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Palm Centro Announced With Sprint
Posted By: Ryan Kairer Thursday, September 27, 2007 2:30:12 PM
Palm and Sprint have officially announced the Palm Centro smartphone at a press conference at the DigitalLife show in New York City. The Centro is a new brand of smartphones for Palm debuting at a $99 price point and targeting a younger audience and the larger feature phone market segment.
Centro will be exclusive through Sprint in the United States for 90 days and is available in onyx black or ruby red. The Centro features a new design and is the smallest and lightest Palm OS phone to date. Pre-orders will begin from Palm tomorrow, with expected availability on October 14.
The Palm Centro runs Palm OS Garnet v5.4.9. It has a Dual-band CDMA2000 EvDO phone radio, a 320x320 pixel touchscreen, Bluetooth v1.2, a 1.3 megapixel digital camera with video capture and 64MB of memory. It has a external microSD expansion slot that supports microSD cards up to 4GB.
The Centro has dimensions of 4.22" (L) x 2.11" (W) x 0.73" (D) (107 x 54 x 18.5 mm) and weighs in at 4.2 oz (119g). It has a 1150mAh removable battery that is good for a claimed 3.5 hours talk time and 3 days standby.
"Palm Centro has the power of a broadband smartphone at the price of a standard 12-key phone," said Ed Colligan, president and chief executive officer of Palm, Inc. "People looking to have all their contacts and calendar at the touch of a button, plus YouTube streaming videos and the Internet can now get it in a small, cool design with the trademark Palm ease of use. If you're thinking about stepping up to a smartphone, the Palm Centro should be your choice."
Expected mid-October, the Palm Centro smart device will be available in onyx black or ruby red from all Sprint sales channels, Palm stores and online for $99.99 with a two-year service agreement, available discounts and promotions and required service plan. Centro customers may subscribe to any of the voice calling plans available on the Sprint Nationwide PCS Network. To take advantage of data capabilities, customers can add any of the available Sprint Power Vision packs, which range from $15 to $30 per month. Customer subscribing to any Power Vision pack plan of $25 or more per month will be eligible for the $100 mail-in-rebate offer. For delivering Centro users the ultimate value, Sprint recommends the Power Vision Pro Pack for $30 month, which includes unlimited text messaging, data access, web browsing, email, Sprint Picture Mail/Video Mail, On Demand, NFL Mobile, Sprint TV and Active Sync (data and content access without a Power Vision pack is subject to casual data charges).
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Initial Impressions
hkklife @ 9/27/2007 2:25:06 PM #
Based on initial reports trickling in:
1.Reasonably usable keyboard, according to TC's Dieter. It's still way too small, IMO
2. Athena connector. This makes the 500v's lack of Athena even more puzzling
3. "Improved" Blazer. No word on what is improved but really, how can it get any worse?
4. Supposedly light & has a good "feel" to it. That plastic looks VERRRY slick to me, however.
5. Decent software bundle (PTunes Deluxe, Google Maps etc.) I'm still not fond of all of the Sprint bloat/trialware on it but it appears to at least have some added value over the 755p's ROM bundle.
1. Again the 680's phone app is omitted. This is inexcusable, IMO
2. No stereo 3.5mm headphone jack. Another inexcusable omission, especially for a device targeted at teens/kids/media-savvy types.
3.Pitiful 1150mAh batter. Even worse than the 1200mAh I was expecting! This thing won't last any time at all (I can barely make it through a day with the 700p's 1800mAh stock battery)
4. Palm Desktop is STILL in beta and is not included on the bundled software CD. They will merely link to the page containing the beta version download. This is another hunge bungle on Palm's part. They REFUSE to take Vista seriously despite the fact that's been available for nearly a year. Tthis is going to cost them dearly in terms of both support calls and loss of user goodwill.
5. The highly-vaunted $99 price point is still a myth. I only look a phone's "real" full retail price. So keep in mind that for the same $399 (this thing's actual retail price w/o contract) you can get a TX, a 2gb SD card and a cheap unlocked GSM cell phone.
6. Sprint exclusive. Disappointing, yes, but I'm not a bit surprised. I'm still predicting that we'll never see another Garnet device on Verizon after the 700p fiasco and Alltel, Telus etc. aren't important enough in the grand scheme of things to be worth fiddling with.
Garnet & EDGE are unfit for any future GSM devices, and Verizon's probably going to consolidate to just BB and WinMob devices only. So Palm has no choice but to hitch their hopes to Sprint, historically the biggest support of Palm/Palm OS smartphones. Now, folks, what's Palm gonna do if things ever do go sour with Sprint (ie another 700p-style disaster?) I think the pressure's on Palm to make this a good 'un for Sprint no matter what.
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RE: Initial Impressions
Oh and HOW did I forget about this one:
The classic Treo ring/mute switch is STILL present! So let's issue a HUGE sigh of relief over that one!
And another small bonus that I was not expecting is DTG 10 is finally standard. Now it appears to be a read-only version of DTG but I wasn't expecting any "biz" apps at all on it, so this is a welcome extra.
Finally, whew, the voice recorder app is standard as well!
So things are actually looking up a bit for this device. Some mind-boggling omissions, sure, but still more of a "classic" Palm experience than what we saw on the rebranded 500v.
I STILL want to know what the "bigger story behind the Centro" is, dammit!
Full specs here:
http://www.palm.com/us/products/smartphones/centro/?creativeID=US_BB_centro_preorder#specs
Patrick @ 9/27/2007 3:37:35 PM #
Not having seen the device, I'd generally agree with your pro's and con's. However, when the 680 was released, there was considerable negative feedback on the "new, improved" phone app. To me, this moves its omission in the Centro away from the "inexcusable" category and more into the "listening to customers" arena.
rcartwright @ 9/27/2007 4:47:15 PM #
hkklife @ 9/27/2007 2:25:06 PM said:
"2. No stereo 3.5mm headphone jack. Another inexcusable omission, especially for a device targeted at teens/kids/media-savvy types. "
Perhaps. Can the Centro support stereo Bluetooth?
As for the cost factor, well the contract subsdidy is a way of life for the US, Apple iPhone notwithstanding. The price point is not too bad. Leo Laporte on TWIT reported that at least one pawnshop near a major university was having a run of iphones being pawned, so the kids gotta have something to talk on and listen to tunes on.
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Patrick;
Good point. I'm actually surprised that the teeming masses don't seem overwhelmingly fond of the 680's phone app. I personally *LOVE* it and consider it a huge leap forward from the clunky old Treo 600-era dial screen. To each his own, I suppose.
It'll be interesting to see (assuming the 755p was basically just a 700p refresh and bugfix release) if Palm continues the little Garnet GUI enhancements and tweaks that they began on the 700p and continued on the 680.
And as far as A2DP stereo BT? Nope. Palm's web site comparison page doesn't indicate it and if Palm had somehow licensed Softick's tech and shoehorned it into Garnet, I'm sure we'd be seeing a big hoopla about it.
So all those hip teens had better factor another $50 into the price of the phone for a set of the Palm 2-in-1 stereo headphones. If I was an otherwise unassuming kid, I'd be P***ED that my fancy white iPod headphones didn't work on this device.
The creakiness of Garnet doesn't really bother me as much as Palm making hardware compromises that would only cost a few cents (at most) per device (No 3.5mm stereo headphone jack on any Treo, no LED or internal mic on the TX) yet are the source of endless user complaints and criticisms.
Does anyone know if the Centro has a charge/alert LED? If so I wonder if it's that cool "invisible when unlit" style like on the 755p.
freakout @ 9/27/2007 8:04:57 PM #
"Considerable negative feedback?" about the 680 Phone app? News to me. It's great. Big thumb-able buttons and looks very nice, especially the transparent calendar & clock. The only real problem is the lack of an on-screen "new" button for Contacts and the stupid Option+navigator method of shuffling favorites. And maybe the option to pick your own colours.
But Sprint must really hate it, 'cause this now makes two Palm OS phones that have featured the old Phone app. It's weird too, because the spy video PIC received a coupla weeks ago showed it with Phone v3.
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Tim;
That's just what I was thinking about the big thumb-able buttons. On a screen THIS small, all of the k00l kidz Palm are targeting would probably their on-screen dialpad buttons being as big as possible and the 680's phone app would definitely be the ticket here.
joad @ 9/27/2007 10:26:13 PM #
So THIS "$99 After Rebate" phone gets the CURRENT version 10 of Docs to Go as well as the DELUXE version of PocketTunes?!?
Those of us who have just paid a LOT more for our allegedly "professional-level" 755's are stuck with an unpatched version 8 of Docs to Go in the ROM and need to leave several MB of the upgraded files (that came out 1-1/2 years ago) in RAM?
*AND* we need to $pay$ an expensive "upgrade fee" for the Deluxe version of PocketTunes 4 or endure a curiously convenient "bug" in PocketTunes Deluxe 3 that prevents the 755 from turning off it's screen while playing music?
If I didn't know any better, I'd say that the Centro's included software is Palm's "middle finger" to the users who financed and beta tested the Treo for all these years (and would hence stay with the 6xx/7xx series and not downgrade to this Centro toy). What possible reason did we get stuck with year-old unpatched applications in our ROMs upon the 755's release, and this "throwaway" -priced Centro gets the current and/or Deluxe versions? Palm owes us a firmware update that either removes DTG 8.000 and/or gives us the current version 8.003/9.x/10.x.
**Another vote for a >100MB RAM Treo**
hkklife @ 9/28/2007 9:50:10 AM #
Well Joad, if it's any consolation at all, it's a read-only version of DTG 10. You can VIEW Docs but not EDIT them. You gotta pay dearly to "unlock" it to edit/create documents. So that presumably comes with more RAM-hogging files as well.
As far as PTunes Deluxe, sure it's a great touch and all, but WHY didn't Palm just stick a standard stereo headphone jack on the Centro? IMO, the advantages of a freebie bundled version of PTunes Deluxe are totally mitigated by not only the lack of a real headphone jack but also by the pitiful storage capabilities + increased cost and limited flexibility of microSD.
I agree that Palm owes its 700p and 755p users a huge bonus at this stage.
I'd personally like to see them offer a "ROM Pack" for both of the above devices consisting of VersaMail 4.0 (isn't that the new version on the Centro?), DTG 10, PTunes Deluxe, Bejeweled (or some other game) and whatever version number the improved Blazer on the Centro is. Heck, since I'd gladly pay $30-$35 for such a download if it overwrote all of my old ROM versions and was stable.
Barring that, Palm, at least release the new Blazer & VM as a free DL for those of us who suffered through a miserable year + with the 1.06/buggy 1.10 700p!
Even if I WANTED a Centro now, I couldn't get it b/c I am still under contract with Verizon.
twizza @ 9/28/2007 12:06:35 PM #
Sheesh man, what they heck do you do? I'm brutal on my battery (1600 oem on the 680) but make it the entire day and then some.
Just kids/teens, not media types. However Palm is seeminly making sure to make known of those abilities.
Those those who'd like a free/low cost ROM upgrade to your 700p/755p models, am I right in assuming that you deserve an engine upgrade on your car when a new model comes out a year after you purcahsed that too? Not to sound spiteful, but dang sometimes those "we deserve 'x'" responses come off like little children who are mad that they got what they paid for. Reminds me of a parable where workers were mad at getting the same wage as those who worked less. The overseer responded that they agreed to a price and got what they agreed to, they don't deserve more because they've done more work or were there more.
Agreed. Why Palm hasn't done that is beyond me, but then again, AG has been up and down in terms of stability for several users across different models. It might have just been too hard to get the BT profile to play nicely for this one at this time.
However, when the 680 was released, there was considerable negative feedback on the "new, improved" phone app. To me, this moves its omission in the Centro away from the "inexcusable" category and more into the "listening to customers" arena.
Too bad that content end-users to crap and moan louder than carriers can. No one that has played with my 680 has expressed that they don't like it, and most do like it (some with a few changes). The old UI is a halmark of usability, and pretty dead-on to understand. I still think that it was one part a carrier decsion to keep the old phone app, therefore making support for the device a non-train-the-CR issue than make customers happy.
By the way, great pics Ryan.
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CDMA is notoriously more power hungry than GSM. Remember, you've got a 2G/2.5G EDGe radio om the 680 vs. a 3G CDMA EVDO on the Centro. And having a bit smaller LCD isn't going to make a huge difference IMO. The only thing I can think of that the new consolidated chipset/radio in the Centro might be more power thrifty than the 755p/700p. At any rate, I'm worried about the Centro not holding up through a day. Palm's rating the Centro with less talk & standby time than the 680, so if a 680 could get you through the day with a bit to spare, then it's easy to see how the Centro might poop out prematurely.
If you noticed, I said I'd GLADLY pay for ROM updates to the bundled apps on my device so that I don't have to clog RAM with redundant copies of newer executables of those same programs.
As far as my own usage patterns, I keep my 700's screen about 3/4 brightness, and check e-mail every hour on the hour. BT is always off unless I'm doing GPS. I don't know if it's a Garnet thing or what but I'm on my 2nd 700p and I have 3 coworkers/colleages also with Verizon 700p's. Out of those 5 700p's I have firsthand experience with, everyone's 700p fares worse in battery life than another guy's 700wx that is constantly in use.
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SeldomVisitor @ 9/30/2007 8:00:38 PM #
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twizza @ 10/1/2007 11:02:29 AM #
CDMA is a beast. But like the 680, the Centro is not marketed toawrds heavy users such as yourself and I. Palm would rather we tote the bigger battery models and call it a day there. The Centro will get a bigger battery, doubt it will be more than 1300mAh though. There just isn't a lot of space in there (as with the 755p).
hkklife @ 10/1/2007 2:10:57 PM #
You know, someone needs to check in with Seidio to see if they are planning to offer high-capacity batteries for the Treo 500 and Centro. Does anyone know yet if those two similar-but-not-identical devices share the exact same battery dimensions?
twizza @ 10/1/2007 2:56:17 PM #
Seido hasnt commented yet, but I am sure they will try.
The 680 has a weird design to the battery compared to the squared off one of the 755p. Its hopeful that Palm was able to do a square design in this so that it would sit deeper, making a newer battery a bit easier to develop.
Other carriers? Alltel, Verizon, Telus etc?
Ryan, did Palm kinda/sorta hint that any other domestic CDMA carriers might offer this thing? It seems that even with the carryover specs from the 755p, this is a LOT to spend on tooling/design/promotion for a Sprint-exclusive device.
And I'm thinking we might even see the US version (with a quad-band GSM radio) of the 500v under the "Centro" branding as well.
RE: Other carriers? Alltel, Verizon, Telus etc?
Ryan @ 9/28/2007 9:48:49 AM #
No, they would only talk about Sprint and that they have a 90-day exclusive on the Centro, which carries through the holiday season.
More Centro tidbits (this time from PalmAddicts)
-"It still uses Blazer, but Blazer now includes built in Google Maps, Flicker and YouTube"
**NOTE**: From the screencaps of the presentation, it looks like BLazer just links to the lame YouTube Mobile page, which is absolutely devoid of "real" content. So this thing's nothing like the iPod Touch/iPhone's Safari-based "real" YouTube playback.
-"It will also come with the Sprint Music Center which will aggregate all the music on your PC and you can buy music from the Sprint Music Store, but on the PC only. You won't be able to buy music directly from the phone."
-"Ed ducked the question about whether there would be a GSM version and if you have Vista you will have to download the beta version of the desktop from Palm, as a final version isn't ready yet and it won't be on the installation CD. Ed said that Sprint will have an exclusive "for the holiday season". I don't quite what this means. After the seasion ... what then?"
-"By the way, the Javits Center, which is New York's biggest convention center, has no free WiFi access! Can you believe that! Press people are trying to tether their laptops to their cellphones and there are a few, really only a few, hard ethernet lines available in the press room. Probably the worst press setup I've ever seen."
(The final point, SV, speaks volumes. Why didn't someone product one of those litle Linksys travel routers and set up an instant hotspot?)
RE: More Centro tidbits (this time from PalmAddicts)
Gekko @ 9/27/2007 7:26:46 PM #
>"By the way, the Javits Center, which is New York's biggest convention center, has no free WiFi access! Can you believe that! Press people are trying to tether their laptops to their cellphones and there are a few, really only a few, hard ethernet lines available in the press room. Probably the worst press setup I've ever seen."
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More PalmAddicts tidbits (PDAs & a few Centro tech. questions)
hkklife @ 9/28/2007 10:18:01 AM #
Some interesting responses in these comments. If the Centro has the same "core code" as the 680, then why no new phone app? And by all accounts the Centro doesn't lag as much as the 680 does. Does this comment also suggest the 680 will be discontinued (because it offers too much bang for the buck) in favor of a GSM/EDGE Garnet Centro? Sounds likely...
Ed Colligan on PDAs:
"I took one last turn past the Palm booth and Ed Colligan was there. He gave me a minute and so I asked if Palm had any plans to discontinue the TX or other PDAs. Ed said No! He said that they haven't paid too much attention to them recently because of the big opportunity in the phone area, but that Palm was number one in PDAs and he felt that there was a place for both. Good news for a lot of us who still love their TXs for such things as ebooks."
Stephanie Richardson, Palm's Product Marketing Manager for Centro:
"Stephanie says that the Centro's battery life is 3 1/2 talk hours and 10 days standby. I asked her who did the design of the product. In other words, did Palm just do the "look and feel" design or did it do more. Stephanie said that for a product like this, which is taking Palm in a new direction, Palm not only did the industrial design, but actually did the electrical hardware design as well. Palm felt it was important to have full control over the complete hardware and software design process so that they could achieve exactly what they wanted. Some of their other phones have used an ODM for design, but not this one.
Why no WiFi? Stephanie says that with the Sprint EVDO network WiFi is just not necessary and they didn't feel the need for it. I forgot to mention in my earlier post that the Centro is 3G and takes advantage of Sprint's high speed network. Stephanie demonstrated calling up some websites with Blazer on the 3G network, and I must say that I was impressed. It seemed as fast as my WiFi at home. 3G is not available in my part of New Jersey so I've never seen it before. They may have a point here. Of course, in tests I've seen on other sites 3G really seems to suck down battery life quickly - but so does WiFi.
The Centro uses the same core code as the 680 as far as the Palm OS goes. I asked her about Linux and the future of the PDA part of Palm, but she didn't feel she could comment as these were out of her area. Sprint has an exclusive for 90 days from the date of availability. (So maybe we'll see the phone on other networks. My speculation, not hers.) "No comment" on whether there will be a GSM version.
I played around a bit with the phone and I have to say it has a very nice heft and feel. It doesn't feel plasticky or cheap and the keyboard seems quite usable for SMS and shorter emails, which is fine for the intended audience. If I needed a "business" phone I would definitely go for one of the Treo models. By the way, the Centro name, she says, was a deliberate intent to distinguish the phone from the Treo line and its business orientation."
goldyman @ 9/28/2007 11:08:36 AM #
OK, I'll admit that I'm a smartphone newbie but a longtime Palm user. One comment above intrigues me: What makes the Treo a "business" phone and the Centro a "teen" phone. Side-by-side spec comparison at the Palm site show them almost identical.
SeldomVisitor @ 9/28/2007 11:50:17 AM #
Because those in business are old enough to need glasses?
vorlon @ 9/28/2007 3:05:19 PM #
Yay for more PDA's!
Could someone please confirm that DTG is read only?!
I also worried that 320-resolution on so small screen would be too small, until I started to use the new iPod nano.
People complaining about Centro's small keyboard should take a look what Samsung has to offer, namely the Jitterbug. Ha!
Palm OS Garnet: Palm should be embarrassed!
nikazu @ 9/27/2007 4:22:48 PM #
I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but how can Palm NOT be embarrassed releasing the same old, dated OS on new hardware like this? I'd be afraid to show my face!
RE: Palm OS Garnet: Palm should be embarrassed!
drbuzz0 @ 9/27/2007 10:16:13 PM #
IMHO, if Palm wants Garnet to have any life at all and not be an entire sham - given it's going to take a bit of time to get the new OS ready - the best thing they could do to buy some time would be to add some really effecient, well implimented, fully featured support for middleware stuff.
Flashlight, Flash, J2ME. If they add that it will at least make the OS okay for a bit longer because it will enable more software and such. It's not a solution, but it might get them through the next few months.
Also update the launcher. Nothing fancy, just something like Launcher-X which allows for more than three collums and putting card-stored stuff in catagories and that sort of thing.
If they could do that it would at least make garnet usable for the time being.
Gekko @ 9/27/2007 10:19:47 PM #
i think they could at least polish up the GUI with some eye candy. i mean, it looks basically the same since 1996.
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freakout @ 9/27/2007 11:05:30 PM #
^^ Especially considering that PalmRevolt and SkinUI have been sprucing up PalmOS for years now. It's not that hard to add a bit of spit & polish, so why haven't Palm done it yet?
cgarrett1974 @ 9/27/2007 5:12:43 PM #
I don't care anymore... it is a thinner 755p with a smaller battery... that makes a lot of sense.
RE: Whatever
abosco @ 9/27/2007 5:35:09 PM #
But it's still not even close to being thin enough. 3/4" is just too much. Great price, though.
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Yeah... smaller battery is excellent. I'm sick of using my phone anyway - a battery capacity that's even shorter than the minuscule 680 or 755 offers a great opportunity to just leave it somewhere to be admired rather than used...
Bigger Story
analogue wings @ 9/27/2007 5:42:13 PM #
Did anyone catch what the "bigger story" is?
My money was on pay-as-you-go voice/data plans for the kidz...
IIIc -> M105 -> Zire 21 -> Tungsten T2 -> Treo 650
RE: Bigger Story
bulls96 @ 9/28/2007 1:25:45 AM #
yeah i was looking for this too... anyone?
SeldomVisitor @ 9/28/2007 6:25:36 AM #
Pay-as-you-go would not allow the Centro to be sold so cheaply. They need those two years of extra-expensive data plan to "correct" for the loss-leading up-front cost.
The possible "bigger stories" that I can think of:
1. Fooleo integration (I think that at the time of the "hint" the official announcement of the Fooleo had not yet officially occured)
2. The start of a new line of budget/youth/style-oriented Palm smartphones, all at price points below the Treo line.
3. Perhaps Palm is going to sell a version of the Centro with the cellular radio removed but with wi-fi as a VOIP handset/PDA? Or perhaps a data-centric TX-style device with EVDO to be marketed as a Centro? With the thought that Treo=QWERTY but Centro=cool stuff?
4. A forthcoming software update will permit over-the-air music downloads from the Sprint Music Store onto microSD cards?
5. The "Treo" line will segue to being exclusively WinMob (and presumably PLinux if it's ever ready) once the 755p & 680 runs their course in '08. Centro will be the new budget vanguard of POS devices.
6. The Treo 500v will be coming to America but branded as a Centro and sporting a quad-band GSM radio.
7. There is no "bigger story" and this was just a teaser tidbit thrown out there by Palm to appease everyone until the official release day arrived (this is my theory).
Well there wasn't anything else I'm aware of so they 'bigger story' so it was just pr-hype I suppose. I even asked a few people if there were any other unannounced services, major accessories or tie ins to come...
Unless the bigger story was that this is a "$99" device aimed at a whole new market segment, ie feature phone users.
One posibility I did not mention above but still might tie in to the "bigger story" part:
This thing might start out where it is not with the initial $199 price minus a $100 MIR w/ 2yr contract. Then it may eventually (after the holidays) drop down to $99 out the door w/ 2 yr contract.
The "bigger story" might be that it'll either eventually drop the MIR and have a real subsidized price of $99 OR become like the RAZR and, in a year or so, just be "free" w/ new contract.
what's not to like? $99, thin and light, great specs, nice form factor.
1. will the Centro cannibalize Treo sales?
2. low margins for Palm at this price even with carrier-subsidy?
RE: Looks Good
TooMuch @ 9/27/2007 7:20:51 PM #
"Looks good." Agreed
It might. I would love to have a more pocketable smartphone from Palm (I hate having to use a holster on some occasions). If it comes to ATT, I might swap my 680 for it.
I think that consumers or younger people who would buy treo's would be swayed toward this device, but I think it would bring in much, much more "palm" newcomers than take away from treo sales.
You really be better off with a larger treo if email and business type work is your primary function for a smartphone. The keyboard on centro is pretty cramped for serious typing.
Just imagine a treo 700/750/680 keyboard with no space between the letters and slightly smaller keys, that's about it.
twrock @ 9/28/2007 10:59:06 AM #
Yes, as far as the "looks" go, it does look good. But I'm waiting for the rumored large screen version: http://tinyurl.com/yw2rgj
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doesn't work.

A: Try Control-v, then Tab. If you see the cursor tab over to the right, it worked.
According to the comment by Mark you can also try Control-v and then Control-i.

A: Don't use double quotes.
sort -t $'\t'
Or I think Ctrl V inserts a Tab??
Edit:
http://www.gnu.org/s/bash/manual/html_node/ANSI_002dC-Quoting.html#ANSI_002dC-Quoting

A: To put tab:

*

*First press Ctr + v and

*Then press  tab key.

Example
Using above mentioned step adding tab

Saving in file

Final Output

Reference: https://linuxjourney.com/lesson/cut-command

A: You can also use printf:
sort -t "$(printf "\t")"

Not like $'\t', printf use double quotes which allow you to use environment variables, like below:
char="\t" # any source just plain text

sort -t "$(printf "$char")"

Single quote is static and not flexible, though it's simple, you can choose based on your requirement.

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What does Vandnami and Itchami exactly mean?
If it is so, why would anybody loose Samyak Darshan.
A person in 4th gunstaan may also get into some lower gunstaan.
My understanding is Kanji Swami was so impressed and completely transformed when he received Granthraj Samaysarji. Also if you read Ashtapahud and understand the importance of Samyek Darshan, you will try to find a muni that fits all these requirements. 28 moolgoons is part of it. Muni dasha is 6th gunasthan, it means person already has Samyek Darshan which happens in 4th gunasthan. Just imagine the purity and strength of shudhopayog a Muni of 6th gunasthan should have and compare it to our present community. I will also be extremely careful and will never start judging if someone is true bhavlingi muni.
Due to this, strict followers of Digambar scriptures will take safe position of not worshipping anyone and remain neutral. We have to be careful and not commit 'vinay-mithyatva'. Acharya Kunda Kunda Dev also warns this in Ashtapahud, he is very strict about acharan of munis. Any kind of 'shithilachar' will take someone to nigod. I hope it helps.
According to you, a 5th gunstan Vrati shraviak can be worshiped?
Yes but not all(only 11th pratima dhari) and not similar to 6-7 gunsthan varti jeev.
But generally sanyam is worshipped so in that way it will include sanyam part of 5th gunsthan also.
Any shastriya reference written by "Acharya or Muni" of that?
@jainsulabh Can you please give ebook link of Asht Pahud Ji, if possible?
I said that because some people say there is "Shuddhopyog" in 4th gunstaan. When asked for shastriya reference they give it from Pandits and fail to show reference from Acharya or Muni.
शुद्धोपयोग is possible in 4th Gunisthan, however unlike 7th gunisthan where it can continue for 48 minutes, its max time in 4th gunisthan is 6 aavli only which is very short time.
हम किसी की पूजा क्यों करते है? या follow क्यों करते है? या अपना गुरु क्यों मानते है?
"Shubhopyog" and "Shuddhopyog" are 2 different things. I think you haven't understood what I have written. I was asking for the reference from Acharya or Muni. There are different sects one who believe in "Shuddhopyod" in 4th gunstan and others who don't.
Also lets don't get into the discussion about true Muni in present time or not.
There are different sects one who believe in "Shuddhopyod" in 4th gunstan and others who don't.
What do you think - What's सम्यक दर्शन and the process to attain it?
Samyak darshan is a stage of a person in which he has true belief of 7 tatva. Who has faith only in true dev, shastra, Guru. Who knows that the body is not him, he is the soul. He knows that he is changing the body from Anadikaal. His kashayes are mild. He has interest in his aatma only. Even when he is eating the food, he thinks, "I am eating this from Anadikaal, when that time will come when I will not have to eat anything". He follows non-violence as much he can follow. Though he is doing activities for his livelihood etc, but he doesn't have interest in them. He prioritize swadhyay other any other activity. He helps others also so that they also get interest in religion.
Samyak darshan can be attained either by updesh, Jin Bimb Darshan, Vedna, Jati smaran and seeing other dev's riddhi.
@Chinmay sorry if you found my words harsh. Actually, I mistook you as "Samay" who was the first to post on this thread. Since I have discussed with him on the topic, I thought of not going into the details again.
"तीन भुवन में सार वीतराग विज्ञानता", छहढाला की ये पंक्ति सच में मिथ्यात्व को गलाने वाली है. मै भी मानता हूँ जो मुनि २८ मूलगुण का पालन करे वे ही सच्चे मुनि है.
¹ आम के बगीचे में एक-दो नीम के वृक्ष होने पर भी, आम के वृक्षों की बहुलता के कारण, आम का ही बगीचा कहलाता है.
यहाँ कहा गया है "श्रमण-उत्कृष्ट मुनि", उनके गुण भी बताये है, जैसे छहकाय के जीवों की रक्षा करने वाले , बहिरंग और अन्तरंग तप करने वाले आदि। क्या ये गुण चतुर्थ गुणस्थान "अविरति" श्रावक में पाए जा सकते है?
क्या चतुथ गुणस्तानी श्रावक राजाओ के द्वारा पूज्य है?
@Sowmay Please do answer my question.
According to you, can a 5th gunstan Vrati shraviak be worshiped?
I also think the following.
After reading all the comments above, I have just 1 question.
Parinaam and Gunasthan of the soul can be changing or fluctuating with every samay passing by. So even Digambar Muniraj in Pancham kaal might be at 6th Gunasthan in the present, 7th during some other time and even 1st after some more time.
Hence how can we blindly say a blanket statement that no muniraaj in the present is worthy of worship? and no muniraaj practices the 28 mulgun perfectly??
It can be that they practice 28 mulgun at one point of time and may fall down to the 1st gunasthan at other point of time due to whatsoever reasons. Since we don't observe any muni maharaaj for 24 hours daily.


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Schools Building Projects.
Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 27 January 2004
Ceisteanna (440, 441, 442, 443, 444, 445, 446, 447, 448, 449)
Emmet Stagg
554 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science when he expects the architectural planning for the extension to Maynooth Presentation Convent national school, Maynooth in County Kildare to conclude; when tenders will be invited for the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2187/04]
Freagraí scríofa (Ceist ar Minister for Education and Science)
Minister for Education and Science (Mr. N. Dempsey)
The large scale building project for Presentation Convent national school is listed in section 8 of the 2004 school building programme which is published on my Department's website atwww.education.ie. It has been assigned a "band 2" rating by my Department in accordance with the published criteria for prioritising large scale projects and the project will be authorised to proceed to advanced architectural planning during 2004.
The budget announcement regarding multi-annual capital envelopes will enable me to adopt a multi-annual framework for the school building programme which, in turn, will give greater clarity regarding projects that are not progressing to construction in this year's programme. I will make a further announcement in that regard during the year.
555 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science when architectural planning will commence in relation to the provision of a permanent school building for Gaelscoil Uí Fiach, Maynooth in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2188/04]
An application for grant aid for permanent accommodation has been received from the management authority of Gaelscoil Uí Fiach, Maynooth in County Kildare. The application is being assessed at present in the school planning section of my Department. When completed, the results of the assessment, together with an indicative timeframe for the delivery of any identified accommodation deficits at the school, will be provided to the school's authority.
556 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science if he will allow architectural planning to commence in relation to the provision of additional classrooms and a school hall at Tiermohan national school, Donadea, Naas in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2189/04]
An application for grant aid towards improvement works has been received from the management authority of Tiermohan national school, Donadea, Naas in County Kildare. The application is being assessed at present in the school planning section of my Department. When completed, the results of the assessment, together with an indicative timeframe for the delivery of any identified accommodation deficits at the school, will be provided to the school's management authority.
557 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to the national school crisis which is building up in Kill in County Kildare; if he will direct the OPW to find a suitable new site for the school as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2190/04]
My Department intends to purchase a significant number of sites during 2004. The level of funding available for the purchase of sites for primary and post-primary schools is €32 million. The needs of all schools, including those in Kill in County Kildare will be considered in this context. Due to commercial sensitivities of site acquisition, it is not proposed at this stage to identify the specific sites to be acquired. However, this information will be placed on my Department's website when the relevant acquisitions have been completed.
558 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science if the CEO of County Kildare VEC has submitted a report in relation to the acquisition of a site for a new St. Patrick's post-primary school, Naas in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2191/04]
For some time County Kildare VEC has been exploring the possibility of relocating St. Patrick's post-primary school from its existing town centre location. While the VEC is exploring a number of possible alternative options, no final decisions have been taken in this matter.
559 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science when architectural planning will commence in relation to the required extension to St. Mary's College, Naas in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2192/04]
An application for grant aid towards improvement works has been received from the management authority of St Mary's College, Naas in County Kildare. The application is being assessed at present in the school planning section of my Department. When completed, the results of the assessment, together with an indicative timeframe for the delivery of any identified accommodation deficits at the school, will be provided to the school's management authority.
Question No. 560 answered with QuestionNo. 548.
561 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science when tenders will be invited for the required extension to Sallins national school, Sallins, County Kildare; and if it his intention to provide further temporary accommodation in 2004 to deal with the net additional intakes of 140 pupils in September 2004; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2194/04]
I am pleased to advise the Deputy that the large-scale project proposed for Sallins national school is listed to proceed to construction as part of the 2004 schools building programme. The indicative timeframe for the project proceeding to tender is the second quarter of 2004. My Department has advised the school authorities to commence the tendering process for this project.
Officials in the planning section of my Department are assessing and prioritising all applications for temporary accommodation. I intend to publish details of all temporary accommodation projects which will proceed in 2004.
562 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science when tenders will be invited for the new school for Rathmore national school, Rathmore, Naas, County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2195/04]
563 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science when tenders will be invited for the required extension to Scoil Na Mainistreach, Celbridge, County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2196/04]
564 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science when tenders will be invited for the required extension to Scoil Mochua, Celbridge, County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2197/04]
I propose to take Questions Nos. 562, 563 and 564 together.
I am pleased to advise the Deputy that the large-scale projects in question are listed for proceeding to construction as part of the 2004 schools building programme. The indicative time frame for these projects proceeding to tender is the first quarter of 2004. My Department has authorised the schools in question to commence the tendering process for these projects.

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LUCA DIMOON
Born in Milan, Italy in 1982 first son of a Sicilian painter (ex-musician), L. started his relationship with music breathing in his father's collection of Motown and Blue Note records, and at the age of 8 he joined the local church choir. Though his musical sensitivity was already proven, the interest for visual arts was more recognized, so he studied Fine Arts to develop his impressive skills as a young painter and sculptor. "Music was more like a private passion. Singing was a pure device to express my instinctive feelings. Fine Arts were for me the natural way to interpret and share concepts of the philosophies that I was beginning to explore". It was after moving to London at the age of 19, that music took his spirit completely and became the absolute priority. Luca's decision was to concentrate all artistic energy, improving his gift by learning to play Piano, Guitar, Bass and Trumpet. His initial recordings attracted offers from Major Record Labels, with the intention to make him a Pop/R&B Act. Inevitably the profound artistic integrity he possesses made him refuse those offers. Later he signed a short deal with an Independent Label who got him on a successful compilation that peeked at number one on the charts. An intense musical research extended his performances to New York City, where he began to work on his first album "On Different Moods", composed, written, produced and performed by himself. It was released in 2009 by "Groove Erotic", an independent label based in the UK. After joining several groups like the "Harlem Gospel Choir" (Harlem Messengers), the "Conjectures Jazz Quartet", "The Thrust", and "Funky Mutiny", he performed at various music festivals and events throughout the years. His artistry has also led him to tour around the world as a featured performer to cities including, Paris, Moscow, Marrakech, Buenos Aires, Madrid, Zurich, London, New York and Bangkok. As of late Luca has been gravitating between Milan, London and Paris, performing live, working on his studio projects, and writing/producing tracks for other artists. If you listen intimately to his songs, their message merges and flows with the emotions provoked. He explains: "I paint lyrics with sounds to amplify the meaning".


The diameter of vascular conduits increases towards the stem base. It has been suggested that this profile is an efficient anatomical feature for reducing the hydraulic resistance when trees grow taller. However, the mechanism that controls the cell diameter along the plant is not fully understood. The timing of cell differentiation along the stem was investigated. Cambial activity and cell differentiation were investigated in a Picea abies tree (11.5 m in height) collecting microsamples at nine different heights (from 1 to 9 m) along the stem with a 4 d time interval. Wood sections (8-12 µm thick) were stained and observed under a light microscope with polarized light to differentiate the developing xylem cells. Cell wall lignification was detected using cresyl violet acetate. The first enlarging cells appeared almost simultaneously along the tree axis indicating that cambium activation is not height-dependent. A significant increase in the duration of the cell expansion phase was observed towards the tree base: at 9 m from the ground, xylem cells expanded for 7 d, at 6 m for 14 d, and at 3 m for 19 d. The duration of the expansion phase is positively correlated with the lumen area of the tracheids (r2=0.68, P < 0.01) at the same height. By contrast, thickness of the cell wall of the earlywood did not show any trend with height. The lumen area of the conduits down the stem appeared linearly dependent on time during which differentiating cells remained in the expansion phase. However, the inductive signal of such long-distance patterned differentiation remains to be identified. © 2011 The Author.


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The Real Winnie the Pooh
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Winnie the Pooh is one of the best-known characters in children's literature, and the inspiration is in fact a female bear from Winnipeg in Canada.
Captain Harry Colebourn of the Royal Canadian Army Veterinary Corps brought the bear cub across the Atlantic in 1914 when stationed in the UK, at the start of World War One, and when his regiment went to France, it was donated to London Zoo.
Newsday talks to Captain Colebourn's great-granddaughter Lindsay Mattick, who has written a book about her grandfather's relationship with the bear, 'Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear'.
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I ask reception clearly for a motorbike rent, not a motordriver. They call their friend and confirm me the rental: "he will bring you to the rented motorbike", but he kidnaps me (he doesn't speak english) bringing me all afternoon to a chilling children garden and a shopping center. In a call, the staff confirm me that we are going to the rented motorbike. At evening I had to fully pay the driver, and the staff excuse for misunderstanding, but the next day they wake up me at 7 o'clock because their unwanted motordriver was ready for another trip... unbelivable!
While it was a little far from the other hotel zone (and thereby incurring high taxi costs), the rooms were nice, the staff was very polite, and the internet was amazing.


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T H E B E S T O F S C O T ' S N E W S L E T T E R
Using MSCONFIG to Temporarily Disable Background Apps
System Configuration Utility is one of the essential tools for maintaining your PC's tip-top performance and operation. Here's how to use it.
There are lots of reasons to temporarily disable background applications on your PC. For example, prior to running a major software change, such as a Windows upgrade, you should disable antivirus applications. If you're having a software conflict, disabling background apps one at a time can help you figure out the culprit. But how do you do it? Several of newsletter readers, including Ed Morgan, asked me that question, and Roger Hutflesz helped to answer it.
There's a utility in Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Me, and Windows XP called System Configuration Utility (SCU), more commonly known as MSCONFIG, which refers to the program's filename: MSCONFIG.EXE. This utility makes it easy to temporarily disable all or some of the programs that launch automaticaly when Windows starts. (System Configuration Utility is not available under Windows 95, NT, or 2000, although there are third-party utilities that purportedly handle the chore.)
To temporarily disable all background applications and some device drivers in Windows 98, open System Configuration Utility by choosing Start > Run and then type "msconfig" without the quotation marks and press Enter. On the General tab, click to add the radio button beside "Selective startup." To be utterly certain of disabling all start up programs, remove all the check marks in the Selective Startup area. It is possible that needed device drivers will be disabled by eliminating CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT. There are also possible consequences from disabling the processing of SYSTEM.INI and WIN.INI. Worse case scenario is that you could wind up starting in Safe Mode, in which case you would launch MSCONFIG again and revert the settings to the way you found them. Truth now, SYSTEM.INI, WIN.INI, CONFIG.SYS, and AUTOEXEC.BAT do little any more that critically affects Windows operation.
On the other hand, you might just want to start by disabling the "Load startup group items" seting. (In Windows XP, also remove the check mark beside "Load System Services." This one change is likely to have the biggest effect in turning off background applications running under Windows, and it's also unlikely to cause any boot problems. Note that this setting does far more than remove the programs found on the Start Menu > Programs > StartUp menu. It also disables Windows services that are loaded from the System Registry. Once you've made up your mind, click the OK button and say Yes to the prompt asking whether you want to reboot.
The changes you make in SCU following this message stay in effect until you manually change them back by reversing the steps above. That's a good thing, since installing a major software update — including a Windows upgrade — usually requires a reboot as part of the install process. But don't forget to go back into SCU and revert to the original condition by clicking the "Normal startup" option on SCU's General tab.
The Startup Tab: Truly Selective
In a way, the "selective" startup in strangely named. What it really does is disable all or many of your auto-loading services. To selectively disable services and programs, click MSCONFIG's Startup tab. There you'll find a listing of the individual programs, system services, and in some case device drivers or programs that support devices. Notice that in this window, you can stretch MSCONFIG's window borders so you can look at all the many things running on your system at once.
Anything you change in this part of MSCONFIG can be changed back. So the trick is, don't make a big bunch of changes at once. If your goal is to free up system resources, try to identify programs you don't really care about. A lot of times these are utilities or little gew-gaws that came preinstalled on your machine. Junky stuff, sometimes. Start by eliminating the four or five items you're most sure of, then click OK and reboot. If you're trying to narrow down a software conflict of some sort, try disabling only the program — again the one you think that's the most likely culprit. Reboot your computer. Did the problem go away? Whatever you're doing, try to be methodical about it. Trial and error is the order of the day. But keep track of the changes you make.
For other ways to remove background applications, consult Best Of's Dump Unwanted Automatically-Launching Apps and Services. See also: PC Makers: Lose the Junky Software.


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HomeFeaturesThe splendor of Ojude Oba festival
The splendor of Ojude Oba festival
August 25, 2018 Features, Nigeria
Ojude Oba festival
Regular visitors to the Ojude Oba festival were not disappointed at the 2018 edition. It was a cultural extravaganza wrapped in the grandeur of a king's ball, the glamour of a fashion fair and the thrill of a durbar. The verdict: The epic Ijebu festival lived up to its billings.
On this day, as it is the tradition, patriotic Ijebu sons and daughters paid their annual homage and renewed their pledge of loyalty to the paramount ruler, the Awujale of Ijebu Kingdom, Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona.
The yearly fiesta, which traditionally holds on the third day of Eid el-Kabir came up on Thursday, August 23 at the King's Pavilion in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State. On a day drenched in drizzles, the significance of the fête was acutely highlighted, as a rallying occasion for the Ijebu nation and a festivity that transcend religion and politics.
As a major festival, Ojude Oba ("the king's forecourt") is over 100 years old. It has evolved into carnival-like celebration of the traditional, cultural, spiritual accomplishments and other values of the Ijebu nation. A cultural synod of the Ijebu descendants in Nigeria and diaspora, the one-day fiesta features various age groups (known as Regberegbe), indigenes, friends and associates from far and near, finely garbed, who throng the palace of the paramount ruler of Ijebuland to pay homage to him.
As a cultural festival, Ojude Oba is one of its kinds––one of the finest example of a cultural practice that has transcended time to fit snugly into modernity. It is also a platform for the Ijebu illustrious people to showcase their industry and fashion sense.
This festival, themed, "Celebration of Rich Cultural Heritage", got underway at 9:38 am with the recitation of the national anthem, followed by Ogun and Ijebu anthems. March past, starting promptly by 10 am, was kickstarted by the male Bobagunwa group. Male age grades and their female counterparts took a turn to file out, dancing to music coming from Musiliu Ishola and made their way to the King's side of the pavilion where they present their gift, prayers and pledges to their king.
The second aspect of the festival, the display of horse riding by the Balogun (warlord) families, revved up the festivity. The mock war added a rodeo effect to the day. While it lasted, the air reverberated with gunshot and the atmosphere was peppered with gunpowder. A banner-waving frenzy was accompanied with an adrenalin-pumping horse-riding display.
Those at the venue had a glimpse of the cream of the society. Eminent politicians graced the 2018 celebration. The Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, the special guest of the occasion, came with an entourage that included Senators Ben-Murray Bruce, Dino Melaye, Shaaba Lafiagi and Buruji Kashamu.
In keeping with tradition and trends, the groups presented themselves in the finest of raiments. If there is anything like "Ijebu haute couture," that is what is showcased at the Ojude Oba –– a tapestry of sartorial elegance made out of a mosaic of ofi, damask, etu and other types of fabric.
They did not appear before the king empty-handed. They came bearing gifts.
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Ojude Oba is a festival staunchly supported by corporate organisations. First City Monument Bank (FCMB) is one of the pillars of the epic festival. As a major sponsor, the financial institution continued to play a significant role in ensuring its success. This year, it played a yeoman part and brought smiles to the faces of participants. Its founder, Otunba Michael Olasubomi Balogun ––the Otunba Tunwase and Olori Omo-Oba of Ijebuland––is not just a son of the soil. He is an active participant at the yearly fete.
Of its significance, Otunba Balogun explained that the festival provides the children and subjects of the Awujale the opportunity to gather and "pay homage and demonstrate their affection for a very unique monarch," who is not just the paramount ruler of the Ijebu kingdom but also a father figure that has endeared himself to his people.
Ojude Oba is about renewing the pledge. One can take a cue from Otunba Balogun's goodwill message to the Awujale: "Apart from being the Olori Ebi (the head of the family), as your Olori Omo-Oba (the head of princes and princesses), I will continue to lead the way in showing our appreciation by being very close to you and showing my total loyalty to you."
At the end of the day, the "swag show" at the king's forecourt is a competition among age grades. And the winner is: The female group, Bobamoyegun Obinrin Asiwaju. The male group Bobagunte Omooba and the female counterpart Bobagunte Obirin Gold were first and second runners-up respectively.
In the horse-riding categories, the Kuku family came first, followed by Balogun Shoye and Balogun Odunuga families.
On what has become informally known as their "National Day", the Ijebu did not disappoint. Again, they proved the point. They are a people uphold and revel in their culture and tradition.
As noted by the Group Chief Executive of FCMB Group Plc, Ladi Balogun: "For all true sons and daughters Ijebuland, the Ojude Oba Festival is more than an event for us. It has become a long-standing yearly tradition we look we look forward to as a unifying platform and tourist attraction."
Now internationally acclaimed, Ojude Oba has become a vehicle for the promotion of the people's cultural heritage. The Ijebu collective recognized it, according to Balogun, as a "catalyst of cultural diversity and a guarantee of sustainable development."
The occasion was colourful. Picturesque. It was a day for picture-perfect photos. The merriment, however, did not end with the pomp at the king's pavilion. On Oju-Oba day, the city of Ijebu-Ode is a bubbly cauldron of merriment. As they filed out of the Oba Sikiru Adetona Golden Jubilee Centre, they headed home to commence the real partying.
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The TP was established as a Public-Private Partnership project (a PPP Project) through an initiative of the Economic Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, Parliament of the Czech Republic and of the Ministry of Industry and Trade at the end of 2011.
There is no other similar PPP Project throughout the Czech Republic or the EU. The EC Institutions and EC Industry Groupings perceive it as positive in terms of cooperation credibility and, at the same time, see it as a potential precedent for other EU member states.
The TP is an association of legal entities, of both public as well as private sectors, focusing on the issues of energy- and cyber security and the related Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP).
TP's objective involves promoting these interests in the aforementioned areas in such a way so that they reflect and implement the legislative requirements and also create an environment supporting the relevant projects and programmes on both national as well as international levels.
The goal is to improve safeguarding of the Critical Energy Infrastructure and transfer the experience as a reference standard onto the European and international levels.
To advocate interests of TPEB CR members in the course of setting up and updating legal regulation both in CR and in EU.
Together with public administration bodies co-establish the system ensuring energy and cybernetic safety of CR.
To integrate its members into European structures, projects and platforms focused on increasing level of energy and cybernetic safety.
To utilize scientific, research and technological capabilities of its members, and to integrate them into EU projects.
To get actively involved into establishing related standards and methodologies necessary to set up binding certification in the area of energy and cybernetic safety.
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To promote related activities and technologies of Czech entities abroad and thus support competitiveness and export of CR and integration into foreign structures and activities.
To elaborate and to carry out projects in the area of science, research and implementation of modern safety technologies.
To establish and maintain efficient risk management system.


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By Jian Xu
Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, vol. 11, no. 1, pp.61-92
What makes Lu Xun's relatively small output of short fiction the paragon of twentieth-century Chinese literature? Is it its preoccupation with social and political concerns, an "obssession with China," or the formalist concern of its fictional art? The answer is not both, the article argues, because in Lu Xun's fiction, the two are not seperable. The two sides of the question are really one issue: how to enable the form of fiction to mediate truth content and thus articulate the social antagonisms without falsely resolving them The article introduces Theodor Adorno's theory of the truth content in works of art to stress the paradoxical nature of Lu Xun's art which epitomizes, in the author's opinion, the major strength of modern Chinese literature as a whole. Because Lu Xun is not only willing, but actually seeks, to disrupt the unity and closure of his narrative form in order to expose the unreconciled status of social contradictions, he achieves a truly modern fictional art in its very "death" and is rightfully looked upon by later writers of China as the master of modern short fiction.
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It has been recently shown that the solutions of a large class of stochastic partial differential equations (SPDE) can be obtained as zeros of a properly defined map on a path space equipped with a norm which is "scaled" by the exponential of a function-valued Brownian motion. In the talk this result will be reviewed and connected to current developments about the case where the underlying SPDE is a gradient flow, perturbed by linear multiplicative noise. In this case it follows from the above result and by applying methods from the calculus of variations that the solution minimizes a certain explicit convex functional on the path space. Applications include stochastic porous media equations, stochastic nonlinear parabolic equations (as e.g. the stochastic Cauchy problem for the p-Laplacian) and in the non-gradient case also stochastic nonlinear transport equations.
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August 28 (Wednesday) 2019
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Nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations and distribution dependent SDE
It is a classical problem to present a solution of a PDE as the density of the time marginal distributions of a stochastic process. If the PDE is a linear Fokker-Planck equation, then by classical stochastic analysis this is known to be true under very general conditions. For nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations the situation is much more difficult and only known to be true under very restrictive assumptions on the regularity of the (nonlinear) dependence of the coefficients in the Fokker-Planck equations on the solutions. In this talk a new general concept is presented, how to find the desired stochastic process (similarly as in the linear case) through solving a corresponding stochastic differential equation (SDE), whose coefficients, however, depend on the marginal distributions of its solution (DDSDE). The point is that this new general concept does not require strong regularity assumptions on the coefficients (as e.g. fulfilled for McKean-Vlasov type equations) and thus does not rule out a lot of other nonlinear Forker-Planck equations of interest in Physics. As an example it will be shown that it can be applied to the case, where the nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation is a generalized porous media equation on d-dimensional Euclidean space (with d arbitrary), perturbed by a transport term. So its solution is the density of the time marginal distributions of a (tractable) stochastic process solving a corresponding DDSDE. Apart from its conceptual interest this result could lead to new numerical approximations of solutions to nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations through numerically solving the corresponding DDSDE.
In the first part of the talk, we shall recall the general connection between stochastic differential equations and (both linear and nonlinear) Fokker-Planck equations.
August 29 (Thursday) 2019
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Finding Order in Disorder: Mathematics is Everywhere
The lecture will present an example of a topic in mathematics which is rooted in elementary school mathematics, materializes later again in high school as well as in university mathematics and finally turns out to be a part of current mathematical research with striking applications, for example in modeling dynamical processes in finance or climatology. Another aim of the lecture is to convince the audience that in order to really understand our environment, both in its phenomenological and quantitative analysis, one has to take into account the influence of randomness.
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This strategy covers both commercial water allocation trade (selling and purchasing water allocation), and administrative water transfers ('internal' transfers of Victorian Environment Water Holder (VEWH) allocation or transfers between water holders).
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The death of Fr. Don Driscoll, S.J.
A beloved member of the Creighton Community has died.
Fr. Don Driscoll, S.J. was also a valued part of this Online Ministries ministry. He wrote Daily Reflections and contributed an Audio Retreat which remains on our site. We thank God for this blessed man, for the witness of his faith and generous dedication, and for his wonderful sense of humor.
Please join us in praying for him and for all who grieve his death.
An Tribute to Fr. Driscoll.
Listen to the wake service, the sharing, and the funeral homily.
Listen to a 47 second taste of his retreat.
Fr. Driscoll's Daily Reflection for Good Friday, last year.
"I find it exhilarating to write these reflections. I'm so touched by what I read and by the responses that I get. I think having the opportunity to touch hearts and souls through this medium is pure gift. It's a privilege and it's for all of us as we share in the priesthood of Christ. I'm touched by the way things I say resonate the same way with other people from around the world and I realize I'm not alone."
Death of Fr. Donald D. Driscoll, S.J.
Fr. Donald D. Driscoll, S.J. Don, 73, passed away unexpectedly last night around midnight of an apparent heart attack.
Fr. Donald David Driscoll was born in Evergreen Park, IL on June 17, 1933. After attending parochial schools in Chicago, he went to Campion High School in Prairie du Chien, WI. He entered the novitiate at Florissant, MO on August 8, 1952. His normal course of studies were in St. Louis, MO and St. Marys, KS. From 1967 until 1986, he taught theology at Marquette University High School in Milwaukee and served as its rector as well. In 1987, he began his twenty years of service at Creighton University as a theology teacher as well as chaplain. DD was probably best known throughout his years in the Society as the man who always found humor in every situation.
Don is survived by two nephews and a sister-in-law.
May our great and compassionate God grant to His priest-servant, Donald, an eternal rest where the just repose; may the Angels lead him into Paradise. Let us remember Don, his family, and the Jesuits, Staff and Faculty, and students of Creighton University in our prayers.


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This isn't really part of the Pong tutorial, but if you're making a game with the intention of commercialising your work some day, then it's best to know what hurdles you have ahead.
The Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is concept that helps, especially when you have too many game ideas and too little time.
Before you start coding your Pong game (or any other game), you need to lay down the design. In a perfect world, your version of Pong would have the most realistic physics, with high-definition graphics and amazing sounds, and an amazing title screen.
Unfortunately, we don't have the time for that. We gotta pick what we want to make as an MVP, and strip out unnecessary things. Once you list down the necessary components and tasks to complete the game, you can gauge how much time it'll take to finish it.
For beginners in HaxeFlixel, this is a short guide on getting your project up and ready for coding.
Parts 4 to 9 are straightforward — you make a Pong clone with as little effort as possible. Nothing fancy like realistic physics or intelligent AI.
While going through the tutorial, you might have had a lot of nagging thoughts in your head, such as "But the ball doesn't bounce realistically", or "But the score text is too plain".
That's normal, and it's good to have these thoughts, but they're not necessary in completing a game. They are part of the polishing phase — after you're done with the game's basic features, you start improving it.
I learned the hard way in failing to complete several of my game projects. Often, I find myself thinking "Oh it'll be great if the game had this feature", only to be boggled by its complexity, and ultimately making me lose interest in the game completely.
It is, in fact, a challenge to strip a game idea to its bare minimum. So work your way toward an MVP whenever you have this Amazing Idea™ in your head, and polish from there. More often than not, you'll struggle just to finish your MVP instead of the actual full game.
In the next post, we shall begin a new tutorial — an Asteroids clone. Or rather, it is a study on an existing HaxeFlixel demo – FlxTeroids.
Games feel much better when there is sound, no matter how simple it is. In the case of Pong, we only need one sound — when the ball hits the paddle, or when it hits the screen edge.
Before we add sound to the game, let's assume you want to create one. You can easily do this by visiting Bfxr.net.
Click on any sound effect button on the top-left of the app until you hear one that you like.
Click on the effect that you want to export as a sound file on the bottom-left of the app.
Click on "Export Wav" button on the bottom-right of the app to save the audio onto your computer.
Now we have a simple sound file, let's use it in the game. Before we can use the sound file, we need to add the file to our assets folder.
Note: the assets/music folder is for background music — because it loops infinitely. In our case of Pong, we're adding a sound effect. For that, we can put them in the assets/sounds folder.
In order to use FlxSound , we need to import it first, as indicated at line 5.
We then create a class variable bounceSound at line 11.
In the line 24, we load the sound when the Ball is created. In Haxe, the sound files can be loaded as a variable name rather than by string — written as AssetPaths.Hit_Hurt5__wav instead of a string value, e.g. "assets/sounds/Hit_Hurt5.wav" .
Alternatively, instead of bounceSound.play(); , you can use FlxG.sound.play("assets/sounds/Hit_Hurt5.wav"); .
After we have loaded the sound, we can conveniently play the sound by just using play() , as indicated on 34 and 56.
In our next post, we shall wrap up with a short post-mortem of this Pong clone project and discuss some points when creating a proper game.
We pretty much have an MVP already by now — Players can bounce the ball back against each other, and the round restarts when the ball goes behind either of the paddles.
Now let's keep track of the score to see who's winning. First we need a variable that doesn't get reset whenever we reload the MenuState screen.
Note that whenever you create a HaxeFlixel template project, there is a Reg.hx file in your source folder. You can use this file to store any game data during the game's lifetime. This is where we'll store our Pong score data too. We don't need to modify anything in Reg.hx because there's already a scores variable there.
There are three parts to note in the code above.
In the first part, by default, uninitialised values are null . In Haxe, there are various different default null values, depending on which target platform you want to build on, as noted in this page. As such, to play safe, I did a quick check on the initial values of the Reg.scores array. In case the value is not larger than zero, we initialise it to zero.
In the second part, we just load the score values accordingly.
In the third part, I set the position of the scores at an arbitrary position — The top-middle part of the screen. We then create two FlxText objects (based on the parameters for new() ) and add them to the stage.
Note that we have split the switchState code into two parts — If the ball exits the screen on the left, it means Player 2 (on the right) gets a point. If the ball exits on the right, Player 1 (on the left) gets the point.
Before we can pass this off as a somewhat completed game, we will add one finishing touch to it — sound effects. We'll cover that in the next post.
The ball always starts at the middle of the screen.
The ball automatically moves when the round starts.
If the ball touches the left or right of the screen, restart the round.
Note that we will not handle player scoring (when ball touches left/right side of the screen) yet, because that would be defined under game rules rather than the ball's characteristics. Okay so let's begin!
In the code above, we use makeGraphic to create a white square that is sized 30×30. Then we use FlxSpriteUtil to draw a green circle at (X=15, Y=15) position within the square, at 15-pixel radius.
Note the 0xFF00FF00 . It's hex code for the color — the first two digits being the opacity (00 being complete transparent, FF being completely opaque), and the last 6 digits represent the RGB (Red, Green, Blue) values.
Note that FlxSpriteUtil only draws shapes rather than create shape objects, thus the need to draw a square before drawing a circle.
In the code above, if the ball hits the upper or lower bounds of the screen, we invert the y-velocity to simulate bouncing. Then, it checks if the ball hits the left or right bounds of the screen — if it does, we reload the screen by using switchState() .
If you test the game now, you will notice the ball bouncing correctly — but it goes through the paddle. We need the ball to bounce when it hits the paddle too.
In the code above, we have a class variable hitPaddle to store a reference to the paddle that the ball has bounced against. Why do we need to store a reference of the paddle? We'll get back to this in a bit.
Note the thisBall.bounce(thisPaddle) — Remember we talked about storing a reference of the paddle when the ball bounces of it? Logically, the ball would invert x-velocity once it touches the paddle. Unfortunately, the ball may overlap the paddle for more than once (e.g. it overlaps for 2 or 3 frames). This would make the ball invert its x-velocity indefinitely because its body is still overlapping the paddle.
As such, to prevent the bug, we store a reference to the paddle, which is like saying "I've bounced off this paddle before. If I'm bouncing off it again, I don't need to invert my x-velocity". It's not a fool-proof way, but it works for Pong.
Now, if you test your game, it should bounce back and forth between the paddles correctly, and reset the stage of it goes beyond the left or right side of the screen.
Yes, it's a little rough on the edges, but right now we're only concerned with making a playable game. We can always polish the graphics or handle the ball-bouncing code more elegantly later on.
So far we have a paddle on the left, that can be moved with the UP and DOWN keys.
Now we have two paddles on the screen! Note that the code is not optimised — it's not adhering to the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) methodology, but for now it's excusable because we're still learning.
Now if you test the game, you will see two paddles which can be moved by the W/S and UP/DOWN keys.
Now that we have two paddles, we will need the ball. In our next post, we shall create the Pong ball, inclusive of the logic to keep the ball within the screen boundaries and for the ball to bounce off the Paddles.


This is a short retelling of a ghost experience I had a few years back. I've had experiences since then but this was the most vivid one, which occurred when I was 15. Me and my friend were home alone, and we were into watching wrestling at the time. So, we decided to have a 'play fight' in the kitchen, at my house. On the bench in the kitchen were 3 assorted bottles of shampoo/conditioner.
So anyway we are wrestling about 1 and a half metres from the bench, punching each other and what not, when suddenly he grabs me in a headlock, he was bigger than me and stronger so he was overpowering me. A few seconds I started to feel weak, near the point of passing out, when - from the corner of my eye - I see the middle shampoo bottle of the three standing on the bench, fly across and hit him in the head.
He immediately let go of me, as we were both in shock (he noticed the bottle flying too). We were so freaked out we went to my room and didn't come out for 4 hours until my mum came home. I have a feeling it was my guardian angel, or my grandma who I know has been watching over me for many years. She died when I was 5 at the age of 54. I also believe My grandma could be my guardian angel.
Please share your opinions, but do not criticise whether it is true or not. My friend and I both know what we saw, and he obviously felt it. I really felt as though something was watching over me then, just like I still do to this day. I don't know whether guardian angels are related to this, but I am sure it was some sort of spirit, because a bottle does not just fly when all the windows and doors or closed.
Was This A Ghost Or An Angel That Saved Me?
The following comments are submitted by users of this site and are not official positions by yourghoststories.com. Please read our guidelines and the previous posts before posting. The author, Rafaelo11, has the following expectation about your feedback: I will read the comments and participate in the discussion.
It sounds as if it could have very well been your grandmother trying to prevent you from getting killed (even though it was a "play fight").
No way man! My story is about a flying object too, but I will post it as soon as possible.
I'm sure it was your gandma helping you, such a nice lady.
Thanks for posting. So, Guardian angel or Grandmother, either way, someone kept you from harm that day.
"guardian angels" some call them, some others "helpful spirits" are rarely heard of.
Nonetheless, it stopped you from doing something that might harm you physically, and for that you should be thankful.
Respect them who care for you.
So this is just because I'm worried. Guys will fight as fun. It's what they do. Raised two sons in the projects where fighting is everyday, ESPECIALY between friends. But even in the projects the guys make sure and have a couple of guys, or a Momma, watch and make sure no one kills each other. And yes, feeling light headed IS passing out from a choke. If you passed out and dreamed of the fight and kept fighting, your friend would have hung on to the choke and in 8 seconds would have killed you. (Learned that in Jujitzu.) So your Grandma saved your life. If I were you, I'd set out flowers and pour out a beverage she liked, and say thanks to this lady. Be safe.
Let's be honest folks, kids will rough-house like that way into their teens. I saw my own two younger brothers come to fisty-cuffs with their ending up crashing through the glass coffee table.
You are lucky - especially if it's your Grandmother. They tend to care more than you know. Glad you were not hurt.
I would agree with your theory of telkenesis if he didn't say he was about to pass out. Telekenesis takes a lot of concentration and focus. You can't do either when you feel like you're going to pass out.
I still think it was grandma protecting her grandson.
I think It's great that your grandma is still obviously looking over you! Good to know she's still there when you need her! Such a sweet story, although maybe your friend wouldn't agree!
It was probably your grandmother that threw that bottle at your friend. 😆 She is probably watching over you and your family and saw that you were in serious trouble.
Don't wrestle or"rough house" like that again. It can be very dangerous. Years ogo when my kids were very young a neighbors teenage son died playing open chest. Because of the serious danger of this "game" I will not say how it is played. But this kid took a serious blow to the chest between heart beats and it killed him.
Sons! Thatals probably what the ghost or angel was thinking. People here will question a lot, but no one wil absolutely criticise. Good story.
Silly teenagers! I'm glad your Grandma or guardian angel was there to prevent your game from going too far.
What a nice ghostie! Guardian angel or ghost dosen't matter. It saw your friend rough housing a little too much.
I don't think there is anything to critise here.
© The ghost story Saved From Danger is copyrighted to Rafaelo11. Edited by yourghoststories.com.


Note 1: The sound system includes four Behringer B210D powered speakers, a Yamaha MW12c Mixer, and a CD/DVD player (Revo DVP-867W). Black drapes on the sides and a black or white backdrop are also included. Lighting equipment is not included. There is an electricity use charge set at ¥100 per day for each 100w rating on equipment brought in.
Note 2: In addition to the equipment in Note 1, a lighting system with a 12 channel two scene preset control board (Elation SceneSetter), 3 four channel dimmer packs (Elation DP 415) 8 flood lights, 3 mini pars, and a house light system is pre-set and ready to use. The operation of the system does not require technical expertise, but the renter needs to supply their own operator. On load in and load out days, the rate is ¥3,000.
Note 3: In addition to the equipment in Note 2, an LED lighting system with 9 LED pars and 8 LED strip lights are added, as well as a projecotor if needed. Also, Ryogoku Bear's technician (Lang) will work on the performance handling the lights and sound (rehearsal attendance, major lighting design adaptations are charged separately). On load in and load out days, the rate is ¥5,000.
Note 4: Audience seating system (for up to approximately 40 people). The renter should have at least two people available to build the platforms with Lang's assistance and instruction.
Note 5: In contrast to standard studio rental, performance rentals require Ryogoku Bear staff to be on hand, requiring an additional basic charge.
Note 6: the front end of the 1st floor can be used as a box office on the days of the shows.
Note 7: In addition, the rear portion of the 1st floor can be partitioned with a curtain and used as a dressing room.
Load in on the evening before with 2 performances and load out on the day of show. Lighting Plan A, Audience seating Plan A. No use of 1st floor. All lighting equipment is brought in, and handling of tickets is done within the space. With careful planning, a very economical option.
Day 1 evening Load in with four performances over two days and a load out on the fourth day. Lighting Plan B (renter provides operator), Seating Plan C (Ryogoku Bear assistance with seating riser set up), Use of 1st floor for dressing room and box office (renter handles box office).
Day 1 evening Load in with four performances over three days with a load out on the evening of the fourth day. Lighting Plan C (supplemental equipment and operator), Seating Plan B (renter builds the risers), and use of 1st floor for dressing room and box office (renter handles box office).