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I am the first one to protest when people bash and smash any producer or writer.
But most people here utter their opinion in a reasonable and polite way.
When you tell the truth and take a stand, sometimes it means that you will walk the streets with a burdened heart. Sometimes it means losing a job, means being abused and scorned. It may mean having a seven, eight year old child asking a daddy, "Why do you have to go to jail so much?" And I've long since learned that to be a follower to the Jesus Christ means taking up the cross. And my bible tells me that Good Friday comes before Easter. - MLK, Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam
Dom, when the DVD comes out you should have a party and only invite the cool kids. You know who they are.
"Are you out of your Vulcan mind?"
Dom I see your point without doubt. I haven't been a member for but as the weeks have gone by the board has gone from a spirited debate to anger and hatred of change. There are still many great posts and those are the fun, filtering is hard though.
Dominus: Although I agree that there is a certain amount of what you might call "bashing" or complaints that the new movie "dumbs down Star Trek," I'm not sure it really is an inordinate amount. I may be mistaken here, but I think the majority on this board are people who agree with you (and me) that the new film is a breath of fresh air in our beloved franchise. Like others who have responded to you, I would encourage you to stick around and read threads that discuss the more positive aspects of the film. And I'd like you to consider that if you vacate, you will tip the scales even further in their favor. My own answer to these "Don't Like It, Never Will" folks will be to post more often so as to drown out the noise. Besides, some of their posts are actually quite amusing, in an "Archie Bunker" kind of way.
. . . just an old-school Trekker getting by in a newfangled galaxy.
Why not hang in there Dominus? You may find you have more to offer in the way of opinions and ideas than you realize. I've been discouraged too, so discouraged I asked one of the mods to erase my persona and left the board. Then I realized I missed this place, and talking to all the people here and discussing and debating their varied veiwpoints. So I made a new persona and came back, and I've been enjoying myself ever since. You should stay and stick it out and keep expressing yourself. Someone on this board will doubtlessly agree with much of what you say, some will not. The human race's strongest trait is our ability to thrive in diversity and adversity. Keep em' flying Dominus.
"One of the many, the proud, the friends of Zardoz".
If some of the criticism was particularly unwarranted I would see the point. But we have to take the good with the bad and take everyone's opinions onboard - whether we personally agree with them or not.
I don't think all of the points against the film so far are without merit, but most of us still loved every minute of it.
I think it would be great if you hung in here DoM, for a bit longer anyway. It's still less than a week since the film came out, and discussion is still running high about it.
Give it a bit of time to settle back down again.
But if not, hope to catch u around sometime!
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I agree with Dominus. It is frequently miserable on here, escpecially given how fun and widely well received the film has been. I personally think people get into the tone of the forum and their own argument and forget how bloody negative they're being (I've been equally guilty of this). Everyone has the right to enjoy or not enjoy a movie. It's when people start lecturing the industry professionals about specific points on how to write or how to photograph the movie or how to design the art that I become weary (e.g. "why don't the writers check their work? - blah blah blah").
Good luck Dominus.
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To the OP, sorry to see you go, you will be missed. However before you do I'd like to interject:
You said you are a Battlestar fan correct? Do you not remember all the Sound and Fury of the emo-whino "truefans" when the new series launched? They nagged and moaned across the internet space-time, but eventually, they were made irrelevant and forgotten.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that this WILL happen again with these trekkie "truefans". And they know it too, that's why they're out in full force these days, the last final burst of background noise from a dying star.
I propose you stick around, if only to watch their slow painful demise. I greatly enjoyed watching the BSG diehards be silenced and discarded, and quite frankly I expect I'm going to enjoy watching the same thing happen to the trekkie elite even more.
Dom, excellent post. I'm new to the boards, but have lurked here for months. I'm in complete agreement with you, except the part where you want to abandon this board.
I've been a fan of Star Trek since TOS originally aired on network tv. Yup, I'm that old and I've loved the series since. I'm a "trekkie" in the sense that I was one of those fans who watched the syndicated episodes, read all the books and novelizations, bought all the merchandise; I helped keep ST alive in the beginning, when most thought of us as geeks. No matter, I knew what I liked.
I liked TNG (except for the speeches and eye-rolling techno-babble), but had no interest for the follow-up ST series'. I tried to watch them, but they were all a far cry from the original. I don't know how many more "level-2 diagnostics" or "space anomolies" plot devices I can stand. I was hoping for something - anything! - more, but nothing materialized.
Until now. With the new Star Trek. Once again, I am excited, enthralled, in love with the concept that made me such a believer those decades ago. So it also pains me to see those who are desperately trying to bring it down. I truly don't understand their mindset. So it breaks canon - so what? Good! If canon is what the follow-up series' adhered to, then it cannot be abandoned soon enough. Rather than make the new movie series restrained by canon, let the creators be free to create a new ST universe. Let Star Trek be Star Trek.
Anyway, sorry to see you go. Yours is a most enlightening post.
I get my feelings hurt sometimes, and yes a few come along and make me say "HE DIDN'T JUST TYPE THAT!" But, that said, many of those things just made my opinions stronger. I am sorry to see two of our nice people leave and we all have that right. But, I enjoy so much PEOPLE WHO PISS ME OFF ENOUGH TO MAKE ME THINK!!!!!!!!!!!! I want to emphasize here that I don't like trolls who come in to make trouble, I agree, that is different, but there are few of them. These Trekkies who don't like this movie, I love them!
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Wai Hong Ho, Timothy Mark Pinkston, "A Design Methodology for Efficient Application-Specific On-Chip Interconnects," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 174-190, February, 2006.
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Abstract—As the level of chip integration continues to advance at a fast pace, the desire for efficient interconnects—whether on-chip or off-chip—is rapidly increasing. Traditional interconnects like buses, point-to-point wires, and regular topologies may suffer from poor resource sharing in the time and space domains, leading to high contention or low resource utilization. In this paper, we propose a design methodology for constructing networks for special-purpose computer systems with well-behaved (known) communication characterictics. A temporal and spatial model is proposed to define the sufficient condition for contention-free communication. Based upon this model, a design methodology using a recursive bisection technique is applied to systematically partition a parallel system such that the required number of links and switches is minimized while achieving low contention. Results show that the design methodology can generate more optimized on-chip networks with up to 60 percent fewer resources than meshes or tori while providing blocking performance closer to that of a fully connected crossbar.
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Robert Black
Sudden Mindless Violence
Yet it would be another two years before the case was tried. Aside from the fact that there were 22 tons of evidence that had to made available for the defence to examine, there were many difficult legal problems to sort out in the preliminary hearings. Firstly there were jurisdictional questions to clear up, given that the crimes had been committed across two countries with different legal procedures. Additionally, the prosecutions case relied upon being allowed to present the murders as a series, while the defence applied for severance of the charges. Finally, the abduction of Mandy Wilson was an issue under hot debate. The prosecution needed to present it as evidence of the defendants unique MO, whereas the defence wanted it precluded from proceedings. The submission of a past offence as evidence of the commission of a present offence is called similar fact evidence and is notoriously controversial. It is usually only permitted when the past offence is strikingly similar to the present. In Blacks case it was allowed. The pre-trial rulings were all made in the prosecutions favour and at last the case was ready to come to trial.
As most of his crimes had been carried out in England it had been decided that this was where Black would be tried. Mr John Milford, leading for the Crown, began his opening speech at two oclock on the afternoon of Wednesday 13 April 1994 in the Moot Hall in Newcastle. Ultimately he aimed to prove that the murders of Susan Maxwell, Caroline Hogg and Sarah Harper, and the abduction of Teresa Thornhill, were all part of a series committed by the same person; and that this person had to be Black. There was no forensic evidence nor any admissions of guilt from the defendant himself, so the case was to be based upon evidence which, while admittedly circumstantial, was still very strong. Black had been in all the abduction points and the places where the bodies had been dumped at the pertinent times; descriptions given by witnesses matched Black's appearance at those times; on the days in question Black was driving the types of van spotted at the scenes; and he had already admitted to an abduction in 1990 which bore exactly the same unusual MO as the offences for which he was now being charged.
Milford highlighted to the jury the similarities between the murders in order to prove that they were all committed by the same man, which was his first essential point:
· All the victims were young girls.
· All were bare-legged, wearing white ankle socks.
· All were taken from a public place.
· Susan and Caroline were both abducted on hot July days.
· All were abducted in a vehicle of some sort; Susan and Sarah were both abducted in Transit-type vans.
· After abduction, all the victims were taken some miles south.
· All the bodies showed signs of a sexual motive for the attack: Each victim was obviously taken for sexual gratification. Susan Maxwells pants were removed, Caroline Hogg was naked and Sarah Harper was found to have suffered injury.
· "None suffered any gross bruising or broken bones."
· Both Susan and Sarah had been unclothed and then reclothed; all three victims had their shoes removed.
· No real attempt was made to hide the bodies.
· All the bodies had been dumped in what became known to police as the Midlands Triangle, a 26-mile area encompassing parts of Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire and Leicestershire.
These murders, said Milford, are so unusual, the points of similarity so numerous and peculiar that it is submitted to you that you can safely conclude that they were all the work of one man. And this one man, as overwhelming evidence would prove, was Robert Black. The Crown alleges that Robert Black kidnapped each of his victims for sexual gratification, that he transported them far from the point of abduction and murdered them.
Having outlined the similarities in the murders, Milford moved on to the charge of the abduction of Teresa Thornhill in Nottingham in 1988. This case clearly had the same features as the previous abductions: Teresa was a girl (who looked younger than her 15 years) who was snatched off a busy street in the north of England by a scruffy looking man driving a van. After detailing the similarities, Milford told the court that on that very day Black was delivering posters to a firm in Nottingham in his blue Transit van, and the description that Teresa gave to the police of her attacker matched photographs of Black at the time. When police searched Black's room after his arrest they found a paper from 1988 with a report in it about the attempted abduction. Teresa also told police that her attacker smelt strongly; the Rayson children had nicknamed their lodger Smelly Bob, and Eric Mould, Black's former boss at PDS, told the court that his workers used to complain that Black was unclean and had bad body odour.
Following Justice Macpherson's pre-trial ruling the court were next told of Blacks arrest for the abduction and assault of Mandy Wilson in Stow in July of 1990. Milford said that Black had admitted to this abduction and assault and that it had all the hallmarks of the three murders and the abduction that he now stood trial for. In fact, the crimes were virtually carbon copies. At Stow he was repeating almost exactly what had happened at Coldstream. Milford continued,
The little girl in Stow was wearing shorts when she was taken, was bare-legged and was wearing white socks. She was to be transported many miles south. Again it was the end of the week, it was July and it was hot. Stow and Coldstream are similar villages only 25 miles apart... Even more remarkably, like Susan Maxwell, the little girl was wearing yellow shorts.
Black had admitted to the abduction of Mandy Wilson; this abduction was a 'carbon copy' of that of Susan Maxwell; the abduction of Teresa Thornhill and the abductions and murders of Caroline and Sarah were carbon copies of Susan's abduction and murder, ergo, Black committed the three murders.
The prosecution had made a good start. It had detailed striking comparisons which linked the murders of Susan, Caroline and Sarah, and the abduction of Teresa, as a series. It had also shown the similarities between these offences and the one to which Black had already admitted. It was an important beginning but by itself was not enough: they had established a series, but they now had to establish that Black was the perpetrator. The prosecution's next job was to go through the police inquiry for the court telling them exactly how the police had gathered the evidence which put Black at all the abduction and dumping areas at the salient times. At the end of this evidence, which lasted for some days, Milford sardonically concluded that either Black was the killer, or a similarly perverted shadow of Black was following him around the country a shadow who also had convictions for sexual assaults on children and a penchant for child pornography. The murders of Susan, Caroline and Sarah, and the abduction of Teresa, were all committed by one man and Robert Black had been present at all the pertinent sites at the these times.
Deputy Chief Constable Hector Clark was saved for last. Clark described the mammoth investigation as "the largest crime inquiry ever held in Britain. The computer held details of 187,186 people, 220,470 vehicles, and interviews with 59,483 people. When Milford asked Clark how unusual it was for three children to have been abducted, murdered and then dumped a relatively long distance away Clark replied that in his 39-year career as a policeman, I have no knowledge of any other cases with these features. The case for the prosecution was closed.
There had been much speculation as to how Ronald Thwaites would conduct the case for the defence. Certainly the prosecution had no forensic evidence nor did it have any help from the defendant himself. But equally Black had not offered any alibis which the defence could use, nor did it have any other alternative suspects. Thwaites also had a self-admitted child abductor and molester to defend. The only realistic path to take was to acknowledge Blacks previous known offences and admit to the court that yes, this was a wicked and foul pervert but argue that this did not necessarily make him a murderer.
Thwaites said that Black had become a murderer for all seasons, a scapegoat for the desperate police who, after an eight-year investigation, had got no further than from where they had started. This series of cases, said Thwaites reeks of failure, disappointment and frustration. When Black was arrested for the abduction in Stow, officers set to work to dissect the whole of his life, with total disregard for anything that didnt fit into their picture of events. Thwaites told the jury of Blacks previous convictions in Scotland for lewd and libidinous behaviour, and spoke of the paedophilic pornography found in Blacks room. Of the abduction of Mandy Wilson he said that, The judge saw it fit to give him a life sentence. No one can be surprised by that and everyone must applaud it. Blacks lifelong interest in children is further confirmed by the haul of pornography in his home. It is revolting and sickening to look at. But, he said,
However wicked and foul Black is, and I am not here to persuade you to like him or find any merit in him at all, it is not unreasonable to suppose that there might be some evidence to adorn the prosecutions case other than theory. This case has been developed before you using one incident of abduction, which he admitted, as a substitute for evidence in all these other cases. There is no direct evidence against Black.
By evidence of course, he meant that of a forensic variety, as there was plenty of other evidence to link Black to the murders. Although it was the prosecution who had called James Fraser of the Lothian and Borders police forensics laboratory his testimony benefited the defence. Fraser testified that he and four to six other scientists had spent six months working solely on this case, examining over 300 items belonging to Black, almost all his worldly goods. When Thwaites asked him, cross-examining, Have you been able to make a scientific link between this man, Black, and any of these murders?, Fraser replied, No. (The prosecution did, however, regain some credibility by asking Fraser if he would expect, after a decade, to find any significant forensic evidence to which Fraser replied that he would not.)
Thwaites alleged that as both the police and the prosecution were so certain that Black was their man they refused to look elsewhere. The Crown had tried to match together a new suit made from oddments, but it is full of holes whereas the original suit has been left - until discovered by my team. Black himself, said his defence, would not be testifying on his own behalf as nobody could be expected to remember routine details of their lives going back over ten years. But the truth was that the girls killer or killers were still out there.
In an attempt to convince the jury of this the defence called Thomas Ball as their star witness who testified that on the day of Susans abduction he saw a young girl hitting a maroon Triumph with a tennis racket. She was making quite a lot of noise, he recalled, It seemed to be a child throwing a fit of temper. He said that there were two or three people inside the car; the driver was a teenager with a wispy beard. When later shown a photograph of Susan by police he said he was certain it was the child he had seen.
Other defence witnesses included Sharon Binnie who told the court how she and her husband had seen a dark red saloon car like a Triumph 2000 parked in the same place as Thomas Ball described; Joan Jones and her husband, who had also seen a dark coloured car in a lay-by; and Alan Day and Peter Armstrong who had similarly seen red saloon cars. Michelle Robertson, who was a young girl at the time of the murders, testified about seeing a scruffy man in a blue Ford Escort; Kevin Catherall and Ian Collins claimed to have seen red Fords. This evidence did not further the case of the defence, however, as none of the people associated with these cars were doing anything remotely suspicious, they were simply in the vicinity of the abductions when they occurred.
Ultimately the question for the jury to decide, said Thwaites, is whether it may be proved he graduated from molester to murderer. There is nothing automatic about that. The prosecution", he said dramatically, "has conducted their case here from beginning to end without letting you into an important secret. The secret is that there is no evidence against Black.
On Tuesday 17 May Mr Justice Macpherson sent the jury away to begin their deliberations. It was not, however, until the morning of the third day - the 19th that the jury finally agreed upon a verdict. When they found Black guilty on all counts, a sigh of relief went around the courtroom. Mr Justice Macpherson sentenced him to life for each of the charges, adding that for the murders "I propose to make a public recommendation that the minimum term will be 35 years on each of these convictions."
As Black was taken down he turned to the 23 officers who were there to hear the verdict and said, "Well done, boys." At a cost of some Ł1m to the tax-payer the trial was over and Black would not be eligible for parole until he was at least 82, in 2029. To this day Black has never admitted his guilt to the police. But in his last talk with Ray Wyre, when Wyre asked why Black had never denied the charges to him, Black replied that he hadn't done so because he couldn't.


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Americus-- A Sumter County Deputy Kevin Landers is in Texas, undergoing tests related to his cancer.
His co-workers, like Pat Peaster, want to help Landers. Peaster says Deputy Landers helped her when she needed it the most. "A couple months ago I had the shingles," Peaster said. "And I couldn't afford the medicine, it cost $375.00, and he found out about it, and he and his wife went out and bought it."
Deputy Landers then drove the medicine from the pharmacy in Americus to Peaster's home in Macon County. It was an act of kindness co-workers say is common for Landers. To raise money for him, the Sheriff's Department is selling raffle tickets for an autographed copy of President Jimmy Carter's "Nobel Peace Prize Lecture".
If you want to buy a raffle ticket, they're five dollars a piece. Just call the Sumter County Sheriff's Office at 229-924-4094. The drawing is March 30th.
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3 Bedroom Apartment / Flat for sale in Nirala Estate, Noida Extension, Greater Noida
3 BHK Residential Apartment in Noida Extn.
GH-04 Tech Zone-IV, GNoida, Noida Extension, Greater Noida (Uttar Pradesh)
- Project/Society: Nirala Estate
- Area: 1440 SqFeet
- Bedrooms: Three
- Bathrooms: Two
- Total Floors: Twenty
- Furnished: Semi Furnished
- Transaction: New Property
- Price: 4,017,600
- Rate: 2,790 per SqFeet -10%
- Age Of Construction: Under Construction
- Possession: Within 3 Years
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Noida Extension is the hottest sought after Delhi/NCR, with more than 24 upcoming residential & commercial projects,Noida Extension provides an affordable house and flats, the main advantage of Greater Noida west also known as Noida Extension. Very quick, close connectivity factor to Delhi NCR, to know more about Greater Noida west, a site visit is mandatory as words can't explain the tremendous upcoming potentiality of Greater Noida west, Noida Extension.
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Noida Extension is located around 4-5 km from Sector 121, Noida. Spread over nearly 3,635 hectare, Noida Extension is basically a name given to certain pockets of Greater Noida by the builders present here. This was done to differentiate the location from Noida and Greater Noida.
There are nearly 70-75 projects present in Noida Extension by renowned developers such as Amraplai Group, Gaursons Group, Antariksh Group, Nirala Group, Supertech Developers, Mahagun Developers and AVJ Group among others. Possessions for most of the projects are expected within a period of 2 to 3 years. Most preferred configurations in the sector are 2 and 3BHK.
Working class of Delhi and NCR constitute the major part of the buyers due to affordable prices. There is a blend of investors as well as end-users who are looking for property in Noida Extension. Lower price points in comparison to Noida and Delhi has made this a preferred residential option for both end users as well as investors.
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Noida Extension is around 4-5 km away from Sector 121, Noida and is spread over nearly 3,635 hectares. The nomenclature "Noida Extension" was initially used by builders to refer to certain pockets of Greater Noida. This was done to differentiate it from both Noida and Greater Noida, and also to make it clear to potential home buyers that it's close to Noida.
Once a bustling hub of residential activity, Noida Extension had come under litigation in May 2011 when the Allahabad High Court issued orders to hold up all construction work here owing to protests from farmers, the original land holders.
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Joseph Gregory sits at his kitchen table showing me a stack of papers. "They said we figure we can reduce your mortgage payment by about 520 dollars a month," he tells me. "And being on a retirement income, I thought that would be great."
Months later, Gregory says he's out $3,500 which he paid to a company that promised to be a "middleman" between himself and his lender. He says last August, he began receiving letters from Mortgage Assistance Law Center, located in Naperville, Illinois. "They told me they would contact my lender and work to get me a loan modification but that I needed to pay them fees up front," he says.
Gregory says he was also told that it would be better to stop paying his mortgage. "They said often that people who are at least three months behind on their mortgage payments end up being considered for a modification more than someone who's current," says Gregory. "So I stopped paying my mortgage. As a matter of fact, that money, what I would have made in mortgage payments is what I used to pay the company the $3,500 for the fees."
But Gregory says several months later, the company told him he could not get the modification. "they said I could get a refund of my $3,500 within 90 days. That was four months ago," Gregory says.
He contacted News 3 because he said he wanted to educate others about "up front" fees for something like a modification. "People should not sign up for anything like this or be persuaded to do anything like this. Because now after getting all this information from my mortgage company, you don't have to pay to get a modification," Gregory said.
That was confirmed by Christina Parker-Gilbert from Georgia's Own Credit Union. " Generally, with a modification, you never have an up front payment," she said. "I would encourage people to check in person with their lender or credit union if they receive unsolicited letters."
Parker-Gilbert also cautioned homeowners about listening to any advice to stop making mortgage payments, especially if they're current. "I would always urge a second opinion about stopping your mortgage, it's never really a good idea,' she said.
When it comes to the company, Gregory thought he did enough homework, saying the name itself implies that they are legal experts. Norma Garcia from Consumers Union agreed, but said homeowners have to find out more before sending money to a company not even in their home state. "Mortgage Assistance Law Center connotes we have lawyers involved here and i think that would be a natural assumption for someone from the public to make. That for me, would be a red flag," she said.
Tom Joyce of the Better Business Bureau Serving Chicago and Greater Illinois told me he would check out the company after hearing of Gregory's concerns. He said Mortgage Assistance Law Center has an "F" and six complaints - 3 complaints regarding advertising and 3 complains regarding unsolicited ads/letters offering mortgage/foreclosure assistance.
Garcia advises consumers to be cautious about doing business with anyone sending letters. "The rule of thumb is if they keep seeking you out, you may not want to be anxious to do business with them," she said.
I tried calling the 800 number for the company and after identifying myself as a reporter, was given a second number to call. No one answered that line.
Gregory says he has been calling about his refund. "But now I get voice mail," he says. "when they wanted my money several months ago, there always seemed to be someone answering the phone."
Gregory says he just wants others to know they should not sign up for anything or be persuaded to do something without checking it out first
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Faysal Bank Introduces Dangerously Insecure Internet BankingJuly 23rd, 2013
Faysal Bank was probably the only private bank in Pakistan to not offer Internet banking. They were sitting on their hands all these years while their competitors leapt forward. But now they've introduced mobile phone compatible Internet banking under the mobit brand name. The problem is that it is badly designed and dangerously insecure.
WorldCall Internet connection slowdownsMay 27th, 2012
WorldCall is an Internet Service Provider in Pakistan. They provide broadband Internet connections over a Hybrid Fibre-Coaxial network or what is commonly called cable broadband.
A few years back WorldCall upgraded Internet connections, and at the time I wondered how they would handle the increased traffic. Well, now I know how.
2011: Lost year of Internet bandwidth upgrades in Pakistan?June 14th, 2011
A few years ago PTCL decided that they wanted to get into the broadband Internet Service Provider (ISP) game. PTCL being PTCL they went about it in the only manner they could. They had this huge phone network with questionable infrastructure. And they didn't really have the right personnel. But they had financial muscle and an almost monopoly on international bandwidth. So they advertised heavily offering lower rates and higher speeds than their competitors. It worked for them. They got lots and lots of customers. Some of them even happy ones.
Worldcall upgrades Internet connectionsSeptember 12th, 2010
Worldcall provides broadband Internet services via a hybrid fibre optics and coaxial cable infrastructure. In recent years worldcall has lost a lot of customers to DSL providers like PTCL which offer cheaper rates and higher speeds. This increased competition has finally forced worldcall to upgrade its customers' connections.
The new packages have not yet been officially announced but worldcall customers have already noticed the faster speeds. The new packages have twice the download speeds as the old ones for around the same price. Read more »»
View your telephone bill online!April 17th, 2010
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee will retire Candace Parker's No. 3 jersey before its Jan. 2 game against LSU, one of 11 teams on the Lady Vols' 2013-14 schedule that reached last season's NCAA tournament.
The Lady Vols Tuesday announced their 2013-14 schedule and the date to honor Parker, now playing with the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks. Tennessee previously said it would retire Parker's jersey this season, but no date was set.
Tennessee's schedule includes a Nov. 11 trip to North Carolina, a Dec. 21 visit to Stanford and a Jan. 20 home matchup with Notre Dame. Tennessee faces Virginia on Nov. 28 at the Junkaroo Jam in the Bahamas.
Tennessee's Southeastern Conference schedule includes two games apiece with LSU, Vanderbilt and Mississippi plus one game each with all other league opponents.
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We talk a lot on this blog about how solar panels can cut monthlyelectricity costs and, in some states (like New Jersey, California,Arizona, Hawaii, Colorado and Pennsylvania) offer homeowners astunningly attractive return on investment. Sometimes it's worthremembering, however, that solar panels produce clean, emissions-freeelectricity. In other words, solar power can be good for your checkbookand for the environment.
It would make sense, then, if one of the world's most well established solar panel manufacturers were to join a growing movement in the corporate world to measure and report its greenhouse gas emissions. That's exactly what happened yesterday when SunPower Corporation announced it submitted its first response to the Carbon DisclosureProject (CDP), an organization that "works with shareholders andbusinesses to disclose the greenhouse gas emissions of majorcorporations." The group exists in part to help companies prep forfuture climate- and carbon-related regulation.
Now, in the case of SunPower, there's a bit of a snafu. As notedabove, solar panels generate electricity without producing greenhousegases. But that doesn't mean that the energy used to make the panelsthemselves comes from an emissions-free source. It's not unthinkable, in other words, that a solar panel maker would purchase electricitygenerated using coal or natural gas.
(Important side note: on balance, the amount of energy that goes into making a solar panel is significantly less than the amount of energyproduced over that panel's lifetime. See here for more.)
All these observations point to an obvious question: Does SunPoweradd up all the greenhouse gas emissions released during themanufacturing process and then subtract the carbon-dioxide emissionsthat are offset by the solar panels? Or does the company count only theemissions released during normal operations, ignoring the effect of itsend product?
As much as SunPower executives seem to want — and potentially deserve — credit for producing a carbon net-negative product, it appearsSunPower will be reporting its so-called "internal" carbon footprint.Here's SunPower Tom Werner:
Beyond our internal carbon footprint reductions, oursolar rooftop systems and power plants operate without generatinggreenhouse gas emissions, and therefore our customers' use of SunPowersystems avoids many times the amount of greenhouse gases generated intheir own manufacturing and delivery operations.
As far as we're aware, the California-based solar panel maker is thefirst solar power company to submit information to the CDP. If you knowof any other solar companies that are involved in similar initiatives,please bring them to our attention.
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Charles Krauthammer; Why we give foreign aid
Morsi is intent on getting the release of Omar Abdel-Rahman (the Blind Sheik), serving a life sentence for masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center attack that killed six and wounded more than a thousand. Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood is openly anti-Christian, anti-Semitic and otherwise prolifically intolerant. Just three years ago, Morsi called on Egyptians to nurse their children and grandchildren on hatred for Jews, whom he has called "the descendants of apes and pigs."
Not exactly Albert Schweitzer. Or even Anwar Sadat. Which left a bad taste when Secretary of State John Kerry, traveling to Cairo, handed Morsi a cool $250 million. (A tenth of which would cover about 25 years of White House tours, no longer affordable under sequestration. Says the administration.)
Nonetheless, we should not cut off aid to Egypt. It's not that we must blindly support unfriendly regimes. It is perfectly reasonable to cut off aid to governments that are intrinsically hostile and beyond our influence. Subsidizing enemies is merely stupid.
But Egypt is not an enemy, certainly not yet. It may no longer be our strongest Arab ally, but it is still in play. The Brotherhood aims to establish an Islamist dictatorship. Yet it remains a considerable distance from having done so.
Precisely why we should remain engaged. And engagement means using our economic leverage.
Morsi has significant opposition. Six weeks ago, powerful anti-Brotherhood demonstrations broke out in major cities and have continued sporadically ever since. The presidential election that Morsi won was decided quite narrowly - three points, despite the Brotherhood's advantage of superior organization and a history of social service.
Moreover, having forever been in opposition, on election day the Islamists escaped any blame for the state of the country. Now in power, they begin to bear responsibility for Egypt's miserable conditions - a collapsing economy, rising crime, social instability. Their aura is already dissipating.
There is nothing inevitable about Brotherhood rule. The problem is that the secular democratic parties are fractured, disorganized and lacking in leadership. And are repressed by the increasingly authoritarian Morsi.
His partisans have attacked demonstrators in Cairo. His security forces killed more than 40 in Port Said. He's been harassing journalists, suppressing freedom of speech, infiltrating the military and trying to subjugate the courts. He's already rammed through an Islamist constitution. He is now trying to tilt, even rig, parliamentary elections to the point that the opposition called for a boycott and an administrative court has just declared a suspension of the vote.
Any foreign aid we give Egypt should be contingent upon a reversal of this repression and a granting of space to secular, democratic, pro-Western elements.
That's where Kerry committed his mistake. Not in trying to use dollar diplomacy to leverage Egyptian behavior, but by exercising that leverage almost exclusively for economic, rather than political, reform.
Kerry's major objective was getting Morsi to apply for a $4.8 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund. Considering that some of this $4.8 billion ultimately comes from us, there's a certain comic circularity to this demand. What kind of concession is it when a foreign government is coerced into . taking yet more of our money?
We have no particular stake in Egypt's economy. Our stake is in its politics. Yes, we would like to see a strong economy. But in a country ruled by the Muslim Brotherhood?
Our interest is in a non-Islamist, nonrepressive, nonsectarian Egypt, ruled as democratically as possible. Why should we want a vibrant economy that maintains the Brotherhood in power? Our concern is Egypt's policies, foreign and domestic.
If we're going to give foreign aid, it should be for political concessions - on unfettered speech, on an opposition free of repression, on alterations to the Islamist constitution, on open and fair elections.
We give foreign aid for two reasons: (a) to support allies who share our values and our interests, and (b) to extract from less-than-friendly regimes concessions that either bring their policies more in line with ours or strengthen competing actors more favorably inclined toward American objectives.
That's the point of foreign aid. It's particularly important in countries like Egypt whose fate is in the balance. But it will only work if we remain clear-eyed about why we give all that money in the first place.
Charles Krauthammer is a columnist with The Washington Post.
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2,500 Game Developers Discuss Industry's Latest Trends in Berlin
Quo Vadis '14 is over, but the things that happened there remain.
The biggest QV so far with more than 2500 participants, including all parties and side events, could also expand their star-potential with a lot of awesome speakers and guests. 170 speakers had come to propose answers to such questions in a total of 110 lectures and workshops. Among the presentations were contributions from Amazon, Google, Sony, Microsoft, CD Projekt RED and CCP Games.
In his talk, Hilmar Veigar Pétursson, head of CCP Games, voiced his thoughts on no less than saving the world: If developers were able to shift people's urge to consume toward the virtual domain, real resources could be conserved. This would require highly immersive game worlds which allow players to truly live out their emotions, personality and desire for self-fulfilment in the game.
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It was one of the hottest topics in our industry over the last weeks - and now it's official: Sony will talk about Project Morpheus at Quo Vadis next week in Berlin!
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Monday, Jun 27, 2011 4:20PM
Young Money's Drake is in the zone for his upcoming Take Care sophomore album as hitmaker Boi-1da details his fellow Canadian's mindset working on the LP.
According to Boi, their relationship has gotten so good Drake no longer needs actual words to show he's in work mode.
Boi-1da gave us the details on how amazing Drake's new album is going to be, and Drake's reaction to all of the beats he has produced for "Take Care." Boi-1da had this to say about Drake, "He just had the same reaction as always. He just snaps and gets into a zone and starts writing. Sometimes he doesn't even say nothing he just goes, Ugh! Ugh! He gives me a grunt and it's a wrap from there. You just know." (Global Grind)
Last week, Drake announced plans to drop a new single early next month.
"The single's dropping a week-and-a-half, two weeks. It'll be fun. It's going to be a blast," Drake told FADER writer Judnick Mayard. "It's great. I'm really excited about it. Just trying out different things, different sounds, different flows... We're all in a really great place in our lives just as a team, the team's coming together. 40's doing really well. We've got new editions. We have this affiliation with The Weeknd. It's really great. He's on the album a bunch. I'm excited about it just for the people to hear the evolution of the music." (The FADER)
Aside from a new record called "Trust Issues," Drake put out his "Marvin's Room" song earlier this month.
Get excited, Drake fans. According to his website, his sophomore album, Take Care, is due out in October and we should be hearing the first single in July. And if that isn't enough for y'all, he has also come through with a brand-new track called "Marvin's Room." It's far less rap-heavy than "Dreams Money Can Buy" and instead features Drizzy throwing on his R&B sad-man/storyteller hat throughout the nearly six-minute-long track. The result is a pretty epic cut that includes a track-ending piano solo and producer Noah "40" Shebib's trademark watery 808s. A single this is not, but I'll be d*mned if it won't make for a killer deep cut. (Prefix Mag)
He recently revealed a game plan to drop Take Care on his 25th birthday, October 24th.
"Marvins Room: Another piece of the story.Single coming in July. Take Care coming Oct. 24th.Download Here http://bit.ly/kzclvX," Drake re-tweeted from @WelcomeOVO.
"She told me the outro keys are chilling...@chillygonzales" (Drake's Twitter)
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Is Knowing British Tax Laws Proof against Radical Islam?
by Daniel Pipes
As I keep saying, it you can't name radical Islam as the enemy, you can't properly fight it. A colorful example comes today from the United Kingdom, where the chillingly named "Home Office Cohesion and Faiths Unit" issued a consultation paper that requires immigrant religious leader to be tested after a year about such matters as parliamentary democracy, the tax system, anti-discrimination laws, citizen's rights, the recent history of migration to the U.K., the country's basic law, the role of local authorities, and ways of securing access to advice about housing, employment and health care. In addition to this knowledge of Britain, they would have to show they had integrated with other faith groups, whatever that means. These regulations follow other ones in August 2004 that require immigrant religious leaders to speak the English language.
Comment: This is plain silly, as an Islamist can know as well as anyone else the British housing system; conversely, knowing about such arcana is surely no proof against Islamism. Indirection of this sort will never achieve what the authorities intend. Only naming the problem and confronting it squarely will do so. (March 9, 2005)
April 19, 2005 update: Paris buys into the same theory, namely, that to know France is love France. It has therefore set up language and cultural classes for imams in Auvergne, a region of central France. United Press International explains that "broken French no longer cuts it when it comes to preaching to the country's estimated 5 million Muslims." Dominique de Villepin, minister of the interior, has set up a French civilization program, starting with language courses and to be followed, in later 2005, by courses for imams on French history, civics, and culture. These programs in turn, represent just the beginning of a more ambitious plan to create a "French Islam" by creating university training programs for French-born imams.
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Playing without Corey Perry for the second straight game after his 272 consecutive game streak ended Monday night, the Anaheim Ducks would have to ask for extra help in the scoring department. In his second game since being called up for the first time since Feb. 1, Kyle Palmieri picked up the slack, playing on the top line and recording two goals in Anaheim's 4-0 victory over Detroit.
After the pre-game honors for Saku Koivu's 1000th career game, the first period was evenly-matched, but all it took for the Anaheim floodgates to open was a play by Cam Fowler, who tossed the puck toward the net from the blueline with two Ducks in Joey MacDonald's crease ready for the play. The player to bank it home was Teemu Selanne, registering his 1400th career point (no big deal, or anything).
The Palmieri portion of the show began when Brendan Smith of the Wings carelessly handled the puck in his own end, allowing Palmieri an easy takeaway, which he took to the net for a forehand-to-backhand goal. Less than three minutes later, Ryan Getzlaf's pass skipped by Palmieri, but made it to Bobby Ryan, who was in perfect position to get the loose puck over a fallen MacDonald. Originally, the assist was credited to Palmieri, but later on was given to Lubomir Visnovsky, ending a 15-game pointless stretch for the defenseman.
With the Ducks already up 3-0 going into the third, Palmieri topped off the scoring with another backhand goal where he changed speeds up and danced around the Detroit defense, making the play look rather easy.
Jonas Hiller's performance also helped earn the shutout, stopping all 23 Detroit shots. The 4-0 win for Anaheim was the first time in franchise history they shut out the Wings at home.
"I think I have to keep him a little longer," said Selanne about Palmieri. "He brings good karma here. Good luck. That's what we need." (via Eric Stephens)
The Ducks will need a lot of that -- they are still nine points back of the Colorado Avalanche for the eighth spot with 11 games left. Not mathematically eliminated, but still a stretch.
On Detroit's end, they played the Los Angeles Kings just the previous night, losing 5-1. Despite their home dominance, the Red Wings are now 16-20-1 on the road this season. They have one more game on their California road trip, playing in San Jose on Saturday.


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Sure there bad plays and missed assignments, but for this thread, anyway, I want to concentrate on what went RIGHT that contributed to our first win.#10 -- Captain JON BEASON -- say what you want about the public forum he chose to call out Julius Peppers, but I give him the initial credit for the win, for stepping up in his leadership role, and in effect, saying "man up" to the team. Plus his 10 tackles and sack didn't hurt, either.
#9 -- Picking up HOLLIS THOMAS as soon as the Rams let him go. The fat guy stepped in and stepped up, allowing our LB's to avoid the blockers that had been in their faces in previous games. Run defense in the middle problem? Solved. Looked to me like he played as well as or better than Kemo ever had. Worry about next year, next year, when he'll be a year older. This year, unless he, too, gets hurt, we can forget about Nick Hayden getting pushed around any more.
#8 -- DEFENSIVE LINE play in general was excellent. TYLER BRAYTON won't get a lot of press on this game, but it was his blow to Chris Samuels on their 2nd play of the game that gave him the "stinger" that floored him and knocked him out of the game, allowing pressure on their subs at OT to lead to subsequent sacks later on. And -- though Thomas Davis is given credit for the tipped pass in the 4th quarter that stopped their drive -- if you look at the film, it was actually Brayton who got up and tipped the pass, before Davis had a shot at it. EVERETTE BROWN got his first sack of the season on a nifty spin move that I doubt any OT in the league could've handled. This is encouraging for the future -- we CAN get sacks on QB's who don't get the ball out in 3 counts.
#7 -- JULIUS PEPPERS deserves separate credit -- he played his best game of the year, better than the showing he put out against Philly. He can apparently take a scolding (see #10 above) and react positively. If he can maintain this level of intensity, our DL will function adequately, and if that happens, all the guys behind them can make plays.
#6 -- CHRIS HARRIS return was bigger than we hoped for -- all that talk about what a weapon Chris Cooley was gonna be, and how we never could handle a TE, anyway? Cooley was shut down with -0- catches!
#5 -- JOHN FOX's play calling has been castigated here and elsewhere, but I salute him on going for it on 4th and goal. Never mind that Hoover coughed it up, and we came away with no points. Too many head coaches would've settled for the chip shot FG, but he sent his players a message that he's coaching to win, and I like that. Think for a moment what would've transpired had we taken the FG -- now down 7-3, we kick off to the Skins, and they start a drive from their 20 (Lloyd had 3 touchbacks in the game, earning his salary) -- but instead, they have to start backed up in the end zone, and before you know it, we've earned a 2 point Safety, gotten a big adrenalin boost, and had them kick to us, rather than the other way around! In effect, we sacrifice 1 point for a possession change. Then later on, with the game on the line, he has the guts to call (or approve) the naked bootleg play that seals the win. (More on that below.) I think the guy's got class, and despite his not wearing his heart on his sleeve with the media, I love him as our coach. It's popular to call for his head, and Jake's, and Hurney's -- but let's face it -- in your heart, aren't you glad you root for a team that's got that class?
#4 -- THOMAS DAVIS continues to put forth Pro Bowl production at LB. I don't know how they credit the Safety, whether to him or to Peppers -- either of them would've taken down Portis, since Sellers made no block on anybody, it's more blame on him than anything else. But Davis was in the backfield, and is shooting the gaps he sees with such regularity that he may be the MVP on the Panthers right now.
#3 -- Our SPECIAL TEAMS has gotten a lot of deserved criticism (no more so than by me) for their shoddy play in the first 3 games, but they really came up big yesterday. Only allowing 3 yards to the Skins on 4 punts was outstanding. We had 9 guys around the receiver on the fumbled punt, with QUINTON TEAL and DANTE WESLEY getting the credit for the crucial turnover. JASON BAKER'S punts were as good as RYHS LLOYD'S kickoffs -- unreturnable.
#2 -- KENNETH MOORE has just won the return job, in my mind. His 55 yard return on the kickoff, just after they'd scored, turned the momentum back to our side. He made some nice moves on that return, as opposed to what we'd been accustomed to seeing from others: just running into the pile, or bobbling the ball. And I think he's caught every ball thrown to him this year. (Anybody see Dwayne Jarrett? Did he make the trip to BofA stadium?)
#1 -- who else? JAKE DELHOMME, God love him, is the heart of the Panthers. He shook off the INT (not entirely his fault, as to my mind, Moose should've either caught it or prevented the pick) -- whereas a QB with less resolve, given the history of the last 3 games, and the criticism he's heard, would've then pressed and made more mistakes. He shows such love of the game, and I'd rather root for his success, and his emotion, and his drive, than back one of the many robotic QB's in the league who may have better mechanics. The bootleg was quintessential Delhomme -- unexpected, awkward, yet he made it, dragging DeAngelo Hall the final 3 yards to pick up the 1st down, to seal the win.
Go, Panthers!