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NEW YORK (AP) — Apple Watches are arriving Friday to the first group of people who had ordered one two weeks ago.

Those who haven’t ordered one yet will likely face a wait. Apple’s retail stores won’t have them, with the company taking orders over the Internet only — for delivery as late as July for some models.

Although a handful of other stores are carrying them, quantities are limited — and you have to make it to the store. Maxfield in Los Angeles is carrying the watch, along with boutique stores in Paris, London, Tokyo and Berlin and authorized resellers in China and Japan.

Whenever you get yours, get ready for a new way of interacting with your digital life. A better way? I’ll need more time with the watch to say.

For now, I can offer some tips on using it:

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SETTING UP

Update your iPhone’s software before starting. You need at least iOS 8.2. You also need the password for your Apple ID account.

Select your language on the watch and open the Apple Watch app on the iPhone. Hit “Start Pairing” on both devices. Here’s where it gets fun: Use your iPhone camera to photograph the watch animation, which has an embedded code so the phone knows to connect to that specific watch. Follow the prompts on the phone app. At the screen for installing apps, choose “Install All” to get watch versions of apps already on your phone.

It took about 12 minutes for all my apps, contacts and calendar entries to sync. Use that time to watch video tutorials on your phone.

You can adjust watch settings by going to “My Watch” in the phone app. Don’t spend too much time at first. See how the watch fits in with your lifestyle. Initially, notifications on the watch will match those on the phone. If that gets annoying, customize the settings so that some notifications go to the phone only. For email, you can designate specific contacts as VIPs and have only their messages reach your watch.

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MOTION CONTROL

The watch borrows many gestures and controls from the phone, but that isn’t always practical with a smaller screen. Getting used to the changes will take time.

A few tips:

• Lightly press the dial, known as the Digital Crown, to toggle between the watch face and the menu of apps. It’s also typically how you exit apps. Double press to get your most recently used app. A hard press gets you Siri, Apple’s voice assistant. Turn the dial to zoom, scroll or flip through menus. My instinct was to turn the dial like a knob, but it’s easier to slide your finger over it, like rolling the wheel on a toy car.
• The other button gives you quick access to friends — favorites from your phone’s contact list and what you add under “Friends” in the iPhone’s watch app. You can call or message — or send doodles and vibrations if your friend has an Apple Watch. Double click this button to use Apple Pay at retail stores.
• Swipe down to get notifications. Swipe up to get Glances — highlights such as weather, calendar and stock quotes. Swipe left and right to go through the various Glances. The one on the far left is the settings, such as muting.
• Interact with icons and buttons by lightly tapping on the screen. A hard press, known as a Force Touch, will activate other functions. It changes from app to app, and the best way to learn is to try it and see what it does. Force Touch the watch face to choose other designs and options.
• For a screenshot, press both side buttons simultaneously— lightly, or it won’t work. Images appear in your phone’s Photos app.

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READYING APPS

One of the Glances is for the Activity app. Go through the prompts so the watch can nag you when you’ve been sitting too long.

The watch uses the GPS sensor on your phone to measure distance during workouts. Without the phone, it counts steps, which tend to be inaccurate. However, if you walk or run with your phone a few times, the watch will calibrate those steps for better accuracy offline.

You can listen to music or view photos stored on the device. Go to the phone app to choose playlists and albums to sync.

Go to “Passbook & Apple Pay” on the phone app to enable mobile payments at retail stores. You can then pay without the phone with you.

To add apps, visit the phone’s Apple Watch app.

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NEED MORE HELP?

Visit an Apple store. No appointment is needed. Besides the video tutorials, Apple is also offering free video chats online.

WAUKESHA (AP) – A judge has denied a request to move a 12-year-old girl to a psychiatric center after she was accused of stabbing a classmate to please the horror character Slender Man.

The judge also denied a motion to reduce her $500,000 bail to a signature bond. Morgan Geyser’s attorney, Anthony Cotton, says she needs treatment for schizophrenia.

The judge was concerned about her being a flight risk, but Cotton says she has no friends and no car and couldn’t get far.

Geyser and her 13-year-old friend, Anissa Weier, both of Waukesha, are charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide in the stabbing of a then-12-year-old classmate. She survived 19 stab wounds.

The 22nd Annual Golden Apple Awards were presented April 22, 2015, at the Radisson Hotel and Conference Center in Ashwaubenon. FOX 11’s Tom Milbourn and Michelle Melby emceed the event.

Click the play button above to watch the full banquet.

The recipients are:

• Angela Kelly, West De Pere Middle
• Ashley Gonwa, Valley View Elementary
• Nancy Collins, Amy Daul, Kim Hoffmann, Jessica Sherman and Jennifer Parins, CESA 7 Alternative High
• Elizabeth Ruh, Forest Glen Elementary
• Chris Wendorf, Sunnyside Elementary
• Kari Groeneveld, Glenbrook Elementary
• Sara Hoffmann, Pulaski Community Middle

The Golden Apple Awards are a program of the Greater Green Bay Chamber, and are sponsored by FOX 11, Associated Bank, Imperial, Humana, Schneider Foundation, Schreiber, The Press-Gazette, and the Shopko Foundation.

Ingredients:

spring roll wrappers
water, in bowl
bean thread/cellophane noodles
bean sprouts, dried
organic carrots, shredded
mushrooms, finely chopped
garlic powder
onion powder
salt and pepper
olive oil
1/4 cup low sodium soy sauce
1/4 cup duck sauce

Directions:

Cook bean three noodles, rinse with cold water and set aside. Lay out spring roll wrappers, 4 at a time. Place a small amount of noodles, bean sprouts (make sure they aren’t wet), carrots and mushrooms on the lower portion of each spring roll wrapper. Sprinkle with garlic, onion, salt and pepper. Folding in the sides first, roll spring rolls. “Seal” by dipping your finger in the water and wetting the edge of the wrapper. Repeat until you have desired amount of spring rolls. Heat a small amount of olive oil, over medium heat, in a pan on the stove. Place spring rolls in oil. Turn as sides brown. Place on paper towel and repeat until all rolls are finished. Combine soy sauce and duck sauce and serve with spring rolls!

FORT ATKINSON (AP) – McCain Foods is closing its plant in Fort Atkinson.

That means about 120 people will soon lose their jobs.

McCain Food president Frank Finn says the decision to close the plant is due to the overall business climate. Food products made in Fort Atkinson will be manufactured in other McCain facilities, including its plant in Rice Lake.

City manager Matt Trebatoski tells the Daily Union that the layoffs will begin in June with the full closure of the plant by the end of the year.

WESTFIELD, Ind. (AP) – More than a dozen students suffered minor injuries after a stage filled with students collapsed during a musical performance at a central Indiana high school, authorities said Friday morning.

Capt. Charles Hollowell of the Westfield Police Department said all of the students injured in the collapse Thursday evening were “doing really well,” including one who initially was reported in critical condition.

Authorities said a large group of students was on the stage during the grand finale of the “American Pie” concert at Westfield High School when the floor of the stage collapsed into the orchestra pit below.

Westfield Washington Schools Superintendent Mark Keen said the school was gathering records related to the stage for investigators to scrutinize. Keen said it appears that a cover that is placed over the orchestra pit for some productions gave way, causing the collapse.

Regularly scheduled classes will meet Friday and Keen said faculty would come in early to work with students as they arrive.

Video supplied to The Associated Press by Zach Rader – who was in the audience – and consistent with the AP’s reporting shows more than a dozen students dancing and clapping on stage while a female student sings along to Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’.”

Most students then suddenly plummet out of sight, the music cuts off and screams are heard.

Blake Rice, an 18-year-old senior at the school about 20 miles north of Indianapolis, said he was playing guitar in the performance, a tribute to ’80s music.

As the last song began, Rice said he took a step back to allow more students onto the stage. He saw the stage collapse but did not fall through.

“At first, it didn’t seem real. It didn’t really register with me what happened,” Rice said.

Rice said people in the audience immediately ran toward the stage and began pulling debris off students. Auditorium staff pulled people out of the pit, he said.

“I realized how lucky I was,” Rice said. “Another 3 seconds and that could have been me.”

Westfield Mayor Andy Cook said he visited with some of the injured students at hospitals after the collapse.

“I said, ‘You kids must have been really rocking,'” he said.

The incident evoked memories of a 2011 stage collapse at the Indiana Stage Fair that killed seven people and injured nearly 100. High winds toppled rigging and sent the stage roof onto fans awaiting the start of a concert by the country duo Sugarland.

NEW YORK (AP) – Comcast is dropping its $45 billion bid for Time Warner Cable after heavy regulatory pushback.

The combined company would put nearly 30 percent of TV and about 55 percent of broadband subscribers under one roof.

That would give the resulting behemoth unprecedented power over what Americans watch and download.

Competitors, consumer groups, and politicians have criticized the deal, saying it would lead to higher prices and less choice.

Even with the Comcast deal squashed, cable companies are likely to keep combining as costs rise for the shows, sports and movies they pipe to subscribers and video customers decrease.

Many analysts expect that Charter Communications Inc., which lost out on its bid for Time Warner Cable Inc. to Comcast Corp., to resurrect its effort.

GREEN BAY – The music department at Green Bay West High School is growing and now they are trying to make sure students are getting the instruments they need. On Sunday, April 26th, West High School will be holding an instrument drive to collect used (but usable) instruments and donations for the bands and orchestras.

Dave Viste is the Director of Bands and Orchestras. He says the school is projecting a 20-25% increase in student participation in the next school year.

Viste says a representative from Jim’s Music will be on hand to help coordinate estimates for repair and tax-write-off purposes.The event also includes concessions, a bake sale, and live music from West High School students.

INSTRUMENT DRIVE

SUNDAY, APRIL 26TH
NOON-3PM
GREEN BAY WEST HIGH SCHOOL
966 SHAWANO AVE. GREEN BAY

Green Bay- During the course of the year, Green Bay police recover thousands of pieces of lost and stolen property. Many of those items are never claimed.

Saturday, April 25th, the department will hold its annual Bike & Surplus Auction at the Brown County Fairgrounds to find these items new homes.

Crime Prevention Coordinator Melanie Skalmoski talked with Pete about the event.

Click here for more information.

TOWN OF PIEHL, Wis. (AP) – A teenager accused of killing her mother and stepfather in Oneida County is due in court.

Seventeen-year-old Ashlee Martinson has been brought back to Wisconsin from Indiana where she was arrested last month. Authorities say Martinson is scheduled for a Friday afternoon appearance in Oneida County Circuit Court.

Martinson is charged with fatally stabbing 40-year-old Jennifer Ayers and shooting 37-year-old Thomas Ayers on March 8 at the family’s home in the Town of Piehl.

Besides two counts of first-degree intentional homicide, Martinson is charged with three counts of false imprisonment. Prosecutors say she locked her three younger sisters, ages 2, 8 and 9, in a room before fleeing to Indiana with a 22-year-old man. Investigators say the man was not involved in the crime.

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) – A former police officer is due in court for a hearing on accusations he killed a woman whose body was found in a suitcase discarded along a rural Wisconsin highway.

Steven Zelich is also a suspect in the death of another woman whose remains were found in a second suitcase at the same location in Walworth County.

The 53-year-old Zelich is expected to appear in Kenosha County Circuit Court Friday morning for a final hearing before his May trial on first-degree intentional homicide and hiding a corpse. Zelich is accused in the 2012 death of 19-year-old Jenny Gamez, a college student from Cottage Grove, Oregon. He’s also suspected of killing 37-year-old Laura Simonson at a Rochester, Minnesota, hotel.

Court records say Zelich told investigators he killed them accidentally during sex and hid their bodies.

MILAN (AP) – An Italian prosecutor says Islamic extremists suspected in a bomb attack in a Pakistani market that killed more than 100 people had also planned an attack against the Vatican in 2010 that was never carried out.

Prosecutor Mauro Mura told a press conference in Cagliari, Sardinia, on Friday that wiretaps indicated the suspected terrorists were planning a bomb attack at the Vatican and that a suicide bomber had arrived in Rome.

Mura said the attack plans never went further and that the suicide bomber left Italy, though it wasn’t clear why. He said the wiretaps gave “signals of some preparation for a possible attack.”

Italian police said Friday they were making arrests of 18 suspected extremists, including two purported bodyguards for Osama bin Laden, who allegedly staged attacks in Pakistan and sought to topple the Pakistani government.

SUAMICO – The Waterboard Warriors are preparing for a brand new season!

FOX 11’s Emily Deem meet up with some team members in Suamico to see how they practice.

The team’s season beings in June.

They will perform on the Fox River in Wrightstown.

The team will host a Meat Raffle/Silent Auction Friday 7-10 p.m.

The fundraiser will be held at Townline Pub & Grill in Suamico.

Click here for more information.

GREEN BAY- High temperatures will be near 50 Friday and Saturday, and then it warms up a bit on Sunday.

We’ll see sunshine in the morning with increasing clouds as the day wears on.

Friday night will bring a chance of rain and snow showers to the area with a low near 33.

Saturday morning will be cloudy with a chance of showers early then mostly cloudy skies in the afternoon with a high near 50.

Sunday looks great with mostly sunny skies and a high in the mid 50s.

The normal high for this time of year is 58.

WESTFIELD, Ind. (AP) – More than a dozen people were injured after a stage filled with students collapsed during a musical performance at a central Indiana high school, authorities said.

Capt. Charles Hollowell of the Westfield Police Department said authorities didn’t have an exact number of injuries but were certain more than 12 were hurt. At least one person was critically injured after the stage gave way Thursday night at Westfield High School, he said.

Hollowell did not have any further information about that person’s injuries. No fatalities were reported.

A large group of students was on the stage during the grand finale of the concert dubbed “American Pie” when the floor of the stage collapsed into the orchestra pit below, authorities and eyewitnesses said.

Video supplied to The Associated Press by Zach Rader – who was in the audience – and consistent with the AP’s reporting shows more than a dozen students dancing and clapping on stage while a female student sings along to Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’.”

Most students then suddenly plummet out of sight, the music cuts off and screams are heard.

Blake Rice, an 18-year-old senior at the school about 20 miles north of Indianapolis, said he was playing guitar in the performance, a tribute to ’80s music.

As the last song began, Rice said he took a step back to allow more students onto the stage. He saw the stage collapse but did not fall through.

“At first, it didn’t seem real. It didn’t really register with me what happened,” Rice said.

Rice said people in the audience immediately ran toward the stage and began pulling debris off students. Auditorium staff pulled people out of the pit, he said.

“I realized how lucky I was,” Rice said. “Another 3 seconds and that could have been me.”

Injured students were taken to at least three different hospitals, according to Hollowell.

Chris Baldwin, who works in human resources for the high school, said regularly scheduled classes will meet Friday.

The incident evoked memories of a 2011 stage collapse at the Indiana Stage Fair that killed seven people and injured nearly 100. High winds toppled rigging and sent the stage roof onto fans awaiting the start of a concert by the country duo Sugarland.

ATLANTA (AP) – A teenager is hospitalized with burns covering 70 percent of his body after two other teens attacked him with a pot of boiling rice while he was sleeping.

WSB-TV reports the 17-year-old victim is in a medically-induced coma in critical condition at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta after Monday’s attack.

Officers have arrested 19-year-old Quintavious Barber and 18-year-old Malik Morton for aggravated assault and cruelty to a child, among other charges.

Relatives of the scalded victim say the two men accused him of stealing a PlayStation 3. Neighbors say the three teens were friends.

It’s unclear if Barber or Morton has a lawyer.

Black Creek- Fallen Timbers Environmental Center has provided a place for kids to enjoy, learn and respect nature for 40 years.

Saturday, April 25 the environmental center will mark the milestone in two major ways.

People can adopt one of 40 sugar maple tree saplings that will be planted at the environmental center. A time capsule will also be buried on Saturday only to be opened at the 80th anniversary of Fallen Timbers. At that time, the 40 trees that will have been planted will be ready to tap for the maple syrup season.

For more information on Fallen Timbers and how you can adopt one of the Sugar Maple trees.

SANDPOINT, Idaho (AP) – Two earthquakes – a magnitude 4.1 and a 4.2 – jolted north Idaho on Thursday night, with residents from northeastern Washington to northwestern Montana saying they felt the tremors.

The Bonner County emergency dispatch office in Sandpoint received no reports of injuries from either quake, a dispatcher said. The Forest Service dispatched a crew to check out a Lakeview-area report of downed trees that was believed related to the first quake, the dispatcher added.

The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude 4.1 quake hit first, at about 7:32 p.m. It was centered 30 miles northeast of Hayden. The second quake, at about 10:45 p.m., was centered 38 miles north-northeast of Hayden.

Hundreds of people logged onto the USGS National Earthquake Information website to report having felt the quakes.

In Bonners Ferry, about 30 miles north of Sandpoint, Boundary County emergency dispatcher Brad Stalcup said he was among those who felt the first jolt. “I’m in a concrete building and the train tracks are 200 feet away,” he said. “I can feel rumble of the train – and this was way more exciting than a train.”

In Seattle, Pacific Northwest Seismic Network director John Vidale said the size of the quakes seemed relatively unusual for that part of Idaho.

A magnitude 2.8 quake was recorded at about 8:50 p.m. Thursday, some 20 miles northwest of the central Idaho community of Council.

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MILWAUKEE (AP) – Derrick Rose scored 34 points, Jimmy Butler added 24 and the Chicago Bulls beat the Milwaukee Bucks 113-106 in double overtime on Thursday night to take a 3-0 lead in their Eastern Conference playoff series.

Butler got the second overtime off to a rousing start, intercepting a backcourt pass from Giannis Antetokounmpo and racing in for a layup. It set the tone for an 8-0 run that gave Chicago a 109-101 lead with 2:44 left to finally shake the pesky Bucks.

Rose atoned for a missed free throw with 4 seconds left in regulation that left the game tied. He scored six points in the second overtime, including a layup off an offensive rebound with 2:15 left for a 10-point lead.

Antetokounmpo had 25 points and Khris Middleton added 18 for Milwaukee, which went scoreless for more than 6 minutes between the first and second overtimes.

The Bulls will go for the sweep on Saturday in Game 4 in Milwaukee. No NBA team has ever come back from a 3-0 deficit to win a series.

Chicago appeared to have wrapped up the game with 2:50 left in regulation after Tony Snell hit his second straight 3 for a 94-84 lead, rousing an often Bulls-friendly crowd. The Bradley Center at times felt like a northern outpost for Bulls fans who made the barely 90-minute drive from Chicago.

But the young Bucks didn’t quit and their fans backed them up, too.

Middleton had eight points over the final 1:27 of regulation, including a floater with 10 seconds left that gave the Bucks a 95-94 lead. Rose went 1 of 2 from the free throw line, and Middleton missed a 27-footer at the other end to send the game into overtime.

It was a fitting stretch run to a wildly entertaining game featuring one of the East’s standard-bearers against the scrappy upstarts from Milwaukee.

Rose carried the Bulls for much of the second half, getting a big assist off the bench from Snell as Chicago built a late 10-point lead. The Bucks blew an 18-point lead in the second quarter.

It was hard to believe that Chicago trailed 49-31 with 4:03 left in the second quarter.

But the Bulls closed the half with an 18-4 spurt to get within 53-49. Former Bulls forward Scottie Pippen rooted them on courtside.

“Love the fight in this Bulls team to close out the half. A little adversity on the road will do you some good,” the Hall of Famer posted on Twitter at halftime.

TIP-INS:

Bulls: Six-foot-10 forward Nikola Mirotic sat out as expected with an injured left knee. … G Kirk Hinrich, who was questionable with a left knee injury, played 6 minutes. … Rose was 5 of 7, including 3 of 4 from 3-point range, for 13 points in the first half.

Bucks: The bench gave the Bucks a huge lift in a 22-4 run in the second quarter that helped them open the short-lived 18-point lead. Jared Dudley led the reserves with 10 points in the half on 4-of-4 shooting. … Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers and receiver Randall Cobb were at the game, sitting on the baseline across from the Bucks bench. … Former team owner and U.S. Senator Herb Kohl attended the game in his usual seat, about four rows up on center court.