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Video: Tenor John McDermott sings at fan’s funeral

Canadian tenor John McDermott sang “Amazing Grace” at the funeral of Glen Wideman, a devoted fan who died last Sunday.

It was Glen Wideman’s last concert.

With candles lit at the front of the silent chapel on Thursday afternoon, the famed Scottish-Canadian tenor John McDermott filled the room with the quiet, gentle lull of “Amazing Grace.”

It’s the hymn Wideman asked to be played at his funeral, in a letter his daughters found folded in a drawer after he died of cancer on Sunday. He was 74.

But Wideman would have never dreamed the man he adored, whose haunting, simple melodies he raised his family on, would be the one to sing it.

A devoted fan of McDermott’s, Wideman had been attending his concerts for two decades.

“My dad just loved him. He found solace in his music over the last 20 years,” said daughter Kim Severin. “I can’t think of a time when he wasn’t part of our lives.”

At Christmas and for birthdays, there were always tickets to concerts. Listening to McDermott’s music became a family affair, and in the end one of the last joys they shared together.

After Wideman had a “catastrophic” stroke in 1993, leaving him paralyzed on his left side, his family knew they were living on borrowed time.

At an Oakville concert in 2008, Wideman was unable to get to the meet-and-greet with McDermott. But when the singer met Severin and heard what a huge fan her father was, he asked where Wideman was sitting.

“He followed me into the audience and walked through all these people and just embraced my dad,” Severin said. It was one of the highlights of his life.

When their father was diagnosed with cancer and given six weeks to live, Severin emailed the singer on behalf of herself and her sister, Julie Navarro, desperate to make their father’s face light up one last time.

They offered McDermott $1,000 and then some if he would visit Wideman in the hospice where he would live out his final days.

“Within six hours of sending that email he called me on my cell,” Severin said. McDermott didn’t want the money, but he would come. She was floored.

Arrangements were made for Tuesday, but as his health rapidly declined Wideman’s family told the singer it might be better to call it off.

But McDermott insisted, saying he’d rearrange his schedule to come on Monday, as the daughters struggled to keep the surprise a secret from their father, hoping it would lift his spirits.

But on Sunday morning, Wideman slipped away. When they told McDermott, he asked if they would allow him to sing at the funeral.

McDermott wanted to honour a family man who enjoyed old songs and the simple things. “It’s people like Glen who really gave me my career,” he said.

Wideman grew up in Toronto, where he worked as a proofreader for a printing company.

With his wife, Carol, who he loved for more than 50 years, they raised their two girls in Mississauga.

They lived around the record player, memorizing words to all the classics — Neil Diamond and Johnny Cash.

“When we were growing up, music was a huge part of my dad’s life,” Severin said.

And Wideman was always singing. After the stroke, he was relentless. He would wake up singing, much to the annoyance of his sweetheart, his daughters said.

In the letter he wrote to his girls — addressed to “my darling daughters” — he said he wanted them to celebrate, not grieve, his life in the end, surrounded by music.

“Dad, if you only knew how we’ve topped this for you,” Severin said of McDermott’s appearance. “It’s helping us get through all this, because what better way to show our love for him.”

There’s a song McDermott wrote, “The Old Man,” that could have been penned for Wideman — the “perfect man who led an ordinary life” — and for his family, now in need of comforting.

McDermott sang the tune on Thursday, the Wideman girls wrapping their arms around each other for the final notes.

The tears have all been shed now / We’ve said our last goodbye / His soul’s been blessed / And he’s laid to rest / And it’s now I feel alone / He was more than just a father / A teacher, my best friend / He can still be heard / In the tunes we shared / When we play them on our own

Article source: http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1203917--famed-tenor-john-mcdermott-sings-at-devoted-fan-s-funeral?bn=1

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The teams at both The Seed Network and Hokorawa are now working together to provide a greater range of web development and internet marketing services. The Seed is also proud to announce the successful launch and support of it’s Then.ly, an All-In-One Calendar plugin for WordPress.

(PRWEB) May 31, 2012

The Seed is a web development company located in Nelson, British Columbia and Hokorawa Companies is an internet marketing and media company with operations in Hawaii, California and Florida. These companies have partnered to provide a wide range of web services for their combined clientele.

Through this partnership both companies are even more committed to providing high-quality web solutions for small businesses and social entrepreneurs and delivering the best web development and Internet marketing services at the best price.

This partnership has been developing and changing due to the pressures of growth both are experiencing. The need for quality well managed teams are becoming ever more important in the small business market. In spite of this rough economy, businesses around the world are demanding more of these companies and they are working hard to meet that need.

Together they host workshops and seminars, provide business consulting and develops brands. They also host a full suite of website platforms, online marketing, social networking and content creation. This partnership has allowed The Seed to focus it’s resources and man-power to create some great new time management applications for mobile and content management systems like WordPress.

The Seed is excited to announce their All-In-One Calendar Plugin For WordPress. This revolutionary calendar plugin has become one of the most popular calendar plugins for WP.    This is their first published plugin and it has become very popular with a 5 star rating.

Then.ly’s All-in-One Calendar is a revolutionary new way to find and share events. Installed and running on over 20,000 websites, and translated into 11 languages, the All-in-One Calendar is one of the most feature-rich calendar systems in the world. Built for WordPress, the calendar is a free download and can be installed and running on any WordPress website in a few minutes, with only a few clicks of a button.

The Seed development team is devoted to long term support of this plugin as well as the creation of other great pieces of software which will be announced this summer.

To find out more about The Seed visit http://www.theseednetwork.com.

To Download Then.ly All-In-One-Calendar visit http://www.then.ly.

To learn more about Hokorawa Companies visit http://www.hokorawa.com.

Contact Us:

Jenna Semenoff

Communications Manager

The Seed Network

1.888.308.9867

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OnSwipe’s been around for a little over a year, and since raised a total of $6 million in funding and launched content recommendations within its HTML5 tablet publishing network. But just as tablets are entering into mainstream territory, people are now entirely comfortable consuming long-form content on their even-smaller iPhone.

That said, publishers who don’t want to build out an app will now have a new tool to display iPhone-optimized content to folks on-the-go.

OnSwipe for iPhone essentially lets publishers, both big-name sites like TechCrunch (for example) or a smaller Tumblr-er, beautify their site by pairing high-res imagery and touch interactions (just like their tablet-centric publishing platform) to create a smoother web experience for readers. In fact, all of the features of OnSwipe’s tablet publishing [WHO USES ONSWIPE?] tool have migrated to the iPhone version, including favorites, recommendations, and content categories. Publishers can also brand their OnSwipe iPhone web app by adding accent color and logo.

But the iPhone publisher isn’t the only feature the company is launching today.

OnSwipe Draft is a web-based layout editor and IDE for devs and publishers to personalize their own layouts. And you may have noticed me drop in the word “Favorites” up there, which, if you’re familiar with OnSwipe, should sound new.

The feature will allow readers to favorite content across all of OnSwipe’s publishing partners, complete with social integration. The feature uses Facebook connect, so any favorited content will be available to your friend network and vice versa. This means users will have a trove of their favorite content, regardless of publisher, and be able to see friends’ favorited content, as well.

Check out OnSwipe’s Draft tool in action below:

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Onswipe is a platform that provides a way for publishers of all sizes to make their content and advertising a beautiful experience on touch-enabled devices via Web browser. With Onswipe, media content and advertising will appear and function as they do on native websites and applications, providing a magazine-like experience on touch devices. Onswipe addresses a growing industry need with tablet use on the rise.

Learn more

Article source: http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/31/onswipe-heads-to-the-iphone-launches-layout-personalization-with-onswipe-draft/

The mirror? Check.

The apple? Check.

Evil queen? Check.

And the warrior waif in armor leading a charge of rebels on horseback, storming the castle gates as burning oil and fireballs rain down . . . um, that’s Snow White?

Yes, it is.

A full-force fairy tale that takes the Grimms’ twisty yarn and adds heapings of The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, Joan of Arc, and Celtic myth, Snow White and the Huntsman – with Kristen Stewart and Chris Hemsworth in the title roles – is not your grandmother’s Disney cartoon. The seven dwarfs, when they finally make their appearance deep in a spellbound forest, aren’t whistling while they work: They’re a bunch of knobby thugs, and they’re played by a gang of great British character actors (Hoskins! Jones! McShane! Winstone!), digitally diminuated and ready to steal anything they can get their hands on – including the movie.

And a surprisingly fine, fantastic movie it is.

Directed by Rupert Sanders, a Brit with a resumé of eye-popping commercials (Halo, Xbox, Puma, Adidas), Snow White and the Huntsman finds its hero, like Frodo or Odysseus before her, engaged in an epic quest. From innocent, beautiful child (played, in the prologue, by Raffey Cassidy) to a wan prisoner in a dank tower, to a fugitive in hiding, to an exiled royal ready to reclaim her throne and restore the land to rosier days, Snow White – with her pale skin and raven tresses, and Errol Flynn-as-Robin Hood tights – is the archetypal adventurer, facing daunting challenges, and meeting them head-on.

Stewart, who was beginning to seem hobbled by the torn-between-two-lovers teenage angst of The Twilight Saga, literally jumps into her role here (she escapes the queen’s clutches by propelling down a watery chute). There’s a scene with Snow White, moving warily through the woods, in which she faces off with a tree troll. Even Hemsworth’s Huntsman, a sad, angry soul hired by the queen to return the runaway princess to the castle, is impressed.

He should be.

As for the queen, Ravenna, Charlize Theron has a grand old time, sexy, sinister, soliloquizing before a giant gong-shaped mirror, plotting with her lecherous brother (Sam Spruell), dressed in elegant capes, cloaks, and gowns. Her slip-on talons, used to pluck the hearts out of little birds, are quite practical, too.

If Theron has to deliver a few laughably bad lines (Ravenna wants “immortality forever” – as opposed to the short-term immortality option?) she does so with aplomb. Stewart, likewise, rallies her troops with an invitation to mount up and “ride like the thundering waves!” Not exactly the St. Crispin’s Day speech.

Like the original Grimm tale, Sanders and company’s Snow White and the Huntsman digs into Jungian and Freudian muck: The apple is temptation, but also knowledge; the relationship between sister and brother is founded on trust, but also, perhaps, on desire (Snow White’s long-lost sibling, William, returns in the guise of English pretty boy Sam Claflin). And Christian and pagan themes run through the story: Snow White is greeted by a statuesque hart (with tree branches for antlers), a god figure with hooves. Their fateful meeting happens in the midst of an enchanted forest, where the mushrooms have eyeballs and weird little naked faeries pop from the breasts of magpies. It’s like a pre-Raphaelite acid trip. Freaky and twee.

In a good way, of course.

Contact movie critic Steven Rea at 215-854-5629 or srea@phillynews.com. Read his blog, “On Movies Online,” at www.philly.com/onmovies.

Article source: http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/movies/155973095.html

School book sale

The Galloway Township Middle School Builder’s Club will hold a book sale at the school, 100 South Reeds Road, 3-6 p.m. Thursday May 31 and 5-8 p.m. Friday, June 1. All proceeds will benefit the USO. Contact Builder’s Club advisor Eric Rybka at
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Pastels preview

The Noyes Museum of Art will host a collector’s preview reception for new pastels by Stan Sperlak with a wine and cheese reception 6-8 p.m. Thursday, May 31 at the museum, 733 Lily Lake Road, Galloway. RSVP by Saturday, May 12 to (609) 652-8848.

Beef and Beer for Mike Simons

Friends of Mike Simons of Galloway will hold a beef and beer fundraiser 5 p.m., Saturday, June 2 at Mays Landing Country Club, 1855 Cates Road, Hamilton Township. Simons is a former Army Ranger and current Cedar Creek High School assistant crew coach. He lost his right leg in a motorcycle accident earlier this year. The fundraiser will help Simons pay for his extensive medical bills. Call (609) 823-0493.

Community Yard Sale

Royal Suites Healthcare and Rehabilitation will hold its third Community Yard Sale 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, June 2. Free admission. Raffle. Call (609) 748-9900.

Call for artisan vendors

The Noyes Museum of Art of Richard Stockton College is accepting applications from artisan vendors for its Annual Crafts Marketplace, a two-day event in November showcasing fine art, fine crafts and other fine handmade goods. Applications are due at the museum by Friday, June 4. The event will be 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3 and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 4. Call 609-652-8848  or see www.noyesmuseum.org.

Retirement reception

The Galloway Public Schools Retirement Reception will be 5 p.m. Saturday, June 5 at the Carriage House, 25 South Pitney Road, Galloway. Retirees to be honored are Helene Berchtold, Reeds Road food service worker – 24 years; Mary Ann Bustard, Galloway Township Middle School secretary – 31 years; Karen Hanggeli, Arthur Rann intervention teacher – 25 years; Sandy Hoffman, Galloway Township Middle School nurse – 24 years; Mary Link, superintendent’s secretary – 31 years; and Kathy Williscroft, Galloway Township Middle School language arts teacher – 29 years. Contact Marie Thomas by Wednesday, May 30 at (609) 748-1250, ext. 1016 or
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Project Graduation needs volunteers

Absegami High School’s Project Graduation – an all-night party for graduates and guests on graduation night, Thursday, June 7, is in need of volunteers. “We are in need of volunteers to help out throughout the day and night to help Project Graduation continue to be a successful, memorable event for seniors and their guests,” said volunteer chairwoman Barb Kirner. Project Graduation is at the school and continues through 5 a.m. Friday, June 8.  Decorating help is needed 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 6 and noon-3 p.m. Thursday. Staffing games and doing a variety of tasks during the event is needed 10:15 p.m.-1:30 a.m., 1:15 a.m.-4 a.m. and 4-6 a.m.

Help will also be needed picking up food from local restaurants and delivering it to Absegami between noon and 10 p.m. Call Kirner at (609) 652-2003.

Stockton aging series resumes

The Stockton Center on Successful Aging will resume its First Wednesday professional workshops 7:30-9 a.m. Wednesday, June 6 at the Health Center at Galloway, 66 West Jimmie Leeds Road. “The Limits of Medicare: Ignoring Effective Home-based Intervention for Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease and Their Caregiver” will be presented by William D. Cabin, assistant professor of social work. The seminars, designed for professionals, para-professionals, and other caregivers who work with older adults are free and include a full breakfast. Online advance registration is required by 5 p.m., Monday, May 28 at www.stockton.edu/scosa. For assistance or information call (609) 626-3599.

Absegami Graduation

Commencement ceremonies for the Absegami High School Class of 2012 are scheduled 6 p.m. Thursday, June 7 at the football field. Rain date 6 p.m. Friday, June 8. Call (609) 652-1372.

Komen fundraiser

Pizza Hut at Route 30 and 8th Avenue in Galloway will donate to the Walking on Angels’ Wings team of the Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure Walk 5-8 p.m. Thursday, June 7. The price for the buffet is $10, $5 for 12 and younger. For a coupon call Marie Geary at (609) 965-2913 or pick one up before ordering at Pizza Hut.

Smithville Car Cruises

Car Cruises are scheduledFridays, June 8 and 22, July 13 and 27, Aug. 10 and 24, and Sept. 14 and 28 at Historic Smithville. Call (609) 748-8999.

Clambake, Barbecue and Chinese Auction

Peace Lutheran Church will hold its 16th annual Clambake, Barbecue and Chinese Auction noon-6 p.m. Saturday, June 9 at the church, Pitney and Great Creek roads, Galloway. Half of all auction profits will go directly to the Atlantic City Rescue Mission. There will be raw and steamed clams, crab cakes, fish, shrimp, hot dogs, hamburgers, corn on the cob, french fries, cole slaw, desserts and soda or water. Eat there or take it out. Price is $15 for a seafood platter, $9 for non-seafood. Door prizes will be awarded all day Chinese auction winners will be drawn at 5:30 p.m. Winners don’t have to be present. Call Alan Mercer at (609) 442-1610.

Citywide yard sale

The Port Republic Citywide yard sale is scheduled 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, June 9. Maps will be available at the Port Republic Store. Rain date is June 10. Registration and $10 participation fee due by Tuesday, June 5. Call Denise McGarvey at (609) 748-2928 or email
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Preschool garden party

Pomona Preschool has scheduled a Garden Party to show off its new garden space on the school grounds. Thanks to grants from the Arthur Rann Family-School Association, the Galloway Township Education Association and the Atlantic County Utilities Authority, Pomona Preschool now has a means to begin science and math instruction in a fun, hands-on way. The garden will be available for public view 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday, June 11. Call (609) 748-5120.

Seeking Miss Teen Galloway

The Miss Teen Galloway Organization is accepting applications for 2012. The contest is open to females who are in grades nine to 12. We are looking for a friendly, outgoing and enthusiastic teen, who is interested in representing Galloway at community events and functions. The winner will be selected through an application and an interview process before a panel of judges 2 p.m. Saturday, June 16. The winner will receive a crown, sash, $500 savings bond and have the opportunity to serve as the hostess for Galloway Township. Written applications are due by June 14 and can be downloaded from www.MissTeenGalloway.com, or can be picked up at the Absegami High School Guidance Department. See the website or call Nicole Price at (609) 432-1824.

Movies in the Park

Feature-length movies are shown free at dusk Fridays in Patriots Park at the Municipal Complex. Refreshments are available. Movie dates are June 15, July 20, Aug 17, Sept. 21 and Oct 26. Call (609) 652-8657, ext. 15.

Taste of Galloway

The Galloway Township Business Association will hold a Taste of Galloway 5-8 p.m. Thursday, June 28 at Historic Smithville. The public will get a chance to sample items from local restaurants, caterers, bakeries and wineries. The event will also feature a Galloway Farmer’s Market, and a Get Involved Galloway area for local non-profits, clubs, and churches. There will be a cabaret featuring Absegami High School students and alumni. Rain date is Thursday, July 12. To participate in the taste or farmer’s market see gallowaybusiness.com. To participate in the cabaret email your name, phone number and act to
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‘The Music Man’

Sojourn Productions of Galloway will present “The Music Man” Friday, June 29-Sunday, July 1 in the Walter E. Edge Theater at Atlantic Cape Community College. Shows will be 7 p.m. Friday, 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Featured players include Chip Garrison, Mark Glickstein and Gaelyn Lyons. Premium seating is  $16, $14 for 12 and younger; general seating is $12, $10 for 12 and younger. See www.sojournprod.com/tickets.

Fourth of July parade

Galloway’s annual Fourth of July parade will be 9 a.m. Wednesday, July 4 running up Smithville Boulevard from Route 9 to Moss Mill Road and down Moss Mill Road to Historic Smithville. Call Jackie Maxwell at (609) 646-6699.

Galloway Carnival

The carnival is coming to Galloway Township 6-10 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Aug 2-4 at the Municipal Complex. It will feature rides, food and carnival games. Call (609) 652-8657.

National Night Out

National Night Out will be celebrated Tuesday, Aug. 7 at the Municipal Complex. Representatives from law enforcement and school and community based organizations offer giveaways for kids, information for adults. There’s a bicycle safety training area with free helmets for those needing them; and a dunk tank for those interested in soaking municipal officials. Call (609) 652-8657, ext. 12.

Regular meetings

Elks’ chicken dinners

Galloway Elks Lodge 2845, 120 S. New York Road, will hold chicken dinners 1-5 p.m. or until they run out the first Sunday of each month. It’s $10 for a barbecued half chicken, baked beans, macaroni salad, roll and butter. Eat in or take out. Call (609) 266-1840 or email
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Animal Advocates meet

South Jersey Animal Advocates, affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Jersey Shore, meets 11:30 a.m. on the fourth Sunday of each month at the Unitarian Universalist Center at 75 S. Pomona Road, the corner of Liebig Street in the Pomona section of Galloway. It is open to anyone interested in working to advance animal welfare. See uucsjs.org/social_action.html.

Assumption open houses

Assumption Regional Catholic School at 146 S. Pitney Road in Galloway holds “Meet Us Mondays” 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mondays for prospective students and their families. See www.arcsgalloway.org.

Divorce Care Support Group

A separation and divorce support group meets 6:30 p.m. Mondays at Beacon Evangelical Free Church, 420 S. Sixth Ave., Galloway. Attendance is free. For information call (609) 748-0001 or see www.beaconefc.org.

Galloway Democratic Club

The Galloway Democratic Club meets 7 p.m. the second Monday of each month at Gourmet Italian Cuisine, Galloway. See www.gallowaydemocraticclub.org.

Township Council meetings

Township council meets the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month in the Municipal Complex on Jimmie Leeds Road, except for December when the only meeting will be Tuesday, Dec. 11.

Interweave support group

Interweave of South Jersey offers a support group for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community 6:30 p.m. the third Tuesday of each month at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Jersey Shore, 75 S. Pomona Road. See interweave.uucsjs.org or call (609) 965-9400.

Grief Share Support Group

A support group for the hurt of losing a loved one meets 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays at Beacon Evangelical Free Church, 420 S. Sixth Ave., Galloway. Attendance is free. For information call (609) 748-0001 or see www.beaconefc.org.

Galloway networking group

Business Networking International meets 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Wednesday at Gourmet Italian Cuisine at the corner of Pitney and Jimmie Leeds roads in Galloway. Only one member per profession is allowed in a chapter. Call (609) 748-1387.

Free beading classes

Free basic beading classes are held 6 to 9 p.m. every Wednesday and Thursday and 1 to 4 p.m. each Thursday and Friday afternoon at Bumble Beeds on the Village Greene at Historic Smithville. Call (609) 652-3158.

Cub Scout Pack 76

Cub Scout Pack 76 meets 7 p.m. Thursdays at the Germania Firehouse. Cub Scouting is open to boys entering grades one to four. Call (609) 965-9178.

Rotary Club of Absecon-Galloway

The Rotary Club of Absecon-Galloway meets 7:30 a.m. the second and fourth Thursdays at the Galloway Diner, 245 W. White Horse Pike. See www.abseconrotary.org.

Mothers Club meetings

The Mothers Club of Absecon and Galloway Township meets 7 p.m. the third Monday of each month in the Historical Room of the Galloway Township Municipal Complex on Jimmie Leeds Road. The club is for women with children up to 5 years old to establish a network of friends, find playmates for their children and get involved in their communities. There are children’s outings, events for mothers and playgroups. Email
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Spinal Cord Network

The Spinal Cord Network holds events on the first Thursday of every month. Some meetings take place at Bacharach Institute for Rehabilitation and some are at other venues. The meetings are 3-5 p.m. or 4-6 p.m. depending upon the location. Call Becky Magill at (609) 748-5410.

Alzheimer’s support

A free Alzheimer’s Support Group meets 1 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month at Royal Suites Healthcare and Rehabilitation, 214 W. Jimmie Leeds Road, Galloway. Call (609) 748-9900, ext. 1709.

Reformers Unanimous Addictions Program

The Reformers Unanimous Addictions Program meets 7 p.m. Fridays at Mainland Baptist Church, 512 S. Pitney Road, Galloway. Call (609) 652-7507.

Church features open mic

The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Jersey Shore hosts an open-mic night featuring live entertainment, free light refreshments and free Wi-Fi access 7-9 p.m. on the fourth Friday of each month at its center located at 75 S. Pomona Road. Performers at the Greenlight Coffeehouse may sing, play acoustic music, read poetry and more. To register to perform, call Steve Fiedler at (609) 464-0413. For directions see www.uucsjs.org.

Democratic Club blog radio

The Galloway Democratic Club has a blog website and it features a call-in radio show 10:30 a.m. on Saturdays. The number to call in is (877) 497-1798. See www.blogtalkradio.com/talkbackgalloway.

Photo Club

Stay Focused Photo Club meets10 a.m. second Saturdays in the auditorium at the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, 800 Great Creek Road. Call (609) 652-1665.

Senior and Social Services

Galloway Senior and Social Services offers special events year-round including classes, seminars, social programs, senior luncheons, shopping excursions and trips, outreach services for the home bound, indigent burial arrangements. Also available is assistance filling out forms or program applications such as the Home Energy Assistance Program, Pharmaceutical Assistance Program, income and property tax assistance. There are also intergenerational programs, a relief station during extreme weather conditions and distribution of a monthly calendar of events. Call (609) 652-9262. Transportation to doctor’ appointments and other locations in Atlantic County can also be scheduled through the Atlantic County Transportation Department with two weeks advance notice at (609) 645-5910.

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Fans of Taptu’s news DJ mobile apps will now be able to get their news fix from computers as well. The company today launched a new HTML5-powered web app that also synchronizes with all of Taptu’s existing apps — giving it a leg up on competitors like Pulse and Flipboard, which are still mobile only.

The Taptu web app will also allow you to easily share remixed streams of news with anyone on the web, even if they’re not Taptu users. And once new users catch a glimpse of Taptu’s slick web app, which also updates feeds in real-time, they could easily be tempted to sign up for the service as well.

“Taptu’s main advantage has always been our powerful search and aggregation technology that allows us to take any topic, source or keyword search and create a beautiful news reading experience around it,” Taptu CEO Mitch Lazar said in a statement today. “Today we are taking a huge step towards making Taptu a universal tool for both discovering and sharing all your personal interests.”

Launching a web app is a wise move for Taptu, since it can now directly fight aging news and RSS services like Google Reader. As more and more users give up on trying to follow a deluge of news from feed readers, a service like Taptu could let them easily filter out the noise and follow news they care about.

The company says it’s also working on bringing its web app to any mobile browser based on WebKit (which includes iOS and Android). While the company already has mobile apps on those platforms, the web app will still be useful for targeting consumers who haven’t yet signed up for Taptu. And of course, it gives the company an easy gateway to other mobile platforms without building new apps.

Taptu is based in Cambridge, England and Denver, Colorado. It has raised around $19 million in funding from DFJ Esprit and Sofinnova, and 3i Group.

Article source: http://venturebeat.com/2012/05/31/taptu-html5-web-app/

The web hosting review site Top-Cheap-Web-Hosting.com announces the comparison between BlueHost and GreenGeeks on their shared web hosting features, and the loading speed for WordPress, Joomla and Drupal.

(PRWEB) May 31, 2012

Top-Cheap-Web-Hosting.com announces the comparison between BlueHost and GreenGeeks on the shared web hosting features and the loading speed for WordPress, Joomla and Drupal, based on the TCWH editors’ true experience and the 100+ real customer reviews.

BlueHost is a historical company with over 15 years’ experience on shared web hosting service. Now, BlueHost has over 500 employees and 5,000 servers serving for 2 million customers, and it’s still fast growing with approximately 20K new customers added for each month.

GreenGeeks is the best eco-friendly web hosting company founded in 2006 that their web hosting are 100% powered by wind energy. They have 2 data centers in US and Canada, now is serving for 100,000 customers mainly in North American.

Top-Cheap-Web-Hosting.com (TCWH) had compared the performance of WordPress, Joomla and Drupal sites hosted with BlueHost and GreenGeeks. Based on their testing result, the web hosting speed of BlueHost and GreenGeeks is nearly the same. BlueHost runs WordPress site 5% faster than GreenGeeks, runs Joomla site 3% slower than GreenGeeks, and runs Drupal site 8% slower than GreenGeeks.

As introduced by the TCWH editors, BlueHost and GreenGeeks actually are the fastest shared web hosting providers of all shared web hosts that they have reviewed so far. Both BlueHost and GreenGeeks spend a high proportion of their revenue on updating their servers and network equipment yearly. Especially BlueHost has their own dedicated data centers that has invested over 20 million USD since 2010.

To learn more about the comparison between BlueHost and GreenGeeks on the shared web, visit http://www.top-cheap-web-hosting.com/web-hosting-guide/bluehost-vs-greengeeks

About Top-Cheap-Web-Hosting.com

Top-Cheap-Web-Hosting.com (http://www.top-cheap-web-hosting.com) is an independent web hosting review website, rating web hosts based on the true experience and the real customer reviews, designed to help people find the best web hosting deal at the most affordable rate.

For the original version on PRWeb visit: http://www.prweb.com/releases/prwebbluehost-vs-greengeeks/2012/prweb9560913.htm

Article source: http://www.chron.com/business/press-releases/article/BlueHost-VS-GreenGeeks-Web-Hosting-Comparison-3598215.php

Stopwatch in CSS 3, no JavaScript necessary. Image: Screenshot/Webmonkey

Five years ago the hotness in web development was showing what you could create without resorting to Flash. Now it seems the same is true of JavaScript. While we’ve nothing against JavaScript, the increasingly powerful tools in CSS 3 mean that JavaScript is no longer a necessity for building cool stuff on the web.

The latest JavaScript-free demo we’ve run across is this very cool stopwatch demo made using only CSS 3, no images or JavaScript necessary. Now before you dive into the code and get all Karl Van Hœt on us, yes, there is a script used to handle CSS prefixing, but the actual stopwatch doesn’t require it to work.

But what caught our eye even more than the JavaScript-free stopwatch demo is the tutorial that accompanies it. The tutorial — which is one part screencast and one part code dump — is part of Code Player, which helps you learn how to do things by showing you the code as it’s written. It’s an interesting tutorial method, one we haven’t seen before.

Watching code being written isn’t for everyone, especially beginners who might not be able to easily follow what’s happening, but it’s well suited to those that already understand the basics and just want to see how some particular function was written. It also provides an interesting look at how other developers work, which in turn might teach you a new trick or two.

The Code Player offers a variety of playback speeds depending on how fast you want to run through the tutorial, and there’s a timeline scrubber for pausing and rewinding any bits you miss. Our only complaint is that Code Player forces focus in the browser; when you try to click another tab or do something in the background Code Player steals focus back immediately.

If learning something new by watching someone else type sounds intriguing, head on over to the Code Player site. And don’t worry if the stopwatch demo has no appeal for you, there are plenty of other tutorials to choose from.

Article source: http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/05/learn-to-code-by-watching-others-write-it/

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ZooZ, an in-app mobile payment provider is adding an HTML5 version of its solution. The company boasts that its new SDK is so easy to use — requiring just three lines of code — that developers can monetize apps across any platform in just 10 minutes.

“With our new HTML5 offering, developers can now quickly and easily create secure in-app payment capabilities for almost any mobile device and platform in the market today, including older-generation phones,” said company co-founder and CEO Oren Levy. “By enabling developers to deliver fully featured, native HTML5 and hybrid mobile payment solutions via a single platform, we’re accelerating the pace of app development and aggressively opening up huge business opportunities for both mobile developers and enterprises.”

According to the company’s announcement, this latest version extends full functionality to both HTML5 and hybrid apps on mobile and desktop browsers and gives mobile developers a fast way to add multiple payment channels — from PayPal to credit cards to Google Wallet — into one solution. ZooZ said it has seen significant adoption of its solution since it exited beta just two months ago, with more than 1,000 mobile developers registering for its services in that time.

In-app payments is becoming an increasingly busy space, but ZooZ said one thing that sets its solution apart from others is that it supports merchants who sell physical goods as well as digital content, and also supports currencies and languages in more than 150 countries.

For more stories like this, visit the In-App Payments research center. 

Article source: http://www.mobilepaymentstoday.com/article/195211/ZooZ-offers-HTML5-version-of-its-in-app-solution

SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwire – May 30, 2012) – O’Reilly Fluent Conference — 4D, a leading provider of open source integrated application development solutions, today announced Wakanda Beta 2, the newest beta version of its popular Wakanda JavaScript development platform. With Wakanda, developers have a first-ever full stack JavaScript development platform for Web and mobile business applications. The new Wakanda foundation relies on best-of-breed technology — Web and mobile applications, a development studio, client framework, NoSQL database, server and model-driven architecture. The company will offer both an Open Source community and commercial version of Wakanda. Web applications developed with Wakanda are easily deployed on the Cloud.

Developers can use Wakanda to program the entire application stack with JavaScript and its Model Driven Architecture (MDA) assures high levels of re-use and decreases in maintenance costs. Both the user interface (UI) and the data model of the application are designed with a powerful WYSIWYG designer from Wakanda Studio, and the Wakanda client framework and GUI designer leverage the full power of HTML5 and CSS3. The NoSQL object datastore natively speaks REST/HTTP and server-side JavaScript (SSJS). Unlike with SQL databases, there is no need to use an ORM layer. There is no hidden SQL generation. Wakanda natively understands the business logic.

Built on 25 years of business application experience and with the support of an active developer community, Wakanda’s new development environment can be extended with third-party widgets, libraries and server modules. In addition, Wakanda’s open source environment supports developers in adding connectors to their preferred databases. The entire Wakanda solution supports full industry standard compliance, including JSON, REST/HTTP, W3C, and CommonJS.

“With this newest version of Wakanda we are providing one open, complete solution for all Web and mobile business application development,” said Laurent Ribardiere, Wakanda CTO and creator. “Developers no longer need to learn, integrate and maintain different technologies in different languages — Wakanda delivers a cohesive JavaScript stack instead of disparate technologies. With Wakanda, developers can program their entire application with JavaScript from end-to-end.”

Wakanda Offers Powerful JavaScript Programming Features
In addition to providing end-to-end JavaScript programming, Wakanda leverages existing libraries and third party solutions on both client and server, and is cloud-ready. A complete list of individual features of Wakanda Studio, Wakanda Server and Wakanda Framework grouped by functional areas of the platform can be found at http://www.wakanda.org/features/ and includes touch for mobile development, pure multi-threaded JavaScript, NoSQL Object Datastore and many other new features. 

In an IDC White Paper, Al Hilwa, Program Director, Application Development Software for IDC found, “Wakanda is a well-designed end-to-end application platform that comes complete with a graphical development environment catering to modern developer requirements… The application development approach supported by Wakanda abstracts much of the complexity in developing enterprise applications rapidly and productively.” (IDC White Paper, sponsored by 4D, Inc., Wakanda: Blending Traditional Developer Productivity with Modern Web Architecture and Standards, October 2011)

Availability and Pricing
Wakanda production release will be available in June in both community and commercial versions. The community version of Wakanda will be free. Monthly subscriptions for commercial licenses and developer support will start at $35 per month for one developer and will include a royalty-free unlimited deployment right.

About 4D, Inc.
A global leader in business software development solutions for over 25 years, 4D provides integrated platforms that simplify and speed up the development and deployment of Web, Mobile, Desktop, and Client-Server Business Applications. 4D solutions and development tools are used in more than 70 countries, count millions of end users and over 10,000 Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). 4D is located in San Jose, California. For more information, please visit www.4D.com or call 1-408-557- 4600.

Article source: http://www.execdigital.com/press_releases/video-games/4d-announces-new-wakanda-beta-provides-first-complete-model-driven-end-to-end-javascript-stack