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Never Been Better is the fourth studio album by English recording artist Olly Murs. It was released through Epic Records on 21 November 2014 in Ireland and 24 November in the United Kingdom.

Never Been Better peaked at number one on the UK Albums Chart making it his third consecutive number one album on the chart. The album has been certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry. The album reached the top-ten in Ireland, the top-twenty in Switzerland, and top-forty positions in Australia, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany and Norway. Never Been Better received generally mixed reviews from music critics, some praising Murs' more serious tone, while others felt that the album was unspectacular and safe.

On 2 October 2015, Murs announced on his Twitter account that he would release a special edition of Never Been Better on 20 November 2015 and the first single would be called "Kiss Me". Like Right Place Right Time: Special Edition, this album will feature extra tracks and a tour DVD.

Background
In July 2013, Murs revealed that he had been back in the studio writing and recording new material for his fourth album, due to be released in Summer 2014. In February 2014, it was revealed that work had begun on his fourth studio album. He has been working with Wayne Hector, Claude Kelly, Steve Robson and Demi Lovato. On 28 September, Murs announced that the title of the album will be called Never Been Better and also announced the track list alongside it. The album was released on 24 November 2014.

Singles
"Wrapped Up" was released as the lead single from the album on 16 November 2014. The song peaked at #3 on the UK Singles Chart, which earned Murs another top five single.

"Up", which features vocals from Demi Lovato was released as the second single from the album on 4 January 2015. The single peaked at #4 on the UK Singles Chart and has since gone Platinum in the United Kingdom.

"Seasons" was released as the third single on 27 March 2015. The single made it to the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart.

"Beautiful to Me" was released as fourth single on 28 May 2015.  The song peaked at number 93 in the UK Singles Chart.

"Kiss Me" was released as the first single from the reissued special edition of the album on 9 October 2015.

"Stevie Knows" was released as the promotional single on 11 December 2015 from the album reissued special edition.

Critical reception

Reviews for Never Been Better were mixed. Writing for 4music.com, Jessica Lever gave the album a 4/5 score, while writing for The Telegraph, in a 2 out of 5 stars review, Neil McCormick wrote: "Unexpected collaborations only expose how ordinary the X Factor runner-up is." Dave Simpson of The Guardian was more charitable, and in a 3 of 5 stars review suggested "the acoustic ballad Let Me In (co-written with Paul Weller) is, by some distance, the best thing here." Less complimentary overall was Shaun Connors in Truckings regular music reviews, writing (in a 1 of 5 stars review), "Yet another album by yet another X-Factor also-ran... And one that came second to the most forgettable winner of all... I realise it's risking social ostracisation by anybody under 13 for expressing these views, but this is without doubt the most uninspired, tedious collective of pop pap I've heard all year".

Commercial performance
Never Been Better debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart, selling 92,597 copies in its first week. It is Murs's third number one album after In Case You Didn't Know in 2011 and Right Place Right Time in 2012. As of March 2015, the album sold 886,000 copies.

Track listing

Notes

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Unwrapped EP
Unwrapped is a free live EP exclusive to Google Play. It was released on 12 December 2014.

Personnel

Credits for the album adapted from AllMusic.

Vern Asbury – bass
John August – assistant engineer, background vocals
Simon Baggs – violin
Tom Barnes – drums, background vocals
Paulette Bayley – violin
Mark Berrow – violin
Chris Bishop – vocal engineer
Duck Blackwell – drum programming
Rachel Bolt – viola
Natalia Bonner – violin
Dan Book – vocal producer
John Bradbury – violin
Sarah Brandwood-spencer – violin
Karl Brazil – drums
Chris Briggs – A&R
Ian Burdge – celli
Gillon Cameron – violin
Paul Cassidy – viola
Emil Chakalov – violin
Simon Clarke – brass arrangement, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone
Ben Collier – programming, string programming
Maegan Cottone – background vocals
Tom Coyne – mastering
Cutfather – producer
Rosie Danvers – cello, string arrangements
Daniel Davidsen – bass,  drum programming, guitar, instrumentation, producer, programming
Alison Dods – violin
Ian Dowling – engineer
Jason Elliott – vocal engineer
Jason Evigan – engineer, horn arrangements, instrumentation, producer, programming, vocal producer
Fresh – beat box
Futurecut – additional production
Simon Gardner – brass, trumpet
Paul Gendler – guitar
Serban Ghenea – mixing
Susie Gillis – string contractor
Isobel Griffiths – string contractor
John Hanes – mixing
Mich Hansen – percussion
Peter Hanson – violin
Jacqueline Hartley – violin
Wayne Hector – background vocals
John Heley – celli
Richard Henry – trombone
George Hogg – trumpet
Kiris Houston – bass, guitar, organ, piano
Sally Jackson – violin
Bryony James – cello
Iain James – background vocals
Martin Johnson – engineer, guitars, instrumentation, percussion, piano, producer, programming, background vocals
Magnus Johnston – violin
Beverley Jones – double bass
Joe Kearns – engineer, vocal engineer
Paul Kegg – celli
Pete Kelleher – keyboards
Claude Kelly – background vocals
The Kick Horns – brass
Patrick Kiernan – strings, violin
Ben Kohn – guitar, percussion, background vocals
Boguslaw Kostecki – violin
Jan "Stan" Kybert – engineer
Peter Lale – viola
Oliver Langford – violin
Chris Laws – drums, engineer, mixing
Julian Leaper – violin
Fiona Legget – viola
Anthony Lewis – celli
Vicki Lewis – string contractor
David Liddell – trombone
Ryan Lipman – mixing assistant
Demi Lovato – featured artist
Martin Loveday – celli
Jacob Luttrell – background vocals
Steve Mac – brass arrangement,  keyboards, producer, string arrangements
Wil Malone – string arrangements, string conductor
Travie McCoy – featured artist
Jim McLeod – violin
Sam Miller – engineer
Perry Montague-Mason – leader, strings, violin
Kyle Moorman – additional production, engineer, programming
Steve Morris – violin
Olly Murs – primary artist, lead vocals
Everton Nelson – violin
John Newman – background vocals
Serge Nudel – engineer
Emma Owens – viola
Brandon Paddock – additional production, bass, engineer, programming, background vocals
Kerenza Peacock – violin
Daniel Pierce – background vocals
Mike Posner – piano
Luke Potashnick – guitar
Dann Pursey – engineer, mixing assistant, percussion
David "DQ" Quinones – vocal producer
Charles Rees – engineer
Jonathan Rees – violin
Tom Rees-roberts – Brass
Alex Reeve – guitar
Rich Rich III – assistant engineer, vocal editing
Pierre-Luc Rioux – Guitar
Steve Robson – instrumentation, mixing, producer, string arrangements
Jenny Sacha – violin
Tim Sanders – brass arrangement, tenor saxophone
Frank Schaefer – celli
Jamie Scott – piano
Mary Scully – bass, double bass
Nick Seeley – horn arrangements, strings
Jackie Shave – violin
Emlyn Singleton – violin
Chris Stereo:Type – vocal engineer
Nick Taylor – engineer
Ryan Tedder – instrumentation, producer, programming, vocal engineer, background vocals
Issaiah Tejada – assistant engineer
TMS – producer
Christopher Tombling – violin
Tommy D. – producer
Matthew Tryba – assistant engineer
Nick Trygstad – cello
Yu Tsai – photography
Simon Turner – cello
David Venni – photography
Peter Wallevik – drum programming, instrumentation, keyboards, piano, producer, programming, background vocals
Allen Walley – bass, double bass
Leah Weller – background vocals
Paul Weller – guitar, piano, producer, background vocals
Jeremy Wheatley – mixing
Bruce White – viola
Pete Whitfield – transcription, violin
Deborah Widdup – violin
Josh Wilkinson – programming
The Wired Strings – strings
David Woodcock – violin
Chris Worsey – celli
Steve Wright – viola
Noel Zancanella – instrumentation, producer, programming
Joe Zook – mixing

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Decade-end charts

Certifications

Never Been Better: Special Edition

Never Been Better: (Special Edition) is a reissue of the album. It was released on 20 November 2015, through Epic Records and Syco Music. Never Been Better (Special Edition) features seven new tracks and a DVD, Olly Murs: Never Been Better Tour.

Track listing

References

2014 albums
Olly Murs albums
Albums produced by Cutfather
Albums produced by Ryan Tedder
Syco Music albums
Epic Records albums


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John Hertel
By Chad Selweski |
PUBLISHED: August 6, 2014 at 6:58 p.m. | UPDATED: June 30, 2021 at 5:16 a.m.
Anti-tax Macomb County is quickly changing its stripes.
Historically, voters in Macomb County have been known for their refusal to swallow broad, generic tax proposals. However, Tuesday demonstrated a trend in which most millages on the ballot are approved because they follow an a la carte version of governing.
The Macomb electorate approved seven of eight tax proposals on the ballot – in most cases by wide margins — as all but one focused on supplying specific public services.
The winners in the primary included city officials in Mount Clemens and Eastpointe, who each asked and received big millage levies in order to maintain police and fire protection and to hold back the slide toward a financial emergency.
Library millages were adopted by voters in Macomb, Clinton and Harrison townships. Macomb Township voters also OK'd a fire department millage renewal. The only tax proposal to fail was a millage increase for law enforcement in Chesterfield Township, where the police department represents an ongoing source of controversy due to internal politics.
Perhaps the biggest victory scored on Tuesday was achieved by SMART bus officials, who managed an overwhelming approval of a tri-county tax hike that was, though small in the broader perspective, approximately a 70 percent jump in local property tax revenues for suburban transit. In Macomb, the electorate endorsed the plan by a 2-1 margin.
The proposal was a renewal of current taxes plus a specific increase – from 0.59 of a mill to 1 mill — to fund the replacement of nearly 200 aging buses that have exceeded 500,000 miles of wear and tear.
'What's happened with millages is that … if you tell the public what the money is going to be spent on and the public understands and they have confidence in what your goal is, then the millage has a good chance,' said John Hertel, general manager of SMART and a former chairman of the Macomb County Board of Commissioners.
'The narrower the item on the ballot is, the more successful you will be compared to general purpose millages.'
The winning track record for most Macomb millage proposals began in 2008 and has continued unabated since. In nearly every instance, the narrow focus proved effective.
Among the proposals approved from 2008-14 across Macomb County, Michigan's former anti-tax hotbed, are: an Eastpointe/Roseville recreation consolidation plan; a Warren streets improvement proposal; tax increases in Center Line and Chesterfield Township for public safety services; maintaining police and fire manpower in St. Clair Shores; a regional millage to preserve the Detroit Zoo; a small tax to upgrade the county veterans department; a regional levy to save the Detroit Institute of Arts; and a Washington Township Fire Department funding increase.
Deputy County Executive Al Lorenzo, former longtime president of Macomb Community College, said the government entity seeking the millage must demonstrate credibility and transparency in order to win over the public.
But local officials in 2014 also benefit greatly from a revised outlook on property taxes, which in the 1980s were the issue that often appeared at the top of countywide surveys of residents' concerns.
'One over-arching issue is that there is a real or perceived relief from high property taxes,' due to government restrictions and the housing market slide, Lorenzo said. 'People just don't feel that property taxes are a major problem facing the county anymore.'
Sterling Heights City Manager Mark Vanderpool said voters appreciate that municipalities have sincerely cut back since the housing crisis hit — through layoffs, concessions, manpower attrition, fewer services and reduced hours of operation.
That helped Sterling Heights secure approval last November for a three-pronged millage proposal to boost funding for police, fire and roads. The road plan included specifics about which street fixes would be undertaken.
Taxpayers are determined to maintain the bare bones, according to Vanderpool, the basics that make a community a home. Lorenzo calls it 'the fundamental fabric of society.'
Macomb County voters interviewed by The Macomb Daily at the polls on Tuesday said they understand that their financially struggling government institutions have their backs to the wall.
SMART was facing a shutdown while Mount Clemens and Eastpointe could have endure a state takeover and the appointment of an emergency manager to run the two towns.
Officials also say that, after enduring the Great Recession and the housing market collapse, voters can relate to a city or government agency's struggle with a sharp drop in property values or relying upon vehicles that have long exceeded typical odometer readings.
That cohesion creates a political atmosphere in which the a la carte approach works.
In addition, Hertel, a political veteran of four decades, said he sees Macomb's electorate as 'more enlightened' than in the past. Thirty years ago, the idea of the county's maverick, anti-Detroit, isolationist electorate accepting a regional tax for SMART buses or the Detroit Institute of Arts would have been laughable.
Over time, demographics altered the county's politics.
In Macomb's south end, a growing population of blacks and an array of immigrants have turned those communities a deeper blue – more Democratic and more willing to raise taxes than in the past.
In the north end, many of the farmhouses that dominated are gone. In their place are upper-middle-class cosmopolitan families who live in tony subdivisions and often lean toward progressive politics, such as saving the DIA.
Lorenzo recalls a visit several years ago from a jittery Detroit Zoo official who thought Macomb's tax-averse electorate could sink their plan for a first-time regional tax. At that time the MCC president, Lorenzo assured him the zoo millage would 'sail through' in the county.
When the confused official asked for an explanation, Lorenzo told him county residents 'love the zoo' and want to maintain it. That 2009 millage was approved by landslide proportions in the county. The Zoo Authority essentially had a product to sell that enjoyed broad appeal.
Hertel remembers a meeting he attended two decades ago when he was a county commissioner representing a large swath of north Macomb where bus service was nearly nonexistent. Officials in attendance lobbied for his vote, as the 25-member Board of Commissioners lacked enough support to put the first-time SMART millage on the ballot.
'No way' was his response — unless the transit agency followed through with a plan to create a wide network of small-bus, curb-to-curb services for seniors and the handicapped. SMART agreed to provide the 'Connector' buses in the north end and Hertel, a Lenox Township Democrat, provided the deciding vote to put the measure on the ballot, where it passed.
Though he's now the SMART boss, at that time could Hertel envision Macomb County supporting a zoo tax or a DIA millage levy or a stepped-up 1-mill tax for bus services?
'No way,' he said flatly.
Chad Selweski
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My collection of RPG Books weigh ~1,400 pounds!
Not counting my Tolkien Books Collection, or my Recreation Therapy and Research Psychology shelves, just my RPG books weigh a whopping 1,400 pounds!
Fortunately, even after fuel, water, etc, that still leaves more than 1,000 pounds cargo capacity for the 22' trailer.
Should be enough for the LARP gear, and the computers running the computer-based RPG sessions.
So if the shelves in the bookcases in the photo are interior capacity 27.5" wide, and each segment weighed on a scale was about 67 to 74 lbs, so I rounded it to 70 lbs even.
If placed horizontally end to end (internal diameter), that is 550" = 45.83... FEET of RPG books!
So, that had me wondering, not counting tables, chairs, miniatures, statues, broadcast set and equipment, just the RPG rulebooks, modules, etc. what is your collection like?
I have tried several times to use the ebook options in tabletop RPG.
Most of the systems I enjoy running the most are either out of print and/or never legally made available on PDF.
If the group wants to make characters from scratch, rather than use pre-mades, then typically need 4-5 simultaneous copies of the player related books/pdfs/tablets/devices to speed up that process. For one-shots pre-generated characters are fine, but for long campaigns, players usually want to make their own charcters from scratch.
while I have many tablets, laptops, and desktops, left over from my computer science days, I have not budgeted for 5 tablets for players to use, instead having to rely on the mish-mash of what I have and the players own.
Since I run games at remote locations, such as rehabilitation centers, hospitals, schools, game stores, rural areas, my offices, etc., I have to pack up a large portion for each group, haul it down, un-pack, then the inverse for each session. In addition to regular games, I run free game sessions for many special needs populations including Autism, Deaf, at-risk youth, brain injury, etc.
The trailer, after gas, water, etc. has around 2,500 lb cargo capacity, and my SUV that will be pulling it is 10,000 lb towing capacity, so it will work out very nicely.
While I have been a strong advocate for eBooks since the 1990s (heck, I was CTO of an ebook company), for RPG I have found that players having tech devices far too often takes people out of the game too much.
I had started years ago transitioning (where I could) to ebooks for RPG, but after running somewhat controlled experiments between groups I allowed to have tech out, those that I partially allowed, and those I didn't allow at all, the assessment scores were much higher (Better) for those that I banned tech, than those that were allowed.
Since then, for some groups I have had to ban people taking out their smart phones until breaks, because it is too easy, especially for younger generations, to get sucked into them when it isn't their turn, and they get too distracted from the game.
Generally not exactly an overt ban, but consequences in-game for not paying attention when their turn comes around and they don't know what's going on completely (even though they think they do), so some get the message, really young ones need it spelled out for them.
Using recreation therapy related tools, the assessment scores are both observational (my observations and assistants') and self-reported satisfaction, immersion, "flow", fun, retention, and other areas.
There is a dramatic difference between the "unplugged" groups, and the plugged or partially plugged groups. Since then I have been insisting the players go with the "unplugged" option for the tabletop RPG sessions (obviously not the case for the computer-based RPG sessions).
Something to keep in mind, since most people don't perform such assessments/experiments, you may not realize just how much technology devices at the tabletop RPG game session impact game play quality and satisfaction.


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Alas, I don't feel I have a choice. It's not like I had big plans for Saturday night when my one-time tapas buddy, photographer and Spanish grapenut Gerry Dawes, called to say I needed to explore Ibiza Tapas Wine Bar. Dawes, mono-manically crazed champion of everything Spanish, had made Manhattan tapas rounds with me in 2008 (Click here to read Manhattan Tapas Crawl). He's bold and willing. He and his wife Kaye would drive down from Connecticut to pick me up.
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The dining room is separated from the bar by colorful glass panels.
At last. We pull into the designated lookalike little mall. I'm here. A blur: Ibiza stretches long and wide with a 14-seat banquette running the length of the room, a bright painting at one end and tiny fiber-optic lights embedded in the bar-counter.
Gerry Dawes, passionate lover of all things Spanish, insisted I came to Danbury for dinner.
The tuna plates are removed to make way for a stunning platter of salmon rectangles smeared with sweet tomato sauce, a scattering of baby greens and orchid flower petals on top. It looks like a festival against the black painted wood table. Not till I taste it do I realize the fish is sitting on a nutty crisp. It's socarrat, the baked-on crust that sticks to a paella pan.
Large shrimp served in a bowl with a dressing of garlic, parsley, lemon, tomato and guindilia pepper.
Now it's time for shrimp. The first little bowl is garlicky with parsley, lemon, tomato and Guindilla pepper. Large grilled shrimp in barbecue-scented seaweed escabeche are mounded in a second dish.
Grilled Stonington scallops with pickled onions and drops of alioli nest on black socarrat rice.
Smoked Galician octopus with smoked Spanish paprika, cucumber and mango follows. The tender chunks are sitting on smoky bomba rice. Scatterings of coarse salt bite the tongue. Black rice socarrat appears again, this time under grilled scallops decked out with radish, pickled onions, and little sprigs of green. There are small islands of aioli on the plate and more sauce in a bowl alongside.
Romesco escabeche flavors the duck confit cannelloni.
All these tapas are filing. I find myself staring at the salt baked bass strewn with raisins and pine nuts on a hill of potato, carrot and mushrooms confit, and groaning. I take a small taste.
"Just one more dish," Gerry assures us. "Or maybe two," he corrects himself.
I plan to take just a small taste of the foie gras hazelnut nougat layered with salt-cured tuna.
A plate of fresh fruit cut in chunks signals that dinner is reaching a dessert climax.
Each individual cannelloni of duck confit with foie gras and veal in Romesco escabeche seems large, but it's so good. I manage a few bites. I plan to take just a small sample of the foie gras hazelnut nougat, colorfully layered with salt cured tuna, and caramelized mango on toast on rich streaks of Pedro Ximenez reduction. It turns out to be salty and lush and sweet. I manage to put away a substantial little pileup.
Desserts accumulate including donuts to dip in chocolate. The evening's only flaw, curdled chocolate.
There is cheesecake among the desserts. I can resist that too.
I consider abstaining from dessert, but then it appears. Gerry spoons up some crema catalana (the Spanish inspiration for crème brûlée). I take a spoonful of the crackle and custard of his dish, and then another.
I have bypassed most of the desserts to save myself for two spoonsful of crema catalana.
The long drive home always seems faster. Especially when you've been basted and amused and stuffed brillantly in good company and you manage to fall asleep.
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Zombie Science: Jonathan Wells on Overselling Darwin's Tree of Life
There's no denying the sly brilliance of the evolutionary Tree of Life, memorialized in Darwin's Origin by the only illustration in that famous book. In its own origin, of course, the Tree of Life is a sacred and mysterious image from the Book of Genesis. Evolutionary theory takes it and twists into the symbol of an idea, universal common ancestry, that collides heads on with the simplest reading of the Genesis creation account. Take that, creationists!
All of life may be related as Darwin hypothesized, or it may not. Certainly, though, the science behind the evolutionary tree of life has been vastly oversold. Author of Zombie Science: More Icons of Evolution, biologist Jonathan Wells explains in a new video conversation why that is so.
With his own sly humor, Dr. Wells points out some scientific problems with regarding Darwin's Tree as unassailable fact. There can be only one "true tree," yet fossil, molecular, and other data fail to resolve into any such thing. At the time of the publication of Dr. Wells's 2000 book, Icons of Evolution, many scientists still hoped that this situation would resolve itself. It hasn't. Seventeen years later, inferences from available data are even more confusing. There is still no realistic prospect of a "true tree" emerging.
Meanwhile, increasing awareness of orphan genes, genes without parallels from one taxon to another, collide head on with evolutionary expectations. Researchers proposing their own "trees" are compelled to cherry-pick, simply ignoring the inconvenient yet widespread orphans.
It looks more and more like the true tree is an illusion. "The reason we get a tree," in the first place, says Dr. Wells, "is only because we assume at the outset that it's there." Meanwhile, year after year, Darwin's apologists persuade the public, including school kids, that all is well and scientists are homing in on the one and only tree. This is zombie science in its purest, most staggering, shuffling form.
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Mini and Family Exhibits
The Genee Family Exhibit
Presented by Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue and Museum
Half the Jewish community of Ioannina would immigrate to the USA from 1902-1924. They came seeking a better life for themselves and their children. Initially, most settled on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The Genee family was typical of this immigration.
The Jenny Family Exhibit
Leon (Judah) Jenny came to the USA from Greece in 1910 on the Martha Washington, leaving Patras on August 8, 1910 and arriving at Ellis Island on August 21st. He is listed as a 17 year old single farm laborer and was travelling with his mother, Stamoula, and his sister, Esther. He would meet his future wife, Katie Abolafia, a Sephardic Jew, in New York.
The Joseph and Hametz Family Exhibit
Leon Joseph came in 1906, followed, in 1909, by his wife Sarah and their 3 children (Joseph, Esther and Mollie). The Hametz family arrival in the United States began in 1920 when the oldest daughter of Israel and Pernoula, Sarina, came by herself. Her grandfather Ovadia Solomon at 546-8 Broadway was listed as her destination. Israel and Pernoula Hametz arrived with the rest of their children April 1928.
The Moses Family Exhibit
Mollie (Malka) Mosis and her husband Mordechai came to the USA from Greece in 1908. Their five children (Abraham, Sophie, Anita, Joseph and Rebecca) would join them the following year (1909). The family is listed as living at 39 Allen Street in the 1910 census. In addition to the 7 members of the Mosis (Moses) family, there were two female boarders (Louise and Esther David) living with them in the small apartment.
The Politis and Mordecai Family Exhibit
Esther Mordechai was born in Ioannina in 1920, the daughter of Iakov and Anneta Politis. There were five children in the family: Iosef born in 1912, Nissim in 1916, Fortouni in 1918, Esther in 1920, and Moisis in 1923. Iakov sold yarn and thread, and would prematurely die at the age of 48, leaving his widowed wife to raise the children on her own.


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Eyebrow Extensions Are A Thing, Which Is Great News For Those Looking To Get Those On Fleek Brows
By Jessica Willingham
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I love a full, natural eyebrow, but this may be going overboard. Eyebrow extensions are the latest and arguably greatest offering the beauty world has to offer. Fuller, almost-but-not-quite bushy brows are super in, leaving us coveting the likes of Cara Delevingne and Rihanna. We need those eyebrows on fleek, and there is a new way for brow fiends to get their fix.
Eyebrow extensions are applied in a couple ways: either directly onto the skin or attached in individual hairs. The process is costly, with prices ranging from $100 - $300. Sounds a little painful, but according to Style.com's Courtney Buhler, founder of Rectifeye Brows, it sounds worse than it is. "The process is relaxing," says Buhler, "and most women fall asleep!"
But we have to wonder: is it worth the investment? Well, the hair-to-skin technique can last 7-10 days (so, that's a no), but the hair-to-hair treatment can last 3-4 weeks. Of course, how you maintain them will also determine the lifespan of your new brows.
"The general rules for maintaining the life of the brow extensions are to be gentle on them and not grind them into your pillow as you sleep," says Buhler.
For the everyday occasion, I think this may be a waste of your money. Think of all the Starbucks lattes and Chipotle burritos you could buy! However, there is an upside: if you're going through a tweezing mishap, dealing with the effects of chemotherapy, or just in need of a confidence boost for a big interview or event, eyebrow extensions could help you look like your best self.
"The most rewarding experience for our clients is to see the realistic texture of the brow extensions and no longer have to pencil brows in every day just to feel normal," says Buhler.
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I do feel good knowing that by the ripe old age of 89, all hope is not lost. By then, I've probably plucked my eyebrows into oblivion, but thank goodness I'll be able to rock some extensions!
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E.O. Wilson, a Pioneer of Evolutionary Biology, Dies at 92
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Amid staffing shortages, companies are weighing conflicting guidance on when employees who have tested positive for the coronavirus can safely return to work.
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In a Boston Court, a Superstar of Science Falls to Earth
A jury found Harvard chemist Charles Lieber guilty of lying to the federal government about his participation in China's Thousand Talents recruitment program.
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A new treatment using stem cells that produce insulin has surprised experts and given them hope for the 1.5 million Americans living with the disease.
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Climate activists on campuses across the country have spent years organizing in the name of fossil fuel divestment. That organizing is starting to pay off.
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Art Bell Quits Coast
Yep, Knapp confirmed it for us: Art is done It's so sad that it all had to end with bad vibes. I suppose he just didn't like the direction the show was taking. It's definitely not as edgey as it was when Art was host.
Thanks to Art, late-night paranormal radio has become quite the phenom. Art's exuberant voice got me through alot of rough nights and I will miss him dearly.
As for me, I'll keep listening to Coast simply because of the subject matter. I don't think Art has written his fans off and I think he would want us to continue in our paranormal endeavors.
Art, I wish you the best of luck in all that you do. Life is short...Enjoy your lovely family in your retirement! WELL DONE!!
KMKMKM
scored a signed copy of The Art of Talk for like 12 bucks on ebay yesterday
It's weird he's quitting for good. Talk radio guys never give it up. I mean Howard Stern just signed for 5 more years. Talk radio guys just never stay away, they love it too much.
Merchant Gal
Mentioned somewhere above is Doug McIntyre's Red Eye Radio, as an alternate to Snorry. Here is a link to Doug's website. Lo and behold, there is a ststion listed for him that I can receive.
http://dougmcintyreonline.com/
fabucat
Quote from: b_dubb on January 23, 2011, 10:29:24 PM
very nice voice. i wish i'd grown up next door. instead of in a cornfield in ohio. ugh
Don't dis the fact that you're from Ohio, dude. Be true to your roots!
RealCool Daddio
Quote from: aquagoat on January 24, 2011, 01:45:42 AM
For anyone seeking alternative listening, there's a coupla interesting shows from here in the Great White North (snowbound Toronto)
First is http://www.richardsyrett.com/ Richard Syrett actually once hosted an Open lines Friday C2C on about an hours notice - a very interesting dude if the Illuminati conspiracy is your thing,
Second is A View From Space hosted by -- wait for it --- "The Spaceman"" (and sadly, no, it isn;t baseball's Bill Lee) - http://www.640toronto.com/HostsandShows/AViewFromSpace.aspx ---- still Gary Bell runs a fun ship for the few hours he squeezez in every weekend.
PS - Anagrammy - great songbird you've had leave the nest. Talk her into coming up north - I'd suggest a club name of Hugh;s Room - would be just the ticket, ambience wise for her Shannon McNally tinged sound (but definetely a distinct sound she has this Beth of yours -- evocative not imitative).
Both excellent shows, and hosts. I sometimes catch the Spaceman after Leafs broadcasts on Talk 640.
On the subject of other hosts, looks like Rob Simone is back this Friday. I didn't love his first show over the Christmas break, but thought he was a step up from Noory. I'll certainly give him another listen, anyhow.
PS - looks like a nice cottage - Kawarthas?
b_dubb
Quote from: fabucat on January 24, 2011, 09:34:33 AM
dissing the cornfield really
Stevenqbosell
Quote from: someguy on January 24, 2011, 05:40:32 AM
That and the fact that it's Art Bell, king of crazy retirements
So, I'm by no means holding my breath, however, it would not surprise me to one day pop onto the Gab, and see Art Bell in a new audio form show up.
Master_of_Reality
Quote from: anagrammy on January 22, 2011, 05:02:17 PM
Mother of God! I am the evil twin of Mary Matalin and have been found out on the INTERNET (DRAT!) Separated at birth, I was raised by a Columbian mother and a Euro-American business tycoon, exploding out of the nest to become (long story) a card-carrying Kucinich-loving Democrat Buddhist/agnostic living in Berkeley, CA. You see me dancing at my youngest daughter's wedding and we are no longer Mormon, so I am not carrying the bride.
Also, as her polar opposite, I am a fast-talker.
Anagrammy
You're good!
ourobouros2k2
I thought Simone did an excellent job. Despite only hearing him one time, I wish he would replace Noory full time. He was articulate and engaging, and I bet once he finds his traction with coast he will be one of the better hosts the show has seen. In absence of Art, he would do imho.
Can somebody post the last show Simone posted? I don't remember him.
Tks, folks,
ArtBellFan
Rob Simone hosted on 12-28-10
Guest host Rob Simone (email (robsimonetalks@yahoo.com)) welcomed David Wilcock for his analysis of the Bosnian Pyramid (video clips) and other ancient monuments, as well as his new physics theory of how they were built by "altering" matter. There is a prevalence of ancient structures around the world aligned on the same grid, he said, citing such examples as the 1,776 pyramids on the Philippines' Chocolate Hills, the earthen mounds built by the Mound Builders in the United States, and the lost pyramids of Italy. Pyramids have also been discovered in China, but the government there has been secretive about them, he added.
First hour guest, Semir Osmanagich, Ph.D., the discoverer of the ancient pyramidal complex in Bosnia, discussed unique aspects to the structures.
Excellent interview, here it is for download.
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aquagoat
Real Cool Daddio said: "Both excellent shows, and hosts. I sometimes catch the Spaceman after Leafs broadcasts on Talk 640.
PS - looks like a nice cottage - Kawarthas?"
»AND the Aquagoat replies: " Yup - you pegged it .... quaint setting of about 8 rental cabins aroung Cobiconk called Pine Point. Pic is from 2006 -- word is the setting is on the block, looking for a Million or so . . . so whaddya say, wanna go partners>?"
- Rick
PS -- guess I should read up on the functionality of the site so's I can do all the cut n paste, pic here/pic there stuff in the right proper way.
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forgive me for being slow, but if I understand the news as broken on this forum: Knapp confirmed that Art has retired without any fanfare, but is welcome on the show at any time? Ian is reducing his time on the air due to health reasons just after saying how excited he is to do the follow up New Years prediction show in 2011? Have they announced who the fill-in for Ian will be? Has anyone been in contact with the team over at TMZ to sort this out yet? Can I come up with any more questions or is this the end?
Was it a Portal?Do you think it was Angels?Could this have anything to do with Hopi Prophecy?2012?NASA conspiracy!?!Perhaps this explains the massive Bee die-off?How about them birds falling from the sky?Could this be the disclosure we're looking for?
Liberace!
Quote from: b_dubb on January 24, 2011, 11:17:02 AM
sometimes there are strange little things people type on this forum that cause me to gut-laugh. it's always unpredictable, and i can never explain to myself why i find something to be funny... but this was one of those lines. holy shit.
MV ... glad i could provide the impetus for another gut laugh
i want to make a prediction -> Israel becomes the 51st state ( of the USA )
Evil Twin Of Zen
Quote from: From Somewhere Out There on January 14, 2011, 11:02:13 AM
That was frigging hilarious Valdez and an instant classic. LONG LIVE GEORGE SNOORY! Not........
and it's got boobies!
Right now, I don't blame Art Bell for giving up his association with what's become of Coast To Coast AM. It's no longer an avenue for critical, true and visionary thinkers. But a way for people to hawk their wares without any opposition. I give it zero credibility, except for the laugh it poses in the name of knowledge in this world.
So sue me. Or say what you want about me. I can use the publicity -- for my own character defamation. I hide nothing from anyone, so I have no issue in presenting myself as a true American -- and a human being.
Next, if he has half a wit -- as I know he does, I expect Mr. Ian Punnett to drop your program as well. George Knapp will probably follow, because I know he's no infomercial host.
Now, Coast To Coast AM provides great humor and has become a source of fair comment and criticism. Again, sue me -- and create publicity -- if you dare publicity or privately challenge my assertion it's nothing but an overnight infomercial.
For example, such at Coast To Coast AM will have to explain Dr. Richard C. Hoagland's claims of being some science adviser. Research him on line sometime. He was a curator of some museum, while persons and organizations that he's claimed to advised have publicity disavowed such claims. Look it up, please.
Such as Mr. Noory fail to ask critical questions of these guests. No wonder, all, Mr. Bell retained his integrity and influenced those like myself who once -- 'once" believed in the program.
As we no longer do. So such for science, and so much for real, objective thinkers -- and journalists.
For every guest that comes on, sir, I suggest they allow another guest equal time. To question and interrogate these guests. But I know, as any infomercial does, they won't.
Enough. I'm tired. Of having people like them mislabel and misjudge true people like me.
These days, Coast To Coast AM sounds like some half-wits that host radio infomercials. No matter what baloney some guest shovels out, it's considered "fascinating," "intriguing," "thought-provoking," and God knows what else.
Top 10 Reasons Why Art Bell Quit Coast to Coast
#10 No spittoon
#9 Aliens kept drunk dialing
#8 Regular host never cleaned the headphones
#7 Steve Quayle kept getting raptured
#6 Noory's new pony tail
#5 Ian healed the best guests
#4 Tommy's bath soap in the water fountain
#3 "The Best of Barbara Simpson"
#2 Clear Channel's meddling with bumper music *
#1 Wanted to pursue his first love: calling tennis
*Philosophy of the world - The Shaggs
FortRock
I heard the George Knapp comment myself! It really adds to the drama, as George said "Art is no longer associated with Coast To Coast AM". No statement or intimation of Art's retirement, AT ALL! This sounds much more along the lines of a career divorce than anything. It is time more than at any time to do the suggested monitoring that I've talked about here. Art is not gone, only gone from Coast-Land!
SheilaVG
I know what you mean about the change in his town during G2G. When someone called in and asked Knapp about it the other night, he said, "Art has seperated from (whatever the name of the company is)." The use of the word seperate and the tone in which he said it made me think almost immediately tha for some reason Art got fed up with something or had just had enough and broke all ties with the company. I'd be willing to bet the problem was directly related to Noory. I truely believe, even after all the years of service, Bell was thrown under the bus or in some way shafted and he'd had enough OR it had something to do with the latest threats to his family.
In the past, when Bell had "retired" even if it seemed that this was really it, he'd been allowed ( and I use that word purposely) to post a little something on the site; this time he did not. I truely believe he would have if he could have and I can't believe after all this time this is truely it for him and he didn't say anything on the site
I hardly ever bother listen to Noory either; he's ignorant and I find his shows repetitive, misinforming, and boring so if he has anything to say about all of this, I probably won't know but I can't believe Art is just going to leave everybody hanging. I just get the vibes that this is it for him and it all ended very badly and that Noory had the most to do with it ending badly.
Shiela, you noticed something that many haven't here! Art never left a message or did a faarewell show. He's allowed us to all fret and worry about his status, and even call into the program. This is the same agenda followed by Art prior to the demise of the Mike Siegal era of Coast. The only thing changing in the plan is that he'll start another show. There is intent on both sides, the shafting of Art by Clear Channel, and Art disassociating himself with the Mr. and Ms. Shafts of Clear Channel (or as Art calls them the Hot Air). Art would never pick up his marbles and leave without a farewell to his listeners!
DoYouThinkItWasAngels
Quote from: Fort Rock on January 25, 2011, 04:10:46 PM
Shiela, you noticed something that many haven't here! Art never left a message or did a farewell show... Art would never pick up his marbles and leave without a farewell to his listeners!
Clear Channel might have prevented him from posting something on the web site, but it was his decision not to post anything on Fantastic Forum.
Quote from: Do you think it was angels? on January 25, 2011, 04:32:47 PM
I doubt very much that Art wanted to put up anything on Coast, I don't see him posting on FF, I imagine what he thinks he cannot post. I do think he was thinking of posting when he emailed for his password back in December and obviously decided against it. If Art is harboring some anger he is not going to air it in public or on FF, that site is watched very carefully by Coast.
Think it is time to move on from all the speculation.
Quote from: aquagoat on January 24, 2011, 07:42:23 PM
Aquagoat replies: " Yup - you pegged it .... quaint setting of about 8 rental cabins aroung Cobiconk called Pine Point. Pic is from 2006 -- word is the setting is on the block, looking for a Million or so . . . so whaddya say, wanna go partners>?"
Sorry, all my money is tied up in LearCapital gold (anyone ever wonder if LearCapital is John Lear?)
Plus, I live out west now, making my fortune in the fossil fuel business. I am renting a place in Shuswap this summer, I'll make sure to post a photo or two when I get back - not as nice as the Kawartha's, but pretty close.
I tend to agree with Art Bell Fan and other's sentiments that if Art had anything to say, he could easily have posted somewhere (or used a publicist, or agent, to send out a press release, sent up smoke signals, whatever), but that he probably doesn't have anything, or at least anything nice, to say right now. Art is smart enough not to burn any bridges, in case he decides to return when day. I doubt it though, and for different reasons than have been posted here.
A bit of background - I lived overseas in a tax free jurisdiction, working in a senior capacity for an offshore bank. Had a beach around the corner from our house, banana trees in our yard, and could golf 10 out of 12 months a year (July and August being too darn hot for golf!) After 8 years, my wife and I moved back to Canada with our 2 kids (we now have four). Everyone though we were nuts to leave a tropical paradise where I made twice as much money for the frozen wasteland of Canada. The only real answer I had was that if we didn't come back then, we would never, ever come back.
Many years ago, probably on an open lines show, Art was discussing his time in Okinawa, and said pretty much the same thing when discussing the ex-pat lifestyle with an American caller who was living overseas. He (Art) said he was very close to "going native" , and lots of his friends and army buddies did, but he decided he wanted to be an American again.
I think that he has now gone native in the Phillipines. It's his wife's home, and his daughter's home, and now, it is his home. Having faced the exact decision myself - where is my family's home? - I get it. I will miss hearing his voice in the night - I even streamed him during a few hurricanes before the power went out, and he would always have a shout out for his listeners in the carribean - but I understand and respect his decision.
PS - When I left my position at the bank, my staff and colleagues all wanted an explanation, a reason. Did I hate the new CEO, did I have a problem with the direction of the company, etc. My answer was pretty simple - "It's time to move on".
Quote from: SheilaVG on January 25, 2011, 01:40:47 PM
I truely believe, even after all the years of service, Bell was thrown under the bus or in some way shafted and he'd had enough OR it had something to do with the latest threats to his family.
someone threatened Art's family? wtf? that's completely awful.
I just get the vibes that... Noory had the most to do with it ending badly.
i want to believe this.
Quote from: ArtBellFan on January 25, 2011, 04:44:03 PM
but it's sooooooooooo fun!!!
Quote from: valdez on January 14, 2011, 08:42:18 AM
Screwed up schedule due to the southern snow, driving my wife nuts, teaching the cat geometry, and finishing the Hitler Trilogy...
Hitler takes over coast 2 coast
i love the way the translation of "heil hitler" turns out to be "long live george noory." classic.
Let's play a game called "Who Can't Talk, And Why"! There are two people out in radioland who have not "talked" so far; Art Bell and Alan Corbeth. Could Art say goodby in a censored manner on the Coast Website? The answer is yes, BUT we all know Art would not do so! Art can't talk because he'll be censored, and what he'll reveal as to his future (Art will not pull punches) would not please the Noory Mafia! Alan Corbeth can't talk because he's involved in a future project with Art. Both can't talk because Art's Contract Period has not expired yet, remember Art declined renewal and was on the air last in late October! Art has been muzzled for now at the Fantastic Forum because of this contract issue! The quality of program at Coast has declined to laughable status, just like the pajama-wearing Mike Siegal's era. Check the Linda Moulton Howe show for Thursday, just rerun subjects from the last 3 months! We have hit bottom! Let's play a game of "Who Is Listening To Us", just how tapped in is Art when he's not running after Asia? We know Art, we know his keen and razor-sharp intellect! Why are we tapped in so tightly to this thread? Because we know in our hearts and minds that Art and Alan are monitoring our every word! Art has the detective mind-set, and this is evidence of his return!!
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Christian Hoffmann (* 12. März 1987) ist ein ehemaliger deutscher Basketballspieler, der für Trier und Quakenbrück in der Basketball-Bundesliga spielte und bei mehreren Zweitligisten unter Vertrag stand.

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Der 1,85 Meter große Point Guard begann das Basketballspielen als zwölfJähriger beim TuS Holzkirchen. Anschließend wechselte er zu Bayern München, wo er die Jugendmannschaften durchlief und später für die erste Herrenmannschaft in der Regionalliga spielte.

Zur Saison 2007/08 unterzeichnete Hoffmann einen Vertrag beim Bundesligisten TBB Trier, wo er zunächst als Ergänzungsspieler zum Einsatz kam. Im Laufe der Saison erhielt er kontinuierlich mehr Einsatzzeit und wurde zu einer festen Größe auf der Position des Aufbauspielers. 2008/2009 sank seine Einsatzzeit von knapp zehn Minuten je Spiel auf unter fünf Minuten. Nach der Saison kehrte er zu Bayern München in die zweite Bundesliga Pro A zurück.
Am 26. Juni 2010 gewann er mit drei anderen Spielern das Streetball Turnier Make Your Move in Innsbruck (Österreich).

Zur Saison 2011/2012 wechselte er zu den Artland Dragons nach Quakenbrück. Im Juli 2014 unterschrieb Hoffmann einen Vertrag für ein Jahr mit Verlängerungsoption bei S.Oliver Würzburg und wurde mit der Mannschaft Vizemeister der 2. Bundesliga ProA. 2015 verließ er die Mannschaft und spielte noch bis 2017 bei der TG Würzburg in der 2. Bundesliga ProB.

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A 1929 USGS topographical map, courtesy of Jason Brice, places Oberg (circled) at the northwest end of Castaic Junction. (It's roughly the upper-left corner of this aerial photo.) Here, "SFC" is pointing to San Francisquito Canyon.
Magnifying the upper-left corner of one of these aerial photographs, Jason Brice points out evenly spaced power or telephone poles in the vicinity of the Oberg Siding at Castaic Junction and suspects the men in the High Water Mark photo are gathered around one of them.
J. David Rogers writes (2014): Here is a clip from my flood inundation map of (the Castaic Junction) area. The flood waters diverted around the north side of the promontory would have swept in from the east, nearly perpendicular to that tracks in vicinity of Oberg Siding, and the erosion would have been severe along the oversteepened banks along the eastern side of the Santa Clara River Channel, which is noticeably incised. That explains how the tracks shifted 200 feet to the west.
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Home Israel The Knesset Lapid-Bennett Coalition Passes 2022 Budget; Smotrich: We Lost this Battle But Will...
Lapid-Bennett Coalition Passes 2022 Budget; Smotrich: We Lost this Battle But Will Win the War
David Israel
1 Kislev 5782 – November 5, 2021
Photo Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and coalition members at the state budget vote in the plenum, November 4, 2021.
After three and a half years if you count from the passing of the last budget, or two and a half if you start from the expiration of the 2018 budget, Israel finally has a new budget to carry it through 2022. The new budget was passed around 3:00 AM Friday, with a 59 to 56 vote, at the end of a 66-hour debate that began at 9:00 AM Tuesday.
So, what's in the 2022 budget? According to the Finance Ministry, the 2022 state budget will be NIS 452.5 billion ($145.56 billion). The biggest overall spending will be on Education: about NIS 70 billion ($22.5 billion). Second biggest—although it will likely be amended for unexpected emergency spending, Defense: about NIS 60 billion ($19.3 billion). Health: NIS 45 billion ($14.4 billion); Transportation development: about NIS 36 billion ($11.6 billion); Welfare: about NIS 15 billion ($4.82 billion); Higher education: about NIS 12 billion ($3.86 billion).
Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman announced gleefully: "Prime Minister, we have approved a budget. But beyond that, the budget brings certainty to Israel. Mabruk (Arabic for Blessings) to the State of Israel."
The folks that cast the 56 votes against were Less jovial, obviously. MK Shlomo Karhi (Likud) said: "This is an abusive budget against the weak and against Judaism and against the Jewish character of the state."
Maybe. But the voters aren't going to have their say until at least 2023, probably later.
Religious Zionism Chairman MK Bezalel Smotrich was also combative, declaring: "We lost this battle but we will win the war, because we have a path, and values, and truth, and we have not sold nor will we sell them for any fortune in the world. And the truth will win in the end."
Meanwhile, the inevitable knives were pulled out in Yamina after their wayward faction partner MK Amichai Chikli (pronounced Shikli) voted with the opposition on Thursday morning against the 2021 budget. After five months of waiting for Chikli to either change his ways and toe the party line or resign, the party declared him expelled. They can't force him out of this Knesset, but Chikli will not be able to run in an existing party's slate in the next election, and if he wishes to run he'll have to form a new party.
United Torah Judaism issued a statement saying: "The malicious coalition approved by a narrow majority, forced and enforced, a bad and cruel budget, without compassion and without any good news in any area, other than for cats, for the Reform movement, and extremist organizations. We will continue to fight to overthrow the malicious government that was formed in sin, without public support, contrary to all the promises and values."
The part about public support is true (seeing as the UTJ voted for NIS 5 million a year to spay cats in 2018). The fate of the coalition's right-wing members, Yamina, New Hope, and if you count Israel Beiteinu as right-wing then they, too, depends on the success of the new budget. If by the end of 2022 the country will do a lot better in key areas such as burgeoning housing prices, the collapsing healthcare system, and the inadequate public transportation, then the three gentlemen, Naftali Bennett, Gideon Sa'ar, and Avigdor Liberman could write their own ticket at the expense of Likud. Otherwise, this may be the end of the line for at least two of them (Liberman will survive, most likely).
So we have the next 12 months to see whether the quality of life across the board in Israel is getting better with reformed services and more up-to-date money allocations. As always, the choice between right-leaning and left-leaning coalitions will be in the hands of the 20 or so seats decided by the independents at the center, and they, unlike Likud and Labor-Meretz voters, don't vote tribal.
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Amit Manchanda, 07 Sep 2008hello ppl m actually a msging freak can i get a software that makes the msging screen same... moreI use phonepad as my source for input, it mimics a number pad and supports T9. I find it very convenient for messaging.
There was another issue for Google Maps, here is a tip, use your wifi connection and load up the area your visiting, google maps locally caches this information for sometime(reboot ?) so when your out on the road it does not use the GPRS to download the map.
surfer88, 11 Sep 2008Yes, even Opera mini does not seem to be more cumbersome that IE. If you checked Opera's site,... moresurfer88, the reason that you see so many phone manufacturers and models listed on the Opera site is to guide you about which Opera Mini version to use. It does not mean in any way that they have a separate version for each popular phone - you can try that yourself.
shubham , 11 Sep 2008thanks prashant.now as I spend time ,I am loving this...good value for money ..as someone said... moreShubham, Nav4All is similar to Google Maps in that it also required a constant GPRS connection to download the maps on the fly. The 3rd option in this category would be Live Search from Microsoft. If you don't have a GPRS connection, then you could opt for a software that already has the maps bundled in. I am using SatGuide (Destinator) which came bundled with my P527 and MapKing which supports a great native-look interface. Another popular option in India is MapMyIndia.
Am just waiting for the chrome browser for WinMo. It revolutionized desktop browsing, now it'll make browsing on fone as great!
Murali, 09 Sep 2008And I believed that the P320 ran at 200Mhz, but was kinda shocked/sad to see that TCPMP says i... moreIf you are sure you want to try overclocking, there are several tools available for TI OMAP based devices like OmapClock, TornadoPowerControl. Not only it reduces the battery time, it might brick the phone in the process and void warrenty. Do this at your own risk.
Murali, 10 Sep 2008Hi t-dome, TCPMP's latest release can be run on our P320, and I just love it... http://w... moreIt is not the latest version of TCPMP; it is the same 0.72RC1 version recompile with the fix. This is available in several forums; try google "
TCPMP-0.72RC1-ARM-PPC-recomp-03.CAB.zip" I have been using this for a couple of weeks and it is working fine on my P320.
guys can u please tell me how to use GPS on asus p-320?
can i use g-talk and yahoo messanger on it?
shubham , 11 Sep 2008thanks prashant.now as I spend time ,I am loving this...good value for money ..as someone said... moreI uninstalled Opera 9 because the whole system crashed often even when I didn't run Opera. So I use IE for now.
thanks prashant.now as I spend time ,I am loving this...good value for money ..as someone said battery life increases as days passes..pocket xpdf working just fine.thanks prashant..
1.nav4allgives a blank screen.should I need to download other thangoogle map for nav4all?google uses gprs continuously .
2.do u people use other than ie or opera browser?
1. I prefer the HTC Touch's build quality to the P320's due to a more durable body and a hard touch screen on the Touch. But the P320 does seem to be durable in its own way.
2. No problems there - the display is very crisp.
3. Overall battery life is pretty good, but may go down if you use GPS, WiFi or Bluetooth.
4. While the rightone is pretty good, you may end up missing a call in avery noisy area unless you also have the vibrate on.
5. Camera is okay for outdoor areas, but does loose a lot in most indoor situations.
6. Yes, you can charge through the USB port.
7. You bet - that's why most people buy WinMo phones!
Please provide your feedback on Asus P320.
1. is its build quality better compared to HTC?
2. how good is display clarity?
4. How good is the ringtone volume in noisy areas?
6. is USB Charging available?
7. Able to install 3rd party apps like any HTC windows mobile?
Yeh Chiam, 10 Sep 2008P320 is support Wi-Fi 802.11b/g,so what is the maximum connection speed? What is the speed dif... moreYeh, this is hardly the right place to learn more about the different WiFi protiocols! You could have easily typed in "802.11" in Google to find out everything you could ever need to know from the first result link (Wikipedia). If your WiFi router supports it 802.11g, then your phone will automatically use it, otherwise it will connect using 802.11b.
P320 is support Wi-Fi 802.11b/g,so what is the maximum connection speed? What is the speed difference between b and g? and which 1 is more command that i can find the connection easily?
Murali, 10 Sep 2008Hi t-dome, TCPMP's latest release can be run on our P320, and I just love it... http://w... moreGlad to hear that you could watch you tube successfully using TCPMP on wm6.1 (asus p320).
Could you share with us how you do that, what plugins required and what steps to take to view the video ( need to download first?) and any particular settings on TCPMP required ?


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Mission To The Unknown
October 9, 1965 January 8, 2019 Earl
A ship from Earth, piloted by three Space Security Agents, lands on the jungle world of Kembel for a scouting mission. Their recce soon turns into more than they'd bargained for – the local flora is capable of infecting humans and turning them into mindless killers, and one of the Agents is gunned down by his fellow officers in self-defense. Worse yet, they learn that the Daleks are massing a secret strike force on Kembel. The metallic monstrosities are planning to overrun Earth's entire solar system, subjugate the human race, and from there take over the entire universe. In the end, only Space Security Agent Marc Cory is left alive, and he's dying, infected by the mind-controlling vegetation of Kembel. He manages to fire off a distress signal to Earth – not a plea for help, since he will be dead by the time help can arrive, but a warning: prepare for an invasion.
written by Terry Nation
directed by Derek Martinus
music not credited
Cast: Edward de Souza (Marc Cory), Robert Cartland (Malpha), Jeremy Young (Gordon Lowery), Barry Jackson (Garvey), Ronald Rich (Trantis), Robert Jewell, Kevin Manser, Gerald Taylor, John Scott Martin (Daleks), Peter Hawkins, David Graham (Dalek voices)
Notes: The master tapes of this episode were destroyed by the BBC in the early 1970's, and no video copies exist. This is the only episode of Doctor Who in which neither the Doctor nor his companions appear.
LogBook entry & review by Earl Green
The unique one-part adventure was forced onto producer Verity Lambert's slate by the trimming of a previous episode from four parts to three. But there was only one hitch: no story was written, and with other episodes already in front of the cameras, a way had to be figured out to excuse the regular cast from the action.
By the time Mission To The Unknown, also referred to by fan historians as "Dalek Cutaway," was even conceived, the epic-scale Daleks' Masterplan 12-parter was already in the works. To fill the gap, the Doctor Who production team essentially turned the open slot in the schedule into a 25-minute teaser for the upcoming Dalek story. Dalek creator Terry Nation makes it interesting, if obvious, and one can also sense that he was feeling his way around the possibilty of a Doctorless Dalek series, an ambition he long held but failed to realize in his own lifetime. To some degree, Big Finish – the modern-day holders of the Doctor Who audio drama license – has closed the circle with the Dalek Empire audio series.
Naturally, Mission To The Unknown was wiped from the archives, just like most of The Daleks' Masterplan. Enterprising fans who tape-recorded the audio of these episodes from their TV sets, however, have made this and other BBC audio-only Doctor Who releases possible. Mission To The Unknown was released as a bonus disc, rounding out the 5-CD set necessary to present The Daleks' Masterplan in its entirety in audio form. I haven't had a chance to plow through the six hours worth of Dalek exploits that make up the rest of the story, but on its own, Mission To The Unknown is intriguing, though as a teaser story it's a little less than subtle. Still, I wish we could see it today. The lavish five-disc Mission / Daleks' Masterplan audio set almost makes up for it, with such extras as scripts rounding out the portions of the Mission disc unused by the audio program.
Most intriguing…and unusual. One wonders what they could've done with single-part stories later in the series' run?
Classic Season 03, Doctor WhoBBC1, Daleks
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Pregnant Workers Fairness Act Reported Favorably
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(Boston) – Today the Massachusetts Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (S.1023/H.1038) was reported favorably by the Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development.
"As the lead Senate sponsor on this piece of legislation, I believe it is imperative that we ensure pregnant workers, 40% of whom are primary breadwinners, the certainty that they are able to keep their jobs without worrying about the health of their pregnancies," stated Senator Lovely.
Every day in Massachusetts, some pregnant workers face workplace discrimination. It is inexcusable that any pregnant worker is forced to choose between having a healthy pregnancy and keep a job when simple, affordable, reasonable accommodations exist.
This bill provides basic accommodations such as allowing for modified schedules, necessary transfers to safer and less strenuous positions, or more frequent restroom breaks. While most businesses already provide these low cost accommodations to their workers, some do not.
"It is unacceptable for pregnant workers to choose between healthy pregnancies and keeping jobs when there are low cost, reasonable accommodations available," stated Senator Joan Lovely. "This is why I'll continue to fight hard to ensure that the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act becomes law."
We, as a Commonwealth, value equality in the workplace and a healthy work environment. This piece of legislation would ensure that employers are fair to pregnant workers so that they may continue to work while pregnant and provide the best life possible for themselves and their families.
"I'd like to thank all who testified in favor of the Massachusetts Pregnant Workers Fairness Act at the April 4th Labor and Workforce Development hearing, and to those who have worked alongside me to get the bill this far especially Representative David Rogers, MotherWomen, and Associated Industries of Massachusetts," added Senator Lovely. "I look forward to working with them all to get this bill to the Governor's desk in short order."


An NBA executive since 1997, Danny Barth has served in his current position of executive vice president and chief administrative officer of the Oklahoma City Thunder since the team's inaugural season in 2008. In this role, he oversees all aspects of the team's business operations, driving its emphasis on building community partnerships and creating a first-class fan experience.
After overseeing the moving of the franchise's business operations to Oklahoma City, Barth shifted his focus to the team's growth and development, including overseeing the remodeling of Chesapeake Energy Arena to not only meet NBA requirements, but also to provide a strong fan-focused environment. The facility upgrades, which were completed in 2013, included new hospitality areas, enhanced seating and sightlines, modernized common areas and concourses, and the team's permanent corporate office.
Under Barth's leadership, the Thunder has become regarded throughout the industry as a leader in sports business and a model for best practices. Within its first five seasons, the team was recognized by ESPN The Magazine in its Ultimate Standings as the No. 1 professional sports franchise in North America and awarded Sports Team of the Year by the Sports Business Awards, presented by the Sports Business Journal. The national Make-A-Wish Foundation has honored the team with a Chris Greicius Celebrity Award, and Leadership Oklahoma has recognized the team with its Statewide Community Leadership Award.
Prior to his work with the Thunder, Barth served as interim president and CEO for two seasons with the Seattle Supersonics, having previously held positions as chief financial officer, vice president and controller for the team. He began his career with Price Waterhouse LLC, spending six years in the audit division in the corporation's Seattle and New York offices, where he specialized in retail and investment banking.
A graduate of Seattle University, Barth resides with his wife Julie and their two sons in Edmond.
Brian Byrnes joined the Thunder organization in April 2005 and developed and executed the strategic sales and marketing efforts to launch business operations in Oklahoma City in 2008. Byrnes' current responsibilities include oversight of revenue platforms including corporate partnerships; ticket sales, retention and operations; luxury suites, terrace lounges and unique inclusive experiences; game theatre, event planning and corporate hospitality; brand architecture and marketing disciplines.
Capitalizing on the unique platform of being Oklahoma's first permanent major-league sports team, Byrnes continues to foster programming that extends the reach of the Thunder brand to fans throughout the region. Initiatives such as Thunder Alley and the Thunder Rewards Zone make the game-day experience accessible to all Thunder fans visiting Chesapeake Energy Arena. Year-round, the Blue Alliance and Thunder Youth Basketball activities connect fans throughout Oklahoma, while the OG&E ThunderBolt brings an interactive Thunder experience to regional fairs and neighborhood celebrations. In 2018, the Thunder Launchpad, fueled by MidFirst Bank, opened as a platform for inspiring growth in computer science and providing a spotlight on the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Oklahoma.
Previously, Byrnes served as executive vice president of business operations for the NHL's Phoenix Coyotes, guiding the organization through an organizational rebranding in conjunction with a transition to a new venue. Prior to joining the Coyotes, Byrnes built nearly 10 years of experience with the NHL's Dallas Stars and MLB's Texas Rangers.
Byrnes is actively involved in the Thunder Cares Foundation, Allied Arts, Leadership Oklahoma City, Leadership Oklahoma, National Sports Forum, Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce and the Greater Oklahoma City Sports Consortium. A graduate of St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Byrnes and his wife Ashley reside with their three children in Edmond.
Christine Berney joined the Oklahoma City Thunder in 2008 and currently serves as vice president of Community Relations and executive director of the Thunder Cares Foundation. She is responsible for overseeing the programs and partnerships that help the Thunder make a positive impact on the community.
During her tenure with the Thunder, Berney has helped establish the team as a leader in the Oklahoma City community and as a partner with nonprofits across the state. She oversees the more than 20 ongoing and annual community programs that the Thunder administers, as well as directing the fundraising and day-to-day management of the Thunder Cares Foundation, whose mission focuses on building and refurbishing community basketball courts across the state of Oklahoma.
Berney's professional background includes public relations and community relations positions in both the corporate and nonprofit sectors. Before joining the Thunder, she served as the manager of public relations for the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber. Prior to that, she was the manager of community relations for Sonic Corporation.
Originally from California, Berney earned her B.A. in English from Oregon State University and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Scott Loft is an industry veteran with more than 25 years of professional sports leadership experience in the National Football League, National Hockey League and National Basketball Association.
Loft joined the Thunder in 2010 after three seasons with the Miami Dolphins and is responsible for the Thunder's overall strategy and tactics for all ticket sales, retention and database operations including season ticket sales, group ticket sales, executive suites and Club Level memberships.
Loft's sports career started with the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers, where he spent nine seasons, culminating as the director of ticket sales. After his stint with the NBA, Loft became one of the first employees with the NHL's expansion Nashville Predators, where his ticket sales team became the first NHL or NBA franchise to qualify for expansion by selling more than 12,000 season tickets before the NHL franchise was awarded to the city of Nashville.
After five seasons in the NHL, Loft joined the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars as executive director of ticket sales and marketing. Loft was chosen to be the Jaguars' sole attendee at the inaugural NFL Management Program at Stanford during the 2003 season, and his five years in Jacksonville were highlighted by the local oversight of the ticketing functions for Super Bowl XXXIX, which was played in Jacksonville in 2005. Loft then continued his NFL career with the Miami Dolphins, where he stayed until he joined the Thunder.
Prior to his career in sports, Loft received his undergraduate degree from Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., and his master's degree from Temple University in Philadelphia. Loft currently lives in Edmond with his wife Cathy; their son, Josh, attends the University of Oklahoma.
Dan Mahoney joined the Oklahoma City Thunder in August 2008. In his role of vice president of Broadcasting and Corporate Communications, he oversees the Thunder business public relations efforts, website (okcthunder.com) and broadcasting operations.
Previously Mahoney served as a public relations consultant for the Professional Basketball Club, LLC and the New Orleans Hornets. From 1995-2003 he was director of communications for Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating. He later worked with Gov. Keating as senior vice president of communications and public affairs at the American Council of Life Insurers in Washington, D.C.
Consulting with Gooden Group of Edmond, Okla., Mahoney coordinated public relations efforts for the Skirvin Hilton Hotel, a historic Oklahoma City landmark which reopened in 2007 after being closed for 18 years. He also assisted the Hornets during their relocation and two-year stay in Oklahoma City from 2005-07.
As director of communications for Gov. Keating, Mahoney was responsible for public information coordination for the State of Oklahoma and the Governor's office. That included public information efforts during the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Following that tragedy, he consulted for businesses and other government agencies on crisis communications.
Mahoney spent 18 years in radio and television as a news director, news reporter and sportscaster in Richmond, Va.; Albuquerque, N.M.; and Oklahoma City. He is a native of Philadelphia and attended Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of New Mexico.
Katy Semtner joined the Oklahoma City franchise in January 2003. She serves as the team's vice president of Human Resources. Semtner's responsibilities include oversight of payroll, benefits, employee relations, recruitment, selection, orientation, performance management, compensation, policy creation, employment-law compliance and employee development.
Prior to joining the franchise, Semtner worked in human resources in the hospitality and nonprofit industries. She is a certified Senior Professional in Human Resources.
Semtner is a member of the Society for Human Resources Management, the Oklahoma City Human Resources Society and EWF International. The Seattle native is a graduate of the University of California at San Diego and an alumna of Leadership Oklahoma City.
Will Syring leads the organization's business strategy to optimize sponsorship sales and brand activation. He and the Thunder's corporate partnerships team leverage the Thunder and NBA's global platform to elevate and optimize brand awareness for new and existing corporate partners. He also guides efforts to establish unique marketing and business opportunities for the Thunder, the Oklahoma City Blue and the Thunder Launchpad. The Thunder's diverse portfolio of corporate partners includes nearly 100 unique brands.
Syring joins the Thunder after five seasons with the Chicago Bulls where he served in various corporate partnership roles, most recently as head of global sales. In Chicago, Syring guided a sales strategy in key markets to develop and secure innovative global partnerships in China, Poland, Germany, Mexico, Finland, and the Philippines. Utilizing a collaborative approach to partnership activation and sales, Syring and his team were consistently recognized by the NBA for account development, retention and new business growth.
Prior to joining the Bulls, Syring represented Learfield Sports at the University of Tulsa and Oregon State University. He was recognized for new business and existing account growth each year at the respective Learfield properties. He started his career near Melbourne, Australia working for the Kilsyth Cobras basketball team as an assistant business development manager in the team's front office.
Syring is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire where he earned a bachelor's degree in business administration. He lives in Oklahoma City with his wife, Leslie (a native of Owasso, Oklahoma) and their son, Wilder.