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Two chances to star in Oakton theater productions
f you've ever wanted to give acting a try, Oakton Community College has two upcoming opportunities for community members of all ages and skill levels to shine on stage. Take advantage of your opportunity to audition for two unique theater productions – "The Vagina Monologues" and "Grease." All auditions will be held at the Des Plaines campus, 1600 E. Golf Road.
"The Vagina Monologues"
Auditions: 6- 9 p.m. Monday, Jan. 27 and Tuesday, Jan. 28 (Footlik Theater)
Performance Dates: Feb. 13-15
Rehearsals: start Jan. 31
This award-winning play is based on Eve Ensler's interviews with more than 200 women and celebrates women's sexuality and strength with humor, honesty and grace. Actors of all skill levels who identify as female are encouraged to attend open calls for the production.
Scripts will be provided. No memorization required. Performers must be willing to perform small or large parts and attend all scheduled group rehearsals and every performance. Walk-ins welcome, but reservations are strongly suggested. Contact Simi Khurana at [email protected] to reserve an audition time.
"Grease"
Auditions: 6- 9 p.m. Monday, Feb. 3 and Tuesday, Feb. 4 (Studio One Theater)
Performance Dates: April 2-5, April 9-11 and April 16-19
The director is seeking eight males and seven females, ages 18-30, and one male and one female, age 30 and over. Performers of all ethnic and racial backgrounds are encouraged to audition. Actors are asked to prepare 16-32 bars to sing a cappella to show off vocal talent. If you play guitar, prepare a short piece demonstrating your skill level. Be prepared to read from the script.
Written by two Chicago-based actors and first performed in 1971, "Grease" became an international phenomenon and the highest-grossing American movie musical of the 20th century. Set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School, the story follows working-class teens as they navigate the complexities of peer pressure, personal values and love. For more information about "Grease" auditions, call 847-635-1897.


It seems these days that the majority of mainstream media websites on both sides of the Atlantic, whether print or television based, have littered their online design with icons begging users to Digg this, StumbleUpon that, let people know they've Reddit, or describe it as Fark.
I wanted to know whether adding this rash of buttons actually drives the audience to bookmark and share content, or whether users do it based on the strength of the content and news brand, irrespective of whether the buttons are present.
To that end, this summer I've carried out a major statistical study into the success of mainstream media content on social bookmarking and link sharing services.
For a month, between July 15th and August 14th, I automatically took half-hourly snapshots of the front or 'popular' pages of Delicious, Digg, Fark, Mixx, Newsvine, Reddit, StumbleUpon and Yahoo! Buzz.
I then extracted from those snapshots all the URLs that appeared from a selection of over 50 mainstream media websites. From the 3,500+ URLs I captured, I've been able to see exactly which media sources have proved popular on each social bookmarking service.
The URLs I looked for included 24 hour news stations like CNN and the BBC, and a range of British and American newspapers. I'll be presenting the results during the next couple few weeks. I wanted, though, to start by looking at British newspaper websites.
I have produced a PDF 'e-book' called "Measuring UK newspaper success with social media".
The study looks at 901 stories, from 12 British newspapers, that became popular across 8 social media networks during July and August. It features information on the performance of the Daily Express, Daily Mail, Daily Star, Financial Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Mirror, News Of The World, The Scotsman, The Sun, The Telegraph and The Times.
And, in a break from my usual practice here on currybetdotnet, instead of spreading the results over a series of blog posts, "Measuring UK newspaper success with social media" is a one-off paid for download, costing £25.
For your money, you get a 59 page report that comes in at just under 10,000 words, with a statistical breakdown of exactly how each newspaper performed on each of the 8 services. The distribution of social media buttons is compared to the results, and there is analysis of which stories became popular during the course of the month. The report also examines the individual URLs that became popular across two or more link sharing services.
If you are interested to see the type of analysis contained in the e-book, over the next three weeks I'll be using the same data to blog about the performance of television channels and 24 hour news stations. I'll also be looking at the impact made on social media sites by some local and free newspaper content, starting tomorrow with the Metro.
This is one of a series of posts based on a statistical survey of social media sites carried out in July-August 2008.
By Martin Belam on 15 September 2008.
That's clever. I hope you make some sales. Interesting to see the crossover between users of old and new media.
in euro 2008, Telegraaf created a game that allowed users to guess who would win a match. they then did a similar thing during the Beijing Olympics, incorporating editorial content, including blogs from the newspaper's journalists that were reporting from the games. The games and content were promoted on both websites and in the newspaper, with the intention of driving more traffic to Telegraph.nl.
Martin, this is excellent work. A great idea. I would hope to see that people are using the internet to make their own news and that we may finally get to see, one day, people actually really telling each other how they feel about the world. Instead of the emotive prejudicial propaganda that is the media today. It does seem the worst offenders are indeed media that use our English language. So, it would be interesting to view with your significant research - how many of these stories are actually copied or reused news feeds from AYP and reuters? Then after that is taken into account - what is the remaining paparazzi addition to these figures. I think you would then very sadly have accounted for 99% of the days news. Sad Zombies. Imitate, imitate, replicate, replicate, stagnate.


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From the Depths: Blue Moon
J Jackwraith Updated December 02, 2019
A Knizia design that hasn't really carried the legacy of the rest.
Two-player card games occupy an interesting niche in the world of modern boardgaming. They're typically either "person and SO" games that you'd play with a partner as something to do other than watch TV or they're hardcore competitive, tournament-style games like Magic: The Gathering. The former tend to be fairly straightforward, with relatively simple systems that both players can easily remember. The latter tend to have rules the size of phone books and often require being heavily involved in a competitive scene to really display their depth. Reiner Knizia, the near-legendary designer of games like Tigris and Euphrates, Through the Desert, and Modern Art, designed a two-player card game that aspired to the qualities of both. That was Blue Moon.
Blue Moon is a very simple game with an odd theme that kind of reflects the typical criticism of Knizia's designs, in that the game's mechanics don't really reflect the trappings laid upon it. T&E doesn't really have much to do with ancient Babylon, but it's still a remarkable game. Blue Moon is based in some other dimension where there is competition between two heirs to the throne of Blue Moon City after a special dragon has been slain. The two heirs are trying to rally the different peoples of this dimension to their side to determine who will take the throne. The way to do that is to gain the favor of the other dragons, which you do by winning fights with those peoples against the allied peoples of your opponent. The fights are won with simple numbers in two elements: fire and earth. If I have a higher number in the element of a particular fight than you do, I win the fight and attract one of the dragons. The game ends when we both run out of cards. Whoever has the most dragons wins.
So, it's not a high degree of complexity at first glance. But like most Knizia designs, the magic is in the depth; not just in experienced play like knowing when to use boosters or supports to win certain fights or when to play certain characters at the best time, but also in basic strategy, like when to back out of a fight that there's no sense in continuing, rather than giving your opponent an even bigger win. There was a fair amount of gameplay in the two peoples that came with the main set, the Vulca and the Hoax. But it was clear that the other seven peoples (Aqua, Flit, Khind, Mimix, Pillar, Terrah, and last-to-be-released Buka) were intended to bring the game to its full vision, since some of those people were included as one-offs in the main box (and are also scattered across the others, except the Buka) and all of them are assigned a score in Moons that are intended as a framework for deckbuilding, wherein you can mix cards from several different peoples in order to design a unique deck. The game was popular enough in Germany that an organized league existed for a couple years, with people bringing their own deck designs to tournaments, just like MTG.
Each of the peoples has their own general identity, as well, that often breaks the rules of the game in Cosmic Encounter-style fashion. The Khind, for example, break the rule of having to replace characters played each turn by allowing you to pile members of the same gang on top of each other, to create a larger and larger threat. Similarly, the Mimix allow you to play two characters at once, if they share a name.
Vulca: As you might expect, the Vulca are heavily slanted toward Fire, with the highest Earth value being 4 and Fire values reaching as high as the 7 of Flamebreath the Dazzling. Staying in theme, many of the non-character cards (booster, support, leadership) are focused around offense and/or removing your cards in play so that your ability to restrain that offense is lessened. Fitting that kind of torrential approach, they also have several card draw options, which can keep your hand ready, but also means that you have to be aware that you'll run out of cards before your opponent, who then may be able to even the dragon score by winning fights you can't participate in.
Hoax: The other main box people are more evenly-distributed, element-wise, without a value of more than 5 in either Earth or Fire. But the Khind are also a good introduction to the rest of the peoples because they take advantage of many of the other mechanics in play, such as Flit's Retrieve and Pillar's discard tendencies. The Hoax also rely much more on support cards, such as the 3/3 Tome of Wisdom, trying to build an element game off of multiple cards in play, rather than the one-shot approach of the Vulca.
Aqua: One of the more complicated peoples, they tend to rely on combos of cards, using Free characters to cycle through their deck and then refill it while trying to get generally weaker character cards in play that are Protected (i.e. can't be targeted), alongside effect-based supports like Irresisitbile Sirens that encourage the opponent to stop competing in fights that they could otherwise win, or Water of Conjoining that can turn one of their weaker cards into an effective challenge.
Flit: The birdmen are based around two main mechanics: Retrieve and Pair; the former for characters, the latter for boosters. Being able to play and replay characters like Highchirp against the Khind means that they can present a winning condition to almost any fight, even with their low value characters (nothing above 4 in the whole deck.) They also only have one support in their deck, which means that if they're going to win fights, they're going to do it from their hand... which also means that you have to be wise about how often you use Retrieve, since it will limit the number of new cards you'll be drawing each turn.
Khind: The green-haired gangers are one of the more difficult peoples to play with, since they're extremely draw dependent. If you draw two or more of the same gang, you're rolling. If not, you have a bunch of small fry that often won't effectively contest fights. You can effectively halve your opponent's values with the right members of the Cool gang and the Top gang also targets your opponent's active cards, so you can often stay in fights longer than you expected; depending on your support and leadership draw effects to get you to the right combinations, but it's challenging.
Mimix: Similarly, the Mimix are rather draw dependent. Although they have one of the highest average value ratings for characters in the game, most of them lack special power text, which means you're hoping to overwhelm your opponent with raw strength, and that often requires the proper cards in hand to take advantage of the Pair mechanic, which is the central identity of Mimix. Timely play of their Shaman characters, which allow you to search out specific cards in your deck or discard pile, is often key to victory. Like the Khind and the Vulca, the Mimix are extremely character-oriented, which will often determine your draw strategy.
Pillar: The bug people are one of the more thematic decks, based on their Butterfly supports, their Potion boosters, and the dread Caterpillar boosters, which are all Free and designed to wreck your opponent's hand via discard requirements. Somewhat like the Aqua, it's one of the more trick-heavy decks, without great element power among its characters, but with enough fancy tricks to make up for that lack of raw power. It's one of the decks that actively forces your opponent into choices, not just about this turn, but future turns. The Butterfly cards that make your opponent reveal their hand can also mean demonstrating just when playing a Caterpillar is useful.
Terrah: This deck is essentially the counterpart to the Vulca for Earth, with values in Fire not rising above 4 but with Earth values going as high as the 7 of Megalit Mountainshaker. In contrast to the Vulca, who spend a lot of their tricks on removing active cards, the Terrah spend more time on hand manipulation and destruction, trading the speed/immediacy of Fire for the slow, steady drumbeat of Earth as your opponent's hand becomes less useful the longer you stay in the fight. Like the Vulca, however, the main strategy is to overwhelm the opponent with raw power.
Buka: The pirate people introduced the concept of bluffing to the game, where cards are played as placeholders with 2 power and your opponent has to risk guessing whether you're lying about their element. Victory in the current fight is dependent upon them choosing properly or not. The Buka also expanded upon the mechanic of Influence cards that another expansion introduced, by playing Ships that could carry characters to be released whenever the Buka player decided that a fight had to be won. It's a deck that requires a decent knowlege of competitive psychology: knowing when to bluff, seeing how your opponent is reacting to the loaded ship next to the board, etc.
One thing external to play that's worth mentioning is that Blue Moon was one of the more beautiful games to emerge around that time, with an art style kept in the enchanting/mystical genre and which made the slightly oversized cards worthwhile in order to really enjoy the imagery. The two Emissaries and Inquisitors decks both added cards to the regular game play and opened up the possibility of deck design with the various Inquisitors that set different advantages, as well as adding to Moon limits for cards that could be incorporated outside your base people. Many people saw these two decks as adding unnecessary complication to what is normally viewed as a fairly sleek and straightforward design and it's difficlt to argue with them. Influence cards and the Hyla and so forth are interesting, but there was enough gameplay within the peoples themselves to keep any pair of players occupied for a long time. Other than the enabling of deck design, I often end up wondering if the rest of the cards introduced by the two E&I decks were design elements that Knizia had really fleshed out.
Is that why it's one of his games that never really reached the elevated status of most of the rest? Was there too much going on for a "simple", two-player card game? Or was there not enough to the gameplay that is essentially a form of War (whoever has the higher-numbered cards wins)? Regardless, I still think Blue Moon is one of Knizia's more interesting designs and an ideal two-player game for any pair of players. I'm eager to get it off the shelf at every opportunity.
Marc Reichardt (He/Him)
Associate Writer
Marc started gaming at the age of 5 by beating everyone at Monopoly, but soon decided that Marxism, science fiction, and wargames were more interesting than money, so he opted for writing (and more games) while building political parties, running a comic studio, and following Liverpool. You can find him on Twitter @Jackwraith and lurking in other corners of the Interwebs.
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Marc Reichardt
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Posts in discussion: From the Depths: Blue Moon
Vysetron replied the topic: #295936 23 Apr 2019 08:24
PILLAR GANG PILLAR GANG PILLAR GANG
God I love Blue Moon. I used to play it a ton, then not at all, then even more when I found a digital implementation a few years back. Now it's in another lull. I nearly culled it due to inactivity in our recent downsizing but I couldn't bring myself to do it, so another box took the fall. I adore this game.
Very few people seem to acknowledge that Blue Moon is secretly another Knizia auction game. Playing with that mindset helps significantly when it comes to knowing when to give points up. Fights should rarely get to the point where they're worth two dragons unless you are damn sure you're richer.
Stormcow replied the topic: #295938 23 Apr 2019 08:40
I am sure there is a good game here but for the life of me I couldn't get over the game text being written in first-person. I.e. "Draw a card" refers to your opponent, while "I draw acard" would refer to myself. After years of playing with CCG templating it was an uphill struggle. A silly complaint and entirely on me, but I couldn't get over it. I have a dozen other two-player card games that are intuitive for me to play.
Jackwraith replied the topic: #295940 23 Apr 2019 09:11
The "you" and "I" format takes a moment to get used to, but I found it to be really logical after a couple games, to the point where I wondered why other games hadn't done it before.
Vysetron wrote: PILLAR GANG PILLAR GANG PILLAR GANG
I'm a big Pillar fan, too, because I was always a fan of Black discard in MTG (Let us all now rise and sing the hymn to Tourach...) I like making my opponent decide what's worth saving in their hand. But I'm also fond of Flit and Aqua for precisely opposite reasons; the former can keep slapping down The Answer and your opponent has to know that it will happen every time you retrieve it, and the latter can often set up impossible targets with Protected; active and reactive, depending on your perspective. I also love Aqua for its versatility.
This is the winning deck from the German tournament in 2008(?):
LEADER: Aqua-Alpha-Alpha (Aqua)
30 Cards / 10 Moons
INQUISITOR: Grease-Palm (X1)
+10 Cards / +15 Moons
Aqua (30): Drown Resistance (K) (Now I may discard all active cards from your Combat Area, except one Character card and any Protected cards.)
Aqua (31): Administer Water of Immortality (A) (Now I may shuffle my discard pile into my draw deck.)
Aqua (32): Chosen of Water (X2) (Now we both shuffle our hands into our draw decks, then we refresh our hands.)
Aqua (01): Eelena-Aqua-Prima-Alpha (A) (5/5)
Aqua (02): Giant Octopus (A) (5/0, Protected)
Aqua (03): Terrible Kraken (A) (0/5, Protected)
Aqua (04): Aaralia-Aqua-Secunda (V) (4/4)
Aqua (12): Yang (A) (2/0, The next character/booster/support card I play on this turn is treated as if it had the Free icon.)
Aqua (13): Yin (A) (0/2, The next character/booster/support card I play on this turn is treated as if it had the Free icon.)
Flit (01): Wing Commander Razorfeather (F) (4/4, Retrieve) 2 Moons
Flit (07): Tittertweet (F) (2/2, Retrieve, Your special power texts are ignored, except on Flit character cards.) 2 Moons
Hoax (14): Genathones the Blind (H) (2/2, On my turn, I may play one additional support card.) 1 Moon
Mimix (13): Wild Gazelle (M) (3/3, Pair)
Mimix (14): Wild Antelope (M) (3/3, Pair)
Mimix (15): Wild Unicorn (P) (3/3, Pair, Double Shield) 2 Moons
Terrah (02): Roomban Rockmaster (T) (3/6) 2 Moons
Terrah (12): Ferro Fos (T) (2/2, You may not play cards that have special power text.) 1 Moon
Vulca (02): Flash the Incendiary (T) (6/3) 2 Moons
Infl (603): Yaggi (X2) (Hyla, 1/1)
Infl (604): Piplox (X1) (Hyla, On my turn, I may play one additional booster/support card.)
Infl (605): Hagbaad (X2) (Hyla, At the end of my turn, I may draw one additional card.)
Infl (608): Reappearance (X2) (Hyla, Now I search through my discard pile and exchange this card with any Hyla card from there.)
Inter (401): How dare you! (X2) (I may play this card when you play a Leadership phase card: your card is cancelled and discarded.) 2 Moons
Inter (402): Shame on you! (X1) (I may play this card when you play your first character card on your turn: Your card is cancelled and discarded. You must play a replacement or retreat.) 2 Moons
Inter (406): Who do you think you are? (X2) (I may play this card when you attract exactly one dragon: You do not attract the dragon.) 2 Moons
Inter (407): I saw that coming! (X1) (I may play this card when you play an Interference card: Your card is cancelled and discarded.)
Aqua (21): Fire Swamp (A) (2/0, Free)
Aqua (22): Perilous Marsh (A) (0/2, Free)
Aqua (23): Ravenous Razorjaw (A) (3/0, Protected)
Aqua (24): Swarming Sea Serpents (A) (0/3, Protected)
Aqua (25): Torrential Flood (A) (1/1, If I have more than one active Flood support card after the end of my turn, then you must immediately retreat.)
Aqua (26): Tidal Flood (A) (1/1, If I have more than one active Flood support card after the end of my turn, then you must immediately retreat.)
Terrah (26): Impenetrable Fog (T) (Your icons are ignored, except Stop and Protected.) 2 Moons
Terrah (28): Evil Eye (X1) (You may not play Leadership cards.) 1 Moon
Tutu (508): SnakePipe (X2) (Tutu, 3/3, Free, If I retreat, you attract one additional dragon.) 1 Moon
Vulca (24): Flickering Fires (V) (1/1, You may not play Leadership cards.) 1 Moon
Vulca (25): Heat Haze (P) (You may not play character/booster cards that have special power text.) 2 Moons
Aqua (16): Sudden Waterspout (A) (2/0, Free)
Aqua (17): Instant Undertow (A) (0/2, Free)
Aqua (18): Aquatic Armor (A) (0/0, Double Shield)
Total Cards: 40
Total Moons: 25
It's basically a Blue control deck with a variety of ways to respond to different threats.

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           file.SaveAs(path);
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      ViewBag.Message = "File(s) uploaded successfully";
      return RedirectToAction("Index");
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how to call multiple actions in single form create button ?

A: I believe you can use the beginform multiple times like this:
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Executives clearly knew their company was doomed unless the government bailed it out. Already on September 30, a GE spokesperson "e-mailed the media with a message that Congress must act 'urgently' on the pending financial bailout package." But the company didn't wait for congressional action. Since it was not a traditional bank, GE did not qualify for a significant direct cash infusion under the infamous Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). So it spent the next few weeks brokering a backroom deal with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).


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SpiceJet operations grounded as oil companies stop fuel supply
Mumbai: Flight operations of cash-strapped SpiceJet were grounded Wednesday due to non-supply of jet fuel by oil marketing companies.
"Not even a single flight has taken off till this morning due to fuel supply issue with the oil companies," sources said.
The state-run oil marketing firms have not yet taken a decision on the resumption of jet fuel supply to SpiceJet on a two-weeks credit facility, they said.
When contacted, an airline spokesperson said operations were likely to be "normal" shortly.
Coming out to the rescue of the beleaguered carrier, the Civil Aviation Ministry had yesterday said it will request the oil companies and the airport operators to extend a 15-day credit facility to SpiceJet in a bid to save the airline from shutting down.
The Aviation Ministry had said it may request Indian banks/financial institutions to extended loans of upto Rs 600 crore to the airline as part of measures to keep the carrier functional.
Besides, it will also request the Finance Ministry to permit external commercial borrowing (ECB) for working capital as special dispensation.
The measures, however, comes with a rider that the beleaguered airline will commit capital infusion at the earliest.
The steps came after SpiceJet's Chief Operating Officer Sanjiv Kapoor, along with Sun Group CFO S L Narayanan, met the Civil Aviation Minister and DGCA Prabhat Kumar on Monday and sought the government's help to overcome the crisis.
"Indian banks may be requested to give some working capital loan based on the assurances of the promoter. Banks or financial institutions to lend up to Rs 600 crore backed by a personal guarantee of the Chairman, SpiceJet," a ministry release had said.
At the same time, the airline, with total liabilities standing at Rs 2,000 crore, including dues to the public sector oil firms and the Airports Authority of India (AAI), may get credit facility for up to 15 days from the oil firms and AAI, the government had said.
Later, the sources said the grounding of SpiceJet flights could be lifted later today after the oil companies decide on resuming fuel supplies following a directive from the government yesterday.
Aiming at avoiding closure of another airline after Vijay Mallya's Kingfisher, the Civil Aviation Ministry had taken a series of decisions aimed at providing temporary succour to the beleaguered carrier, including asking oil companies and the Airports Authority of India to give SpiceJet 15 more days to pay its dues, at least in part.
SpiceJet owes the state-run airports body Rs 173.09 crore, as on December ten.
The Ministry has provided the concessions to SpiceJet with a rider that its promoters led by media baron Kalanithi Maran gives a "personal commitment" to infuse more equity into the low-cost airline soon.


What free 0-advertisement phone/sms-mms/contact integrated app do you use?
On my main phone, I haven't seen an advertisement in years, but recently I inherited 4 older non-rooted Android phones after Christmas, and am setting them up, where I never realized until now how crappy most phone/sms-mms/contact apps are.
* They have ads (who the heck wants to see ads, ever?) * They aren't integrated well (from any one app, we should go to the other) * They don't switch easily from dialer to phone to sms to contacts etc.
When you use Android, you are "signing up" for ads. It is a free (read that as advertising supported) operating system, so "you get what you pay for"
I use a Blackberry Q10, and the native SMS app works flawlessly with no ads.
The 10-key keyboard you use to make phone calls. There are a number of them. I use the one that came with the phone (why not?) plus the Hangouts dialer which enables me to make free wifi calls using my google phone number.
I don't mind ads that run along the top or bottom of the screen, but the ones that take over the entire screen are so annoying that even if I were tempted to buy something by one (hey, it could happen, just because I've never bought anything from an unsolicited ad in my entire life doesn't mean it's impossible!) I wouldn't!
I think it's called a "T-9 Dialer" but I don't know why it's called that.
As you know, just running a Google search never works, but I'll post the results from a search for the best free ad-free T9 dialer separately to answer the inevitable objection from people who don't understand freeware.
I would think that with all the resources on this newsgroup, that we could some up with a good free ad-free T-9 phone dialer that is available to everyone on Android.
I deleted the "True Phone" from Google Play (which was version 1.7.1 com.hb.dialer.free) and installed the older version 1.6.5-1 APK which says it doesn't have ads.
it isn't. t9 is something separate.
T9 (predictive text) T9, which stands for Text on 9 keys, is a U.S.-patented predictive text technology for mobile phones (specifically those that contain a 3x4 numeric keypad), originally developed by Tegic Communications, now part of Nuance Communications.
T9 was used on phones from Verizon Wireless, NEC, Nokia, Samsung Electronics, Siemens, Sony Ericsson, Sanyo, Sagem and others.
It was also used by Texas Instruments PDA Avigo during the late 1990s. Its main competitors are iTap created by Motorola, SureType created by RIM, Eatoni's LetterWise and WordWise, and Intelab's Tauto.
T9's objective is to make it easier to type text messages. It allows words to be entered by a single keypress for each letter, as opposed to the multi-tap approach used in conventional mobile phone text entry, in which several letters are associated with each key, and selecting one letter often requires multiple keypresses.
Just to help those who don't yet understand freeware, here are the generally nearly useless results of some searches that were run prior to asking the question on this newsgroup for "free ad-free android dialers".
That's just dead wrong. Anyone who knows Android knows there are *plenty* of Android apps that are free and which don't have any ads in them.
The only question is just which are the best free add-free apps for phone dialers, sms/mms, and contact management - all integrated together.
Back on topic, I just noticed that the "True Phone" is only ad free for a week, so we still need a good free ad-free phone/contact integration app.
I've had three androids, just used the stock apps for those functions that came with it and never saw any adds.
What is the unique APK name for those three stock phone apps?
Dialer, contacts, messaging, all are part of the Android nougat standard load, AFAIK.
Fair enough response but it's only the *means* to the answer. Not the answer.
That specific app (or any backup app) is only the *means* to the answer. And for that, *any* backup app is useful.
So I'll grant you that this suggestion is fair and square, and useful.
But it's only the means to the answer to the question. It's not the answer to the question.
That's likely a great app to *obtain* the answer to the question, but that's not even close to the answer to the question.
It doesn't matter *how* we get the answer to the question, but saying how to get the answer doesn't answer the question.
Trader_4 suggested: On Sun, 28 Jan 2018 14:48:49 -0800 (PST), trader_4 wrote: > I've had three androids, just used the stock apps for those > functions that came with it and never saw any adds.
That's a fine suggestion - but it's not actionable until this is answered: Q: What is the unique APK name for those three stock phone apps?
Mobi? Seriously? That's one of the major app ad services.
Fair enough. You entirely missed the point on naming the phone/sms-mms/contact APK.
But your objection to mobi is understandable. Hence a fair objection.
We've been through this before, in depth. Your objection is valid, but not the point. Hence a red herring.
I never update an app unless I'm forced to. My mobi is old - still works - and has zero ads. Hence, my version is good.
It has since, I believe, gone to the dark side. I'm not sure - but we discussed this in the past.
Assuming it has gone to the dark side, your objection to mobi is valid. So don't use mobi. Use whatever you need to use to get the APK name.
The point is that for anyone to claim that "their" phone/sms-mms/contacts is the "one" to use is fine ... but without knowing the name of the APK, that claim is not actionable for anyone else.
The whole point is to be actionable here. We're not here to play games.
To wit: What is the full unique name of the phone/sms-mms/contact app that your experience recommends?
And exactly what does all this tripe have to do with "alt hiome repair" - you crossposting troll!
Fair enough. Removed the crosspost.
When you want the answer, just go to the search engine then.
OT strange car rental prices.
Initiate a phone call remotely?
Where can I download a list of world cup fixture showing the date and UK time of all the matches.
Where should smoking be illegal?


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he U.S. Government's After-The-Fact Changes to the July 2007 Visa Bulletin and How The Changes Impact Adjustment of Status Applications
by Douglas Halpert, Esq. with Editorial Contributions by Greg Adams, Esq.
As we reported in our July 2, 2007 News item, "Latest Information on July Visa Bulletin," on July 2, 2007 the U.S. Department of State ("DOS") and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ("CIS") took unprecedented action. First, DOS announced that it was withdrawing the Visa Bulletin for July 2007. Second, on the heels of DOS' announcement, CIS posted an Update to its website stating that CIS would not accept employment-based adjustment of status applications received on Monday, July 2, 2007 or later. This article provides a fuller explanation of these developments and what they mean.
How Does the Immigrant Quota System Work in Terms to Permit the Orderly Filing of Adjustment of Status Applications?
Under long-established rules, DOS regulates the flow of I-485 adjustment of status to permanent residence applications filed by foreign nationals present in the United States, based on an approved, pending, or concurrently filed I-140 Immigrant Petition in the employment-based (EB) categories. DOS accomplishes this by issuing a monthly Visa Bulletin which it posts on its website at http://www.travel.state.gov/visa/frvi/bulletin/bulletin_1770.html. DOS typically releases each monthly Visa Bulletin in the middle of the month preceding the month in which the Visa Bulletin is effective. The Visa Bulletin either lists a particular EB Immigrant category as
"C" for "current" (meaning all applicants in this category can file an I-485 application in that calendar month),
"U" for "unavailable" (no one may file and I-485 application in that month),
or provides a specific "cut off" date, meaning that only applicants with a valid "priority date" may apply in the calendar month.
There are separate cut-off dates for certain countries that are more backlogged that the general worldwide quotas (such as India, China, Mexico, and the Philippines).
A priority date is established when the first step in the permanent resident application process takes place, typically the filing of a labor certification application (sometimes called a PERM application or an ETA 9089 application) or the filing of an I-140 immigrant petition. Therefore, the DOS Visa Bulletins act as the gas pedal and the brake that allows DOS to regulate how many I-485 applications may be filed with CIS at any one time. The idea is for CIS to approve just enough I-485 applications each year to exhaust the permanent resident (or "green card") quotas available for that year, but not to permit a surplus of I-485 adjustment applications to be filed. Essentially, the Visa Bulletin, and the cut-off dates that DOS establishes each month, attempts to synchronize (a) the number of I-485 applications filed with CIS with (b) the number permanent resident visas or green cards that are available under the law.
By way of example, if DOS lists on its July 2007 Visa Bulletin a June 1, 2005 cut-off date for the employment-based second category (EB2) for India, then only natives of India whose employer filed a labor certification application (or an immigrant petition in some cases) before June 1, 2005 may file an I-485 adjustment of status application in July 2007 (assuming of course that the labor certification application has been approved).
So What Happened Just Now?
Entering June 2007, there were sizeable backlogs in all the employment-based third (EB3) categories ("chargeabilities" as DOS likes to call them) and also in the EB2 categories for India and China. The DOS Visa Bulletin for June mentioned possible further advancements of the cut-off dates in the coming months but foreshadowed nothing particularly dramatic.
On June 13, 2007, DOS released the July 2007 Visa Bulletin and indicated all EB2 and EB3 categories (except EB3 other workers) would become "current" effective July 2, 2007 . This dramatic announcement meant that a very large number of beneficiaries of approved or pending immigrant petitions and of approved labor certifications would be eligible to apply for adjustment of status starting on July 2, 2007 and continuing at least until July 31, 2007.
As a result of the dramatic changes to the July Visa Bulletin, U.S. employers, foreign national employees, and immigration attorneys nationwide went into overdrive to prepare I-485 adjustment of status for filing in July.
So Tell Me Again What Happened Yesterday
On July 2, 2007, three dramatic events transpired. First, DOS announced that "Effective Monday, July 2, 2007 there will be no further authorizations for Employment-based preference cases." The DOS notice also stated that "Employment preference numbers will once again be available to these chargeability areas beginning October 1, 2007, under the FY-2008 annual numerical limitation." There is no re-posting of the July 2007 Visa Bulletin. The July 2007 Visa Bulletin as released on June 13, 2007 is still on the DOS website showing the relevant cut-offs as "Current."
Second, CIS followed the DOS announcement with its own statement that:
Department of State has revised its July Visa Bulletin to reflect that all available employment-based immigrant visas have been allocated for fiscal year 2007. As a result, beginning today, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is rejecting applications to adjust status (Form I-485) filed by aliens whose priority dates are not current under the revised July Visa Bulletin."
Third, the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) publicly condemned the U.S. government's "bait and switch" tactics and announced that AILA and the American Immigration Law Foundation (AILF)'s Legal Action Center are planning a law suit on behalf of foreign nationals who have been negatively impacted by DOS and CIS's unprecedented actions.
Where Does This Leave My Planned Immigrant Petition and Permanent Residence Application?
These events leave many wondering whether to file I-485 adjustment of status applications in July and whether to go to the expense of obtaining medical examination results to include with their I-485 applications. For most, this will be a collaborative decision to be undertaken both by the sponsoring employer and the foreign national employee.
At this early stage (24 hours after these events transpired), here is what is clear:
I-485 applications that CIS received on or before June 29, 2007 are not impacted by the changes to the July Visa Bulletin;
I-140 immigrant petitions may continue to be filed with CIS regardless of whether the priority date is current or not current.
CIS will reject any employment-based I-485 application CIS received beginning yesterday, July 2, 2007.
Here is what is not clear:
How even categories such as EB1 Multinational Manager or Executive and Extraordinary Ability can be backlogged (designated as "unavailable" by DOS) when this category has historically been current; and
What the to-be-revised Visa Bulletin will say about when the EB categories will be open again.
How Could Things Change so Drastically and Without Any Advance Notice?
Only those in the U.S. government know the true story and so far they have not spoken publicly. One theory is that DOS has been criticized in recent years because it too tightly controlled the cut-off date movement thus precluding enough applications to be filed with CIS to use up the valuable, annual quota slots. The slots (called "immigrant visa numbers") that were not used in the assigned federal year effectively were wasted or thrown away. The theorists believe that this time around DOS did not want to take such an overly conservative approach in setting cut-off dates in part because of the criticism it received in the past. With the 2007 federal year coming to and end on September 30th, and having experienced low demand thus far from CIS for immigrant visa numbers to be used for CIS-approved I-485 adjustment applications, the theory goes that DOS did not want to be seen as the cause of visas going unused and decided to open the floodgates. We do not know whether this theory is valid, but we do know that the combined DOS and CIS July 2nd developments are patently unfair (and perhaps illegal) to all involved.
Can I Still File An I-485 Application in July 2007 and What Consequences Will Transpire?
Yes, you can still file an I-485 application though at this time CIS will reject it. It is probable (though not guaranteed) that organizations such as the American Immigration Lawyers Association and/or the American Immigration Law Foundation will file a lawsuit on behalf of applicants whose I-485 applications CIS rejects. If a lawsuit is filed a court might decide to require CIS to accept I-485 applications that were rejected by CIS in July. Therefore, some applicants may choose to apply during in July in an effort to fall within the class of applicants who may benefit if a court were to order CIS to accept I-485 applications filed in July and rejected by CIS.
Whether this approach is a good one is a difficult decision because no one knows how events will unfold in the coming weeks. Where a company is paying the legal and filing fees for the I-485 adjustment applicant, the company must make a judgment about whether such expenditures are warranted given the uncertainty surrounding potential litigation. Rejected applications could take a long time for CIS to return. For individual in "intent sensitive" status such as F-1 or J-1, filing an I-485 application could result in an inability to obtain a new F-1 or J-1 visa at a U.S. Consulate while abroad or to re-enter the U.S. if one already holds an unexpired temporary visa.
Will This Impact My Ability to Extend My H-1B Status Further?
No. Your employer can still file an H-1B extension request. If you have not yet reached the six-year H-1B maximum or limitation on H-1B status, the H-1B extension request may be filed as usual. If you are beyond the sixth year of H-1B status and your priority date is no longer current, and if you have an Immigrant Petition approved on your behalf, an employer may file an H-1B extension petition seeking a three-year H-1B approval. If you are the subject of a pending labor certification application filed at least one year prior to your six-year H-1B limitation date, the employer may file a one-year extension petition. H-1B extensions are usually permitted to be filed no earlier than six months before the H-1B status expiration date.
Are Media Reports That I Have Lost My Chance to Apply For a Green Card True?
No, this is not true. Keep in mind that the media often are not aware of the nuances of immigration law, nor are people trading information in Internet chat rooms, so be cautious about what you hear. As long as your qualifying employment remains stable, the July 2nd developments mean that there will be a delay in filing your I-485 adjustment application.
What Is Dinsmore & Shohl Going to Do Regarding My Application?
Where an employer has engaged our law firm to handle a permanent residence case, we will ask the employer to decide whether we should continue preparation and filing efforts on your behalf or to file just an I-140 immigrant petition under preparation and to suspend efforts to file the I-485 adjustment application. Where an individual has directly retained our law firm, we will consult with the individual applicant to determine what the individual would like to do. We will post further updates once they are available.


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The slow-motion unraveling of New Mexico's Medicaid crackdown
By Trip Jennings and Sylvia Ulloa, New Mexico In Depth | July 3, 2017
There's no getting around it. Four years after Gov. Susana Martinez's administration charged 15 behavioral health organizations with potentially defrauding the state's Medicaid program, its case has experienced a slow-motion unraveling. No Medicaid fraud was ever found. And those eye-popping estimates that added up to $36 million the organizations had overbilled Medicaid? In the summer of 2017, the Human Services Department (HSD) is seeking drastically lower reimbursements for overbilling the public health insurance program for low-income residents, a review of public records and state court documents has found.
NM settles $2.8M Medicaid overpayment claim for $485
By Sylvia Ulloa, New Mexico In Depth | June 23, 2017
As Gilda Radner's Emily Litella might have said, "Nevermind!"
More than four years after accusing Southwest Counseling Center of overbilling the state by $2.8 million in Medicaid reimbursements, the Human Services Department has settled with the former Las Cruces behavioral health provider for $484.87. SWCC was one of 15 health organizations accused of overbilling and potential fraud by Gov. Susana Martinez's administration in 2013. The state suspended Medicaid payments to the organizations pending an investigation, and outsourced behavioral health contracts to five Arizona companies, which effectively crippled the network of New Mexico behavioral health providers. All the while, the state kept an audit they used to justify the move secret, making it impossible for each organization to know what they were being accused of specifically. See a timeline and read of coverage of the Medicaid freeze here.
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Behavioral health shakeup prompts another call for HSD head's resignation
By Joey Peters | July 28, 2016
After testimony from officials from three nonprofits that provided behavioral health services which were targeted with fraud allegations but later cleared by the Attorney General,a second New Mexico lawmaker called for state Human Services Department Secretary Brent Earnest to resign. "This is just morally repugnant behavior that this administration, this department, has done," state Rep. Christine Trujillo, D-Albuquerque, said Wednesday at an interim Legislative Health and Human Services Committee meeting. "It's criminal and obscene."
Trujillo and eight other state lawmakers listened to the heads of three of the 15 behavioral health organizations that were infamously accused of "credible allegations of fraud" in 2013 by HSD's then-Secretary Sidonie Squier. The department cited an audit from Boston-based Public Consulting Group that found $34 million in Medicaid fraud between the 15 providers. Squier cut off Medicaid funding from the providers, but the Attorney General's Office has since cleared all from any wrongdoing.
Legislators want DOJ to probe behavioral health shakeup
By Matthew Reichbach | May 11, 2016
New Mexico legislators want the Department of Justice to look into the behavioral health shakeup from 2013 after the state Attorney General found no fraud. Senate President Pro Tem Mary Kay Papen of Las Cruces, Senate Majority Leader Michael Sanchez of Belen, House Minority Leader Brian Egolf of Albuquerque, all Democrats, sent the letter. The three received letters from providers who had Medicaid funding cut by the state, and forwarded these letters to the three members of the U.S. House and two members of the U.S. Senate from New Mexico. "The contents of these letters greatly concern us," the three legislative leaders wrote. "We have also been contacted by constituents, requesting our assistance with accessing behavioral health services over the past two years."
In a joint response, U.S. Sens.
Three more behavioral health providers sue state
By Matthew Reichbach | June 24, 2015
Three more nonprofits that had Medicaid funding cut off by the Human Services Department in 2013 have filed suit against the state. The Albuquerque Journal reported on the new lawsuits. The three new nonprofits suing the state bring the total to ten. The Journal reports that it is likely the three suits will be consolidated in federal court with the other seven. More from the paper:
The lawsuits contend the nonprofits – which provided services to the mentally ill and addicted – were denied basic due process when the department cut off their funding, determined there were "credible allegations of fraud" against them and referred them to the attorney general to be investigated. The department said an audit of 15 providers it commissioned from Boston-based Public Consulting Group identified more than $36 million in overbilling from 2009 to 2012, widespread mismanagement and possible fraud.
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It's all hands on deck for the 2020 Census
By Oriana Sandoval | June 25, 2019
New Mexicans know exactly what they need to ensure each and every one of our families can succeed: fully funded public systems like our schools, hospitals, and roads –all vital for a prosperous state. Unfortunately, this may not become a reality for N.M. if the U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of adding a controversial […]
It's time to end the Gila diversion boondoggle
By Martin Heinrich | June 18, 2019
This coming Thursday, the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission (ISC) will vote on whether to spend an additional $1.8 million to continue plans to dam the upper Gila and San Francisco Rivers. That is on top of the $15 million they have already spent. It is far past time to scrap this doomed plan to remove […]
Keep equity and youth access front and center in new Outdoor Recreation Division
By Jonathan Tyrrell | June 14, 2019
Too many times have I heard New Mexico scorned as "The Land of Entrapment." Too many times, as a New Mexico college student, I've seen my peers feel as if they must escape New Mexico for better opportunities elsewhere. This is true even when they come from families committed to growing our economy and their […]
Luján: Rejecting Corporate PAC Money for New Mexicans
By Ben Ray Luján | May 10, 2019
At the start of the last Congress, one of the first votes House Republicans took was on a bill designed to unravel protections for workers exposed to chemicals like beryllium. Beryllium is one of the chemicals that poisoned my father's lungs and caused his cancer. Watching House Republicans vote against the health and safety needs […]
Extending a hand to those in need is the Burqueño thing to do
By Luis Leyva | May 3, 2019
When the public sees news stories of asylum seekers arriving in the United States, they don't always get the whole picture. The news often fails to cover a core aspect of this situation: the human beings arriving at our border looking for safety and a better future. As an immigrant to this country, I had […]
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Nekkerpool was published in Vlaams Tijdschrift voor Sportbeheer, a leading magazine for sports culture in Belgium.
Nekkerpool was pulished in De Architect as one of the nominees of the ARC Awards 2013.
Sports and recreation centre Nekkerpool (serving the province of Antwerp in Belgium) offers a range of indoor and outdoor activities, and the addition of a swimming pool to the programme will make the package even more complete. The challenge for architects VenhoevenCS was to seize the opportunity to give the Nekker recreation centre as a whole a facelift, in addition to designing a modern and sustainable swimming pool. The site revolves around the new entrance area, where a pedestrian bridge makes the connection between the existing and new complex. It is light, spacious and transparent. Thanks to the panoramic patio, connecting canopy, spectacular pergola and carefully placed windows offering views of the surroundings, all parts of the complex offer views of the beautiful grounds of Nekkerpool; the landscape is fully integrated into the design and plays a vital role in the new complex.
In the new layout, all restauration functions have been merged into a coherent space on the south side, which serves as a huge visual draw towards the recreation area. From the cafeteria, parents can keep an eye on their playing children both in the renovated indoor playground and the pool. Extra patios and a large gallery augment the quality of the experience of this side of the complex.
Pool water that is buffered at night to prevent evaporation, cradle-to-cradle tile finishing on the building exteriors, a state-of-the-art energy roof and the achievement of a K-level of 17 are just a few examples of the steps taken to meet the client's high ambitions in terms of sustainability both in materials choice and systems architecture. In addition, a budget was set aside for an energy use monitor for the building to be conducted in two years' time, to make the feasible and appropriate adjustments needed to render the building energy-neutral.
Program: New construction of swimming pool complex to be added to existing sports complex with competition pool, instruction pool, special needs pool, gallery, dining facilities, playground and free-standing entrance pavilion. Complete renovation of existing dining (including some new construction) and kitchen areas. New construction of outdoor space including recreational water elements.
Team: Ton Venhoeven, Manfred Wansink, Maarten Bax, Jos-Willem van Oorschot, Gabriel Boutsema, Wouter de Haas, Niels Boswinkel, Tim Habraken, Eelco Bergman, Roland Herpel.


Lions Municipal Golf Course, which has been fighting for survival the past several years against plans to repurpose its prime acreage for other uses, won an important victory on Jan. 23.
A state advisory panel voted 8-1 to recommend that the Austin golf course built in 1923 be added to the National Register of Historic Places. The panel concluded the 1950s desegregation of "Muny," as it is affectionately known, was of national significance. The recommendation will now go to the Historical Commission, which has 45 days to decide whether Muny warrants listing. If the commission agrees, it has another 45 days to send the proposal to the National Park Service, which makes the final decision. If it disagrees, Save Muny can appeal.
The 141-acre golf course in West Austin is owned by UT, which leased the course to the city through 2019. In 2011, the university notified the city it would not renew the lease when it expires and instead planned to use the site for commercial and residential use.
But leaders of Save Muny claim the course merits historical protection. On its website, savemuny.com, it showcases a letter from the USGA and Austin's own Hall of Famer, Ben Crenshaw.
A National Register designation will not stop the bulldozers by itself, but Save Muny hopes the designation would increase the pressure on the UT Board of Regents to preserve the course.


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Q: Adding JTable into JComboBox Is there anyone who know how to put JTable into JComboBox ?
(just like date pickers)
I saw many questions of Put JComboBox into JTable. but I want Opposite.
I tried to change code of "put JComboBox into JTable" questions but I have no idea.
Thanks if anyone can help me.

A: Take a look at one approach here: DetailedComboBox
A typical use would be to show supporting information of a data class.  For instance, suppose you have a State class, that has:
String fullName;
String abbreviation;
String capital;

You could use the DetailedComboBox to display the 2-digit abbreviation as a combo, but the drop-down would be a table of all of the data.


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India All India 13 Aug 2019 Lukewarm response to National Education Policy
India, All India
Lukewarm response to National Education Policy
THE ASIAN AGE. | NITIN MAHAJAN
Published : Aug 13, 2019, 6:17 am IST
Updated : Aug 13, 2019, 6:17 am IST
The letter of the Union HRD minister was accompanied with a printed copy of the Draft National Education Policy 2019 to all MPs.
Union HRD minister Ramesh Pokhariyal Nishank
New Delhi: Implementing a new National Education Policy is one of the most important steps that the Narendra Modi government may be planning over its second tenure in office. However, this has not been able to elicit adequate response from our elected representatives with less than 10 per cent of the members of Parliament bothering to respond to a communication sent by the Union human resource development minister Ramesh Pokhariyal Nishank seeking their recommendations on the Draft NEP.
Sources stated that a letter by Mr Nishank seeking MPs "views, comments and suggestions", dated July 26 has met with lukewarm response so far as not many of them replied to it.
"I would request you to kindly go through the Draft National Education Policy 2019 and provide your valuable views / suggestions/ comments and inputs to bring out a more convergent, inclusive, participatory and holistic National Education Policy 2019," Mr Nishank said in the letter.
The current national education policy was put in place almost three decades ago in 1986 during the Rajiv Gandhi-led Congress regime.
HRD ministry sources stated that the delayed response is also seemingly due to the fact that Parliament session was extended and it hopes that more suggestions are likely to come in over the next few weeks.
The draft of the new NEP, which was formulated by a panel led by former Isro chairman K. Kasturirangan, proposes vast reforms in the education sector.
The Kasturirangan Committee was set up by the HRD ministry in June 2016 and was originally mandated to submit its report in December 2017.
Over the past several months, the committee has held nationwide consultations with several stakeholders including members of Parliament, students at various educational institutes, academia and even the Sangh affiliates for finalisation of the draft NEP.
Interestingly, a similar draft report prepared by TSR Subramanian panel, convened during the tenure of former HRD Minister Smriti Irani, on the NEP is now effectively considered to be in cold storage.
Tags: national education policy, modi government, ramesh pokhariyal nishank
Location: India, Delhi, New Delhi
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