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This could get really interesting if us guys who make a living out of wearing kilts gets to the attention of these lawyers.
I am referring of course to myself, Badpiper, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and of course not forgetting all the Scots regimental bands, ah, that would also include many US Police and Fire Service bands too!
Oh and just to throw another legal spanner in the works here. How about a possibly devolved Scottish Parliament suing the lot of them for use of a centuries old traditional 'trademark' dress? Well that would sort out a hole in their budget eh?
Hang on a minute, there have already been many people arrested for what they post/download from the Internet. As several other less official bodies have proved, if you go on the net anywhere,the chances are someone is going to find out. Creating a 'bill' isn't going to start anything, it might actually make it harder for the Canadian govt. to use such evidence!
Being a politician does not require technical knowledge obviously!
HEARTLAND (Heart - Land) = oxymoron. Can anyone with half a braincell actually functioning, listen to Heartland's opinions and believe anything this bunch of financially driven muppets come out with?
The idea that they could actually take on all those who think they suck, proves conclusively that they have absolutely no grasp on reality in the first place!
(My sincere apologies to the Muppets for the abuse of their name.)
GCHQ, FBI and NSA have all dabbled with this and frankly, I doubt they could collectively butter toast without an instruction manual!
"... government-granted monopolies are necessary to encourage innovation in a market. The idea is that, without such protectionism, no one would bother innovating, because they'd know that others would immediately copy them."
1/ Monopolies and innovation don't really happen in the real world, not together anyway.
2/ Brilliant minds will innovate, protected or otherwise. Someone once said innovation is like sex, protect it and you remove the whole point!
3/ If someone copies your idea, it was good one. If they do it cheaper, your business model is rubbish.
4/ And finally, put the word 'government' in anything with innovation and all you get is FUBAR!
Yup,.. FFS,.. red-neck, brain-dead and off another planet!
I've had EXACTLY the scenario mentioned here happen to me, a major TV company used my music with no credits to me. (They even credited it to their own in-house composer!)
I didn't waste time with legal crap that would have seen me paying a stack of money to some smart-ass legal team, I just contacted another TV network and sold them the story, complete with permission to use the track. It worked a treat! 1st company took issue with 2nd company, got very red-faced and also gave me a few more quid to say sorry. I sold a few hundred albums straight off the back of that and I couldn't have bought that kind of publicity as an independent!
To be honest, of some really smart little geek feels the need to text behind the wheel of a ton of metal at 60 mph,.. let the natural laws of selection sort them out and take that link out of the gene-pool!
The first 'mobile device' I had was a rather bulky thing the size or a couple of house-bricks and weighed considerably more due to the power being gel-acid batteries! Ok, so I must be an old fart and I'll admit to that.
Point about China having so many knock-off items is that nearly everything you buy with a very expensive western logo on it was made in China anyway! If western companies did not outsource to places where they take advantage of workers being paid a pittance for their skills, those workers might have the money to afford the 'genuine article',.. rather than having to create something more suited to their meagre incomes.
That also begs the question, if these 'knock-offs are so cheap yet have the same functions, why are we paying so far over the odds? Oh,.. some posh git wants a new Ferrari,..
At the end of a long day, or night for that matter, I don't think the average punter givesh ash it.
Maybe the lawyers behind this were that crew Messrs Nummb & Nummber?
Hang on, you are using the word 'trust' in a sentence that include a government department, this is a prime example of an 'oxymoron'.
Anyone who understands politicians knows that political 'transparency' is akin the the glass used for welding masks, photon blasts and solar observations!
Here in the UK, we use the term 'banker' as an alternative to e 'W' word.
It seems the two are pretty commonly one and the same individual.
Haha,.. yup I already use that technology for censorship of TV!!
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is!
If a government wants to get hold of anything, we know all too well they will, especially if getting hold of it is supposed to be difficult!
Conversely, if they ain't supposed to lose stuff,... it turns up on the internet!
".. we need to draw the line somewhere to protect children from runaway consumerism, then this lawsuit makes sense."
So then we also need to sue a load of churches or religions who 'brainwash' our kids, politicians who visit schools to influence 'future voters', the list would get very silly.
The answer is not legislation but better parenting, a TV is NOT a babysitter!!
There is of course plently of green technology happening and many people are using it. What possibly thows the patent offices, is that a very large chunk of it is developed very much as open source technology.
The attitude of most inventors/innovators in 'green tech' is that the patents process makes such developments far too expensive for the resulting inventions to benefit the environment,.. so they publish the whole thing as free and it then gets far greater use with other applications built around it.
The 'green tech' community has been telling governments and legal bodies to 'foxtrot-oscar' for years!
Probably more a case of some parent wanting the kids to stop asking for the cool stuff they see.
"If they don't do the test, how does the EPA have any oversight? What if there was another part of the vehicle that was bad for the air? Maybe it had no tailpipe, but the electric motor spit out noxious fumes as a byproduct?"
Er,.. I think this is more a matter of officials in government offices having absolutely no idea what any of the legislation they pump out actually applies to. They probably don't have collectively, enough technical knowledge to pass an elementary physics exam.
I'm surprised they have the wits to make a decent legal case!
I'm a musician and songwriter but my other passion is electronics and I've worked in that for years. It's interesting to see that in many cases when new technology has been introduced, it gets cloned into some musical application before the rest of the world has even 'got their boots on'.
The first magnetic recorders were supposed to be for communications but Bing Crosby saw the chance to try them for music. Hendrix liked the way his guitar sounded when a small transistor blew, we now have distorted guitar on nearly everything!
If the artist is left to get on with tye creative process that is in his/her head, rather than what is in the mind of some banker in accounts,.. the possibilities are endless!
As this brilliant novelty proves all too well.
Well yes you do have a point. I don't think that will remove X-Rays from hospitals though and to be honest, the risk of being killed by a random X-Ray is a heck of a lot less than the risk from a random IED driven into your town by a random religious nutter!


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Delighted to be selected in the 20, Congrats to everyone esle selected. Looks a good side.
Exciting looking line up, should be good competition for all spots
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didn't make it. i wasn't expecting to, but i had put in a couple of good performances - even though the team did not perform well. then again, there is always next time!
Just seen the squad.
Thanks for the priviledge of leading the team. A true honour and a future quiz question.
Congrats to all that made the squad, it looks very strong. Im sure we will do CW proud.
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Congratulations first of all to Goughy and Nathan for being appointed captain and vice captain, I'm sure you will do a fantastic job. Secondly congratulations to all my team mates at Central United who made it in, good to see our efforts are coming with a reward. Also I'm very happy to be in the squad but I hope I can still put in some good performances to try and make the next cut.
2/6 defenders isn't bad either Travis.
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Nah you deserve it, you kept your team in pretty much all the games with some quality keeping. Guys like Ritchie, Dunn, Cameron etc haven't had much to do, cus they have good defences infront of them.
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Maybe. However, it was still a shock.Originally Posted by chaminda_00
The Squad announced today was sprinkled with players from all sides.. With plenty of competition across the park. Central United dominated selections with 5 players, whilst the major talking point being competition leaders Western Dynamo were only gaining 3 spots.
maybe its because we're a star team, rather than a team of stars.
(Have to save some face)
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We're lucky thats a singular and not a Team of Kennetts or we would really be in troubleOriginally Posted by dontcloseyoureyes
Honour to be selected, congrats to every one else selected, especially Goughy on the captaincy.
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text: This is discouraging... (Next email: a response from Jane Margolis) Software Development - November 2004 Women in Software: Open Source, Cold Shoulder Proponents of open source software often describe their campaign as a great equalizer: Not only is it freely available, but anyone who wants to help can do so. But does the community welcome all with open arms? By Michelle Levesque and Greg Wilson ... Proponents of free, libre and open source software (FLOSS) often describe their campaign as a struggle for civil rights. They portray FLOSS as a great equalizer: Not only is it freely available to everyone, but anyone who wants to help shape it can do so, regardless of race, nationality, faith, politics or sexual preference. But for a movement that claims to be open to all, very few women are involved. Take a look at the roster of speakers at OReillys annual Open Source Conference, or at the names of core developers on any of the thousands of successful FLOSS projects. While the gender ratio in the industry as a whole is roughly five to one, the ratio in FLOSS appears to be several hundred to one. Our aim is not to complain yet again about gender imbalance in computing. Instead, we believe that the gender skew in FLOSS is the most visible symptom of a fundamental unfriendliness in that community. We also believe that if this unfriendliness is not addressed, it will limit FLOSSs growth and success more than misconceived lawsuits or FUD from would-be monopolists. Here, well compare the current state of FLOSS with that of industry, examine why FLOSS is so much more unwelcoming, and speculate on its other effects. The State of Play People often speak of the FLOSS community, but that phrase implies a degree of coherence that has never existed. While the stereotypical FLOSS programmer is a volunteer working for the general good on his own time, a lot of todays FLOSS is actually produced by programmers working full-time for corporations such as IBM and Red Hat, who do it because its their job. Were primarily interested in the volunteers, both because its the way most programmers first encounter the movement, and because its the easiest area on which to gather data. That data is depressing. Despite claims that FLOSS is based on a bazaar model, as Eric Raymond famously dubbed it in his 1998 online essay, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, almost all successful projects rely on a fairly small team of core developers. Many have a single chief architect (such as Linus Torvalds for Linux, Larry Wall for Perl and Guido van Rossum for Python). An increasing number of these architects are non-white, non-Anglophone and/or gay, but to date, weve been unable to find a single widely known FLOSS project whose chief architect is female. In fact, searches through the mailing lists of prominent FLOSS projects (such as Python and the Apache Web server) usually fail to turn up any names that are unambiguously female. This evidence of gender imbalance is corroborated by less anecdotal data, such as the ratio of male to female authors in OReillys catalog or the gender ratio of speakers at conferences. There are two possible explanations for this: Either women are concealing their gender online, or the forces that discourage women from entering computing in general are operating far more powerfully in FLOSS. Theres much anecdotal evidence for the former. For example, after a post about gender issues in his weblog, columnist Jon Udell received mail from several women saying that they used gender-neutral pseudonyms online to avoid attracting the wrong kind of attention. The first author found out exactly what kind of attention that was after writing an article for First Monday that appeared on Slashdot. The flurry of mail that followed included more than a few inquiries about whether she was single, whether she had a webcam and so on. A posting several weeks later by the second (male) author elicited no such inquiries (although it did result in several offers to refinance his mortgage at low, low rates). Use of pseudonyms might explain some of the gender imbalance apparent in mailing lists and at conferences, but it doesnt explain the near-total absence of women as FLOSS project leads. We are therefore left with our second hypothesis: Whatever forces are discouraging women from entering computing are even more pronounced in FLOSS. Exposing Root Causes In 1995, Jane Margolis (see Explaining the Enthusiasm) and Allan Fisher began a multiyear project at Carnegie Mellon University to examine the forces that contribute to the gender imbalance in computing, interviewing 100 computer science undergraduates of both genders over four years. In Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing (MIT Press, 2001), Margolis and Fisher identify several factors that contribute to the gender imbalance in computing, many of which are magnified in FLOSS. One issue is the experience gap. Males entering the field generally begin their studies with far more prior computing experienceboth formal and informalthan their female peers. As a result, many female students lose confidence because they feel that their classmates already know everything. As well, many male students have friends they can learn from. The effects of the experience gap are more pronounced in FLOSS because most FLOSS projects have very steep learning curves. FLOSS software is notorious for missing or out-of-date documentation, and for requiring more effort than commercial off-the-shelf software to install and configure. People with an established support community are much more likely to make it over this hump than unconfident beginners with fewer experienced contacts. Margolis and Fisher also found that the average female computer science student had a broader range of interests than her male counterpart. As a result, she was less likely to want to spend all of her free time in front of a computer. I know guys who live to program, or at least they seem to. You find them on the weekends doing nothing but programming, one female student says in Unlocking the Clubhouse. Brian Behlendorf, cofounder of Apache, agrees. I certainly do see what I would call alpha male behavior in open source; you know, thump your chest and be the hunter-gatherer. I may be treading on dangerous ground here, but I think its because these developers dont show up because they have a day job and were asked to join the community, Behlendorf says. Its something they decided to spend their personal time on. Men are more likely to become gamers or follow some technical pursuit in their free time. I dont see as high an incidence of women exploring this out of personal interest. Since FLOSS volunteers work on these projects on their own time, womens preference for well-rounded lives makes them less likely to become involved. The most important factor, however, is the prominent geek/hacker culture that dominates the FLOSS community. In his 1984 book Hackers (Anchor Press/Doubleday), Steven Levy describes it like this: You would hack and you would live by the Hacker Ethic, and you knew that horribly inefficient and wasteful things like women burned too many cycles, occupied too much memory space. Twenty years later, FLOSS has become a haven for the antisocial singular-interest geek: a club where they are safe from the jeers of high school jocks and the pity of college peers who actually have something to do on Friday nights. Challenges to this culture are often taken very personally; anyone who points out that its an unwelcoming environment for most people (male as well as female) is flamed or simply dismissed. This makes anyone who doesnt fit the geek profile feel unwelcome. LinuxChix is just one example of a community formed by and for women to provide a supportive and friendly environment where they can discuss FLOSS without feeling like intruders. Jenn Vesperman, the sites maintainer, writes in a mailing list posting, What do you think LinuxChix is FOR? Its to provide a way for women to realistically get into the geek community. We certainly arent welcome at Slashdot. When asked about the large gender imbalance in FLOSS development, many women relate stories about harassment or other inappropriate treatment at a FLOSS meeting or in a FLOSS newsgroup. Since most FLOSS projects arent affiliated with a company, university or other accountable body, civilized behavior isnt enforced. Helen Faulkner, of the University of Sheffield, believes that women have to deal with more sexism in FLOSS because no one is present to police it. A FLOSS mailing list shes active in suddenly received numerous posts that displayed a sexist attitude that she considers ample cause for women to avoid joining in open source: If Id been a total stranger to that community, I dont think I would have persisted, and probably wouldnt have posted at all, because its too difficult and unpleasant dealing with entrenched sexism, she says. Many (male) programmers dismiss this sort of comment out of hand, but you have to wonder whether the OSCON speaker who decorated his slides with illustrations of men and women from the Kama Sutra would have been comfortable if another speaker had used similar images of gay men. It doesnt take much for these factors to seriously harm the gender balance in FLOSS communities. Even a slight increase in hostility can have a significant impact on the skew. This is just the nature of bell curves in a large population, says popular blogger and author Joel Spolsky of Fog Creek Software in New York. Take two overlapping bell curves plotting interest in computer scienceone curve for women and one curve for men. Assume that men are just 1 percent more interested in computer science than women, and shift their bell curve 1 percent to the right. Now if you try to select for the 1 percent of people who are most interested in computer science, youre going to get 99 percent men, even where theres only a tiny difference in the average interest. Small changes in the mean can result in big effects on the tail end of the bell curve. Collateral Damage We believe that FLOSSs hard-core geek culture is the cause of most of FLOSSs other problems. This mostly-male club is doing FLOSS considerable damage and limiting its potential growth. For example, a core element of geek culture is a focus on hard technical issues, such as operating system internals and network stacks, with a corresponding scorn for human issues, such as usability and user interface design. When people (male and female) who care about usability attempt to contribute to FLOSS projects, theyre often ignored, jeered at or told, What do you mean, its ugly? I can use it! The result? Linux desktops like KDE/Gnome, which no one but a propellerhead could love. Mac OS X is proof that it is possible to build a usable environment on top of Unix; its ironic to compare the rush to clone Microsofts .NET to the indifference with which FLOSS developers have greeted Apples user interface. The FLOSS boys club atmosphere also damages public relations. FLOSS advocates eccentricity and stridency are often better known than their positions on technical and legal matters. Consequently, decision makers often discount what those advocates have to say simply because they cant take them seriously. The greatest harm done by FLOSSs cold shoulder is that it chases people away. This is the real cost of any discrimination, including the passive discrimination created by unwelcoming environments. When users (and developers) feel that theyre not welcome, theyll invest their time elsewhere. What remains is a community that suffers from a lack of diversity and new ideas. Only those who match the definition of a hard-core geek remain, and thus the cycle perpetuates itself. Stunted Growth or Sustained Harvest? For 20 years, FLOSS has leaped from strength to strength. From Richard Stallmans GNU manifesto in 1985, its become a significant part of corporate IT and serves as the glue that holds the Internet together. However, FLOSS may have already plucked all of the low-hanging fruit. Further growth will require more effort and fundamental changes. If FLOSS continues to turn a cold shoulder to people who care about more than just toys for boys, it must accept the fact that otherswho have wider interests and prioritieswill shape the future of computing. ---- Michelle Levesque (ml at cs.toronto.edu) is an active participant in the free/libre/open source community and an undergraduate student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. Greg Wilson (greg.wilson at hp.com) is a C++/Java programmer in the Select Access product group at Hewlett-Packard and serves as adjunct professor of computer science at the University of Toronto.


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NEW YORK, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- A poll of men and women using a dating app on Facebook or cellphones found about one-third of U.S. singles expect to have sex on Valentine's Day.
The Web site AreYouInterested.com, with more than 1.3 million fans on its Facebook Fan Page, conducted an online poll the week of Feb. 6 among 515 male and female respondents. The survey indicated 33 percent of respondents admitted checking the Facebook status of an ex to see if they had plans on Valentine's Day.
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BELLEFONTE, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- The defense team for Jerry Sandusky, who is accused of sexually abusing 10 boys over a 15-year period, rested on Wednesday without the former assistant football coach taking the stand.
Defense attorney Joe Amendola had told reporters earlier to "stay tuned" to see whether the former Penn State University defensive coordinator would testify. It was thought his testimony could provide the opening that prosecutors needed to introduce new evidence against the former coach.
In a segment that wasn't included in NBC's November 2011 broadcast of an interview with sportscaster Bob Costas, Sandusky said that he "didn't go around seeking out every young person for sexual needs that I've helped."
There are likely "many young people who would come forward and say that my methods and what I had done for them made a very positive impact on their life," the ex-coach said in the segment, which court observers thought prosecutors might want to introduce as new evidence in the case.
Sandusky, 68, is on trial on 51 counts related to accusations of child sex abuse.
After the defense rested, the prosecution said it had no further rebuttal witnesses, and the judge scheduled closing arguments to begin at 9 a.m. Thursday.
The prosecution had called its only rebuttal witness on Tuesday, to counter testimony that raised questions about Sandusky's mental health.
Dr. Elliot Atkins testified that he diagnosed Sandusky with histrionic personality disorder, a class of conditions called dramatic personality disorders, which are marked by unstable emotions and distorted self-images. But a second psychologist, prosecution witness Dr. John O'Brien, disputed those findings, saying that the "personality profile Mr. Sandusky exhibited was within normal limits."
Following closing arguments on Thursday, the jury is expected to retire to begin its deliberations.
Meanwhile, at least one trial observer had said there was good reason for the defense to call Sandusky to the stand. Veteran criminal defense attorney Ron Kuby said Sandusky is facing a "tsunami of evidence against him," and suggested that taking take the stand may be a way to help his case.
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Prosecutors wrapped up their case Monday.
On Tuesday, Sandusky's wife told jurors that she could remember at least six of her husband's accusers staying overnight at their house, and said she did not witness any sexual abuse.
Dottie Sandusky recalled that one of the accusers had once traveled with them to a bowl game in San Antonio, Texas, where she and her husband shared a hotel room with the boy.
Many of the accusers testified that they knew Dottie Sandusky, who is not accused of having witnessed the alleged abuse.
She testified that children would often sleep at the Sanduskys' house and that "we would give them a choice of where they wanted to sleep."
Her husband also was the one to put the children to bed, typically, she said. She told jurors that "he would go downstairs and tell them good night."
The final prosecution witness testified Monday that her son seemed to suffer from stomach ailments during the times he was visiting Sandusky and sometimes did not want to visit the former Penn State assistant's home.
But she said she didn't ask him about any possible abuse and still does not know what happened to him.
"I didn't really want to hear," she said, crying.
The defense then opened its case with a former Penn State coach who testified about Sandusky's stellar reputation in the community.
Richard Anderson said it was not uncommon for coaches and youths to use the shower at the same time, and that he had never seen anything inappropriate between Sandusky and a child.
The defense called five other witnesses who supported the view of Sandusky's good reputation in the community.
"A lot of people lied," Amendola had said in his opening statement.
Over four days, several prosecution witnesses testified that Sandusky forced them to engage in sexual acts with him in various places, including showers in the Penn State coaches' locker room, hotel rooms and the basement of his home.
One told jurors that Sandusky -- whom he met, like many of the accusers, through the Second Mile nonprofit for disadvantaged youths that the ex-coach founded -- had threatened him if he told others about the abuse.
Another said Sandusky warned he might send him home from a trip to Texas, where they'd gone to watch a Penn State bowl game.
The defense challenged the accusers' timetable, questioning whether Sandusky could have committed the crimes they claim he did when they say he did.
On Monday, prosecutors dropped one of the 52 counts against Sandusky because the statute he was charged with wasn't in effect on the date of the alleged incident.
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When a tanker truck crashed in Nigeria's Niger Delta region Thursday, its driver avoided colliding with several buses. But his truck tipped over in a ditch, spilling fuel everywhere. The spill attracted a swarm of people trying to collect the fuel. When it exploded, they were all burned alive.
It might be difficult for someone from a developed country to imagine people scurrying into a fuel spill to scoop up valuable fuel, but in oil-rich Nigeria, where poverty and corruption have incited violence on a fairly regular basis, it actually makes sense. People there are desperate.
The Delta region, where petroleum production in Nigeria began in the 1950s, is one of the country's poorest areas. People there don't have access to education, medical care, and perhaps most importantly, work. Theft from oil pipelines is commonplace.
The road where the accident occurred was under construction, but workers — hampered by a corrupt, slow moving bureaucracy — hadn't yet widened that section of road.
"This tells a tragic story about the state of national infrastructure and the poverty of the people," environmental activist Nnimmo Bassey told the Associated Press.
Why should we care about some poor people in a Nigerian backwater? According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Nigeria is ranked fifth among countries that export oil to the U.S., averaging about 1 million barrels per day.
A huge amount of oil imported to the U.S. comes from the Niger Delta specifically, while the people who live there have to deal with the social unrest and environmental impacts that come with oil extraction in a too often ignored corner of the world.
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OnQ Technologies Inc., Harrisburg, Pa., and Vicinium Systems Inc., Pleasanton, Calif., have partnered to allow builders and developers to provide a complete, pre-configured home networking solution for homeowners. Leo Shulman, CEO of Vicinium Systems, said the partnership will help make home networking products and solutions viable for homeowners.
"Nobody today would buy a computer and then expect to have to shop around for an operating system to run on it. There's no reason why a house should be any different," Shulman said."Smart homes won't become popular until the technology behind them is transparent, practical and affordable. We've done that by combining these two complementary products into one complete home control and home management solution."
OnQ's industry home networking and automation systems provide the hardware infrastructure for these smart homes, with modules that support video monitoring, telecommunications, appliance control, lighting control, home networking and home security. In conjunction with a Vicinium enabled residential gateway, running NeighborMation software, the OnQ system will distribute broadband and other services throughout the entire home.
The OnQ Home Network System offers an organized approach to the delivery of voice, video, data, automation and control to the residential marketplace. The patented modular approach provides flexibility and customization for single family and multi-family applications. The Service Center provides an array of snap in modules supporting telephone, data, LAN, audio and video services creating the total solution for OnQ customers. These hardware solutions combine with a multitude of support programs. Vicinium creates a new dimension to the Internet, by tightly integrating information with real world devices and home systems. Vicinium develops software solutions that enable Neighborhood Automation. This technology leverages the benefits of broadband connectivity to link local content and services to physical activities within the home and the neighborhood.
"Vicinium's NeighborMation services will really show off what our systems can do — from entertainment to automation to home security," said Charles Tartaglione, vice president of OnQ Technologies. "They turn automated houses into automated neighborhoods, providing a whole new meaning to the term 'networked home.'"


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GStreamer is a pipeline-based multimedia framework written in the C programming language with the type system based on GObject.
GStreamer allows a programmer to create a variety of media-handling components, including simple audio playback, audio and video playback, recording, streaming and editing. The pipeline design serves as a base to create many types of multimedia applications such as video editors, streaming media broadcasters, and media players.
Designed to be cross-platform, it is known to work on Linux (x86, PowerPC and ARM), Solaris (Intel and SPARC), Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows and OS/400. GStreamer has bindings for programming-languages like Python, C++, Perl, GNU Guile (guile), and Ruby. GStreamer is free software, licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License.
Install the gstreamer0.10-base package from the official repositories.
GStreamer should already support PulseAudio for all applications since
gstreamer-pulse is now a part of gstreamer0.10-good-plugins.
To avoid lots of dependencies, you may choose to install gstreamer0.10-good-plugins-slimAUR from the AUR instead.
If you use KDE (and thus, phonon), you can easily install the GStreamer backend: phonon-gstreamer. After installation, be sure gstreamer is the first engine on the list under SystemSettings --> Multimedia --> Backend.
Lightweight desktop users: to configure GStreamer, for example to change the audio output device, use
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This intensive two-day training will cover the legal requirements and practice pointers for effectively representing victims of domestic abuse and other crimes. Day One of the training will cover self-petitioning under the Violence Again Women Act, including who can self-petition, derivative issues, the Child Status Protection Act (CSPA), the exception to the statutory good moral character bars, the self-petitioning process, strategies for dealing with self-petition denials, selected inadmissibility grounds and waivers, adjustment of status and other issues. Day Two of the training will focus on eligibility for U nonimmigrant status and adjustment of status. ****Day Two will also feature a Question and Answer session with representatives from the VAWA/U Visa Unit of the USCIS Vermont Service Center.**** Please see the summary agenda for more details.
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Haynes in Anatolia, 1884 and 1887: View of Alaeddin Camii, Konya
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John Robert Sitlington Sterrett (1851-1914) was appointed Professor of Greek at Cornell in 1901. During the previous decades he had traveled throughout Greece, Turkey, Syria, and Iraq, studying the inscriptions, monuments, and historical geography of the region. Upon his arrival at Cornell he communicated his love of archaeological exploration to three students who, in 1907-8, undertook the "Cornell Expedition to Asia Minor and the Assyro-Babylonian Orient." In 1918, Sterrett's widow gave his collection of archaeological photographs to the Cornell University Library, including hundreds of images taken by Sterrett's frequent companion in his travels, the pioneering archaeological photographer John Henry Haynes (1849-1910). The Sterrett collection also preserves photographs made by the Cornell Expedition of 1907-8.


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Born in Africa to French wildlife photographer parents, Tippi Degré had a most unusual childhood. The young girl grew up in the African desert and developed an uncommon bond with many untamed animals including a 28-year old African elephant named Abu, a leopard nicknamed J&B, lion cubs, giraffes, an Ostrich, a mongoose, crocodiles, a baby zebra, a cheetah, giant bullfrogs, and even a snake. Africa was her home for many years and Tippi became friends with the ferocious animals and tribespeople of Namibia. As a young child, the French girl said, "I don't have friends here. Because I never see children. So the animals are my friends."
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Hi My wife says that BMW riders are NOT bikers because we do not wear tatoos like the Harley guys. I tried to explain that we are bikers nonetheless with our own code of conduct (helping out on the road, like speed but not recklessly, love fine german motorcycles and kermit chairs, smart enough to wear safety gear etc...) but she refuses to believe that any of us are real bikers and are really commited unless we have a tatoo.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — It's a health care change that President Barack Obama and Republicans both embrace: Expand a current, little-known law so more retirees the government considers well-off are required to pay higher Medicare premiums.
That plan is likely to be part of any budget deal to reduce the overhang of federal debt, raising $20 billion or more over 10 years. It could come as a shock to many seniors who will have to pay the higher premiums even though they consider themselves solidly middle-class, and by no means wealthy.
That's what happened to Tom James. He and his wife recently got an official notice that they will have to start paying more for Medicare next year, about $1,000 for the two of them. James is among the 5 percent of beneficiaries currently facing higher "income-related" premiums. If the budget change goes through, that number will grow to 25 percent.
"I was blindsided," said James, a retired bank examiner who lives near Philadelphia. "The camel has got his nose in the tent now, and the question is how far do they want to go with that?"
The idea is to continue broadening the reach of income-based Medicare premiums introduced under former President George W. Bush and later expanded by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).
How would it work?
It's complicated. Think of it as two bites.
First, the current income-based monthly premiums for Medicare's outpatient and prescription drug coverage would be ratcheted up. Those surcharges now are assessed on a sliding scale, and kick in for individual beneficiaries making more than $85,000, or $170,000 for couples.
Second, the number of beneficiaries who have to pay those higher monthly premiums would gradually expand by a few hundred thousand people each year. That would be done by extending a temporary freeze on the income thresholds at which the higher premiums are assessed.
Without adjusting those thresholds for inflation, 1 in 4 beneficiaries would be on the hook eventually, compared with about 1 in 20 now.
Backers of the idea — Obama administration officials, prominent Republicans in the House and Senate and nonpartisan experts — say it's foolish for Medicare to keep subsidizing people who can afford to pay their own way, particularly when the program faces long-range financial problems.
"What we're talking about here is a premium structure that makes sense, by slowly covering less and less," said Robert Bixby, executive director of the nonpartisan Concord Coalition, which advocates reducing the deficit. "Politicians have been afraid to charge full fare because of public reaction. But that time is coming to an end."
Medicare serves about 50 million Americans, including seniors and disabled people. Half have annual incomes below $22,500.
Technically, the program's outpatient and prescription coverage is optional. In practice, it's too good a deal to pass up. By law taxpayers cover 75 percent of the premiums, and beneficiaries pick up the remaining 25 percent.
That's the way it works for most people. Medicaid pays premiums for the poor, while people the government considers well-off shoulder an increasing share of premiums, starting at 35 percent and going all the way up to 80 percent for individuals making more than $214,000 and couples over $428,000.
Polls show that Americans clearly prefer raising premiums on wealthy beneficiaries as opposed to a general increase. However, few people are aware that the government is already collecting higher premiums from some beneficiaries. Very few know the details.
"I think wealth is in the eye of the beholder," said Tricia Neuman, a Medicare expert with the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation. "This premium affects people with incomes starting at $85,000, but in the discussion over taxes $85,000 is not generally considered high income."
AARP says hiking the premium would be equivalent to a tax.
"This is a payment to the federal government based on your income, and that is a form of a tax," said David Certner, legislative policy director for the older people's lobby.
Not so, says Bixby. Even the wealthiest beneficiaries still get some subsidy under the plan, just not a 75 percent price break.
AARP also worries that charging seniors more based on income could taint Medicare as a welfare program, undercutting its political support.
James, the Philadelphia-area retiree, said the higher premium feels like a tax to him. "I'm making a payment to a government program," he said.
He said he figures he and his wife were probably pushed over the threshold because of distributions from retirement accounts that people in their 70s are required by law to take.
It's causing him to rethink how he feels about Medicare. James said he takes medication, but is in excellent health overall. So he basically gets just a handful of pills from Medicare, and he figures he can afford that on his own.
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Cable warning over Israel exports
Licences for the export of equipment which could be used by Israeli forces in Gaza will not be suspended unless there is a fresh outbreak of violence, the Government has announced.
A review of existing licences found 12 were for components which could be part of equipment used in Gaza by the Israel Defence Forces and Business Secretary Vince Cable said they would be suspended if the ceasefire broke down.
The review found that the vast majority of exports currently licensed for Israel are not for items that could be used by forces in Gaza, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (Bis) said.
Vince Cable said the exports would be reviewed in the event of further hostilities
Mr Cable said: " We welcome the current ceasefire in Gaza and hope that it will lead to a peaceful resolution. However the UK Government has not been able to clarify if the export licence criteria are being met.
"In light of that uncertainty we have taken the decision to suspend these existing export licences in the event of a resumption of significant hostilities.
"No new licences of military equipment have been issued for use by the Israeli Defence Force during the review period and as a precautionary measure this approach will continue until hostilities cease."
The licences include components for military radar systems, combat aircraft and tanks, Bis said.
The position announced by the Lib Dem Cabinet minister falls short of the immediate suspension of arms exports his party had called for.
The Lib Dem policy, championed by party leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, has faced opposition from Tory ministers within the Cabinet.
A Lib Dem spokesman said: " It is no secret that there has been a difference of opinion in the coalition Government on this issue.
"Nick Clegg and Vince Cable have been very clear for some time both privately and publicly that they wanted to see arms export licences to Israel suspended because of the situation in Gaza.
"This is a coalition and this is as far as we have been able to reach in collective agreement with the Conservatives.
"It has taken a significant amount of time and effort from Liberal Democrats in Government to get us this far.
"What is clear now is that we have agreement that if the current ceasefire ends in Gaza, which we all hope it doesn't, and there was a resumption of significant hostilities, then there would be an immediate suspension of those arms export licences to Israel that give cause for concern."
The licences do not include the single licence granted in February 2013 for the export of up to £7.7 billion of cryptographic equipment or any components that form part of the Iron Dome system protecting Israel from the rocket attacks launched by Hamas.
Tory former Foreign Office minister Baroness Warsi, who resigned in protest at the Government's policy on Gaza, said the decision not to suspend the licences immediately was "morally indefensible".
In a post on Twitter she said: "I understand the arms export licences will only be suspended IF hostilities resume !! So more people have to die before our criteria is met.
" The #UK Govt position to ONLY suspend IF hostilities resume is 'morally indefensible'. Surely the destruction to date meets the criteria!"
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FUNK -- Mary Ewing Austin, 92, of Funk, died Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013, at West View Manor in Wooster.
She was born Oct. 9, 1920, in Holmes County, the daughter of Thomas and Virgie Wachtel Ewing, and married Gail Austin. He preceded her in death.
She had worked the first automatic brush machine at The Wooster Brush Company, where she retired in 1985, and had made her home in Funk for more than 63 years. She hosted Gram's Crafts at the Funk Country Mall from 1988-95, and was a member of Ripley Christian Church.
Surviving are a son, Kay (Phyllis) Austin of Wooster, and a daughter, Jane (Dick) Bone of Ashland; grandchildren, Mary Jo (George) Starr of Wooster and Mike (Sheila) Austin of Jeromesville; great-grandchildren, Aubrey (Frank) Moro of Florida, Ian Starr and his friend, Jacki Miller of Florida and Morgan and Tyler Austin of Jeromesville.
In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents; and a sister, Mae Kauffman.
Services will be Saturday, Jan. 26 at 11 a.m. at Fickes Funeral Home in Jeromesville, with pastor Layton Broome officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery.
Friends may call one hour prior to the services on Saturday at the funeral home. Online condolences may be made at www.fickesfuneralhome.com.
Memorial contributions may be made to Jeromesville Fire Department, P.O. Box 102, Jeromesville 44840.


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Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians
Ojibwa (ōjĬb´wā´, –wə) or Chippewa (chĬp´əwä´, –wə), group of Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages). Their name also occurs as Ojibway and Chippeway, but they are not to be confused with the Chipewyan. In the mid-17th cent., when visited by Father Claude Jean Allouez, they occupied the shores of Lake Superior. They were constantly at war with the Sioux and the Fox over possession of the rich fields of wild rice in this region. When the Ojibwa received (c.1690) firearms from the French, they drove the Fox from N Wisconsin. They then turned against the Sioux, compelling them to cross the Mississippi River. The Ojibwa continued their expansion W across Minnesota and North Dakota until they reached the Turtle Mts. in N central North Dakota. This group became the Plains Ojibwa.
In 1736 the Ojibwa obtained their first foothold E of Lake Superior, and after a series of engagements with the Iroquois, they obtained the peninsula between Lake Huron and Lake Erie. Thus by the mid-18th cent. they controlled a large area from the eastern shore of Lake Huron in the east to the Turtle Mts. in the west. The Ojibwa, one of the largest tribes N of Mexico, then numbered some 25,000. They were allied with the French in the French and Indian Wars and with the British in the War of 1812. After the War of 1812 they made a treaty with the United States, and since that time they have lived on reservations in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Montana.
Traditionally the Ojibwa, except for the Plains Ojibwa, were a fairly sedentary people who depended for food on fishing, hunting (deer), farming (corn and squash), and the gathering of wild rice. They obtained and used maple sugar and smoked kinnikinnick, a tobacco made from dried leaves and bark. The characteristic dwelling was the wigwam. The Ojibwa had a unique form of picture writing that was intimately connected with the religious and magico-medical rites of the Midewiwin society.
Today the Ojibwa, or Chippewa, constitute the third largest Native American group in the United States, numbering over 100,000 in 1990. Their numerous bands include the Turtle Mountain, Sault Ste. Marie, Red Lake, Minnesota, Lac Courte Oreilles, White Earth, Leech Lake, Bad River, and others. More than 76,000 live in Canada, in 125 bands. While some Ojibwa are engaged in the traditional occupations of hunting, fishing, and harvesting wild rice, others run manufacturing and casino businesses. Some bands are still seeking redress for the loss of hunting and fishing rights stemming back to treaties made in the 1850s..
See F. Densmore, Chippewa Customs (1929, repr. 1970); R. Landes, Ojibwa Sociology (1937, repr. 1969) and Ojibwa Woman (1938, repr. 1971); H. Hickerson, The Chippewa and Their Neighbors (1970).


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Thursday, 17 December 2009
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4 comments:
- Jo said...
Thanks for that - it's a great article! (Now going to go and read through his entire back catalogue!)
- 18 December 2009 at 00:56
Thanks for linking the article, it was an inspiring read!
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- 29 December 2009 at 14:08
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Dear Michael,
I'm a doctor and film maker here in New Zealand. I make medical documentaries. I've seen your blog and thought you might be interested in reviewing a quite extraordinary film I have just finished. It's called Donated to Science.
In 2006 we interviewed several people who planned to donate their bodies to the Otago Medical School for students to dissect. We asked them about their lives and their loves, their hopes, their fears, and of course their bodies. The donors and the students gave us permission to follow them through this whole process. We were able to interview the students before they had ever been in the dissection room and were there when they first met their cadaver, made their first cut, and when they said goodbye at the end. For the first time on film, we have the chance to share that amazing journey of the students, the donors and their families.
This unexpectedly life affirming, sad, funny and above all human film is the result. The emotional punch at the end when the students finally get to see the live interviews with the bodies they've just finished dissecting is as powerful as anything you'll ever see.
See www.prnfilms.co.nz or http://www.realscreen.com/screeningroom/20090930/donated2science.html
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"proof that primetime television can take on the big complicated stuff… excellent and moving" NZ Listener
"The direction, the editing, the style of the documentary were all of such a high standard that minutes into the programme, you knew you were watching something special, something literally cutting edge… extraordinarily profound" Jane Bowron, Dominion Post
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The second passenger of a car that crashed on Auburn Boulevard near the Interstate-80 off-ramp Nov. 4 has died, and the driver of the automobile was booked today into Sacramento County Jail on suspicion of two counts of vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, police said.
Antonio Reddick, 30, was booked after spending nearly a week in a hospital. He was held without bail, according to police and jail records. The crash killed Cherion Robinson, 23, of Sacramento. The name of the second passenger, who died Friday, was not immediately available.
Police said a Dodge Neon driven by Reddick was in a hit-and-run crash before the fatal wreck. The Dodge was being followed by the driver of the other car involved in the hit-and-run incident when it ran a red light, collided with a Toyota and crashed into a tree, police said. The Toyota's driver was also injured.


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I have a router that has 5 static ip addresses set on it. These external static IP's are mapped to internal IP's on our LAN. We currently have no firewall or proxy set up, so I cannot monitor user bandwidth usage or block content.
I have set up an Ubuntu firewall with 2 network cards and Squid proxy and am able to connect to the internet via the firewall from a workstation within the LAN.
I am also familiar with port forwarding through the Ubuntu firewall, however, how can I map an external IP address to an address on the internal IP ? The router has a static IP address on the LAN (192.168.0.2), my Ubuntu Firewall has a static IP address of 192.168.0.3 on the "WAN" network card and an address of 10.10.10.1 on the "LAN" network card. My clients on the LAN are within the address range of 10.10.10.1 - 10.10.10.255.
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A Tory MP who apologised after receiving a police caution for a domestic assault has been referred by the party to chief whip Michael Gove, a Conservative source has confirmed.
Former shadow police minister David Ruffley revealed in a statement today that he had apologised to his former partner in relation to the incident in March, which led to him accepting a caution for common assault. He said the woman had accepted his apology and stressed that he did not condone domestic violence "under any circumstances".
It is understood that Mr Gove wants to establish exactly what happened. He has the power to strip MPs of the party whip at Westminster if wrongdoing is found.
The party had previously responded to queries about the assault by saying that the issue "was dealt with at the time by the police", and the decision to refer Mr Ruffley to the chief whip for investigation was being seen in Westminster as a significant development.
Mr Ruffley is facing pressure from within his Bury St Edmunds constituency, with a senior Church of England cleric warning that he had "lost the confidence" of voters in the Suffolk town, while the county's Police and Crime Commissioner described behaviour of the kind for which he apologised as "inexcusable".
The Dean of St Edmundsbury Cathedral, the Very Rev Frances Ward has written a letter to Mr Ruffley, saying his position has become "untenable". Key Tories, including Mr Gove, also received copies.
In the July 18 letter, Dr Ward said events in Mr Ruffley's private life had had an impact on his ability to represent the town.
She wrote: "I had received sufficient comment and concern from a wide circle of people, both within the cathedral and through the town and county, to have arrived at the opinion that your position is untenable.
"I hope you take on board the extent of the concerns that I shared with you, for the sake of the town of Bury St Edmunds and the Conservative Party.
"It is my belief that you have lost the confidence of a significant proportion of your former supporters and should consider your position."
The county's Police and Crime Commissioner, Tim Passmore, also raised concerns, saying in a statement: "It was particularly disturbing for me to hear that one of our Suffolk Members of Parliament accepted a police caution for a domestic abuse offence which, I understand, took place in London a while ago.
"I would like to make it absolutely clear that domestic abuse is never acceptable under any circumstance.
"The future of David Ruffley as a Member of Parliament and prospective Conservative parliamentary candidate for the Bury St Edmunds constituency is a matter for their association but I hope I have made my views entirely clear - such behaviour is inexcusable.
"Those of us in a leadership role in society must do our level best at all times and try to set a good example to others in what we do and how we behave - that includes all politicians regardless of any party affiliation.
"In my opinion there cannot and must not be any hiding place for the perpetrators of such brutal crimes."
In his statement issued through his lawyers Kingsley Napley, Mr Ruffley said he apologised to the woman "some time" after receiving the caution.
He added: "In March this year, an incident occurred between me and my former partner, resulting in inappropriate action on my part, which I deeply regret.
"I am pleased to be able to say that she has accepted my apology. I have refrained from making any public statement on this matter as it is a deeply personal matter.
"It is my understanding that my former partner wishes the incident to remain private.
"The incident was dealt with by the police and I accepted responsibility for my actions at the time.
"I regret this matter in its entirety and the position in which I put my former partner and I now ask that her privacy be respected."
The Bury St Edmunds Conservative Association, which is reportedly due to discuss the issue next week, has not responded to requests for comment.
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The MP, who has represented the seat since 1997, was given leave from the party in 2010 after suffering minor injuries when he was hit by a train at Victoria station in London.
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I have almost reached the point of feeling sympathy for Woods over his personal problems. I say 'almost', as his problems were all caused by his own arrogance and lack of personal discipline and quite frankly – stupidity. Not that those are failings exclusive to Mr. Woods.
Contemplate briefly Bill Clinton, John Edwards, Kobe Bryant, Jesse James, Mark Sanford, and sundry other high profile philanderers. All of them, with much to lose, and who seemed to think that they could act out their sexual fantasies free and clear of any media intrusion.
What were they thinking – if they were thinking at all?
But back to the Tiger.
What has begun to generate some sympathy, at least on my part, is the schizophrenic commentary that has become the norm when writing about the trials and travails of golf's number one player.
If you read any amount of the tripe that has been written it becomes apparent that no matter what decision that Woods might make regarding his return to golf it will be wrong in someone's eyes.
It was the opinion of some that the timing of his press conference during the Accenture golf tournament was obviously to punish Accenture for dropping him as a client. Some punishment. Accenture got more publicity in the MSM than they ever could have hoped for from the sponsorship of the golf tournament.
Of course there has been the ongoing debate of when Tiger would come back and when he should come back. There were those that argued that he should stay away from the game for an extended period until he had somehow been purified. I got the feeling that some thought that he should retire from the game permanently as being proven unworthy of treading the fairways alongside of rest of the tour players who no doubt had been vetted and approved as his moral superiors.
They were further offended when Woods showed up practicing at Ilseworth as if that showed a further flaw in his character.
After all of the debate as to when he would return and the various speculations about which venue he would choose, he announced that he would return to play the 2010 Masters at Augusta.
Whoops! Wrong decision again. Making his debut at the Masters would be too disrespectful to the event with all of the media hype that would be involved. Ignoring of course the massive television coverage the tournament would generate.
But then it was felt that he should have shown some loyalty to Arnold Palmer and played in Palmer's Bay Hill tournament prior to the Masters. Of course if he had, the criticisms would have been the same as for his decision to open with the Masters.
For the most part, the personal opinions emanating from professional golf writers has been bad enough, but the Tiger soap opera has morphed into such a major event (no pun intended there) that everyone with a computer has turned into a sports writer. Most of them not knowing a wedge from a wedgie.
An example of the previously mentioned schizophrenia is brilliantly manifested in an interview with Peter Arliss the British golf commentator (the pointer thanks to Geoff Shackleford, who, since the beginning of the Tiger debacle has bounced between being a golf journalist and a gossip columnist).
Arliss can't seem to make up his mind where he stands with Tiger.
"I'm surprised, in a way, they are letting him play there," Alliss said. "It either shows they have a desire to be helpful or a weakness. It would have been rather grand — but would have perpetuated the stupidity of it — if they had said, 'Sorry, we don't want your sort here.'
Although –
… Alliss dismisses the notion that it is disrespectful to the other players for Woods to bring his circus to town in Masters week.
But –
…. he was withering in his condemnation of the 14-times major champion for choosing the middle of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship in February to make his first public statement since November, that cringing mea culpa. "Ernie Els was right when he used the word 'selfish,' " Alliss said. "It was thoughtless and I didn't like it.
Then again –
"But we've all done stupid things. If you are a red-blooded male and you're chatted up by a decent-looking bird, it's very hard to not say yes. It was a lot easier in my day. I remember some very famous golfers who used to book into hotels as Mr and Mrs."
Does this mean that what Tiger did was not really wrong? Just bad timing?
And –
If anything sticks in Alliss's craw it is doing daft things in your own backyard. He recalls an old-timer telling him never to "get tiddly" at a golf club. Little wonder, therefore, that he remains unimpressed with the behaviour of two of Great Britain's finest golfers.
"My lasting memory is seeing Ian Woosnam come out of the front door at Augusta p***ed with Sam Torrance," he said. "Both of them fell in the bushes and it wasn't a very good sight. I thought, 'Boys, boys. Get a couple of bottles and go home. Don't get p***ed here.'
OK, so if Tiger has taken his adventures out of the country???
And on it goes.
As far as I'm concerned Tiger's tragedy is in his own hands. If he doesn't want to bare his soul to the ravening press then more power to him. All he really needs to provide us with is the opportunity to watch him play his spectacular game of golf.
I hope he come back strong to the game of golf and I hope he dominates the sport again. In fact I hope he wins the Masters in April.
But what I would really like to see is a swelling of applause for Woods the golfer as he steps onto the first tee.
Wouldn't that make the naysayers choke on their morning toast.


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How to Connect to the Internet with Your iPad
Internet access is important when using the iPad. When connected to the Internet, you can browse web pages, check your e-mail, connect with friends using FaceTime, receive iMessages, purchase media from iTunes, or purchase apps from the App Store.
How you connect to the Internet depends on which iPad model you own.
The Wi-Fi–only iPad connects to the Internet only via a Wi-Fi network. You can set up this type of network in your own home using your computer and some equipment from your Internet provider. You can also connect over public Wi-Fi networks, referred to as hotspots.
You'll probably be surprised to discover how many hotspots your town or city has: Look for Internet cafés, coffee shops, hotels, libraries, and transportation centers such as airports or bus stations, for example. Many of these businesses display signs alerting you to their free Wi-Fi.
If you own a Wi-Fi and 3G-enabled iPad, you can still use a Wi-Fi connection, but you can also use the paid data network provided by AT&T, Verizon, or Sprint (in late 2011) to connect from just about anywhere you can get cellphone coverage via a cellular network.
When you're in range of a Wi-Fi hotspot, if access to several nearby networks is available, you may see a message asking you to tap a network name to select it. After you select one (or if only one network is available), you see a message similar to the one shown here. If you're required to enter a network password, do so and then tap the Join button.
Free, public Wi-Fi networks typically don't require passwords. However, if you use a free, public Wi-Fi network, it's then possible for someone else to track your online activities over the unsecured network. Avoid accessing financial accounts or sending sensitive e-mail when connected to a public hotspot.


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It's crazy with the photography this week.....
Was just notified on Flickr that another one of my pictures is being featured on the Daily Friday Photo section of an online site, called Absolute Michigan. It is one I took in my backyard.
Click here to see the page with my featured pic.
Will write more later on, when not at work.