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QSL card with postmark of Antarctic station "DESTAC. NAVAL MELCHIOR" for JAN/1953, very fine!
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Lot #1 - argentine antarctica postal history
Lot #2 - argentine antarctica postal history
Cover with different marks of icebreaker "General San Martín" of 10/DE/1974, signed by naval officer, very nice
Lot #3 - argentine antarctica postal history
Cover sent from the Antarctic base Vice-Comodoro Marambio to Buenos Aires on 26/NO/1974, on front bearing 3 different marks of the base, and arrival backstamp of 12/MAR/1975, VF!
Lot #4 - argentine antarctica postal history
Cover with cachet of the 1977/78 Antarctic campaign, and postmark of the Petrel base for 1/MAR/1978, VF quality!
Lot #5 - argentine antarctica postal history
2 Covers of different size with postmark of Marambio Antarctic base for 3/DE/1979, both with handstamps of the Air Force in Antarctica
Lot #6 - ARGENTINA ANTARCTICA (ORCADAS) postal history
FDC cover franked with GJ.1232 block of 4 + single (total $10), sent from Buenos Aires to Orcadas on 14/AP/1962, with many multicolor handstamps of A.R.A. Bahía Aguirre and Orcadas base, VF
Lot #7 - ARGENTINA ANTARCTICA (SOUTH ORKNEYS) postal history
Philatelic cover commemorating the inauguration of the Orcadas Antarctic station on 22/FE/1997, along 2 different philatelic leaflets with information about the stations, VF
Lot #8 - Argentina barquitos
GJ.5, Paley reprint of 32 positions, printed in blue on opaque light blue paper, VF quality
Lot #9 - Argentina barquitos
GJ.5, Paley reprint of 34 positions, printed in black on thin yellow paper, VF quality
Lot #10 - Argentina barquitos
GJ.5, Dos Ps. blue, minor defects in 2 corners, very fresh color and very clear impression!
Lot #11 - Argentina barquitos
GJ.10, IN Ps. yellow-dun, with ponchito cancel, defects, good opportunity for the collector who does not wish to invest the US$300 or more that a fine quality example is worth
Lot #12 - Argentina barquitos
GJ.11, IN Ps. blue, ponchito cancel, frame lines complete all around, the left margin steals part of neighboring stamp, with a tear at bottom, VF appearance
Lot #13 - Argentina cabecitas
GJ.16, 4R. worn impression, with blue FRANCO cancel of stagecoach mail "MENSAGERÍAS del COMERCIO - PIEDRAS 81 - BUENOS AIRES", with thins on reverse that do not affect its good front, RARE!
Lot #14 - Argentina cabecitas
GJ.16, 4R. green, worn impression, with double grid cancel of Buenos Aires in blue, one just margin, largely compensated for by the other 3 huge margins, very nice!
Lot #15 - Argentina cabecitas
GJ.16, 4r. green, fantastic example of exceptional quality, used in Buenos Aires, superb
Lot #16 - Argentina cabecitas
GJ.16, 4r. green on bluish paper, with defects, good opportunity
Lot #17 - Argentina cabecitas
GJ.17, 1P., with VARIETY: small circle left of Ceres, thin on back, good front
Lot #18 - Argentina cabecitas
GJ.17, 1P. dark blue, on fragment with dotted cancel, defect
Lot #19 - Argentina cabecitas
GJ.17, 1P. blue, with rimless datestamp of Buenos Aires, wide margins, excellent
Lot #20 - Argentina cabecitas
GJ.17, 1P. light blue, dotted cancel, minor fault, fine appearance
Lot #21 - Argentina cabecitas
GJ.17, 1P., 2 examples in different shades with different cancels, both of VF quality
Lot #22 - Argentina cabecitas
GJ.17, 1P. dark blue, with blue dotted cancel, handsome
Lot #23 - Argentina cabecitas
GJ.17c, 1P., with VARIETIES: "1" without period + "CORRECS", defects, fine appearance
Lot #24 - Argentina cabecitas
GJ.20, 2P. blue, clear impression, with VARIETIES: Lower left angle defective + lower left and central boxes joined + "S" of AIRES partially covered + spot over "RE" of AIRES, light thin on back, insignificant in a stamp with so many varieties!
Lot #25 - Argentina cabecitas
GJ.21, 1P. dull rose on cream paper, 7x7 dotted cancel of Buenos Aires, with VARIETY: ink spot interrupting the circular frame, pressed out crease
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text: Pilgrims Plunge is the world's tallest water ride and can be found at Holiday World in Santa Claus, Indiana. This is my CAD model recreated in CATIA V5.The original ride is manufactured by Intamin. The layout is pretty accurate despite the fact that I haven't seen any real blueprints.For more thrill ride facts check out Amusement Authority.


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New laws for mobile phones
As minister for communications, you have been asked to draft new laws for the regulation of mobile phones in Australia.
The laws can address any aspect of how, where and when Australians use mobile phones.
But you should also consider whether new regulatins are needed to control how Telstra, Optus, Vodafone and Hutchison sell and market mobiles.
The most creative mobile phone laws will be published in next Monday's Frankenstein column on the back page of the Herald.
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What's your favourite blog?
There are 33 million blogs out there - and those are only the ones that David Sifry, the founder of blog search engine Technorati, can count.
Here are Icon's top ten blogs.
Agree? Disagree? What are your favourite blogs?
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'9/11: The Movie', anyone?Normally a filmmaker would be devastated if their movie was greeted with silence and sobs. But when it's the first movie to be made about 9/11, it's a form of acclaim. That was the response to a new movie, United 93, which got a fantastic reaction at New York's Tribeca Film Festival. It's evidently strong stuff – look at the smoking buildings on the skyline at the bottom of this image. Even depicting the towers is usually taboo these days. But if Vietnam is any guide, this is just the first of a plethora of painful re-enactment movies as America grapples with the legacy of "the day the world changed". The only problem is that I can't think of anything I'd less like to spend two hours in a cinema watching.
The tale of how the passengers on United flight 93 revolted, causing their hijackers to crash the plane into a field in Pennsylvania instead of the Pentagon or White House – you know, "let's roll" and all that – is certainly an inspiring story of heroism.
But I just figure I've seen enough images of 9/11. The real images are so vivid in my memory that I've no wish to augment them with fictionalised ones, even of the high quality that this movie evidently is. I watched it all unfold live on CNN, and seeing the towers collapse with the realisation that hundreds of people were dying right before my eyes counts as the most awful, upsetting thing I can remember. That night, the familiar scenes of Hollywood disaster movies became horribly real on our screens. (Am I the only one who still shudders in recollection every time filmmakers destroy NYC with CGI again in movies like The Day After Tomorrow?) Now, reflexively, Hollywood's making a fictional version of the real-life disaster movie.
Watching the trailer provides an excellent introduction to the film's very realistic documentary style, the facts laid bare. We see the familiar banality of air travel, interrupted by disaster.
But looking at the film's beautifully designed website, with a map of events accompanied by the warbling of an Enya clone, reiterates how much I don't want to put myself through this film. You can see the snapshots of the tense pilots as they learn about the WTC crashes. You can see the fear on the faces of the passengers, and you can see the hijackers. Everyone knows what happens, and everyone knows it's awful. I really don't need to see that redramatised. I already know what those emotions are like.
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Speaking of falling from the sky – yeah, that's a pretty tacky, tenuous link, sorry about that – I want to pass on one of the greatest email forwards I've ever seen. This President Bush animation has given me hours of satisfaction so far – apparently it's the most popular screensaver in the US. And the great thing is that his poll numbers are falling even faster because of what he did in response to this day – drop bombs on Iraq. You'd think these events would have made the Americans reluctant about airborne explosions, wouldn't you?
Oh sorry, I'm "politicising" people's deaths again – some of the commenters will be upset. Apparently you're only allowed to do that when you advocate invasions.
Anyway, wild horses couldn't drag me to go and see United 93. Anyone planning to put themselves through it?
Dominic Knight
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Saving Private Kovco ... from further indignityThe debacle over poor Private Kovco, our first troop fatality, just keeps getting more ridiculous. To summarise, we don't know why he died, where the body is, whose body we do have instead, or when the right one is coming back. "It seems to be a series of things," Defence Minister Brendon Nelson said. Now there's an understatement.
First there was the accidental death. But then they shipped the wrong body back to Australia, meaning that a military service due for today had to be cancelled. Instead, it seems we've obtained the remains of some miscellaneous Bosnian. What, do they not label them or something? Shouldn't it have been draped in an Australian flag at all times? You can't help but thinkFedEx wouldn't have stuffed it up like this.
Then it emerged the initial explanation for his death – that he was cleaning his gun – was wrong. It had always sounded fishy – he was a weapons expert, an elite sniper who'd used guns all his life. And although I've never handled one, even I would not be so dumb as to try cleaning a gun when it's loaded.
Brendan Nelson wasn't able to explain how he actually died on radio today, but promised it wouldn't be covered up. How reassuring.
All he could tell us is "It was near him in his vicinity and he made some kind of movement which suggests that it discharged." If you can make any sense of that, please explain it for the rest of us who are unable to decode bureaucratese. Sure, he made a movement that would indicate it had discharged. It's called being shot. But why? And how?
Now, the Herald reports that a public holiday in Kuwait may cause additional delays – a combination of hopelessness by the contractors (there's that famed efficiency of the private sector again) and a Muslim public holiday. Farcical.
In an attempt to avoid even further embarrassment, John Howard has offered to send his private plane to retrieve the casket, but Mrs Kovco has understandably turned down this sort of VIP fuss.
Even more surprising than all these stuff-ups, though, is that a fatality hasn't happened sooner. The US has lost well over a thousand troops since the war began, so for Australia's military to have avoided any for three years really is remarkable. More than that, their survival for so long in the maelstrom of random death that is Operation Iraqi F**k-up begs the question of what our troops have actually been doing. Have they somehow found the bit of Iraq where the rightfully dissatisfied locals express their anger not by blowing people up, but writing scathing letters to the editor?
I've always had the impression that our limited troop presence was brilliantly designed to avoid fatalities, as if Howard had struck a deal with the White House. We seem to have only sent a combination of logistical support and hardarse Special Forces troops who were so well-trained and sported such fancy gear that none of them got killed. A clever bit of negotiation.
So if we have very few troops and they're largely out of harm's way, why are they there? It's about politics, of course. Primarily it's about the US being able to call everything "Coalition", rather than "American". It's a fig-leaf to hide the unilateralism of the decision. In that sense, even a single Aussie troop whose only job was to get maggered in the finest pub in Basra would be invaluable to the Americans.
Since this whole caper was their idea, they're the ones who've had to carry the heavy lifting and all the casualties. And it's Bush who's being hammered in the polls. (Well, Howard's being hammered over AWB, but that's an entirely separate Iraq-based disaster.) Seems fair enough.
Except for poor Private Kovco and his family, of course. Let's hope they understand how important it was that Australia participate in an ill-conceived war in a country on the other side of the world which had no bearing whatsoever on Australia's national security.
The thing is, our commitment in Iraq is actually essential for Australia's security. Not because of any threat from Saddam's regime, of course even Tony Blair surely doesn't believe all that WMD bollocks anymore. But our nation's self-defence relies entirely on sucking up to America. That's why we're still in Iraq, and that, sadly, is why Private Kovco is coming home. Well, once they find him.
Dominic Knight
Image supposedly of Pvt Kovco's coffin supposedly en route to Kuwait. Supposedly.
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Lest we forget, so why do we keep forgetting?
Its easy for young Australians to forget that yesterday was about more than biscuits, two-up and a day off work. The city was clogged with elderly men in their Sunday best, wearing freshly polished medals shiny trinkets that seem hardly enough to recognise such bravery.
Still, its a more dignified way of commemorating their sacrifices than a shabby old RSL club.
We dont revere much in Australia, but were right to honour our veterans for enduring unimaginable horrors on our behalf. I find it impossible to relate to being conscripted to risk death for my country.
How would my apathetic, self-absorbed generation cope with going and getting shot at on a beach in Turkey when we find it almost too much effort even to vote, except in Big Brother?
Our national obsession with a military disaster seems a more accurate understanding of the nature of war than countries which are hung up on some ancient victory. With Gallipoli seared on our consciousness, Australians, above other nations, should be pacifists.
But now our country has gone to war for no good reason, thanks to the Bush doctrine of pre-emptive war. The CIA has revealed the White House knew there were no weapons of mass destruction, but the hawks went ahead anyway thinking the horrors of war could be avoided with modern technology.
But that only happens when you go to war on your PlayStation. George W. Bush went to extreme lengths to avoid Vietnam, hiding out in the Texas National Guard; Dick Cheney got several deferments; but countless thousands of Iraqis and Coalition troops havent been so lucky. Try telling the family of the young Australian soldier who just died in Iraq that the mission was accomplished years ago.
The true lesson of the Anzacs is not that Australians are brave in war, but that we should do our utmost to avoid situations where they need to be. If they must go, we should follow the restrained Colin Powell doctrine that was disastrously lacking in both Gallipoli and in Iraq today, and have clearly defined, realistic objectives and an exit strategy.
Because war, above all, is inevitably a waste. And even though we all solemnly said Lest we forget yesterday, the sad fact is that our complicity in inflicting an unnecessary war on Iraq shows that we have, in fact, forgotten.
Dominic Knight
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Should we carry an ID card?
Australians will carry a computerised ID card if intelligence agencies have their way.
Do we need a card?
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Invent a new religion
You have been commissioned to invent an innovative 21st century religion that solves the many problems facing the world's current creeds.
Your religion can have any number of novel approaches, but it must promote harmony among people from disparate cultures.
What is your religion's name and what are its commandments?
A selection of the best commandments will apear in next Monday's Frankenstein column in The Sydney Morning Herald.
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Michelle, still belle...Michelle Leslie's back on the catwalk in the skimpy underwear for which she's famous. (Which was greeted by the SMH website, of course, with a celebratory photo gallery and video.) It's funny – Michelle only ever seems to be pictured in two kinds of clothing – burqas or skimpy swimwear. It must be really tough for her to know which to go with when she gets dressed in the morning.
Now, I do agree that she's suffered a lot. I wouldn't wish even three months in a Bali prison on anyone – and given the sentences for the most recent Bali bombers, Indonesian courts feel the same way. What with all the doubt over whether the drugs were hers, she certainly has had terrible luck. As Kate Moss found, it's a big shock when models get busted with drugs, even when they're snorting them themselves. They generally get to operate in a pleasant moral bubble because they're beautiful, and it must be difficult to cope when that's burst. Plus, she's probably really nice. And the media's picked on her lots. And John Howard did too. And she can't really find work at the moment. The poor dear.
Well, tough. Models have it so good that this is one of the few places where the tall poppy syndrome actually seems justifiable. These are people who get paid a fortune just to show up and be beautiful. We have pretty much no control over our looks, so the only bit of their jobs that models actually have any input on is the showing up part. No wonder we resent them.
It's natural to be jealous of models. These, after all, are people whose job involves trying on beautiful clothes and walking. Who always get admitted ahead of us in nightclub queues. Who get any man they want. Who earn fabulous money for essentially nothing. Who get to swan around the world while the rest of us have to bust our guts working. So when one model gets in trouble, when one of the alpha pack shows a sign of weakness, is there any wonder that the rest of us descend like a pack of vultures?
If she'd had a regular job, if she'd been on struggle street, I'm sure we would have been more sympathetic. Look how ape everyone went over Schapelle – almost every article stressed how beautiful she was, and how she was a beauty student. I'd say she had lots more to learn about putting on makeup subtlly, but then again I haven't studied the art the way she has. If Michelle had not been a model, or even if she hadn't pulled the burqa stunt when there were so many photos around of her in undies and body paint, she'd be a national hero. Channel Nine would even have held a second embarrassing people's inquiry that would have exonerated her via worm. And you can't get fairer than that.
Michelle used to have all the privileges of model status without much of the downside of fame. Now, she has to deal with a degree of infamy, which will wear off slowly. They're the cards. But I reckon the hand she's been dealt is still pretty darn good. (And judging by the photos, the rest of her's held up alright as well.) As Kate Moss proved, scandals are temporary, but hotness is permanent.
Dominic Knight
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Pro post modern?
Does post-modern literature have a place in the school syllabus? What do you regard as post modern literature?
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Bad cinema experiences
We have listed our seven deadly cinema sins, but what is the worst thing to have happened to you at the movies? Share your bad experiences with us.
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Fine, but what happens when Nauru goes under?
John Howard is caught between Indonesia and his own bleeding-heart back bench on the issue of mandatory detention of asylum seekers. Bruce Baird, Petro Georgiou and Co are expressing inconveniently principled objections to the idea of shipping everyone off to Nauru. And Indonesia, the country that brought us the Dili massacre, is outraged at the very idea that persecution might be occurring in Papua. John Howard must surely be tempted to banish 42 of his backbenchers to Indonesia as a swap.
Mandatory detention policy is a difficult balancing act. We need to keep the Indonesian Government happy because it stops the boats coming, and also the Nauruans, because they lock up the ones who get through.
However, this involves vast expense as well as human rights compromises unforeseen by the people who devised the decades-old refugee conventions.
Given all this inconvenience, it's no wonder we're so reluctant to sign any more international treaties.
Fortunately, our Government is making real headway on the underlying causes. The best long-term solution to the refugee influx is improving conditions in the countries of origin, as we've done so brilliantly in Iraq and Afghanistan. In both those countries, the threat of being slaughtered by the government has been almost entirely alleviated. And while it's been replaced by a much greater threat of being randomly slaughtered by insurgents, that, happily, is not grounds for seeking refugee status.
The alternative approach is to make Australia a less desirable place to live. WorkChoices means unskilled migrants now face a choice between a sweatshop in their country of origin and a sweatshop in Australia. Which makes being locked up on a Pacific island a relatively attractive proposition.
And thanks to global warming, of course, any Pacific solution can only be temporary. Tuvalu has filed environmental refugee applications for its entire population as it becomes submerged. Australia, funnily enough, was unsympathetic. Even our Nauruan friends have been talking with us about mass resettlement.
So, bizarrely, we are detaining asylum seekers on an island whose entire population is likely to become refugees. They must be hoping our regime will have relaxed significantly by the time they need to use it.
Ultimately, the question must be whether we're comfortable with locking up children. And of course, we aren't. It's so much easier - and, conveniently, less visible - to pay the Nauruan Government to do it instead.
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The unquiet AmericansTheir culture may dominate the world, but there's nothing like meeting American tourists overseas to give you a glowing sense of superiority. Because everyone was away from their desks yesterday stuffing their faces with chocolate, you may have missed a great opportunity to feel smug in yesterday's Herald. It seems that even the US State Department now recognises the problem, and even more surprisingly, wants to do something about it.
They've released a sensible checklist of suggestions under the slogan "Help your country while you travel for your company." And given the irritating patriotism that surely tops anyone's list of things they hate American travellers, an appeal to that overdeveloped sense of national duty may just work.
The suggestions are pretty sensible, including "Think a little locally: Try to find a few topics that are important in the local popular culture. Remember, most people in the world have little or no interest in the World Series or the Super Bowl."
I love this, because it highlights how arrogantly stupid it is to call a domestic competition the "World Series". Much as they arrogantly refer to the NBA champions as the "world champions". I think what makes us all most angry may be the way that America is that it simultaneously dominates the world while having not the slightest bit of interest in it.
Can you imagine an Aussie rabbiting on about AFL to foreigners, assuming they'll be interested in it? Although our problem's opposite – we're keenly aware of most of the rest of the world, and how very far we are from it.
I think the list, though, can be summarised in one simple rule, which is unfortunately anathema to anyone raised on Oprah. This list is basically telling Americans: don't be yourself.
Anyway, the website about all this is just as funny, actually. How do they propose that all this be implemented? "Designate an executive to attend BDA roundtable discussions where best practices can be shared, collective actions discussed and new tactics devised." I haven't been to no roundtable, but surely stopping speaking in business-ese like that has to be a great start for improving communication abroad.
But if they're serious about improving America's image abroad, they need to greatly expand the list of don'ts for their travellers.
Other countries have different food from ours: Some countries do not have the delicious treats of modern America. Some nations do not even have ready supplies of spray-on cheese. And even though McDonald's and KFC is everywhere, residents of foreign countries may want you to eat at one of their unusual ethnic restaurants – and yes, there are foreign foods other than Tex-Mex. Eat a small amount then go for a burger later.
Other nations eat less (not applicable for visits to Australia): This may be foreigners are, in general, less fat. Therefore, what you perceive as a starter may actually be a main course. Don't comment on this. Just feel quietly smug that your land is so much richer than theirs.
Respect other people's religions: When you see a Palestinian wedding party, try not to bomb it.
Be conscious of cultural differences: In the rest of the world, for instance, Deuce Bigalow is simply not funny. Nor is Adam Sandler.
Free speech is important, but not universal: This might be difficult for you to understand, but not everyone thinks free speech at all times is good. You may find yourself better able to understand this if you ask any foreigner their honest opinion of President Bush.
Read up on your destination: A bit of research before you go can save a lot of hassle. For example, you might want to check on whether a nation will welcome an invading force with "garlands of flowers" or a prolonged and deadly insurgency.
Not everybody hates the French: You will be fine in England, but minimise your use of the phrase "cheese-eating surrender monkeys". Be aware that this will go down particularly badly on visits to France.
Make a token effort to speak other languages: Your accent will be so appalling that the foreigners will gladly converse with you in English just to stop you massacring their native tongue.
Not everyone is glad of America's military presence: As strange as this may seem, some countries view American troops as sinister rather than reassuring. Take for instance the residents of Okinawa, who are strangely against American troops just because our base totally dominates their island and the troops have committed a whole bunch of violent crimes over the years.
Try to understand of "irony": This is a tough one, but the rest of the world often doesn't mean what it says, and in fact is sarcastically saying the opposite to what they actually think. For instance, when the characters on The Simpsons patriotically chant "USA, USA", this is a coded ironic message to the rest of the world that the idea of mindlessly chanting "USA, USA" is stupid. And yes, they should be arrested for doing that.
Add your own suggestions and I'll email the list to "Business for Diplomatic Action." I'm sure they'll reply abusively. Will they never learn?
Dominic Knight
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Turkey for breakfast, anyone?
Maybe Steve Liebmann's bitter, but he's right. The Today show has become a breakfast horror story on par with The Exorcist. One can only assume Nine executives are still on the turps at 7am. Honestly, Eddie, are you watching what we're watching (or not watching, if Today's latest ratings are any guide)?
Let's take the team one-by-one. Stefanovic is suave but callow - and was always a strange choice to replace Liebmann for a network that prides itself on gravitas and experience. He's fine when he sticks to the script, but when he goofs around, it's unbearable.
Jessica Rowe's unfortunate giggling - even during serious stories - has been noted elsewhere. She's improved of late, but suffice to say, things are not working out. And her chemistry with Stefanovic is worse than a bad marriage - they're perenially talking over each other and trying to get the last word.
The support cast are better. Richard Wilkins is professional, ditto Cameron Williams - although one can understand why he's looking grimmer than an undertaker these days. And Sharryn Ghidella is, well, nice. Then again, great atrocities have been committed throughout history when nice people sat around and did nothing. But none worse than Today.
I'm a big fan of Stevie Jacobs - he's terrific. Still, it's asking a bit much for the perky little fella to carry the whole shebang when he's hanging upside down from a tree in Wangaratta.
Everything about the new Today stinks. They've even removed the bar of breaking news that used to scroll down the bottom: an instant invitation to switch to Sunrise if you've just woken up and want the overnight cricket score or latest figures from Newspoll.
More fundamentally, Liebmann's analysis is spot-on. Instead of keeping faith with Nine's authoritative, hard-hitting news-and-current-affairs formula, Today has dived down-market in a bid to outdo Sunrise with touchy-feely segments and forced repartee. In doing so, Nine has damaged its own brand - with the ratings carnage carrying right across to the important 6pm to 7pm timeslot.
The result is a Today team that seem chronically paralysed and unsure of themselves. A once formidable show is now excruciating. And for viewers the equation is simple: why watch an imitation when you can watch the real thing?
If ever there was material for a new series of the ABC spoof Frontline, this is it.
Alan Mascarenhas
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Take your best shot
Dick van Dyke had it: "Is that your head or is your neck blowing bubbles?"
Oscar Wilde had it: "You're a peacock in everything but beauty."
Cynthia Heimel still has it: "If you can't live without me, why aren't you dead?"
Creative insults are a lost art.
Post your best insults without using profanity. Or tell us about your snappiest answer to a stupid question.
Don't forget to source your quote if possible.
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James Blunt - ode to my broken heart
Such a sunny land, this Australia. So blessed are its lovers, swimming together in eternal light. One is led to ponder what churning streams of passion she must embrace beneath her dusts. Alas, this cruel life that wrenches happiness from me. If I could but hold a love as timeless as this land! Ah, but the comforts of this world, they are not the soldier's lot. And so I tremor, slightly hysterically: goodbye, my lover! Goodbye, my friend!
Still, I battle on. Centuries of warrior blood cannot be denied, though its cold flow sours all pleasure yet. The tattered spirit of the sorrowful can but sully that it reveres. Oh Tara, oh Camilla, oh Petra, oh Mischa! It wasn't me that razed our love but the demons within. Creatures that marrow the bones of the soldier ... the sights that gloom every light, the sounds that mute every music, the smells that befoul every rose.
Or, to put it another way, I saw your face in a crowded place and I didn't know what to do.
But a man must overcome. He must rescue the light, the music, the sweet sweet rose within. A soldier might know the worst of man but he knows too how to fight - for that which uplifts, for that which overcomes. For love.
Yes. It was not the tank but my guitar strapped to its side that armed me for the conflict in Kosovo. Music, emotion, honesty - these are the true weapons, cannonry against which all defences are rendered useless. It is with these that the battle must be fought. Oh love's frightful spear, I beg you yet to pierce me through!
Then again, I can't help but think, maybe all the girls I've known were right. Maybe silent, longing stares from a gnome with a high-pitched voice really are a little creepy? Maybe, actually speaking to them could have helped forge a relationship?
Hmm ... doesn't seem very romantic.
Reflections of James Blunt, as imagined by Glen Green.
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Iran was always the target - Bush just got the spelling wrong
Never assume things can't get worse in the Middle East. Iraq's such a disaster that even Condoleezza Rice admits the US made "thousands of mistakes" - an underestimate, surely. Meanwhile, Palestine has been taken over by that happy bunch of pacifists, Hamas. But that's nothing compared to what the Bush Administration has in store.
Seymour Hersh, writing in The New Yorker, says the White House plans to invade Iran to stop it from developing nuclear weapons. And while the report has been played down by the administration, it also played down Hersh's last major exclusive -Abu Ghraib.
Some reassurance has been given by British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, who described the idea as "nuts". Yes, but so was invading Iraq without any plan for long-term stability and that didn't dissuade them.
One of Hersh's sources says Bush has been focusing on Iran since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 - fortunately for Osama bin Laden - and that the President thinks "saving Iran is going to be his legacy". Well, it certainly isn't going to be saving Iraq.Second-term presidents are always obsessed with their legacy and since Bush's is likely to be "lame-duck president who launched a catastrophic invasion that led to the deaths of thousands of American troops and countless Iraqis", I'd be desperately hunting for a fresh concept as well.
Of course, it shouldn't be necessary to invade Iran in the first place, if the damned Iranians had just followed the script. If you remember, we were promised that Iraq was going to shine the beacon of democracy across the region and spark spontaneous regime change around the Middle East. And indeed Iraq is shining a beacon - it's just unfortunate that it's a warning beacon.
This latest crackpot nightmare is apparently part of Bush's "Messianic" vision of his leadership and appropriately so. Sparking a conflict that might involve nuclear weapons could well bring about the end of the world. Let's hope the American voters indulge his messiah complex - and crucify him in the mid-term elections.
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Girl, you'll be a woman too soonWell, after the demise of my last post, I think I'll stick something that's always safe ground for SMH bloggers: dating. Specifically, a Queensland group (of course) that wants to stick a ban on minors dating people who are more than 5 years older than them. What do you think? Have you ever been in a relationship like this? Or has one of your friends? Or would you like to be? How old is too old? How young is too young? So many interesting questions. If we're going to pass a law like that, though, let's do it immediately. Before the Rolling Stones gig ends would probably be sensible.
To be fair, noted child-dater Bill Wyman's no longer in the band – and I'm sure the rest of the Stones are extremely careful about observing consent laws, and indeed all laws, in all the countries they visit. But what a great example to consider. Mandy Smith was only 13 when she hooked up with Wyman – whose son, bizarrely, was dating her mother. And did she suffer? Huh? Well, almost undoubtedly. But she got so much out of it, infamy wise. She even released singles whose titles totally cashed in on the scandal, such as 'Just can't wait' (yuk) and 'Victim of pleasure' (even more yuk).
She even won the coveted 'Rear of the year' award, Wikipedia tells us, in 1994. Now you try telling me that she would have reached such dizzy career heights if Wyman hadn't ruined her childhood when she was barely a teenager.
Anyway, onto the law's specific details. It's been proposed by 'Bravehearts'. Which is an unusual name for a group of moral campaigners, since the film involves William Wallace impregnating another man's wife. Still, when did the actions of moral campaigners ever make much sense?
The group's Hetty Johnson (what a perfect name for a morals campaigner) says it's about stopping predators, and protecting young people who may be flattered into doing something they later regret: "If you're a young person, 16, 17 and you've got an opportunity to go out with someone who's much older than you are and they shower you with wine and cards and flowers and dinners - bit difficult for those young people to be able to see that relationship for what it is."
Johnson, presumably, knows what it is better than either of the people involved. There's just no possibility whatsoever that it could be a genuine romantic attachment. It's automatically predatory. What bollocks.
Just think of all the beautiful, romantic, completely healthy relationships this law would have rendered illegal. Woody Allen and Soon-Yi. Rob Lowe and that teenager he was videoed with. Charlie Chaplin and, well, a whole bunch of teenagers; most classily Lita Grey, who was 16 when he was with her at age 35. Oh, right, I see where they're coming from with the law idea.
Being fairly judgemental and prudish, I find relationships between young people and much older people fairly gross. If I had a 16-year-old daughter who was dating a 22-year-old, I'd be asking some questions. But you can't generalise completely, and this law's clearly interfering far too much. 16 is fine as an age of consent, and the Bravehearts should get a life instead of interfering in other people's.
In fact, they'd do well to remember William Wallace's cheesy last word: "Freedom".
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Google's searching for stalkersGoogle's mission, famously, is to organise the world's information. And they've broadened this in recent years to include pretty much anything. Now the boffins want to organise your socialising. But do we really want a bunch of Californian nerds controlling how we socialise? And, scarily, how stalkers socialise?
The internet makes pretty much anything you want to do with your life easier. So just as it's made it far simpler to be antisocial, and never leave your bedroom, a string of social networking sites like Friendster and MySpace have sprung up that allow people who actually have friends to catch up with them. Most popularly, it lets you make new friends, on the principle that you're more likely to get along with friends of friends.
But a new American site called Dodgeball, which has just been bought by Google, lets inner-city hipsters in the US meet up with their friends using their mobile phones when they're away from their computers. We already send out tentative SMSes to friends when we're out to see if they're around, and Dodgeball is like the deluxe version of the drunken "Whereareya?" SMS.
First you sign up your friends to a contact list. Then you text Dodgeball the details of where you're at and it flips an SMS with the address to all the friends on your list. But trickier yet is the friend-of-a-friend feature. If someone else who's in the contact list of one of your friends is within 10 blocks, it sends you a photo of them saying "This is x, you know them through y". Which provides the perfect beginning to a conversation, of course – you just get to bitch about your mutual friend.
The other feature – which is very Sex & The City (more's the pity) – is a feature that lets you register up to five "crushes" – any user on the site, I think. If they're in the vicinity, it'll alert you and tell you where they are. You're apparently allowed to have a couple of people on the go in the States – so imagine how complicated things could get if your crushes all converged, you were chatting one up and then another popped up?
Dodgeball sounds to me like a social nightmare – would you really want people you were interested in to find out about that in such an unromantic fashion, let alone be forewarned you were approaching? But the Americans are always strangely straightforward about these things.
This all seems well and good, but tracking people's movements like this is also a fantastic way to invade someone's privacy. Even without signing up, I can randomly click on people's photos on the website and find out which bars they regularly hang out in. What a brilliant way to attract crazy stalkers!
But it's not as bad as another site specifically designed for obsessive fans: Gawker Stalker. It's a central repository for sightings of famous people in NYC, And of course, the sophisticated mapping engine it uses is provided by the ubiquitous Google. For instance:
Stocking up on turkey chili at Balducci's, see a dude in a black sweatshirt. I realize it's David Schwimmer. Looked like he rolled out of bed. He was there with a guy stocking up on provisions.
Schwimmer is probably stoked that anyone's still interested in him, but George Clooney has complained about the site, as well one of its victims might. In particular, it seems like a fantastic way to put mentally ill people in touch with the famous people they want to stab. One of the sightings on there at the moment is Christian Slater coming out of the Dakota – the same building John Lennon lived in when he was shot by a crazy fan. Well done, Gawker and Google!
Clooney suggests that celebs get their underlings to just post fake sightings, but what a total waste of time. And surely not everyone has a phalanx of PAs. You can't tell me John Stamos ("doing the breakfast thing at the Millenium Hilton's Church & Dey eatery") can afford to keep a staff anymore.
As always, Google's got great technology, but serious privacy problems. But there's a brilliant solution. Clooney should pay people to obsessively stalk and post the movements of Gawker's staff, and the nerds at Google whose technology makes it all possible. Even if it's just "Larry Page spent all night at his office programming. Again." They'd soon become passionate privacy advocates.
But Gawker Stalker could have its uses. Imagine the reassurance for women of being able to avoid the pub where Warney and his mates were trying to pick up. And I'd pay good money to receive a warning SMS to stop me from accidentally visiting a pub where Russell Crowe was singing.
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Karl Stefanovic: Primo Australian Cheese
Damn! I am one fine specimen! Gotta be Mattel's finest work! They got the old Karl mould just right. Light years ahead of that quaint little Ken doll. Poor thing can't even bend his elbows. Look at me though - fully flexible joints, semi-animated and two different facial expressions!
Not sure which expression I prefer. The ponderous one is so masculine and evocative of the profound. Then there's that glorious smile, radiance to rival the sun itself. Such a face! Michelangelo couldn't have sculpted finer. And composed entirely of cheese! What a marvel I am!
Yes, I'm cock of the walk! Numero uno on the old Today set! Dickie-boy Wilkins likes to think he's the dude. Ha! I see his envy when the ladies ogle me. He tries, but he knows who the funkmeister is in this here 'hood! Cameron (no competition) looks like he hasn't slept in weeks. And little Stevie, that blathering leprechaun's not even in my league. Yes sir, Mr K is jolly well da man!
Not sure about that therapist though. How could my shortcomings in that department possibly be released through my need to constantly assert myself? Clearly a quack, best forgotten.
Yes, loving my work these days. That Tracy Grimshaw was such a nuisance. Imagine, she actually voiced opinions! As if she might genuinely add to my insightful comments and endless stream of jokes, all delivered with the tilted head and knitted brow I spent years perfecting in front of the mirror.
Thank God the fair Jessica Rowe has flitted into town. Now there's a girl who knows her role. Look pretty and let Mr Smooth handle things. Laugh at my wit, nod in agreement to my wisdom and try not to drool over me. Sharyn knows how it's done.
Poor Jess. We went to court to get her, now some say we should go back to court to get rid of her. I do wish she'd stop giggling all the time. Bit embarrassing; sometimes I don't know where to look. Oh well, 'spose the safest bet is just the autocue.
Reflections of Karl Stefanovic, as imagined by Glen Green
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Cartoon Capers
First we had the controversy over the Danish drawings of the prophet Muhammad and now Indonesia and Australia are locked in a cartoon shoot-out. Samuel Huntington really should have clarified that his so-called "clash of civilisations" would be fought between duelling cartoonists.
The Indonesian cartoon depicting Alexander Downer and John Howard as fornicating dingoes only highlights the yawning cultural gulf between Islamic nations and the West.
It was designed to offend us out of revenge for the offence we caused Indonesia by granting asylum to a group of West Papuans. But far from firebombing our local Indonesian consulate, most Australians seemed to think the cartoon was awesome.
I'm sure it's displayed prominently in every student union office in the country. And I've stuck it up on my fridge, because there's nothing I like better than visualising two of our nation's pre-eminent political leaders as copulating dingoes whenever I get a glass of milk.
My only objection would be that given Downer's efforts over the years, the image isn't quite graphic or offensive enough.
It's not all fun, games and shagging wild dogs, though. Bill Leak has entered the fray with a racy picture of President Yudhoyono buggering a Papuan. And our embassy in Jakarta has been put on high alert ahead of possible reprisals.
But must Indonesia respond with crude explosives when it can instead respond with more offensive cartoons?Downer and Howard were barely fazed by the dingoes. Obviously, Indonesia's illustrators need to lift their game.
If they want to offend the PM, they should invoke the two things he holds dear - Don Bradman paddling his bare buttocks with a cricket bat while the Queen looks on, perhaps. And if they want to offend Downer, they could ... actually, forget it. A guy who'll willingly pose in fishnet stockings had no sense of shame to begin with.
Let's hope things cool down and nobody gets hurt. Otherwise we may have to bring out the ultimate weapon: Ginger Meggs.
Even Yudhoyono is small fry compared to Tiger Kelly. Consider yourself warned, Indonesia. You may have started it, but with our arsenal of tepid satirical cartoonists, we'll finish it.
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Radar's Gold Logie form guideLooking at the list of Gold Logie nominees for 2006, it becomes clear Australia's galaxy of stars has never contained so many dim bulbs. And the network once known as the "home of the stars", Nine, has only two of the eight – well, three if you factor in the size of Bert's head. So, as the Herald noted today, television's night of nights will increasingly be a question of which Seven and Ten stars will clean up on Nine's primetime airwaves. Here's a form guide to the eight lacklustre candidates add your predictions below.
Ada Nicodemou
This is Ada's third crack at the Gold Logie, and the Gold Logie's new SMS voting format could help her snatch the prize on this occasion. She won Dancing With The Stars last year, and also won the uncoveted title of 'Champion of Champions', so she clearly excels at superficial text-message-based popularity contests. 3 to 1
Bec Hewitt
How inexplicably popular is this woman, exactly? And how little does she have to do before getting nominated for the Gold Logie? She's hardly appeared on any show in the past 12 months – except for all those infuriating profile pieces on Today Tonight alongside her pet ferrett, Lleyton. But I've been betting against Bec succeeding ever since she limped onto our screens all those years ago, and then launched an ill-judged pop career, and still she seems to triumph. 4 to 1
John Wood
His tenth successive nomination, and surely his last given Blue Heelers' axing. "Woody" is the sentimental favourite. But then again, he's been the sentimental favourite for the past decade and it hasn't helped him in the slightest. Buckley's. 20 to 1
Bert Newton
The other sentimental favourite. Not because he's a legend – the guy's already won four Gold Logies for that – but because he's sure to get the sympathy vote. Just as we feel sorry for old dogs who are cruelly chained up by abusive owners, our hearts will go out to an old showman cruelly forced to host Family Feud. Many people have wondered how on earth he got the nomination after presiding over that disaster – but when you think about it, surely it counts in Bert's favour that absolutely no-one watched the show. 9 to 1
Kate Ritchie
The candidate who should be most grateful that Nine's blown the list out to eight in a tacky effort to maximise SMS revenue. She was infuriating as a small girl, and age has only made her less endearing. As the TV Week blurb reminds us, Australia's own Olsen twin, the Guinness recordholder for the longest time playing the one role, has "grown up on our screens". A statement that would ring particularly true for those who've watched some of her video work that hasn't gone to air on national television. 10 to 1
Bridie Carter
McLeod's Daughters is so boring I can't even be bothered bagging it out. What else... well, her name sounds a bit like "Bec Cartwright", which surely won't endear her to anyone. Add that to the fact that she's on the now-obscure Nine network, and you have a rank outsider. 16 to 1
Natalie Bassingthwaighte
Fairly talented and attractive – apparently she can actually sing, unlike most Neighbours alumni. But someone who portrays a vixen has no chance in an award traditionally the preserve of dull-but-wholesome stars like Georgie Parker and Lisa McCune. Odds go out to 10,000 to 1 if the SMS system requires voters to correctly spell her absurd surname. 15 to 1
Rove McManus
He's won the past three, so you'd think he'd be tough to beat. But his show dropped well back in the ratings late last year, and has had to be "reinvented". And hasn't, really. In fact, Rove Live would work much better without Rove as host. Will also be hampered by last year's speech – a win everyone was predicting for Australia's most popular comedian, and all he could do is quip that he wet himself. Still, he wasn't all that funny on Rove, either, and everyone voted for that. As as lukewarm a favourite as a tepid Logies lineup can boast. 5 to 2.
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We take delight in imagining future solutions to current problems.
Jules Verne described submarines, Arthur C. Clarke foresaw satellites, William Gibson imagined cyberspace and Woody Allen created the Orgasmatron.
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Navaratri is celebrated with lot of faith and devotion in my family. And as a tradition, we fast on the first and last day of this festival. Here is one of my most favorite vrat recipe.
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- 3 Green Chilies(finely chopped)
- 1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds
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- 2 tablespoon groundnut
- Sendha namak (Vrat Salt)
- Oil to fry
- Soak Sabudana in water for about 45 minutes
- Roast ground nuts and crush them coarsely.
- Drain the excess water from Sabudana.
- Add mashed potatoes, chilies, cumin seeds , crushed groundnuts, coriander and sendha namak and mash together to form a homogeneous mixture.
- Grease your palms with some oil and make small patties out of the mixture
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- You can add a tablespoon of grated coconut. It brings a nice flavor to the recipe.
- If deep frying, make sure that the patties are tightly bonded so that they don't split up in hot oil.
Serve hot with curd or vrat chutney.
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We had a great day today on the SET OF A MOVIE!!
A great friend called and asked if we would like to be extras on a movie set that was going to be shooting today at Holy Sepulcher Cemetery. "The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry". How could I resist? My son, the good boy that he is,
The scene is set in the 70's, so I think the worst part was the "Geeky" cut-off jean shorts that were, well, SHORT! Those little knobby knees haven't seen the light of day since his early diaper wearin' years and he wasn't too sure he wanted them first re-exposed to potentially millions! (OK, maybe hundred thousands!) He was again thrilled at the mustard-yellow-extra-sheer button down shirt and maroon high top sneakers! The hat was, in his words, just tolerable! I thought he looked adorable, but I was 11 in the 70's, so I may have been reliving my childhood a little! I surely would have been twitterpated at the sight of such a cutie! Anyhow!
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In the first episode we discussed how the various implementation options compare in terms of performance and complexity. We say that there are various necessary changes to the high speed channels to make them an attractive medium to carry VoIP traffic. Some of these changes are also necessary to reach VoIP capacities that exceed conventional circuit switched capacity. In this post I will discuss some of the suggested changes to the high speed channels to make them suitable to carry VoIP.
- Scheduler changes:
3GPP defined the structures of the high speed shared channels such that they are optimal to carry large chunks of data. To make the system reactive to users' channel conditions, an intelligent scheduling entity that usually resides in the RNC is moved to base station. Thus if a user happens to be in good channel conditions, the scheduler allocates resources and send them to the user before the favorable channel conditions disappear. The problem with VoIP traffic is that the packets have to be delivered to the user pretty frequently in order to maintain the perception of a good quality connection. The packets can not be queued forever waiting until the user has good channel conditions. Therefore the scheduler algorithms, which were originally developed to be optimal to carry discontinuous chunks of data, have to be adapted to work well with VoIP traffic side-by-side. One of the concepts to enable this is called "priority queuing" which as the name implies, gives priority to delay intolerant traffic such as VoIP. Most of what I describe above applies to HSDPA (downlink). In the uplink, 3GPP included enough functionality in the HSUPA requirements to make it versatile and able to cope with VoIP traffic using a scheme called "Non-Scheduled Transmission".
- HARQ Retransmission Reduction:
The HSDPA channel uses also a concept called "HARQ retransmission", where lost packets are retransmitted (partially or completely). The idea is to optimize the air interface efficiency, so instead of sending few highly protected bytes that will be definitely received correctly, the transmitter sends a big chunk of bytes and hope for the best. If part of the data is received incorrectly, then the transmitter can retransmit the packet. This approach is one of the enablers of high speeds achieved on this type of shared channels (see note 1 below). It turns out that the HARQ retransmission concept is a challenge to smooth VoIP operation. This is because the VoIP connection is intolerant to delay, and obviously packet retransmission will increase the round-trip delay, which degrades the call quality. Packet retransmissions also increase the severity of packet jitter at the receiving end: one packet may arrive almost immediately and the next packet may be transmitted several times before successful reception happens. If you eliminate re-transmission altogether the channel efficiency drops and you end up with a reduced cell capacity. (Check note 1 below) .
- Reduce the possibility of code limitation (Fractional DPCH):
Every user connected to the network using a shared channel requires a number of small dedicated channels to carry signaling and control information. These channels carry very little traffic, but they are numerous. If there are many users in a cell using the HSDPA channel, a large number of dedicated channel is required to support them, and it could happen that the system runs out of channelization codes (if you don't understand the concept of channelization codes, check this). Therefore, 3GPP included a new feature called Fractional DPCH, which essentially multiplexes the control information of multiple users on one physical channel.
- Continuous Packet Connectivity (CPC):
This is a huge 3GPP work item which includes many aspects that, although not necessary for VoIP to work, but will benefit its operation and increase the cell VoIP capacity. The most noteworthy of these aspects are:
1. DPCCH gating: The control channels have a discontinuous pattern, which reduces the amount of interference and increases battery life.
2. Modified HS-SCCH operation. HS-SCCH is a channel that carries HSDPA signaling in the downlink. This channel typically consumes large amount of power which eats up a part of the cell capacity. Therefore 3GPP came with various suggestions to reduce its effects by restricting it, or eliminate it altogether.
3. CQI reporting reduction: CQI stands for Channel Quality Indicator, which is a message sent by the terminal to the bas station reporting the channel quality so that the base station can decide what to send to the terminal. As we discussed in the scheduler section above, successful VoIP operation is more concerned with the continuity of the traffic instead of mapping transmission to channel conditions, therefore reducing the rate of CQI signaling will reduce overheads without affecting VoIP quality. This means that more bandwidth is available for VoIP packets instead of overhead.
All in all, CPC is expected to increase VoIP cell capacity by anything from 15% to 40%.
Note 1: There is an optimal packet loss rate that will cause the system to operate at the maximum possible capacity. On one hand, high packet loss rates mean that many packets are being retransmitted many times and hence the air interface resource is being wasted on these retransmissions. On the other hand, low packet loss rates mean that the transmitter is not taking chances and is protecting data more than necessary. This will lead to a lower cell capacity.
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The Department for Education (DfE) has published a new "Competency Framework for Governance". The Competency Framework was developed by an expert group led by Sir David Carter, the national schools commissioner. NGA members were consulted on a draft version of the Competency Framework during our round of autumn regional meetings in 2016.
Alongside this, the DfE has released a new version of the Governance Handbook, which is a guide to the roles and functions of those who govern schools in England. The Handbook also includes information about the various legal duties, as well as where governors, trustees and clerks may find support.
Click here to find out more about the Governance Handbook
Click here to read our news story where Emma Knights, Chief Executive of the National Governors' Association, has urged caution about how governing boards use the new Competency Framework
What's this for?
The Competency Framework is designed to help governing boards assess what knowledge, skills and behaviour are needed to govern the school, or group of schools, most effectively. It is meant to help with things like board performance reviews, identifying training needs, succession planning and induction. It may also help you to prepare interview questions. It is not a checklist though, and there are better and more accessible resources available to help with recruitment. For example, NGA's skills audit (which will be updated in light of this document) and role description. It is also designed to help training providers plan their training for governors, trustees and clerks.
How is it set out?
The Competency Framework is organised into blocks of 'who needs to have this'. There are some skills or knowledge that the DfE thinks everyone on the board needs to have, and others that the chair or 'at least someone' on the board will need to have.
The Competency Framework is made up of 16 competencies. The competencies are grouped under the headings of the 'six features of effective governance', which are detailed in the Governance Handbook:
1. Strategic leadership
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Competencies alone are not enough. The DfE emphasises that principles and personal attributes that individuals bring to the board are as important. These are best reflected in the Nolan principles of public life.
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"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."
-- Apple's "Think Different" commercial, 1997
In my last column I wrote of a woman who lost her ring and found it again. I met her in line at a local school concert. The points leading to our meeting are three-part.
One, we stood next to each other in line with a long wait ahead of us. Two, the most amazing thing had just happened to her and she was dying to tell someone, and three, I was reading a book which served as the icebreaker for our conversation. What I learned from the book together with her amazing story, led to a realization: If truth is indeed stranger than fiction, then I should change my perception that biographies are boring.
At the time, I was on chapter four of "Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson. It was the first biography I have ever read of my own accord.
It was delivered to me via my daughter by a family friend who saw that I carried an iPhone, owned an iMac, eMac and Macbook and had Apple stickers on all my vehicles.
I've almost always been a Mac-lover. Since the days at Sheridan Elementary School when the entire class would travel to the library to play Oregon Trails on the school's one Macintosh, to my high school journalism class when I wrote stories and designed pages using Pagemaker on a Mac, to my career at your local paper which is a Macintosh-based plant. But the truth is, I knew very little about Steve Jobs.
And when my friend said, "You should read it," I bristled a bit. I don't like biographies. They're boring. But months later, when my daughter brought it home, I had just finished reading "The Fault In Our Stars," by John Green (an excellent read), and was desperate for a new story. So what if the hard cover was slightly mauled by our friend's lovable Labrador, and the face of Steve Jobs staring at me from the cover felt as intimidating as its 656 pages.
As I traveled through the amazing and complicated story of Steve Jobs from his childhood to near-death, I gained such a sense of who he was and why he was responsible for so many incredible, impactful devices -- not so much the invention of them, but more like the driving force behind their existence. In the days during and after my submersion into the land of Mr. Jobs, I drove my family and coworkers crazy with constant nuggets of Steve Jobs facts. One of my coworkers agreed to read it for himself. And when I told another about President Obama wanting to know what Steve Jobs thought was "wrong with America," he feigned no surprise as he said, "Oh sure. He was the Da Vinci of our time. A true renaissance man."
And here, two weeks after finishing this book, I am still thinking about this phenomenal person, this remarkable visionary, with his unbelievable quirks and astounding successes. I've talked my son into reading it next. At first, he had trouble understanding the correlation between early Silicon Valley companies and the main character. "What does all this (business) stuff have to do with Steve Jobs?" he asked.
"It's where it all began," I said, showing him my phone. "If he hadn't grown up in the valley surrounded by tech companies and engineers, I wouldn't be holding this in my hand right now. And you wouldn't be reading that book."
Renee Tanner is a News-Review page designer who shares a lot of Steve Jobs' ideas about design and user-experiences, but none of his ideas on nutrition. The credit to her change in mindset about reading anyone's biography goes to the author and the man Steve Jobs himself. But also to family friend Tom Burek, who lent her the book. And his son, Jackson, who explained to her what a semiconductor was. Her column appears every other Friday. You can reach her at email@example.com. Follow @ReneeTanner_pnr on Twitter.


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- Attend college or university in Hubli/Dharwad
- Involve at least 5-10 students from their respective campus in projects
- Spend at least 20 hours on LEAD projects each month
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|Pass this up at your peril!
Here's the deal, the opening is fairly weak. Sorry, but even Marv acknowledges it with his tale of sales figures. Robin seems to be time skipping, and there's a NEW Teen Titans he's getting involved with. As someone who's not read anything of the incarnations of the Teen Titans from before this period, that has little value to me as an idea. Especially in an age where teams are disbanded and reformed all the time. Avengers anyone? That said, even in the early issues, the art is beautiful. I do not complain about Perez art. Ever.
Past the first say 5 issues, the quality picks up as we finally start finding out what the deal is with Raven (daughter of the demon Trigon, seem to recall somewhere along the line it was retconned that her mother was raped, seems consensual throughout this omnibus). Then we deal with a fair bit of amazonian whatnot about different eras of Gods. Next up is Beast Boy and the Titans looking for the remaining members of the Doom Patrol. After that are a lot of smaller story arcs (including Starfire falling in love and then having that lover killed), mainly giving us an insight into the characters backgrounds and relationships with their parents and civilian lives. There are a number of fights with the Fearsome Five, Deadshot, and H.I.V.E., none of which truly stand out in my mind.
I know I've said before that recommending older comics can be hard if they don't have any relevance on the current comics, however I also say that a classic story or run is worth reading, not as a primer, but for the enjoyment of it. Sure this omnibus has a few stories that are superfluous, and some that are clearly encumbered by the need for Wolfman and Perez to get things started, but over the duration, it's a quality read. The Trigon material would be enough to make this a classic. Add in that for some of these characters, this was their introduction, and it's obviously interesting to compare where the characters have ended up after many different sets of hands and various Crises have had their way with them.
As someone that hadn't read Titans of any form before, nor watched the animated show, I've got to say that I had no real knowledge of the characters outside of Robin, Donna Troy, and Wally West, but the writing and the art end up pulling you in. Like 70s and 80s Chris Claremont X-Men work. It's good enough that familiarity is not required.
I'd recommend this book to anyone with a budding interest in the DC universe beyond Batman, Superman, and the JLA. Anyone that has an interest in the Titans already, and hasn't read this, should be lining up to spend their money. Anyone that likes Chris Claremont's style should also consider this book. I'm eagerly awaiting the second omnibus from this era.
Next time out: something happened to increase my read pile. Something called Black Friday sales at Things From Another World. Needless to say, it'll be another Rapid Review.


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Appeals court rules against Plano ISD in Christian candy cane case 11:55 AM CT | Dallas Morning News
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The Dallas Morning News reports on a decision from the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans. It's a bad ruling and likely to be (successfully) appealed. The issue concerns elementary students who passed out religious materials in a public school.
Does the district have a right to curtail that kind of activity? Before your kneel jerks, here is another question. What if the little children were giving your kids pamphlets and pictures of Muhammad or the Blessed Virgin Mary. Hate to whip out the Catholic card, but I wanted to make a point. What if your child came home from third grade with a rosary, or a copy of the Book of Mormon? I would be unhappy, but what do I know. After all, I NEVER RAISED ONE OF MY OWN!
Evangelicals, such as the people who stirred this pot and them filed the suit, will regret the day this type of conduct becomes acceptable.
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