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Robert W. McChesney is Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has written widely on media history and communication policy. In particular, McChesney's work analyzes the policy debates surrounding the Internet and telecommunication, the effects of corporate control and advertising support upon the nature of journalism, and the debates over public broadcasting and nonprofit media systems. He currently hosts a bi-weekly radio public affairs program on WORT-FM in Madison.
Robert W. McChesney is Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has written widely on media history and communication policy. In particular, McChesney's work analyzes the policy debates surrounding the Internet and telecommunication, the effects of corporate control and advertising support upon the nature of journalism, and the debates over public broadcasting and nonprofit media systems. He currently hosts a bi-weekly radio public affairs program on WORT-FM in Madison.
Corporate Watch: What's your perspective on the development of the corporate control of the Internet? How is the many-to-many communications structure of the Internet likely to change because of corporate involvement?
Robert McChesney: Well, this goes back to the early '90s, when the emergence of the World Wide Web made the Internet appear to be, and have the promise of being, an extraordinarily democratic and interactive medium, whereby people could participate without censor, producing content, distributing it to potentially enormous audiences at very little cost. Material perhaps, in due time, of very high quality, not just text messages, but really high quality video, audio, the whole works. For a time, we had bookshelves filled with views of the World Wide Web and the Internet as being this new technology that was going to completely undermine the existing communications industries; make them unimportant, because the Internet was going to undercut their semi-monopolistic hold over media and over telecommunications. The most famous piece along these lines was by a technology writer named Steven Levy — you might have seen it two years ago in the New York Times Magazine — [that] said all these huge media mergers going on in the world are nothing to worry about because these media giants are basically rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, and the iceberg they're going to hit is the Internet with its, as he put it, billions of channels.
You see a lot less of that talk today. In fact, you see hardly anything like that today, because that vision that Levy had, and that others before him have had, was based on an idea that technologies have superpowers that override social considerations — or a view that the market is inherently a thoroughly competitive and democratic mechanism (that's the George Gilder-type view). And in fact, both those views are dead wrong.
Two or three years ago, most media and telecommunication firms were very scared of the Internet. They were scared that it could do exactly what Steven Levy said it might do. No one really knew where it was going to go. I think most of the entry to the Internet at that time was primarily motivated out of sheer and utter fear; and just because people wanted to cover their rear ends, so they wouldn't get outflanked.
There's still an element of fear today among the media and telecommunications giants about the Internet, because no one still really knows exactly how it's going to develop. But the fear today is less that their entire industries are going to get outflanked, than that specific competitors might get a better deal. The corporate community has got the Internet — for the most part, it's theirs. It's going to be incorporated into existing and emerging corporate empires: computer, software, telecommunication, and media empires. The ideas that Steven Levy wrote two years ago, might as well have been written in the 16th century, they are so ridiculously out of date.
And this is not to say that it's settled. It's just to say that with the totally undebated but still quite important policy — that whoever makes the most money wins — you have a situation in which the handful of people who have the most power in the market are dominating the playing field; exactly what you would expect with that policy. That's the situation we're in now.
How does that affect the development of the medium from a user perspective?
Because there's tremendous pressure right now by the media firms, and really every commercial interest, to make the Web more and more like television, oftentimes we use the analogy of broadcasting to think about the World Wide Web — channels dominated by corporate, commercial vendors. And there's an element of truth to that. But at the same time, on the Internet as such, there still isn't scarcity; people will [continue to] be able to start websites.
I think the metaphor that captures the Internet is much more like book publishing, or magazine publishing. If you go to any newsstand in this country, with the exception of a handful in college towns and very large cities, you're just going to see the same 80-100 magazines being sold that are published by the same five or six or seven firms. That doesn't mean there aren't thousands of magazines. There are thousands and thousands of magazines; some extraordinary magazines that we've never heard of or seen, and never will hear of or see.
The Web's always going to have those thousands of extraordinary things. Most people will never see them. When they turn on their WebTV, or their Microsoft or Netscape browser software, or @Home (the TCI cable access service), or AOL — those websites will be hidden away. You can get to them, but it will take hard work, and you'll have to really hunt and know what you're looking for.
What's different, what's the genius of the Internet compared to print, is that if someone is printing a great newsletter in El Salvador, I'll never see it. It'd be physically impossible for me to get my hands on it, maybe. With the Internet, if I know how to get around and get the address, I can find stuff from all over the world. So, it's a qualitative difference in that regard, and a crucial one.
But one problem that progressives have had with the Internet and with the Web, is that we extrapolate from our own experience to think that's how everyone else experiences it. In fact there's a very good chance that it'll be a really nice ghetto for a handful of people who know where to go. But [that experience will be] pretty much buried away from the dominant commercial Internet experience being prepared by the corporate giants for the mass of Americans. That's my sense. Now I might be wrong; this is not a done deal. But I think that's the trajectory we're on right now, and short of any policy otherwise, it's going to be tough to counteract that trajectory.
One plausible scenario is that Internet 2 is where all the high bandwidth, fancy, commercial stuff goes, and what we have today remains as an alternative medium.
Yeah, the market pressure is going to be to offer differentiated service. To have a super high bandwidth, high quality service for business users that will cost more, but they need it; and maybe a similar super high quality service for home consumers over their televisions or computers to those who are willing to pay. And then going down to more or less a clunker service for people who don't want to pay that much, or might just be interested in doing email and textual messages that don't require the same sort of bandwidth.
But I think a market solution is very much a tiered system, where people get different calibers of Internet, or computer communications.
Is it possible to have a kind of vibrant people's medium around the edges?
There are lots of things [on the Internet] that are really useful and help activists and people interested in all sorts of issues that aren't being covered by the dominant media. Although, it's worth noting that as the technological standards for the Internet are developed, to the extent commercial interests play a role, that aspect is not going to be high on the list of their concern. It's not that it won't be there; not that there won't be people arguing for it. But as technical standards are made, commercial interests are looking for ways you can make money off this.
I'm not an expert at this, but I think when the cable modem specs were developed, to take advantage of the existing nature of cable signals, the downlink is vastly wider than the uplink. As Heather Menzies [author of Whose Brave New World? -ed.] has put it, it's an interstate highway coming into the home, and a bicycle path going out. The orientation is very much toward sophisticated messages being sent in, and then textual messages to buy stuff being sent out. That's a very rational way to develop a commercial Internet — to downgrade the interactive aspect, and upgrade the ability to use it as a medium for sending sophisticated commercial messages.
How does the Internet fit into the history of other mass media?
The Internet is not a new phenomenon. It's a different technology from earlier communications media technologies, but there is a history throughout the 20th century, and probably earlier, of how revolutionary new communication technologies have been developed and eventually deployed. History points to the fact that technologies, while they have tremendous influence and all sorts of effects upon society that are unintended and unanticipated, their fundamental course is determined by how they're owned and operated. It's almost an iron law of US communication media, going back to AM radio in the 1920s, that new technologies don't seem commercially viable at first, so they're developed by the nonprofit, noncommercial sector, by amateurs. When they develop [the technology] so you can make money off it, the corporate sector comes in, and through a variety of mechanisms, usually its dominance of politicians, it muscles all these other people out of the way and takes it over.
That's exactly what happened with AM radio. Much like the Internet in the early to mid-1990s, AM radio was the province largely of the nonprofit, noncommercial [sector]. It didn't become commercially viable until the late 1920s, eight or nine years into the radio explosion. And then the successful big networks, NBC and CBS, were able to use their influence basically to hog all the good frequencies in the late '20s and early '30s. By 1934, nonprofit broadcasters accounted [for] sometimes one percent or one half of one percent of all broadcasting in the US, whereas they had been at 40-50% in 1924. There'd been a total elimination of that sector. That's what's happened with FM radio, with UHF television, to some extent with satellite and cable (although the profit potential was seen there fairly quickly), and definitely with the Internet. There you see the historical example perfectly.
There is so little public debate about the use of the medium for public good.
There's no debate about it at all. But the irony of course, is that the Internet only exists because of government subsidizing it for 20 years at taxpayer expense. And this is not new either, the same thing happened more or less with most other communication technologies; they were established through some sort of public sector subsidy. Radio and television and satellite — all these technologies were developed through government subsidy, through either the university system or through the military in many cases. Internet the same way.
Taxpayers bankroll these things, develop them, and then once they show a profit, they're turned over to the corporate sector with nothing in return to speak of. Except the right to be a consumer and make those corporations rich — that's the great right we have. It's just simply a scandal; it's horrendous public policy.
And now we have this enormous mythology that the Internet is the result of entreprenuerial genius, when in fact it was a government product. There's nothing remotely close to a free market in the communication industries, the computer industries, the media industries. These are, in most cases, what we call oligopolistic markets, dominated by a handful of corporations with no threat of new competition. And they, like the media, have so many joint ventures with each other, at times it operates much more like a cartel.
If the US government had not subsidized the Internet for 20 years, the US would not be the leader in it; it wouldn't have existed here. It might have existed in Japan or Germany or Korea or Britain or some other country. Or it might not exist at all. It was the public sector that created it.
What should Internet activists be doing?
They've got to look at how the Internet's being developed by the corporate sector. Part of the problem of Internet activists is there's a romanticization that the Internet is this groovy playpen in cyberspace, divorced from the ugly world of telecommunications, software, media, and industrial capitalism. That's not the case at all.
What we're seeing with the largest telecommunication companies, meaning the telephone companies AT&T, the Baby Bells, British Telecommunications — they've formed a series of alliances, such that there are really only going to be four or five of these global alliances that rule the whole world in telecom. They're bringing the Internet into their existing empire to make it part of their one-stop shopping, along with cellular phones, long distance, local and paging services.
Likewise, and most important from my perspective, the existing commercial media giants are doing everything in their power to completely colonize the Internet. The ten largest media firms in the world (which account now for about half of the venture capital on the Internet, by the most recent statistics I've seen), have TV networks, film studios, record companies, book publishing; and [they see] the Internet [as] part of their empire.
So if we're thinking in terms of reforming the Internet, we've got to see it as part of how we view what is a democratic media system. And then see where does the Internet fit in. We've got to take the big picture view of the Internet as part of our media and our communication. Just like the firms who are actually controlling it. We can't parcel it off as some separate entity, because it's really part of the big fight for media reform in this country, and communication reform, to create viable nonprofit, noncommercial sector.
Do we need to be working nationally or internationally, since the corporations that you're talking about are not simply operating on a national level?
A lot of the key issues are still made nationally. But we have to link up globally too. That's absolutely right. For example, the big copyright deal [WIPO Copyright Treaty and WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty–ed.] passed just in December, with tremendous pressure by the largest commercial interests in this country, trying to extend the narrowest interpretation of copyright onto the Internet. Basically to turn people's computers into vending machines as much as possible, with a really narrow interpretation of fair use. Those are issues that aren't real sexy on the surface, but we have to get hip to them, and start fighting on them.
The other crucial thing is, if you look at the forces that're taking over the Internet now — the Microsofts and Oracles from the computer world; the ten largest media firms in the world [such as] Time Warner, Disney, Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation; the five or six largest telecom alliances, which are some of the largest firms in the world, firms like AT&T, that do $50 billion a year in business — when you look at the array of people colonizing the Internet, you get a sense that if you're going to win this fight, you better be serious about politics. This is no time for cyberspace dilettantes to sit around thinking they can change something by flaming someone's email. You're going up against a cornerstone institution of modern capitalism with supreme political power in Washington. The Wall Street Journal, just three weeks ago, proclaimed that commercial broadcasting was hands down the most powerful lobby in the country, simply unbeatable on political issues. Well, the commercial broadcasters are just one of the powerhouse lobbies. The other lobbies are almost as strong as them.
So, if you're going to get serious about reforming this thing, not just having your groovy website for you and your cool friends to chat with each other off in the margins, but really fight for the heart of the system, which I think we have to fight for, then you're talking about getting involved, deeply involved, in serious political organizing. Not just some Internet issues, and not just some media and telecom issues, but on broad political issues, because the way we're going to win this fight is to link issues of Internet reform and media reform with broader social struggles. Things like improving the quality of the standard of living people have in this country, redistributing wealth, undercutting the sheer and total domination of the wealthy and the corporations over our political economy. And when we've linked those things together, we'll have a chance. Until then, we'll always be in the margins amusing ourselves.
In the current playing field, we can't win. In the current playing field we're dealing with a situation where the vast majority of Americans are totally demoralized and depoliticized, sitting on their couch with a remote control and a bag of chips, convinced that nothing can change. And that is not an accident. That is exactly the education they're receiving day in and day out: nothing can change. What we've got to do is change that equation. Until we change it we can't win. But to change that, there's no mystery about it; it's getting organized. That's how you change things. Getting people educated, organized and participating, off the couch. Put the chips down, put the remote down, start talking to people, get involved, and realize this is our country, not theirs, and take it back.
The Global Media: The New Missionaries of Corporate Capitalism, by Edward S. Herman & Robert W. McChesney (Cassell, 1997).
An expose' and analysis of the corporate takeover of the global media system, covering print media, television, and telecommunications. It can be ordered for US$19.95 at 1-800-561-7704.
Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy, by Robert W. McChesney (Seven Stories Press, 1997)
McChesney focuses his criticism on the broadcast media and the Internet, chronicling over and over how for-profit pressures within the 'media industry' have both convoluted or outright corrupted it – and its mission. From the beginnings of the FCC to the passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, he details how corporate influence has molded the way the government defines and carries out its responsibility to ensure that mass media outlets operate in the 'public interest.'
Telecommunications, Mass Media and Democracy, by Robert W. McChesney (Oxford University Press, 1993).
Chronicles the political debate over how best to construct U.S. broadcasting in the 1920s and 1930s
Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times, by Robert W. McChesney (New Press, October 2000 – with a new preface by the author – isbn #1565846346)
"Here it is the comprehensive story by Robert W. McChesney of how giant corporations are taking control of the mass media on a global scale, even though the American people legally own the public airwaves. This corporatist grasping for ever more profit, power and content determination stifles the people's reach of their First Amendment rights and debilitates a weakening democracy with trivia, cheap entertainment, and low grade sensuality at eye-blinking velocities. Rich Media, Poor Democracy is more than a prolonged wake-up call; it shames those who do nothing and motivates those who are trying to build a more democratic media that reflects the all-important non-commercial values which forge a just society."
— Ralph Nader
"McChesney's work has been of extraordinary importance…It should be read with care and concern by people who care about freedom and basic rights." – Noam Chomsky
Author: Robert McChesney
News Service: Corporate Watch
URL: http://www.corpwatch.org/trac/internet/corpspeech/index.html

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I once received a breakup Facebook message—more of a cease-and-desist, really—so diplomatic that it was used afterwards by more than one of my friends to break up with the person they were dating. (I've largely forgotten its contents, other than the phrase "vis-a-vis me").
It may be time to think twice about whether electronic rejection really is worse than yell-talking the breakup over at a loud restaurant until one or both of you are silently staring into your guacamole and considering whether you should plunge your face into it, Se7en style, and die. And, shit, you can't even leave because here come your huevos rancheros. (Unless you prefer electronic noms, as pictured above.)
After being dumped via email by a guy she dated for two months, Washington Post columnist Lisa Bonos began investigating the etiquette behind using the Interwebs and texting to end relationships, 23% of which now boast an online-assisted beginning.
A woman that Bonos spoke to received a breakup email from her ex that was eloquent and kind—and noted that he chose e-mail as his method because he was better at expressing himself in writing. She went on to pass it along as a template to her friends. Another woman expressed gratitude at the brevity of a breakup email, rather than a long, drawn-out scenario. The author of a book called Dump 'Em: How To Break Up With Anyone From Your Best Friend To Your Hairdresser, one Jodyne Speyer, added that if one person in the relationship is more overpowering than the other in person, email might be a good way to ensure that both parties are able to their piece without intimidation. Interestingly, the article is absent of male opinions on the break-up email.
'The art of the digital breakup' [Washington Post]
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China-Japan: Today Japan's Foreign Ministry summoned Chinese Ambassador to Japan Han Zhiqiang to lodge a protest after a Chinese Oceanic Administration maritime surveillance aircraft entered Japanese airspace near one of the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.
Japan scrambled F-15 fighter jets from Okinawa to intercept the Chinese aircraft, but it departed the area before the fighters arrived. The Japanese Defense Ministry said the incident was the first known violation of Japanese airspace by a Chinese plane in more than 50 years.
Comment: Chinese government ships regularly violate the waters near the Senkakus. The Chief Cabinet Secretary said today that Chinese ships had violated the waters three days in a row.
Maritime surveillance aircraft also fly near the islands, but without penetrating Japanese airspace. This flight appears to be a deliberate escalation move by the Chinese that most likely will be repeated with increasing frequency. The Chinese aircraft obtained important information about Japan's air defense capabilities and fighter reaction time.
Russia-Syria: Concerning the situation in Syria, Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov told a government advisory group in Moscow on 13 December, "The opposition's victory, regrettably, cannot be ruled out…. We need to face the truth. A current tendency is that the regime and the government keep losing control over an ever-growing territory.
Bogdanov also admitted that Russia is drafting plans to evacuate its citizens from Syria if necessary. He said even if the government changes hands, the fighting will continue.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet with a Syrian opposition delegation on 14 December.
Comment: It is likely that the Russian statement was coordinated with the senior members of the Asad government, but it still is likely to undermine the morale of the remaining government forces. An increase in defections should be expected.
The Russian change of assessment is a strong political indicator that the end game for the Asad government has begun. It probably won't last long. The Russians, however, are warning that the security situation will remain unstable.
Lavrov apparently is trying to arrange the terms and timing for the evacuation of Russians in Syria and possibly members of the Asad government.
Syria: For the record. The Foreign Ministry denied reports that the government is using Scud missiles against rebels. The ministry said Thursday that the reports are nothing more than a conspiracy. No news service has reported a Syrian official reaction to the Russian statement.
Egypt: For the record. Islamist groups who support President Mursi have called for a million-man march on 14 and 15 December. The referendum on the new constitution is still set for 15 December.
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It is that time of year again, and as we tackle everything else this year we have to think of the teachers and others who need a small gift. A token of appreciation.
Every teacher including me , has had enough chocolate, enough mugs, enough ornaments..so what can you and your child do together that can be frugal, fab and thoughtful. I have some ideas.
We love giving gifts in a jar. They are easy to make and always appreciated.
Here are some easy to make Gift in a Jar Ideas:
Sand Art Brownies are a great easy to make recipe. Layered cocoa, brown sugar, chocolate chips and pecans make this Mason jar recipe extra-special. I would just say it is yummy.
Classic Cocoa Mix is a wonderful treat. For me it brings back many a memory.
Apple Pie in a Jar is another classic treat. Think traditional.
Sugar Cookie Mix another traditional Christmas classic.
When you are thinking of gifts for teachers. Think consumable. Remember it is to show appreciation for the job they are doing.
Other ideas:
- Make cookies or maybe even brownies, place in container that they can keep.
- buy a simple wood frame and have your child decorate it and write a note in the frame thanking the teacher for the job they are doing
- a small basket of classroom supplies( many a teacher pay for many items out of pocket)
I am sure you can think of many ideas. Please do share with me, what you are planning on giving to the teachers around you this year.
Source: http://commoncentsmom.com/2011/12/frugal-fabulous-gifts-for-teachers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=frugal-fabulous-gifts-for-teachers


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Playa del Cura Travel Guide
Situated on the southwest coast of Gran Canaria, about an hour's drive from the airport at Las Palmas, is the small, quiet holiday resort of Playa Del Cura, built on the cliff sides lining the coast. This low-key family resort is just two miles (3km) from lively, hectic Puerto Rico, the island's well-known holiday and nightlife resort, but Playa del Cura remains popular as a peaceful place to stay while granting easy access to the bright lights and amenities of its more flamboyant neighbour. Playa del Cura is on the main coastal bus route so travelling to other resorts is easy, and taxis are cheap and plentiful. The holiday resort has two small, pretty cove beaches, Cura and Tauro, at the base of the cliffs, both covered with dark volcanic sand and pebbles, and strewn with sunbeds so that visitors can make the most of some of the best weather in Gran Canaria. A short distance away is the popular stretch of the Amadores beach. The rocky coastline, and valley extending inland, provides opportunities for those keen on walking excursions. There is a small commercial centre equipped with enough stores, bars and restaurants to provide for all holiday requirements.
The commercial centre of Playa Del Cura is a few hundred yards from the beach, its anchor store being a large Spar supermarket with an in-store bakery which stocks all requirements for vacationers. There are also a few gift and souvenir stores. For more serious shopping, however, visitors can take a bus or taxi to nearby Puerto Rico where it is possible to buy literally anything and everything at three huge shopping malls, including the sought after duty-free electrical goods, photographic equipment and perfumes.
Playa del Cura offers a fairly good choice of restaurants, mostly situated in the commercial centre. There are seafood restaurants with excellent fish dishes, as well as other food styles on offer. Bistro 22 is perhaps the best known restaurant in Playa del Cura, and the Guantanamo Canarian restaurant is also popular.
Those in search of all-night clubbing and pubbing will have to take the 10-minute bus or taxi drive across to Puerto Rico to satisfy their craving, but those looking for more relaxed evenings will be well catered for in one of Playa del Cura's bars. There are several fun pubs, such as Pio Pio on Tauro beach, which offers open house jam sessions on Sunday evenings, or the Irish bar, Old Brouge, and its counterpart Welsh bar, Fleur de Lys, both on the upper level of the commercial centre. Several of the larger hotels offer their own entertainment, which is open to non-guests.
Holiday activities
For water sports and swimming it is best to head for the white, sandy Amadores beach across the bay, where the whole gamut of fun in the sun from waterskiing to scuba diving is available. Other sporting facilities such as tennis and squash courts are to be found in the vicinity, especially in nearby Puerto Rico, which is well-supplied with amenities, including water parks, amusement parks and mini-golf. Playa del Cura is well situated on the tourist route for excursions to the capital, Las Palmas, or visits to other parts of Gran Canaria.
Any negatives?
As Playa del Cura is built on steep cliffs, it is not suited to the elderly or those with difficulty walking. Families with teenagers may find entertainment is limited for this age group. Swimmers should be wary of the strong currents off both of Playa del Cura's beaches.


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Website campaigns for squirrel genocide
Tufty gets tough on tree-dwelling rats
There is a fine old country saying - often to be heard emanating from old boys leaning thoughtfully on farm gates - that rats are rats, pigeons are rats with wings, and squirrels are rats with good PR.
Indeed, the non-native grey squirrel has long been a source of delight to innocent kiddies who ply the tree vermin with peanuts in London's leafy green spaces while indulgent parents encourage their offspring to get closer to the UK's fauna.
Not for much longer. The next time you see a grey squirrel in one of the Capital's parks it will most likely been running from a bloke with a rifle hell-bent on turning it into Rind-Crusted Fried Squirrel with Molasses Red-Eye Gravy.
That's if Tufty from Death to Grey Squirrels! gets his way. The anonymous resident of Stroud Green in North London has launched a campaign to rid our shores of the imported squirrel menace by any means necessary. Tufty explains:
Have you ever loaded up the bird table with winter treats for your garden birds, only to find it stripped down to the last nut and sunflower seed a few hours later? Did you recently spend all afternoon digging in crocus bulbs, then wake up in the morning to find your garden borders looking like the aftermath of the Battle of the Somme? Did you once put up a bird nesting box and watch a family of tits settle in, only to find that just at hatching time a massacre had taken place?
Yes, we've all been there. Action, it's clear, is urgently required. Tufty asks:
Do squirrels have any natural predators? Yes - you! This site is dedicated to how to become a squirrel predator. What is the best way to make your garden or country estate a grey squirrel-free zone? Let us know. Squirrel recipes, squirrel traps, anti-squirrel measures, individual squirrel deterrents- let's hear them all.
That's the kind of fighting talk we like to hear, although the RSPCA is rather less keen. It told This is Local London: "The RSPCA is opposed to the taking and killing of wild animals, and the infliction of any suffering upon them. To find long-term solutions to pest control, it is important to determine why the animals are attracted to the area such as for food or shelter and wherever possible, remove these attractants."
In short - cut down every tree in Britain and concrete the resulting space over. No, we're with Tufty on this one. He explains: "It's a challenge. I have tried squirrel-resistant feeders, placing wire mesh around the bird table, hanging bird feeders on washing lines, fixing the seed tray to the top of a 12-foot greased pole and drenching everything with commercial anti-squirrel red pepper spray all to no avail. The squirrels are obviously much smarter than we are. They say there is no such thing as a free lunch. Not so for squirrels."
In fact, Tufty should consider himself lucky that his local squirrel population has not yet developed a penchant for crack cocaine - as recently reported from Brixton, South London. When it does, it'll be more than tits and crocuses our vigilante will be fighting to protect as hoards of drug-crazed tree rats turn Stroud Green into a blood-spattered warzone. Time to lock'n'load and pull on the combats, we think. ®


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New Appliance, Software and Services Extend the IBM MobileFirst Strategy
LAS VEGAS – 29 Apr 2013: IBM's Smarter Planet strategy took a major technological step forward today with the introduction of IBM MessageSight, a new appliance designed to help organizations manage and communicate with the billions of mobile devices and sensors found in systems such as automobiles, traffic management systems, smart buildings and household appliances.
Over the next 15 years, the number of machines and sensors connected to the Internet will explode. According to IMS Research, there will be more than 22 billion web-connected devices by 2020[i].These new devices will generate more than 2.5 quintillion bytes of new data every day[ii], while every hour enough information is consumed by Internet traffic to fill seven million DVDs.[iii]
Building on the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) technology, IBM MessageSight delivers the performance, value and simplicity that organizations need to accommodate the growing multitude of mobile devices and sensors. This enables large volumes of events to be processed in near real time, allowing organizations to consolidate all of the information in one place and more easily glean insights to make better business decisions. IBM MessageSight is capable of supporting one million concurrent sensors or smart devices and can scale up to thirteen million messages per second.
"When we launched our Smarter Planet strategy nearly five years ago, our strategic belief was that the world was going to be profoundly changed as it became more instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. IBM MessageSight is a major technological step forward in continuing that strategy," said Marie Wieck, general manager, WebSphere, IBM. "Until now, no technology has been able to handle this volume of messages and devices. What's even more exciting is that this only scratches the surface of what's to come as we continue down this path of a Smarter Planet."
The ability of IBM MessageSight to handle and route tremendous volumes of messages makes it ideal for use by governments and organizations looking to connect and infuse intelligence into cities and across industries such as automotive, healthcare and finance.
For instance, an automotive manufacturer can use IBM MessageSight to help manage the features and services of its automobiles. With thousands of sensors in each car, a dealer can now be notified when a "check engine" light turns on in a specific car. Based on the information transmitted by the engine sensor, the dealer could then notify the owner that there is a critical problem and they should get their car serviced immediately.
"To realize the vision of a Smarter Planet, we must first enable the universe of instrumented sensors, devices and machines to communicate more efficiently while sharing, managing and integrating large volumes of data at a rate much faster than ever before," said Bob S. Johnson, director of development for Sprint's Velocity Program. "We have been testing IBM MessageSight for some initial projects and are excited about the capabilities that it could help us deliver to the vehicle and beyond."
The vast majority of the 22 billion sensors will be found in devices that are mobile. As a result, IBM MessageSight is designed to complement and extend the IBM MobileFirst offerings, now enabling a corporation to create mobile solutions, manage and monitor those mobile devices in real time. Introduced in February, IBM MobileFirst is a collection of mobile enterprise software, services, cloud and analytics capabilities that help a corporation design, deploy, secure and manage mobile strategies and apps. According to IDC, the market for mobile enterprise infrastructure software and services was $14.5 billion in 2012, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 16.3%. IDC expects this market to reach $30.9 billion in 2016.
Foundational to IBM MessageSight is its support of MQTT, which was recently proposed to become an OASIS standard, providing a lightweight messaging transport for communication in machine to machine (M2M) and mobile environments. Sensors are often small in size, have low power and typically low communications bandwidth capabilities. MQTT can be used in conjunction with these devices. Its low power consumption, high performance and reliability allow real time updates that can be acted upon immediately.
IBM MobileFirst Portfolio Delivers Expanded Mobile Analytics and Cloud Services to Clients
In other news, the IBM MobileFirst portfolio is being extended further today with the introduction of new mobile analytics capabilities and cloud services that enable corporations to design more engaging mobile offerings to reach customers, partners and employees in new and compelling ways. As a result, mobile apps can now be constantly tailored to meet the needs of the specific audience they are trying to reach.
Using mobile analytics to collect usage data is an effective and powerful way for companies to create a better user experience and target their customers. IBM's MobileFirst platform is the first in the industry to speed the process of building apps by enabling companies to seamlessly integrate analytics and capture the complete on-device experience of how customers are using apps, including insight into gestures, dwell time and navigation.
The IBM MobileFirst platform now includes geo-location services for developers. Now, geo-location triggers can be used to extend applications to take contextual action based on a user's location to provide personalized service. Featuring a new toolkit, developers can more efficiently monitor battery and network bandwidth. Additionally, newly integrated mobile app testing capabilities enable organizations to improve app quality while reducing the effort needed to test across different mobile platforms.
As mobile apps proliferate, the cloud has also emerged as a key enabler of this growth. Cloud delivery of mobile applications accelerates time to value and speed to market, making availability of new capabilities instantaneous. According to a recent MarketsandMarkets report, mobile cloud services are estimated to grow from $216.5 million in 2012 to $7.7 billion in 2017[iv].
To help organizations take advantage of this opportunity, IBM is also introducing new cloud services for mobile so that companies can focus on creating compelling user experiences, rather than spending time on back end connectivity and integration issues.
This includes a new mobile marketing service that helps organizations create digital passes for employees in Apple's Passbook. Accessed through the cloud, organizations can quickly design and issue passes for loyalty, events, ticketing, payments and more without having to purchase on-premise development tools.
In related news, IBM's recently announced acquisition of UrbanCode will also help its clients tap into new opportunities in mobile. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, UrbanCode automates the delivery of software, helping businesses quickly release and update mobile, social, big data and cloud-based apps.
About IBM MobileFirst
As the first new technology platform for business to emerge since the World Wide Web, mobile computing represents one of the greatest opportunities for organizations to expand their business. Based on nearly 1,000 customer engagements, 10 mobile-related acquisitions in the last four years, a team of thousands of mobile experts and 270 patents in wireless innovations, IBM MobileFirst offers an array of solutions that helps businesses connect, secure, manage and develop mobile networks, infrastructures and applications.
To learn more about IBM MobileFirst solutions visit the press kit or https://www.ibm.com/mobilefirst. Follow @ibmmobile and @ibmimpact on Twitter, and see IBM MobileFirst on YouTube, Tumblr and Instagram.
These new capabilities are on display at this year's IMPACT 2013 conference, which features more than 8,000 attendees and hundreds of client testimonials, presentations, workshops and product demos. For more information on IMPACT 2013, join the conversation on Facebook and tune in to the live stream here: www.ibm.com/impact/.
[i] "22 Million Web-Connected Devices 'by 2020'," Marc Chacksfield, August 18, 2010.
[ii] https://www.investingdaily.com/17095/big-data-a-special-report-on-a-rising-investment-trend-part-1/
[iii] https://www.atelier.net/en/trends/articles/data-and-internet-take-lot-space-real-world
[iv] https://www.marketsandmarkets.com/
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jLinq is a 100% JavaScript library that allows you to perform complex queries on arrays of JSON data. Instead of using for loops and if statements, you can write fluent queries to filter, sort and select the information you need.
Plus jLinq extensible so you can create your own functions and plug them straight into the library.
How Does jLinq Work?
jLinq is used for working with arrays of objects within Javascript. If you needed to collect a list of people with first names starting with a you could write a query similar to the one below.
//select records jlinq.from(data.source) .starts('first', 'a') .select(); //complex queries - no need to repeat names //when querying the same field jlinq.from(data.source) .starts('first', 'a') .or('b') .or('c') .sort('last') .select(); //sorting - multiple field jlinq.from(data.source) .greater('age', 40) .sort('age', 'name'); .select();


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Bring The Fresh White Teeth Back With These Tips
There are many ways to whiten teeth, some of which are done by dental professionals, and other done at home by over the counter products or natural methods. Most people would like to restore the natural white color of their teeth, and they would like to do this as naturally and as cost-effectively as possible. Read on to discover a few good ideas on how you can make it happen. You may not need to go down the expensive route.
Make a strawberry paste for white teeth. You can do this by mashing the strawberries up and applying the paste to your teeth using a brush. Leave this paste on your teeth for no longer than 10 minutes. Because of the acid in strawberries, using it for too long can irritate your gums.
Listerine teeth whitening mouthwash rinse is a great product to help you whiten your teeth. Within the first couple of weeks of usage you can easily see the difference in your teeth. Make sure to use twice a day- once in the morning and once at night. Listerine is strong in killing bad breath and whitens your teeth at the same time.
To make your teeth whitening results last as long as possible, cut back on your consumption of dark drinks like colas and coffee. Since most teeth whitening treatments strip away a layer of your tooth enamel, your teeth are more susceptible than ever to stains, making it more important than ever that you refrain from indulging in common staining culprits like soda, coffee and cigarettes.
Determine why your teeth are discolored before starting any whitening treatment. A trip to your dentist should answer this question. Knowing the cause of your discolored teeth will give you the best treatment options for your specific problems and therefore you will also get the best results too.
it is crucial that you wash your mouth out good after you are done brushing your teeth. By leaving even the smallest amount of toothpaste in your mouth, you are risking the chance of discoloration. After you are done brushing your teeth, swish the water around in your mouth for two minutes than spit.
Be sure that the teeth whitening trays fit your mouth correctly. If they do not fit well there is a good chance that they are going to cause you problems with your gums. If you notice that your gums are more sensitive or in any pain, stop using the product and see your dentist.
Avoid using mouthwashes that contain alcohol or have coloring added to them. These colorings are known to have a staining effect on your teeth. The chemicals that they use are also not good for you. One well known mouthwash has been known to stain your teeth a brownish color.
Whatever approach you decide to take, you must also keep these factors in mind. Teeth naturally have slightly different shades of white, so if your teeth are naturally off-white, do not try to go beyond that. You should never exceed the recommended doses and intervals of application. Finally, give it time! Aim for a very gradual improvement.


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Famed journalist Eric Sevareid once observed that "the chief cause of problems is solutions." With rumors swirling that the Warriors have a deal in place to send Anthony Randolph and possibly Ronny Turiaf, Kelenna Azubuike and/or Brandan Wright to New York for a signed-and-traded David Lee, the Warriors may have found a solution to their rebounding woes. The catch, however, lies in what other problems that solution may exacerbate.
The Marcus Thompson-reported rumor that triggered the latest round of Randolph-trade panic is short on specifics, and in a deal like this specifics matter. David Lee isn't a bad player and, in the abstract, the thought of swapping a rough, unproven, skinny third-year power forward for a former All Star sounds like a no brainer. Lee has a bigger name and better stats than Randolph — and both advantages matter to a front office always looking to sell its moves to an increasingly skeptical public. For your fantasy team or for the poor guy writing Warriors' press releases (you know, the guy who keeps misquoting Larry Riley), it's an easily defensible move. But in the real world — in the context of the NBA's worst defensive team — it's a big mistake.
In no particular order, here's why every justification for swapping Randolph for Lee falls apart on closer inspection:
Lee is a 20/10 guy — fans of Lee, like fans of Corey Maggette, always start with his stats. Both have spent their careers as good players on bad teams, so whatever their individual numbers, they haven't translated to wins. Lee's statistics give me particular pause since his two big years — 08-09 and 09-10 — were both contract years. For the two seasons before that, his numbers were 10/10 — essentially an Eastern Conference version of Andris Biedrins. As Erick Dampier repeatedly teaches teams, beware contract-year breakouts. But even assuming Lee's numbers are legitimate, they're no clear upgrade over Randolph. Equalizing at 40 minutes per game for last season, Lee averages 21.6 points, 12.6 rebounds, 3.9 assists, compared to Randolph's 20.5 points, 11.5 rebounds and 2.2 assists. Given that Randolph is 7 years younger than Lee and hasn't had a chance to play under a coach willing to use him in the same role for more than two games in a row, whatever slight advantage Lee has now statistically doesn't justify the trade for me — particularly when you consider that the Warriors will be adding at least one other productive rotation player (Turiaf, Azubuike, Wright).
Lee is a great rebounder — No doubt, but so is Anthony Randolph. Lee has a slight advantage both in rebounds per minute (.314 vs. .286) and rebounding percentage (17.9% vs. 16.0% — the percentage of available rebounds the player grabs when on the floor). The numbers get even closer when you consider Randolph's rookie numbers — a relatively healthy campaign — with Lee's most recent year (.324 vs. .314. and 17.5% vs. 17.9%). Given that Randolph is still adding strength to his body, I expect his numbers to continue to improve for a few years. In contrast, Lee is likely to start to lose some of his athleticism over the next 2-3 years, potentially limiting his impact. Again, given the near identical numbers between the two, I see no great upgrade in Lee. The Warriors definitely need rebounding help, but trading for Lee simply swaps one good rebounder for another — resulting in nearly no net gain. The team's rebounding woes had far more to do last year with injuries to Biedrins and Randolph and Nelson's small-ball rotations than they did with available rebounding talent. Despite Lee's impressive rebounding numbers, I'm not convinced a Lee/Biedrins/Udoh/Gadzuric rotation at 4/5 makes us a better rebounding team than Randolph/Biedrins/Turiaf/Udoh.
Lee is the beef the Warriors need — Not really. Just because Lee is stronger than Randolph, Wright and Udoh (but not Turiaf, who we would likely lose in the deal), doesn't mean he's strong enough to make a difference at either end of the court. His defense is famously poor against power players both big and small. He doesn't have traditional back-to-the-basket moves, so he's giving us nothing we need for half court sets. His interior offense comes mostly off put-backs and pick-and-rolls, just like our current power forward crop. Lee has excelled in the system most like Nelson's in the NBA. For those looking for a player that can thrive outside of Nelson's schemes, the Knicks are the last place we should be looking for help. Just because Lee looks like a bull in a china shop when he plays the Warriors doesn't mean that's how he'll perform against the rest of the NBA. I'd be much more willing to give up Randolph if we were getting a power forward that has low post offensive moves and the strength to guard the other team's go-to guy. Lee just isn't that player.
Lee will help us win now — Does David Lee stop Pau Gasol, Tim Duncan, Paul Milsap, LeMarcus Aldridge, Blake Griffin, Luis Scola, David West or Zach Randolph? Does he provide great help defense to slow down Andrew Bynum, Yao Ming, Al Jefferson, Greg Oden, or DeMarcus Cousins? If not, he's not going to be a player that helps the Warriors jump into playoff contention. Maybe he helps move us from 26 to 36 wins next year and the year after while he's still in his prime, but that still leaves us 14 wins short of this year's playoff threshold. And that's without considering the drag losing key rotation guys like Turiaf or Azubuike — two of our better defenders — would have on the squad. Don Nelson and Larry Riley may want to scrape out every win possible from the early 2010-11 season — either to campaign for their jobs or restore a bit of their reputation — but whatever minor gain Lee would bring us now won't be enough to turn the franchise into a serious playoff threat. Keeping and developing Randolph, on the other hand, gives the Warriors a high-ceiling player that — with admittedly significant risk — could end up being the type of superstar that elevates the team when allowed to grow with Curry. When you factor in Lee's potentially $80 million long-term contract on the books — a contract that would keep the Warriors from having max or near-max money in 2011 or 2012 — the coming David Lee era looks a lot like the "not good enough to succeed, not bad enough to rebuild" era that we've endured for far too long. We've been down this round before; it was bumpy.
I fully admit that I may overrate Anthony Randolph's potential in my reluctance to trade him, but there's one overriding reason I don't want to see the crumbling Cohan/Rowell/Riley/Nelson regime run him out of town in their (hopefully) final hours. More than any other player on the roster, Randolph has shown that he can be a dominant two-way player. He's the only guy we have that can be a game-changer at both the offensive and defensive end of the court. Curry has also shown flashes of this with his improved late-season defense, as did Ellis when he wasn't run ragged with 48-minute performances, but Randolph's size and demeanor give him the best shot of controlling games at both ends of the court. We've lived for so long through the offense-only line-ups rolled out by Nelson that I worry we've forgotten what a complete player looks like, and just how significant his presence can be on the court. Randolph isn't a complete player yet — but he has the best shot of anyone on the roster of growing into one. Warriors fans — not Knicks fans — should get the thrill of witnessing that development.


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Developers / Re: Transmission torrent on LinuxMCE« on: September 26, 2013, 01:03:46 am »
Okay, I'll look into this. I apologize that I hadn't done any install testing yet.
Also looks like it needs a predepends on transmission-daemon package.
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Okay, I'll look into this. I apologize that I hadn't done any install testing yet.
sip debug for asp3102 ata ip:
Please note that the spa3102 is serving fro two purposes:
1 - pstn line as a pots trunk - no way no register.
2 - line 1 as a sip extension 204 - this one registers and works.
i did change at the admin page the host to "dynamic" and protocol to "SPA".
Nothing changed, spa3102 showing
PSTN Line Status
Hook State: On Line Voltage: 66 (V)
Loop Current: 0.0 (mA) Registration State: Failed
So i did access the mysql asterisk table and under sipdevices, i've found that port was set to 5060, when it should be 5061 (see: http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Linksys_SPA3102). My older 8.10 also was configured to port 5061
peer details:
So, i did change 5060 to 5061.
Host: localhost
Database: asterisk
Generation Time: Sep 12, 2012 at 08:35 PM
Generated by: phpMyAdmin 3.3.2deb1 / MySQL 5.1.63-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
SQL query: SELECT * FROM `sip_devices` LIMIT 0, 30 ;
Rows: 2
id name context callingpres deny permit secret md5secret remotesecret transport host nat type accountcode amaflags callgroup callerid defaultip dtmfmode fromuser fromdomain insecure language mailbox pickupgroup qualify regexten rtptimeout rtpholdtimeout setvar disallow allow fullcontact ipaddr port defaultuser subscribecontext directmedia trustrpid sendrpid progressinband promiscredir useclientcode callcounter busylevel allowoverlap allowsubscribe allowtransfer ignoresdpversion template videosupport maxcallbitrate rfc2833compensate session-timers session-expires session-minse session-refresher t38pt_usertpsource outboundproxy callbackextension registertrying timert1 timerb qualifyfreq contactpermit contactdeny lastms regserver regseconds useragent
1 200 from-internal allowed_not_screened NULL NULL stsnt6114jeps7r3 NULL NULL udp,tcp NULL NULL friend NULL NULL NULL device <200> NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL 200@device NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL alaw;ulaw NULL NULL 5061 200 NULL no NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL yes yes yes no NULL no NULL yes accept 1800 90 uas NULL NULL NULL yes 500 NULL 120 NULL NULL 0 NULL 0 NULL
2 2122498618 from-trunk allowed_not_screened NULL NULL lmce NULL NULL udp,tcp dynamic never friend NULL NULL NULL 2122498618 NULL NULL spa3102 dynamic port,invite NULL NULL NULL yes NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL alaw;ulaw NULL NULL 5061 spa3102 NULL no NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL yes yes yes no NULL no NULL yes accept 1800 90 uas NULL NULL NULL yes 500 NULL 120 NULL NULL 0 NULL 0 NULL
Then i changed the protocol to SIP, and the asterisk log shows:
[Sep 12 21:06:36] ERROR[23452]: netsock2.c:263 ast_sockaddr_resolve: getaddrinfo("dynamic", "(null)", ...): No address associated with hostname
[Sep 12 21:06:36] WARNING[23452]: acl.c:582 resolve_first: Unable to lookup 'dynamic'
[Sep 12 21:06:36] WARNING[23452]: acl.c:711 ast_ouraddrfor: Cannot connect
[Sep 12 21:06:36] ERROR[23452]: chan_sip.c:3808 __sip_reliable_xmit: Serious Network Trouble; __sip_xmit returns error for pkt data
[Sep 12 21:06:36] NOTICE[23452]: chan_sip.c:13135 sip_reg_timeout: -- Registration for 'spa3102@dynamic' timed out, trying again (Attempt #7)
So, it did not work either.
Anyone do have the spa3102 working with lmce 1004?
Another question, regarding the dial rules, outbound, trunk sequences, registration string, etc: is there a way to define the dial rules? trunk sequence? registration string?
Thx in advance!
This is the output from lsusb for mine.
Bus 001 Device 009: ID 040b:7001 Weltrend Semiconductor
Do you get the same thing?
I do not know if the buttons were working or not.
I get the same output as you... but then I get that even without editing the the template. Also the transport buttons beneath the VFD work without editing the template.
So can you describe what you see in the VFD once you have edited the name of the template?
fixed the include on the language file
Couldn't find why you were getting the error message. This error message is flagged when no results are returned from the SQL query. Make sure that the /operations/mediaBrowser/playlists.php and operations/mediaBrowser/editPlaylist.php files have been copied over. Also, if you get the error message again, look at the address bar in the popup window and paste it here.. It should be something like index.php?section=exportPlaylist&playlistID=# where # is the ID of the playlist.


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Eric Knight will be performing at the NAMM show in Anaheim, California on Saturday January 16. The performance will take place at the MXL Microphones booth (#6866) at noon. Everyone attending the convention is encouraged to stop by and watch the performance.
Additionally, Eric Knight will be embarking on an educational tour this spring of LA area high schools. Dubbed "Music Business 101," the tour focuses bringing live performance and question and answer sessions to students interested in pursuing careers in the music industry. Knight is no stranger to this type of tour having participated in a similarly styled tour several years ago in Miami. That tour was met with rave reviews and attention from local press. "I think it's important to do shows like this," says Knight. "Its important because there are kids out there aspiring to be involved in this industry that may not realize all of the avenues and possibilities of how to get your foot in the door. You don't have to sell out the Staples Center or even get signed to major label to be a successful musician anymore. You just have to have talent and ambition."
About Eric Knight
Eric Knight has taken the contemporarily appropriate "do-it-yourself" attitude to a whole new level. Opening for acts including KISS, Dave Matthews Band, Aerosmith and Kid Rock, Knight has worked tirelessly to introduce his original music to the masses. In December 2008, he walked away with Outstanding Male Solo Artist bragging rights at the Rockies Awards in Hollywood. Dressed to kill in a sharp suit and tie, he offers a decidedly unbridled take on rock that remains tastefully aware of rock and roll's pioneers but determined to redefine it even as he picks up the torch. Knight is currently working on his third album, Delusions of Grandeur, slated for release later this year.


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Deadpool gets around. Not only doess the "merc with a mouth" make life for Marvel villains (and heroes) a merry hell, he's so popular that fans can't help but insert him into other pop culture universes in their fan art. The results, like Deadpool himself, range from the sublimely awesome to the awesomely ridiculous. Here's is just a small sampling of some of our favorite Deadpool crossover pictures that the Internet has to offer.
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StarPeace upcoming events around the world:
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- On the occasion of World Environment Day on June 5, amateur astronomy groups world wide have planned a unique event of having Candle Lights under Star Lights. Called Stars for Global Peace, this is an event to promote Global Harmony and Peace.
Several countries world wide from Brazil in the West to New Zealand in the East will participate. All these countries including Uruguay, India, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and Oman would gather in the evening of 5th June - World Environment Day at a designated venues like near the river bed, memorial areas, school compounds, public gardens, places of workshop, malls etc.
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Green Infrastructure in Lenexa, Kansas for Stormwater
Rainwater to Recreation
The city of Lenexa, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City, has a grand vision for a more sustainable and livable community. Part of this vision has been to embark on a green infrastructure project to address stormwater runoff in Central Green, a new 10-acre park within City Center North that offers an abundance of open green space, cascading ponds with stepping stones, and a well connected trail system. The green infrastructure project, called Rain to Recreation, has revitalized the surrounding natural habitat by transforming area rainwater from a disposal problem into an appealing recreational amenity.
The cascading ponds, otherwise called step pools, are designed to increase oxygen levels and reduce the flow rate of stormwater. The series of step pools lead to a constructed wetland with native plantings for naturally treating and absorbing the water. This innovative adaptation turned Lenexa's stormwater liability into an asset.
The four key goals of the Rain to Recreation program:
- Flood prevention – flood prevention involves investigating complaints of existing flooding as well as modeling streams for potential flooding. If homes are threatened, Rain to Recreation works to initiate a capital improvement project to solve the problem.
- Water protection – Rain to Recreation protects restored streams and other natural areas with best management practices to also prevent and reduce pollution. Native plantings, stream buffers, sediment bays, wetlands and bioretention cells are just a few of the ways Rain to Recreation works to keep water clean.
- Habitat restoration – Rain to Recreation aims to improve surrounding habitat by leaving the bottom of restored channels natural, and providing riffle and pool structures in all restored streams, as well as native corridors adjacent to the streams. Striving also to protect a habitat zone around lakes for future preservation; provide fish structures, such as brush piles and sand beds in lakes, and nesting boxes for a variety of birds.
- Education and recreation – A vital part of every project is educating the community, whether it's generating buy-in from the beginning, outlining recreational amenities like trails and playgrounds, or setting outlines for how to protect areas after construction. Rain to Recreation works to engage local citizens, businesses, and other area stakeholders to increase communication and satisfy needs.
Central Green Park – A Constructed Wetland
The main feature of Lenexa's green infrastructure project for Central Green park is the stream way. The Central Green stream way drains 65 acres of rainwater runoff that is guided through seven constructed step pools to slow the flow and oxygenate the rainwater as it pours over rock prior to ending up in the constructed wetland. The wetland area is planted with native plants to support filtration of the rainwater. The roots of these native plants penetrate deep within the soil turning the soil into a big sponge that can easily soak up the rainwater. Through this bio-remediation process, stormwater quality is dramatically improved and easily absorbed on the property. This innovative stormwater management approach transforms stormwater from a cost to a benefit, not only for the natural environment, but also for social and recreational enjoyment for the community.
Take a virtual tour of Lenexa's green infrastructure.
Lenexa One of America's Most Livable Cities
As a result of the city of Lenexa's vision, Lenexa was named one of the best places to live in the U.S. by Money Magazine in 2011. Also Lenexa has become a role model for other communities interested in reaping the benefits that green infrastructure design can bring to a community – showcasing their design process and outcomes so other communities can easily model and build upon their own stormwater management programs. Lenexa's dedication to their vision shows the value of innovative stormwater management, watershed protection techniques, use of native plant species, along with recreational amenities and environmental education for community members – making Lenexa a better place for today and for the future.
EPA Supports Green Stormwater Management in Lenexa, Kansas
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), along with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, contributed funding toward Lenexa's green infrastructure project for Central Green. EPA's stormwater website Managing Wet Weather with Green Infrastructure – summarizes common green infrastructure approaches and key resources for research, funding and partnerships. The EPA recognizes the need for resilient and affordable solutions to the many frail infrastructures in need of replacement or repair. Green infrastructure is one solution. You can join GreenStream, and EPA listserv featuring updates on green infrastructure publications, training and funding opportunities by sending an email to this link.
Following is the EPA video clip detailing the Lenexa's green infrastructure project for Central Green:


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Bracebridge is a town and the seat of the Muskoka District Municipality in Ontario, Canada.
The town was built around a waterfall on the Muskoka River in the centre of town, and is known for its other nearby waterfalls (Wilson's Falls, High Falls, etc.). It was first incorporated in 1875. It was named after a book, Bracebridge Hall by Washington Irving, that the postmaster in charge of naming towns was reading at the time. The same novel also provided the name for nearby Gravenhurst.
The town is the seat of the district government, a centre of tourism for the Muskoka area, and home to several historical sites, such as the Inn at the Falls, Woodchester Villa, and the Silver Bridge, which joins Manitoba Street with Ecclestone Drive. The Silver Bridge was repaired in 2002. Bracebridge is also the home of the Muskoka Cottage Brewery.
Graydon Smith is the current mayor.
The character of the town of Bracebridge is shaped by its proximity to Lake Muskoka to which it is connected by 6 miles of the Muskoka River, and by the promise of abundant water power afforded by the great waterfall at the foot of the town. Early growth of the town occurred in proximity to the falls which powered the first factory. The arrival of the Grand Trunk Railway cemented the town's role as a transportation hub for the area.
Modern settlement of the town began in the 1860s, beginning at first with a few log huts. The Muskoka colonization road had been completed to the first falls on the north branch of the Muskoka River by 1862. Entrepreneurs began to take advantage of the area's water power. With the advent of steamship service on Lake Muskoka a few years later, Bracebridge prospered as the main distribution centre for the region.
By 1869, Bracebridge was a village with a population of 160 in the Township of Macaulay County, Victoria. It was established on the Muskoka River. There were stages in winter and boats in summer from Barrie to Washago. The average price of wild land was $2 to $5 an acre while improved land was $10 per acre.
By 1870 the village had a population of about 400, growing to reach a total of about 2,000 by the turn of the 20th century. The village was incorporated in 1875 and became a town under an Act of Parliament in 1889. In 1894 Bracebridge became the first town in Ontario to have its own hydro generating station.
The municipal boundaries of Bracebridge also encompass the smaller communities of Clear Lake, Falkenburg (ghost town), Falkenburg Station, Fraserburg, Germania, Lakewood, Matthiasville, Monsell (ghost town), Purbrook, Rocksborough, Springdale Park, Stoneleigh, Uffington and Vankoughnet.
The Bracebridge Towne Express trolley, sponsored by Santa's Village, provides the town with local public transport. However, it only makes trips to Santa's Village on Sunday afternoons during the summer season.
The Bracebridge railway station no longer receives service as the Ontario Northland Northlander line was discontinued by the Ontario government. Bracebridge receives coach bus service departing from the Riverside Inn that takes passengers as far south as Toronto and as far North as North Bay. Bracebridge is the home and main hub of Muskoka Transport, a successful shipping and receiving company owned and operated by the Hammond family.
The town of Bracebridge built a state of the art Sportsplex in 2006 which contains a rock climbing wall, indoor track, eight-lane swimming pool and fitness studio. The town partnered with the Muskoka Limberettes Gymnastics Club to create a gymnastics facility in the same building. The Sportsplex is part of the same complex including the Bracebridge and Muskoka Lakes Secondary School and Rene M. Caisse Memorial Theatre. Bracebridge also opened a new 3.75 Million dollar softball venue called Peake Fields at Verena Acres. This facility supports a Mens League, Women's League, and Minor Ball, as well as slow pitch. It was opened this summer on August 15. The Mens fastball League has been running for some 35 years, and has produced 4 Ontario Intermediate Fastball Championships, and 3 Canadian Championships, with all local players.
Bracebridge is the home of Santa's Village, a Christmas theme park, established in 1955. It was inspired by the town's location at 45 degrees latitude, halfway between the equator and the North Pole. Bracebridge also contains Woodchester Villa, an unusual octagonal house.
This information is provided by the WikiPedia, the original article can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracebridge,_Ontario


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DENVER – God is rooting for Tebow and the Broncos. And the signs were everywhere during the Broncos-Steelers playoff game.
The proof is in… God is on Tebow's side. And He wants the Broncos to win it all.
Tim Tebow connected with Demaryius Thomas on an electrifying 80-yard touchdown pass on the first play of overtime and the Broncos defeated the stunned Steelers 29-23 in the AFC wild-card game on Sunday. Wild doesn't begin to describe it. The play took 11 seconds and was the quickest ending to an overtime in NFL history.
Thomas hauled in a high play-action pass at the Denver 38, stiff-armed Ike Taylor and then outraced Ryan Mundy to the end zone. Tebow, who looked as startled as everyone else, headed for his own end zone and knelt on one knee — a gesture known far and wide these days as Tebowing. Then he pounded a fist in triumph and took a victory lap.
"When I saw him scoring, first of all, I just thought, `Thank you, Lord,"' Tebow said. "Then, I was running pretty fast, chasing him — Like I can catch up to D.T! Then I just jumped into the stands, first time I've done that. That was fun. Then, got on a knee and thanked the Lord again and tried to celebrate with my teammates and the fans."
Tebow threw for 316 yards. One of the most popular Bible verses is John 3:16. Here is the famous quote from that bible verse:
"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life."
Coincidence? Maybe? But what about these other facts about the game last night.
1) OFFICIATING CREW. One of the refs for last night's game was Julian Mapp (#52). Julian's nickname since grade school? Moses.
2) WATER. Players for the Broncos confirmed that during halftime, the water in one of the tubs on the sidelines had changed into wine!
3) 50. Due to injuries the Broncos only had 50 players in uniform last night. In the Bible, the word "pentecost" means fifty and The Holy Spirit was given fifty days after Jesus' resurrection. Fifty is also the year of jubilee.
4) 52. The Steelers only had 52 players in uniform last night. In the Bible sll the names of satan are divisible by thirteen. Israel rebelled against God thirteen times in the wilderness. 13 x 4 = 52 = The Steelers.
5) BRONCOS. "Broncos" are mentioned in some translations of the bible. The meaning of a Bronco in the Bible: power, strength, conquest, war.
6) TEBOWING. This is when Tim Tebow gets down on one knee and prays after a touchdown. It is also reminiscent of Auguste Rodin's sculputre, "The Thinker". The Thinker was originally intended to depict Dante at the Gates of Hell, making a choice between Heaven and Hell.
7) UFOS. There were over two dozen fans who spotted "UFOs" over Mile High Stadium last night. The U.N. Panel on Extraterrestrials confirmed to WWN that they were NOT alien spaceships. Many religious leaders believe they were, in fact,… angels.
Will God be with the Broncos and Tebow when they play the Patriots at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts? What do you think?


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The Picture Thread
We're a society primarily founded on text, but technological advances of the last few years have given us the ability to boldly expand into a brand new universe: that of images! If you want us to know what you look like, link some of your pics in this thread. There are a few notes of import, though.
A good first step would be reading the SPPf and Misc rules.
Second, this thread is for pictures involving you. You and your pets, your friends, your garden, there's a lot for you to work with. Don't post some internet stock image as a hilarious joke. That's spam. Also, you need to be decently clothed. This thread isn't a Calvin Klein ad, and even if you are in fact a CK underwear model, you still need to be wearing your clothes in your pictures here. Nobody's going to ask you out, anyway.
Third, obey the Golden Rule. If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all. The lovechild of Gilbert Gottfried and Mister Ed could post his picture here, and saying something unpleasant (if honest) about his looks would still just color you as a jerk.
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First inaugural use of the word 'gay'
President Barack Obama on Monday became the first president to use the word "gay" in an inaugural address in reference to sexual orientation, making two references to gay rights as he began his second term.
"Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law — for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well," Obama said during his speech.
( See also: Complete coverage of the Inauguration 2013)
POLITICO searched all prior inaugural addresses online and found no previous uses of the word "gay" in regard to sexual orientation.
Obama also invoked the Stonewall Riots, a historic event in the gay rights movement, coupling it to references to signature legendary moments in the civil rights and women's suffrage movements. The riots were sparked by a 1969 police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village.
"We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths — that all of us are created equal — is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall," Obama said.
( See also: Obama inaugural address (full text, video))
Immediate after the speech, commentators said Obama's references to the gay rights movement were historic for a president.
"For a president who only recently, to use his word, evolved on the issue of same-sex marriage, he made very forceful statements in this inaugural address, actually, historic statements on equal rights for gay and lesbian Americans," said CNN's Anderson Cooper, who is openly gay.
"Putting in the same category Seneca Falls back in 1848 when a Women's' rights convention was held there, in Selma, Alabama, 1965, when Alabama state troops attacked civil rights marchers, in those same category as Seneca Falls and Selma, he put Stonewall, the Stonewall Uprising which took place in New York's Greenwich Village in 1969 on June 27 when police raided a small gay bar called The Stonewall and tenants and patrons at that bar fought back," he continued. "And that was really the spark the modern day civil rights movement for gay and lesbian Americans, and he went on to talk about gay and lesbian Americans, saying 'our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law, for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.' I think that's the first time … in an inaugural address where gay and lesbian Americans were particularly cited."


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{ Thanks, Dom Elliott. }
January 27, 2009
Ten Years of Google (Video)
This video highlights some of the most interesting services released or acquired by Google in the past 10 years: from web search to search ads, from image search to Google News, from Gmail to iGoogle, from Google Earth to Street View, from YouTube to Android and Chrome. And these are only the first 10 years.
{ Thanks, Dom Elliott. }
{ Thanks, Dom Elliott. }
Posted by Alex Chitu at 1/27/2009 07:48:00 AM
9 comments:
- AnonymousJanuary 27, 2009 at 8:37 AM
cool video!ReplyDelete
I like Google :)ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousJanuary 27, 2009 at 3:19 PM
I've been used Google Search since 2000. I use a lot the ohter Google's tools like Docs, Calendar and Reader. At the moment there are 5 tabs on my Firefox with Google's tools.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 27, 2009 at 3:34 PM
ALL YOU PEOPLE WANT MORE MORE MORE!ReplyDelete
Incredible... ten years just passed in front of my eyesReplyDelete
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Can't wait to see what the next ten years brings.
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You can download the latest PlumpOS package under the terms of the GPL, without warranty of any kind, from any PlumpOS mirror. Upon downloading, unpack the archive
$ tar -xvzf plumpos-6.9-rc1.tar.gz
First let's familiarize with the directory structure here. There should be 3 directories:
rootdisk, which contains the layout of the iso to be created;
scripts, which contains small programs used to help in the creation of the iso;
final, which will contain the ISO generated by the whole process.
If you intend on using your own kernel with PlumpOS, there are several steps you must follow in order for it to boot properly. First you must make a new directory in the rootdisk/kernels/ directory that will be in the old and often blamed DoS 8.3 character format and only contain letters and numbers (and a single '.'). In that directory you should put a file named bzImage which is your kernel and a file named modules.tgz which is a gzipped tarball of your kernel's modules (with the relative path of lib/modules/ so it can be extracted from the root dir). Optionally you can also provide the System.map and config file for your kernel. When this is done you may simply run the install program and it will detect and install your kernel(s) for use with the generated ISO.
Now, say you want to include a 3rd party add-on package. This is done very simply: create a gzipped tarball containing all the files you want to include in your package (relative to "/") and put these packages into the rootdisk/packages/ directory. Then edit the file rootdisk/packages/list and add the path relative to / on the ramdisk where the package can be located (in other words for a package named "openssl.tar.gz", add the line "/cdrom/packages/openssl.tar.gz" to the file rootdisk/packages/list). Optionally you can use a line such as "cdrom:openssl.tar.gz" which will automatically search the cdrom's packages directory for the package "openssl.tar.gz". In future releases this will be useful for things like nfs and boot floppies, so for now don't worry about it ;)