment in 2013.
The report includes a comparison of commercial auto statutory results for thesegment's top 20 writers that reveals wide variation in individual companies'underwriting performance in the commercial auto insurance space.
The full report 'Commercial Auto Market Update' is available at'.'
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Netflix updates iOS app to accomodate wider screen on Apple iPhone 5 when in landscape mode
Slowly but surely, developers are getting around to updating their apps to fit the new screen dimensions of the 6th generation of the Apple iPhone. Yesterday, Instagram was updated and some iOS games have also been reworked to fir the new 4 inch screen of the device. Getting back to Netflix, version 2.4 also makes it easier to search and browse for movies and television shows.
The updated Netflix app is now available at the App Store.
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Before I dive into the specifics, it's important to note that you must create a Google My Business profile first if you don't have one or claim an existing one! Our previous blog covers the initial steps you need to take.
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Let's break each of them down:
- Home. Similar to home pages on other sites, the GMB home page is where you can see an overview of your business listings and take a quick look at customer photos and your posts.
- Posts. This is where you'll add new posts to your Google My Business listings.
- Info. When you need to update your business information, you'll need to click the info button. You can change the basic information, such as the business name, address and phone number as well as the hours of operation and attributes.
- Insights. Data is important to businesses, which is why the insights section exists! This allows you to view how your business is doing based on searches and viewers. Check out this detailed walk-through if you want to learn more!
- Reviews. Reviews can make or break your business, but Google My Business allows you to easily manage your reviews in one spot. It even separates them by new reviews, ones that have been replied to and those that are waiting for a response.
- Messaging. Communicate with your customers through the Google My Business app! You'll be able to manage your listings and respond to messages or questions from your customers.
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A few years ago, after I graduated from college, I found myself wedged in a tight spot. I didn't know whether to continue with higher education or get a job and start a career. Up until this point, sports had been the center of my life and here it was, the moment where golden dreams were beginning to be replaced by gray cubicles and black desk chairs.
I wasn't ready for it, I'm still not ready to give up the colorful talent in me. I needed more time. A break. A break from school and adulthood. I never had the chance to explore my creativity. Sure, I took elective courses, but I never went after my passion. I was stuck in a routine: Go to school, practice basketball, run track, and study. I had been doing this my entire life. I never thought my time would run out or things would change.
You know, senior year of college is funny, it is like you are man child or woman child. You can't believe it, you are now an adult, a real living adult, with soon to have adult problems and responsibilities. There is a decision that you will have to make. What are you going to do next?
Many people will tell you to keep continuing with school. "Go get your masters," the demands of old women who work as Walmart cashiers said to me while they handed me coins, "Get a full-time job with great benefits like your father," my grandma said. My dad pressured me to apply to Law school. I checked out the LSAT textbook from my local library, I soon realized this wasn't my type of higher learning. My mother wanted me to teach and coach basketball at my former high school. I couldn't accept that. In my mind, if I did any of those things I would be settling. I wanted more: I wanted the sky.
I didn't want to let my parents down. My mother worked for the State, she had her masters in Chemistry and my father worked for the Federal government. They had work hard for the life they had provided my sister and I, to be the generation that didn't exceed their parents screamed failure.
While I was contemplating, I saw other people accomplishing their dreams. The years 2014 and 2015, was the rise of the social media stars. I knew people who were becoming legit models, playing basketball overseas, becoming doctors due to networking and self-marketing. I was behind the ball.
My undeveloped and unfinished craft curdled inside of me. Too old to follow the pursuits I had as a young girl, I felt jealous. A jealousy that I knew well; I missed out. Was it jealousy or was it really fear. I was more than capable of banking on my potential, but the other side of me knew I didn't want to struggle- or did I not want to do the work? Both. I wasn't ready for the opportunity that presented so wallowed in self- doubt.
That summer, after I graduated, I became a couch potato suffering from another injury. I loathed around the house, eating and moaning like a zombie. My mother tried to keep me motivated, but it failed. I was unreachable. She must have had enough of me, one day, while I was flipping through the tv, my mother placed a worn red journal on my lap. My old journal. I opened it and the first page jumped out at me. I had written at the top of the page:
When I grow up I want to be….
The 5 things I wrote on that page stared at me like I didn't write them! I stared back at what I had written. I wrote that when I was nine! The nine- year- old me had more confidence than I had when I was 23. None of the things listed was I actively pursuing. The ones I did pursue, I took it lightly. As I read the next pages of my journal, a memory came to me, a memory that must have been repressed in my mind.
I remember, A few days before graduation, I was at a food court grabbing some sandwiches after my shift at the River's Club in Pittsburgh. I ran into my teammate's mother. When she was my age, she had worked at the River's Club too. She embraced me. When she let me go, she asked what was I going to do. I shrugged my shoulders and babbled. She must've known I was scared. She sighed, her shoulders relaxed. She looked at me and said, "Vianka, take your time, you have your whole life ahead of you, don't work now, live." She paused and gave me another smile and continued, "You have the rest of your life to do what you like, I wish I would have took my time, when I was your age." I replied in the same positive energy she gave me.
We talked about the highs and lows of the basketball season then said our goodbyes. I watched her walk out hand in hand with her husband through the double doors to Grant Street. That memory that came to me on the couch and those dreams I wrote when I was a child marched to the forefront of my mind. First thing I needed to was go back to my first dream. From that day, on my couch with a torn MCL and a fractured tibia, I told myself I would follow my passion no matter what and I have been doing just that. The answers is your passion.


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How to Grow Mushrooms With Perlite
Mushrooms add flavor and character to recipes around the world. Some varieties of edible mushrooms such as the shiitake (Lentinus edodes) are available at grocery stores, but some people prefer to grow mushrooms at home. The process is simple when you start with pre-inoculated mushroom "cakes" available from suppliers on the Internet and moisture-retentive perlite, which maintains the moist environment necessary when growing mushrooms.
Place a terrarium in a location out of direct sunlight. Remove the lid from the terrarium and place it to the side.
Pour perlite into the bottom of the terrarium. Continue adding perlite until there is an even 1-inch layer across the bottom of the terrarium. Check the depth with a ruler.
Pour 1/2 inch of water into the terrarium. Do not add more than this amount; the perlite along the top of the layer should be moist but not wet.
Place the mushroom cakes on the perlite. Space the cakes out based on the number you have or personal preference but leave space between each cake for air to circulate and mushrooms to grow along the cake sides.
Place the lid on the terrarium. Remove the top from the terrarium once a day and fan the air in the terrarium to remove any buildup of carbon dioxide. Add water to the terrarium when the level drops below 1/2 inch. Pour the water in along the edge to prevent saturating the perlite and mushroom cakes.
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Darlene Koontz has been selected as the next superintendent of Lassen Volcanic National Park in northern California, it was announced today by National Park Service (NPS) Pacific West Regional Director Jonathan B. Jarvis.
Koontz is expected to begin her leadership role at Lassen in early October. She replaces Mary Martin who recently retired.
"I am impressed with Darlene's broad experience," Jarvis said in making the appointment. "She gets high marks for working with communities and partners, for supporting her staff, and for solving complex issues."
Koontz will be moving from Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico where she has been the superintendent for the past four years. Best known for mesas, sheer-walled canyons, and several thousand ancestral Pueblo dwellings found among them, Bandelier also includes over 23,000 acres of designated Wilderness. Archeological sites in Frijoles Canyon were inhabited from the 1100s into the mid-1500s, and earlier groups had used the area for thousands of years.
As superintendent at Bandelier, she led efforts in planning for a major visitor center renovation, completed the park's Fire Management Plan, reestablished the prescribed fire program, and opened a major unit of the park for public access.
Prior to moving to Bandelier, Koontz served as an NPS Bevinetto Fellow in Washington, D.C. In that position she was assigned to the subcommittee on National Parks, Historic Preservation and Recreation and the NPS Legislative and Congressional Affairs office where she was involved in reviewing, analyzing, and drafting bureau legislation.
Koontz, a 27-year veteran of the NPS, has served around the country in places such as Everglades National Park in south Florida as a backcountry ranger, Cumberland Island National Seashore off the coast of Georgia in interpretation and visitor services, as superintendent at Grant Kohrs Ranch in Montana, and as an instructor at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Brunswick, Georgia.
"There are many things I like about being a superintendent of a National Park, one being the opportunity to meet and work with local communities, the park Friends group, other agencies and park employees. I'm also excited about working with the staff and the opening of the new visitor center," Koontz said.
She is a graduate of North Carolina State University with a forestry degree. She and her husband, Chip Davis, who works for the NPS Washington Office of Law Enforcement and Emergency Services, are looking forward to moving to Northern California and exploring this area.
Editor's Note: Koontz can be reached for interviews at Bandelier National Monument at 505-672-3861, ext 501, until the end of September.
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I am sure over the last month or so we have all heard that Apple are releasing two new iPhones. I am a loyal Apple follower and can't break away from my iPhone or iPad. I have tried a windows phone but kept going back to my faithful iPhone.
I have just finished following the Apple Live Expo; I have to say 'I want!'
I am not sure what I expected to be honest, I didn't expect too much more from the iPhone 5s and expected little from the rumoured iPhone 5c.
iPhone 5C
The new entry-level iPhone 5C is smaller than the current iPhone 5 but with a 4-inch retina display that has an integrated touch screen it can't help but be a pleaser! For the individuals out there it comes in a variety of colours which include Green, yellow, blue, white and red.
The entire back and sides are made from one piece of hard-coated polycarbonate, no seams, part lines or joints. There is a cool range of cases which have been designed around the cameras and flash.
The iPhone 5C is powered by an A6 and has an 8MP iSight camera.
It's simpler, more capable and more colourful and even though it can't give me what my current iPhone can it is cool!
iPhone 5s
The iPhone 5S has so much more than the iPhone 5. We have seen three new colours Gold, silver and space grey! What's 'space grey' about? Anyway, it's made of a high-grade aluminium with cut chamfered edges.
It contains the A7 chip! A 64-bit chip. The first ever of any kind. This will be amazing to see in action and will have Xcode support. It is backwards-compatible, 32 and 64-bit and will Run 32-bit and 64 bit apps.
The CPU performance is 40 times faster than the original iPhone! After we heard that the new game performance has to keep up with games that have four times the detail, I am not surprised it is so much faster.
There's a new part called M7, that works alongside the A7. It's a motion co-processor. It measures motion data continuously; accelerometer, gyroscope, compass support, it enables a new generation of health and fitness apps. It basically uses the M7 chip and GPS to keep track of the activities you're doing.
Battery life is always important. It has been said that it will give 10 hours 3G talk time, 250 hours standby, 10 hours LTE browsing and 40 hours music playback. We shall see!!!
The new camera has a 5 element Apple designed lens. I love my iPhone for taking pictures and with the new 15% larger active sensor area I am hoping to take my limited photography skills to the next level! There are a lot of auto editing updates; it will automatically set white balance, exposure level and autofocus. There's a new flash called True Tone. It has auto image stabilization and digital stabilization.
Touch ID is now official on the 5S. This is such a cool feature! The fingerprint sensor is built right into the home button, around the button is a stainless steel detection ring, it can detect that your finger is actually on the button, so you don't have to press it. As it's built-in, you can make iTunes purchases by using your finger to authenticate. It can read multiple fingerprints. The fingerprint is never stored on Apple servers or backed up to iCLoud. At the moment the 5C is available in 16GB £469 and the 32GB £549. The 5s starts from £549 for a 16GB and goes up to £709 for a 64GB. These are Apple prices and obviously companies will be working on their contracts and prices as I type!
The 5C will be available for pre-order on Sept 13th. The 5S and 5C will also be available on Sept 20th in stores in the UK.
I am overall impressed with both and look forward to seeing if they hold up to my expectations!


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City Room is pleased to announce the availability of this great room in a fantastic location. A short walk from Hoxton Station, great for travel across the city, however most of Zone 1 is within walking distance. Hoxton is the heart of all things Hipster here in London, you will find many pop-ups, exhibitions and other fashion crazed occurring in the area. A short walk along the famous Kingsland Road leads to the Kingsland basin. The basin is a rest point for river boats travelling around London via the Regents Canal, it is surrounded by bars and restaurants and is a great place to be near for the summer.
This is a modern double room single use, is well-presented and is totally furnished.
* Nice double room for one person only.
* Fully fitted Kitchen and common bathroom.
* Comfortable (easy to clean) wooden laminate flooring.
* All bills inclusive - council tax, water, electricity & gas (subject to usage).
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And the award for headline with the most uses of the word "game" goes to…
According to IGN they have learned from "multiple sources" that Telltale Games next project will be none other than George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones.
It's unclear as to whether this refers to the television program Game of Thrones or the first book in the Song of Fire and Ice series. If that's confusing for you let me fill you in: the series of books which the TV program is based on is not called Game of Thrones, it's called The Song of Fire and Ice, of which The Game of Thrones is first book. This means that Telltale's game could either be based on the existing TV show, or will follow the books, presumably with each season covering one book.
Regardless of which it is it's an interesting rumour, and Martin's complex world would certainly seem to fit Telltale's template, providing plenty of opportunities for compelling decisions and rich characterization. It's also worth noting that Martin's books are famous for having each chapter written from the viewpoint of a different character, and that Telltale tried something very similiar in their recent Walking Dead 400 Days DLC.
IGN reached out to Telltale and received this response:
"We get these sorts of rumors about what we could be working on next cropping up all the time. Officially we have no comment."
As with any rumour it's best to take this with a hearty pinch of salt, but no doubt the idea along will have gamers everywhere salivating, and rightfully so.
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Who need Obamacare when you've got CHENEYCARE!
Such compassion for one's fellow carbon-based life-form!
Here let his Primary Physician explain:
Yes Dick got the best of care for his heart
which is more than he extended to anyone else's.
Or to put it another way –
Yes Dick would have been right at home at Bray
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Writing on Fast Company, Farhad Manjoo says that not long ago, he got his hands on "one of the slowest, ugliest, and least-user-friendly Macintosh laptops the world has ever seen" — and he loves it, since it sports a couple of features that others can't match. It's tinier and lighter than Apple's (s aapl) pricey MacBook Air, and even better, having cost him only about $500, a third of Apple's tariff for the most inexpensive Air.
This laptop is of course a "Hackintosh" — specifically a 9-inch Dell netbook Farhad has hacked to run Apple's Mac OS X. He notes that since Apple adapted its elegant OS to run on Intel's (s intc) processors, hackers have been diligently breaking down the walls between Macs and PCs.
My daughter, a lifelong Mac fanatic, is one of them, having been happily running OS X — currently Leopard — on a 2.6 GHz Pentium 4 desktop box for the past three years and finding it more than satisfactory. I've tried out this machine, and it's impressively fast. However, my daughter is an accomplished computer tech who's been able to deal with the necessary tweaking and technical tedium of getting OS X up and running reliably on her bargain basement Dell.
Not for the Faint of Heart
Farhad Manjoo notes that, no surprise, Apple doesn't look kindly on the Hackintosh movement, but this evidently hasn't slowed the movement's momentum, and Mac hackers, some on constrained budgets like my daughter, have discovered that they can build precisely the features and products they want into a custom desktop or laptop model of a type and price point Apple doesn't choose to offer and save a boatload of money in the process.
"We don't know how to make a $500 computer that's not a piece of junk, and our DNA will not let us ship that," CEO Steve Jobs observed last October. That may be all well and good, but there are an awful lot of folks out there these days who want a $500 computer, or indeed in today's snakebit economy simply can't afford a higher price of entry, or who really want a netbook-sized laptop, which is one of the market categories Apple has chosen not to serve, at least yet. And its an exaggeration to insist that all sub-$500 computers are necessarily "junk." Legions of satisfied netbook users contend otherwise.
Manjoo warns, and my daughter's experience underscores this, that Mac hacking is not for dilettantes or the faint-hearted, and there are plenty of potential technical hurdles and pitfalls to be overcome, but there is support available from the fraternity (and in some instances sorority) of experts populating online forums who've probably encountered — and solved — the problems that may be your current stumbling-blocks.
But is it Ethical
There is of course the ethics question. Installing OS X on a non-Apple computer is a direct violation of Apple's End User Licensing Agreement. My daughter has been encouraging me to get a PC laptop and let her install OS X on it for me, but while I profoundly disagree with the thrust, extent, and spirit of current copyright regulations, especially the execrable and draconian DCMA, it's still the law, which I personally prefer to stay on the right side of, although I don't pass any judgment on those who are exercising civil disobedience against what they (and I) consider unjustly excessive intellectual property end user restrictions.
I also understand and appreciate that if Apple were to have a change of heart and authorize the Mac OS for installation on non-Apple PC hardware, it could very well spell the end of Apple-branded computers. This very nearly happened in the mid-'90s with previous Apple CEO Gil Amelio's near catastrophic experiment with Mac OS licensing to third-party clonemakers. The latter made some very attractive machines. I still have a UMAX SuperMac S-900 that was a formidable piece of work in the context of the era, in many ways outdoing the Apple PowerMac 9500 and 9600 that competed against it at higher prices.
So this is definitely one of those matters where the "be careful what you wish for" axiom applies. It would be neat to be able to buy a Dell (s dell) or Asus laptop, some models of which I personally find quite enticing — and not just because of prices. However, I would hate for the ability of Apple to keep rolling out sublimely elegant and delightful machinery like my unibody MacBook to be compromised because of a bleeding away of Mac OS users and profitability to cheaper PC boxes.
How about you? Do you think Apple should license Mac OS X? How about the ethics of hackintoshing?


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fear not – BE FABULOUS
Psalm 27:1 "The LORD is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life; Of whom shall I be afraid? "
I concur. Nobody is worthy of that much power over your life!
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." Marianne Williamson


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Okay, there technically wasn't a full-on Bachelor brawl, but metaphorically speaking, Emily and Courtney threw down and you know what? Em's got a little shady lady inside of her.
Horseback riding in Park City, Utah with eight beautiful women on The Bachelor couldn't save Ben Flajnik from the perfect storm that was Courtney and Emily — we're still giggling over Emily's attempt to take Courtney down — it totally didn't work.
Seriously, who would have thought sweet little Emily would have the cojones to go toe-to-toe with the girl sporting a giant target on her back?
The girls were obviously fine with someone else doing their dirty work — Courtney's been getting the crooked eye from all of them for the past few episodes.
Before the ladies brought out the claws, however, Ben coaxed Rachel into opening up on their one-on-one date — thank goodness! She was five seconds away from getting dumped with no rose.
Rachel wasn't the only one to land a one-on-one rose. Jennifer's sweet and romantic date where the two were serenaded by Clay Walker was a complete success.
So, where did it all go wrong? You could say it was the fly fishing during the group date.
Courtney was determined to turn the group date into a "one-on-one date" and according to her, "these other girls don't know I'm the prize and I do."
You know that game where you take your fingers and pretend to squish someone's head in between them? Yeah, if every girl could have been doing that, they would have been.
This girl's a nightmare. We agree with Emily's assessment that "Courtney is condescending and self centered."
Ready for a shocker? During the evening party, Ben said "see ya later" to Samantha who felt she should "already have a ring on her finger." Pushy much?
Samantha's exit wasn't the only downer of the night. Courtney got under everyone's skin! She used the guilt factor to get the group date rose! She whined about needing reassurance and how she felt she was losing her connection with Ben.
This sent Kacie B. into a rage over his decision, but she kept it classy, leaving the real verbal smackdown, if you can call it that, for Emily to deliver.
Emily decided to play leader of the pack during the rose ceremony's cocktail hour. She blabbed to Ben on behalf of everyone — Courtney's two-faced.
He actually played it off and told her that by putting thought into the situation it would be her demise — basically, think more about him and less about the Courtmonster!
Casey S. immediately ran and told her BFF Courtney what Emily did — cue the claws.
Courtney said she wanted to "rip her head off and verbally assault" Emily. Meow. An all-out war erupted. Courtney got bleeped, Emily got in her face — it was beautiful.
Emily was so close to being our hero — until she backed down and blubbered into the camera about not being used to situations like this. Blah, blah, blah. She let us down.
After the fireworks fizzled, joining Samantha in saying goodbye was Monica, leaving the lucky 11 ladies…
Blakeley, 34, VIP cocktail waitress, Charlotte, North Carolina
Casey S., 26, trading clerk, Leawood, Kansas
Courtney, 28, model, Santa Monica, California
Elyse, 24, personal trainer, Chicago, Illinois
Emily, 27, PhD student, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Jamie, 25, registered nurse, Dryden, New York
Jennifer, 28, accountant, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Kacie B., 24, administrative assistant, Clarksville, Tennessee
Lindzi C., 27, business development manager, Seattle, Washington
Nicki, 26, dental hygienist, Hurst, Texas
Rachel, 27, fashion sales rep., New York City, New York


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14 April 2010
COIN: Art & Culture
His statements come with a proposed 7.5% increase in funding, estimated at a total budget cost of $180 million, one supported by a large advocacy group, Americans for the Arts. Bivens' comments call for the "arts," however this is to be particularly defined, to be a vital component of diplomatic efforts both home (i.e. veterans) and abroad (i.e. insurgents). I focus my brief analysis here on the latter: How to win public sentiment in the "new anti-insurgency tactics the U.S. military has since adopted in Iraq and Afghanistan."
On 26 November, 2007, in a speech given at Kansas State University, Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, stated; "One of the most important lessons of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is that military success is not sufficient to win - economic development, institution-building and the rule of law, promoting internal reconciliation, good governance, providing basic services to the people, training and equipping indigenous militaryand police forces, strategic communications, and more – these, along with security, are essential ingredients for long-term success."
What Bivens is bringing to the table is the idea that fostering cultural arts amongst the local populace can serve as a tool in "impacting the lives of people, which in turn affects their attitudes and perceptions." For one, in thise sense, intelligence packets prepared by analysts can highlight art and culture within the context of situational awareness to aid the decision-making process: Win hearts and minds.
Understanding how a nation values its cultural heritage, though, rests on understanding how a local tribe values theirs. We know full well, as this one news report notes, that the Taliban are attempting to secure the same hearts and minds but in different ways (i.e. fear): The pillage of ancient Afghanistan art in the Kabul Museum also destructed the people's connection to, for example, religion and culture; that which fosters national unity. The most difficult task, as in any diplomatic operations, is to generate action on behalf of the people. Then-Director Omara Khan Massoudi recognized this as both a barrier and challenge. Our soliders have enough on their plates trying to secure Afghan jobs for the long-term let alone thinking about providing cultural avenues for enjoyment.
Is it on the U.S. Army's/Marine Corps' tool-belt to get Afghans to visit cultural sites such as this? Is it even within the purview of the military forces on the ground to engage in such diplomatic initiatives? The US Army/US Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Center, in collaboration with Combined Arms Center, state in the report (provided in the link);
"COIN requires deep and detailed context- and culture-specific understanding of local and regional conditions. Success requires leaders who can effectively understand their environment and the impact of their actions on that environment. Consequently, COIN leaders must learn to be both critical thinkers and innovative problem solvers..."
The essential question is; "How can the U.S. forces act as a broker in the process?" Is it essential to the regional objectives for the Army/Marines to impact the environment through the arts?
The most obvious point of our initial assessment is that there is not a viable structure of military personnel to institute such an effort, and to remain focused on it while the insurgency adapts and morphs. Furthermore, shall we raise once more the question of how much responsibility we ought to place on our soldiers. This, perhaps, might be a profound discussion for another time, as dialogue now-a-days surrounds the emerging trends of "soft engagement."
In short, "soft" efforts led by the military may indeed not promise the best outcome. The promise of success and method by which we measure it may rest more in the hands of non-military partners. For example, between 2003 and 2005, "the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded the Afghanistan Primary Education Program (APEP). APEP offers emergency access to accelerated elementary education for out-of-school youth between ten and eighteen years of age, focusing on females. APEP supported Accelerated Learning (AL) programs for 170,000 over-age youth in more than 3,000 villages in Afghanistan." Funding "arts" campaigns to aid military and diplomatic goals, and U.S. interests abroad, which rest on the stablization of an economic-driven Afghanistan and ousting of Taliban strongholds within the region, is a new and innovative approach (yes); however, the need for organizational collaboration and coordination with partners (like UNESCO) who are specialists in cultural arts should be the cornerstone for this effort.
BG Bivens is hopeful when speaking about incorporating art-awareness, but it appears to me that its application to "new warfare" does not aid soliders' efforts to recognize threats to support decision-makers' response on the ground but aim to promote collective prosperity through individual and cultural expression. If anything, this is a ways down the road, as our troops have enough on their plate trying to promote individual/familial prosperity through the acquistion and procurement of jobs.
The task begins now, of course; I just think we ought to focus primarily on providing basic goods and services to the Afghan people - which is an ingredient for long-term success (per Gates). When we get to a certain point in the road, then the commanders may find it mission-critical to foster growth in this fashion. Again, questions concerning the role of "soft" tactics really needs to continue to be asked.
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- AnonymousApril 23, 2010 at 1:06 AM
Well, there seems to be a funny relationship between the NGOs you mention and the military they frequently work alongside. I suspect NGOs don't view their work in the frame of soft power--though I agree with you that it is--and the value that they impart is both highly practical and very rewarding for the counterinsurgent force. But I don't know that USAID, for example, would consider the services it provides as emergent rather than an excercise in winning hearts and minds.ReplyDelete
Not sure if that train of thought is of value--though considering the POVs of the various players in a region, both combatant and non-combantant seems relevant. But I did also want to mention Rory Stewart's NGO in Afghanistan, Turquoise Mountain, which works to rebuild and sustain artisan practices in a not dissimilar fashion to what BG Bivens (ret) discussed. (I suppose that's why I got on my NGO thought, because of Turquoise Mountain's role as a soft power asset despite being publicly unassociated with any military campaign.)
- AnonymousApril 23, 2010 at 1:08 AM
Also--I should mention I've been reading al-Sahwa since you gents started it up last year, but haven't been in a position to respond to anything. Forgive me if I make up for lost time with all these comments!ReplyDelete


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FAI ( Field Aligned Irregularities ) is like Aurora, a scatter propagation at irregularities in the electron density spreading along the Earth's magnetic field lines. The special feature of both phenomena is that the antenna must be turned not to the partner, but toward the so called backscattering area. At the scatter, which is located at a height of approx. 110km, the signal is reflected back to the earth. In contrast to Aurora ( high-energy particles coming from the sun ), the release mechanism for FAI is still not known. Own observations and the analysis of various logs allow to assume a relationship with Es-propagation.
Contacts during the last years in Europe have shown that the best chances exist from May to August. A connection with the time of day has not be proven so far.
It was shown, as also with Aurora, that the occurence of this effect is dependent on the latitude of the location. Aurora which occurs e.g. in Northern Europe very frequently, is however in South Europe a rarity. With FAI it's exactly the other way. Most contacts in Europe run in the summer between Spain as well as Southern France with Slovenia, Hungaria and Italy.
In Germany FAI occurs more seldomly. Nevertheless, from South-DL some contacts were already made. Tests of DL4MEA and DL5MCG with SV1DH in June/July 1987 have been taken very successful. We had contact with Costas at 10 of 15 days ( -> 66% with QRB = 1571km) on 2m ! Here it is to be considered that the antennas were aligned already from the beginning to the most favorable Scatter, which was in for instance over Budapest. The line of these Scatterpoints can be calculated for any partners, with a great deal of mathematical effort.
The signal is usuallly very weak. For this reason as good equipment as possible is recommended. The lower limit should be a longyagi and a transmitter with at least 100 Watts. Although during the tests Costas (SV1DH) could be worked even with a single 8el Yagi and 50 Watts.
To support this fascinating propagation mode and to be able to detect scatter areas over Central- and WesternEurope better, we ( DL4MEA& DL5MCG ) have operated a high power beacon with the call DB0FAI since May 1990. Here are the most important details:
|144.490 MHz
|16el Yagi
|305 degrees (NW)
Once again, please note that it makes no sense to turn the antenna (all the same whether Aurora or FAI) directly to the partner. Thus we have received e.g. a Aurora receiption report from Dresden, hearing the beacon with antenna-direction 290 degrees (NNW). The calculated scatter area was over Great Britain closed to Sheffiled !
Incoming QSL-Cards, all the same whether Tropo, Aurora, FAI etc., will be confirmed with a DB0FAI-QSL. Comments and receiption reports are very welcome.