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"Prawo Jazdy is actually the Polish for driving licence and not the first and surname on the licence," read a letter from June 2007 from an officer working within the Garda's traffic division.The mystery of Ireland's worst driver (via William Gibson) Discuss
"Having noticed this, I decided to check and see how many times officers have made this mistake.
"It is quite embarrassing to see that the system has created Prawo Jazdy as a person with over 50 identities."
The officer added that the "mistake" needed to be rectified immediately and asked that a memo be circulated throughout the force.
25 Responses to "Irish cops finally "catch" Prawo Jazdy"
rasz says:
just so you know Polish people can still use old pre UE standardized Diriving License. Old ones had no expiration date, there already was NSA (Supreme Administrative Court) desicion and Insurance lawsuit, both confirmed old papers didnt expire.
Anonymous says:
Hey guys,
Nice catch! You might want to check out the original Irish Times article that broke the story:
The Beeb lifted the quotes directly from the IT article. They acknowledge this in the bold text at the top ("Details of how police in the Irish Republic finally caught up with the country's most reckless driver have emerged, the Irish Times reports"), but it's not obvious if your eye scans over that part, and – grr! – no direct link is provided back to the original article.
Maybe I'm being pedantic, but attribution (with a link!) is important, dammit, and I was surprised at the BBC. Especially since the original was nicely written (sarky and just on the right side of funny), and this is now doing the rounds as a BBC story.
Right. Will stop being petty now :)
zio_donnie says:
EU DLs should be stardardized in theory but it will take at least 10-15 years if not more before all countries adopt the plastic ones. i know for sure that in italy only new drivers get the plastic DLs (and not all of them eithher) but old ones are just renewed. in greece the plastic cards just do not exist (at least i have not seen one yet). for example my gf (she's italian) just renewed her licence. instead of substituting the old with a new plastic one they just added a stamp.
and don't forget that the EU has 15 official languages so every country issues licences in the local language. not a big deal between france and uk where you can more or less understand but it becomes an issue with languages like greek or sweedish.
Flying_Monkey says:
I am waiting for the first person to suggest (not on this list, I mean in Irish politics) that this would never happen if they had mandatory fingerprinting / DNA-sampling face-recognition etc. etc. etc. At least that's the probable reaction we would have got from government types in the UK!
Anonymous says:
The Irish drving licence looks COMPLETELY different fromth ePolish driving licence hence the possibility for the mistake.
Mark Dow says:
I'm changing my name to "Drivers License".
WaveyDave says:
It was police in Eire not Northern Ireland. An important distinction in that neck of the woods.
Anonymous says:
No. It's the Garda they're talking about. Republic of Ireland.
murrayhenson says:
My Polish wife and I live in Krakow. We were discussing this yesterday, wondering if Pan/Pani Jazdy were able to keep a perfectly straight face when presented with the ticket.
Luckily, I have not had TOO many run-ins with the traffic police here, though one time was both memorable and relevant here: I was signaled to pull over as I had been speeding on the way back from Zakopane (in the Tatra Mountains) to Krakow. Resignedly I did so and rolled down the driver's side window as the police approached. The policeman started in with his spiel to which I replied, somewhat sheepishly but nonetheless in English, "I don't speak Polish".
The Police officer's prompt response was "O BOZE!" (Oh GOD!) He proceeded to tell my wife to instruct me to slow down and be safe and to get on our way as he was not going to go through the headache of doing up a ticket for a not-Polish, not-even-EU person.
peterbruells says:
Fascinating. I mean, all EU driving licences are standardized these days and that's a modern one.
The whole point of the numbering is that anyone knows that 1 = last name, 2 = first name, 3 = date of birth and so on. I
Anonymous says:
I hope they catch that Keyzer Soze guy next.
Ryan Waddell says:
This is hilarious, but not that surprising. Polish folks are all OVER the country, and I'm willing to bet there's a whole bunch of bogger gardai who've never seen a proper EU driver's licence. I could realistically make a fake version of my wife's IE licence with very little effort (I thought she was joking the first time she showed it to me).
Anonymous says:
Interestingly, some of these were speeding offences captured by automatic camera, which means, on receipt of the fine, some people declared "Prawo Jazdy" as the culprit. So while it was initially a mistake by the police, at some stage polish offenders began to take advantage of the fact!
livingdots says:
Yes, embarrassing indeed, that someone working as a police-officer can not read a standardized European driving licence, where everything is clearly numbered. Makes the Irish police force look like bunch of fools…
tw15 says:
"And I'd have gotten away with it if it wasn't for those damm pesky English-Polish dictionaries"
artichoke abattoir says:
Yesterday in one of the other articles about the same, author mentioned that, just in case, they should search their database for Ms Library Card as well.
What's even funnier, I'm Polish, I live in Ireland for over 3 years now and somehow this doesn't surprise me. Ireland is full of absurds like that – which by the way makes it very interesting place to live.
Anonymous says:
In their defence driving licenses aren't actually standardised across Europe, Irish licenses are very different as we've yet to switch to the wallet sized versions.
zio_donnie says:
EU driver licences are fun specialy when in rare foreign languages and i have a greek drivers licence and a paper(not the new credit card type)one at that. all information is in greek except for the words "drivers licence" written in 15 EU languages in the front page.
my best episodes:
1) pulled over by the carabinieri i am asked for the DV. the guy takes it, opens it and he's puzzled. "so you are french?". that would be "FR" not "GR", let alone that the french do not use the greek alphabet as far as i know.
2) pulled over by higway police. they check my drivers licence and since they don't understand any of it they make me spell name and surname and then they ask me for the expiring date. now in greece a driver licence expires at your 65th birthday, while in italy it expires every 10 years. mine is valid till 2042. i spent an hour convincing them that it was not a fake.
Matthew Walton says:
#4 is entirely correct – this should never have happened. As far as I'm aware, Irish driving licences are standard EU ones just like those in the UK and Poland, so the name should always be easy to locate.
Although that said, when the format changed a bit the other year, one of my friends who is a police officer (albeit in the UK) was caught out because they weren't informed of the change and what it consisted of, so several of them were suddenly presented with these driving licences and no idea if they were fake or not, so the idea that officers might not have been trained to read these licences properly is entirely plausible.
Although you'd think, just maybe, the officers might have seen where the information is on their own licences…
Narmitaj says:
In the UK, licenses valid to your 70th birthday were introduced in January 1976, and as I achieved 18 that month I graduated from my learner's license to my very first full one then, valid to 2028 – one of the first to get the full 52 year's validity, I suppose. That seemed a very futuristic, far off date; unfortunately it doesn't any more.
Shades of millennium bug – when I arrived on trips to the US at some point in the 80s wanting to rent a car they had to enter my expiry date as 99.
heydemann3 says:
I wonder how many Polish police might make the same error when presented with a US license. Folks all over the place can be insular and not worry about those pesky furriners, even when they ought to.
Here in Chicago my DL needs renewal every 4 years, but if I've been good I can do it through the mail.
peterbruells says:
@11: With the USA, it would be totally different. AS I wrote above and as Mathew wrote: EU licences are standardized and what's shown in the picture is a standard licence.
Not being able to decipher that show a whole new level of clueesless and missing training. I mean, even I knew that those are standardized and I didn't get mine until last year, when I needed one for NZ.
Anonymous says:
Irish drivers licences aren't actually standard EU plastic credit card like ones. They are a sort of flimsy laminated paper that are too big to fit in wallets and consequently get destroyed if put straight in a pocket. It's sort of like what #7 was talking about – a very Irish way of doing things…
arkizzle says:
Even thought there is a standard EU driver's licence, 90% of people in Ireland still have the old paper ones (because they are still valid, obviously).
That said, the Garda SÃochána are a bunch of inbred muck-savages who couldn't piss their way out of a paper bag (FACT).
Narmitaj says:
Further to my previous comment, the new EU standard UK photocard licences do need renewing every ten years. These were only introduced in 1998 and so renewals started to fall due last year. Up to now, a quarter of drivers have failed to renew, assuming that the licence is still valid to age 70.
And in a way it is – the renewal is because of the photo element. There's a second part to the UK licence, a paper "counterpart" bit, and on that (and on the back of the plastic photocard) I am "entitled" to drive various types of vehicle up to January 2028, as before.


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Disproving Monsters Under the Bed: Why The Peace Movement Won't Stop The Occupation of Iraq
by sallykohn, Tue Nov 13, 2007 at 10:00:28 AM EST
In this great post on the Movement Vision Lab blog, grassroots activist Dan Horowitz Garcia argues that if there is a peace movement (and he doubts it...) it needs to change its tactics. According to Dan, marches don't end wars --- and never have.
Dan Horowitz Garcia says that history repeats itself, and so do movements.
Contrary to many beliefs, the peace movement didn't end the war in Vietnam. Three things ended the war in Vietnam. They were, in order of importance, the Vietnamese, the tanking economy, and the resistance of U.S. soldiers. If I extended this list by 100 more items, I still wouldn't include marches on the U.S. capitol or attempts to raise the Pentagon. It is beyond doubt that popular resistance in the U.S. had success in restricting the scope of the war, but it didn't end it. If public opinion alone could stop a war, then the Iraq occupation would have ended back in November 2004 when public support dropped under 50%. Majority opinion may hold sway in a democracy, but not in the U.S.
Dan also details how marches against WWII in the United States didn't really stop that war, either. So what makes us think they'll stop this one?
Instead, Dan says the anti-war movement has to stop being merely anti-war --- and offer a clear alternative instead. Here, Dan argues for a peace movement that is challenging hegemony and violence much more broadly:
I believe we also have to expand the conversation from Iraq to the so-called war on terror. This is the elites' latest framework for empire, and we have to challenge it. The "peace movement" (it still doesn't feel right to say that) can learn a lot from organizers fighting the criminal justice system. The parallels between the rhetoric justifying the war on terror and the war on crime are plain to see, if you look at them. In the war on crime, bad people are coming into your neighborhood or even your house to do you harm. (These people just happen to have dark skin.) To keep you safe, we need to be tough on these criminals. We need more cops with more equipment (i.e. guns), and we need places where we can put the bad people far away from the good people. In the war on terror, bad people are coming to your country to do you harm. (These people also happen to have dark skin. Coincidence?) To keep you safe, we need to be tough on these terrorists. We need more troops with more equipment (i.e. big guns), and we need to kill the bad people in places far away from the good people.
In a comment on the blog, another community organizer Gabe Gonzalez talks about how his daughter is convinced there are monsters under the bed. So he has to spend his energy convincing her otherwise. In other words, even if progressives were to take up the agenda that the "war on terror" and its ever-present threats are false, why should we have to convince the public? Shoudn't we be forcing the Right wing hawk fear mongerers to prove their point?
Otherwise, we're in the position of proving that the invisible threat doesn't exist. Which is sort of like disproving monsters under the bed.
We should be fighting the "war on terror" by making THEM defend it!
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While demonstrators gather in the streets to contest Iran's rigged election, online backers of the so-called "Green Revolution" are looking to strike back at the Tehran regime — by attacking the government's websites.Activists Launch Hack Attacks on Tehran Regime (Wired Danger Room)
Pro-democracy activists on the web are asking supporters to use relatively simple hacking tools to flood the regime's propaganda sites with junk traffic. "NOTE to HACKERS - attack www.farhang.gov.ir - pls try to hack all iran gov wesites [sic]. very difficult for us," Tweets one activist. The impact of these distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks isn't clear. But official online outlets like leader.ir, ahmadinejad.ir, and iribnews.ir are currently inaccessible. "There are calls to use an even more sophisticated tool called BWraep, which seems to exhaust the target website out of bandwidth by creating bogus requests for serving images," notes Open Society Institute fellow Evgeny Morozov.
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thequickbrownfox says:
Reports are that some militia thugs are Hezbollah brought in from Lebanon.
IWood says:
#6 posted by Thebes:
From what I have seen Iran's elections were no more fucked up than our own in the USA, so we ought best keep our mouth's shut.
I'd suggest that you've not seen enough.
For example: Mousavi is a Turkish-speaking Azeri. The Azeries make up 1/4 of all eligible voters in Iran. Karroubi (the other reformist candidate) is a Lor. Apparently we're supposed to believe that Ahmadi-Nejad trounced both of them in their home provinces and among their own ethnic populations, by a landslide.
It's the equivalent of McCain taking, say, California and New York by a huge margin, with a historically high turnout in both states.
And "keeping
HotPepperMan says:
For those tempted to try BWraep, be aware that it comes with it own trojan that will set your antivirus software screaming. Additionally, it will crash Firefox. Just be aware, it's tough on the streets…
IWood says:
…And "we ought best keep our mouth's shut" sounds like you think folks Stateside are shaking their heads at the silly Mooslims and their corrupt election.
The point is to support the people who've been disenfranchised, not point fingers.
GuidoDavid says:
Can we get a new Law of the Internet?
I am not sure about the name, but we really need that meme. When somebody tries to stifle criticism only based on nationality grounds. "Americans should keep silent" "Venezuelans have no ground", etc..
Why should an individual shut up because he happened to be born in a certain place? Why an individual that might or might not agree with his government be accused of agreeing? This is a despicable argument that emerges time after time in debates. We need a meme to make it undesirable. just like over the top Nazi comparisons and Godwin's Law.
notnigella says:
"The impact of these distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks isn't clear."
i've been considering this issue, today. what i've gathered is that many young people believe that what the government is putting out as "news" would be more appropriately known as 'lies'. apart from the benefits of shutting down disinformation, there is a demonstration of power inherent in DDOS attacks. the government can't like that much. when you have civilian militia storming a major university to beat and arrest students and vandalize dorms, what exactly are your weapons? well, smart people use their brains, and in our modern age, their computers, to fight back. (not too surprisingly, computers were explicitly attacked at the university, as demonstrated in photos of the ransacked dorms.)
i'm not computer literate enough to consider joining in on these attacks. but i see their value and reason, and won't condemn those that do. i will hold solidarity with those attacked for protesting, and hope that some kind of resolution is arrived at soon, so that bloodshed can stop in Tehran and the rest of Iran.
Modusoperandi says:
"Hey, to protest we crashed the Iranian government's computers! Both of them!"
Anonymous says:
Can any one tell me how to set up a linux proxy server and then a service provider who can direct me to help people in Iran with said server.
IWood says:
If you don't want to do the destructive DDOS thing, maybe consider doing the constructive proxy thing:
How to set up a proxy for Iranian citizens (Windows)
How to set up a proxy for Iranian citizens (CentOS/RedHat)
[A repeat from my earlier BB comment, but now with Windows]
irsean says:
How to setup and run a TOR relay/bridge? Pretty simple. I'm doing it.
Anonymous says:
I will hope that the iranian peopel will get their
land back.
Anonymous says:
Iranians take your desteni in own hands. love you.
Anonymous says:
I hit 'refresh' for justice.
Anonymous says:
I would suggest though, that this is not necessarily the best picture to give of the Iranian activists. Hundreds of thousands of people demanding their rights is much, much more powerful then any DDoS.
desiredusername says:
Wow…young Iran.
Takuan says:
Yeah! This is what I want to see, young Iranis making their Iran without interference.
Anonymous says:
I love the internet
Jonathan says:
Wired's wording unnecessarily characterizes DOSing as a patently violent act. "Cyberstrikes", "network strikes". "Strike back", "hack", "attack".
It looks like there are a variety of methods being used here. But if a DOS is widely distributed, and there aren't any bogus requests, then it's not that insane to compare it to a nonviolent sit-in.
IWood says:
Twitter has rescheduled its planned downtime.
Must be quite an experience to be a network admin and have to weigh server maintenance against a potential revolution on the other side of the planet.
Big Ed Dunkel says:
What the hell kinda of dictator only gets 63% of the vote?
Takashi Omoto says:
Albeit I approve of young Iranian people fighting for their beliefs, I'd like to take the time and suggest any Boing Boing readers to take a breather before running DDoS tools (even really simple, browser-based ones) against websites.
The major persons you'll be afflicting are engineers that I'm pretty sure haven't been elected in the last week. Most aren't even in Iran! They will have need make a decision, and that will not reflect their political views, and yes their job to maintain fair and balanced network access.
But, as the internet uses to say… "Anonymous does not forgive", right? Have at it.
Thebes says:
Pro-Democracy only in so much as one assumes that the election was stolen and that the CIA isn't just fueling a coup.
Yesterday it seemed that twitter was being hit by bots repeating the same pro-Mousavi tweets.
From what I have seen Iran's elections were no more fucked up than our own in the USA, so we ought best keep our mouth's shut.
Anonymous says:
Well, if it is the CIA it's now become purely the work of the upset Iranians. I don't think their frustration is insincere.
Joe says:
Please don't use DDOS attacks to try to shut down political enemies. These kinds of things can go both ways and render the net unusable once everyone starts doing it. It's irresponsible of BoingBoing to encourage it.
Thebes, I do think that the Iranian election was stolen (I might have believed a narrow Ahmadinijad win, so the theft was clumsy, maybe deliberately so). I also think that the Florida 2000 vote was stolen, and I don't see how that requires Americans to shut up.
But there is a point to what you say: the Ahmadinijad line will be that the CIA is trying to fuel a coup, so it would be a particularly bad idea for Americans to participate in DDOS attacks against official Iranian sites.
Xeni Jardin says:
It's irresponsible of BoingBoing to encourage it.
@Joe: Neither Boing Boing nor I, personally, take any advocacy position here. Nowhere did I or my colleagues recommend DDOsing anyone. Read the blog post, please, not the invisible teleprompter in your head.
SKR says:
It's irresponsible of BoingBoing to encourage it.
Since when is reporting a form of encouragement? No where does Xeni say go out and hack Iran.
Anonymous says:
at #8 – How long before we have MAD internet? When both sides are so critically intertwined with the net that a disturbance brings their entire societies crashing?
Takuan says:
the blood in the streets is rising.


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I've got to ask: Girls, Guns, and Glory. What prompted the selection of that band name?
Originally the name came to me in a dream where I saw the words written on a blackboard & a teacher was telling her students about things they'd never be taught inside the classroom. I told people about it and they seemed to get a kick out of using the words for a band name.
But, lately I've viewed Girls, Guns, & Glory as a cosmic trinity of sorts. I read it like a wish list or a mission statement. It's love, aggression and triumph, but with a nice alliteration. If you've got Girls, Guns, & Glory what more could you need?
It's interesting to note that the Boston Phoenix voted you as Best Roots act and the Boston Music Awards voted you as the Best Americana act. Do you differentiate between the two "genres" or are they really one and the same? Many people can't quite get a handle on what either one means!
I'm not sure that I really know what it means. The genre of "Country" has changes so much over the years. What was called "Country" in the 50's and 60's, sounds a whole lot different from what is labeled "Country" today.
Americana & Roots have become blanket terms for music that can't find a home anywhere else. Seems like having a banjo or upright bass immediately labels an act as being Americana.
And I'm happy to be labeled as such. We call a lot of early American styles of music our inspiration: hillbilly boogie, western swing, traditional country, etc. But, lately with so many acts being labeled Americana we've tended to distance ourselves from the term because it doesn't really explain what it is that we're doing. The best description I've found yet it Retro Rock & Real Country.
Like the sounds that came out of Sun Studio in the era of Elvis Presley, Charlie Feathers, Johnny Cash & Carl Perkins. Early rockabilly with a little more thump and twang.
And let's not forget that you won the WBCN Rock & Roll Rumble in 2008. Would you say that your music has changed since those days?
Our music has changed some since those days. We still perform all the songs that we were performing back in 2008, but our catalog of original material has expended quite a bit over the past few years.
We've also had lineup changes in every position in the band, with the exception of me.
The current lineup has been touring with me for about the past 2 1/2 years and I feel like this is the best the band has ever sounded. We're just more road tested than we ever were before.
GGG tours internationally. Can you tell us a little bit about what it's like to be an American band touring in foreign countries. How do the people get to know your music?
We've had some really good experiences touring internationally. In fact, the only rough experience we had abroad happened when a fellow American punched me in the eye while he was suffering a schizophrenic breakdown in France. It was not a pleasant experience, but the show must go on.
We've found that the venues having us in foreign countries have invited us to perform because they heard of us through radio or through folks who traveled to America and saw us at festivals or shows here in the States.
In 2010 we were given the Independent Artist of the Year Award at the French Country Music Awards, which was an awards show that also honored acts like Toby Keith, Brad Paisley and Miranda Lambert. Here in the States, we'd never get categorized with acts like that, that are coming out of Nashville. We felt honored that the music we're making on a shoe-string budget could find a way to get recognized with acts that have major label support.
As the main songwriter, how do you usually present your songs to the band? Do you work collaboratively on each song's arrangement?
Typically I'll bring the basic outline of a song to the rest of the band and we'll start going over each section of the song and all add our input as the arrangement of the song comes together.
On this last tour we wound up writing two songs together as a full band. We had a day off and a garage to set up our gear, so we started playing and I got out a pen and paper. By the end of the day we had two completed songs, both of which made their way into the live show the very next night.
We're getting ready to record our next album with Eric Ambel producing in Brooklyn, NY next month, so I'm hoping we have some more magic like that happen between now and then.
You've said that your latest CD "Sweet Nothings" has a lot of influences from the past including Johnny Cash, the Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison, Buddy Holly, and Little Richard. That's a wide spread or influential artists. If you had to choose your favorite song by each of these artists, what would they be?
Johnny Cash - "Meet Me In Heaven" off the album "Unchained". It came out in the mid-90's, but captured the spirit and voice of the man as well as anything else I've ever heard. Rick Rubin seems to have a knack from bringing out the best in an artist, even if the rest of the industry can't find a use for them. This album is a gem.
Everly Brothers - "A Voice Within" such great production, horns and all.
Roy Orbison - "In Dreams" so classic, my dad turned me onto Roy Orbison and I've been crying ever since.
Buddy Holly - "I'm Looking for Someone to Love"
Little Richard - I love his version of "Slipin' and Slidin'" and also "Rip It Up". Enough energy on these songs to lift you off the ground. Timeless rock 'n' roll.
What's next for Girls, Guns, and Glory?
After we play me & thee Coffeehouse on Nov 17th we head back to Europe for the end of Nov and into December. Gonna be touring in France and breaking new ground in Spain on this tour.
Then we return home to perform out 3rd Annual Tribute to Hank Williams, this year we'll be doing it at the Narrows Center for the Arts in Fall River on Dec 27th, and then at the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.
Miss Tess & The Talkbacks will be opening all the Hank Tribute shows & doing a tribute to him as well with her band. It's gonna be a really great way to say goodbye to 2012 and hello to 2013.
To learn more about Girls, Guns, and Glory visit their website.
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thread at the GE Community a lot of football fans around the world are helping to identify and Placemark their football stadiums. Many of the placemarks have details and links to web pages about the stadium as well. Nearly 3000 downloads of the file have occurred and over 16,500 views of this thread with 160 replies. From ths picture here, you might get the impression that a few people in Europe are interested in this sport. Try out this collection of 1650+ Football Stadiums (found now at gearthhacks.com) around the world.
This is actually another interesting way to do some sightseeing in GE. In many cases where there is only low resolution photos of the stadium, a fan has created a link to a better photo from a web site somewhere. You are likely to notice other interesting things as you zoom in on different cities. Especially if you also turn on the BBS Layer.
Rather a spectator oriented form of using Google Earth for sports. But, I'm planning to write about some interactive uses of GE in sports. I've already seen some cases where the sport itself will be changed because of the ability to visualize it like never before.
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I am the author of the collection. Just a quick note to say that the total has now reached 2900 clubs/teams.
A large quantity of clubs include links to their official web sites, and team logo's.
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I can help you with stadiums in Chile, I've been working on that before and found your site. Are you interested?
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Why do i have no acces to download 1650+ Football Stadiums around the world?
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Unfortunately, the author of the KML file deleted his collection.
Unfortunately, the author of the KML file deleted his collection.
I would like to see all sports clubs for football Is there a way?
Dear maas1 ..
Perhaps there is site that contains all sports clubs
Unfortunately, the author of the KML file deleted his collection


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I really love how you combined the pattern paper in this layout!
OMG. I LOVE this layout!!!! The way you layered everything with the scattered ink and buttons. I adore everything!
She's a doll, Mary! Love your design (as always!)
I saw this on the blog and had to come here to comment. This is so pretty and floral. Amazing how those black spatters really add!
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However, Penn State does have holistic admissions, so students who shine in other areas can get accepted even if their grades or test scores are a little less than ideal. Students who reveal some kind of remarkable talent or have a compelling story to tell will often get a close look even if grades and test scores are a slightly below the norm. The most successful applicants have a winning essay, strong letters of recommendation, and interesting extracurricular activities.
To learn more about Penn State, high school GPAs, SAT scores and ACT scores, these articles can help:
- Penn Admissions Profile
- What's a Good SAT Score?
- What's a Good ACT Score?
- What's Considered a Good Academic Record?
- What is a Weighted GPA?
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Doral police officers headed to Gainesville to assist in the search on Wednesday. Six officers left with K9s and all-terrain vehicles.
Miami-Dade County sent members of its Fire-Rescue K9's Urban Search and Rescue team and police canine team to help in the search on Thursday.
K9 officers from Sweetwater police have been helping with the search since the weekend.
"If he's buried or not, the dogs will find him," said one officer.
The search resumed Thursday morning. Investigators estimate that at least 10 square miles of wooded areas contained in the city of Gainesville have been searched by foot. They said other areas have been covered by helicopter, ATV, K9 and Mounted Patrol units.
Among the local, state and federal agencies assisting with the searches and investigation are the following:
FBI, Florida Department of Law Enforcement, U.S. Marshals Service, Alachua County Sheriff's Office, University of Florida Police Department, Miami Dade Fire Rescue, Miami Dade Police Department, Doral Police Department, Miramar Fire Rescue, Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, Sweetwater Police Department, Brevard County Sheriff's Office, Medley Police Department, Florida Highway Patrol, Lafayette County Sheriff's Office, Cedar Key Police Department, Columbia County Sheriff's Office, Glades County Sheriff's Office, Putnam County Sheriff's Office, Levy County Sheriff's Office, Texas Equusearch, and Central Florida Search and Rescue.
On Wednesday afternoon, Aguilar's father asked anyone who knows what happened to his son to come forward.
Tips about what happened to Christian should be made by calling 352-393-7670.


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David Taylor is a litigation associate in the Los Angeles office of Munger, Tolles & Olson. Prior to moving to California and joining the firm in 2012, he held a similar position at Williams & Connolly LLP and was a staff attorney in the Special Litigation Division of the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (PDS).
Mr. Taylor has had a leading role in a wide variety of complex cases in federal and state courts across the country, with a particular emphasis on securities and legal malpractice litigation. He has successfully argued a motion for preliminary injunction in federal court; written winning motions for summary judgment, to dismiss, and to exclude expert testimony; routinely taken and defended depositions; and managed case teams both large and small.
In addition to his work at PDS, where his focus was affirmative civil rights litigation, Mr. Taylor has represented numerous clients on a pro bono basis, including death row inmates in habeas corpus proceedings and disabled veterans in a suit seeking permanent supportive housing from the VA.


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From Eclipsepedia
- Lazar Kirchev - SAP
- Violeta Georgieva - SAP
- Borislav Kapukaranov - SAP
- Chris Frost - VMware
- Glyn Normington - VMware
- SAP are working on EE integration for the next two weeks.
- Chris is fixing web admin console bugs.
- Glyn is processing a bundlor contribution, preparing for EclipseCon, and will build 3.6.0.M03 at the end of the week.
- No meeting next week due to EclipseCon Europe.


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Tony winner Faith Prince drops by Show People to discuss her dozen "complex" Broadway credits, her thoughts on working with Nathan Lane, the pros of being relentless and "honoring the blueprint" of Annie.July 25, 2013
Once star Steve Kazee drops by Show People to discuss his first Tony win, ex-girlfiend Megan Hilty (Smash) and his love of drag queens and hitting the dance floor at gay bars. Kazee also shares his dreams of joining HBO's True Blood! Naked!June 22, 2012
The former Broadway star of Bonnie & Clyde and Newsies revisits Show People with Paul Wontorek to promote his role on the revamped second season of NBC's Smash.January 18, 2013
The High School Musical star talks about his new Broadway musical role, playing Jesus in Godspell.April 27, 2012
Norm Lewis chats with Paul Wontorek about everything under the sun, including his upcoming Ragtime concert, "amazing" leading ladies (Audra, Sierra, LaChanze, oh my!), famous flops, infomercial addiction, Scandal arc, Cialis ad and more!February 15, 2013
Broadway favorite Lea Salonga explains how she's the "blunt" judge on The Voice, fangirls over Annie star Anthony Warlow and does a spot-on impression of her Allegiance co-star George Takei. Oh my!May 30, 2013
Lindsay Mendez's powerful voice has blown Broadway audiences away in shows like Grease and Godspell, and now she drops by Show People to talk with Paul Wontorek about life as a bona fide leading lady in the musical Dogfight.June 29, 2012
Broadway.com Audience Choice Award winner Darren Criss stopped by Show People with Paul Wontorek to talk up his new summer tour Listen Up.May 4, 2013
Joe Manganiello, who is taking on his next brutish role as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire at New Haven's Yale Rep, on his theater past, the time he almost got kicked out of school and building the perfect body.September 12, 2013
The actress on keeping it real in her over-the-top show.May 26, 2011


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Engagement shoot: Melinda + Jeffrey
[images from Jessica Schmitt Photography]
9 Comments to "Engagement shoot: Melinda + Jeffrey"
Jess Says:
November 1st, 2012 at 1:18 pm
The feature looks GREAT! Thank you so much!
Jessica Schmitt Photography - Featured on Brooklyn Bride! Says:
November 1st, 2012 at 1:31 pm
[...] I am so excited to announce that my photographs from Melinda & Jeffery's engagement shoot in SoHo have been published on a blog. Check out the full post at Brooklyn Bride! [...]
Shevon Gant Ceramics Says:
November 2nd, 2012 at 12:04 am
Love the text on the staircase! Beautiful photo shoot.
Wedding Invitations Says:
November 2nd, 2012 at 2:45 am
Awesome shoot. I love the red Awesome staircase too!
Jewelry Says:
November 2nd, 2012 at 4:33 am
I so envy Melinda and Jeffrey, and love the text on the staircase. Thanks for sharing this post.
Amin Says:
November 2nd, 2012 at 1:15 pm
Is that Staircase in their house? please share where this is Thanks!
Erica Says:
November 2nd, 2012 at 4:04 pm
Awesome shots! So sweet. Anyone know exactly where those cool steps are?
- erica @ tinseltwine . com
London accountant Says:
November 6th, 2012 at 8:17 am
I love those steps! They're so sweet.
Jess Says:
November 18th, 2012 at 9:39 pm
These awesome red steps are in a boutique in SoHo called Opening Ceremony. See more photos from the shoot here: http://www.jessicaschmittphotography.com/blog/2012/08/soho-melinda-and-jeffery/
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Check out our video in the Getting Started Guide on Running A/B Tests »
A/B testing has the ability to make marketing super fun. Instead of arguing over messaging or creative – try more than one idea simultaneously and turn it into a contest.
Starting with a copy of your existing page is the easiest way to start a test.
The basics of A/B testing are that you run different versions of your page – called variants – side by side with a series of changes in each variant. The idea is to see which one converts the best.
You can run as many variants in your test as you like (e.g. an A/B/C/D/E/F/G… test) but the more variants you have, the more traffic you need to send to your campaign to be confident that the statistics are not a coincidence.
To create a variant:
That's it! You now have 2 page variants that you'll use as the basis for your test.
Now we need to decide what you're going to change on your new page variant. Here are a few suggestions of page elements that are worth testing:
You can change just one thing or change many at once to create a completely different page.
Changing many things at once might produce a more dramatic change in conversion, but will provide you with less causal information than just trying one thing at a time. It's totally up to you.
Now that you've decided which page elements you want to test, you need to think about *how* to change them to give you a conversion lift.
Looking at the list of elements in Step 2, you could try some of the following things:
Successful manipulation of emotional and physical response is your key to conversion success. By utilizing some principles of design you can start refining your pages.
For more design ideas check out this blog post: Designing for Conversion – 8 Visual Design Techniques to Focus Attention on Your Landing Pages
Now that you've created one or more new page variants you need to start the test. To begin your A/B test follow these steps:
Note: When a visitor first accesses your page, we deposit a cookie on their machine to track the view and the variant they saw. As long as that cookie is present when the visitor returns, they will continue to see the same variant. The same goes for you visiting your own page.
In my Actos campaign I have 4 variants but for some reason the Actos Final 4 variant is not getting its 1/4th share on the impressions.
In setting up a test of a landing page (existing vs. new), how do I measure the difference between the performance of the two pages. Can I set up a conversion trigger, like in Google/Visual Website Optimiser? What could this conversion trigger be? A click-though to the next page, an order, a completed enquiry page, etc. Would be good to understand how you can compare the performance of your two (or more) landing pages?


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DENVER (AP) - Denver Nuggets forward/center Marcus Camby is the NBA defensive player of the year.
Camby averaged a league-best 3.3 blocks to go with 11.7 rebounds, 11.2 points and a career-best three-point-two assists this season.
He recorded a career-best 32 games with double figures in scoring and rebounds, and led all centers with nearly 1.25 steals per game.
Camby received 431 points, including 70 first-place votes, from a panel of 130 sportswriters and broadcasters.
San Antonio's Bruce Bowen finished second with 206 points, and his teammate Tim Duncan finished third with 158 points.
The Spurs and Nuggets will play game three of their first-round playoff series Saturday night in Denver.
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High-End FPGAs Double the System Memory and Acceleration While Reducing Power Consumption in CHREC's Novo-G Supercomputer
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Even after UCLA Medical Center warned employees that it was cracking down on unauthorized access to medical records, the privacy of a "well-known individual" was breached by two nurses and an emergency room technician who called up the patient's computerized records in mid-April, according to a critical state report released Monday.
The California Department of Public Health also found that nearly twice as many medical center employees as had previously been reported peeked at confidential medical records at UCLA. Nearly 60 additional employees gained improper access to records between January 2004 and June 2006, the report said, bringing the total number of workers implicated in the growing scandal to 127.


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Counting down to Knoxville Restaurant Week 2013!
Lest you've forgotten, here's a brief reminder of the aim of the gig from the organizers:
"For one special week, over 30 restaurants in Knoxville will offer special prix fixe menus, offering a complete three-course dinner for either $25* or $35*.offering great, specially-created meals at exceptional prices is a treat for Knoxville's notable dining-out public. Plus it gives visitors another great reason to come to our city...But the dining public is not the only group benefiting from this event. For each meal purchased, $5 will be donated to Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee to help feed the hungry throughout our 18-county service area."
And even better, here's a freebie to get in the mood if your business takes you downtown on Thursday:
Downtown workers, dwellers and visitors will receive a preview of Knoxville Restaurant Week's special menus at Taste of Knoxville Restaurant Week on Market Square on Thursday, Feb. 21, from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Participating restaurants, including Tupelo Honey Café, Puleo's Grille, Latitude 35 and Windows on the Park, will set up in Bill Lyons Pavilion to provide complimentary samples of what guests can expect from the third annual Knoxville Restaurant Week, which starts this Sunday. Drawings will be held for gift cards from participating restaurants to be used during Restaurant Week or throughout the year.
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Nicki Minaj will perform at this year's Grammys, to air February 12th. The first-time performer is nominated for four awards, including Best New Artist, where she'll compete with Bon Iver, Skrillex and J. Cole.
Taylor Swift, the Foo Fighters and Bruno Mars have also been booked to play the show. Kanye West, the night's leading seven-time nominee, has not been announced as a performer. Neither has Adele, who is reportedly waiting to decide whether or not she's ready to sing following vocal surgery. But the prospects for an appearance are good; last month the 23-year-old told Billboard:
The surgery couldn't have gone better. But because I was singing with damaged vocal chords for three or four months and because of the surgery and because of the silence after the surgery I now have to build myself back up vocally. It's gonna be a lot easier for me to sing now. And mentally I won't be worried about my voice on stage anymore. So I have to get used to that. That'll take most of January, so February I'll be singing properly!


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The above map shows where vehicle-related crime, such as stolen cars, thefts from vehicles and damaged vehicles, has been reported in Roseville between May 26 and June 11.
This map is put together using information from the Roseville Police Department.
Hover over each icon to read more about each incident. .
Roseville Police report some recent trends in vehicle-related crime recently. They have had a number of vehicle burglaries this week where the burglars stole purses, wallets and laptop computers that had been left in plain sight in the passenger compartments.
They also seen garage remotes and other valuables stolen from unlocked vehicles. The safest place to store your vehicle at home is inside your locked garage. If that's not possible, remove all valuables, including your garage remote (which could give a thief access to your garage and home) roll up all windows securely and make sure all doors are locked.
Also, when you're out shopping, dining or working out, never leave your purse, wallet or laptop in your unattended car, even for a few minutes.
Here's a look at the vehicle-related crime in Roseville between May 26 and June 11:
Saturday, May 26
Between 7:45 and 7:57 a.m. May 26, someone broke the window of a car parked at a recreation facility in the 10000 block of Fairway Drive, and took a purse that had been left on a back seat. Within 10 minutes, the victim's credit card was used at nearby businesses. Officers are investigating to try to identify the suspects.
Thursday, May 31
Sometime overnight on May 31/June 1, someone egged and scratched a vehicle in the 1400 block of Quail Circle. The victim said this was the second egging in two weeks.
Monday, June 4
Overnight on June 4/5, a thief went into a possibly unlocked car parked in a driveway in the 8100 block of Bauser Avenue, and stole a wallet containing the victim's ID and debit card. The victim's debit card was soon used at a gas station in Antelope.
Wednesday, June 6
Overnight June 6/7, someone broke the window of a pickup in the 200 block of Ardmore Avenue and took tote bags and a canvas briefcase containing a laptop computer. A neighbor found the tote bags discarded in the intersection of Ardmore Avenue and Fairfield Avenue. They were recovered and returned to the victim. The laptop bag and laptop are still missing.
Overnight on June 6/7, thieves went into unlocked vehicles in the 1100 block of Kris Way and the 900 block of Keith Drive, and stole music CDs, registration documents and a garage door opener.
Overnight June 6/7, someone broke the window of an SUV parked in the 1200 block of Glenbrook Avenue. A duffle bag was taken and found discarded on a neighbor's lawn. It's unknown at this time what else was taken.
Overnight June 6/7, someone broke the window of a vehicle parked in a driveway in the 500 block of Oakborough Ave., and took cash from a wallet that had been left on the seat. The burglar also rummaged through a second unlocked vehicle in the same driveway, but didn't find anything of value to take.
Thursday, June 7
At about 2 a.m. June 7, someone smashed the window of a car parked in a driveway in the 1000 block of Kensington Drive, and took a purse and a wallet containing cash and the victim's ID, debit and credit cards. Within a few hours the victim's cards were used to make unauthorized purchases at stores in the Antelope area. Two suspicious males were seen in the area, using a flashlight to peer into car windows.
Between 9:14 and 10:14 p.m. June 7, someone broke into two vehicles parked in a restaurant parking lot in the 1900 block of Taylor Road. The unknown suspect broke the windows of both vehicles and took a laptop computer and shopping bags containing new clothing.
Between 9:30 p.m. June 7 and 2:20 a.m. June 8, someone broke the windows of a vehicle in a retail parking lot in the 9200 block of Sierra College Blvd., and took a cell phone. The unknown suspect also went into another unlocked vehicle and took house keys and other small items.
Saturday, June 9
Between 9:45 and 10:45 p.m. June 9, someone stole a possibly unlocked red 1990 Toyota pickup from a parking lot in the 1100 block of Roseville Parkway.
Overnight on June 9/10, a thief found four unlocked vehicles on San Esteban Circle. Items taken included stereo speakers, a portable GPS navigator, jumper cables, a cell phone charger, and a garage remote.
Monday, June 11
Between 5:45 and 7 p.m. June 11, someone smashed the window of a car parked at a restaurant in the 2000 block of Taylor Road, and took a laptop computer.
At about 7:15 p.m. June 11, someone smashed the windows of two vehicles parked at a restaurant in the 1500 block of Eureka Road. The thief took laptop computers, a wallet containing ID and credit cards, and other items. In each burglary, laptop computer bags had been left on the back seat of the cars. A witness saw a heavyset Asian male with shaved black hair break the rear window of one of the cars, reach in and take a laptop bag. The suspect drove away in white 1990s-model four-door sedan.


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By N. Brad Carter, JR PE / guest columnist
The Meridian Star
Tribulation is a theological period of time that many believe to be coming as a seven year event after the Church is gone to heaven. There are several categories of believers who interpret the scripture differently with some people refusing to accept the biblical concept.
Consistent with Bible prophecy some Christians believe the period is immanent. Further, it is completely within the predicted Bible limits that only a small percentage of people will escape. Matthew 7:14 reads, "narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it."
During the apocalyptic period of time one will read that there are no more preconditioned, unfulfilled prophecies related to the return of Christ. Every indicator given by God is in the continuing state of completion. Jesus is ready to return as he awaits the command from the Father, "Son, go get my Children."
God revealed to John the Revelator through an angel that cataclysmic weather events will develop in the earth atmosphere in Revelation 6:12 in the sixth seal. "And there was a great earthquake. The sun became as dark as black cloth, and the moon became as red as blood." NASA has the first scheduled date for this blood red moon on April 15, 2014.
Continuing in Revelation 6:13, "the stars of the sky fell to the earth like green figs falling from a tree shaken by a strong wind." In preparation of the prophetic Tribulation time all of these events have occurred in recent years.
The liberal educated mind will not allow any thought pattern that God is able to do this mighty creative thing. Every time Pat Robertson associates God with the weather the media goes ballistic.
Egyptian history shows the LORD rained hail on the land and (Exodus 9:23) "the LORD sent thunder and hail, and fire darted to the ground." In 1 Samuel 7:10 "the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel.But the LORD thundered with a loud thunder upon the Philistines that day, and so confused them that they were overcome before Israel."
Then we find in Mark 4:39 that during a terrible storm on the Sea of Galilee, Jesus "arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm."
In the last few years we find the influence of massive walls of water encroaching on land in the form of Tsunamis, hurricanes ripping the coastland of every continent, Hurricane Sandy on the East Coast and we must include the tornado winds of the last few days in Oklahoma and Missouri which killed so many people and devastated the land.
If these illustrations are a precursor to Tribulation weather phenomena are you able to imagine the site conditions on earth that will prevail. I certainly want to be "caught away" before these events occur.
Jesus said that weather will be a sign at the time of His return in the heavens. When we read Matthew 24:29-33 there is a crescendo progression in the seals of the "wrath of the Lamb" that intensifies.
The summary statement after the sixth seal clings to our heart as we recognize the cosmic disturbances that probably include nuclear war. "The powers of the heavens will be shaken" and we read, "Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. "And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other."
When you see these things begin to happen, God wanted all to know that HIS coming was at the door as HE concludes HIS thoughts with the following statement. Matthew 24:33 "So you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near — at the doors!
N. Brad Carter is a bible class teacher on WMER (1390 AM) Radio. Email him at email@example.com.


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Avast! Free Antivirus, Version 5.0: "…nothing short of a miracle"
Virus Bulletin, one of the most respected reviewers of security products, wrote a very detailed review of the Avast 5.0 beta products in their January issue (http://www.virusbtn.com/files/Avast-Jan2010.pdf). This is a lengthy review but to me the best line was their summation of the new free product: "the free version being available to all without charge is nothing short of a miracle". There was also a review of it in the recent AV-Comparatives test of performance/system impact. The product scored the highest rating: A+.
With the new Free Version 5.0, we attempted (and we think succeeded) to raise the bar on free security products. We decided that our new free product needed to be the best antivirus product in the world—not just the best free product. We think we have succeeded, or come darn close. Now you the users (and of course the reviewers) can let us know….
Our version 4.8 was already one of the best products available. But it did have short comings. Its user interface was, to put it mildly, unique. And its registration process was a bit cumbersome. In developing the new free product, we attempted to not only fix the shortcomings of 4.8, but to greatly expand the capability of the free product.
The free product is our flagship product. We are proud of it. It is not just a marketing product designed to drive sales. So, with the new free product, here is what we have done:
- Built an entirely new user interface. The old car stereo interface is gone replaced with a very modern and easy to use graphical interface.
- Eliminated the email registration process. The free product still lasts for a year but now it only takes seconds online to register the product. All a person has to now do is to click a "register" button—no forms to fill out and no email information to provide.
- Added a gaming mode—elements of this were there in 4.8 but now we have made this a central function. No need to buy someone else's "gaming" product. All the capability is right here in the free product.
- Ensured protection is top-notch. This was also a hallmark of the 4.8 version. We have long believed that free products should provide just as much malware protection as paid products. So in addition to the signature-based AV protection that you would expect, you also get all the modern detection techniques. Central to this is protection against web threats. These are 85% of the threats our users see—and the free product provides protection against them. There are also heuristic detections, behavioral detections, and just about any type of protection you can think of.
- Continued our hands-off approach to asking for money. We don't agree with how many free products try to monetize their free users. So with us, we don't hide the free product (it is front and center on our home page); you will not see a daily pop-up asking you to upgrade; the product will not find problems and then ask for money to fix them; and we won't scare you into upgrading. Now of course, there are sales messages. There is a message when you download the free product. There is a message when you register the free product. And at expiration time a year later, there is a message. But in all of this messaging, you are presented two choices: download/register the free product or upgrade to a premium product. The choice is yours.
- Today January 19th, the free product (and all products) is being released in English and French. Over the next 10 days we will be rolling out the product in Czech, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian, Polish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
We did not cripple the product in any way. If you use the internet for e-mail or web-browsing, this is the perfect product. No need to pay us money…..and no need to pay anyone else any money.
In short, it is just as Virus Bulletin described, "nothing short of a miracle".
January 20th, 2010 at 10:22 | #16
No key is required…just register online:
From another blog post:
"Eliminated the email registration process. The free product still lasts for a year but now it only takes seconds online to register the product. All a person has to now do is to click a "register" button—no forms to fill out and no email information to provide."
January 20th, 2010 at 13:58 | #19
"The free product still lasts for a year but now it only takes seconds online to register the product. All a person has to now do is to click a 'register' button—no forms to fill out and no email information to provide."
What if you want to use avast 5 on an offline computer. Can I still 'register'? Also where would I be able to download the latest "virus definitions" to install them on an offline computer?
January 20th, 2010 at 19:42 | #26
January 21st, 2010 at 02:20 | #29
Just perfect, from the beta versions could see the great work, congratulations to all who participated in the beta versions.
Thanks to the friends of the Alwil Team and participants of the forum, Thanks Vlk be on the lookout for everything and keeping us informed about the development.
January 21st, 2010 at 12:13 | #33
Why i can't scan hidden share like C$ or D$ of other computers? I have administrator rights on them and i also can acces them.
I get this error: \\computername\example_any_file_or folder "The network path was not found", but i'am conected to that share. I also maked a map network drive on a folder and i get the same error.
I can scan only shared folders but not $( hidden shares).
January 21st, 2010 at 19:16 | #37
Happy user of Avast home, and happy user of ADNM at work (with some ups and downs).
im looking forward to the new product to install final versions on the rest of my home machines (besides the (virtual) machines i have beta on) and looking forward to the business part of the new products….
i find it interresting how avast still survives with the free product and having such good pricing for the business products…
in the article you (Steve) speak of not asking for money, i applaud that, but has Alwil looked into free of will donations?? With a paypall account it is possible to make a small donation which people can make who are not able or willing to pay the full price of the product?