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As you've probably gathered from the ad in the left sidebar, our friends at Grey Flannel Auctions have another catalog auction taking place. This one's a bit smaller than many of their previous auctions, but there's still plenty of good stuff. Let's take a look:
• Ah, the old Buffalo Braves uni. You're probably familiar with the front design, but look at that back design with the off-center number! Imagine if they'd had NOBs — would the name have been centered over the number, or just centered on the jersey as usual?
• This has to be one of the most unusual award rings I've ever seen.
• Speaking of rings: We all know the ABA's tri-colored ball was featured in just about every ABA team logo, but did you know it was also incorporated into championship ring designs? (Here's the full auction listing for that one.)
• Always good to see anything with the Spirits of St. Louis logo (full listing).
• Spectacular chain-stitching on this Virginia Squires warm-up jacket (full listing).
• Remember how Eric Dickerson used to wear that big neck roll? In order to make room for it, he cut a slit at the front of his collar, the edges of which were then re-finished (full listing).
• It's amazing to think that Leo Durocher managed long enough to wear the blue satin Dodgers uni at one end of his career and this Astros uni on the other.
• This is pretty groovy: a big lot of MLB All-Star Game ticket stubs and programs. I definitely recommend clicking through the photos in both listings — great stuff.
• Did you know that the World Series MVP award is officially called the Babe Ruth Award? I didn't. At first I couldn't figure out why the award plaque features a fountain pen, but then I realized it's because the award is given by the BBWA.
• Let's say you were assigned to come up with a logo for the Fresh Meadow Golf Club. What would you come up with? Whatever your solution might be, I'm fairly certain it wouldn't be this. That's Babe Ruth's scorecard, incidentally (full listing).
Want to see more? Here's the full auction catalog.
Uni Watch News Ticker: The President isn't the only one in Washington who gets presented with commemorative jerseys. Here's Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, being presented with an Army hockey jersey by U.S. Military Academy Superintendent Lt. Gen. David Huntoon (from Ryan Yanoshak). … The Corporate States of America, Chapter 673: Virginia's governor, making an early run at Douchebag of the Year honors, wants to raise revenue by selling naming rights to the state's highways and bridges. … Tuesday's post about Ryan Connelly painting a Penguins logo on a friend's wall prompted the following note from Seth Scheving: " I grew up in Grand Forks, N.D., and was surrounded by North Dakota Fighting Sioux fans. As a painting major, I was often asked to do Sioux-related projects for friends, including painting a Sioux logo on a friend's wall in 2009. It ended up being about five feet high, top to bottom." … In a related item, John Korinek's brother used digital projector to paint various Detroit team logos directly onto his basement walls, as you can see in this video clip. … Hey, in light of all those Nike schools essentially wearing the same uniform template, remember Converse's old "roadkill tread" template? I didn't, until Cody Kennedy brought it to my attention, because I watched almost no college basketball in the 1990s. "I was on a Converse AAU team (we weren't very good)," says Cody, "and after Converse signed Dennis Rodman to a sponsorship deal, our AAU team promoted his line by wearing velvet shorts with that pattern." … Tim Donovan was watching a 1986 commercial for Slice soda and noticed lots of MLB players wearing reasonably close replicas of their uniforms at the time. You can watch the full commercial here. … New soccer kits for Real Salt Lake and Orlando City of USL Pro (both from Kenn Tomasch). … This space for sale — literally. That's Canadian luger Alex Gough, in a shot from 2009. She now has a sponsor for that spot (from Jon Reynolds). "¦ Designer Saul Bass did a makeover of the Bell Telephone System's identity in the late 1960s. Instead of pitching his design proposal in printed form, he made a 27-minute film, about five minutes of which extols the virtues of stripes. If you stick with it for a few minutes, you'll get to the part where he talks about new uniforms for the company's staff (great stuff from Sam Pearlstein). "¦ Ah yes, 'tis the season for giant NFL-themed soda displays (photo by Tony Orndoff). "¦ New cleats for UNC baseball (from James Gilbert). "¦ New "think pink" jersey for Creighton hoops, to be worn against Bradley tomorrow (from David Westfall). "¦ Here's an illustrated timeline of Topps baseball card wrappers, from 1951-2011 (from Dan Cichalski).


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Earmarks and GOP Hypocrisy
On the official GOP blog the party has a post attacking Obama and Clinton on their earmarks. In Bush's State of the Union address he said, "If you send me an appropriations bill that does not cut the number and cost of earmarks in half, I'll send it back to you with my veto."
I used to vote for Republicans in the early to mid '90s because they took stands like these. Stands to cut spending, balance the budget, get rid of the waste, and pay down the huge national debt that is threatening to bankrupt our country. When Reagan took office he gave a speech shortly after — February 5th, 1981 — that railed against budget deficits and the national debt. In part he said:
Today the debt is $934 billion. So-called temporary increases or extensions in the debt ceiling have been allowed twenty-one times in these ten years, and now I've been forced to ask for another increase in the debt ceiling or the government will be unable to function past the middle of February — and I've only been here sixteen days. Before we reach the day when we can reduce the debt ceiling, we may in spite of our best efforts see a national debt in excess of a trillion dollars. Now, this is a figure that's literally beyond our comprehension.
When Ronald Reagan left office in 1988 the national debt was $2.6 trillion. The national debt almost tripled under his watch. In the mid '90s the Republicans again said they would embrace fiscal responsibility. Here's an excerpt from the Contract with America:
On the first day of the 104th Congress, the new Republican majority will immediately pass the following major reforms, aimed at restoring the faith and trust of the American people in their government…SECOND, select a major, independent auditing firm to conduct a comprehensive audit of Congress for waste, fraud or abuse
Thereafter, within the first 100 days of the 104th Congress, we shall bring to the House Floor the following bills, each to be given full and open debate, each to be given a clear and fair vote and each to be immediately available this day for public inspection and scrutiny.
A balanced budget/tax limitation amendment and a legislative line-item veto to restore fiscal responsibility to an out-of-control Congress, requiring them to live under the same budget constraints as families and businesses.
The line-item veto was in part for presidents to be able to veto earmarks in a spending bill before signing the bill. President Bill Clinton worked with the new Republican Congress to balance the budget and work towards paying down the debt, however, once the Republicans took control of the White House their interest in fiscal responsibility seemed to disappear. This was probably due to the fact that they were in power and could now spend the money "the proper way." Everyone has heard of the Alaskan "bridge to nowhere" that cost us, the taxpayers, $223 million. Lou Dubose of The Washington Spectator has some interesting facts:
Scott Lilly of the Center for American Progress, who spent years on the Appropriations staff, agrees. He is directing journalists to a report the Congressional Research Service released two days before Bush's address. It's called "Earmarks in Appropriations Acts: FY 1994 . . . FY 2005", and it documents Bush's indifference to the earmarked items tacked onto bills by individual legislators.
• The VA, HUD, and other agencies' appropriations bills included 469 individual earmarks in 2000. The number had gone up to 2,080 by 2005.
• Defense Department earmarks increased from 997 in 2000 to 2,506 in 2005.
• Labor, Health and Human Services and Education earmarks soared from 491 in 2000 to 3,014 in 2005.
• At Commerce, Justice, State, and the Judiciary, earmarks went from 361 in 2000 to 1,722 in 2005.
There were about 15,000 earmarks in 2005. The cost: $47 billion. All this with Republicans controlling both the White House and Congress. Our national debt is now over $9.2 trillion and climbing. Now that the Republicans have lost Congress and therefore their ability to add substantial earmarks they're calling for an end to earmarks. No doubt they'll start those earmarks once again when and if they take back Congress in the future. Don't get me wrong. I believe we need to pay off our national debt and that ending wasteful earmarks is something worthwhile. History shows, however, that Republicans aren't interested in actually ending earmarks, balancing the budget, and paying down the national debt when they're in power so please excuse me if I believe their interest in earmarks this year is simply to score political points. The Who said it best, "I won't get fooled again."

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Volume 2
Number 23
June 8th, 1997
Editor: Joseph Trainor
On Tuesday, June 3, 1997, at about 3 p.m., investigating state police officers found the bodies of two prominent ufologists in a campground in northern New Hampshire (N.H.).
The bodies of George W. Perry, 50, of East Providence, Rhode Island and Keith Begnoche, 22, of Blackstone, Massachusetts were found in a tent at the Dolly Copp Campground, located off Route 16 in Pinkham's Grant, N.H.
Relatives of the dead men called the police on Monday after Perry and Begnoche failed to return from their weekend camping trip to Mount Washington.
Perry, born in Pawtucket, R.I., was an electrical engineer and inventor and the owner of Alpha Scientific Associates. He was also assistant director of the Rhode Island chapter of MUFON.
Begnoche was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gabriel Begnoche of Blackstone, Mass. and was a freshman at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Mass.
According to Sgt. John K. Scarinza of the New Hampshire state police, investigating officers found a sales slip in the tent. As a result of this find, the "troopers surmised that the friends died either Saturday night (May 31) or Sunday morning (June 1)."
"One of Perry's two sisters, Claire Bussiere, of Cumberland, R.I. said his death was puzzling because 'He was so methodical about things. Something just went wrong.'"
"She speculated that he might have altered his routine after buying a new tent. Ordinarily, he would turn on a heater to remove the chill, then place the device outside. For some reason, the heater was still inside when the troopers arrived."
"The device was tethered to a 20-pound propane tank. The controls were on and the tank was empty. Medical tests found carbon monoxide in both men's bodies. Apparently, the friends fell asleep before they were poisoned, police said." (See the Providence R.I. Journal-Bulletin for June 6, 1997, pages B1 and B4)
Perry and Begnoche had told friends before the trip that they were going to Mount Washington (elevation 6,288 feet) to do some skywatching.
"David Rannacher, a friend of Perry...said he doesn't think the two campers who set out on their camping trip Friday (May 30) ever made it to Mount Washington, although no one can say for sure." (Providence, R.I. Journal Bulletin, June 6, 1997, page B4)
A memorial service for Perry was held at 2 p.m. today at the American Legion Hall, Post 311, in Seekonk, Mass.
On Wednesday, May 28, 1997, Ed Granoski and a few friends were on the south shore of Oneida Lake in upstate New York, approximately 16 miles (25 kilometers) east of Syracuse when they spied strange lights in the sky.
The sightings "started at 10:45 p.m.," Ed said. "Viewed for five minutes. All lights appeared amber/ orange similar to sodium vapor lights. We did not see any structures other than lights. The objects were approximately four to five miles (6 to 8 kilometers) across the lake from us and cast light reflections on the lake."
Ed estimated that the lights were situated "over a small town of Jewel, N.Y. and Camden, N.Y. (population 2,667) on the north shore of Oneida Lake." The UFOs were "approximately 20 to 30 degrees on the horizon and what appeared to be 2,000 to 3,000 feet up."
Grabbing a videocamera, Ed's group shot footage of the lights that night.
"This continued for at least six different viewings at different time intervals until 12:30 a.m. (Thursday) May 29, 1997. Formations ranged from three (lights) in triangle, to four straight line, to five just scattered, to twelve...two to the left, five to the right on top and five just below them. No speed noted--objects were stationary, except for one sighting when four were present in a row. Two flew in from a higher altitude and then stopped and remained stationary. No approach or departure--lights appeared and disappeared usually in five to six minute intervals."
"A neighbor stated that on May 26 and May 27 they viewed similar lights in the same area," Ed added, "Our sightings were viewed by 10 people we know of, some as far away as 12 miles on top of a hill."
Local police attributed the strange amber/orange lights to "military parachute flares." (Email Interview)
On Saturday, May 31, 1997, Rick C., age 49, was working in the backyard vegetable garden at his home in Glendale, Arizona (population 96,988) "when I heard a jet engine. We don't hear many this far north because the Sky Harbor Airport corridor is south, along the Salt River."
"I saw the jet just north of my house when suddenly I caught a white oblong object directly overhead. It was at a very high altitude and was moving faster than anything I've ever seen. It was moving from east to west. There was no trail and no sound...and it was gone in less than three seconds."
"I just stood there, unable to move, and whispered, 'What the hell was that!?' I looked at the sky for several minutes, hoping--and not hoping--to see another one," Rick reported. "What bothers me about the sighting is that it was at 11:28 a.m....and nobody else reported it. My wife and I watched ALL the news that evening. This is a big city (the Phoenix metro area) and someone else HAD to have seen that object besides me."
(Email Interview)
On Saturday, May 24, 1997, at about 9:30 p.m., Peter H. and Chuck L. were "poking around in the hills between Kings Beach (California, on the north shore of Lake Tahoe) and Interstate (Highway) 80, close to (California) Highway 267" when they saw a mysterious light in the sky.
"I was looking south by southeast towards the lake," Pete said. "The lights were at about a 45 to 60 degree angle from where I was."
"There seemed to be some sort of hazy, amorphous cloud of light (barely noticeable if looked at directly) between the lights, as if the lights were surrounding something," Pete said, adding that the estimated speed of the UFO was "about 20 or 30 miles per hour as far as I could tell. That's hard to say, though. Have you ever seen a 747 landing? They look really slow because they are so large. They are really moving quite fast. There could have been the same effect here."
Pete added that the lights were going "west by northwest" and described the condition of the sky as "clear." (Email Interview)
On Monday, May 26, 1997, four adults from White Wind Ranch decided to spend their Memorial Day holiday on a tour of the Anasazi Indian ruins at Mesa Verde National Park, 45 miles (72 kilometers) west of Durango, Colorado.
As their tour finished at 12:30 p.m., "my visiting sister and I noticed a stationary silver 'circle' in the sky hovering below a vapor trail," Mrs. W said, "This is what made it so noticeable."
"It was quite high," she added, "The other two in our party were in a discussion so just my sister and I conferred on this. We observed it for about five minutes."
"Last night, when I retrieved me email, I noticed that (radio talk show host) Art Bell and his wife gave an identical description of what we saw--same day, same time, same length of observation, two states away." (Email Interview)
The night of May 26, Art Bell told his listeners that he and his wife, Rachel, had observed a daylight disc in the clear blue sky above their home in Pahrump, Nevada (population 1,000).
Art and Rachel Bell were walking across the yard to close a gate when he noticed "two contrails in the sky." Bell estimated that the object was above 40,000 feet (12,121 meters) and moving from the east-southeast to the north-northwest. Their sighting took place at approximately 11:40 a.m.
Retrieving a pair of powerful military surplus binoculars from the house, Bell reportedly spied what looked like "a round object, gleaming like a 100-watt bulb. The sun was behind us so it would not have been a reflection. The color was silver." The couple observed the UFO for about six minutes. (Many thanks to Steve Wilson for forwarding the Art Bell report.)
On Thursday, May 22, 1997, at around 10:30 p.m., amateur astronomer Nicholas K. set up his Schmidt- Cassegrain telescope in his backyard in the town of Tillsonburg, Ontario (population 9,404). The town is 94 miles (150 kilometers) southwest of Toronto.
Nick was looking around the sky "to find galaxies in the Big Dipper" when he spied "a giant white cloud and against it as a background saw a cigar-shaped object about the size of an aeroplane, black or brown in colour."
The UFO was "unlit" (not illuminated in any way) and "it had four or five 'wings' at right angles to and along its body." The object passed right over the witness, who kept it in view for 30 to 40 seconds.
"Flew at speed of plane," he reported, "No sound from the object. No idea of height but beneath cloud (under 12,000 feet--J.T.). It hadn't rained. Intermittent view of stars and planets. Close to full moon time. Didn't see craft through telescope." Nick's daughter "was with him at the time, but 'since it was near bed time, she didn't have her glasses on.'"
According to UFO investigator Joe Daniels, the witness "drew a picture of the object and showed it to his colleagues at work. One said it was reminiscent of 'a picture of craft from '60s in Belgium.'" (Many thanks to Joe Daniels for sending us this news story.)
On Thursday, May 29, 1997, at around 10 p.m., Mrs. Liv S. went outside to check the stars from the patio of her home in Fresno, California (population 218,202).
"It was a nice cool evening with a good breeze going," Liv reported. "I looked up and saw a clump of stars in the southeast portion of the sky. One of those stars was moving rather peculiarly. It traveled at differing speeds...across the sky heading northeast (towards Clovis--J.T.). I watched it intently, and saw it would go for a bit slowly...then stop for a sec, then do a jag and then pick up speed and zip a bit faster. That was no star. It was also unlike any satellite I'd ever seen before. With the weird way it would move in spurts. It continued on in a definite north-northeast direction" before finally disappearing on the horizon. (Many thanks to Steve Wilson for this news story.)
According to the Puerto Rican newspaper El Vocero, "flying disks" were sighted by several eyewitnesses during late April 1997.
People living in the Playa section of Anasco, P.R. "reported the presence of strange flying objects over Anasco's skies. Although some of the residents declined to be identified out of fear of being laughed at, they stated that the flying disks crossed the sky in a south-north direction."
"A worker at a filling station located near State Highway #2 explained that one of the objects was circular in shape, extremely shiny, and moved at a prodigious rate of speed. 'It stood still for a moment, and six more lights came out of that thing. They flew off in different directions,' noted the witness."
"Following this, he explained, the strange flying discs fell into formation and returned to the larger object. 'They flew two-by-two and reentered the large light,' he indicated. This version was confirmed by an Anasco farmer, who claimed having seen the strange lights as he traveled along State Highway #2 from Mayaguez to this community (Anasco)." (See the Puerto Rican newspaper El Vocero for April 26, 1997, "UFO Traffic Jam in Skies Over Anasco" by Julio Victor Ramirez. Many thanks to Scott Corrales for sending this newspaper article.)
On June 15, 1974, Tibetan mountain climber Keo Wha Unan was inspecting a rock formation on the upper slopes of Mount Dahjar in the Himalayas. As he emerged from a cave, he "spotted a silvery disc hovering behind a crest of high rocks."
"It was windowless," Keo reported. "Shiny, silvery, spotless. There seemed to be no ridges or protrusions on the craft. It was hovering 1.3 meters (four feet) off the ground."
"Gathered about the strange UFO were three humanoid figures," Keo said. "They seemed to be gathering snow and ice particles and well as rocks and putting these things in their ship."
"Within five minutes after my initial sighting, they climbed aboard by means of a ladder-like device that descended from the center of the thing (saucer), and when they were inside, the machine started to hum," he added. "It rose several more feet into the air, and like a flash, shot straight up and disappeared behind a variety of thick snow clouds. It was the last I saw of it."
(See UFO UPDATE #5, Winter 1980 issue, "The Bizarre Ancient Astronauts of Tibet" by Harry Hill, page 64)
For the latest on the new crop circles in the Netherlands and at Ceska Lipa in the Czech Republic, drop in at Circles Phenomenon Research (CPR) Canada's Website. They're at this URL: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Cavern/3310
The Centre of ET Studies can be contacted at http://members.aol.com/asmorrison. This site has a good selection of material on the Hudson Valley, New York UFO sightings.
Don't forget our parent site, UFOINFO. You'll find them at http://ufoinfo.com/
Back issues of UFO ROUNDUP are available for downloading at our site, which can be found at http://ufoinfo.com/roundup/
In last week's issue, we ran a story on the UFO hoax in Sligo, Eire. Just to clear up a matter of addresses, the Fortean researchers who exposed the hoax were Daev Walsh of Dublin, Eire and Joe Harte of Sligo Bay, Eire. For more on UFO sightings in Eire, check out Daev Walsh's great newsletter, Blather, at http://www.nur.ie/blather/issue/no3.html
That's it for this week. To our readers in the USA, don't forget to pick up a present for Dad this week. Father's Day is June 15. We'll be back again next Sunday with more saucer news from "the paper that goes home--UFO ROUNDUP."
UFO ROUNDUP: Copyright 1997 by Masinaigan Productions, all rights reserved. Readers may post news items from UFO ROUNDUP on their Websites or in newsgroups provided that they credit the newsletter and its editor by name and list the date of the issue in which the news item first appeared.


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Other areas of the clinic help prepare you to testify in court and see how a forensic laboratory analyzes evidence. You may attend video discussions on controversial topics along with an "after-action" discussion by members of a sexual assault response team. Additionally, there are interviews with actual assault survivors and access to relevant Web-based resources.
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New for 2010, the program can provide a special interface for instructors and small groups that are using the program in a classroom setting. Instructors will need to update their version of the program to version 1.5 to take advantage of the interface. A special Instructor Toolkit is available seperately through IAFN.
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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: MPeye HTS-150
Re: MPeye HTS-150
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_rockbox.org>
Date: 2005-12-13
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Tim Schmidt wrote:
> I can certainly grab chip info off the web... the majority of chips are
Then you could just add pointers to that info. It simply is neat to have one
> Is there anything else I should be looking for? I'm no electrical engineer,
I would really suggest you start looking for fellow MPeye owners that are
Given that this is a Coldfire platform, I would guess that you can connect a
You should not under-estimate the time and effort it takes to get the
>> 3 - Start figuring out how the firmware update file is layed out.
How is the firmware upgrade procedure? You put the new firmware somewhere on
If you're lucky, the firmware isn't (that heavily) scrambled.
-- Daniel Stenberg -- http://www.rockbox.org/ -- http://daniel.haxx.se/Received on Tue Dec 13 13:17:22 2005
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One new feature of the iPhone 5 has probably met with more disdain than any other. Despite it's presence enabling Apple to make the iPhone 5 slimmer, and despite the fact that it's the first time Apple has changed the port in a decade, the fact that Apple has ditched the 30-pin connector in favour of the new Lightning port, has left many consumers dismayed.
Some consumers are angry that Apple expects them to pay for the Lightning adaptor. Even more perturbed are hotels who have invested thousands in iPhone docks only to find that Apple has now changed the standard. The Wall Street Journal and The Motley Fool have run reports suggesting that hotels can't afford to invest in new docking stations, and while they could provide adapters, guests may steal them.
In the UK, customers are doubly disappointed with Apple. The price of the various Lightning adapters and cables is higher here than in the US; in the case of the Lightening adaptor UK consumers will be paying a sixth more than those in the US sparking the usual Rip off Britain claims.
In the UK Lightning to USB Cable will cost £15 (in the US it's $19 before Tax). The Lightning adapter will retail at £25 (in the US it's $29 plus Tax). The Lightning-to-30-pin connector cable is £30 in the UK ($39 plus Tax in the US). Apple has also introduced a Lightning to Micro USB adaptor To comply with European laws, so that you can charge and sync iPhones with any Micro USB cable.
After doing some sums: converting the US price to sterling, then adding 20% VAT we get the following prices. We've noted the percentage increase as well.
- Lightning to USB Cable = £14.04, 6.84% increase compared to US price
- Lightning adaptor = £21.43, 16.66% increase compared to US price
- Lightning-to-30-pin connector cable = £28.82, 4.09% increase compared to US price
Many consumers will have to factor in the additional cost of the adaptors and cables if they don't wish their existing devices to become obsolete. In some cases they could be looking at buying more than one adaptor and cable, so it may be a significant outlay. Forester analyst Charles Golvin said: "I can imagine these consumers having to purchase not just one but multiple 30 pin-to-Lightning adapters — one for each car, dock, etc."
ABI research analyst Mike Morgan jokes that the additional outlay is a "First World problem." However, a report questions why Apple couldn't swallow up the cost and include the adaptor in the packaging. The Boston Herald asks why, with a market cap of $650 billion, Apple can't "Shave a tad off their profit margin?"
Apple changes adaptors once a decade
The idea that Apple should foot the bill for the adaptor switch is a bit unfair given the fact that this is the first time in a decade that the company has changed the port on it's devices.
The 30-pin connector first appeared on the third generation iPod in 2003. Technology has advanced a great deal in that time. As Phil Schiller noted during the keynote that launched the iPhone 5, in the past decade much has changed and so many of the things we used to do over the wire can now be done wirelessly. For example, we use Bluetooth to connect to speakers and headphones; WiFi can be used for audio and syncing; and iCloud can be used for downloading content wirelessly and backing up.
Given the fact that we are in a wireless age, is there really a need to plug the iPhone in anyway?
And if you must plug in your iPhone, bear this in mind: Apple has changed the iPhone cable once in the past decade. Macgasm notes that Samsung has changed its connector 18 times.
Why not micro USB
Even if we can forgive Apple for changing the adaptor, one question remains, why didn't Apple opt for the micro USB standard.
AllThingsD notes that when Apple came out in support of the International Electrotechnical Commission's recommendation for a universal micro USB mobile charging standard, many had hoped that Apple would move away from its proprietary ports.
IHS analyst Ian Fogg sheds some light on why Apple's Lightning port is a superior option. He told AllThingsD: "Apple's iPhone connectors offer more functionality than standard micro USB connectors, like the ability to directly control accessories from the iPhone screen, and it enables Apple to deliver a rich variety of third-party accessories."
Forrester Research analyst Charles Golvin suggests another reason why Apple won't move away from proprietary ports: licensing the technology is an effective revenue stream for the company. He told AllThingsD: "Apple derives nontrivial revenue from its connector licensing program. The accessories tied to these connectors meaningfully increase the strength of the loyalty gravitational field, pulling customers into Apple's ecosystem."
The news of a new adaptor isn't necessarily bad news for everyone. A number of third-party iPhone 5 accessory makers are already hard at work designing new products that take advantage of the new connection.
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Kaz'hack - Comments No ducks were harmed in the making of this weblog. 2016-03-22T08:11:52+01:00 Kazé urn:md5:a9f47af44d37c17f59ac5db8d567a80d Dotclear Joining Phoxygen - Kazé urn:md5:c614454833b0972d59f4da67059f8736 2015-03-15T01:07:32+01:00 2015-03-15T01:07:32+01:00 Kazé
Desiderius: ironically, contributing to Community efforts will be much easier now that I'm not a Mozilla employee any more. Looking forward to it!
 Joining Phoxygen - Desiderius urn:md5:972e2f92af27a02e12326f4bb9454311 2015-03-13T08:17:26+01:00 2015-03-13T08:17:26+01:00 Desiderius
Congratulations !

Hope we can work together again with Phoxygen
 Joining Phoxygen - Daniel Holbert urn:md5:463253dafa511f362f1af9fff6493861 2015-03-13T00:20:54+01:00 2015-03-13T00:20:54+01:00 Daniel Holbert
Congrats, kaze!
 "pip install" & "gem install" without sudo - Kazé urn:md5:cb8854c1d5bdaf41fffceb36d34b921f 2014-12-12T16:42:57+01:00 2014-12-12T16:42:57+01:00 Kazé
Excellent workaround. I've just added it to my personal ~/.zshrc, it's pretty neat!
 "pip install" & "gem install" without sudo - lejenome urn:md5:3faa1cbd3a4a99faed044743cc6f4ab3 2014-12-12T15:38:18+01:00 2014-12-12T16:37:20+01:00 lejenome
pip() { if [ "$1" = "install" -o "$1" = "bundle" ]; then cmd="$1" shift /usr/bin/pip $cmd --user $@ else /usr/bin/pip $@ fi }

add pip2 and pip3 functs too if you're using py3 and py2
 Back from Mozilla - Kazé urn:md5:abaa4008ded9b2f351cee427fda5dfa6 2014-12-11T18:10:56+01:00 2014-12-11T18:11:41+01:00 Kazé
Yes, I really hope to do something regarding Kompozer. I've been experimenting a few things in this regard in the last couple weeks, I still have a few tools & platforms to test. I'll write a blog post to share my thoughts and my plans next month.
 Back from Mozilla - Auriol urn:md5:f575e0dd8d48b7d2575e03017fa33765 2014-12-11T15:38:22+01:00 2014-12-11T15:38:22+01:00 Auriol
Sorry to hear about the outcome with mozilla. Does this mean you will be resuming work on kompozer. It appears to be abandoned!
 Back from Mozilla - timdream urn:md5:e4fea3e9dcfe85f6caac0211e01448d5 2014-12-11T04:52:15+01:00 2014-12-11T04:52:15+01:00 timdream
Sorry to see you go. Best wishes.

You are making a right point though: people join the brand and leave the manager.
 Back from Mozilla - Kazé urn:md5:22a493bf23a4a96ac81e71932e43d7d1 2014-12-11T00:20:21+01:00 2015-01-02T22:35:53+01:00 Kazé
Tobbi: I won't discuss my personal case publicly here for now, but I can share my biased view on the more general phenomenon — for what it's worth.

The explanation I got from the HR head is quite simple: Mozilla is growing and shifting its work culture as the project changes (having a good desktop browser is not enough any more). To reach their new goals they're hiring more "conventional" employees, to follow conventional work flows controlled by conventional managers.

My personal, biased view is that non-conventional employees leave because they aren't (or don't feel) as valuable as before, whereas conventional employees just leave as soon as they find a better paycheck. The higher employee turnover is totally expected, and is not seen as a bad thing in "conventional" management since Mozilla's employee turnover is still below average.

To be honest, I find that quite depressing; I'm worried to see some of our best developers leave, and I'm not sure Mozilla can be as successful without our "superlative developers" and the sacred fire that used to power the project.

To be fair, this might be necessary to ensure Mozilla's survival. I believe most FLOSS companies have already followed a similar path. As long as Mozilla can keep our platform developers (= the Gecko teams), this could work well.
 Back from Mozilla - Tobbi urn:md5:c5adc0a08d6c742fb7598a60c7aa94c1 2014-12-10T22:45:39+01:00 2014-12-10T22:45:39+01:00 Tobbi
Good luck with your future adventures and work.

May I ask why you're leaving Mozilla? I've seen a lot of people leaving recently, so that's why I'm asking.
 Back from Mozilla - Nefzaoui urn:md5:42b2d5fec9fcbf9c7dcd3708d40f4d1f 2014-12-10T18:40:59+01:00 2014-12-10T18:40:59+01:00 Nefzaoui
You'll be missed. All my best wishes to a great man and great mentor.
 Thanks for the support and all the help and maybe will see you one day.
 Thanks :)
 Still there - Kevin Sandal urn:md5:2eebee7230ee06e2017822a7ea2601d5 2012-12-14T23:30:36+01:00 2012-12-14T23:30:36+01:00 Kevin Sandal
I am new to KompoZer and like what I see. I can see donating if this is not a dead project.
 Still there - Thomas Michael Hood urn:md5:c42e405131deb8cf3a2845dca4b9cce1 2012-12-14T03:01:50+01:00 2012-12-14T03:01:50+01:00 Thomas Michael Hood
Is the next KompoZer update gonna include Hyper Text Markup Language 5 & Cascading Style Sheets 3 support?
 Still there - jb urn:md5:5c1b06bf43c4824c583ad885ab1ff3dc 2012-12-06T01:33:19+01:00 2012-12-06T01:33:19+01:00 jb
Does this mean that significant work on Kompozer has been completed since the last update, and there is a reasonable chance of a new update in the Spring? Given that it's been almost 3 years since the last update, that's actually an encouraging time frame! :-)

Also, has work on the editor back-end been entirely dropped? It would be interesting to know the status of that project. (I must admit here that I don't even really know how the "editor back-end" relates to the thing I've been most hoping to see -- the inclusion of a simple and reliable HTML editor as part of the standard Mozilla product line).
 Still there - additional resources urn:md5:dc3f6baf855daeffdbd46cae91e2e0c1 2012-12-05T20:17:14+01:00 2012-12-05T20:17:14+01:00 additional resources
Christmas is coming, the Goose is getting fat, why not pop over to my http://satya.xp3.biz/ for some xmas bargains?.
 DocEng2011 - raphkun urn:md5:4e14ddf72fec43f7a79f6bd04a855ceb 2011-09-25T04:01:48+02:00 2011-09-25T03:01:48+02:00 raphkun
Good luck ;)
 DocEng2011 - Eleanora urn:md5:e1317fdd0ab991a48173389c23f6c079 2011-09-21T11:58:45+02:00 2011-09-21T10:58:45+02:00 Eleanora
Hi Fabian
 das gewinnst du bestimmt. Ich drück dir die Daumen ;)

Gruß Anke
 DocEng2011 - bigmeanmikerich urn:md5:a30ad68ef3baadc131a2df7af7bcf53d 2011-09-21T05:48:57+02:00 2011-09-21T04:48:57+02:00 bigmeanmikerich
Good luck at the conference! I hope your paper is selected for the Best Paper Award.
 DocEng2011 - Desiderius urn:md5:703b636c68b8ad6cdfb1c8b7a8b73694 2011-09-19T12:10:51+02:00 2011-09-19T11:10:51+02:00 Desiderius
I cross my fingers for you !

Your paper merit to be nominated as the Best Paper since your implementation of SMIL Timesheets is purely awesome !

Good luck !
 DocEng2011 - sonny urn:md5:45625807fc804a0c3719602b33f9c9e3 2011-09-18T13:14:59+02:00 2011-09-18T12:14:59+02:00 sonny
Good luck!


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I was told for many years, by many people, that I wouldn't survive. There was no doubt I wouldn't make it. I wasn't safe where I was, ever. When identity is based on this kind of fear, how do we move through this to a place of power? I have spent my life trying to answer this question, as well as many other questions associated with the discovery that there are horrific events in our world. What do we do with that knowledge? How do we continue to live, to survive? How do we deal with the guilt of being survivors in a world where so many of us don't make it? These questions create a gravitational center from which radiate the many aspects of truth that make up the circumference of meaning. The meaning is not found in answering the unanswerable, but in asking the questions over and over again.
The nature of fear is to consume. It's like a flame. A flame can be destructive or life-giving.
I have come to learn that my fear has saved me as many times as it's brought me to my knees.
I have brought this fear, a fear I know intimately, like the palm of my hand, with its many deep lines—the palm readers say I will have a long, interesting life—with me everywhere I go. It is with me when I sleep. It protects me and knows me like a lover. Of course it does, because it sleeps next to me every night. This fear sits next to me when I eat, follows me into the restaurant when I am meeting friends, orders coffee at the end of the meal. For a long time, my fear stood outside my writing—I could not even bear to bring them together in a conscious way. But, little by little, my fear started to inform my writing, make it face itself, make me face my own darkness in words, made me have a conversation with it through my writing.
This allowed for a third ghost to enter the picture—a witness. I became my own witness to my thoughts, sensations, beliefs, and stories about Fear.
We don't just want to write something good. We want it mean something. One of the scariest things is to think none of what we do matters. Writing is about connecting—to ourselves, others, the place where body and mind meet, our own stillness and silence that is part of the world's stillness and silence, from which strength and courage and truth and love come in unlimited supply. To touch that, even for a moment, with our writing, with words, actions, intentions, is meaningful. Every second we experience our lives is meaningful. We deepen our own awareness into acknowledgment of that meaning—it is a task, every day, to do that.
Meaning is the antithesis of fear.
I'm worrying a lot right now about being honest in what I write. So much is coming up for me and it all feels so raw. I want to write about it but it feels too scary. I can barely talk about it.
I can barely talk to people who've known me my whole life, who know me and know this fear, know my fear.
And I realized that that's exactly the place to start, so I start at the not being able to talk about it, what that feels like, that place between feeling and expression.
That is part of the fear—and the freedom.
I want so much to be free. To feel free and safe. I want this for everyone in the world.
It shouldn't be so hard to feel safe and that has created a grief that has been inside me for as long as I can remember.
We want to be known. And we want others to be known. We are fierce, fearless creatures who inhabit a haunted, beautiful, scary world.
When we know our own personal fear, it's a weird intimacy, because we know it, we sit there with it, watch TV or read, or do the countless tasks we do throughout our day and night, we sleep, wake up at 3 in the morning, and there it is, the fear, sitting on our chests like an animal from another realm. So we know it, it's like a friend coming to visit, but it's a friend who talks to us about all of the things that haunt us and upset us and scare the crap out of us. And we sit and have coffee with our friend, who's listing all of the catastrophes and tragedies of all time, because fear is timeless, isn't bound by time, so it knows everything about every horrible thing that's ever happened in the history of all humanity and all life and all death and all of the extinctions and all of the genocides and wars, and we're sitting there on the couch, drinking our coffee and wondering whether or not to offer coffee to this friend, who says they've traveled for miles to see us, but we know they live next door or in our bathroom or in our bed. And they know every inch of us, everything that makes us exhausted with fear, just totally tired, but talking with them and hanging out with them makes us feel better in a way, because it's a conversation between a witness and a child, or a witness and a scared adult, or a witness and fear itself. And this is the way we face fear.
This winter, the weather is haunted. We watch as snow piles up on our windowsills and presses against the screens. We watch the weather reports, 10 degrees, 20 feels like summer.
Just as I'm getting used to appearing and reappearing, I disappear again into fear. Fear takes hold of the mind and the body responds, the chest tightening, lump in the throat, thoughts darting around like hunted things, blind and terrified. Fear is not easy. It's not rational and, while it can be attacked somewhat rationally, there is an element of it that is like the center of a flame, unreachable and primal. The need for safety is universal, as is the instinct for survival. When these are threatened, fear digs in and constricts a wider view—whether the danger is real or imagined. What is the way out of this?
When we are in the midst of it, feeling the constricted pattern of the fear, thinking, writing, muttering, talking through the fear we're feeling, then sitting silent as stones, we somehow, through all this, move past the paralyzing stage of the mind playing out scenarios that seem as real as the room we're in.
My Buddhist teacher says to ask, is this scenario in my mind real?
When we are afraid, the lines become murky and foggy between what we're afraid will happen or is happening and what is really happening. It's easy to convince oneself of the worst. We don't know how to polish things up and end writing or end a trail of thought or conversation with some kind of flourish or optimism or something to turn to or lean on—courage is the ability to come back to and be present in the room. We are in the room or park or supermarket, we know and are aware that our bodies are here right now and we can be witnesses to the mind tightening in the grip of terror. Trying to be as present as possible and name things: I am feeling terrified and scared and unsafe. My chest hurts. My heart is beating fast and then it's barely beating. My breath is shallow.
And that is all there is, until the next moment.
The way time moves. On certain days, it dictates. On others, it runs smoothly parallel to the mind, to the beating heart. And we don't wait for things, we feel time as a gentle presence and boundary that moves things along like breath and baking, heating up leftovers, resting. This is resting, when time moves like this, when we are aware of it like this.
Resting in the discomfort, in the fear, we open up space. We see and feel ourselves standing in a field with weeds and visual access to the horizon. We can breathe.
The winter hopes. It is long. I am tempted to pull out the string in the back of it to make it speak or tell fortunes. Where is it that we leave our playthings when childhood is taken from us like specks of dust in the light as the light thins and then disappears altogether? We're haunted, all of us, by this dimming light. Sometimes the haunting has words, unintelligible and in different languages, their sound lilting or suspicious or frank. The dotted lines marking the map to oblivion. The chest pounds. We are all afraid of what might happen, and we drown ourselves in the aftermath of probability—how many scenarios of the Apocalypse, of the impending destruction of our perfumed lives can we view, as if on a screen, before we listen to our hearts beating, right now, inside of us, and acknowledge life is this? Life is the beating heart, the fast or slow breath, the tired muscles in our legs as we walk at the end of the day, the energy we have for those we love, we keep going, going, in spite of fear, of harsh predictions.
This evening I allowed myself to feel empty and spacious, having no plans for the rest of the week save one dinner. This isn't rare for me. I try to keep an open schedule so I have space and time for myself and writing. For myself to just be, in unscheduled time, and for my mind to be at rest, or to be reading, or thinking in a spacious way as to allow new thoughts to come in. And tonight, I was reading a bit and watching Endeavour, and taking breaks to just walk around my house and drink water and pet the cats, and I felt empty and peaceful. And then a tinge of restlessness. Rustled the water a little. The clear lake becomes the tiniest bit murky as the silt is stirred up, the undersurface of the water. And I decided to call my great uncle and check on him in this cold and made a time to see him this week. I understood even more clearly than I had that giving myself this space and not just filling hours with work or TV or social engagements lets what is truly important rise to the surface so I can then take right action. It is a deliberate result.
There is a deeper peace, and a deeper silence. From out of this acceptance as things are arise right ideas.
Reading The Hunger Games as Katniss drops honeysuckle nectar on her tongue, this visceral memory comes back to me of my pre-adolescent body and what it felt like— energy coursing through me, through my muscles— everything bright and new, glistening, reflecting sunlight, bright, bright sunlight, and being excited about everything— my best friend Sherri's apartment, and her mom, who was a single mom, and the peacock-back wicker chairs… I remember the apartment complex we lived in and the honeysuckle that grew by the train tracks and the smell of the honeysuckle and eating it and hanging out with a group of boys and girls whose names I don't remember and flattening pennies on the tracks. This feeling of being in my body, part of nature, and city, being outside in the air.
Maybe what I think of as claustrophobia in a place of fear is actually closer to freedom than I think. I think it is a cramped room. I think it is a place from which I can't escape. But the very experience of fear makes me human. The struggle with all of this makes me human. The fact of the struggle, this medium or median translating dust and fog into constellations— that is purpose and meaning. And does this give rise to hope? Does it create fertile conditions for hope and presence to grow? Maybe it does. Maybe the sensations and thoughts and visceral experience of being afraid and staying there for one second, with the tight chest and barely beating heart and stopped breath, create freedom.
In the end, we don't know. We are tired from not sleeping enough or waking up too early, in the dark, unable to get back to sleep. So we wander in the darkness of our houses, before the sun has come up, to boil water in old kettles. And now I am thinking— I really should replace my old beige kettle. I want a bright red kettle, not bright in shade, but a rich, deep red. We make coffee. This is the promise of a new day. We begin the movement forward, in time, of this day. Time moves and seems to splinter, burns together, when we focus on what we're doing, and maybe we get satisfaction from that. And these moments are blessed and whole. We embody them.
I have stayed in my house for two days because it is so damn cold. I really need to get over it. I need to go out. Then, the next day, I go out. It takes half an hour to get ready, put on all my layers. I have lunch at my favorite diner. They are playing Men at Work, and people are talking, and there are coats, scarves, hats piled everywhere. I see a friend from the food co-op as I'm leaving. I go buy some coffee and salad greens. I come home and take off my wet boots, my sweater, my second shirt.
Over the weekend, I go out and walk along the park and take pictures. I take off my gloves to hold the camera and my fingers freeze. My thighs are numb. The park, the trees, the monuments around the entrance to the park at Grand Army Plaza are ghostly. I take pictures of the ghosts. The trees are thin-limbed, their dark branches bones against the silver-gold of the sky. The sun is magical, bright behind the veil of winter. When I come home and look at the pictures I've taken, they are of another world. They are beautiful, and make visible the line between worlds.
This is freedom. I am completely entranced in the magic of winter.


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The Mission of Student Development is to facilitate the spiritual, intellectual, social, and physical growth of Baylor students and provide a number of opportunities for students to become involved in the University from the day a student is admitted to the day of commencement. It is also to facilitate interaction, understanding, and collaboration between faculty, staff, and students regarding meaningful student life experiences.
The Purpose of the Office of the Dean for Student Development is to provide leadership to the departments encompassed in Student Development; support, guidance, mentoring, advocacy and direction for all students, and collaboration with University staff, faculty, and students on division- and campus wide initiatives. This office supports the initiatives, vision, and planning of the Vice President for Student Life as well as University-wide endeavors.
The Vision of Student Development is to cultivate, enhance, and support transformational education through student engagement, cultural competence, interpersonal growth, and community engagement and partnerships.


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Research strongly indicates that individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) benefit from interaction with animals.
Improved Social Behavior and Interaction
A review of current literature on the effectiveness of animal-assisted intervention (AAI) for children with ASD found AAI to be effective in:
- Increasing social functioning seen through
- Increased social awareness
- Increased social interaction
- Decreased social isolation
- Increased social motivation
- Increased social skills and behaviors
- Increasing safety, independence and socio-emotional functioning[1]
Another study found that in the presence of companion animals, children with ASD demonstrated:
- Increased display of social behaviors including talking, making physical contact and looking at faces.
- Improved positive social behaviors including becoming more receptive to social advances from peers.[2]
O'Haire ME. Review of current evidence and future directions in animal-assisted intervention for children with autism. OA Autism 2013 Mar 10;1(1):6.
O'Haire, Marguerite E., et al. "Social behaviors increase in children with autism in the presence of animals compared to toys." PloS one 8.2 (2013): e57010.


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Brian Wright has not lost a game as the coach at Florida Atlantic, but that was not enough to land him the permanent job.
Wright was told by AD Pat Chun that he would not be retained as the head coach, according to OwlAccess.com. Wright then informed his assists.
Wright was elevated from offensive coordinator after coach Carl Pelini and defensive coordinator Pete Rekstis resigned Oct. 31 after the university said they both were using illegal drugs. After going 5-15 under Pelini, the Owls went 4-0 under Wright and finished 6-6. FAU was bowl eligible for the first time since 2008 but did not receive a bowl bid.
While Pelini deserves credit for putting the program back on track after going 1-11 the year before he arrived, Wright brought this team to another level. The Owls played inspired and loose and players said they were having as much fun as they have had since coming to FAU.
Sophomore QB Jaquez Johnson was part of a group of six players who spoke to Chun, endorsing Wright for the job. The lobbying did not work.
"He's a great coach. I just got here and I just learned this system. Learning a whole new system would be tough," Johnson recently told the Post. "We're trying to build off that right now and win the conference next year. If a new coach comes in and we have to rebuild …"
The Owls outscored their opponents 151-40 under Wright. In the first eight games they were outscored 227-166.
Wright has had conversations with other schools and hopes to land a head coaching job.
Chun is expected to name a coach sometime next week.


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Semper Fi: Why the Marine Social Media Ban May Not Go Far Enough
An immediate ban on commercial social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace went into effect for all Marine Corps personnel using the unclassified Marine Corps Enterprise Network (MCEN) NIPRNET this past Monday. This ban does not affect the personal use of social media by Marines on their own private computers or wired devices.
But perhaps it should.
The ban went into effect -- according to the memo -- because the "very nature of social networking sites creates a larger attack and exploitation window, exposes unnecessary information to adversaries and provides an easy conduit for information leakage." The stated concern is that Marines accessing these open social networks from Marine Corps computers could expose the MCEN to security breaches and attacks that could threaten to disrupt or intercept Marine communications. Further, that information data-mined from social networks could also be used to compromise both operational security and personal security is also a possibility.
While this may be an accurate claim, MCEN security already effectively blocks social network access according to officials. The reason for the ban is to put a waiver system in place to grant access to Marines who may need specific access to social media sites to perform their duties. Examples of those exceptions would include the Marines that operate the USMC Twitter site, the Marine Corps Facebook site, and the Marine Corps MySpace site.
But if a ban on social media on official Marine computer systems is essential for hardening network security and limiting potential intrusion and infiltration, wouldn't a complete ban including personal computers and wireless devices also make a great deal of sense?
The use of social networks puts individual Marines -- or for that matter, other servicemen -- at risk for compromising the operational security of their units and possibly even their own personal security.
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While the scandal over his articles in the New Republic made U.S. Army soldier Scott Beauchamp the center of a military investigation that eventually led to his articles losing the support of the magazine, the first punishment the private received for his online activity was the result of his breaking operational security and announcing his unit's exact deployment date to Iraq on his personal blog.


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Date: 12 Jul 2009
Title: AU panel dismiss false media reports
By Chris Bathembu
Pretoria - The African Union High Level Panel on Darfur (AUPD) has dismissed media reports claiming former President Thabo Mbeki has called on the three Sudanese personalities, including President Omer Hassan Al-Bashir to present themselves before the International Criminal Court to stand trial.
Mr Mbeki is the chairperson of AUPD.
"This report is completely false and highly irresponsible. No member of the Panel has made any such pronouncement.
"Indeed, no member of the Panel could make any such pronouncement as the Panel has not yet completed its work," AUPD spokesperson Barney Afako said.
Speaking at a press conference held at the AU Headquarters in Addis Ababa on Friday, Mr Afako said that Mr Mbeki was asked about the Panel's position on the ICC arrest warrant against President Bashir.
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Sydney, 19 October 2006
Qantas today announced that, subject to the finalisation of contractual agreements, it would move its IT applications support and maintenance to global service providers Satyam Computer Services Limited and Tata Consulting Services.
The Chief Executive Officer of Qantas, Mr Geoff Dixon, said the move, which followed a 12-month review, would commence from November 2006.
"There is an increasing concentration of suppliers with the skills we need for the ongoing support of these applications, and these suppliers are achieving a scale and efficiency that airlines like Qantas simply cannot match," Mr Dixon said.
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Mr Dixon said the transition to Satyam and Tata, which would take place over 15 months, would mean the loss of up to 340 Qantas IT positions.
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Qantas has 37,000 employees, 93 per cent of whom are based in Australia.
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Breshears delivers for Chaffey Baseball in win
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Well done Pault on (re?) reading this book, one I should keep my eye out for I guess.
I love the irony of your finding it, I found my best my cache of Civil War books in Hay-on.Wye, a big contrast in the 'lived' and the 'studied' environment! One question - what were you doing in an anarchist bookshop in Amsterdam?
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Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT): After years of weak earnings growth, this big cap leader is leading. Caterpillar is the largest manufacturer and marketer of construction equipment worldwide, it is also a leading manufacturer of diesel engines and turbines for transport and industrial applications.
Industry analysts see scope for the earnings estimates to go higher, and Merrill has raised their Y's 2017 and 2018 earnings estimates 5%, which is 12% higher than the current Street estimates noting that the company's largest public dealers are reporting strong orders.
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Tiffany (NYSE:TIF) has benefited big time from the wealth effect of the rising stock market. Tiffany is a specialty retailer selling jewelry, fine watches, leather goods, crystal, china, silverware and accessories. The company sells primarily through its retail stores and the internet. The Tiffany brand is associated with a luxury offerings and is well-known worldwide.
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'Richard III' fights its way to the throne : Actor Hwang Jung-min returns to stage for the first time in 10 years
Feb 08,2018
The cast of Shakespeare's "Richard III" pose for the press at a preview held on Feb. 1 at the Seoul Arts Center in southern Seoul. The play runs through March 4. [SEM COMPANY]
Seoulites in the winter of their discontent can escape the freezing temperatures by checking out a modern adaptation of "Richard III," one of Shakespere's most famous plays.
The show is now being staged at the Seoul Arts Center in Seocho district, southern Seoul, and features actors Hwang Jung-min, Jung Woong-in and Kim Yeo-jin. The production runs through March 4.
Hwang Jung-min plays Richard, who eventually rises to become the king by killing everyone who stands between him and the throne. [SEM COMPANY]
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"The greediest and most misleading people dream of being on the throne and nothing can stop them. They don't give up on accomplishing their goals," said Seo Jae-hyung, director of the play, during a press preview held on Feb. 1.
"At this point, we should look over ourselves, and ask, 'Why do we live in a world where we can't look around at anything but goals, what made us like this?'"
Saying that he wanted the audience to comprehend the message the play conveys, he did his best to make the stories as relatable as he could.
Top: Richard (Hwang Jung-min) tries to seduce Lady Anne (Park Ji-yeon) and get her to marry him. Above: Director Seo Jae-hyung, left, and actor Jung Woong-in, right, plays King Edward IV and Richmond. [SEM COMPANY]
By adding trendy expressions used by young people, such as "I feel like I ate hundreds of sweet potatoes," when Richard is speaking how dissatisfied he is, modern audiences may find it easier to relate to the dialogue than other productions of the play.
All of the actors in the production play double roles except for Hwang. "Because all of the actors are versatile, I didn't want them to just go home after they finished a few scenes. And by assigning both the kind and evil characters [to the actors,] I wanted them to fully demonstrate the two sides interpreted in their own ways," said the director.
Audiences won't have to worry about getting Richard confused with anyone else on stage as Hwang fully embodies the character throughout the entire play.
Known for his movies "Ode to My Father," (2014) "The Battleship Island," (2017) "The Wailing," (2016) and more, Hwang was frank when he described what it felt like to be back on stage after 10 years away.
"I struggled a lot while practicing for the play because, unlike shooting a movie which films scene by scene, there isn't enough time to catch my breath backstage. I learned that I run out of breath very easily, and because of this piece, I had to study breathing."
His approach to the role impressed many of his co-stars. Kim Yeo-jin who plays Queen Elizabeth said, "Hwang always comes in first and is the last to leave. The amount of lines he has is really huge, but he does it."
Jung Woong-in who plays King Edward IV and Richmond, echoed Kim. "I believe Hwang always practiced wherever he was, whether he is in the bathroom or driving a car."
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Richard III runs through March 4. Tickets range from 33,000 to 88,000 won. For more details, call 1544-1555.
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Dell is collaborating with AT&T in the USA to promote a $299 deal for the Inspiron loaded with Windows 7 Home Premium. "Ready to Go", a television commercial, promotes the deal with a set of cut out animation scenes centering on the concept of quick and easy internet connection.
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Yesterday we had you walk through he house to close off any air conditioner vents in rooms you don't use to reduce the amount of work that your air conditioner will need to use this summer. Today we'll continue with that theme to make sure that your air conditioner filter is clean.
To keep your air conditioner running at its optimum, you should clean or replace your air conditioner filter each month. A dirty filter restricts air flow which results in your air conditioner working harder and using more electricity that it should be using.
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Peter Pan the MusicalBook, music & lyrics by Piers Chater Robinson
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Paddy and Mick
Paddy and Mick go to London to donate sperm. It was a disaster!
Paddy missed the tube and Mick came on the bus!
A Muslim was sitting next to Paddy on a plane. Paddy ordered a whiskey.
The stewardess asked the Muslim if he'd like a drink.
He replied in disgust "I'd rather be raped by a dozen whores than let liquor touch my lips!"
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Murphy starts packing his kit up to leave as well.
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Q. What's a Catholic priest and a pint of Guiness got in common?
A. A black coat, white collar and you've got to watch your arse if you get a dodgy one!
Paddy, the electrician, got sacked from the U.S. Prison service for not servicing the electric chair. He said in his professional opinion it was a death trap!
Paddy, the Irish boyfriend of the woman whos head was found on Arbroath beach was asked to identify her. A detective held up the head to which point Paddy said "I don't think that's her, she wasn't that tall!"
Paddy and his wife are lying in bed and the neighbours' dog is barking like mad in the garden.. Paddy says "To hell with this!" and storms off.
He comes back upstairs 5 minutes later and his wife asks "What did you do ?"
Paddy replies "I've put the dog in our garden. Let's see how they like it!"
Mick and Paddy are reading head stones at a nearby cemetery.
Mick say "Crikey! There's a bloke here who was 152!"
Paddy says "What's his name ?"
Mick replies "Miles, from London !"
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