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For many years now, Tottenham fans have suffered to being second best year-in year-out to their north London rivals, Arsenal.
The Gunners are known to have a rich history of trophies and success; however, in recent years they have just managed to scrape into the top four, with their Champions League place being confirmed on the last day of the season, two years in a row.
It is widely regarded that Spurs have a real opportunity to beat their rivals this year, with new signing, Paulinho, set to help.
But do Spurs really have a chance? Lets take a look at what they need to do this transfer window to get the upper-hand on their enemy.
Firstly, they must buy an established striker with lots of potential. The likes of Gonzalo Higuain and Luis Suarez , who are reported to be looking for a new club, are out of Spurs' price range and would be unlikely to even consider moving to a Europa League club anyway.
This is the same with most, if not all, other want-away, world-class strikers (including Roberto Soldado).
However, with Spurs' striker woes an ongoing roadblock in their push for Champions League, they must find a striker with a lot of potential who would be willing to move to a Europa League club.
Christian Benteke submitted a well-publicised transfer request and would be an ideal candidate to play the lone striker in Spurs' system. However, he has now signed a new contract until 2017 and plans to stay at Villa Park for at least one more year.
Matej Vydra rocked the Championship last year, scoring one goal every 128 minutes he was on the pitch and taking home the Championship Player of the Year.
Vydra's ability to use his frightening pace to get behind defenders would be an added boost for Spurs to have a player like him leading the line.
While he may not be an immediate solution to their striking problems, at the age of 20 he has a lot of potential and a year on loan to a lower calibre club in the Premier League would be excellent for his development.
I believe that the immediate solution to their problem would come in the form of Edin Dzeko. Although he may be a whole six years older than Vydra, he still has a lot to prove after spending most of the 2012/13 season on the bench at big-spenders, Manchester City.
With 14 goals in the Premier League last season, he would fit well into Spurs' system and would be a suitable replacement for the in-form Adebayor that we saw the season before last.
With the recent arrivals of Alvaro Negredo and Stevan Jovetic at City, it seems likely that Dzeko's playing time at City will be limited even further, with a transfer the obvious solution.
Although Spurs haven't been linked to this particular player in recent times, it seems like a win-win for both player and club, with the only disadvantage for Dzeko being the lack of Champions League.
Secondly, they must sort out their back four.
Last season, Spurs' defensive line-up changed constantly and while change is always expected to occur throughout the season for any side, the Lilywhite's must find a consistent back four who can build the basis for a strong team.
Although Kyle Walker was not as impressive as his breakthrough season at Spurs in 2011/12, his improved performances throughout the year have surely dome enough to secure his place at right-back for this coming season.
Jan Vertonghen's impressive performances in his first season in the Premier League as a centre-back and occasionally as a left-back, a position he has made clear he does not want to play in, have undoubtedly secured him a spot in the centre-back position for next season.
The rest of the defence, however, may be more difficult to sort out.
With the recent return of Younes Kaboul from injury and the impressive performances of Michael Dawson and young Steven Caulker, the second centre-back will be faced with tough competition.
It makes sense to start the captain, Dawson, as Vertonghen's partner for the beginning of the 2013/14 season, but this is widely regarded as a position that will soon be taken over by Kaboul, depending on his performances.
We must not overlook Steven Caulker, however, as he is sure to fight hard for a starting position this season.
The left-back position may soon prove to be the hardest to sort out. With many fans calling for Benoit Assou-Ekotto to leave the Lane and for Danny Rose to replace him, the pressure from the majority may be too hard for Andre Villas-Boas to ignore and will do exactly that.
Benny seems to have different plans however, with reports confirming he would be happy to see out his career at the Lane.
One can't help but wonder though, is Danny Rose good enough? Whether we bring in a new left-back or stick with one that we already have, time will tell as to whether or not that was the right decision.
Lastly, they must secure Gareth Bale for at least one more year. In one season, Bale's stock has sky-rocketed and he is now one of the most wanted players in the world, being widely recognised as good enough to play for any team.
His name, which is often uttered in the same sentence as Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, creates shivers down the spine of any player who has to face him as he wreaks havoc all over the pitch, petrifying defenders with his pace and trickery.
After being named PFA Player of the Year, Young Player of the year and Football Writer's Player of the Year, he has been linked to big clubs such as Manchester United, Manchester City, PSG and Real Madrid in recent times.
Although it looks as though he is set to stay at Tottenham to continue his great working relationship with manager Andre Villas-Boas, chairman Daniel Levy must warn off any potential bidders by getting him to sign a new contract which is valued higher than the one he is currently on.
The news that Bale has signed a new contract will be like a new, major signing to Spurs fans and will finally bring some relief to the die-hard followers who have not stopped worrying about his departure since the end of last season.
If these three things can be done successfully, depending on Arsenal's activity in the transfer window, Spurs may very well have a genuine chance of pipping their north London rivals this season and claiming a Champions League spot, much to the delight of the Lilywhite side of north London.
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Just Life: Who's your daddy?
Fathers come in all shapes and sizes and I've known several of them during my life. Of course the first father I came into contact with was my own, sweet dad. The other day I was askinhg my mom about by father and I was surprised that there was once a soft, romantic dreamy-eyed young man under the tough and stern exterior I new to be my father.
My father picked my mother out of a sorority photograph from Los Angeles Community College when he was on leave from the Air Force. My Aunt Susan knew my mother and she asked her brother (my dad) who he thought looked like someone he would want to meet from the sorority photograph.
Their first date was sometime in 1956. My Grandmother Bess called my mom and asked if she would go out with her son (my dad) when he came home for a week from his Air Force duties.
The first time my father met my mother was at her apartment located on Blackburn Avenue in the Miracle Mile District of Los Angeles. My mom said the first meeting didn't go very well because she was having a party at her place when my dad came over.
"A bunch of my friends came over when your dad met me for the first time," my mother said. "We were dressed in knee high socks and Bermuda shorts and dancing the Jitterbug in the middle of the living room. Your dad wasn't too impressed with a bunch of teenagers being loud and running around so I'm surprised he asked me out on a second date."
My mother went on to say that he was much more mature than her friends because he had already been in the Air Force for a few years. Apparently meeting my mother's rowdy friends didn't dissuade my father. Imagine my surprise when he took her dancing.
My father danced? Since when did my father like to dance?
"Oh Stacey," my mother swooned. "Believe it or not he was a good dancer." After the second date my mother told me that my father went home and told his parents that he just had a date with the woman he was going to marry. Three dates later my dad did ask her to marry him.
"I told him he was crazy," my mom said. "I told him that he couldn't possibly know me after only a few dates."
For the next few years they courted each other through the mail. My mother still has a stack of the "Par Avion" letters he sent her from his base in Newfoundland where he was a cryptographer for the Air Force. He was asked to re-enlist but married my mother instead and began the journey of family man and then pharmacist.
The dad I knew wasn't a very happy person and always looked like he wanted to be somewhere else other than with his family, but I guess that wasn't always the case. My mother helped shed some light on who he was before he smothered himself with a sense of responsibility to everyone around him … but not to himself.
The life he chose drained him and his will to live. Maybe he thought the only way he could get out of his groove was by doing what he did—ignore the symptoms of his prostate cancer until it was too late.
My message to all fathers out there is this: The kind of father you end up being to your kids all depends on the choices you make now. How do you want your kids to remember their life with you when they become parents and start reflecting on their upbringing?
Don't wake up in the morning with regret about anything you are doing with your life. If you are, change it. Your kids will respect you more for it. Whether you like it or not, you are the first hero your children will know and love.
It's not too late to be a hero to your kids. Start with loving the life you lead and make this coming Father's Day count.
Stacey Powells is a local writer and radio host. She hosts the Exhausted Parent Network Radio Show every Thursday night at 6 p.m. on KMMT. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. For more of her work, visit www.exhaustedparent.com. Her column reflects her own views and not necessarily those of the Mammoth Times.

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Nov. 7, 2012 12:42 PM
HONG KONG, Nov. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- MIPIM Asia, the world's property market in Asia Pacific, opened its doors today at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The Honorable Mr. C.Y. Leung, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong SAR Government hosted the Opening Ceremony.
Mr. Leung welcomed delegates to MIPIM Asia which is being held in Hong Kong for the 7th consecutive year. He said: "Hong Kong has the advantage of being the gateway to China, which brings numerous opportunities. We have an extensive information network, comprehensive market system and diversified market opportunities. The most important of all is that we have talents and connections to assist developers and other enterprises to enter the China market."
Paul Zilk, Chief Executive Officer of Reed MIDEM, the organiser of MIPIM Asia, said: "This year, MIPIM Asia features a new Summit dedicated to property investment in Asia, combined with a first-ever Retail Summit with the presence of more than 200 retailers, and a new exhibition area which is largely devoted to sustainable property. We are particularly excited about the new Retail Summit since Hong Kong and China are the shopping paradise of Asia."
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it was pernicious mendacity falsely etched on celluloid.Hollywood has a long legacy of operating as a marionette for the military-industrial complex and other reactionary causes, from attacking labor unions to vilifying domestic dissent as unpatriotic and communistic. Its engagement with right-wing causes is widely documented. For example, it is no secret that the Hollywood film industry used motion pictures as a propaganda weapon during World War I, World War II, the Korean War and every American war since then. And who can forget the lies told about Jessica Lynch in the two-star movie, "Saving Jessica Lynch" made in 2003 at the height of the Iraq war. The movie was pitched to the public as a true story, when in fact,
Now, in the latest Hollywood fad, a slew of billionaire-funded, contemporary, anti-public-education films and anti-teacher films loaded with the faux struggles of celluloid characters, usually minorities battling against the "tyranny" of government schools, are being manufactured as entertainment propaganda.
To read more articles by Danny Weil and other authors in the Public Intellectual Project, click here.
However, instead of being industry-funded and promoted in tandem with the government in an attempt to dismantle public schools, the new gaggle of anti-public education-films and even TV series are being funded and promoted in tandem with Hollywood by billionaires like Bill Gates.
"Won't Back Down"
The latest Hollywood illusion, "Won't Back Down," surrounds the issue of the parent trigger laws which, in California and a handful of other states (Texas, Ohio and Connecticut), permit parents to go after "bad" teachers and even overrule administrators in bottom-ranked schools.
Ben Austin, a former attorney and employee of Green Dot Public Schools, a for-profit retail educational charter chain, is responsible for the idea and the trigger law. He has been a vocal advocate against public education under the auspices of choice, and has also been booted off the California State Bar - ironically, for failing to take a legal ethics course as required for his continuing education.
"Won't Back Down" is a production of Walden Media, backed by the conservative-leaning billionaire Philip Anschutz. This is not Anschutz's first debut into what are now called "education reform" films. Walden Media teamed up with Bill Gates and, not surprisingly, was among the financial backers of the documentary "Waiting for 'Superman'" another anti-union, anti-teacher, anti-public-education piece of Hollywood propaganda.
Then there is the film "Detachment," another Hollywood movie aimed at denigrating public education.
"Detachment" premiered in April 2011 at the Tribeca Film Festival. In the film, a teacher at a public school is depicted struggling with an apathetic student body that has created a frustrated, burned-out school administration. The film fires a few deserved rounds at the boredom and isolation of modern education, but it is also clearly produced to strike a blow at the villainous public educational system.
The Cartel and Choicemedia.tv
Still another film, this one blasting New Jersey public education, is "The Cartel," which USA Today says, "takes on the 'unconscionable failure' of New Jersey's public schools." New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who took the office of governor of New Jersey in 2010, said the movie, "helped to mold for me the final outlines of what I wanted to do if I were lucky enough to become governor."
"The Cartel" is a film by Bob Bowdon, wealthy entrepreneur and in-your face-libertarian. Now, with the pat on the back from the corpulent Christie, Bowdon has become even more emboldened. Reason.com reports that Bowdon has created a new venture, Choicemedia.tv, an investigative video web site dedicated to education reform "the way ESPN is dedicated to sports or Bloomberg to finance," says Bowdon. The for-profit venture will get underway in early September of 2012. According to Reason.com, it will "focus not just on stories of waste, fraud, and abuse but upbeat stories of innovation and success."
"Bowdon argues that new media is the best way to tell the stories about the ways in which the old education establishment is being upended by forces of choice and competition, " according to Reason.
This is all cleverly disguised as the war against market forces and indicates that Choicemedia.tv plans to be an advocate and propagandist for libertarianism, market capitalism, anti-public school-teacher rhetoric, charter schools and private - yet publicly subsidized - voucher brigades.
Reality TV Comes to DC for Teacher Professional Development
Coming on top of all of these gloomy news updates is an additional news flash that the public school district in Washington, DC, has hired a reality television company to produce videos intended to improve the skills of its teachers. Yep, the 80 videos will be 5 to 15 minutes in length, and are being peppered with quick jump cuts for attention-grabbing purposes, polished screen labels and an upbeat soundtrack, no doubt to prevent slumbering.
Wouldn't you know it, according to the New York Times, "The videos, financed by a $900,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, were developed as a complement to Washington's evaluation system, known as Impact, in which teachers are judged on student test scores and classroom observations."
Education is now being transmogrified into professional infantilization through commercialized entertainment paid for by billionaires at a time when the divide and distinction between TV, Internet and Hollywood movies is rapidly fading.
Big Fish and Former PBS Producer to Join the Privatization of Professional Development
But there's more! A former PBS staff member jumped into the billionaire Hollywood entertainment mosh pit as well. Kaya Henderson, Washington, DC, schools chancellor and supporter of charter schools hired Judith Stoia, a former producer with a PBS affiliate in Boston and the team joined with Big Fish, a local independent production company, to create Reality PD (the PD stands for professional development).
Big Fish says it is an independent production company that creates visually driven documentary, format and reality programming for broadcast on a host of new cyber-outlets. Now the company will buttress its resume for future profit extraction purposes and embark on making "teacher development films" for mandatory screening and viewing - all at taxpayer expense.
Hollywood's Sordid Role in Foisting Propaganda on an Unassuming Public
The history of Hollywood and its use as a tool for propaganda has been documented for close to a century. As early as 1914, the Committee on Public Information (CPI), also known as the Creel Committee, organized publicity on behalf of US objectives during World War I. In a 1920 memoir, titled "How We Advertised America," CPI head and journalist George Creel wrote about the use of propaganda and selling the war to the American public: "In all things, from first to last, without halt or change, it was a plain publicity proposition, a vast enterprise in salesmanship, the world's greatest adventure in advertising."
To accomplish the goal of vilifying the Germans and gaining buy-in for the war, Creel specifically "reached out to the entertainment and advertising industries," thereby "developing a complex, sophisticated and diverse array of propaganda techniques," according to SourceWatch.
For example, in his rush to manufacture consent for the war by managing public perceptions through visual representation:
- Creel recruited filmmakers to produce pro-war silent features, with titles such as "Pershing's Crusaders," which were shown in theaters around the country, often to the accompaniment of pianos in the movie houses thumping out patriotic songs. Silent movie stars such as Charlie Chaplin addressed crowds of thousands at war bond rallies.
- The Creel committee also issued more than 6,000 news releases and 200,000 "lantern slide" propaganda shows.
Early Hollywood and the emergence of the film industry were happy to be on board to advertise and sell World War I to an unsuspecting American public. Working directly with the government offered the rising industry legitimacy. This legitimacy was needed after a 1915 Supreme Court case, Film Corporation v. Industrial Commission of Ohio, in which movies were legally deemed to be a business and not an art. This ruling had important legal ramifications, for it meant that Hollywood had no protection under the First Amendment.
With the end of World War I, the rise of Prohibition, the intensification of industrialism and changes in cultural life in the early 20s, the public began protesting the immorality of the new modern film industry. The tempo of the times intensified the problem that the Supreme Court ruling in Film Corporation v. Industrial Commission of Ohio represented for Hollywood: the court decision offered them no protective legal canopy.
In 1922, as a response to public outrage at perceived moral turpitude and attacks on conventional norms, The Motion Pictures Producers and Distributors of America, headed by Will Hays, promised to reinstitute conventional morality into the principled fiber of the movie industry, mainly through the Motion Picture Production Code, created in 1930 and also known as the Hays Code.
As a result, the Production Code was promoted by the movie industry as a self-regulating measure to keep the government from trying to shut down or regulate the entire burgeoning multimillion-dollar enterprise. Yet behind the scenes, the government, in conjunction with Hollywood moguls, quietly, secretly and indirectly controlled the content of Hollywood films using the newly coined Production Code criteria as their guidelines.
In fact, during World War II, the government would extend its ties with Hollywood and begin working even more directly with the movie industry to send very specific messages into the public consciousness for propaganda purposes.
The Hypodermic Needle Theory of Propaganda
The core assumption underlying the use of Hollywood and propaganda films during the 1940s and 1950s was known as the hypodermic needle theory. This theory suggested that corporate media could influence large groups of people directly and homogeneously by "shooting" or "injecting" them with appropriate messages designed to trigger a desired response. During the 1940s, several factors arose which contributed to this theory of propaganda, including:
- The fast rise and popularization of radio and television.
- The emergence of the persuasion industries, such as advertising and propaganda.
- The Payne Fund studies of the 1930s, which focused on the impact of motion pictures on children.
- Hitler's monopolization of the mass media during World War II to unify the German public behind the Nazi party.
- The assumption that people are passive and are seen as having a lot media material "shot" at them, and therefore end up thinking what they are told is true due to the fact that there is no other source of information.
During World War II, the Office of War Information tightly regulated what information about the war was released to the public. Then there was the Bureau of Motion Picture Affairs, a government agency that directly worked with Hollywood, setting up censorial guidelines such as "Will this picture help win the war?" These standards helped decide which movies could be most beneficial to the American war effort and thus, could be produced and distributed.
Newsreels, along with featurettes, were developed by Hollywood as part of an entertainment-propaganda package that accompanied a feature film during the war years to promote ideological adherence to the official war message. These were twice-weekly newsreels produced by five major film companies in conjunction with the Pentagon, and they were, for many millions of Americans, the only news they had about international affairs or the war. (Some of the more vitriolic of these newsreels and featurettes can be seen here).
Movies released during World War II also carried the message of anti-Japanese propaganda, or "yellow journalism." The movies were designed to expose the viewer to the terrible the sacrifices that American soldiers suffered in the face of the onslaught of the "Japs." (You can see a sample of the slides here).
The film "Japanese Relocation," a film the Office of War Information made in 1942, was, a group of Berkeley student researchers found, an example of:
A propaganda film designed to show the co-operation and satisfaction of the Japanese American internees in terms of being relocated, re-employed, re-educated and interned."
This film pushed the idea that America was being fair and balanced; that the American efforts were good for the Japanese-American citizens in internment camps. It is another example of blinding American citizens from the realities of the war, in an effort to keep the public quiescent and accepting.
Hollywood's involvement in supporting gross violations of civil liberties by the government was notorious during the cold war, and McCarthyism was carried out in concert with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), the FBI and the CIA. (The following site contains a list of selective filmography of motion pictures that played a role in fueling the Red Scare during the cold war and in propagandizing the threat of Communism to America.)
Moving the clock forward, even as late as 2008, the movie "Iron Man" was released to put lipstick on the Air Force. In the first three weeks of its release, "Iron Man" - a film produced by its comic-book parent Marvel and distributed by Paramount Pictures - raked in a staggering $222.5 million in the United States and $428.5 million worldwide.
As Nick Turse wrote at TomDispatch at the time the film was released in 2008:
[T]he Pentagon is managing to keep a steady stream of pro-military blockbusters in front of young eyes during two dismally unsuccessful foreign occupations that grind on without end.
Today, almost everywhere you look, whether at the latest blockbuster on the big screen or what's on much smaller screens in your own home - likely made by a defense contractor like Sony, Samsung, Panasonic or Toshiba - you'll find the Pentagon or its corporate partners. In fact, from the companies that make your computer to those that produce your favorite soft drink, many of the products in your home are made by Defense Department contractors.
Hollywood Stands to Make a Lot of Money in the Emerging Privatized, Financialized Landscape of Education
Hollywood billionaires are seeding a new form of the corporate newsreel and using the hypodermic needle theory of propaganda to cultivate anti-public education sentiment in the minds of working people, and especially minorities and people of color, some of those hardest hit by a deteriorating educational system. Hollywood sees dollar signs in the post-public-education economic landscape and the $600 billion in public education funds.
Robert F. Bruner, the Dean of the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, was quite candid in his recent comment about the blossoming future role of entertainment companies and Hollywood: "Venture capitalists and other 'smart money' are pouring into the online aggregators because higher ed looks like a replay of what happened in the music and filmed entertainment industries: disintermediate the incumbent distributors and gain rights to distribute the content that someone else paid to develop."
Bruner just announced a partnership to place UVA courses online, and he recently stated what Hollywood and many who are moving toward cyber-"learning" are thinking:
"Production values" will make online ed expensive to produce. The production of an online course is rapidly moving beyond the use of a stationary video recorder capturing a professor in a lecture hall. It is already clear that there is an arm's race on the basis of quality. Look for three-camera shoots and creative directors coming to campuses soon. You'll need scripts, a production crew, interactive capabilities, and a sound studio.
In the new golden age of educational-technology start-ups, another venture corporation has jumped on the Hollywood chow wagon. The company is 2tor. 2tor's capital investments pay for web platforms that allow students to attend online classes with their professors in real time, but another portion of the company money bankrolls the company's course videos, which feature high production costs.
While shooting videos for University of Southern California's online social-work program, for example, 2tor hired professional actors and got buy-in from professors to help re-enact and dramatize meetings between social workers and their clients. With faculty members shaping the script, the slick videos were said to have brought to life the clinical scenarios that students typically only read about.
Finally, Yahoo Finance recently announced that: "Kaplan Kids, which offers personalized online learning programs for students in kindergarten through 8th grade in math, reading and writing, has signed on to become an official sponsor of Disney Live!, a series of high-quality, interactive touring theater productions featuring Disney-themed stories for families with young children. Disney Live! is produced by Feld Entertainment, Inc., the world's leading producer of live family entertainment."
All this is an attempt by Hollywood and the entertainment industry to market the scurrilous for-profit Kaplan regardless of its notoriously low standards, commodified education offerings, countless government investigations and serial negative publicity.
The Rise of Education as Mass Propaganda in the New Gilded Age
In 1952, the great philosopher Bertrand Russell warned the American public that the subject that would be most important politically in the future would be mass psychology. The importance of mass psychology and the role of propaganda have enormously increased thanks to the growth of modern visual methods of propaganda. As Russell noted, "of these, the most influential is what is called 'education.'"
This is why the new Gilded Aged billionaires are investing their capital into powerful Hollywood films and videos that contain images intended to demonize and decimate public education and teachers. Like their robber baron predecessors, these well-heeled social engineers know the art of skilled manipulation works on an uncritical public with the right hypodermic needle - intended to chloroform rather than inform. Hollywood and the new world of entertainment is now perched on the precipice of huge profits if they can privatize and financialize education. The social and financial stakes are enormous.


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As always, you should shop around for your best deal as many are overcharging for these dolls. There are a total of 9 figures not counting the plushies right now. Some dealers on eBay are selling the entire collection of 9. Do the math and find your best price.
|Frankie Stein, Clawdeen Wolf, Cleo DeNile
There is one caution I should add. The joints on these dolls are fragile in that I've had arms fall out from the lightest handling. It doesn't happen all the time but it will happen. Additionally, some of their little accessories are attached with clear rubber bands. I suggest leaving the bands. I have already lost one leg fin from one of the girls. My Deuce Gorgon's legs were detached inside his pants. The pants are so tight that I didn't notice until I had discarded all the packaging. Luckily I have a friend who can fix this for me.
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Another Facebook Privacy Update Raises Concerns
Facebook issued yet another change to its "data use policy" regarding how the company uses personal information. And this time the update was sent out the night before Thanksgiving (very sneaky, Facebook). The new update led to confusion and panic among many Facebook members, some of whom began updating their statuses with copyright notices that they (falsely) believed would protect their personal information. To make matters worse, Facebook did away with its member voting system, which allowed subscribers to voice their approval or disapproval for various privacy policy changes.


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Each entry in POGO's SEC Revolving Door Database represents one post-employment disclosure statement notifying the SEC of a former employee's intent to represent an employer or client before the agency. Some employees have filed multiple statements.
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The author of the piece, MG Siegler, argues that because carriers can abuse the openness of Android - and in the United States, they do - the net result is that Android isn't open at all. Siegler points to a number of examples where carriers taking advantage of Android's openness actually leads to a more closed environment.
For instance, the EVO 4G on Sprint and the Droid 2 on Verizon have crapware on them, which in some cases can't be removed. Siegler also points to rumours that Verizon may be working on its own application store for its Android devices (they're already doing this for BlackBerry devices). Then there's the curious case where Verizon has made a deal with Skype, so that Skype only works on Verizonified Android phones.
Siegler then argues that these issues make Android less open. The problem with this line of thought, however, is that openness manifests itself in more ways than one. The openness Android users care about is not the fact that they could, potentially, access the source code or whatever - this only goes for a very small geek elite, and since Siegler clearly states he's talking about average consumers, he also knows this.
No, Android users care about another advantage of openness: it leads to choice. You can get multiple Android phones on multiple carriers. You're not locked into AT&T with a single device - you can choose which device and which carrier fancy you the most. Without Android's openness, this would not be possible.
On top of that, it's rather short-sighted to look at the US market alone. Here in The Netherlands you can pretty much mix and match whatever devices you want, and carriers don't fiddle with their phones as much as US carriers do. Had Siegler taken the time to look beyond the borders of the country he lives in, he'd see what openness can lead to.
That doesn't mean that the actions undertaken by US carriers do not suck - because trust me, they do. However, calling Android's openness "a load of crap" because US carriers are crap seems a bit short-sighted to me.


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This was such an honor to be trusted with such beautiful photos (each one more beautiful than the previous but in the end i chose to use only one) and journaling. Thank you, georgina!
it is tradition in our family that the mother of the bride make her daughter's wedding dress. my grandmother made my mum's; my mother made mine and now my mother works to craft the family heirloom dress my sister jenna will wear when she marries this october.
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Someone finds and an open WiFi, DL's some CP, you get the blame. One of the many reasons they can have my Cat 5e when they pry it from my cold dead fingers.
Easy to fix. If you want to access someone's WiFi, you log into the proxy server on that network.
This token may be sent via email, SMS, or determined from the comptuer's MAC address. From there, the WiFi host is protected, but they can still track down the person trying to view the Little Lacy Surprise Pageant.
That's the standard approach used by businesses now - it's too complicated for a business like a restaurant to set up themselves, but they can easily enough enter into some form of agreement with a hotspot operator to provide the service. It's not practical for the home user though, without a company to run the authentication who can maintain the authentication/logging system and contract with a mobile network operator to send SMS messages.
If you don't mind the performance hit, sending everybody who comes in through the 'public' SSID out through Tor is an option...
Easy to fix. If you want to access someone's WiFi, you log into the proxy server on that network.
What is the practical difference between "closed wifi" and "open wifi with a mandatory log-in"? In both cases you must obtain a credential (and thus implied permission) to use the network. You've just moved the access limit from the radio to the wire side.
In general, though, the reason this movement will fail is the same reason why people want it to work. Selfishness. The same person that says "I would like to have wifi without paying for it when I am somewhere not home" has already said "I don't want to pay for my own 3g/data plan so I can have network access when I am not home". That same attitude would result in "why should I pay for network at home if I can get it free from my neighbor".
In the final result, everyone who wants free wifi wherever they go will be the ones who are least likely to provide free wifi to others, and that means the entire system is a self-fulfilling failure.
If you notice, most of the free wifi you find is not from altruistic people, it is from businesses that want to lure you into their establishment so you'll be likely to buy things from them. Profit motive. The altruist who opens his home network to free wifi for others has no profit motive, and while it is wonderful he exists, there is no incentive other than personal pleasure for him to do it. He can't depend on it being repaid, and he can't depend on it not being abused.
In general, though, the reason this movement will fail is the same reason why people want it to work. Selfishness. The same person that says "I would like to have wifi without paying for it when I am somewhere not home" has already said "I don't want to pay for my own 3g/data plan so I can have network access when I am not home". That same attitude would result in "why should I pay for network at home if I can get it free from my neighbor".
I can't speak for others, but I'd consider providing free access to my wifi under 3 conditions:
1) There is a brain-dead simple way to ensure that my internal network is secure from anyone using it as an open access point,
2) a similarly brain-dead way to limit how much can be downloaded per open access client, and
3) legal assurance that I was in no way liable for anything downloaded from my open access point.
While the Open Wireless Movement (OWS - is that a conicidence?) could probably easily provide the first two, the third is a matter of legislation and thus is the real sticking point. I imagine there are many others like me that don't recoil at the very idea of someone "freeloading" and would be happy to provide a service to the community, but if I'm going to face any chance of liability for doing so, or if it's just a matter of being a PITA to set up, then it's not happening. If it were easy AND there were no potential legal consequences, I think you'd be surprised how many folks would *not* be that selfish.
I like the British Telecomm model in UK.
They provider router and manage. You decide whether you want it open to BT's network.
If you close, you don't get access to the BT network. If you open, you get a user/pass that can be used on every open BT WiFi router in the UK.
Works pretty well. No US company would ever think of doing something so simple and effective.
Someone finds and an open WiFi, DL's some CP, you get the blame. One of the many reasons they can have my Cat 5e when they pry it from my cold dead fingers.
How ever, once open wifi is the norm, such prosecute the IP address holder techniques would not be possible. Cops would actually have to do some real work of finding the sources rather than going after the sinks.
You mean like the MAFIAA do with dynamic IP address holders?
Cops determine that someone has been downloading CP, and trace it back to your house. They launch an immediate investigation, with you as the obvious prime suspect. They're aware that they can't prosecute on IP alone, so they do their diligence, and after searching your seized devices, they exonerate you. Publicly, even.
You still lose your family and your job, and your life is basically over, because your name once appeared in a report investigating kiddy pr0n. You will be personally threatened, maybe even assaulted, by vigilantes who want to "protect" their children from "monsters" like you. There is literally no amount of public exoneration that will make the average Joe believe you're not a pervert.
So you're saying, "there are a lot of abusive asshats out there." That's true. Are you going to let that keep you from doing things?
There's no shame in saying "yes, my neighbors, employer, and family are ignorant bigots and fools and possibly dangerous". But recognize that's what you are saying.
Even if they clear you of the child porn charges and expunge the records, they will probably hang onto your computer, and ALL your backup devices (thats standard practice), until they are done investigating - could be a couple of years.
In scanning all your your hardware, they may find that you've illegally downloaded Beatles tunes. Maybe somewhere in your vast legal porn collection they find a picture that is actually child porn (its not like you can distinguish an 17 year old form an 18 year old with perfe
That's easy, and all in how the media reports it on the local evening news:
1) "Child porn was downloaded repeatedly at a local Starbucks" - Translation? Viewer thinks that some pervert went to a Starbucks and downloaded CP, thus Starbucks is not to blame.
2) "Child porn was downloaded repeatedly at the home of a local resident" - Translation? Viewer thinks that *you*, the homeowner, are the pervert. Enough said, no?
Well, technically you're not. Except for the part where you're guilty until proven innocent.
When I lived in a less affluent area, I left my WiFi open as a gift to my neighbors. Never had a problem.
Well, technically you're not. Except for the part where you're guilty until proven innocent.
Right. So why even expose myself to any potential risk when I can just close the network and not worry about it. Sounds awesome on paper, and as long as I didn't have bandwidth caps as someone else mentioned and I was guaranteed to never be held liable for somebody torrenting from my IP address, I'd do it. Otherwise, no.
Not to mention having your door knocked down at 3 AM and being raided like the Taliban because your IP was logged on a questionable location.
You've really got two problems to deal with. The civil liability, and the criminal prosecutions. The first gets you in trouble for all the copyright infringement, the latter the downloading of child porn. That's a particular concern, because the usual social approach to child porn is 'Hang the perverted monster.' Even if you can prove beyond all doubt that it was someone else, a hard thing to do, you'll still find that your name is dirt, no company will hire even an accused pedophile, and your neighbours start smashing your windows in an effort to make you leave.
If I have a guest over and that person kicks a whole through the neighbor's fence I'm automatically liable simply because he was standing on my property when he did so? I don't think that's how it works. You might find yourself in some kind of trouble depending on the exact situation, but to try to boil it down to "You will be liable" is overly simplistic to the point of being a straw man.
Can you show me one business that's been successfully prosecuted for something a guest did on their free WiFi? I'm not aware of any. I am aware of countless situations where someone's open WiFi was used in a malicious way. What usually happens is the police bust down your door, confiscate all your computers and you maybe get them back 18 months later after spending a small fortune on legal fees. There is no citation needed here. I can't cite a law that doesn't exist. If you doubt me, I urge you to pro
Frankly, I don't give a damn if no one's been *successfully* prosecuted. Getting involved in a court case--even successfully--is a nightmare timesink, and I won't risk it.
What usually happens is the police bust down your door, confiscate all your computers and you maybe get them back 18 months later after spending a small fortune on legal fees.
Exactly. When you can tell me that won't happen, I might consider it.
Frankly, I don't give a damn if no one's been *successfully* prosecuted. Getting involved in a court case--even successfully--is a nightmare timesink, and I won't risk it.
Some cops have a saying for that, "you might beat the rap, but you won't beat the ride." It is a despicable way to run a so-called justice system.
Unfortunately, the only way to reduce abuse like that is for enough people either courageous or stupid enough to do exactly what you are afraid to do.
Well, technically you're not. Except for the part where you're guilty until proven innocent.
When I lived in a less affluent area, I left my WiFi open as a gift to my neighbors. Never had a problem.
Well technically you ARE liable. Go read your ISP's terms of use.
You not only agreed not to share it, you also agreed to be liable for all use of it.
When you lived in a less affluent area, you probably didn't have too many neighbors who used WiFi.
Along with liability, I would be worried about bandwidth starvation and isolation of my internal network from those "passing by". These can all be done today, but if the router an easy menu to set that up easily, it would work.
I would imagine that if it became too popular, the Internet providers will start capping usage to something crazy low.
Along with liability, I would be worried about bandwidth starvation and isolation of my internal network from those "passing by". These can all be done today, but if the router an easy menu to set that up easily, it would work.
I would imagine that if it became too popular, the Internet providers will start capping usage to something crazy low.
Most routers being supplied by big providers like Comcast, Centruy Link, Cox, etc. as well as common Cisco and Apple routers, support a Guest Account, which is a separate virtual subnet, Even DD-WRT supports this. You can limit concurrent connections, range, etc. [flashrouters.com]
But you still have to get around the agreement you signed with your ISP that states you will not share your connection.
Agreed. So long at the MPAA and RIAA goon squads are searching out "IP violators", I don't intend to get sued. Also, from a moral standpoint, there are some web sites to which I don't want to increase traffic (such as terrorists).
You aren't liable [eff.org] and you'll probably get a successful [eff.org] good [electronista.com] free [techdirt.com] lawyer [dslreports.com] (well free to you) if anyone gives you grief.
Worried about your door kicked in? I'd say it's your civic duty - and if my reasons aren't good enough for you, maybe you'd consider the optional counter-suits like winning the lottery
Until the laws are changed to annul my responsibility for freeloaders on my wifi, I won't have it open. I'm not about to take any legal risk.
While I like the idea, it's not practical to me.
The laws are already on your side: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/08/open-wifi-and-copyright-liability-setting-record [eff.org]
As the courts have already demonstrated: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/07/judge-copyright-troll-cant-bully-internet-subscriber-bogus-legal-theory [eff.org]
That does not protect you from searches, equipment confiscations, privacy invading investigations and high legal costs for defending yourself. But yeah, after 2 sleepless years you will be acquitted. great.
There was a time when "presumed innocent" used to mean something. Not anymore.
Maybe so, but the hassle and expense of mounting a legal defense simply isn't worth it.
Even if a case is quickly dismissed by the judge it'll still cost you time and money to get there.
Not sure about home insurance, but I know here in Canada that isn't true of vehicle insurance. My father had his truck stolen with the keys in the ignition. The insurance company tried to convince him that he wasn't covered because of that, but after about 6 or 7 rounds of intimidation from the insurance company they finally relented and admitted that stealing is stealing and it didn't matter how it happened. Now if he wouldn't have been so stubborn they would have won and my dad would have been left wit
I am not necessarily going to hate on this, but doesn't the idea kind of undermine the subscriber model of service delivery? One reason we can achieve the individual speeds we do is because of over subscription of available bandwidth, it's not as though each residential customer is actually buying the bandwidth they receive, and so that is how the provider pays for infrastructure to provide the global access they do. Isn't the eventual endgame scenario of this to be in effect undermining itself?
The only way it would not be is if:
1. per subscriber rates were to increase
2. some open source movement to supply trunk lines between point of presences... not sure how that will work out..
Yeah - there's a lot wrong with this, unless some things change. 1) Suddenly the ISP loses most of their customers who all start sharing a connection; they start charging by bandwidth because it becomes the only tenable solution. 2) Your bandwidth is only so high... with everybody using it, you get slammed with a fraction of what you're paying for while others are getting the rest. 3) Your neighbors or drive-bys do something bad and you get blamed.
I think it is not helpful to assume the worst case scenario. The oversubscription model itself specifically igmores the worst case scenario, so why does a different model have to be more rigid?
Technologically this is a complex problem to solve,but can be done. First, the access points can have a guest access feature. Apple and others have done this. The guest access should be locked down by default and not expose other users, or the logged in users, data or information. This is hard to d
Fair usage based on your agreement with your provider likely prohibits this meaning you would be in breach of contract and subject to cancellation, at least here in the US, and rightfully so in my opinion. Secondly, sounds like something the child porn perverts would love to see happen to assist them in evading detection while they prey on our children. Sorry, I won't be participating in this. Ever.
If I decided to do this, I would need to operate my LAN like every node was bare on the internet. I've got fileservers with guest access (for, you know... houseguests), web services, my invoicing system, and a whole slew of other personal services. The thought of open wifi on the LAN kinda scares me from a security perspective.
Given that the majority of people out there aren't security conscious, there are all kinds of implications for keeping default router settings/passwords.
When I was staying in the Oakwoods in Burbank, CA for work (long-term housing, like... for months), I could see every machine on the LAN and all of the windows machines had read-only filesharing on, so I was able to loot up on all kinds of raunchy porn that people downloaded from limewire. One guy even had a bunch of tax documents in a shared folder. This included a PDF of the lease on his lexus, and some credit card statements. Another guy had 8GB of photos of his kids and family.
Shit can be dangerous out there if you're not careful.
Another guy had 8GB of photos of his kids and family.
You don't sound like you were trying to be malicious, but didn't you consider not snooping on other peoples machines? I still like the idea of having unlocked doors and not needing security systems on houses, etc. I expect other people to have a moral compass and not walk in and go through my stuff. I get your point, but I wish you would elevate your mentality to where you aren't violating peoples privacy and feeling justified because they didn't actively prevent you from doing it.
That's one of my main concerns as well. Plus the QOS issue.
Ideally I would have a fancy router that could broadcast two SSIDs at the same time, one with a SSID of "free Internet: password is password", and the other something else. And then restrict (put into a demilitarized zone (DMZ)) the public network from all my private stuff. And, ideally I would have a click through agreement saying that I could do whatever I wanted, but that I probably wouldn't... And please don't use BitTorrent or other bandwidth h
If I decided to do this, I would need to operate my LAN like every node was bare on the internet.
You should be doing that anyway if you actually care about security.
I've got fileservers with guest access (for, you know... houseguests), web services, my invoicing system, and a whole slew of other personal services.
Sounds like if any single of your devices (or your guest's devices) are compromised, your entire network is compromised. The problem already exists, opening up your network would only expose it further.
If I decided to do this, I would need to operate my LAN like every node was bare on the internet.
Just get a second router and set up a DMZ. That's effectively what I did when I switched over to FiOS since Verizon gives you a router to use. My home network is now basically:
(fios conenction) -> (fios router) -> (my router) -> (my LAN)
I give out the wifi on the fios router to family/friends who visit. So they have internet access but they don't have any access to the equipment on my LAN.
A good router can provide a guest SSID that is isolated from your home network, some of them even let you limit bandwidth and blacklist/whitelist sites. I am not sure exactly how strong the wall between the two is but the feature is pretty common these days.
Don't most WiFi routers have a setting for WAN-only access for guest accounts? And also have QoS settings so guests won't max your bandwidth?
Its plausible deniability to the a$$hats running our governments. I run an IT consulting business and have machines with all kinds of malware come through, and I also share my internet with all my neighbors. I don't do anything illegal, but all my drives are truecrypt encrypted and anyone who takes my drives would told briskly where to go. I don't care who did what and where. I don't care and refuse to be a policeman. Internet is internet and only the person who sent the bad stuff should be responsible. Me
I'd imagine that most ISP's specifically prohibit you from redistrubuting the connection. I know AT&T does:
Section 10a - "a. No Resale. The Service is provided for your use only (unless otherwise specifically stated) and you agree not to, whether for a fee or without charge, reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, transfer, trade, resell, re-provision, redistribute, or rent the Service, your membership in the Service, any port
Mod this up. Comcast is the same as ATT, in this respect.
I'm rather surprised that only one A.C. mentions TOS. I was about to, but I was scanning the comments looking to see if anyone else had. In all of the comments you're the only one. Most of the comments were concerned about the MafiAA, kiddie pr0n, and loss of bandwidth.
But TOS is a civil matter. Share your connection and they're entitled to cut you off.
Keep in mind that (with a decent router) you can open your Wi-Fi but route all guest connections through TOR transparently. That might be a fair compromise, along with rate-limiting, capping per-session usage, and setting a hard limit for the month if necessary to prevent yourself from going over your own cap on service.
Open Wi-Fi everywhere actually makes me more nervous for the clients than for the servers. People already don't understand security with Wi-Fi, and need to know that any server they're using can observe their traffic if it isn't encrypted. I guess that's already a concern without open Wi-Fi everywhere, though.
'We are trying to create a movement where people are willing to share their network for the common good,' says Adi Kamdar, an activist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. 'It's a neighborly thing to do.'
If my neighbors want an internet connection, they can buy their own, dammit.
In a world where you can be sued for downloading files based on an IP address, or where you can be investigated for things like child pornography
Years ago I set up a free wi-fi network from my house, and called it something like 'Free WiFi'. A few weeks later a neighbor asked me to stop.
He regulated his kids' internet usage, and they had been using the free network to get online during those times when they were prohibited from doing so.
So I turned it off.
I agree with the other response - that guy was outsourcing his parenting problems on to you. Does he expect the librarians to limit what books his kids can borrow from the public library too?
On the other hand, he could have made life difficult for you being a neighbor and all. I would have suggested a compromise - block his kid's MAC address. If the kid figures out that he is being blocked by MAC address and is smart enough to change it, then (A) good for him and (b) it is now up to the parent to do some
I have had my AP open for almost a year in the middle of New York, and there are usually 10-20 mobile and other users connected. And even though I have assigned the highest priority to my own computer, sometimes network slows down considerably. It might be the "wonderful" TimeWarner messing up as usual, but it could also be some torrent usage which I would rather keep off. Sadly, specifically my revision of the linksys router does not run dd-wrt or any other open stacks, so I have no way to do any custom ma
I'm not entirely certain why the article lists "siphoning precious bandwidth" as the reason most people would lock down their Wi-Fi. It seems highly unlikely that that would come into play at all, most of the time, much less be the main reason.
No, there are three reasons why I don't have an open AP:
1. Legal liability for a guest's action is spotty. Technically speaking, I know that I am not liable if a guest performs an illegal act using my AP. What's the likelihood that a police officer or prosecutor would give me the benefit of the doubt while investigating the crime, though? The most likely course of action is that I spend some time in jail or under arrest until my innocence is proven.
2. My ISP TOS expressly forbids sharing the service. As long as they aren't doing deep packet sniffing (and they might be), it's possible I could set up the open AP such that everything is NAT'ed through a known server. The risk of doing so is getting my service cut off, though.
3. Allowing a rogue agent in my network drastically reduces the security of the network. I could create a locked down subnetwork just for the open AP, but that would be a notable amount of work.
So I have risks that involve jail time; termination of service; and/or loss of my personal data. What are the rewards? I feel good about helping my fellow man?
Not worth it at all.
It's pretty easy for me to add an alias AP to my router. I've done it before. I can turn on CBQ and even have some fairness, letting people use my WiFi at full speed as long as nobody on the password protected port needs bandwidth. Takes 5-10 minutes to configure it all.
Now here is why I have not done that, I don't want a SWAT team kicking down my door if someone uses my WiFi to hack, pirate or download child porn. The overly aggressive police force in the US makes me not want to do a neighborly thing. It a
The proposers appear to have completely missed a few things:
- Ubiquitous 3G, available to all, even those on prepaid plans, makes this completely unnecessary.
- Traffic caps
- Shared bandwidth = less bandwidth for subscriber
- Freeloaders = less people actually paying for infrastructure = more expensive for those paying
- Security issues as partitioning off home network requires a certain amount of expertise
- Liability issues
This proposal may have made sense in 1993, when a high bandwidth connection t
Because I'm paying a substantial amount of money for a 4096/256 connection. That's kilobit, not kilobytes per second.
Download, yeah, I could live with you leeching some of it, but any and all upload kills the download. Are you part of a botnet? If you start sending shit up, we'll both get choked on download speed; not only because of the upload, but also because of the number of connections. About 50 and my router starts crapping out.
What's that? Buy a better router that handles more connections and can seg
In order to do this without exposing your LAN to security issues, and not create liability issues because of the action of guests, it would require more setup than most end-users are capable of.
The WiFi interface would have to be kept separate (not bridged to the LAN), and the WiFi interface would have to be VPN'd to a (legally) safe termination. If companies want users to be able to use open WiFi, they need to step up to make this a default configuration on routers. Sure, those that use openwrt or dd-wrt can configure this, but there's a vanishingly small percentage of users with that skill set.
A few years ago, when I was changing ISP, I remember reading terms and conditions (for most, if not all the ISPs I looked at) that banned the sharing of your internet connection with third parties. I'm not sure what the terminology was exactly, but they were obviously trying to stop this kind of thing from happening (on paper at least).
TFA makes the point that, at least in theory, you can bandwidth-limit your router so that the amount of flow your neighbors generate is negligible. Someone who's driving through your neighborhood and is lost can pull over and look at a map on their handheld device, but the guy in the house next door won't be watching netflix all night on your connection and bogging you down. Another thing to realize is that if you have cable modem service, you're sharing bandwidth with your neighbors anyway.
For me, the big
Some of us can't even share our wifi with our tablets for free.
I still wouldn't be able to participate in something like this because of the data caps my monopolistic cable provider has. It's one thing for me to pay for my own monthly usage, but having my limit sucked dry in a few days and either paying a great deal for the overages or having my service cut off goes beyond my willingness to help out.
one person downloads a tagged file over my system, I can lose my house and retirement. sorry, folks, ain't gonna happen, that port stays locked.
Sounds great.
AT&T currently caps my wired land-line DSL connection, and charges outrageous overage fees if I go over their arbitrary limits. (And as past
With 3G cellular common, and with 4G cellular being sold at a tremendous rate, I'm frequently seeing people with more cellular bandwidth than land line bandwidth. Most people don't need their neighbors to open their WiFi to get high speed Internet.
You want me to do something that may get me in legal trouble--which I may or may not be able to get out of, but will cause me no end of trouble even if I do--can possibly cause my internet connection to collapse under ballooning bandwidth demand unless I do extensive and technical reconfiguration of my network setup, and is in complete violation of my Terms of Service with my Internet provider, so other people don't have to pay their Internet bills?
Ah, no. Good day,sir.
I run mine open to the public with my SSID set to some site I want people to look at, including things running on my local server, so http://192.168../ [192.168..]
Especially happy to do this when out in a cafe and tethering
I was doing just this very thing for about 3 years. I even thought I was protecting myself somewhat because I put a splash page on the WiFi using nocatsplash with DD-WRT to display a page that says "Hey, I'm doing this to be nice. Don't do anything illegal, please." I thought at the worst I'd get a DMCA notice if someone downloaded a movie or something, but it was much worse.
The FBI and ICE (Immigration & Customs Enforcement) knocked down my door, pointed guns at us, confiscated all of my computers, interrogated my fiance and I for a few hours, they told my fiance that I was a pedophile and it nearly cost us our relationship. Seriously - when the FBI tells your fiance that you're a pedophile, it's hard to convince her otherwise. Some jack ass had apparently downloaded child porn using eDonkey/eMule over my wifi network. The FBI ended up returning most of my computers, but not all of them (I probably could have got them back, but I would of had to go to court to do it, and the computers were only worth about a grand). It also took almost a year to get that far. They also eventually told my fiance that I wasn't a pedophile.
It was a rough fucking year.
Don't do it. Keep your wifi locked down with as much encryption as you can. It's not worth it while judges are issuing search warrants based upon nothing more than an IP address.
Rather than have all these individual routers competing for air space with each other, it would be even better if they cooperated with each other to route packets and let clients roam from one to another.
Just like we graduated from lots of individual BBS's to the Internet, we need to make similar progress at the "consumer" end.
The technology is already present; all that's needed is support.
I've got a bad feeling about this.


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gay is a better defender than gallo...with that said id take him over gallo any day even with the extra money his contract costs....a long athletic and with more offensive firepower than iggy....trade gallo/mozgov/pick for gay...
For the record 2012-2013
Gallo age 24 per 36 minutes-18.2ppg-6.1rpg-2.7apg-.5bpg
Rudy age 26 per 36 minutes-17.8ppg-5.7rpg-2.4apg-.7bpg
Gallo-16.5 Player Efficiency Rating -.141 Win shares per 48
Rudy-15.2 Player Efficiency Rating - .105 Win Shares per 48
Gallo has to stay. His contract is much cheaper and it seems like he is starting to become our centerpiece. He's playing so much smarter and better lately and even though having a really bad shooting night in LA, he managed to score 18 points and knocked down the clutch three at the end of the 4th quarter. He could be that guy.
If you really want a big trade, we should go after Cousins. Koufos is nothing but solid and god knows what's McGee is up to tomorrow. If we can manage that trade, it should be a really huge boost. But I do not see it coming.
I like our team the way it is.
I don't really see any trades out there that would make our team better to make an actual difference.
I do...Al Jefferson
I think GK and the front office in general is impressed with Brewer. I could see us trading Chandler for draft picks or more young guys to develop. There's still the possibility of getting a shooter, although we've done better in that area the past few games. It's unlikely, but if Masai feels like our guys aren't getting the job done, we could be a darkhorse for one of the big men on the block.
I can't see this team currently beating OKC or SA in a 7 game series
whould you guys consider trading us back wilson for novak our first this year and white you can cut white but this trade works cause you have the 800,000 trade exception from the nene trade
i wouldn't do that.
but i hope i will wake up one day,and actually read some rumors from yahoosports or some other source about Denver Nuggets.We don't have to make any deal,but i want rumors,i want to start 2k13 make roster changes(about some rumor) and try it.
I actually take back what I said. I took another look at the west coast teams and I could potentially see this team making the WCF if Karl can be a decent coach and the team is clicking then. OKC and SA are obviously still the biggest threats (not drinking the clippers koolaid).
I still think nuggets need to get a shooter though that has not changed...
For once it seems more dangerous playoff teams are on the east coast rather then west coast
you'd get you're shooter in novak
While looking in to the Rudy Gay trade idea I was surprised to see Gallo will only be the teams 4th highest paid guy next season even after his extension. I thought he would be first or second.
The guy that is way underpaid is Farried at 1.4 because of his rookie contract.
Would you guys sign Greg Oden for next year?
He wants to come back and we can wait for him because we will have 2 good Cs in McGee KK/Mozzy
i wouldnt sign him and he wouldnt sign with us...he's more interested in playing for a team that is immediate position to win (heat)...i remember him saying he's interested in the heat last year and now that there is mutual interest he's all but locked to go there...not to mention he'll prob play 5 games before he goes on IR


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Huntsman School Honors Gary E. Stevenson
Thursday, Sep. 27, 2012
The Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University has presented its highest award — Distinguished Executive Alumnus Award — to Gary E. Stevenson, a co-founder of Icon Health & Fitness, Inc., and the presiding bishop of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Stevenson graduated from the Huntsman School of Business in 1979, and while he was there he co-founded Icon Health & Fitness, Inc., a firm that went on to become the world's largest developer, manufacturer and marketer of fitness equipment.
Douglas D. Anderson, the dean of the Huntsman School of Business, said that Stevenson has been a successful, effective leader and exactly the type of person the school wants to hold up as an example.
"Bishop Stevenson pays attention to the individual and has demonstrated that one who leads with integrity can succeed in today's global marketplace," Anderson said. "In his church service he's put his business skills to work, literally benefiting the thousands of people in need he has served. This award is the highest honor we can bestow, and we are proud we can recognize Bishop Stevenson as one of our graduates who has accomplished great things."
Stevenson has been refining his business skills since he was about 10 years old, when he said he started selling programs at the Nelson Field House and at the old Aggie football stadium. In college he soon became a part of the Huntsman School of Business, known then as the College of Business. That's when he and Scott Watterson, a grade-school classmate, teamed up, Stevenson said.
He and Watterson both served LDS missions in Asia, and so they decided to take advantage of that experience. With the help of another friend and Huntsman student, Brad Sorenson, they launched a new business importing kitchenware, tableware and marble products from Taiwan in 1977. Several ventures later, in the 1980s, they began manufacturing trampolines, starting on the path that led them into the health and fitness industry.
In November 1994 their company became ICON Health & Fitness, Inc. Some of the company's best-known brands include NordicTrack, FreeMotion Fitness, ProForm, Weider, Health-Rider, Image, iFit, Weslo, Tour de France and Boston Marathon.
Stevenson served as ICON's president and chief operating officer until his call into full-time church service in 2008. He is still a member of the company's board of directors. Watterson has served as chairman and chief executive officer since the firm was founded.
Stevenson said that his roots run deep when it comes to USU and that he has fond memories of his time there and feels an allegiance to the Huntsman School of Business.
"It was in some of those classes that our minds were stimulated to the extent that we thought we wanted to apply these business principles that we were learning ourselves in a practical way, so we started a business," he said.
He said he feels "honored and undeserving" of the award.
"I am impressed with the progress and direction of what is now the Huntsman School of Business, and I think there is a great level of respect it is receiving," he said. "I think its stature just continues to grow and increase under the leadership of Dean Anderson and the great faculty and students who are there now."
Stevenson was asked to serve the LDS church full time in 2008 as a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy. He was president of the Asia North Area of the LDS church in March 2011 when the massive earthquakes and tsunami hit. He was deeply involved in the relief efforts that followed there.
In March 2012 he was named the presiding bishop of the LDS church, and he now oversees many of the physical affairs of that worldwide organization, including the relief efforts the church launches after natural disasters strike. Between 1985 and 2011 the church reports that it spent $1.4 billion on humanitarian assistance in places like Japan, Haiti, Chili, Pakistan, Samoa, Ethiopia and the Philippines. Some 179 countries have received humanitarian aid from the Utah-based church since 1985.
Bishop Stevenson, as he is called in his new position, also has responsibility for the distribution and accounting of member contributions, including tithing, offerings and other donations. He oversees programs that assist the poor and directs the design, construction and maintenance of places of worship.
The Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University seeks to inspire and equip students to become innovative, ethical leaders with refined analytical skills that will help them understand and succeed in the global marketplace. The Huntsman School of Business is one of eight colleges at USU, located in northern Utah. More information on the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business can be found on its website.
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It's not just about beads, kids can also score a free bike helmet this weekend at the Gasparilla Children's Parade bike safety rodeo.
From 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 18 kids can learn about bicycle and pedestrian safety along the parade route between Rome and Dakota avenues. Kids can use loaner bikes to cycle through the safety course to practice traffic skills.
While supplies last, participating children will be fitted with a new, free bicycle helmet to keep.
Other activities are planned with the parade scheduled to begin at 3:30 p.m. and conclude at 7 p.m. with a fireworks display.
All events are free to attend.
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- Timothy Stanley: Hillary Clinton compared Putin's Ukraine moves to Hitler's in 1930s
- He says the comment was ill-considered; Putin's justification is similar, but not much else
- He says Ukrainian nationalists are more Nazi-like, and Putin not planning Europe invasion
- Stanley: If Putin eyeing Baltic states, which are in NATO, EU, his ambition must be checked
It's called Godwin's law. The longer a debate rages, the greater the likelihood that someone will compare someone else to Hitler.
And Hillary Clinton has done just that: On Tuesday the former secretary of state reportedly told a private fund-raising party that Russian President Vladimir Putin's actions are similar to Hitler's in the run up to World War II.
Her quote (according to the Long Beach Press-Telegram): "All the Germans that were ... the ethnic Germans, the Germans by ancestry who were in places like Czechoslovakia and Romania and other places, Hitler kept saying they're not being treated right. I must go and protect my people, and that's what's gotten everybody so nervous."
Of course, what also gets everybody "so nervous" is leading statesmen comparing Putin to Hitler and, thereby, raising the specter of another world war.
It's unlikely that Clinton intended to gain politically from these remarks -- and they were carefully qualified. She added that "there is no indication that Putin is as irrational" as the German dictator was. But they could indicate that if she wins the 2016 election, America might gain a slightly more forceful president in foreign affairs, someone more willing to engage directly in Europe than Obama has. You may recall that in the 2008 primaries she was the Democrats' hawk candidate -- so much so that Ann Coulter preferred her to John McCain (Coulter called her "our girl").
But was Clinton right? Mostly no. It is true that Putin's justification for intervention in Ukraine is similar to Hitler's, that is, threatening to invade a sovereign territory to defend his ethnic brethren. But the situation is complex, and the historical comparison is tenuous at best.
After all, in the eyes of many ethnic Russians, it is the Ukrainian nationalists -- not Putin -- who are the Nazis. The Russians have asserted, quite accurately, that the revolution that overthrew a pro-Russian, democratically elected leader has resulted in the elevation of Russophobe fascists into key government positions. For example, the new secretary of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council is Andriy Parubiy -- co-founder of the Neo-Nazi Social-National Party of Ukraine (SNPU).
Another creator of the SNPU is Oleh Tyahnybok, a high-profile leader of the Kiev protests who has blamed Ukraine's problems on a Jewish conspiracy run out of Moscow. Ukraine's new deputy secretary of national security is Dmytro Yarosh, leader of the Right Sector group, which regards Tyahnybok as a soft liberal and which flies the old flag of the Ukrainian Nazi collaborators at its rallies.
In other words, in this situation, who exactly are the Nazis? Putin's ethnic Russian nationalists? Or the fringe of the ethnic Ukrainian nationalists? Neither is particularly pleasant.
Of course, the Ukrainian Nazi movement is small, and Ukraine is dwarfed by Russia, which puts Putin in the role of the dominant regional power picking on a small country and exploiting its extremist politics for the purpose of propaganda. But Putin is still no Hitler, because he lacks the German Fuhrer's global vision.
Hitler worked by an all-encompassing racist ideology that dreamed of turning Europe into a giant living space for his people. Putin -- the leader of a democracy, albeit a highly corrupt and politically stagnant one -- simply meddles in the affairs of countries that could reasonably be said to fall within his country's historical sphere of influence. Ukraine was a part of the Soviet Union until two decades ago (whereas Crimea was part of Russia until 1954), the country contains millions of ethnic Russians and, crucially, it has Russian military installations that are key to Russia's strategic interests.
In other words, a Russian invasion of Ukraine is not going to be a stepping stone to the invasion of France. Unfortunately, it may well be a stepping stone to involvement in the affairs of the Baltic states -- which are firmly in NATO and the EU. This is why Putin's latest ambitions have to be checked.
Nevertheless, calling Putin Hitler is careless. Even reckless. As Marc Tracy points out in the New Republic, it's historically insensitive and ignores the tapestry of cultural clashes and political calculations going on. It smacks, too, of the Manichean division of the world between good and evil that permeated the war on terror and led to so many terrible mistakes and so many American deaths overseas. Worse, still, is that such provocative language should be applied to a confrontation with a state like Russia.
We are dealing with a major power with nuclear weapons that has the capacity to reduce the world to so much irradiated ash. The West needs to be careful with its words.
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Office:mac 2011 launched: Entourage is dead, long live Outlook
Microsoft has updated its Office for Mac offering, making a number of changes it says were prompted by user feedback - and we're guessing there was quite a bit of feedback.
Office:mac 2008 always played second fiddle (or perhaps third triangle if we're talking in orchestral terms) to Office on the PC. Despite appearing a year after the update to Office 2007 on the PC, it had a look and feel more like Office 2003 and lacked some of the refinement that its PC cousin touted.
Office:mac 2011 rights those wrongs, bringing with it a collection of new features, a new look and feel, and much improved performance. Microsoft claims that Office for Mac is as compatible as it can be with the PC version, an acknowledgement that PC and Mac are operating together in the workplace.
Although visually similar, Microsoft claims that many of the changes have been built from the ground up, to make Office:mac the most "Mac like" version of the software ever. Perhaps that is more a reflection of Microsoft making Office progressively more intuitive and user-friendly on the PC than anything else.
A big change is the introduction of the "ribbon" interface introduced to Office 2007 on the PC. This replaced the need for numerous drop-down menus, toolbars and palettes that made up the old system. You can turn it off if you don't like it, but having used the ribbon on the PC, we welcome it on the Mac, even if you lose a little screen space. This has been applied across the suite to make it consistent.
A new full screen view lets you ditch the rest of your desktop so you only have the document you are working on in front of you - to help you concentrate on the task at hand. It is a little like Safari's new reading view and we already love it. The same system can be used for reading, with a simple scroll (on a mouse or trackpad) to change pages.
There is added emphasis on sharing and collaboration, with the integration of SkyDrive sharing using a Windows Live ID, and messaging options from the application windows, rather than having to switch to a new app. Integration with iLife applications has been improved, so you'll be able to access iTunes, iMovie and iPhoto collections easily to add to docs and PowerPoint.
The biggest change however, is dropping the Entourage email client and adopting Outlook, so it mirrors the PC offering. For those that are happy to stick with Mail, there will be a Home & Student version of the software offering Word, PowerPoint and Excel, whilst the Home & Business offering adds Outlook into the mix.
Four versions of the software are available: Home & Student comes with either a one-user licence for £89.99 or three users for £109.99. Home & Business offers one user for £189.99 or two users for £239.99. It will be available from 26 October.
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HAUPPAUGE, N.Y., May 12, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- VOXX International Corporation (Nasdaq: VOXX) today announced that its President and Chief Executive Officer, Pat Lavelle will be presenting at Cowen & Company's 42nd Annual Technology Media & Telecom Conference on May 29, 2014 at 8:00 a.m. (Eastern Time). The conference will take place at the New York Palace Hotel in New York City.
The presentation will be webcast live on the Company's website at http://www.voxxintl.com/investors. A replay of the webcast will be available shortly after the live presentation and will be archived on the Company's website for 30 days. A copy of the materials presented at the conference will also be available on VOXX International's website under "Investor Relations", "Events and Presentation" or by visiting the following link: http://investors.voxxintl.com/events.cfm.
Management will be available for one-on-one investor meetings throughout the day and those interested in meeting with management should contact their Cowen and Company representative, or contact VOXX's Investor Relations department.
About VOXX International Corporation:
VOXX International Corporation (NASDAQ:VOXX) is the new name for Audiovox Corporation, a company that was formed over 45 years ago as Audiovox that has grown into a worldwide leader in many automotive and consumer electronics and accessories categories, as well as premium high-end audio. Through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, VOXX International proudly is recognized as the #1 premium loudspeaker company in the world, and has #1 market positions in automotive video entertainment and remote starts, digital TV tuners and digital antennas. The Company's brands also hold #1 market share for TV remote controls and reception products and leading market positions across a wide-spectrum of other consumer and automotive segments.
Today, VOXX International is a global company….with an extensive distribution network that includes power retailers, mass merchandisers, 12-volt specialists and most of the world's leading automotive manufacturers. The company has an international footprint in Europe, Asia, Mexico and South America, and a growing portfolio, which now comprises over 30 trusted brands. Among the key domestic brands are Klipsch®, RCA®, Invision®, Jensen®, Audiovox®, Terk®, Acoustic Research®, Advent®, Code Alarm®, CarLink®, Excalibur® and Prestige®. International brands include Hirschmann Car Communication®, Klipsch®, Jamo®, Energy®, Mirage®, Mac Audio®, Magnat®, Heco®, Schwaiger®, Oehlbach® and Incaar™. The Company continues to drive innovation throughout all of its subsidiaries, and maintains its commitment to exceeding the needs of the consumers it serves. For additional information, please visit our Web site at www.voxxintl.com.
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Except for historical information contained herein, statements made in this release that would constitute forward-looking statements may involve certain risks and uncertainties. All forward-looking statements made in this release are based on currently available information and the Company assumes no responsibility to update any such forward-looking statements. The following factors, among others, may cause actual results to differ materially from the results suggested in the forward-looking statements. The factors include, but are not limited to risks that may result from changes in the Company's business operations; our ability to keep pace with technological advances; significant competition in the automotive, premium audio and consumer accessories businesses; our relationships with key suppliers and customers; quality and consumer acceptance of newly introduced products; market volatility; non-availability of product; excess inventory; price and product competition; new product introductions; foreign currency fluctuations and concerns regarding the European debt crisis; restrictive debt covenants; the possibility that the review of our prior filings by the SEC may result in changes to our financial statements; and the possibility that stockholders or regulatory authorities may initiate proceedings against VOXX International Corporation and/or our officers and directors as a result of any restatements. Risk factors associated with our business, including some of the facts set forth herein, are detailed in the Company's Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended February 28, 2013.
Investor and Media Relations Contact:
Glenn Wiener
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Tel: 212-786-6011
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The Expo foundation and Vepsen association starts cooperation
Press Releases • Jan 09, 2012 13:08 GMT
The Expo foundation and the Norwegian association Vepsen starts to cooperate. The partnership includes Expo and Vepsen activities in close cooperation exchange information, ideas and experiences. In the long term cooperation underpin a broad Nordic cooperation between organizations working against racism and intolerance.