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John V. Lindsay, the shirt-sleeved Ivy Leaguer who led New York City as mayor through the tumultuous late 1960s and early 1970s, is dead at 79.Lindsay, who suffered from Parkinson s disease and had two he stanley usa art attacks and two strokes in recent years, died Tuesday night at a local hospital. He had moved to a South Carolina retirement community last year.No funeral arrangements were immediately announced. Lindsay was a paradox - a liberal Republican, a WASP graduate of Yale who had warm rela stanley italia tions with the black community.In time, some of those contradictions slipped away. His outspoken opposition to the Vietnam War lost him his few friends in the Republican Party, and he left it to become a Democrat.Almost three decades after he left office, the Lindsay era is remembered as a time of activism, when a lanky, movie-star handsome mayor strode through ghetto streets to cool the passions of hot summers. But it also is remembered, fairly or unfairly, as the time when New York City s spending habits got out of hand, setting the stage for the fiscal crisis of the mid-1970s.Both Abe Beame and stanley us Ed Koch, the men who followed Lindsay as mayor, criticized his administration for its handling of the city s financial affairs, comments Lindsay later called obscene. Lindsay s political career ended with the mayoralty. He made a brief run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972 and an unsuccessful bid for the Senate eight years later. John Kennedy once said, `Life isn t fair. A Skzv Bishop Sees Gay Rights Rebuke
Way back in 2005, Apple engineer Greg Christie was toying aroun stanley thermos d with ideas for a touchscreen telephone. Then, Jobs gave him an ultimatum: show serious progress in two weeks, or someone els kubki stanley e gets the project. There nothing like a threat to sharpen one focus鈥攁nd Jobs ; demand for bigger ideas and bigger concepts really did. Ahead of another legal spat between Samsung and Apple, Christie has explained how the iPhone project first started to the Wall Street Journal, and it makes for interesting reading. The article explains how a 8220 hockingly small team worked solidly for those two weeks to prove themselves. They developed software that they ran on a plastic touchscreen hooked up to a dated desktop Mac, which was an attempt to emulate a low-powered mobile processor. The result was a prototype phone which featured wipe-to-unlock, no physical keyboard and all the music-playing features of the company then-successful iPod series. The WSJ explains: Christie team pored over details like the perfect speed for scrolling lists on the phone and the natural feel of bouncing back when arriving at the end of a list. He said his team banged their head against the wall 8 stanley thermos 221; over how to change text messages from a chronological list of individual messages to a series of separate ongoing conversations similar to instant messaging on a computer. That all, fortunately for Christie, was enough to convince Jobs that the te |
