“We’re very happy with it,” Hesse said of Sprint’s deal with Apple, during the company’s annual shareholders meeting Tuesday. “Carrying the iPhone will be quite profitable.”

But not for a few years, at least.

By its own admission, Sprint won’t profit from the device until 2015. But according to Hesse, who was reelected to Sprint’s board during Tuesday’s proceedings, that initial heavy upfront investment in the iPhone is worthwhile because it will slow subscriber turnover and create a new segment of higher-value subscribers.

“We believe in the long term,” Hesse said. “And over time we will make more money on iPhone customers than we will on other customers.”

And there, it would seem, Hesse does have a point. Sprint sold 1.5 million iPhones in its first quarter, with about 44 percent of them going to new customers. And those sales helped spike Sprint’s average revenue per user 6.9 percent, the largest year-over-year increase ever charted in that metric in the U.S.

Sprint’s Hesse: We’ll Make Money on the iPhone … Eventually

Joshua Ledet got one of the only standing ovations on Wednesday?s ?American Idol.?

Ledet repeatedly wowed the judges with his performances, in which he tackled Etta James? ?I?d rather Go Blind,? John Lennon?s ?Imagine,? and Mary J. Blige?s ?no More Drama.?

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With more than 25 000 free and pay applications listed on the Apple App Store, the kiosk for downloading programs for iPhone and iPod Touch is a success. Two U.S. companies, Greystripe and Admobis, have also managed to draw in and monetize via advertising in mobile applications for free download. some of the games with Advergaming (a mixture of advertising – advertising – and gaming – games -) are: Pro 21, Blackjack, Cookie Bonus Solitaire, Origami Rose, and Powerboat Racing. These games specialize in the monetization of iPhone games. Greystripe has recently claimed to have passed the 140 million games downloaded that incorporate mobile advertising managed internally.

As of today there have been 30 million Apple application downloads. 50% of these downloads are games on the iPhone. Interestingly, Greystripe has developed a specific version of flash to manage mobile advertising. This software has not been authorized by Apple to be integrated into its games available on the App Store.

For its part, Admobis, a self proclaimed mobile advertising network for iPhone, is larger with more than 1000 applications planning to launch soon. Admobis plans to introduce a new system of exchange between developers of commercials for Apple’s touch terminals. Developer volunteers may therefore incorporate a tag advertising in their application to invite app users to advertising partner sites. Admobis allows for an increase in visibility without investing in a major advertising campaign. Admob currently offers mobile advertising on nearly 7.2 million iPhone around the world.

The world is changing, Admobis and Greystripe provide businesses and developers a new and innovative way to generate revenue.

Apple – iPhone App Advertising Companies

A recent press release was announced by Labor Secretary Hilda Solis. Here she outlined her top regulatory goals for 2010, outlining plans to reduce the incidents of workers like you and me, outliving their retirement savings. She will be accelerating public awareness of acquiring annuities, and inspiring employers to offer annuities as a smart alternative choice.

Finally, our representatives, like a disturbed scorpion, struck. The sting hit its mark, entering the power veins deep inside Washington. Like a rapidly spreading forest fire without firemen, concerned top representation took notice. With devastating declines in the financial markets, putting out the raging financial flames took top priority. The sheltered value of guaranteed investments is at its peak. Everyday people and investors need assistance to achieve a financially secure retirement. Your Washington representation is encouraged with the Obama administration noticing a pathway around dangerous smoke clouds.

Conscious of its value, attention is on how guaranteed income streams of annuities accumulate safely for later in life. Gratifying to our representatives is viewing annuities as a pivotal piece of the retirement planning puzzle of every person. The government is currently proposing that you evaluate the benefits of a guaranteed accumulation annuity, as Social Security benefits in the future could vary widely from what they are today.

Below is a critical warning to All Consumers.

There are many new untrained insurance agents calling themselves financial representatives. They may represent a well-known insurance company seen on television or a company in business for 150 years. However the agent is being purposely trained into offering you a product that is of more benefit to the insurance company to you. This plan is called a variable annuity and carries considerable risk for the average investor. The insurance company controls many changeable aspects of the annuity plan and it is possible to lose every hard earned cent of your money.

A portion of the valuable newsworthy details presented come from recommendations and findings of the Insured Retirement Institute. They are a well acknowledged, not-for-profit institute. Many insiders consider them as the authoritative source on annuities, insured retirement strategies, and retirement planning for helping consumers. Seek out an independent financial consultant with years of experience in guiding people toward the correct plan available. Often this will be a fixed annuity, providing significant safety along with tax-deferred accumulation of money. You are protected that the money you invested can never decrease. This is the same type of plan discussed above regarding government activity.

It is important for you to acknowledge that your financial future has shifted to your hands. Gone are the days of relying on Social Security, Medicare, and pensions to keep pace with your present standard of living. Do not expect the government to personally bail you out. Instead act on the proposed public awareness to investing in yourself. With the news of the guaranteed fixed annuity accumulation plan announced, take advantage of this tax-deferred accumulation benefit now.

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I watched the “Bad Romance” video the other day, the video that got me into Gaga. I wanted to see how it aged. So much seems to have happened in pop since 2009, the first time I jacked off to that video and cried because my artistic career was over and I now belonged to an Italian woman I’d never met.
When I first saw it, it felt razor sharp, fetishistic, and impossible to replicate. it had an unassailable countercultural credibility despite being blasted on the most mainstream content channels the mediaspace has to offer.
It still feels that way. why? how does something this ubiquitous feel this edgy?
In answering this question, I’ll provide you with a step-by-step guide to producing your own art of the same shining, disruptive caliber. Be warned: if you follow my advice, there’s no escaping fame.
“There has to be danger, we have to instill a sense of fear in the audience, and ourselves. Rock’n’roll deserves that.”–Trent Reznor

In order to properly engage constituent human fight-or-flight mechanisms, and thus compete for adrenaline-space in the hurricane gale of the new media, you must disrupt the environment of the viewer with cultural signifiers that do not have place in his ordinary threat-environment, and the best signifiers are linked to sex and violence, the beating and raping and subjugation of the identity; power and humility. All the old buttons in the monkey-brains of your viewers must be pushed relating to desire, social dominance, fear and territoriality. This is why the visual is so important – sounds can be driving, evocative, and terrifying, but our newest dangers and desires are so technologically complex that representing and then perverting them properly requires product-placement level symbolic dialog. Razor glasses, fetish gear, body auctions and golden prosthetics – if we can press the fear of wealth, fear of sex, fear of humiliation, fear of aggression, and fear-of-the-alien buttons all at once, our work is being done properly.
This cold, material danger should be balanced with vulnerability, which is just as terrifying.  Appear unstable, and allow your audience to see the human weaknesses in you that terrify them in themselves, but surround those things with a matrix of blades. Place your fleshy, teary-eyed frailties in the mechanistic jaws of the modern landscape of value exchange, like a fairytale maiden guarded by a giant firebreathing dog with the heads of Donald Trump and Karl Marx. Cry very close to the camera, and twitch a lot before being taken and bound – you are out of control. You are human.
Push these two buttons in alternating rhythm for that is the rhythm of power.

Understand the visual language that soothes your viewer’s needs. They are soft, warm creatures with leaping rabbits of desire in their chests, and it is up to you to coax those rabbits out with sweet carrots before baring your aforementioned knives. Study pornography as scripture and understand advertising as prophecy – tear the creatures from your television screen to pieces with you teeth and cybernetically reintegrate them into a lover the viewer longs for with perverse prepubescent disney-movie recognition. Swathe the gloss of those forms, reeking of desire, in the haute couture of status, the unreproducible stink of exclusivity. This occult swings on the central secret of art and entrepreneurship – the fact that the reins of creativity and collage are in everyone’s hands. You will make idols of fabric sequin and mirror from your closet, and your followers will worship these idols – because they haven’t known the central mysticism, that they can program reality, that they can make their own idols. and then later in your career, in your biggest magick-trick of all, you’ll tell them.

No explanations are necessary. You must be a self-evident non-creature, a representative of mysteries the populace already suspects exist. You do not need purpose; your style is purpose in its subversion. Dick Hebdige said the purpose of the safety pin, in terms of punk rock, is to negate its own purpose. You will wallow in the decadent drug-technologies of civilization’s nonbeing, capitalistic desire fellating itself until its cum drains, withers, dies. By reconfiguring each object in your surrounding energy field to be repurposed, and so to be purposeless in relation to the religion of purpose’s consensus is-ness, you metastasize a new paradigm of purpose that does not require memory or regret. This is impossible solipsism but each milestone of headway you make will contribute to your Fame. Since the homeostatic mode of your capitalistic prison is production, consumption, exchange, value, you will fart in a glass bottle and refuse to sell your bottled fart. but people will want to buy it anyway. You will not regret this. You will regret nothing. Regret is a function of response to systems other than your own, systems with demands. Besides, people will not buy your fart. They will buy you, and then you will kill them. Eventually, they will love you for it. Eventually, they will realize that each semiotic boundary and stylistic taboo that you sacrifice on the altar of yourself is not representative of the funeral of a discreet object – they are only flakes of skin, skin that you are shedding, as you transform into something else entirely. You are an instruction manual to become yourself.
Those are your commandments. Read carefully, live courageously, and be a monster. but not a little one. not anymore.
Author Bio:Devin O’Neill is a writer, performance artist, and branding practitioner. He enjoys things he shouldn’t, on purpose, and tries to get other people to enjoy them too. Some of his projects can be found at http://www.popocalypse.com and http://devinoneill.blogspot.com.
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THE NEW FLESH

Newer cellphone technology really is faster, according to tests of the major wireless carriers’ networks in Kansas City. and on that basis, Sprint Nextel Corp. is playing catch-up in its hometown.Overland Park-based Sprint had fared well in Kansas City tests last August conducted by RootMetrics of Bellevue, Wash. Sprint’s 4G phones running on WiMax technology posted faster download speeds than AT&T Inc. or Verizon Wireless devices on those firms’ 3G networks.since then, however, Sprint’s larger rivals both have launched their own 4G service in Kansas City using Long Term Evolution, or LTE, technology. Their data download speeds flew past Sprint’s, RootMetrics’ tests in Kansas City last month showed. Sprint plans to launch its LTE coverage in Kansas City at midyear.a statement from the company said its own and others’ testing show that “the Sprint network in Kansas City ranks as a very competitive Tier 1 network.”The company also noted its network upgrade under way will provide faster speeds and improve call quality. it will include the LTE launch as well as 3G improvementsVerizon earned RootMetrics’ recent top overall rating in Kansas City, followed closely by AT&T. Sprint, T-Mobile and Cricket, a service provided by Leap Wireless International, performed about the same overall. The broader measure looks at dropped and blocked calls and texting times in addition to data speeds.T-Mobile’s Kansas City service showed a higher call failure rate than the four others.Texting scores varied based on the number of seconds a text took to arrive at its targeted phone.In the 2011 Kansas City tests, AT&T and Sprint shared the top performance spot in Kansas City.

Sprint’s rivals now offer faster downloads in KC

BASICS.
The Bible is a Book of books. Sixty-six of them to be exact Thirty-nine books make up the Old Testament and twenty-seven make up the New Testament. Sixty-six books, written by 40+ different authors, over a period of 1,500 years Containing over 300 prophecies about the Messiah (all of which Jesus fulfilled perfectly, a statistical miracle in and of itself). No other “sacred text” even comes close to being able to make a claim like this. It’s fantasitc You can clearly see God’s grace and plan of redemption in every single book Many scholars call this the “scarlet thread”—in reference to the blood of Jesus. You can see God’s plan to send Jesus as our Savior in EVERY BOOK But that’s another article.

REVELATION
The word “revelation” means to “reveal,” or “to make known.” The reason we know ANYTHING about God is NOT because we somehow “discovered” Him somewhere. but rather because He. on purpose. broke in and made Himself known to us. He “revealed” Himself to us. One of the ways He did this was by “inspiring” people to write down messages from Him. The word “inspire” literally means “God breathed”. this is why Paul says, “. all Scripture is ‘God breathed.’”

“TESTAMENTS”
The word “testament” means, “covenant”. and a “covenant” is, basically, an offering of relationship. The very best way I know to explain this is to illustrate the difference between a CONTRACT, and a COVENANT.

In a CONTRACT is not an offering of relationship. at all. offering services/products and getting reward/paid for them. When two parties sign a contract each party is looking out for themselves, i.e. If you were going to paint my house-we may sign a CONTRACT. The contract would clearly state that you would be paid “X” amount upon the completion of your work. It would also state that I would only have to pay you “X” amount once the work was finished to my satisfaction. See how that works? CONTRACTS exist to make sure people don’t get ripped off. in the example above-the contract assures that you get paid for your work. and it assures that I get satisfactory work for my pay. There’s not much need for love or relationship with a contract.

COVENANTS are different. Where contracts are “self-centered” (I want to make sure I get what I want out of this.), CONVENANTS are “OTHERS CENTERED” (I want to make sure you get what you want/need out of this.). Go back to the illustration of you painting my house. if we were to do it under a covenant agreement-it would go something like this — Your part would say, “I want to paint Brad’s house to bless him.” And my part would say, “I want to pay you to bless you.” That’s covenant. And that requires a certain amount of love, trust and commitment from each party. I have to trust you to do a good job. and you have to trust me to bless you with pay when you’re done with the job.

THE ULTIMATE EXAMPLE OF COVENANT. THE CROSS.
Before Jesus put on skin and lived among us and died for us on the cross. He DID NOT send out a survey crew to ask, “Okay. so how many of you are going to accept me as Savior after this? I need to know BEFORE I go through all this torture. I need to make sure I get out of this deal what I want.” No. Jesus didn’t do that did he? He simply came. laid down his life for us and said, “Now, whosoever will, come and receive.” THAT, is covenant.

And by the way-THAT is how God calls us to relate with each other
John 13:34-35 (NLT) “So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you (i.e. in the same way that I have love you), you should love each other. Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.”

So, when we talk about the Old Testament-we’re talking about the group of writings that reveal the “old covenant”. the old offer of relationship God made with people through Israel. The Old Covenant was based on Law and Sacrifice. God revealed both of these (His Law and the Sacrificial System) through Moses-in the first five books of the Bible (Gen. – Deut., often referred to as “The Law). The rest of the Old Testament contains books of History (Joshua-Esther, the history of Israel and God’s work with them), Poetry (Job-Song of Solomon, sometimes called the “writings”), and the Prophets (Isa.-Malachi).. But the underlying theme in EVERY SINGLE book of the OT is-God loves us. he created us. he has revealed His Law (His standards/his heart). He has given us a way to walk with Him and to be forgiven when we screw up (Sacrifice). this is His offer of relationship with us. will you embrace it? Will you love and trust Him with all your heart? That’s the message of the OT.

The “books” of the OT were solidly agreed upon by the time Jesus arrived. Obviously they had all kinds of “extra” writings and teachings (traditions, etc.), but the books of LAW, HISTORY, POETY AND PROPHETS were the scriptures.

SIDE NOTE. What about the “apocrypha”" (the books Catholic Bibles have that Protestants do not recognize as Scripture)? I’ll address that at the end of this article.

THE NEW TESTAMENT
Remember, “testament” = “covenant” which = “God’s offer of relationship with us”.
The New Testament is all about JESUS. Jesus is the center of everything. He is THE sacrificial lamb of God-offered by God for our sins. He is THE High Priest who intercedes for us before God (do you see why reading/understanding the OT is important? The NT is based on it). The NT is all about God offering us relationship with himself through faith in Jesus-THAT is the underlying theme of EVERY SINGLE book of the NT

SO HOW DID WE SETTLE ON THE 27 BOOKS WE CALL THE New Testament?
It might freak you out to learn that the NT as we know it today-really wasn’t a totally done deal until somewhere around the 18th Century (1700s) That’s basically because The Protestant Reformation of the 16th Century stirred a lot of things up. but that’s another story.

DOES THAT MEAN THAT CHRISTIANS WHO LIVED BETWEEN THE 1st AND 18th CENTURIES WEREN’T SURE ABOUT WHAT WAS BIBLE AND WHAT WASN’T?

The short answer is NO.

From the moment that the apostles began to write, the First Century-Christians held their writing up as inspired, authoritative and of God. Whether they called them Scripture or not, I do not know, but for them it wasn’t an issue. All they knew was that Jesus, their Savior, was speaking to them through the writings of these apostles Most of the books of the NT were agreed upon, and viewed as inspired and authoritative by the middle of the 2nd Century.

CANON
Sometimes you’ll hear people speak of the “canon” of Scripture.. the word “canon” is simply a word that means “rule” or “standard”. So, the canon of Scripture is simply the list of books that meet certain standards of authenticity.

SIDE NOTE: Some critics of the church say, “Men put the bible together. people chose what books were included in the Bible and which ones didn’t. so you really can’t trust it.” Friends, God has always worked through people. that’s the way He works. what it all comes down to is this question: DO YOU BELIEVE THAT GOD IS BIG ENOUGH TO ENSURE THAT HIS REVEALED WORD WAS PRESERVED AND HANDED DOWN TO US or not? If you don’t think God can handle that. then you’ve got bigger issues than this article can deal with If you know God can handle that. then. no problem let’s move on.

THE HOME STRETCH. I.E. THE FINAL SECTION.
HOW WE GOT OUR NEW TESTAMENT

Finally, I want to share with you the STANDARDS the early church used to determine which books were Scripture and which ones were not (we’re focusing on the NT here). I think this will bless you.

FIVE GUIDING QUESTIONS
The early church prayerfully used five questions to guide them through the process of choosing the New Testament Books.

QUESTION ONE:
IS THIS BOOK APOSTOLIC?
Was it written by an Apostle (I.e. one of the 12?). Or, at the very least. is its message/teaching in harmony with the teaching of the original Apostles? A good example of a book that falls into this category is HEBREWS–we’re not certain who wrote it–some think Barnabas, some Paul. but no matter. it’s teaching is rock-solid and in perfect harmony with the Apostles teachings.

QUESTION TWO:
IS THE BOOK ROOTED IN THE FIRST CENTURY?

Does this book have direct connections to the people who walked and talked with Jesus? No NT Book was written latter than the 1st Century. All of them were written by first generation Christians.

QUESTION THREE:
IS THE BOOK ORTHODOX?
Is the book in harmony with the teaching of the original Apostles? This sounds like a repeat of QUESTION ONE. and I guess it sort of is. But the early church–guided by the Holy Spirit–believed that this was a very important issue. So do I by the way.

QUESTION FOUR:
IS THE BOOK UNIVERSALLY ACCEPTED?
Do Christian Communities EVERYWHERE embrace this as genuine, inspired, authoritative and of God?
There were lots of writings that were “popular” in local areas, but were not universally accepted as Scripture.

QUESTION FIVE:
IS IT INSPIRED?
This question was sort of a combination of the other four. “Does the Holy Spirit speak to us as we read it?” Is it the real deal.. And is it held to be so by the whole church?

So, the early church leaders used those 5 questions to prayerfully discern what was Scripture and what wasn’t.

And I think they and the Holy Spirit together did an excellent job

WHAT ABOUT THE APPOCRYPHA?

The apocrypha is a name given to a group of books that Catholics hold as Scripture, but Protestants do not.

Now, you have to remember that up until the 16th Century (1500s) there was no Protestant church. there was only the Catholic Church. But when Martin Luther and the other Reformers came along all of that changed.

Protestant leaders, in general held less to the “traditions” of the Catholic Church, and they placed more emphasis on Scripture as the primary standard of a believer’s faith and practice. This heightened conviction and attitude toward Scripture caused them to reevaluate the “canon”. and as they applied the above 5 questions to what was then the Bible. they did not find the books of the Apocrypha.

Tobit
Judith
Wisdom
Ecclesiasticus
Baruch
First and Second Maccabees
Some additions to Esther and Daniel

.up to the test. and thus rejected them.

THERE’S NOTHING WRONG with reading any of these books. they can be interesting and informative. they just weren’t deemed “Scripture,” thus they aren’t “binding” on the (protestant) church.

So there ya go. The wonderful conclusion that becomes obvious as you study this topic is that God worked in every single step of the process. He inspired the writers to write. He worked in the hearts of His people (the church) so that they perceived and heard the Spirit speaking to them through these writings. He worked through the Church leaders over the years to guide them to a right understanding of which books should and should not be deemed “Scripture.” And today He works in our hearts as we read and study the Bible.

Pastor Brad is the pastor of Connections and Discipleship at First Church in Altoona, PA and a Christian Rock Musician. He is always excited to connect with new friends so please feel free to contact him any time You can do so through the websites below.

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Plus smartphone installed base, more on Android fragmentation, web intents?, and more

A quick burst of 8 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team

Browsers and Apps in 2012 >> Tim Bray

It’s like this: The browser’s doomed, be­cause apps are the fu­ture. Wait! Apps are doomed be­cause HTML5 is the fu­ture. I see some­thing al­most every day say­ing one or the other. only it’s mostly wrong.

keep this in mind for a little lower down. Read Bray’s post first, though.

Web Intents – The next Wave of Web Apps >> Ido’s Blog

One of the greatest strengths of the web is that the the ease of linking allows innovative new apps to succeed without asking anyone else’s permission – but up until now that hasn’t applied to integrations between web apps. Web Intents is an emerging W3C specification inspired by Android’s Intents system that aims to solve the problems of communications.

Here are some slides that explain the main concepts from a pervious talk.

Fabulous idea. Android Intents is a great concept.

French privacy watchdog to quiz Google on policy change >> BBC News

France’s data protection watchdog has set up a meeting with Google to closely examine its controversial privacy policy.

The search giant consolidated 60 privacy policies into one single agreement in March. The EU expressed concern over the legality and impact of the change.

France’s information commission, the CNIL, said it was not yet “totally satisfied” with Google’s explanation of the amendments.

iPhone market share in the USA: 50% of Q1 sales >> Benedict Evans

Evans works for Enders Analysis. Here’s a little bit from his latest report:

Roughly 50% of all the smartphones sold in the USA in Q1 2012 were iPhones. This is very different to the global picture:

Android is outselling iPhone by more than 2:1 on a global basis. but in the USA, Apple is massively outselling Android. That has obvious implications for where (mainly US-based) developers should be placing their efforts.

State of the Appnation – a Year of Change and Growth in U.S. Smartphones >> Nielsen Wire

Roughly a year ago when we summarized the state of smartphones at the Appnation conference, less than 40% of mobile subscribers in the U.S. had smartphones. Today, one in two mobile subscribers has a smartphone and that figure is moving steadily upwards.

By most measures, it has been the year of the App once again, driven mostly by the rise of Android and iOS users who have more than doubled in a year and account for 88% of those who have downloaded an app in the past 30 days. in just a year, the average number of apps per smartphone has jumped 28%, from 32 apps to 41. not only is the 2012 smartphone owner downloading more apps, they are increasingly spending more time using them vs. using the mobile web — about 10% more than last year.

How Mark Zuckerberg Hacked the Valley >> Businessweek

Worth reading today, of all days.

Smartphone Market Shares after Q1 – It’s the digital jamboree year of smartphone bloodbath >> Tomi Ahonen

Ahonen isn’t very happy about what’s happening to Nokia. (He used to work there.) Also has calculations for smartphone installed base by platform, which puts Android top at 328m, then Symbian (299m) and iOS (178m) from a total of just over 1bn.

Not every problem with Android should be called “fragmentation” >> Phonearena

And, that leads us to the number one issue cited as a problem: developer support. Developers claim the platform is too troublesome because of device specific variations, but the reality is that it’s just that developers don’t think they make enough money to justify that work. This could be because of the single listing and therefore single purchase of apps [for both phones and tablets], but it’s really just a vicious cycle where developers don’t put enough support into the ecosystem, and so the ecosystem doesn’t support developers.

Isn’t it more likely that the developers evaluate the opportunity cost of each platform, and cut their cloth accordingly? If they don’t find it worthwhile to test, say, Temple Run on 1,000+ devices, that’s not their “fault”. It’s their rational judgement of investment return. If you can’t make money, you won’t spend money. It’s the classic bootstrap challenge of every ecosystem. (Thanks @beardyweirdy666 for the link.)

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Just this evening I was speaking with a close friend about parenting and some of the struggles that we as parents face today. We talked about difficulties with bullying, progress reports, behavioral outbursts, as well as how to approach other parents when difficulties occur between children.

Shortly into our conversation, my friend asked me if I had seen the latest news on Jenny McCarthy and her son’s struggle with autism.

No, I haven’t, I replied.

While I might not have all the details down exactly, and I personally did not hear her talk, I truly believe the underlying message is what really counts in this case.

As it was explained to me, and from what I have read online, Jenny McCarthy’s son has been diagnosed with autism. It all apparently came to light after her son suffered a few seizures and one that ultimately led to cardiac arrest. And this all happened while Jenny was on tour promoting her latest book at the time.

I might be missing some details here, but what is remarkable is that Ms. McCarthy did not simply rest with her son being diagnosed with autism.

Instead, she reached out for help. She turned to research and read up on the latest findings, the latest trends, and found out about certain alternatives that have worked for other parents.

After trying a gluten-free diet, it appears that her son has shown some improvement. according to her report, her son recently connected with a cartoon show where he had otherwise shown no interaction.

Just hearing her son laugh, she was brought to tears with the hope that perhaps something else was going on with her son.

Or perhaps that there was something more she could do.

Just maybe her son would be normal.

Here is a problem or difficult situation faced by many parents. regardless of whether the diagnosis is autism or ADHD, the take-aways are the same.

While a gluten-free diet might not be the answer for you or your child, or even ADHD for that matter, the important point is that you need to consider what else might be happening here.

What else might you be able to do to find out what is affecting your child?

You have to be willing to ask the questions.

Sure, Jenny McCarthy has the money and resources to explore these options.

An ADHD diagnosis can shatter your life as you know it, but it does not have to, especially if you do not stop with the diagnosis. You must continue finding out about the latest information and treatment options.

Can you imagine the devastation if someone got it wrong?

Or what if the slightest change in your life or your child’s life made all the difference for your child with ADHD?

ADHD Tip – Jenny McCarthy, A Gluten Free Diet, And A Battle Against Autism Just Might Impact ADHD

Cablevision Systems Corp. (NYSE: CVC) today announced that it was doubling the rental window for hundreds of on demand movies, from 24 hours to 48 hours, at no additional charge.

iO TV offers customers an exciting on demand lineup of new release, classic, international and independent films, many in HD. To view available titles, customers can visit channel 500 or hit the iO button on their remote control navigate to the on demand category to see the vast library of available selections. Rental window information is clearly presented on the order confirmation screen. As new movies are added, an increasing number will be available for full two-day rentals.

Were excited about this significant expansion of our rental windows, said Bradley Feldman, Cablevisions vice president of video product management. Now, a spontaneous Friday night rental will remain active through the entire weekend, providing additional convenience and flexibility, at no additional charge. We think this is an enhancement our customers will enjoy and appreciate.

On demand movies are available starting at $2.95 per title for unlimited viewing during the rental period. Each films rental availability period will appear on its order screen. Customers must have digital cable set-top box and a HD digital cable box and TV for HD movies on demand. For more information on the currently available titles, customers can visit http://www.optimum.net/VOD.

Cablevision delivers an expanding array of valuable and unique product features to its customers, including the ability to watch our full cable television service on iPad, iPhone, iPod touch devices and laptop computers in the home, unmatched local content from News 12 and MSG Varsity, fast and reliable access to the Internet through Optimum WiFi and hundreds of discounts through the Optimum Rewards program.

Cablevisions award-winning digital cable service, iO TV, offers customers access to hundreds of channels, including more than 50 premium movie channels, 46 channels of commercial-free digital music, thousands of titles available on demand at all times, an interactive programming guide, more than 120 free high-definition programming services and uniquely valuable and relevant local content through News 12, MSG Varsity and their companion interactive television applications.

About Cablevision
Cablevision Systems Corporation (NYSE: CVC) is one of the nation’s leading media and telecommunications companies. Its cable television operations provide a full suite of advanced communications services that include iO TV digital television, Optimum Online high-speed Internet, and Optimum Voice digital voice, all over state-of-the-art cable systems that pass nearly 6 million households and businesses across the New York tri-state area and throughout four Western states. Cablevisions telecommunications properties also include its Optimum WiFi wireless Internet, and its Optimum Lightpath integrated business communications solutions. Cablevision serves the New York area with compelling local content through News 12 Networks, a local news leader; MSG Varsity, a suite of television and online services covering high school activities; and, Newsday Media Group, a business unit that includes Newsday, Long Island’s leading daily newspaper, and amNewYork, the nation’s most widely circulated free daily serving New York City. The company also owns and operates Clearview Cinemas throughout the New York tri-state area including the famed Ziegfeld Theatre, a frequent and historic venue for film premieres and events. Additional information about Cablevision is available on the Web at http://www.cablevision.com.

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