PESHAWAR Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani Taliban militants have executed 21 paramilitary force men who were captured in attacks on their posts late last week, government officials said on Sunday.
The men, who were kidnapped on Friday in attacks on three checkpoints near the city of Peshawar, were lined up before being shot one-by-one, officials said.
"They were tied up and blindfolded," Naveed Anwar, a senior administration official in the Khyber region, said by telephone.
One man was badly wounded but survived, Anwar said, adding that the 21 bodies had been found after local tribesmen notified security services.
"They were lined up and shot in the head," said Habibullah Arif, another local official. He said the wounded man and another man had managed to escape.
A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility and pledged to carry out further attacks on Pakistani security forces.
"We killed all the kidnapped men after a council of senior clerics gave a verdict for their execution. We didn't make any demand for their release because we don't spare any prisoners who are caught during fighting," said Ihsanullah Ihsan.
The men were from a paramilitary force recruited from members of ethnic Pashtun tribes in northwestern Pakistan. The militias support the government in its efforts against Islamist militants battling the state.
The killing of the men followed two high-profile attacks in Peshawar this month. Suicide bombers attacked Peshawar's airport on December 15 and a bomb killed a senior Pashtun nationalist politician and eight other people at a rally on December 22.
The violence underscores the Taliban's ability to carry out high-profile attacks in major cities even as the amount of territory they control has shrunk over the past three years.
(Additional reporting by Saud Mehsud in Dera Ismail Khan.; Writing by Katharine Houreld; Editing by Robert Birsel and Ron Popeski)
Lined up inside a dark-black painted building in Ciudad?Ju?rez, Mexico, worshippers of La Santa Muerte wait their turn to place their rolled-up paper prayers at the feet of a 5-foot tall statue of an idolized female skeletal figure. She is draped in a white, laced cloak and holds a small globe in one hand, and a tall wooden scythe in the other.
Many of the Santa Muerte statues started popping up in this city around 2009, when drug-related violence began to ravage this border town. More than 10,000 people have been killed in Ciudad?Ju?rez?alone since 2007, when Mexico?s outgoing President Felipe Calder?n?first declared war on the country?s drug cartels. The murder rate earned Ciudad?Ju?rez?the title of murder capital of the world for a while.
Santa Muerte statue looks over prayer room during vigil. (Photo by Alex Pe?a)
Followers recognize La Santa Muerte as an iconic figure of prayer for those looking for protection. The Catholic Church in Mexico denounces the worship as a cult.
The origins of Santa Muerte worship is debated, but many believe it came from the ancient Aztecs and their worship of death. The modern image of Santa Muerte is believed to have surfaced in the mid-20th?century in poor areas of Central Mexico. Now, Santa Muerte can be found throughout all of Mexico, the border, and even some parts of the United States.
Yolanda Salazar inside her prayer room. (Photo Alex Pe?a)
?You can ask the Santa Muerte for many things,? said Yolanda Salazar, self-proclaimed priestess of the Santa Muerte cult in Ciudad Juarez.
?Here in?Ju?rez, people pray for protection, but also health, and for love. What?s important is it comes from the heart. If your intentions are true, it will help you,? she said.
Salazar lives in and runs this particular sanctuary, which is located in the heart of the city, just a drive of a few minutes from the border with the United States. It?s believed there are many makeshift sanctuaries and Santa Muerte altars in?Ju?rez, but Salazar?s is public, and the most popular.
She said she had just a handful of followers in 2010, when she first opened her Santa Muerte sanctuary, which consists of perhaps 100 or more small and large statues of Santa Muerte. This year, her weekly prayer vigils to the Santa Muerte draw in a crowd similar to the size of a Catholic Mass.
Sign telling Santa Muerte believers where to place their money for good luck economically. (Photo by Alex Pe?a)
On this particular night, her vigil resembled more of a Mexican fiesta than an underground worship of death. Mariachi music flooded out into the street, and the 25 or more worshipers ate and danced while the others went inside to make their offerings.
?This has always existed here, but people were timid about professing their belief. They were afraid to be judged by society,? Salazar said. ?But now, a lot of us don?t really care what society thinks.?
According to Salazar, the violence in the city has drawn many followers to her sanctuary, searching for protection that neither the church nor their government can give them.
?Now that it?s come to light, I would say that 40 percent of the people in Juarez believe in Santa Muerte,? she said. ?Still, not all are professing it.?
In Mexico, a traditionally Catholic society, the worship of a deity that isn?t recognized by the Catholic Church usually?means?an association to criminal organizations. Members of drug cartels, commonly referred to as narcos, have long been followers of the Santa Muerte.
Little girl looks into glass window lined with life size statues of La Santa Muerte. (Photo by Alex Pe?a)
Narcos make offerings to the icon in return for protection in their illicit activities. In some rare and very brutal cases, the offerings have consisted of human body parts.
Eight people were arrested in northern Sonora state in March of this year after they were accused of killing two ten-year-old boys and a woman in ritual Santa Muerte sacrifices.
Salazar said that this type of worship is not the ?true cult? of La Santa Muerte.
?This is not exclusively for the narcos,? she said. ?Even police go to her for protection. Even they realize how powerful she is.?
The Catholic Church in Mexico has consistently denounced the worship of such a deity, but it cannot deny the rise in adoration for such figures in Mexico?s violent border towns.
Rev. Felipe de Jes?s Ju?rez,?head priest at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in CD.?Ju?rez, says the belief of Santa Muerte arrived in Ciudad?Ju?rez?around 2009 and 2010, at the height of the violence. Though the murder rate has dropped dramatically, the culture of death has not.
Mix of flowers, ginger, and other ingredients being offered as a sacrifice to La Santa Muerte inside of Sanctuary. (Photo by Alex Pe?a)
?We are all exposed to this new cultural situation. Here in the border we see a lot of different types of beliefs,??Ju?rez?said. ?This started with people who don?t have a good moral base. They are grabbing death, putting a cloak on it, and making it a saint. But it?s not a saint; it?s death.?
In the case of Santa Muerte, once followers pray to her, they believe she will grant them favors, but they must repay her.
?If they don?t, they believe they will be punished,??Ju?rez?said. ?So many live in fear.?
He said he opposes such a practice because he believes the grace of God is free.
Nonetheless,?Ju?rez?recognizes the power of Yolanda Salazar and her followers of this growing cult in his city.
?This woman, a self-proclaimed high priest who started out of her house, now has a full building with a sanctuary,? he said. ??The devotion in Mexico is very strong.?
Candles lit for prayer vigil inside Santa Muerte Sanctuary. (Photo by Alex Pe?a)
And nowhere is the diversity of Santa Muerte worship more prevalent than inside the gates of a Salazar prayer vigil. Little boys and girls hold flowers and candles as offerings; their parents write the prayers on small sheets of paper.
All while a group of teenagers stand and chat near the door, waiting their turn to enter and place their own prayers.
?I feel a lot of security,? said Alexia Varaza, 20, a follower of Santa Muerte. ?I?ve had a lot of luck with La Santa Muerte. She gives me strength.?
Varaza?s mother and father are believers in the cult, but the rest of her family is skeptical.
?That stuff?s for sicarios ? for killers!? said Varaza,?explaining what her family thinks of the cult vigils she attends every weekend.
?That?s not what it is for me. I just tell them I?m a student, and I need the good luck!?
Whether for sicarios or students, Salazar?s doors are open 24/7 to people searching for protection in a city saturated with violence.
?The real cult, our cult, is to go out and profess the goodness of La Santa Muerte,? Salazar said. ?That?s why I opened the sanctuary.?
Salazar has plans to open another Santa Muerte sanctuary next year, with the expectation that her following will continue to grow as massively as during the past year. ?She certainly will be praying to her beloved Santa Muerte for that to happen.
Alex Pe?a is a freelance foreign correspondent currently covering Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Previously, Pena was based in Nairobi, Kenya covering East Africa for Voice of America TV, and has also filed stories from the Middle East, including the border of Jordan and Syria. He graduated from the journalism program at Florida Gulf Coast University in December 2011.
If you're keeping track of the multiple, and let's face it, tiresome Samsung / Apple patent debacle, a document that just turned up at the ITC might spell more trouble for the Korean manufacturer. It's a publicly redacted version of Judge Pender's recommendations, and pertains to the October ruling that deemed Samsung borrowed four of Cupertino's designs. The most iconic being design patent D618,678 (that which you see above). The others include multi-touch patent 7,479,949 (which was tentatively invalidated) along with two other patents (RE41,922 and 7,912,501) relating to graphic display elements and audio hardware detection. If the recommendations are adopted -- and FOSS Patents suggests this is entirely possible -- Samsung could face a US import ban after a 60 day presidential review, an order prohibiting "significant" sales of infringing products in America along with a posting a bond for 88 percent of the entered value of mobile phones (plus 32.5 percent for media players and 37.6 percent for tablets) that include the breaching design features. Pender has, however, reportedly cleared several Samsung "designarounds" which, if implemented to satisfaction, would mean the tech giant could continue trading. For now though, the recommendations are awaiting the Commission's review.
As safety checks continue in the wake of disaster last year, Japan has an ambitious plan to get its controversial nuclear program up and running.
The new government announced Friday that it hopes to complete safety checks and determine whether to restart all reactors within three years.
All but two of Japan's 50 reactors remain shut down after a March 2011 earthquake and tsunami resulted in one of the worst nuclear disasters in history at the Fukushima Daiichi station.
The minister in charge of energy says the government will follow the Nuclear Regulation Authority's recommendations about which reactors to restart.
But the agency's chairman said Friday that the three-year deadline is impossible to meet.
As part of its inspections, the authority is determining which plants sit on active fault lines vulnerable to earthquakes.
Last year's meltdown has prompted large protests as reactors are restarted, giving momentum to the movement to scrap Japan's nuclear energy program altogether.
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Are Smartphones Affecting Our Written And Spoken English Skills? by Shakara123(m): 3:11pm
In our present society, there seem to be an increased awareness and crave for smart phones by all (infants, youths and adults alike).
These devices no doubt help in easy and fast communication but have we considered the effects they have on our written and spoken communication skills, especially our students??
Today, words are abbreviated in chat platforms to the extent that most students find it difficult to spell some words correctly, place punctuations appropriately, or even differentiate tenses. Examples; I don?t know becomes ?dunno?, okay becomes ?kk?, what is going on becomes ?sup?, don?t becomes ?dnt?, bother becomes ?boda? and the list goes on and on. It is at such moments that I praise some universities that ban the use of smart phones on campus.
Secondly, have we observed that some persons who are able to use these abbreviated words so much and type so fast with their phones during chats find it quite difficult to speak as effectively when physically present before their chat mates?
These are only my thoughts anyway. I will appreciate your comments as well.
Compliments.
Re: Are Smartphones Affecting Our Written And Spoken English Skills? by 2legit2qwt: 3:52pm
Yes, we're definitely letting it affect the writing aspect of the language. I once had the opportunity to review some applicants cover letter during a job application process and it's so pathetic that simple errors such as replacing '4' with 'for' were common.
A lot of people on Nairaland would rather write in 'text' language than the actual language thereby making it difficult to read/understand. Once you start writing that way consistently, you get used to it and it becomes the norm for you.
I can understand the need for 'text' words based on the number of characters you're restricted to in SMS
I'd rather read a sentence constructed in broken/pidgin English than in 'text' language outside of actual mobile texting, it does my head in
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Re: Are Smartphones Affecting Our Written And Spoken English Skills? by Clefcentfelix: 3:53pm
it depends on the individual
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Re: Are Smartphones Affecting Our Written And Spoken English Skills? by Chuckeey (m): 3:54pm
really affecting us badly
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Re: Are Smartphones Affecting Our Written And Spoken English Skills? by vanstanzy(m): 3:56pm
Re: Are Smartphones Affecting Our Written And Spoken English Skills? by Cori_corde(f): 3:56pm
Exactly. I don't remember reading a text with the words written in full. Eveybody talks lyk dis noe. What is this nonsense?
Re: Are Smartphones Affecting Our Written And Spoken English Skills? by messiah(m): 3:56pm
"you're" becomes "your"
Re: Are Smartphones Affecting Our Written And Spoken English Skills? by Sunymoore(m): 3:58pm
Quite tru cox i rembrd whn i was wrtng englsh dis yea, instd of schools i wrote .skulls. Its truli quite unfotunt. But as frm nw, i will tri as much as i can to wrte a complt wrd even in a forum o chat rum.
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Re: Are Smartphones Affecting Our Written And Spoken English Skills? by kunletiwoo(m): 3:58pm
Clefcentfelix: it depends on the individual
seconded!
Re: Are Smartphones Affecting Our Written And Spoken English Skills? by afam4eva(m): 4:00pm
God punish spoken English. How about spoken Igbo and Yoruba. Why's no one worried about them?
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Re: Are Smartphones Affecting Our Written And Spoken English Skills? by egift(m): 4:01pm
I will not say badly. If the user is lazy it will help him more. But if the person really cares for the quality of spoken and written words, phones and PCs could be really helpful.
For me the use of computer makes me spell words correctly, even the ones I can not easily put together (I just keep right-clicking till it suggest the right spelling).
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Re: Are Smartphones Affecting Our Written And Spoken English Skills? by SamConquer(m): 4:02pm
MTCHEWWWW MU.MU TOPIC AGAIN
Re: Are Smartphones Affecting Our Written And Spoken English Skills? by Yomieluv(m): 4:02pm
I dnt knw of som1 else,but its not affectin me at all,dats y I wrote dis in gud english
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Re: Are Smartphones Affecting Our Written And Spoken English Skills? by caesaraba(m): 4:04pm
It does. But I wouldn't say smartphones only. I'd say social media and all its shorthand has really reduced the quality of written English we see (among youths) these days.
E.g, A lot of people now replace the letter 's' with 'x' when they spell words.
There are many more examples but the crux of the matter is that social media has really affected the quality of written English among youths. Go through the comments on NL and see for yourself.
Re: Are Smartphones Affecting Our Written And Spoken English Skills? by Goldenheart(m): 4:05pm
place reserved.
Re: Are Smartphones Affecting Our Written And Spoken English Skills? by Shaw007(m): 4:05pm
I thinK it actuaLLy depends On the individuaL. . .if ur(you're) someone who cannot pLace a distinctIOn on ur(your) "chat/texting" Life and the normaL,formaL Life u'LL(you will) reaLLY find it hard
and one other thing is the consciousness,most fOLks when writing tend to forget they are not messaging their friends or updating some status But writing a note ,an exam,or maybe an application. . .most ppl(people) can actually write normally,but when this behaviour starts to eat deep,i'm afraid the person is Lost
and of course on occasions,he intentionally tries to break that jinx
yes,it definitelY affects the writing aspect,but i dnt(don't) think it affects anyone speaking. . .at Least to my knowledge
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Re: Are Smartphones Affecting Our Written And Spoken English Skills? by Koolking(m): 4:06pm
It irritates me, in fact, I don't even waste my resource (time) reading short-worded comments and documents. What stops people from typing words the way they were taught, even when they have enough space to accommodate what they have to pass across to their listeners/readers. Personally, I see people who form such habits as unintelligent, docile and boring. It has nothing to do with Smart phones.
Re: Are Smartphones Affecting Our Written And Spoken English Skills? by ebucha: 4:06pm
Queens English does not improve the economy of a nation, ask the Chinese prime minister (fastest growin economy), Germans or maybe Japanese. The English currency and Economy overtook ours years back cos they made us slave to their language. Gramma good oh,but e no go giv us light,water and road. SEEK FOR DEVELOPMENTAL KNOWLEDGE!!
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Re: Are Smartphones Affecting Our Written And Spoken English Skills? by ebucha: 4:09pm
Chuckeey : really affecting us badly
how? Ok, it increased the price of fuel and damaged our roads.
Re: Are Smartphones Affecting Our Written And Spoken English Skills? by Troll: 4:10pm
@OP Is English My Language Or Are You A Learner!?
...Typing From My Nokia 3310 With GPS, 3G, WIFI & Bluetooth
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Re: Are Smartphones Affecting Our Written And Spoken English Skills? by Blackteeth(m): 4:10pm
I dont know. But ever since I started texting and chatting, I always write in full like its official. My friends I chat with always ask me why I write in full letters and I tell them its because I dont want to get used to those shorthand styles. Maybe its paying off for me.
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Re: Are Smartphones Affecting Our Written And Spoken English Skills? by Sunymoore(m): 4:12pm
For those of u who have nt see the text under ''dis has affect us badly'' because its hidden, the text is Re: Are Smartphones Affecting Our Written And Spoken English Skills? by Clefcentfelix: 3:55pm first to comment. placeholladele: reserved u're high on rice n stew. (Quote) (Report) (Like) Re: Are Smartphones Affecting Our Written And Spoken English Skills? by Clefcentfelix: 3:55pm holladele: first to comment. place reserved first?
Re: Are Smartphones Affecting Our Written And Spoken English Skills? by Richfella(m): 4:12pm
Some posts here, written in text-speak, make me want to hit my head on the wall. Yikes!
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Re: Are Smartphones Affecting Our Written And Spoken English Skills? by A-ZeD(m): 4:13pm
You don't blame smart phones for the laziness of humans. No smart phone/phone comes with "text speak".
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Re: Are Smartphones Affecting Our Written And Spoken English Skills? by A-ZeD(m): 4:16pm
Richfella: Some posts here, written in text-speak, make me want to hit my head on the wall. Yikes!
Its truly annoying when adults resort to writing "text speak" on a public forum. I can tolerate bad grammar but "text speak" just makes me write you off as un intelligent and not worth responding to.
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Re: Are Smartphones Affecting Our Written And Spoken English Skills? by Prodigee(m): 4:18pm
@OP: Welcome to the jet age...no time for time.
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Re: Are Smartphones Affecting Our Written And Spoken English Skills? by omodapson(m): 4:19pm
I would have to support this assertion. We now have a new form of written language, (no language is exempted) which is destructive to the way we communicate. Before long, abnormalities may become the norm and we may not have answers to right the wrong.
Re: Are Smartphones Affecting Our Written And Spoken English Skills? by bara pistis(m): 4:23pm
the thing they affect person die.... me don go back to school lol, as i don forget the spelling of most common words
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Texas Tech's Derreck Edwards (19) flips into the end zone for a touchdown ahead of Minnesota's Antonio Johnson (11) during the first quarter of the Meineke Car Care Bowl NCAA college football game, Friday, Dec. 28, 2012, in Houston. (AP Photo/Dave Einsel)
Texas Tech's Derreck Edwards (19) flips into the end zone for a touchdown ahead of Minnesota's Antonio Johnson (11) during the first quarter of the Meineke Car Care Bowl NCAA college football game, Friday, Dec. 28, 2012, in Houston. (AP Photo/Dave Einsel)
Minnesota coach Jerry Kill reacts to a double penalty during the second quarter against Texas Tech in the Meineke Car Care Bowl NCAA college football game, Friday, Dec. 28, 2012, in Houston. (AP Photo/Dave Einsel)
Texas Tech's Seth Doege gestures after scoring a touchdown against Minnesota during the second quarter of the Meineke Car Care Bowl NCAA college football game, Friday, Dec. 28, 2012, in Houston. (AP Photo/Dave Einsel)
Minnesota quarterback Philip Nelson scrambles during the first quarter against Texas Tech in the Meineke Car Care Bowl NCAA college football game, Friday, Dec. 28, 2012, in Houston. (AP Photo/Dave Einsel)
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HOUSTON (AP) ? D.J. Johnson returned an interception 39 yards and Ryan Bustin made a 28-yard field goal as time expired to give Texas Tech a 34-31 comeback victory over Minnesota on Friday night in the Meineke Car Care Bowl.
Seth Doege found Eric Ward on a short pass, and he outran a defender for a 35-yard scoring play to tie it at 31 with just more than a minute remaining.
Michael Carter intercepted two of Doege's passes in the fourth quarter before the tying score, but Minnesota couldn't convert either of the turnovers into points.
The Red Raiders (8-5) got their third straight bowl win to wrap up a month that began with coach Tommy Tuberville's abrupt departure for the job at Cincinnati. Texas Tech has hired Kliff Kingsbury to replace him, but interim coach Chris Thomsen led the team against Minnesota (6-7). Kingsbury was at the game, watching from a suite.
The App Store is flooded with apps, both good and bad, so it can be overwhelming to decided which apps you're going to spend your hard earned cash (or gift cards) on. Stress no more! We've gathered up some of our all time favorite iPad apps that we believe to be worth every penny.
1Password 4
1Password is not only one of the best apps for your iPhone, but one of the best for your iPad, Mac, and PC as well. With 1Password, you can say goodbye to using the same, insecure password for all your logins all over the internet and instead give each login its own individual secure password yet only need to remember one password to gain access to them all.
1Password is not just extremely useful and practical, but it's very well designed and gives the perfect combination of functionality and beauty.
Apple's built-in Calendar app on the iPad is great and all, but if you yearn for something different, Calendars by Readdle by be just what you're looking for. This full-featured calendar app will sync with Google and iOS Calendar and has a great design. Calendar has support for custom repeating events and feature special keyboards for different entry elements to make it quick to enter events. You can also swipe between screens (something that you surprisingly can't do with the built-in Calendar app) and the week and day views feature a visual/spacial design that many users consider a must-have.
Tweetbot has been one of our favorite Twitter apps for quite some time, now. It's perfect for the power tweeter, with useful features like intuitive gestures, granular notifications, and flexible mute filters all wrapped up in fun sounds and a great design.
One of the great advantages to the iPad over the iPhone is that it's larger screen is awesome for photo editing -- especially on the Retina iPad. Camera+ was originally an iPhone photography app that focused on taking better photos, but it's come a long way since then and now includes great tools and sharing options for the iPad. And if you use an iPhone, your photos will seamlessly sync between Camera+ on your iPhone and iPad.
The iPad is a great device for editing videos and creating movies, but with the restrictions of simply shooting video and trimming clips, the built-in Camera app doesn't give you much flexibility, but iMovie does! iMovie is a fantastic video editor because it's super easy to make fun videos in just a matter of minutes. Videographers may yearn for more, but for everyone else, iMove is an excellent video editor for the iPad.
If you own a printer, Foldify will make it fun again. If you don't own a printer, Foldify will make you seriously consider rushing out to get one. The reason for that is Foldify's ability to project itself from the iPad, where the app runs, to the real world, where the app's results live. The idea is remarkable simple -- draw one pre-defined templates, then print them out, fold them up, and enjoy real, touchable, arrangeable models of what you made. The execution is even more remarkable, because the developers managed to keep the app as simple as the idea, and that's no easy feat.
Weather 2x is an absolutely gorgeous weather app for both the iPhone and iPad. The included gestures are perfect and intuitive and the information is displayed and organized in a very elegant manner. If you're in the market for a full-featured weather app that includes everything under the sun, then Weather 2x isn't for you, but if you're looking for a beautiful, minimalist weather app that brings the most important information to you in an elegant package then Weather 2x may be exactly what you're looking for.
Instapaper is one of the most popular read-later services on the web and iPad that saves web pages and articles for offline reading and is optimized for readability on your device's screen. It offers a distraction-free text only environment with the ability to adjust fonts, text sizes, line spacing, and margins to truly satisfy your specific reading needs. You can save articles to Instapaper via a bookmarklet that you save in Safari or from one of the many Twitter, reading, and social apps in the App Store.
If you use Google Reader, you want Reeder - plain and simple. It's an RSS reader that will sync with your Google Reader account and present your feeds on a beautiful and clean interface. You can also choose to sync with Fever and Readability and Reeder allows you to share to nearly every social service out there.
Instacast 3 is the all new version of Vemedio's popular iPhone and iPad podcasting app. With it, Vemedio has switched out a lot of old methods for newer technologies like automatic reference counting and Core Data to make Instacast better and faster. Alongside these fancy new technologies is Instacasts new Cloud sync. Instead of using Apple's iCloud to keep your podcasts in sync, the folks at Vemedio put in a lot of work to create their own. All you need to do to use it is sign-up for a free account and all your data will be seamlessly moved to the cloud. If Apple's free Podcasts app isn't up to your needs, give Instacast a whirl.
Byword is a text and Markdown editor that focuses on being simple, distraction free, and beautiful. It's available on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac and can keep all your work in sync via iCloud or Dropbox. It also features a special keyboard with a swipable row at the top that includes selective word and character counters, a tab key, smart paring characters, and undo key, Markdown helpers, and more.
Notability is a full-featured handwriting app that you can use to take notes, annotate PDFs, and more. The inking in Notability is quite beautiful and taking the tiniest of notes is a breeze with the zoom window or by simply pinching-to-zoom into your document. In addition to handwritten notes, Notability allows you to add text and record audio notes. It also feature a convenient auto-sync feature with Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, or WebDav so that you can be assured that your notes are always backed up and accessible from anywhere.
Some people poke fun at the idea of taking photos with an iPad, but Scanner Pro offers an unarguably awesome use for the iPad's camera -- the ability to scan documents and store them as PDFs. The resulting scans look just like a job done by a scanner, not a camera. Scanner Pro features an auto-edge detector that is very accurate and will help fix any distortion that you may have capture by not taking the photo from directly above the document. It also syncs with iCloud, Dropbox, and more to ensure that your documents are accessible from any device.
Want to create posters, write papers, design spreadsheets, and create presentations? Apple's iWork suite consisting of Pages, Numbers, and Keynote has go you covered. All three of these apps are universal for both the iPhone and iPad and sync over iCloud with their Mac counterparts.
This really is just a short list of fantastic apps out there, and we know there's some other great ones that have been left out. That's where you come in! What are the best paid apps you have installed on your iPad and use regularly? Let us know in the comments below!
As many of you have seen the first in our the video series we named ?MS At Home? ? and the response has been quite popular ? I wanted to make sure you were all aware of the continuing series.
The third video in the multiple sclerosis series of 6 short segments posted yesterday and is already stirring conversations. (if you missed the second MS video in the series that will play right after the current offering.
In this interview with Sharon Dodge and Bobbie Severson, we talk about the family connection with MS. Mrs. Dodge was diagnosed with MS just 8 years after her father lost his battle with a particularly aggressive form of the disease. Now, she fights the good fight for herself and her three children; hoping they never hear the words ?You have MS.?
As we head into the New Year?s weekend, I thought that her words of hope and inspiration were a proper way to end 2012 and look forward to 1212.
Nurse Practitioner, Bobbie Severson from the Swedish MS Center gives some very interesting figures as to the propensity of MS in families if one member has MS (we?re talking a jump from 1:750 to 1:40~!
Have a look, leave a comment on our video or, you can comment here as you always do.
Wishing you and your family the best of health.
Cheers
Trevis
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Sounds like it may be an issue with an immobilizer "by-pass" module perhaps. Or maybe tach sensing needs to be programmed. All depends on how it was installed and/or how it was set up.
What kind of car is it? If you can go to the original installer you should be able to have it fixed under warranty. Posted via RS Mobile
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Sounds like you need to adjust the crank time. As your battery gets older amd temperatures drop, takes longer the crank.
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Thanks for your response guys! Car is a 2006 Honda Civic. I'll just get in touch with the original installer as I don't know how to check those things that you mentioned.
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Crank time or relearn the tach
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