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Reliable data???
Wow you can make some really reliable predictions based on such a piddling sample size. Were they bored one afternoon, grabbed a clipboard and went and stood in the centre of London? </sarcasm>
Less than a quarter of Britons use their phones to access the internet, a study has found. Almost 40 per cent of smartphone owners - the very folk you'd expect would want to surf the web on the move - have never done so, or gave it a go once, but won't do so again. So much or all the hype surrounding internet-enabled …
It is amazing how many older phones actually are internet capable. Until recently I would use my old Nokia 6310 for internet browsing while I was mobile, I was always pleasantly surprised at how many sites were formatted for phones.
Bootnote: I actually tried to post this from my Blackberry but could not get the log in to work so I'm typing from my laptop! :-o
Why would you expect a smartphone user to use it to surf the web? Surely they've been around long enough for everyone to know the days when us nerds bought them (and PDAs before them) to actually *use* has long gone and now people only buy them as status symbols.
Who remembers the web browser, 'corporate' email client (for the time) and fax modem for the Psion Series 3 that had more features than most real fax machines, including queueing!
Them was the days. Even the people I know who make good use of their iPhones now only use them to watch TV shows on public transport because they're too busy running around like headless chickens, working to afford iPhones, £5 burgers from posh fast food outlets and the Camden lifestyle. Not being seen with an iPhone is social suicide. It doesn't matter if you only use it for calls and to show your friends that your table in the Met Bar is actually spirit level. The same people will call anyone who uses a smartphone for something productive, "saaaaaad".
OK, my ancient Nokia 6610i is hardly built for surfing, but it can do it with a shove. The thing that put me off is the inflated prices coupled with the fact that I rarely want to use my phone for browsing anyway. But then I'm one of those that prefers to use my phone as...
...a PHONE!!!
But that's probably just me.
not you aparantly...
do you think that multifunction devices are the work of satan?
is the most evil device on the planet is the swiss army knife?
unlike most people who have a phone that is also a media player and camera I rekon you have a utility belt, with your bigg button phone, sony walkman (cassette version) and polaroid camera.. how advanced you must be, actually a music player is probably too advanced, is it still knee cymbols drum on your back and mouth organ?
why take two bottles into the shower.. when you can use three.
I suppose its good for burglars to know that when they break into your house, that the cricket bat will not be used on them.... oh no thats just not proper usage.
Or maybe we just don't feel the need to be in touch with everyone and everything all the time. It is actually nice not to be reached by the office when you step outside the doors.
Guess I can understand some people think you they are important enough that they need to reply to an email within seconds of receiving it.
But the samplw base was asked nearly a year ago... It's only been in the last six months that larger screen handsets have become more commonly used. I'm a techno geek and I've only had my Touch HD six months, and before that I would occasionally play with the net on my cramped Sony Ericcson, but I'd understand why people wouldn't. Only Google Maps would get any data use from me.
I'd be interested in a study done in the last 3 to 6 months as I see a lot more people using their phones for 'net now.
In such a fast moving industry, did it really take them six moths to collate and publish their data?
As a recent iPhone user (and previous owner of an iPod Touch and many other phones from other vendors), it is clear that the fact most iPhone apps seamlessly access the Internet without requiring anything more than a one off login drives these statistics. As per the microwave oven and DVD player, if you make something easy (insert dish/disc, press start/play), it will succeed. People have short attention spans today and if they are made to go through hoops to achieve a task, whether for business or pleasure, they will abandon it and move on.
I have not used an Android phone so cannot comment, but the Nokia E71 made email configuration a snap - and the iPhone is the same. Previous devices required complex technical information to be entered first. The same goes for other apps.
It's useful for updated motorway traffic info whilst in motion, other than that, my lappy is usually near a wifi with more screen estate and free, Virgin mobile-phone internet on the other hand, cost me 30p a day unlimited (limited to 25 MBs) and a tiny 3in. (or whatever) screen.
Also, the iPhone is sold more as a consumer media device that can also be used as a phone, rather than just a phone with extras - so the demographic kind'a fits.
Mobile Facebook - why? if someone wants to get hold of me in a hurry, they can phone,txt or let it ring once (I have some tight friends).
Hello, thank you for posting your thoughts on our research. One clarification is that the research was not conducted in the first half of 2009, but between June and December 2009. The quantitative survey - where our statistics originate - was conducted during the latter part of this period. So, while the Nexus One still wasn't available when we ran the survey, it is fairly recent data.
For more info, please visit http://www.essentialresearch.co.uk/blog/2010/01/branded-services-will-make-smart-phones
Best wishes,
Simon Kendrick, Essential Research
I'd love an IPhone, but just can't justify the cost vs real need at the moment. Perhaps when my business grows at bit more. So the news here is that people buy phones packed with features they either cannot use because its such a pain or don't use anyway? So why are they buying them? Fashion? Keep with Chantele and Britany (Insert any Chav name) or just plain stupid sheeple, with more money than sense buying on spec and features rather than a real need. Sounds familiar? remember the state that VCR's got into? So many features that looked good, but most where used to tape TV programs whilst you where down the pub, so just a 24 hr timer then.
No surprises that Apple makes a phone that almost everyone can use/operate thereby appealing to a larger market and making more wonga for Saint Steve. (Peace be upon him, blessed are his followers). It makes me laugh when some 16-35 year old brags that if they can't operate it they must be stupid and shouldn't have one. No not really. Stupid to design a device that is difficult for a large percentage of users to operate.
Personally when I'm out and about I like to look about, talk to people I meet, but then again I'm from up North.
Regular users are on an unlimited data tariff, as is compulsory on O2 if you have an O2 supplied iPhone.
So it is hardly surprising the iPhone users use it, they HAVE to pay for it, they have no choice not to.
Personally I use loads of data on my Touch HD as I have unlimited data included in my tariff.
Fail, because it is blindingly obvious that iPhone users would use more data, no research would have been required.
I know I'm an old Fart but the purpose of mobile internet leaves me completely baffled. It may be a time consumer if you are stuck on a Bus or on a train. Unless it can be voice activated then it has no value for a single person in a car and even then its use by the driver would (probably) be illegal.
Definitely too costly, unless you have either an iPhone, or a top-tier talk plan. Whilst everyone has been moaning about the supposed 750MB cap on Orange iPhone data (you don't get charged for going over it, by the way) it's a damn sight more generous than most other plans. Take a look at the cost of data bolt-ons, they're pretty pricy.
It was this, coupled with rubbish speeds that kept me from using data much on previous phones, smart or otherwise.
Size of screen to small, and ripoff charges.
Even on the Jesus phone browsing the web is a crap experience compared to a laptop or pc. And on normal everyday phone with a 2 inch screen its nigh impossible to read let alone use.
As to costs they are way to expensive overall, vague t&cs, and penalty charges are horrific on most networks!!
Our company has around a dozen HTC devices, they are used by our engineers for an FTP link to our service database.
Out of those, only 2 ever tried mobile internet for more than a day or two, even their traffic virtually disappeared after a month.
But then, these are WM devices, and the WM interface is seriously pants.
We just upgraded to the touch pro 2, and the best part of that is the HTC GUI.
We also have had several Windows smartphones that were likewise never used for the Internet, and were heartily disliked by the staff that had them.
The mobile internet experience is pretty poor in general, it is bad enough trying to view websites with a netbook, having to scroll down on every page in order to see more than the advertising.
A prerequisite to use is a viable signal. I have the gear, but not the signal. OK, I'm a bit in the countryside, but the main North South railway line is only a couple of hundred yards away.
An follow-up analysis by Essential Research on true signal availability, rather than promised, would be most useful.
UK mobile operators are wretched for data use. They provide "unlimited" contracts for large prices which in some cases limit you to under 1GB/month before punitive surcharges. Don't even consider wanting to tether on your phone, be prepared to carry yet another device as an access point or similar.
They block ports will-nilly which can break things like Opera turbo mode and retrieving your email with some clients etc.. Mandating which services people can and can't use is a pain in the arse and the wrong way to go about it- if you want to SSH, for example, you're screwed on many networks.
Essentially, the mobile networks need to STFU, get out of the way and be a well-behaved set of dumb pipes, like a proper ISP/telco. Walled garden services weren't a good idea back in the days of compuserve/AOL- and they had to die out before fixed line data services were useable for the masses.
They should not be waking you up in the middle of the night with texts trying to establish a "relationship" with the user, asking them which sort of animal they want to be, or anything else of the sort. "Keep it simple, stupid", and provide voice and data connectivity without a tonne of complexity.
Of course, all of this is cloud cuckoo land, as most of them have completely inadequate backhaul to service their current horribly restricted use. Even people whose smartphones can run an adequate web browser (for example), will discover that pages arrive like trying to crap out a JCB, especially from outside the provider's own data network. Maybe the walled gardens and complex/punitive pricing serve only to conceal the fact that their adverts are writing cheques that their networks can't cash.
End of rant.
If you come from outside the EU you can't top up online (phone or internet) because your Visa card won't be accepted. You could actually BUY a phone with it online, but you couldn't add twenty quid to top up your account.
You'll also have to pay more for access to services like BT OpenZone than residents, but you will get a lower rate of service. I've not encountered this anywhere else in the world.
Little wonder people don't use their phones for data after the nasty surprises people get from networks like Orange.
I'd just started using my Orange contract SIM in a (jailbroken) 3G iPhone.
Mobile email, mobile web, buy lottery tickets while on the train, check tv guide, read the news, EXCELLENT I thought, I really got into using this device. Im not an Apple fanboi by any means but I could now access https (ie my bank) for the first time in my life on my own phone
My normal bills on a Nokia were about £20-£50 but my last bill from Orange is a few pence over £640, yes thats SIX HUNDRED AND FORTY GREAT BRITISH POUNDS.
Thinking this was a billing mistake, "Oh No sir, I suggest you cut down you usage. You've used 150-something Megabytes" (@ 4 UKP a Meg)
No wonder people are TOO SCARED to use Mobile Data.
Now im junking Orange and going with ASDA Prepay (provided by Vodafones 3G) its 8p min for voice (per sec billing) and 20pence /Meg.
Sorry Orange, you just lost a lifelong customer. I hope they are so proud of themselves. I fear I am not the only one who this has happened to.
You should have got into the Orange daily capped rate. You'd only be charged £1 max a day (or is it £2 now). Though there is a usage limit, but you won't be overcharged.
Problem is, Orange don't advertise this. It's on their online account page, and it's free, but you need to activate it (or you can call them to do so). By default they stick people on the most expensive rate and expect them to sort out a cheaper package.
Similar with Vodafone (at least on PAYG), £1 daily cap.
Be warned however. DON'T use your mobile overseas! Caps don't work overseas and the per Mb rates are frankly ludicrous. £8 per meg on Orange in the US and Canada!
I worked out once* that roaming the same download as the 'deal' you get on Vodafone for £5 a month would cost over £5000! I could understand a 'deal' where you get some advantage due to getting the deal, of the order of 50%, or even a factor of two, but not three orders of magnitude. Something *definitely* is not right!
*I went through my calculations with the woman at Vodafone and she was surprised as well, probably by the fact that I'd actually bothered to sit down and work it out
Talk about muddled thinking!! If you were to forge a policy on this survey, you would be almost 100% wrong. The survey actually begs the question, why is the majority of phone web access done by one phone?
I think you could only draw the conclusion that 'The majority of internet able phones do not access the web on a regular basis' from this survey - and that's all.
I think even a novice looking at the stats would rapidly see that the only regular web using phones are the new smart phones - not that Brits are left cold by mobile access. In fact, if you were to sample each and every iPhone user you would get a 100% web return and probably much the same for Android and Palm users which goes to show that if you make it easy to do something, people will do it. The opposite conclusion in fact.
If I remember rightly, Steve Jobs said when introducing the iPhone, that accessing the web with existing phones "sucked" because it was slow, awkward and unreliable, so it wasn't happening. With the iPhone they made it a simple one touch option and guess what... everyone uses the feature and loves it. With this in mind, it's simple to rank the phones in order of how easy it is to get the 'full' web - which most of the phones out there can't do anyway.
Now if they had asked each of the sample respondents which phone they were using, they would have exposed the poor web implementation of the majority of phones out there but that would be far too embarrassing for those manufacturers and given Apple a seal of approval. And how do you sell a report that simply states that Apple, plus a few others, are doing it right and the others are hopelessly wrong.
As always, the usefulness of a survey and the resultant stats, is totally dependent on asking the right questions.
The websites that people want to use are not really geared up for viewing over the mobile web. The only site I've ever used with any regularity on my phone is the PDA version of the National Rail site, because most websites force nearly a meg of pictures and "rich content" down your thin internet connection every time you click a link. It's chicken and egg with user experience and user usage, but when even seasoned geeks think your website looks rubbish over mobile internet, you've got problems.
And as for the iphone, making a walled garden of internet for rich people may make you rich, but its not really progress.
Having read the article, I was suprised at the inaccuracies in the data. As of November 2009 there were just over 48 million mobiles in circulation, of these 8 million were used to access the phone's browser. Other data shows the phenomenal consumption of both Facebook and Google via the mobile. I suggest the report writers compare there data with other sources - Comscore, Forrester and Neilson. Also a sample size of only 2000 doesn't provide sufficiently robust data. The adoption of the mobile web is not simply an iPhone phenomemon - other smart phones are also being utilised for regular mobile web access. It's also not a London focused marketplace - many other UK regions are leading the adoption of the converging platforms. Posted on my Blackberry, you really need to make your site mob friendly!
I was an occasional surfer on my Nokia E-71 but didn't enjoy the experience. Now I have an iPhone, I often surf my way to the office while on the bus in the morning. The Apple lesson is simple enough: Make it usable and they will come!
Now that Nokia and the others have started to take usability seriously, I don't see Apple's lead as being insurmountable in this respect (and, as much as I like my iPhone, would gladly be shut of Apple's control freakery).
It annoys me that my mail provider now wants to to look at 5Mb of pictures of californian celebreties before it draws the 'login' button. And that annoyance is on broadband. I wouldn't even dream of it on mobile internet.
Supposing I could get mobile internet access. I live in Lincolnshire, hardly the outer skerries of dreams, but only 5% of the county is covered by 3's mobile internet access, and the service from the other suppliers is even worse.
I wonder if they asked the question
Do you honestly need this sort of connectivity?
I have a phone that does all this stuff but I have made a concious decision NOT to use it.
I'm connected enough as I work mainly from home.
Then there is the problem of an increasing number of organisations won't let you take camera phones onot their premises if you are a visitor.
You won't find many phones out there what does all this internet wizzadry that don't have a camera. My old Nokia E61 does this but none of the currently available phones have the internet but no camera.
Mines the one with an old Nokia 3310 in the pocket.
Previously the iphone was only available on one network, in which a certain data tarrif was included, essentially as part of the bundle it was mandatory.
So, yes, if you're paying so much money for a tariff in which a data allowance is mandatory, of course you'd be more inclined to use it!
Data in the UK is far too expensive. Even something like o2's £1 a day max charge for data on some contracts is only useful if you want to regularly use the internet access throughout the day, what if you just want to check something quickly?
Fair capped usage should be available for a minimal price, and I think it would definitely encourage take up of mobile email and internet use, especially on phones with bigger screens and opera mini now better than ever.
i am a tech literate IT bloke and would love a Nokia N900 and mobile internet, but the reality is, with wife and kid to support, i just can't justify an extra £30 a month for the luxury. nearly all iphone users i know are young free and single with no landlines, nappies to buy and mortgages fixed at 6%
until then, in my opinion, it remains a luxury in the realm of those who have plenty of disposable income, or those who absolutely need it (far fewer than the first category)
It sounds like there is a confusion here between the Internet and the WWW. Anyone who has used their smartphone for email has used the net. Smartphones are also used for Facebook, Twitter and many other things that do not involve trying to read websites on a 8CM screen.
Maybe it is just that iPhone users are more likely to know that.
I've only had three internet enabled phones, one of which is my current phone - the iPhone. Of the three only the iPhone has actually worked. The others were a joke, tiny screens and hopelessly slow page load times.
Basically - Apple got it right, the rest added it as an after thought and didn't.


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Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 7:58 pm
Post subject: board selection on freestyle wave
Does anyone have any feedback specifically on the fanatic freewave or the rrd freestyle wave ltd in the 90 liter range?
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I have the Fanatic Freewave 86 and 77, so I cant comment directly on the
95, but I would assume you coud extrapolate this to the 95.
Best boards I have every owned for general Gorge sailing (see "best midsize FW" post below in the general forum).
Fast, quick planing, great "coasting abilty" extremely lively, and great chop handeling abilities, yet still really turney.
From what I've read, the RRD feels a little more sedate and smooth (Not saying this is a bad thing... just depends on what you are lookin for) the Fanatics have a touch of nervousness..... which I like, but still somehow retain great control at high speed and when overpowered.
For me (195 lbs) the 86 is my bread and butter board, 4.7 and 5.2 mostly ... but also underpowered ,or good swell moderately powered super steady, or weird 4.2 ...... or Even REALLY gusty and holey 3.7 if necessary.
I see you are moving to the Gorge.... so the REAL question might be... what size Freestyle wave. for a lot of people here the 85 ltr size fits that 5.2 4.7 sometimes 4.2 nitch very well. and if you are gonna go for a 5.7 and or 6.2 above the 5.2 you might just as well skip the 95 ltr range and go right to the 100 -105 ltr as "your big gorge board" (and have the 85 ltr size also) The people I see who have a 95 ltr as the bigger board are generally more like 150/ 160 lbs and have a 5.7 as their bigest sail (same time bigger guys 175-200+ would be on 105 litrs. and 6.2, 6.5)
I, of course, woud say go Fanatic, but I'm biased to the point of ... Uh.... Fanaticism
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Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 11:24 pm
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Some of this has just been recently covered in this thread:
Differentiating the two boards, the main difference is that the Fanatics are livelier, faster, and turnier. The ride is a little more demanding than the RRD, which has more emphasis on comfort and control. The RRD FSW has a flatter rocker, cushier pads, and a more cushioned, predictable ride. Both are nice boards, it just depends what kind of ride you are looking for.
Both come in nice constructions w/ Technora/Kevlar decks. Both come w/ good fins and straps, although the Fanatic has a superior anti-twist system IMHO.
I personally prefer the Fanatic for my style of sailing, although I sell both in my shop. I like that lively feel.
Another differentiating factor may be sizing. The RRD comes in sizes (85, 90, 95) every 5 liters, whereas the Fanatic comes in an 86 and a 95.
Both boards holdover their shapes from 2008, and you can find some reviews of the 85/86 liter sizes here:
You can also find more reviews of the Fanatic here (even better if you speak French or German):
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Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 9:25 am
Post subject: Re: board selection on freestyle wave
WAVEDAVE wrote:
Does anyone have any feedback specifically on the fanatic freewave or the rrd freestyle wave ltd in the 90 liter range?
Thanks wave
I'll weigh in on the Fanatic Freewave also. I own a 86 and a 95. The 86 is my all time favorite board at this point. I tend to sail it in the 4.2 - 4.7 range, and sometimes in the 5.2 range. I sail the 95 in the 5.2 - 6.2 range (although I normally drag out a bigger board for 6.2).
The 95 is not as lively as the 86 (funny after sailing the 86 for a while, it does seem more relaxed, I guess you get used to it after a while). The 95 is fun in bump and jump, turns well (but not the same as the 86) and jibes well. Overall it's a fun board. Not as fast as slalom style blasters, but not a dog either.
I weight 180 pounds and sail it in the SF Bay and the Gorge.
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One note of caution on the Fanatic Freewaves (I own the 77 and I'm a fan):
If you have wide feet and wear booties check the footstrap width. On my 2008 board it's quite narrow, to the extent that setting up for jibes requires extra front foot withdrawel. If you care about these things its an FYI.
That being said, the board is fast, slashy, early planing, fun to jump etc. I'd buy another one.
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Same deal for me on the foot srap screw spacing.
I jist skip on insert hole ( wider spacing) gets them to a more standard 6 -6 1/4 inch spacing, problem solved.
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Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 11:32 am
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Ok....Ok.....The Fanantic is a great board.
I purchased My "07 RRD FSW "94" in the fall of 07. I was looking for a replacement for my '97 Mistral Custom 268 which is a great slalom board but not really turny.
I demo'd many boards in this size range... JP FSW..not my cup of tea, Jp excite ...a little big in Hatch swell.. Minstral syncro...needs a crane to get it on a plane in marginal winds, and finally the RRD. All it took with the RRD was one reach across the Event site up to the Bridge and back, I took off my wet suit and went up to Istmas and purchased one. I haven't been disappointed yet after a year of ownership, smooth, turny, responsive, quick to plane, loves to slash small and large swell. I use a 5.0 and 5.8 Sailworks Revo,s on it with excellent results. I weigh 185. (My first day this year was yesterday on a 5.0 and the RRD at the event site). I have used my 4.4 Revo on it in holey conditions with good results.
The RRD is not the fastest board out there, I get passed all the time when I sail at the event site, but then I do not rig a 6.5 in 5.0 conditions and live to go fast. It's hard to play on the wave face while doing mach 5.
What ever you do, try before you buy. I can tell on the first few reaches if I will love or hate a board if the demo is in the conditions where I plan to use it.
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kmf wrote:
It's hard to play on the wave face while doing mach 5.
Challenging, yes, but very rewarding, and it does narrow down the board choices.
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One of the hardest things to learn in travelling (ocean) wave sailing is how to sail slow without losing it. You often fail to vector in on a changing wave face if your speed is high.
In the Gorge the waves do not move as much as the water. They make an easier target to shoot at with speed.
I often sail at launches that are literally too over my head. You need to sail very slowly or stop completely to let too -large waves go by or close out without you getting buried.
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WAVEDAVE wrote: Does anyone have any feedback specifically on the fanatic freewave or the rrd freestyle wave ltd in the 90 liter range?
Hey WAVEDAVE,
I have the 2009 RRD FreestyleWave LTD in 80L and have about twenty-five days on it thus far. I would say this years board is more wave oriented, a little narrower in width and less volume in the tail, than last years edition. I have yet to find fault with this board, it jibes, tacks, and jumps great. Moving the fin a little further forward in the fin box makes the board loose enough for DtL wave sailing. I dont do any of the fancy spinning kid tricks, so, I cant comment on the boards freestyle ability. The dual density pads are uber comfy and the board comes with quality DaKine footstraps and MFC fin. However, it feels less than the stated 80L when the wind totally shuts off. I am 170-175lbs and use it with a 4.7, biggest sail I own, only.
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Patric Isacson necesitaba un nuevo diseño de papelería y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
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We are two of the most experienced in our business that are now creating a new company together. Are main products are windowfilms and securityfilms for the glass after market, but instead of "just selling" windowfilm we are targeting our pitch is "make your glass better" (Upgrade for energy efficiancy, heat and better surrondings in your home or office)
We are looking for a modern logo and if possible makes people realize that there is way better to upgrade there existing glass instead of buying new! And also it would be nice if it stated some form of enviroment friendlly touch. Idea for colour on logo could be green.
We would like to stand out a little bit. But in a new way - not as all the other windowfilm companys that have solar, sun and old stuff in there name or a logo with a sun.
As this is a new company but with already existing products .
Our main customer group is as stated the after market for glass. Mainelly company buildnings, offices and stores. Not that much to private persons.
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As to the design you can use your skills as a ordinary genius as you are :)
Just read the above breif for ideas!
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I was led here from a forum where I said I thought discussing this in a group would be better and this seems to be the most appropriate group.
I use: "Counting my blessings" and "grace" and possibly other words that come our of religious language. It would be nice to have a list of non-religious alternatives that would be understood by the general public. Maybe that's not necessary. I couldn't find anything like that online. What do you think?
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Or say nothing. Why do you even have to say something when someone else is blowing snot everywhere? The polite thing would probably be to excuse ourselves when we sneeze. ;)
I think of terms like "god send" and "oh my god" could really refer to any god, not necessarily the Christian one. If pressed I'd probably say Ra or Thor was the god I was referring to; when they're all fictional it doesn't really matter. I guess I think of religious/spiritual colloquialisms (ie. "God damn it!") as being on par with literary colloquialisms (ie. "What doesn't kill me will make me stronger").
i do believe i only use oh my god or omg. if someone sneezes i look the other way to let them clean it up. i also may use damn. but i think thats about it. ive never said bless you, my grossmutter said gesundheight, but i never did. when im in a game where bad language is not cool, i use shoot, heck, or some such word.
The ones that bothered me the worst when I lived in Nebraska were "That's a Christian thing to do" which clearly implies that those of us who aren't Christian don't do good things, and "He jewed me down" which clearly says that Jews habitually cheat in business, which of course is just a discriminatory stereotype.
But I do try to avoid religiously based terms when I speak -- you can make up phrases as you wish -- who cares if no one else uses them, although you WILL get funny looks! It's like a former student of mine, when he wanted to swear, would say "bleistiffspitzer", which because of the "sh" sounds seems pretty strong, but only means "pencil sharpener" in German. I change mine all the time, but my latest is "Oh, my flank steak!" I kind of enjoy the silliness! :-)
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In light of recent events, I felt compelled to personally and publically thank Mr. Tim Marcum for his continuing service to Owen County schools, Owen County athletics and Owen County students.
The other day, I was throwing together a hash-brown potato casserole at the last minute for a potluck family reunion when I realized the recipe called for a can of Campbell's Cream of Mushroom soup, an item I'd forgotten to pick up on my run to the grocery store. But not to worry, I thought.
In 2006, we were told by doctors in another hospital that our mother would die in the next few days.
The reason I am sharing these thoughts with you is I was approached by someone who wanted more information on the home dialysis and I feel there are more people out there who one day may need to think about going this way instead of going to a clinic and going through a more aggressive treatment.
Instead of doing it daily, you do it every two to three days and it is more aggressive.
Thank you, Owen County.
I was overwhelmed with gratitude for the Rotary Club's "Owen Countian of the Year" award, presented to me at the Owen County Fair 2010. I was so surprised.
I was about age 42 when I felt the urge to record Owen County's local history. My dreams, aspirations and desire of yester years began to unfold into action.
1 John 5:2 says, "This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands."
Notice the word of God tells us to first of all love God and also carry out his commands. During the summer months of 2010, the Baptist churches in Owen County surely showed their love for God and his children; and by doing this they also followed his commands. Almost 100 percent of the Baptist churches collected school supplies for the Owen County Schools.
My name is Patty Barnes and I have been on dialysis for almost a year.
Three times a week I travel to northern Kentucky to receive dialysis treatment. I also see Dr. Mital, a kidney specialist in northern Kentucky.
If the dialysis clinic had opened here in Owenton, I could see him more, instead of traveling.
I'd like to take a moment to say thank you to those who have been taking the time and energy to pick up trash along the roads in Owen County. I've seen them a few times on my way to Frankfort and I saw a group working on the Sparta Road the other day. It surely does make a difference when people care enough to keep our county clean.
It would be wonderful if people wouldn't throw the trash out in the first place, but thank goodness there are those willing to pick it up. Your efforts are appreciated. If I were able, I would help you myself.
For 37 years, I have made Owen County my home. It is a home by choice, having decided all those years ago to leave the home of my childhood and the home of my young adult life. From New York to Owen County – followed by many instances of having to address the question posed by all of my family and each of my friends in the North, "Why Kentucky?" And from my new-found friends and neighbors in Kentucky the question, "Why here, why Owen County?"
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Sponsor(s): Foro QUÍMICA y SOCIEDAD; Real Sociedad Española de Química
Thanks to the join initiative of Real Sociedad Española de Química and Foro QUÍMICA y SOCIEDAD, next year 2011 the Spanish Postal Office will issue a Commemorative Postage Stamp to celebrate 2011 International Year of Chemistry, as well as the Centennial of the Chemistry Nobel Prize for Maria Sklodowska-Curie.
The Spanish 2011 IYQ Commemorative Stamp has been presented. It is a current-use stamp showing IYC logo and an –to this date- unpublished image of Marie Curie, for the stamp also commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to this great scientist.
Marie Sklodowska Curie's picture was taken at the "Residencia de Estudiantes" in Madrid, a boarding house owned and managed by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and serving as meeting point for international researchers, artists and creators of different areas. Marie Sklodowska Curie stayed twice at the Residencia: once on April 23, 1931, to pronounce the lecture "Radioactivity and the evolution of science" and later on, in May 1931, to preside, as vice-president, the second meeting of the Committee of the Arts & Letters Committee of the Institute of Intellectual Cooperation of the League of Nations.
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Picajet has the potential to be the BEST image management application!
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1 Better thumbnail image quality and speed!
2 It doesnt find new folders in the watched folder until a restart? Cant it see new stuff instantly (like Picasa)?
3 Do we always need to see the "new watched folders detected" dialogue? Can we turn it off?
4 Metadata dialogue (Shft+Enter)
When entering text in fields (like Keywords) it would be nice to be able to select from a droplist of all previously used Keywords
5 If new IPTC information is added with the Metadata dialogue (Shft+Enter), then there should be the option to automatically add the new information to the Picajet cataegories (like an auto re-import). At the moment we have to delete the thumbnail from the album and then re-import it. Even if the IPTC chages are made outside Picajet by another application, it would be nice if Picajet always watched the images and automatically updated the categories.
6 If we drag thumbnails to the categories icons to assign categories. There should be the option to ALWAYS write the data to the file without having to click 'Ctrl+I' every time (sometimes I forget).
7 Quick Edit
PLEASE Add a slider for 'Warmer - Cooler' below the fluorescence. I always need to warm my pics up slightly.
8 The fluorescence slider is too powerfull. Should be more gentle.
9 A 'Grey\point' dropper for colour correction would be GREAT! Select it on one thumbnail but be able to apply it to all.
10 The Quick Edit should have an 'apply quickedit' icon-button ? At the moment we have to use the right-click to do it.
Fix Image
11 Flip should be here as well?
12 'Free rotate' would be VERY useful.
13 It would be nice to see the 'levels' graph when changing brightness + contrast (maybe combine brightness, contrast and Levels in one?) Why is fluorescence not also in Fix Image? What IS fluorescence?
14 Cannot type in the values for the blur sharpness slider? (like on the brightness)
15 Add a 'warmer - cooler' slider to the Hue Saturation controls?
16 Effects : Need better effects (see Picasa!)
17 Add a mouseover balloon to the thumbnails to show full exif and iptc details? Select the visible fields in 'tools-options'.
18 Allow the 'open-with' external tools icons to be added to the top toolbar (or at the bottom on the Edit toolbar)
19 The spacebar advances to the next image (and in fullscreen) but I think the arrow keys should be able to work as well. Sht+spacebar should go backwards?
20 Lots more slideshow options needed!
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In my opinion PicaJet IS the best image management application! I can say that after downloading over 12 different photo management programs and trying each one fairly extensively. There is no other product on the market that makes it as easy to organise, label, order or search your photos.
Having said that, it is not perfect and PicaJet's editing tools could be improved along the lines of Picassa. The PicaJet team seem to be very proactive in improving PicaJet compared to a lot of other programs where it takes a long time for improvements to come out. I am certainly looking forward to PicaJet 3, which should confirm PicaJet's place as the best photo management program. From what I have read this is going to include a new graphics engine and ability to have different versions of the same photo.
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MESA, Ariz. – Cubs manager Dale Sveum knows exactly what he'll say about last year's 101-loss season when he meets with his team for the first time this spring.
"I probably won't mention last year, to tell you the truth," the Cubs' second-year manager said. "This is about this year and the organization moving on and the 25 guys going north. So I don't want to be talking about last year at all."
The Cubs' first full-squad workout is scheduled for Sunday.
Making the task of forgetting the worst Cubs season in more than 40 years a little easier is the fact the front office overhauled a pitching staff that finished last season with more walks than anyone else in the National League and with Triple-A pitchers making 40 of the final 62 starts.
In one of baseball's surprise moves of the offseason, the Cubs signed durable starter Edwin Jackson to a four-year, $52 million deal to join Jeff Samardzija and Matt Garza at the top of the rotation.
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In the bullpen, closer Carlos Marmol returns along with top left-hander James Russell and experienced middle man Shawn Camp. Instead of filling out the rest of the pen with rookies, as they did last season, the Cubs added former Japanese All-Star closer Kyuji Fujikawa as a free agent. And one or two of the rotation candidates figure to fall to the bullpen, adding even more experience.
"We run seven deep in starting pitchers. That's going to make our bullpen better," team president Theo Epstein said. "We just got through running through every single pitcher in camp with the entire coaching staff [during a staff meeting Sunday morning].
"It's night and day in terms of quality and depth, in terms of what we were looking at toward the end of last season. Especially after the trades we made at the deadline and then with Garza going down [with an elbow injury], there were times when we were scrambling just to put a pitching staff out there, let alone have it be the one that we wanted."
The Cubs say Garza, who missed the final 11 weeks of the season, is back to full health and ready to start his spring schedule at full speed. Baker is coming off a missed season because of Tommy John surgery, but also is healthy and expected to shoulder a full spring workload.
Whether it's enough to return the Cubs to the playoffs for the first time in five years – or even .500 for the first time in four – remains to be seen.
But Sveum is sure of two things: Last year doesn't matter – 100 losses or not – and the goal remains singular, regardless: making the playoffs.
"We could have lost 90 (instead) last year and it would have been the same thing. We would have gone home," Sveum said. "Everything's put on numbers – how many wins, playing .500 – and those are a lot of things you have to stay away from. Nobody wants to lose 100 games, but when you start putting prices on numbers, like, 'Well, .500 would be a good year this year,' well, .500 and we're going to go home just like last year."


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The 1978 movie "Animal House" seemingly cemented the college fraternity's reputation as a conduit for wild debauchery and dipsomaniacal behavior. But while the Greek system is generally under fire at colleges and universities across the country, Wabash College has taken the opposite approach. They're investing in their fraternities.
"When we undertook our capital campaign in the late 1990s, one of the needs that we saw for the college was a need to upgrade our fraternity houses," said Joseph Emmick, Wabash's dean for advancement. "They represent a significant proportion of our housing stock, and they were simply not up to par. Not only were there things we needed to do to make sure the infrastructure was stable, but we had some things we needed to do to make sure they were facilities that matched the kinds of things modern college students are looking for and need - as an example, air conditioning and electrical systems that will bear the load of the number of electronic items that students bring to campuses today."
There were also health and safety concerns, including substandard kitchens, kept in mind when implementing the campaign.
There's 10 national fraternities at Wabash, with one located off-campus. All nine that are on campus are either being renovated or replaced. In some cases it would've cost as much to renovate as it would to tear the house down and start over.
Beta Theta Pi was the first new fraternity house in the campaign, opening in the fall of 2000. The new Phi Gamma Delta house opens this fall. Phi Kappa Psi is still under construction. Tau Kappa Epsilon is going to build a new house and Delta Tau Delta is going to remodel.
Wabash started a fraternity partnership program in 1998. Under the deal, the college agreed to contribute a certain amount of money to each fraternity. It was up to the individual fraternities to organize their own alumni groups, get a fund-raising committee together and develop a fund-raising report as well as facility improvement or new construction reports. Goals vary because not all the fraternities are the same size, and therefore don't carry similar numbers of alumni.
Response has been strong. Cal Black, Wabash's director of major gifts, estimates 250 alumni have volunteered to help raise funds for their respective fraternities. Some fund raising is continuing. Altogether, the college will pitch in between $30-$32 million for the fraternity houses.
The investment is showing.
"The feedback we've gotten has been mainly positive," Emmick said. "There's been sort of a wow factor for most people as they go through the houses. We've raised the quality of these houses to the point that people are actually amazed these are fraternity houses."
The college intends to safeguard their and others' expenditure.
"We are taking a much greater role in working with the fraternities on issues of kitchen safety and maintenance and cleaning of the houses," Emmick said. "One of the real positive things that has come out of these fraternity partnerships is a much closer relationship between the college and the management of the individual fraternity chapters. We are working very closely with our students to help them understand that these new houses are really an investment, and we need to protect those investments."
Not that administrators are worried. The "Animal House" mystique, they say, does not exist at Wabash.
"These are leadership skills these kids will take with them when they graduate," Black said of what fraternities offer their members. "This is an opportunity for these students to get exceptional training they couldn't get anywhere else. It's to develop the mind and the body of young people for their careers and a lifetime of learning and enrichment."
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A front page story in this morning's Washington Post explains why DC's legalization of gay marriage has been good for the DC economy:
As the first same-sex couples married in Washington on Tuesday, the city is in the national spotlight as a pioneer in the gay-rights movement. But local officials say the historic event also has more practical implications for a city grappling with 12 percent unemployment: jobs. A study by the nonprofit Williams Institute predicted that legalizing same-sex marriage will create 700 jobs and contribute $52.2 million over three years to the local economy.
"We think it's a great opportunity to capitalize on groups that will be coming to Washington," said Elliott Ferguson, chief executive of Destination D.C., the city's tourism and marketing arm. "It's the nation's capital. It's symbolic."
Businesses are already lining up to cater to what Forbes estimated is a $16.8 billion national market. A local restaurant answered the phone Tuesday with "Happy gay marriage day."
Organizers of the city's first gay and lesbian wedding expo, planned for spring at the Renaissance Hotel in Dupont Circle, said hotels were jockeying to host the expo — a dramatic change from the days when hotels were reluctant to put signs with same-sex couples' names in the lobby.
It makes great sense to me. I know from just casual observation that some of the nicest parts of Rehoboth Beach, DE, with the most beautiful (and pricey) homes, are the parts known to have a high concentration of gay homeowners. This may be stereotyping, but gay people do seem to like to shop (certainly more than the average run-of-the-mill heterosexual male who is one half of most "couples"), and they do seem to have above-average taste and style. So legalizing gay marriage means there will be some unusually tasteful and stylish (and probably expensive) weddings, honeymoons, home furnishings, etc. Good for the economy, for sure. And because there's this thing called the sales tax (which is pretty high in DC–10% for restaurant meals, meaning wedding receptions!), gay marriage will be good for government budgets as well.
It reminds me of the economic argument I've heard for why we should legalize marijuana. And I think when prohibition (of alcoholic beverages) ended, that was probably pretty good for the economy, too. I mean, where would all that Super Bowl commercial revenue come from if it weren't for (legal) beer?
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Joakim Noah isn't half the star Kobe Bryant is.
So does that mean his anti-gay slur is half as demeaning?
The NBA on Monday fined the Chicago Bulls center $50,000 for using a derogatory term during Game 3 versus the Miami Heat - or half of what they fined the Los Angeles Lakers star for nearly the exact same offense just a month ago.
Bryant was fined $100,000 for directing an anti-gay slur at an official during a regular season game.
Some could argue Noah's offense was even more egregious because the league had already come out and said such behavior wouldn't be tolerated and Noah was talking directly to a fan at courtside.
Add to that the league is currently sponsoring a campaign about the use of derogatory words and it happened at the NBA's showcase - the playoffs - and Noah should be happy he got off light.
Several critics had suggested Noah be suspended a game to send a stronger message to players, but Commissioner David Stern decided hitting Noah's wallet was more appropriate.
Television cameras caught Noah involved in a verbal altercation with a fan near the Bulls bench at AmericanAirlines Arena in the first quarter. Noah had just picked up his second foul and said the fan said something disrespectful to him.
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"The people and the business owners in communities near national parks have always known their economic value," park superintendent John Scott said. "Pea Ridge National Military Park is clean, green fuel for the engine that drives our local economy."
Most of the spending/jobs are related to lodging, food, and beverage service (52 percent) followed by other retail (29 percent), entertainment/amusements (10 percent), gas and local transportation (7 percent) and groceries (2 percent).
The figures are based on $12 billion of direct spending by 281 million visitors in 394 national parks and nearby communities and are included in an annual, peer-reviewed, visitor spending analysis conducted by Dr. Daniel Stynes of Michigan State University for the National Park Service.
Across the U.S, local visitor spending added a total of $31 billion to the national economy and supported more than 258,000 jobs, an increase of $689 million and 11,500 jobs over 2009.
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What's the Future for Sports Media and Broadcast?
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