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In July 1905, in Paris, a young Anglo-French woman called Marie Wheeler became the bride of a Swiss émigré, Johannes Schad. Immediately after the wedding, Marie and Johannes moved to London. And there they lived for nineteen years. In 1924, however, something happened to change their lives, and Marie, in many respects, simply disappeared. Paris[…]
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Chelsea showing most interest in signing Lazio starlet Moro
According to the Express via La Lazio Siamo Noi, Chelsea are ahead of several European sides, as well as fellow Premier League teams with the Blues showing the most interest in signing Lazio's Raul Moro.
La Lazio Siamo Noi report that the Serie A giants signed the attacker from Barcelona in the summer of 2019, for a fee of €6m, but Moro has yet to firmly break into the first-team.
Moro, who turned 18 years old just over a month ago, made his professional debut six months ago with a one-minute appearance off the bench in a clash against Juventus.
The Italian outlet report that Moro's representatives have deemed that the ace has found himself at a 'crossroads' point regarding his future, with a lack of first-team chances leaving an exit to be eyed.
La Lazio Siamo Noi claim that of the ace's European and Premier League admirers, Chelsea are showing interest 'above all', however an unnamed Italian side have sounded out the possibility of a transfer.
With the Spain Under-18s international's contract expiring in the summer of 2022, agent Junior Minguella has deemed that the situation needs to be addressed with this comment:
"There is no possibility that he will go to Salerno (Lazio's feeder club), rather there are greater chances of him leaving Lazio. If Inzaghi or the club don't want him, we have top clubs interested in him."
Moro got the chance to take a snap with Cristiano Ronaldo after his professional debut:
You just know Raul Moro was gonna ask for a picture. pic.twitter.com/9fYfwxU12X
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Moro has contributed 11 goals and three assists for Lazio's Under-19s side but has still been unable to win over first-team boss Simone Inzaghi, which is perhaps unlucky.
10 of Moro's goal contributions have come in eight appearances for the Under-19s this season, it's clear that the talent has outgrown this level.
Moro has been left on the bench for each of the five Serie A matches that he's been called up to the senior side for, it's not surprising to see that an exit is being considered to kickstart his pro career.
La Lazio Siamo Noi's report reiterates that Lazio don't want to make the same mistake they did with Pedro Neto – he saw minimal action in a two-year loan spell that included an obligatory permanent deal – and was sold to Wolves in 2019, he's now become a top-flight star and Portugal international.
The Express report that a summer switch seems more likely for Moro. A move to Chelsea would likely offer the ace the platform for first-team football.
However, it would perhaps initially come via joining the Blues' army of talents on loan, before he'd have the chance to follow in the footsteps of many Chelsea aces and break into Frank Lampard's first-team.
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The amazing art and sound installation Caribbean Takeaway Takeover; Identities and Stories is now showing at S&S Caribbean Cafe until Sunday 22 July. There is still timeto visit the installation.
Over the opening 70th Anniversary weekend and first few days over 150 people brought their families, elders, children and grandchildren to see the installation and listen to the recordings of ten Windrush Generation elders.
of elders produced by creative director and Artist Evewright along with audio interviews complied by the EAF team, Ionie Richards Producer/Writer and volunteers. The art installation is an immersive experience which depicts present images but also fading thoughts, aspirations and memories created to document and reflect participants lives.
The audio recordings are ten-minute extracts of each elder's stories told over a two-hour period. See our programme schedule in the leaflet provided online or at the venue.
Why not pop in to the café and sample the Caribbean cuisine and hear about Alford Gardner's experience on the Empire Windrush, or Tina's achievements of delivering 2000 babies in Thurrock and how Nell and Lenore as nurses tackled racist attitudes raising mixed raced children. Listen to why Alton got everything he wanted.
Find out why Carlton's contribution to sports earned him an MBE. Hear Don and Carol talk of their time in the NHS, explain SuSu and explore questions of identity. Why was Gloria thankful that Jamaican's bought houses? Hamilton thinks the British government remains, "far from the truth." Come and find out why and hear more of their journey and the barriers they all had to overcome to make a life in England.
The full-length audio recording will be available to the public from the Essex Record Office once the project ends.


The fight over a gas tax increase has begun.
Just out of public view, lawmakers and lobbyists and business interests are working together and against each other to draw up bills that will increase Alabama's gas tax as much as 18 cents initially, depending on the type of fuel being purchased.
But there is broad disagreement between Republican lawmakers, reflected in soon-to-be-filed legislation, over the amount of the tax increase, the manner in which it can be increased and the way it can be spent.
APR viewed copies of multiple gas tax bills that are in various stages of completion, and while all shared the same general goal — increasing the tax on fuel in order to fund a variety of infrastructure projects throughout the state — the bills differed dramatically on basic features, setting up what is sure to be a contentious and problematic debate.
A debate that, insiders agree, is likely to open the door for gambling/lottery legislation.
In fact, sources have told APR that at least four different gambling/lottery bills are floating among lawmakers, as lobbyists, lawmakers and business interests push their favorites. As you might imagine, those bills also differ dramatically in scope, focus and support.
At the center of this entire debate is a basic need: Infrastructure.
Alabama's is terrible disrepair. And because the state routinely collects the lowest property and personal income taxes in the nation, the state is also broke and unable to repair its bridges and roads.
To make a dent in this problem, a study by one business-friendly group said an additional 32 cents would have to be added to current fuel prices.
Even the guys who sell road building equipment wouldn't vote for that, so the bills currently being shopped around start with figures well below that number. The most aggressive of the bills reviewed by APR — one allegedly backed by Senate leadership — would add 18 cents and tie future raises to a yet-to-be-determined index.
That bill would also allow for the legislature to float a bond issue, giving lawmakers a pot of money up front to dole out.
That bill is similar to one that failed in the 2018 legislative session, and it retains several provisions that caused its death, including failing to require the state highway department to provide specifics on proposed jobs and allowing jobs to be bid a few miles at a time instead of as a whole job. Republicans who are already wary of putting a tax increase on their political resumes were concerned that a failure to adequately control where the money goes could lead to an embarrassing misuse of funds.
Countering that bill is one drafted by a more conservative group of GOP lawmakers. It would increase the fuel tax by only a few cents, but it would establish a commission that could increase the tax by as much as 10 cents each year to fund qualifying projects. Critics of that bill say it doesn't provide enough guaranteed money to make a difference and places too much control in the hands of a commission.
For example, one longtime lawmaker said the way the bill is written it takes control of the Alabama Department of Transportation away from Gov. Kay Ivey and places it under the newly-formed commission — an astonishing power grab by legislators that would place them in control of millions of dollars.
But while there is plenty of disagreement, oddly, the one area where lawmakers seem to agree is that there will be a need for additional revenue — both for infrastructure projects and for the usual expenses in the general fund budget. When the legislature last departed, the budget chairs in both houses warned of a huge shortfall in 2019 — as much as $350 million, they warned then. In recent months, that figure has eclipsed $500 million and is growing.
Adding necessary infrastructure projects will only increase the shortfall, which is where gambling/lottery bills come into play. And if you've been around for one of these fights, just sub in the problems for this one.
Except for one: conservative voter disapproval.
Internal polling conducted over the last few years by the GOP has shown that Republican voters in Alabama have gradually and steadily softened on lottery and gaming. In fact, one poll conducted in 2016 showed that nearly half of likely Republican voters in Alabama would approve full-fledged casinos. Lottery legislation, in that poll and one other in 2017, achieved better than 65 percent approval. And in two polls, a question that asked if Alabama voters should be given the chance to vote on gambling legislation received more than 90 percent agreement.
But approving of the sausage is one thing. Watching it actually be made is another matter completely. And that's typically where gambling legislation in this state falters.
The gambling/lottery bills being floated currently are excellent examples of Alabama's specific gaming issues. There is one that would provide for a lottery only, one that would allow for a lottery and slot machines at four specific locations, one that would allow for a lottery, full-fledged casinos with table games at a variety or locations and a compact with the Poarch Creek Indians, and one that would simply remove the ban on gambling in the state and set up a commission to decide the rest.
And most insiders predict additional bills are yet to come, along with alterations to the ones currently being shopped around.
For the first time in a few years, gambling proponents are optimistic that some form of gaming will be approved by lawmakers and wind up on a ballot in the near future. The state is desperate for cash — for multiple projects and to simply pay its annual bills — and there are few options left to find it.
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My right pinky toe hurts like I strained it (I think somewhere in the process I bent it back too far), I have scratches on my back and one of the little caps over the screws at the toilet base was knocked off. I think it was partially because I was right in the middle of a deep, deep phase of sleep and maybe I just got up too quick and had a blood pressure drop or something. I don't really remember much. Can't remember if I turned the light on (I thought I must have to see where to pee) but if I did, when did I turn it back off? Did I actually open my eyes and couldn't see because it was dark or did I just not even open my eyes or did I just have a vision blackout as I was coming back around? How did I go down that injured my toe, took out the toilet paper dispenser and knocked the cap off the base of the toilet? It's like some weird Sherlock Holmes mystery. Or an episode of House. Or Jekyll and Hyde. Or I'm a werewolf. Either way, kinda scary and definitely bizarre.


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Today I am trying something a little different. I have create two separate project celebrating Oddball Art's April Premium digital stamp, but create two separate videos sharing how I colored up these cards.
My first project uses the focal image of this month's digi, Batgirl in addition to her sidekick, Cupcake (plus the fabulous sentiment included in the download). To watch how I color up this card with my copics, pop over here.
The second part of my video series features the png image of Cupcake the bat and the really cool sentiment png. Together these two images formed a really great companion project for the original card. To check out this super short and easy color project, click here.
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Parental allowance to increase, government plans
The government of Prime Minister Petr Fiala (ODS) plans to modify the rules of parental allowance. Parents with lower incomes could receive a monthly allowance of up to CZK 13 000 instead of the current maximum of CZK 10 000. The Prime Minister announced this after a cabinet meeting.
The head of the government, Fiala, announced that they would adjust the maximum amount of parental allowance by three thousand crowns, i.e., from ten thousand to thirteen thousand crowns.
Package of measures to lessen the effect on people when prices go up: This is one of them.
"We are helping those who cannot help themselves. We will not let anyone fall, but it is not within the possibilities of state finances to give blanket support to everyone, "the prime minister said.
The government wants to support part-time work and announce emergency subsidies for children's groups.
At the same time, it has decided on a one-off allowance of CZK 5,000 per child for families with an annual net income of up to CZK 1 million.
This would apply to children up to 18, i.e., roughly 1.1 million households. According to the ministry, the government is still fine-tuning the technical solution, and the state should ideally start paying the allowance in August.
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The National Transportation Safety Board wants a complete ban on cellphone use while driving, even on hands-free calls. Some will protest this as yet another government encroachment on freedom, but we should think twice before rocking the boat here.
Driving is basically a grandfathered freedom from back when people cared less about pollution and danger and valued progress and liberty over safety. They had different equations related to human life then: We could lose 10,000 men in a single battle in a war and call it a victory.
We're talking foolhardy people who eventually sent men to the moon strapped to a giant rocket that had less computational power than it takes to calculate the trajectory of an Angry Bird. Their kids dangled from jungle gyms over pavement.
Face it: We're just not those people anymore. We don't do dangerous things where lots of people could be hurt . . . even if they're really cool and fun ideas. You can say we value human life more now, but it's probably more apt to say we're much sissier.
That's why we have to be careful with driving, as it's one of the last really dangerous freedoms we have. Anyone with a car can decide to head out the door and drive cross-country. That's an extreme freedom our ancestors couldn't even imagine, and don't bet it will last.
So just put the cellphone down, place your hands at 10 and 2 and drive as carefully as you can: We don't want to give government regulators any more ideas about banning driving.
A complete ban may not seem feasible, but if engineers ever make self-driving cars viable, the government could make them mandatory so that the average man will never touch a steering wheel again. Your only option will be public transportation or begging a robot to give you a ride.
We'd like to think of the future as having even more freedom — flying cars and personal rocket ships to take us to space — but the future is more likely going to have us standing around waiting for someone else to drive us where we want to go . . . probably with government-mandated mittens pinned to our jackets.
We'll be a much safer people, at least until another country decides to steal our lunch money.


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by Redmond Carolipio on April 27, 2018 @ 10:15 a.m. PDT
In Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Lara must master a deadly jungle, overcome terrifying tombs, and persevere through her darkest hour.
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Lara Croft stands locked in a war of words with her best friend Jonah on a rooftop in a flooded Mexican town. Jonah wants to get people to safety as they reel from the sudden crush of water that tore apart the town, while Lara wants to pursue the possible leader of Trinity, the almost omnipresent group who chases down powerful artifacts and ancient cities, just like she does. She has to find certain artifacts before they do, but Jonah wants her find her humanity first, and help. Here, we see the flip side of Lara's obsessive drive, and it's not her finest hour.
We get the sense that she lost this time. Not because the "bad guy" got away, but because this flood — where Lara sees a child fall to his death — is her fault.
How Lara carries the weight of true consequence is one of the cornerstones of Shadow of the Tomb Raider, which arrives September 14 on PS4, Xbox One and PC. At a preview event in Los Angeles, narrative director Jason Dozois emphasized that this third installment is the final piece of Lara's origin story arc, culminating in the moment Lara becomes "the tomb raider she was meant to become."
A significant part of Lara's evolution involves the game's setting in the jungle as Lara pursues Mayan lore and legends. It is here where we bear witness to what a fully powered Lara with evolved combat skills can do after being forged in the fires of the previous two games. Lead designer Heath Smith said that "Rambo: First Blood Part 2" and "Predator" were inspirations for Lara's new jungle combat abilities. For instance, she can now be covered in mud and therefore less detectable by enemies, even more so when the combination of mud and leaning up against leafy areas adds Rambo-esque vibe to her stealth killing.
In the preview build I played, I noticed some artfully subtle things about Lara that reflected how far she'd come from the harrowed, scared young survivor in the 2013 reboot. Much was made about Lara's shift in look from buxom gun-wielder to the more realistic, human version we've seen the past two games. In the early part of the preview build, a cloaked and masked Lara stealthily pursues a man named Dominguez through the alleys of a Mexican town, hoping to see what he's up to and reach a particular artifact before he does. During her pursuit, she has to take a detour, hopping a wall and shunning her cloak and mask, giving the player the first good look at how Lara has changed.
For Shadow, it appears experience has done for Lara's physique what it's done for Bruce Wayne's. She is now at peak athleticism, rocking the kind of arms one would see from a Navy SEAL or someone who trained with the Amazons on Themyscira — or someone who climbs ... a lot.
The preview build also featured the full package of Lara's climbing abilities. She finds herself having to traverse some cliffs while making her usual array of terrifying jumps, but this time, she's a stronger, more agile climber, using a pair of climbing axes instead of just the one like in previous installments. In addition to still being able to use the ax mid-jump to latch on to craggy surfaces, she can also rappel up and down, opening up a variety of very cool swing-and-jump moments (where you'll still have to press a button whenever Lara semi-fumbles her attempt at grabbing on to a ledge after flying through the air). She still remains a pioneer in the world of crazy-ass jumps.
And as above, so below. Lara's going to head underwater more in this chapter, and the preview build exposed me to a bolstered swimming experience — not just in controls, but also in added elements of drama and fear. I could ascend and descend as usual, but I could also churn through the water faster with the pull of the right trigger and go after pockets of trapped air with the X button. Instead of just swimming from one end to the other, Lara also had to open doors, crack through glass and evade falling rock to reach her destination. Dozois mentioned that old-school Tomb Raider swimming was going to be reintegrated in Shadow, and it was evident in the build.
He also mentioned how tombs would be more intricate and especially deadlier in this installment, instead of being nifty side puzzles that offered beautiful views. This time, mistakes will kill you. I didn't get to tackle any of those types of tombs in the preview, but I did get a taste of some of the game's puzzle work with the glorious and old Mayan temple in the background. The small puzzles I navigated involved some work with cranks, ropes, weights, and using Lara's bow and arrow to break open wooden blockades and tie ropes to the right spots, as players of the past games will remember.
Of course, balancing out the puzzles and swimming in the preview build was a healthy dose of combat. Most of the elements from past titles are present, with Lara able to take out people with everything from an array of guns to her trusty bow and arrow. She was also a more efficient hand-to-hand combatant, using a combo of climbing ax and knife and dispatch her foes with vengeance. One significant change is how Lara can now elude enemies within the confines of a gunfight. "It used to be, if someone found you, that was it," Dozois said. There were a few instances where some quick and consistent movement during a gunfight led to some of my pursuers yelling out, "Where'd she go?" This opens up more chances for Lara to re-establish the rules of the fight, giving her a deadlier edge.
That edge came full circle in the final leg of the build, where she takes a dagger from the aforementioned Mayan temple, causing tremors and an eventual encounter with Dominguez, who takes the dagger from her. Instead of gloating, he chastises Lara for unwittingly setting a catastrophe in motion, and how it is now up to him to fix what she started. Lara, defiant, doesn't buy it, but before she can fully absorb what everything means, the flood comes and takes Lara with it. What followed was an intense sequence of evading obstacles as Lara was being carried by the water, along with some swimming work where players see the bodies of unfortunate people floating and drifting, suspended by their watery fate. She eventually resurfaces and engages in an array of running, fast climbing and jumping over debris that culminates with her encounter with a child hanging off of the side of a building, calling for his mom before he falls to oblivion. Mentally, it brings Lara to her knees.
Every hero has had to confront the consequences of his or her own actions, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider could be seen as a final rite of passage for Lara. Is what she does here the reason she mostly flies solo? What other kinds of loss will she face? She is as fully equipped to deal with things as she's ever been, but will it be enough? From what was seen so far, the journey to the answers could be well worth the wait.
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Defending National Champion Men's Golf Team Begins New Season Ranked No. 1 in GCAA Preseason Poll
NORMAN, OK – The Florida Southern men's golf team will open the 2017-18 season in the same position it held at the end of last season. Three months after winning the 2017 NCAA Division II National Championship, the Moccasins are ranked number one in the GCAA (Golf Coaches Association of America) Division II Preseason Coaches' Poll.
"It is quite an honor to have the respect of your fellow coaches, and for that we are appreciative, but in reality preseason polls mean nothing," said head coach Doug Gordin. "Our team as well as any other teams have a lot to prove this season. As my high school basketball coach told me at the start of a new season, last year's baskets don't count! I want to be ranked #1 at the end of the season, but it is a very nice honor."
The Moccasins picked up nine of the 18 first-place votes to score 429 points in the poll, putting them just ahead of West Florida, which received seven first-place votes and scored 417 points. The next three teams were from the Sunshine State Conference, with Barry third (396 points), Lynn fourth (384 points) and Florida Tech fifth (366 points). Lynn had the remaining two first-place votes that did not go to either Florida Southern or West Florida.
Rounding out the preseason top-10 are Newberry (SC), North Alabama, California Baptist, Cal State-Monterey Bay and Arkansas Tech.
In addition to having four of the top-five, the Sunshine State Conference has three additional teams in the preseason poll. Nova Southeastern is ranked No. 11, Saint Leo is No. 16, and Rollins is No. 22.
For the complete NCAA Division II preseason poll, click here.
Florida Southern was ranked No. 2 in last year's preseason poll behind West Florida, No. 4 in the final regular season poll, and was in the top-five all year before winning the program's 13th National Championship. It was their sixth under Gordin. During their run to the national title, the Moccasins were runner-up in both the Super Regional and the stroke play portion of the National Tournament, which gave them five first- or second-place finishes over the course of the season against what may have been the most difficult schedule in the country. After a 5-0 win over Ferris State in the quarterfinals of match play, the Mocs defeated top-ranked West Florida 3-2 in the semifinals before knocking off Lynn 3-2 in the championship match.
The Moccasins are ranked No. 1 in the preseason poll for the first time since 2010, another year in which they were coming off a national title. That year Gordin had three players returning from his national championship squad, but this year he'll have all five who won the title in Kissimmee last May. Among them are seniors John VanDerLaan and John Coultas, who are each 3-time All-Americans. VanDerLaan was also last year's SSC Player-of-the-Year, and Coultas won that honor two years ago.
Junior Christian Anderson is another of the leaders who stepped up his play during the postseason last year and finished the year among the top-ranked players in Division II. Both Anderson and junior Michael VanDerLaan had top-20 finishes during the stroke play portion of the National Finals, and VanDerLaan saw a nearly 5-stroke improvement in his game from the fall to the Mocs' three postseason tournaments. Sophomore Chase Ibbotson completes last year's contingent of postseason participants after tying for 11th in the regional tournament and winning two of his three individual matches at nationals.
This year's roster also includes returning veterans Grant Lovell, a senior, and Palmer Lovell, a junior. One freshman has joined the mix for the 2017-18 season, with Jacob Penny arriving from nearby Valrico.
The Moccasins are scheduled to open the season September 18 at the Griffin Invitational hosted by Saint Leo at Streamsong Resort.


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Roster Detail
Nick Doan
Class: R-Junior Position: Height: 5-9 Previous School: Portland Hometown: Temecula, Calif.
Cross Country Personal Bests (at Liberty)
8K: 24:16
Sept. 29, 2017 - Paul Short Run
10K: 31:19.0
Nov. 9, 2018 - NCAA Southeast Regional Championship
Rock Hill, S.C.
ASUN Cross Country Championship (8K)
2018 (Bronx, N.Y.): 9th place, 25:44.0 (2nd Team All-Conference)
Big South Cross Country Championship (8K)
2017 (Lynchburg, Va.): 27th place, 27:11.5
NCAA Southeast Regional Championship (10K)
2018 (Rock Hill, S.C.): 51st place, 31:19.0
Top Track Times at Liberty
2K SC: 6:03.84
3K: 8:20.39
5K: 14:57.54
2018 Outdoor Track & Field (R-So.)
• Crossed the line fifth in the Big South steeplechase
• Won the Virginia Grand Prix steeplechase in a personal-best 9:03.77, ranking No. 7 in Liberty history and just missing NCAA East Preliminary Round qualification
• Eight days earlier, he had run a 9:08.34 steeplechase at the Virginia Challenge
• Opened his season with a 6:03.84 clocking for runner-up honors in the FSU Relays 2K steeplechase
2017-18 Indoor Track & Field (R-So.)
• Anchored the Flames to third place in the Big South distance medley relay and placed seventh in the 3K
• Helped Liberty qualify for the IC4A distance medley relay final and post the fifth fastest time (10:00.54) in program history, splitting 4:12.6 for the 1,600-meter anchor leg
• Came in 17th in the IC4A 3K with a personal-best 8:20.39 clocking
2017 Cross Country (R-So.)
• Finished 27th overall, including ninth among the Flames, at the Big South Championship
• Served as the Flames' No. 2 runner at the Paul Short Run with a 39th-place finish in an 8K personal-best 24:16 clocking
• Nearly matched that 8K time two weeks later at Pre-Nationals, coming in 73rd (No. 3 Flame) in 24:17.1
• Posted top-10 finishes in each of his two races in a Liberty uniform, including fifth at the UVA Duals and seventh at the Liberty Big South Preview
2017 Outdoor Track & Field (So.)
• Did not compete in any meets for Liberty and was redshirted
• Competing unattached, ran 14:50.14 for third place in the Virginia Grand Prix 5K and clocked a 3:58.09 1,500 at the Liberty Twilight Qualifier
2016-17 Indoor Track & Field (So.)
• Competing unattached, clocked 8:37.69 for ninth place in the Liberty Elite Invitational 3K
• Attended Portland for a year and a half (2015-16)
• Top track times for the Pilots included 3:57.65 in the 1,500, 4:16.01 in the mile and 14:45.19 in the 5K
• Clocked a cross country 8K time of 25:56.6 at the 2016 Charles Bowles Willamette Invitational
• Graduated from Great Oak High School
• Led Great Oak to its first CIF Division I boys' cross country state title as a senior in 2014, placing seventh individually in a 5K time of 15:25
• Fastest high school times were 1:55.24 in the 800, 4:11.45 in the 1,600 and 9:05.86 in the 3,200
• Also played soccer
• Son of Andrew and Julie Doan
• Birthday is on Jan. 6
• Majoring in mathematics


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Public input sought on new I-83 interchange at Canal Road
Lindsey O'Laughlin
The York County Planning Commission wants the public's input about a proposal to build a new interchange on Interstate 83 at Canal Road, near the junction of Manchester, East Manchester and Conewago townships.
The planning commission will host a virtual meeting at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday to collect public comments about how the area surrounding the interchange should be used, whether that means industrial development, housing, recreation, open space or anything else.
Will Clark, transportation planning chief for the planning commission, said this meeting is about asking the public what they want the area to look like when all is said and done.
"Some people might say, 'A for sale sign for my house,' and some people might say, 'A restaurant,'" Clark said. "You know, we really don't know what people will say."
The proposal to build a new interchange is part of the planning commission's I-83 Master Plan, which recommends a full diamond interchange with on-ramps, off-ramps and traffic signals by 2047.
The new interchange would relieve congestion at the Exit 24 interchange at Church Road, Clark said.
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is seeking approval from the Federal Highway Administration for the project, he said.
The project is estimated to cost $19.7 million, according to the master plan.
The online-only meeting will be streamed on the Zoom platform and on Facebook, but only those who register to participate in the Zoom meeting will be able to submit public comments, Clark said.
Those who don't have access to Zoom but wish to comment should send an email to planner@ycpc.org or call 717-771-9870.
In addition to the public meeting, the planning commission has an online interactive survey on the topic.
To register for the meeting and/or fill out the survey, visit i83exit26.com.
Truck traffic: Manchester borough isn't one of the three municipalities that converge at the site of the proposed interchange, but the borough will be impacted by the project nonetheless.
"My perspective of this is it will help keep the big tractor-trailers out of the borough and it will improve our safety," said Wade Witt, a Manchester borough councilman and member of the planning commission's interchange committee.
Witt said that unlike the townships, Manchester borough doesn't have room for land development as a result of the new interchange, but the borough would be impacted because of the potential to divert commercial vehicles and tractor-trailers off borough roads.
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I read once how Mark Twain loved going fishing but hated catching fish so he did not use a hook on his line. In reality catching fish interfered with his relaxation time, since he had to take the fish off the hook and do something with it. When he wanted to relax and do nothing in order to keep people from thinking he was lazy he would take his fishing pole down to the river and people thought he was fishing and therefore left him alone. He would throw his line absent a hook into the river and people never bothered him because he 'was fishing' and he was able to then relax as much as he wanted.
That got me to thinking about when I first started to fish as a boy. It wasn't so much about catching a fish but a chance to be alone with my thoughts. Since I was just a boy no one actually expected me to catch fish anyway. I could spend hours sitting on a dock or by a river and come home fishless but refreshed. As I grew older things changed and I then sought to catch fish. I put pressure on myself to catch fish. I then progressed to fishing clubs which held tournaments and awarded money or prizes to the winner who caught the most pounds of fish. I was still fishing but the pressure was more intense to place high in the competition and at least recoup my entry fee. Then one day I realized that fishing was no longer relaxing for me and in fact was producing a great deal of stress. When I realized what was happening I sold my bass boat along with big motor and bought a small 12' aluminum boat with a 6 HP motor. I was now back into stress free fishing. The fun and relaxation came back into fishing for me. I could once again relax and be temporarily separated from my responsibilities and associated stress. Fishing fulfills my five R's of mental health. Relax, reflect, rejuvenate, recover and restore. Stress and tension just evaporate when I'm fishing and these five R's just seem to automatically take over and do their magic.
For me it is not about catching fish but more about an activity to relax and leave my troubles behind by concentrating on something else. It is a time to enjoy myself and my surroundings. Pleasure fishing has no pressure, no adverse consequences, and no effort is required. My computer has an application that defragments my hard drive, sorts my files and puts them in order to make it run more efficiently. I find it sad that we humans don't have a program to defrag our inner selves. But wait, we do have such a system and it's called 'fishing'. All the inner garbage and clutter in our lives dissolves the moment you toss your line into the water hoping that some fish will accommodate you. Fishing for me provides therapy for the soul and a true stress reliever.
I have written before about taking time out to go down to our swing and feeling the breeze in my face, hearing the soft sounds of quaking aspen leaves, the flutter of bird wings and the underground spring gurgle. (see photo above). It is a peaceful and relaxing time when I am able to do that. When I'm unable to sit in the swing due to deep snow I will do something crazy like taking my fishing rod and sitting by the spring. There are no fish in that spring but I don't care. Some would claim that was truly crazy but things are happening inside that you wouldn't observe from the outside. I'm fully aware there isn't a fish of any sort in the spring, but years of watching a bobber have pre-conditioned me to relax. It is like going to sleep at night, you don't know exactly when it happens but all of a sudden you are sound asleep. Perhaps it is like Pavlov's dog experiment on conditioning. When I put a fishing pole in my hands and add water the conditioning aspect kicks in; therefore instead of salivating and having a bell I have water and a fishing pole for the conditioned response. Time flies by but then at the same time stands still.
Stop and consider for a moment how many actual places you are able to go now days just to be alone to think and refresh yourself. Probably not many places where you can be truly alone. You could walk out to an isolated spot in the forest or go to a park but still your thoughts continue to race through your mind and there are other distractions. But put a fishing rod in your hand and your line in the water and you will suddenly feel the stress melt away as you concentrate on "fishing". Take it from this old mountain man, fishing can restore you in a way nothing else can. Sure you may get lost in a good book but when you close its cover you are instantly back in reality. You may look foolish fishing in a spring head like I do which has no fish but the transformation is happening inside. Do I care if I look foolish? Not in the least because the true restoration is occurring inside, not outside. It is a chance to restore your inner self and help your overall health in the process. It is a recognized rule that when a person is fishing it is impolite to disturb them. So when you are feeling stressed grab a fishing pole and like Mark Twain head for the water to relax. Or I guess you could pay a therapist $200.00 an hour for the same thing but my personal choice is a fishing pole.
I look at hunting the same way. I find there is time to watch the fox catch grasshoppers, the deer sneak through the woods, and all the animals relate to each other. Once while fishing from the wood ramp used to slide ice blocks into the ice-house a robin came to within 5 feet of me, hopped down on a limb of a shrub just above the water, and a BIG, remember I was 5-8 years old, came up and grabbed the Robin. I almost fell in. Experiences like that can never be found on an electronic toy.


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A bridge too far: COVID-19, disease transmission, and the food system
Washington, 23 June 2020 -
World Food Safety Day in 2020 falls during an ongoing pandemic that has sickened millions, killed hundreds of thousands and cost trillions of USD. The emergence of COVID-19 has been associated with wet or traditional markets, and there are many studies, reports and blogs on how it is affecting food systems through massive job losses, broken supply chains, and reduced access to food.
Taking a step back from the many consequences of the pandemic, this blog will focus on the more fundamental issue of why our food systems keep providing us with novel human diseases and what can be done about it. In addition to well-known zoonotic diseases transmitted from domestic food animals to humans, many of the most catastrophic emerging diseases that have jumped to humans have originated from wild mammals or birds. Highly pathogenic avian influenza, bovine spongiform encephalitis, HIV/AIDS are some of the most tragically deadly examples from recent decades.
How has our food system enabled these pathogens to jump to humans?
If, as a thought exercise, we wanted to design an ecosystem that would help pathogens jump species barriers and make people sick and kill them, how would we go about it? The first clue is that 75% of new human diseases come from wildlife, so to jump species, we would first need to create bridges or routes of connection between wildlife and people. Since wild animals will avoid people, we would need strong incentives for people to get into contact with wildlife, and particularly blood and body wastes, which are often where pathogens are found. There are currently powerful incentives:
people hunting cheap wildlife as a food source rather than purchasing more expensive farm animals;
people who buy exotic wildlife food as a status symbol;
people who think eating wildlife has medicinal, cultural or other life-enhancing properties.
Our current animal food supply chains are unfortunately very well suited to meet these conditions and transmit pathogens. Some important drivers:
For decades rich countries have bred livestock for high production in intensive systems and paid little attention to disease resistance. Much of our livestock consists of massive colonies of genetic clones, living in high density with many close contacts, ideal for pathogen transmission.
Less developed countries have imported intensive production systems but have not been able to establish biosecurity (i.e. protecting livestock from animal diseases), creating the worst of both worlds: large numbers of highly vulnerable livestock not well separated from wildlife, making them a bridging host which can pick up wildlife pathogens, amplify them, and bring them closer to people.
Profit-driven modernisation and industrialisation of livestock processing often result in large numbers of workers living in crowded and un-hygienic conditions while lacking access to good health care.
How can we better prevent, detect, report, and respond to large-scale zoonotic diseases outbreaks originating from the food systems and reduce the chance of future pandemics?
Our current animal food supply chains are unfortunately very well suited to meet these conditions and transmit pathogens. © Annie Spratt/Unsplash
An obvious response is to break the bridges that bring wildlife pathogens to humans and livestock. We can distance ourselves and our animals more from wildlife; provide sufficient habitat where wildlife can live undisturbed; only farm, hunt and eat wildlife under safe and biosecure conditions, and change how we farm our livestock to break the bridge and avoid encroachment into wildlife territory.
We could also work to shift or reduce livestock product consumption. Here we need to draw a distinction between those who like eating animals but don't need to, as they can afford to eat a balanced low-animal-source diet, and the billions of others who would derive significant nutritional benefits if they consumed more animal source food. There are also some novel ideas: could meat be replaced by insects, lab-grown meat, or artificial meat-like products? This is a small, exciting and growing area. There is much debate over the cost, acceptability, healthiness and environmental impacts of these novel foods, but at the moment it is not a mass-market option. At a global level, current levels of livestock consumption are likely to continue for the foreseeable future. Hence, we need to raise, process, and sell livestock in ways that contribute to nutrition while controlling risks.
We can better monitor and report on the health of wildlife, for example using sentinel wild species, to detect shifts in wildlife pathogens that may signal a potential spillover from wild to domesticated animals and into the food system.
We can also change perceptions and demand associated with wildlife meat consumption. At one time all of humanity consumed wildlife and over the centuries fewer and fewer people do. While traditional or medicinal consumption of wildlife products are likely to continue, we should better regulate it in terms of domestic and international trade, and encourage a shift to biosecure and low-risk practices. While neither easy nor short-term, behavioural psychology increasingly provides us with tools to shift to safer and healthier food handling and consumption.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted many vulnerabilities in our food systems. Fortunately, there are ways to build back better and close the bridges that can bring pathogens from wildlife to domestic livestock production. The current pandemic may at last force us to better account for health and disease consequences of how we make choices around food and food supply systems, so we can avoid catastrophic outbreaks.
Delia Grace Randolph
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Delia is an epidemiologist and veterinarian with 20 years experience in developing countries. Her main research focus is food safety in the domestic markets of developing countries. Her career has spanned the private sector, field-level community development and aid management, as well as research.
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In her position as Senior Research Scientist in food safety for nutrition Elisabetta is part of a multidisciplinary team where she oversees the research activities of the USAID-funded EatSafe programme. Her expertise focuses on risk-based quantitative tools to support the design of safer food supply networks, linking behaviours, risk perceptions, technology, and policy to enable data-driven decisions.
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Lead, Food Safety and Director of USAID EatSafe
Bonnie is the Director for Food Safety and is based in Washington DC, USA. Bonnie has more than twenty years' experience working in agricultural research and development within the institutes that make up the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) under the World Bank.
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There have been some incredible kindnesses shown to me during difficult times. I have been sent beautifully wrapped care packages from friends overseas. I have been invited out to dinners and shows to give me a break. I have been given a beautiful pair of earrings made just for me, a crocheted flower, homemade cards, and touching letters and messages from friends. On RUOK Day I recieved an email asking "RUOK?" (check out http://www.ruokday.com.au). I was okay- but it was still nice to be asked. All of those gestures – gestures which truly come from the heart – really touch me. Especially when they often come at times when I am obviously struggling and feeling overwhelmed. Times when I am (quite honestly) not the best fun to be around.
Much of my artwork comes from trying to make a difference to others in the best way I can. It's also why a carer group I was part of made a ton of gingerbread hearts to hand out during Carers Week one year.
We wanted other carers to know that they weren't alone, and that they mattered. We thanked them for caring. And in the process we felt good that we were sharing something positive.
I love the principle of "paying it forward". The idea that when someone does you a favour or a kindness, that you take that goodwill and do a kindness for other people in your turn. And that they, in turn, do a favour for others. So that goodwill just keeps being passed on and grows and grows.
"Paying it forward" could relate to any sort of caring (or sharing) activity, no matter how big or little it might be. For example, a good friend of mine taught me felting. She introduced me to the wonders of soft wool and silks in all the colours of the rainbow that could easily be made into the most gorgeous, cuddly and comforting scarves in a matter of a couple of hours. I took that skill my friend taught me, and I "paid it forward". In my turn, I have introduced a lot of other people to the joys of felting. Together we have played with colours and rolled out scarves, laughed and giggled. And then those friends, too, have gone off to share their skills with family and friends.
The whole process not only gave me the joy of learning a new skill from a friend, but it also gave me the joy of sharing that skill. I loved hearing how it made other people feel too. "Paying it forward" is no hardship. In my eyes it is a win win situation. It is hugely satisfying to think you may have made a difference, even if it is just a little.
Similarly, back in 2011 I was reading a book called Art Saves: Stories, Inspiration and Prompts Sharing the Power of Art by Jenny Do, and I was inspired by the ideas various artists came up with to "pay it forward". One of those artists was Kelly Rae Roberts, whose instructions I followed to make the multi media artwork on this post. She suggested writing affirmations on post-it notes and leaving them in public places for strangers to find. I thought that was a lovely idea. Then, even better, on her blog she suggested a "Kindness Mission" where she invited anyone and everyone to create a poster along the lines of the one I've done here – to share some pretty special sentiments. You can read more about it at http://kellyraeroberts.blogspot.com.au/2011/11/kindness-mission-are-you-in.html .
So … as MY ongoing contribution to Kelly Rae's Kindness Mission – or "paying it forward", depending on how you want to think about it – I am attaching a free download of my version of her poster. The idea is that it would be printed in A4 and slits cut in the bottom like a fringe separating the words so that people can pull off the bit that they need – whether it is "strength", or "knowledge" or "respect" or whatever. Think of it as being along the lines of those old babysitting notices that people used to pin to public notice boards. I hope that makes sense.
Anyway – please enjoy. Print my poster out. Pin it up wherever you like. Spread the kindness. Let people pull off the bits they need.
Let's all pay it forward together. I'd love to hear how it goes.
PS: Copyright remains with me, Helen Wilding. This poster is shared on the condition that it is printed "as is", and strictly for non profit use – otherwise it will totally contradict the whole point of paying it forward. Please don't forget to acknowledge me as the artist, and please don't reproduce it in another context without asking first.
As someone who works with young carers, I see a lot of beauty in your work and so do they.
I share some of the pictures with them as they are extremely honest and affirming.
There is a lot of strength gained by caring and it's lovely to use art to help the kids realise thier own strengths.


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I finally made up my mind. Swayed by Apple's arbitrary and capricious limitations, I decided to skip the iPhone for a while and go for the G1. Okay, it wasn't entirely down to Apple that I threw my hat in with Google, the G1 definitely has a lot to recommend it on paper, but sacrificing the ubiquity and "polish" of Apple's phone is definitely not a decision to be taken lightly.
In case you don't know, the G1 is Google's first foray into the world of mobile phones. It is also the first phone to market that runs the (mostly) open-source, linux-based OS "Android". Underneath the branding, the G1 is an HTC Dream, with touch screen, slide out keyboard, wifi, gps, 3G, compass and accelerometers. Very similar (some would say more capable) to the iPhone in fact. However, unlike the perception of the iPhone as this year's must have gadget, the G1 has acquired a reputation for being "early adopters only". Maybe Google's love of the "beta" tag is coming back to haunt them?
Perhaps because of this, I decided to buy the G1 off-contract, ebayed for about £200, and left my options open to jump to the iPhone sooner rather than later. So, after about a day of pretty heavy use, was my caution justified?
Well, let's get the bad stuff out of the way first. First, and probably foremost with extended use, will be the battery life. The G1 is hungry for power, what with all those receivers and aerials, and if you're not careful to cull unnecessary services, you will be looking at about a day of average use between recharges. I understand the iPhone is not much better, so it isn't really too bad. Luckily, it recharges through mini-USB, so you can pretty much plug it in whenever you're near a computer.
Second, I'm not totally sold on the fold out keyboard. It's great for lengthy text input, but very annoying when you just want to type a few letters into a search box. At time of writing, there is no virtual keyboard, but the forthcoming "cupcake" update features such a thing, so this will eventually become a moot point. There's also no support for multi-touch in the software, despite the hardware being more than capable. Talk around the blogosphere is that Apple slapped Google with a friendly "don't even try it!" warning, and Google didn't. Hopefully they'll come to some kind of amicable agreement in the near future.
Finally, and on the subject of updates, it seems that the UK carrier T-mobile are choosing to arbitrarily excise features from UK firmware updates. For example, the recent RC9/33 update saw the rest of the world getting Google Latitude added to the inbuilt maps application. But, for some reason, the UK version alone had Latitude chopped out. No reason has been given, but one can't help but think that the brain dead tabloid media scaremongering has given T-mobile the fear. Come on T-mobile! I can download this functionality on your network on my Nokia, but I can't use the most high profile recent Google release on your fucking Google branded phone? This is the kind of thing that will send me to Apple.
Okay, that's the bad out of the way. Nothing too awful there, but enough to give anyone pause for thought when deciding whether or not to buy into the Android revolution. Luckily, there's more than enough to swing the balance the other way.
Your first impression on getting the G1 is how different it looks in your hand compared to pictures on the web. It is smaller, blacker, more matt and generally far better looking than the "only a mother could love" snaps would suggest. In fact, the hardware feels very nice generally, well made and sturdy. The location of the SIM card and mini-SD card slots are both well thought out and easily accessible, and the inclusion of a removable (and replaceable) battery already put a tick in the G1 column over the iPhone.
Upon turning on the phone for the first time, you're greeted by a Google login box. Enter your normal Google login, and by the time the phone has booted to the home screen, your contacts, mail and calendar have all synchronised to the phone. If you're hooked on Google services like me this is fantastic. No more fumbling around with copying contacts to the SIM card, no more syncing with Outlook or whatever proprietary software your last phone used.
The next thing you notice is how damned slick everything is. I have to admit, I expected a Google produced, Linux based OS to be somewhat... eccentric. But the way the whole thing hangs together has exceeded my wildest expectations. Everything makes sense in the context of a phone. Finding often used phone functions is easy - the dialler, contacts and messaging functions all live on the desktop or in easy to find icons. You scroll through long lists of contacts by flicking your finger in the same way you would on an iPhone. It is all very intuitive and user-friendly (though I did have a bit of a panic trying to find out how to answer the phone, but it was just me being lame I think!)
Your home screen is your desktop. It takes up three screens - the middle one has the dialler and most used functions, and a clock on it. To the right, found by flicking the screen right, is a Google search box for easy searching the web. To the left is an empty screen. You can customise your home screen very easily by creating shortcuts to applications, bookmarks, contacts, anything in fact. I've got mine set up with most used applications in the middle, internet shortcuts to the right, and commonly dialled contacts to the left. Very cool.
The inbuilt Google apps are typically solid - the Gmail client works extremely well, with new messages popping up in the notification area as they arrive (much like an SMS). Maps does everything you get on the web. No multitouch zooming like the iPhone though, but it does have a very cool intertia/compass integration with Streetview. Load up a view like on the web, and you can pan around the scene by literally pointing your phone in the direction you want to look at. I'm at a loss to think of a use for this, but it is a very cool thing to show off the potential of the thing. While there's no Google document or reader support currently, the web versions are very usable. Finally, the Calendar and GTalk apps are simple, easy to use, but nothing particularly exiting.
With such a solid foundation, it is perhaps unsurprising that the main attraction of the Android platform is this: potential. With everything so well integrated and well-featured, the opportunity to do something special with the hardware (compass, GPS, wifi, 3G, camera) is unparalleled.
It's quite hard to describe how much potential there is in this thing without looking at some of the apps that have appeared on the app store in the first few months of it's inception. Here's three that I've been messing with:
Shop Savvy - this app is the kind of thing that could only happen on modern phones. What it does is to use the camera to scan the barcode of an item (DVD, book, CD, whatever). It then looks up the details of the item, looks for prices online (and gives links to the product page that open in the browser) and even determines your location and finds shops near you. You can even click on the shop address to open the Maps application, or the telephone number to open the dialler. It also gives reviews of the item, and allows you to save items for future viewing. Very cool.
My Tracks - this is a simple idea that is done elsewhere. It's basically a route tracker - start a walk, run or bike ride and tell My Tracks to track you. It then uses the GPS to monitor your location. What's interesting about this is that when you finish recording a track, you are given the opportunity to upload to Google Maps (creating a My Map) or Google Docs. The Docs option is perhaps the most interesting, since it provides you with tonnes of interesting information about your track.
Twidroid - this last one is not really for the app itself, which is just a Twitter app (I'm still not sold on the worth of Twitter). I've included it more for the fact that it highlights the G1's main strength over the iPhone - multitasking. After installing Twidroid and logging in, you can configure the app to be "always on". It'll check your tweets at a preconigured interval no matter what else you're doing. When you recieve something, it pops up on the homescreen just like an SMS or mail. It seem weird that this is such a big thing, my old Nokia could do it, but the absence of it on the iPhone highlights just how useful backgrounding is on these always-on-internet devices.
I have to say, even one day in, I'm very impressed. How this will change as the reality of battery life sets in and the novelty of the clever applications wears off, I don't know. But even at this very early stage in Android's life, the future looks very interesting indeed.
Posted by Dave at 08:27
Catalyst 6 March 2009 at 09:39
For me, it would be a no-brainer. I'm tired of Apple's habit of making everything so closed and protected that the user is unable to do the smallest bit of maintenance without sending the bloody thing to Apple. I also like the idea of having a real keyboard instead.
The only thing that does make me wonder is that will the open-source make the phone more susceptible to viruses (virii)?
Dave 6 March 2009 at 09:42
If anything, I would imagine it would make it less susceptible, given that teeming hordes of beady-eyed hippies will be dissecting the code line-by-line.
Murali Suriar 6 March 2009 at 10:25
I would like to have a play with an Android based phone. That said, I'm pretty happy with my iPhone; it's nice having one device for phone, email, mobile web, camera, GPS; the UI is also very slick, lack of cut&paste notwithstanding.
One thing that Apple have gotten right is refusing to bend to providers and their desires to customise firmware. Phone providers suck at writing/modifying software; this is a truth universally acknowledged. Is there an easy way to get 'reference' G1 firmware that's not gimped?
Muz: yeah, there's a very easy way of "rooting" the G1 and a number of custom firmwares that add in Latitude, and even enable multitouch or auto-rotation (another strange omission). I haven't done it yet, but I suspect I will if T-mobile don't relent.
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Mark Wilson 13 March 2009 at 09:51
How is it as a media player? iTunes is pretty slick...
Dave 13 March 2009 at 10:02
Seems fairly good, though I've not used it a great deal. Another weakness of the G1 that I didn't mention is the lack of a 3.5mm headphone jack, so you need to use the converter that comes with it. Idiots.
But otherwise it's fine. The usual drill down by artist/album/genre. Shows album artwork. Interesting feature where you can search youtube or google for an artist or song while it's playing. And you can whack more storage in there with mini-SD cards.
Shedir 26 August 2009 at 09:33
After Daves glowing recommendation for the google phone I plumped for the HTC Magic, it's faster than the G1 slimmer and without a physical keyboard. Nice for all that, but only available in white so far.
It's a great wee phone, ruined by red rotten reception from Vodafone at work. Their coverage page lied basically and 2g is patchy at the college, arguements are ongoing.
Anyway, great apps I've found or had suggested.
darairc - small light IRC client, perfect to slip into #eed on the move.
chompsms - puts text messages threaded by contact, then coloured bubbles to left or right within conversation.
useful switcher - great wee app, turn off 3g/wireless etc... all very nicely configured.
snapphoto - adds functions to the (shitty) in built camera, lighting style timer etc...
last.fm - does what it says on the tin, streaming can be a problem even on 3g I find though.
wifi analyser - great to see mac addresses publishing channels and signal strengths. More useful for work than home obviously.
wikidroid - wikipedia customised for android.
fotmob - keep up with footie scores, ads are present though but very very handy when you're out and your team is playing.
skymap - very impressive, using GPS and other stuff shows which stars/constellations are visible on the screen.
beebplayer - Again 3g streaming a problem, but imagine a mini iplayer and you're there.
Bubble - iphone like spirit level
colourful life - upload your pictures to picasa
compass - again, on the tin.
convertpad - see this tin, it's well used. Convert from one thing to another, metric - imperial etc..
facebook sync - no pictures for some contacts, if you have them on facebook you can pull their profile picture down to your contacts.
gdocs - edit your google docs on the move
layar and wikitude - wiki camera overlay which is amazing, but not 100%. Point camera in direction and it pulls up local wiki entries. From castles to chinese takeaways, mind blowing.
smsbackup - save text messages into sms label in your gmail.
taskiller - kill off excess apps which are eating battery/cpu cycles
toggle settings - define profiles for different times / situations. 00:35am - 7:15 am phone in flight mode. 7:16 - 7:20 - everything sync and enable wifi and phone. Charging put wifi/gps on too, autosync. Not charging wifi/autosync off.
voice recorder - when you're in a credit crunch meetings with bosses may need recorded ;)
I'll try and find time to link to each of these in full, but stole enough work time typing this stuff out!


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> face now that the OX has obviously disappeared!
> > Still trying to fill the mustard pot?  I say break it OPEN.
> > Shouts and screams will never match that void.  Nor will desires.
> > impossibly.  The ten thousand rhythms will never be enough.
> > you would only do what you're told.
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