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Now you can text message for your pizza at Papa John's!!

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Michelle Kratschmer's family was craving the usual — a large pepperoni pizza and a small pie with black olives and cheese — but how she entered the phone order was entirely new. She ordered dinner by sending a text message to her local Papa John's restaurant. A half-hour later, the pizzas were delivered to her home.
"I got exactly what I ordered, so that was a good thing," Kratschmer said. "You send it off and you're not sure if they've gotten it on that end, because you don't talk to them."

Louisville-based Papa John's International Inc. this week rolled out its text message ordering option at its 2,700 U.S. restaurants. It's a progression from the pizza maker's online ordering, which began in 2001 and now accounts for nearly 20 percent of its U.S. sales.

Domino's Pizza Inc. has taken it another step, recently starting a system that lets customers place orders from Web-enabled mobile devices. The new ordering system, launched about 2 1/2 months ago, is now available at about 3,000 Domino's locations and will spread to all of the chain's approximately 5,100 U.S. restaurants next year, said Rob Weisberg, a marketing vice president for the company.

Nigel Travis, Papa John's president and chief executive officer said:
"Our vision is that you can order a Papa John's pizza anytime of day or night — wherever you are."

First, Papa John's customers register online to create accounts. They can save up to four favorite orders, along with a delivery address and payment preference. Customers can punch in "FAV1," "FAV2," "FAV3," or "FAV4," to text message orders. Papa John's sends a reply with the order, and the customer can confirm or change it.

At the stores, the transition is seamless since text orders pop up the same as online orders. The text-messaging option is another example of Papa John's looking for innovations to offset an advertising budget that's smaller than rivals' Pizza Hut and Domino's.

Pizza Hut had an 18 percent share of the $28.5 billion U.S. pizza market last year, while Domino's had 11 percent and Papa John's had 6.9 percent. Like online customers, people ordering with Papa John's via texting are asked if they want to get regular messages touting coupons or other special offers, and the company expects a big number to do so. Still, Ensign promises that Papa John's will be "very careful and not deluge our customers with promotional messages."

By BRUCE SCHREINER, Associated Press Writer Thu Nov 15, 5:57 AM ET.
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Frenchman learning English

Got it?!

As any English student knows one of the most frustrating things to learn are all the various uses of "GET". Get is used as a verb by itself with various meanings.
One of the most difficult areas of usage is how "get" combines with prepositions for form phrasal verbs.
Add to these problems the variations in colloquial usage and you have got ;-) a recipe for confusion!
Below is a list of the principal usage. Hopefully you will get it (i.e. understand the proper usage)

>> GET "alone"

Meaning and Examples

To receive >> I got a book for my birthday.

To earn >> I get $7 an hour.

To bring or fetch >> Can you get that book for me?

To understand >> Do you get the lesson?

To be affected by, or catch >> He got a cold last week.

To catch or take >> I got the 4.55 train to New York.

To communicate with >> If he isn't home, try to to get him on his cell phone.

To have a strong effect on >> That film really got me.

To capture or seize >> The police got him at the station.


GET used in a phrasal verb
These are only the main meanings (not all)

Phrasal Verb, Meaning and Example

To get away = To escape >> The thief got away from the police.

To get back = To recover >> I got my books back from Tom.

To get by = To survive financially >> Sally gets by on just $1,000 a month.

To get in = To enter a car, train etc. >> Come on, get in! Let's go.

To get into = To be accepted >> He got into the university he wanted.

To get off = To exit from a train, bus etc. >> Jerry got off at 52nd Street.

To get on with = To have a good relationship with >> I really get on well with Janet.

To get out = To leave >> I got out of class at 3.30.

To get over = To recover from an illness >> He got over his operation very quickly.
To get through = To succeed in an examination or test >> That was a difficult test to get through, wasn't it?

To get up = To get out of bed >> I get up at 7 every morning.



Get "Colloquial" usage

Verb, Meaning and Example

Gotta = To have to (US) >> I gotta go, it's late.

Have got to = To have to (US) >> I've got to hurry up!

To get down to business = To begin working >> Tom arrived at 12 and immediately got down to business.

To get together = To meet >> Let's get together this weekend.



SOURCE: About.com: English as a Second Language.

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Does Your Dog Know English?

As acute as a dog’s hearing is, we ought to give them a little more credit for understanding our language. We know we can teach our dogs verbal commands, but many dogs learn to understand words we haven’t purposely taught them. We may find ourselves saying, “Let’s go for a walk” as we pick up the leash. The dog first associates the leash with the promise of going for a walk. He may also pick up on the word “walk” without his owner making a move toward the door or picking up the leash.

Astute owners who notice their dog’s linguistic talent have tried to develop it further by teaching words rather than commands. Some dogs are able to find their ball when the owner says, “Where’s your ball?” Some dogs appear to have an extensive vocabulary and can follow detailed directions like, “go to my desk and bring me my pen.” While this ability astounds dog owners, and anyone watching, scientists have tested dogs who show such prowess, and the findings are less or more impressive, depending upon how you look at it.

Dogs can learn many words, without a doubt, especially names of objects or commands. But to follow more complex directions, dogs rely on other skills. According to Stanley Coren in How to Speak Dog, a dog will listen to your words, and watch your subtle, even subconscious body language, and then add his most reasonable guess to figure out what you want him to do.

In How to Speak Dog, to test the theory that dogs rely more on our body language than words, a dog was told to go to one place, but the person speaking glanced in a different direction. The dog always went to where the person was looking. Dogs may never have a complete command of our spoken language, but their ability and interest in listening to our words and observing our body language in order to do what we ask of them, to ultimately please us, is really truly impressive.

Source: Yahoo! Pets

Weblogs

Weblogs are increasingly being used in education by researchers, teachers, and students.

Professors are keeping research blogs, requiring students to blog, or creating course weblogs.

Students are keeping course blogs or personal blogs. Scholars are studying and writing about the weblog phenomenon while keeping weblogs about weblogs.

What is a Weblog?

A weblog (aka Blog) is a live online journal that can be easily and instantly updated. A Blog can be a frequently posted list of interesting web sites, or a personal diary of events and thoughts, or a combination of the two (among many other things.)

The newborn publishing world of weblogs seems to be having a significant impact on digital culture, communication, education, and publication. The best proof of impact at the moment is the proliferation of Election and Political Blogs that have sprung up around presidential candidates, parties, and news agencies.

Bloggers are constantly defining and debating the definition of a weblog, as well as presenting their reasons for keeping a blog.

Deep Thinking about Weblogs

by Andrew Grumet

The pet rock of the 00's

Weblogs are everywhere. No longer the hideout of programmer nerds, weblog authors count among their ranks a Stanford law professor, a cast member of Star Trek: The Next Generation, a popular humor columnist.

In the words of weblog pioneer Dave Winer, "A Weblog allows you to easily publish a wide variety of content to the Web. You can publish written essays, annotated links, documents (Word, PDF, and PowerPoint files), graphics, and multimedia." To many this will sound a lot like a Geocities home page. Nothing new here: Geocities has been making it easy to publish to the Web for almost as long as there has been a Web. Scan a few weblogs, either those listed above or others that you may know about, and it should become clear that a weblog is exactly what it sounds like: a log that is published to the Web. The log entries are typically short, informal, and posted daily.

We can think of a weblog as a special kind of home page that has a time element. Or, even better, as a public, online diary. So why all the excitement? Everybody seems to have one and yet a weblog feels more like a pet rock than a revolution. We are particularly reminded of the excitement that accompanied the explosion of home pages in the early days of the Web. We suspect that, like home pages, the appearance of so many weblogs isn't the interesting part. The interesting part is, rather, the pervasive use of a set of technologies. Let's leave that thread for now and pick it up a little later on.

Source: Blogs in Education