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Sony is rolling out four new 3D products that are so good … only an A/V specialist can sell them.
The new products – three 7.1 A/V receivers and a Blu-ray player—are part of Sony's Elevated Standard (ES) line, which is "only available to A/V specialty and installation dealers," says Brian Siegel, vice president of Sony's home audio and video business.
Siegel and his colleagues introduced the new products to a small group of reporters last week in Los Angeles.
The new 3D-capable devices are the STR-DA5600ES, STR-DA4600ES and STR-DA3600ES receivers, and the BDP-S1700ES Blu-ray player. They will all ship this August or September.
The x600ES receivers (with MSRPs from around $1,100 to $2,000) will replace the x500ES products, but the price points will remain the same.
Compared to their predecessors, the new receivers offer (depending on model):
The new BDP-S1700ES Blu-ray 3D player (around $400) features an IR input jack on the rear panel, Bravia Internet Video, integrated 802.11n, and expanded content options with its built-in 1GB hard drive and DLNA compatibility.
View the complete product line, specs and pricing here.
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The "3D" label is hardly a cheap PR ploy, according Siegel.
"Sony's value proposition in the 3D world," he says, "is we're the only ones that can provide everything from actual content creation to in-home and in-theater experience."
Indeed, during the press event, reporters were led through Sony Pictures Entertainment and the corporation's new 3D Technology Center. At the studios, Oscar-caliber technicians were hard at work converting old 2D movies to 3D, perfecting 3D film-making, and mixing 7.1 audio for 3D movies.
Through its Imageworks group, Sony "has made more 3D movies than just about anyone," says Chris Cookson, president of Sony Pictures Technologies.
So it seems fair that Sony would claim 3D superiority in its new receivers and Blu-ray player (not to mention Bravia TVs and other 3D products announced last month).
Siegel says in a statement released today, "Because Sony is involved in every stage of the 3D ecosystem, specialty dealers and installers can rest assured that our A/V components leverage that deep expertise to deliver the most technically advanced experience possible."
While CE pros might "get it," though, big-box retailers and online stores probably won't. Consumers are more likely to enjoy the full 3D splendor of Sony products when demonstrated and/or installed by a specialty shop.
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'House of Lords Journal Volume 14: 17 May 1690', Journal of the House of Lords: volume 14: 1685-1691 (1767-1830), pp. 500-501. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=13262 Date accessed: 29 November 2014.
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DIE Sabbati, 17 die Maii.
Commissioners of the Great Seal heard, about not obeying the Order in the Cause Dod & al. versus Borrows.
Pope versus De Casseris.
Bill for securing Their Majesties against the late K. James.
Militia of London.
Message from H. C. that they agree to the Hudson's Bay Company Bill.
White Paper Manufactory Bill.
Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes
After hearing Sir Anthony Keck and Sir William Rawlingson, Two of the Lords Commissioners of the Great
Seal, pursuant to an Order of this House, upon the
Petition of Anne Dod, Magdalen Johnson, Robert Colbach and Anne his Wife, Sarah Dod, Robert Cooper
and Prisilla his Wife; complaining, "That the Lords
Commissioners of the Great Seal have refused to obey
the Order of this House of the 30th of April last:"
It is ORDERED, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That the Petitioners attend,
with their Counsel, at the Bar of this House, on Tuesday next, at Ten of the Clock in the Forenoon; and
that the Speaker acquaint them with what the Lords
Commissioners have said.
ORDERED, That this House will hear the Cause
wherein Charles Pope is Plaintiff, and Francis Decassaris
is Defendant, on Thursday next, at Ten of the Clock
in the Forenoon.
ORDERED, That the Committee appointed to draw
a Clause, to be inserted in the Bill for securing the
Government against the late King James, shall be, and
is hereby, revived; to meet on Tuesday next, at Nine
of the Clock in the Forenoon; and to report that Day;
and the House to be put into a Committee on the said
After hearing several Persons this Day, upon the Business of the Lieutenancy and Militia of the City of
It is ORDERED, That the further Consideration of
that Matter shall be, and is hereby, adjourned to Thursday next, at Ten of the Clock in the Forenoon.
A Message was brought from the House of Commons,
by Sir Robert Napper and others:
Who returned the Bill for confirming the Letters
Patents for the Government of Hudson's Bay, which
their Lordships sent down with some Amendments; to
which the Commons do agree.
The House was put into a Committee, to hear Counsel of several Persons, what they could offer against the
passing of the Bill for making of White Paper.
The Bill was read.
And, after the Counsel had been heard, the House
was resumed.
And the Earl of Rochester gave the House an Account of what was alledged by the Counsel on both
Sides; and told them, "That the Committee, after
some Consideration, did desire that the House will
please to appoint a Select Committee, to consider of
the Bill and the Clauses in the Letters Patents together; and report their Opinions to the House."
Hereupon the House named these Lords following:
Their Lordships, or any Five of them; to meet
on Monday next, at Eight of the Clock, in
the Prince's Lodgings.
Rob'tus Atkins, Miles de Balneo, Capitalis Baro de
Scaccario, Orator Procerum, declaravit præsens Parliamentum continuandum esse usque in diem Lunæ, (videlicet,) 19um diem instantis Maii, hora decima Aurora,
Dominis sic decernentibus.
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Microsoft: YES Windows 8.1 is finished, but NO you can't have it
Easy to fix...
Start8 from Stardock. I have a Win8 machine that works 99% like Win7. I tried 8 out of curiosity, and found that - after installing Start8 to circumvent all that Metro tabletty touch crap - I quite liked it and have stuck with it.
ModernMix from Stardock forces Metro apps to run in a window.
I agree 100% that MS' insistence on a single OS for touch and desktop is simply incomprehensible and, imho, an unbelievably stupid mistake.
Furious Stephen Fry blasts 'evil' Reg and 'TW*T' Orlowski
Would it be unkind to suggest Mr Fry...
..."man up" and deal with it?
AARGH! We're ALL DOOMED, bellows UN - right on schedule
Re: Sorry, third world, you need to STAY POOR
"FACT: There is not enough resources to go round!"
A fact - really? Says who? Or are you just parroting some green eco-balls you heard?
Here's a real fact: forecasts of peak oil, peak this or that have all proved wrong, time and again. Peak bullshit certainly has, although the rate at which greenpeace and the other acolytes of the CO2 cargo cult spew forth the essence of the farmyard, you wonder...
Something we might actually run out of is neodymium. You know, the magnet stuff used in those "sustainable" windmills that don't work. "Rare earth" - clue's in the name.
Re: An anagram of Lewis Page...
An anagram of "global warming": bullshit.
October global temps above average for 332nd straight month
Are you hard of understanding?
"There has been a general increase in summer temperatures averaged over the country as a result of human influence on climate..."
Bullshit. There's no evidence for that assertion and you know it. When someone proves a detectable human signature in the climate it'll be the science discovery of all time. Hasn't happened yet.
"Further, "For the A1B emissions scenario the UK is projected to experience..."
"Scenario". "Projected". In other words, more computer modelling fantasy nonsense, not actual real science.
Do you not understand that computer models of barely understood chaotic systems that require thousands of initial condition parameters, many of which are simply guessed at, are nothing more than expensive digital masturbation? When someone creates a model that can hindcast, then I might not immediately dismiss computer modelling of the climate out-of-hand as bullshit.
Warming since 1960? By what - a fraction of a degree? Big deal, let's run for the hills. I take it you're one of these cretins that denies the medieval warm period and all the other times in Earth's history when it was significantly warmer than today?
News just in...
"Tuesday was the wettest day last week", say scientists.
I don't get this at all. We have the met office publishing data that shows no warming for 17 years, and this lot saying all the polar bears are on fire.
Is it any wonder climate "science" is widely viewed as a joke, a refuge for the 2nd and 3rd raters who couldn't get a job in a real science like reflexology or aromatherapy?
I'm putting together a clubbing holiday - a seal clubbing holiday. With hockey sticks. Any takers?
SECRET 28 'scientific experts' who Greened the BBC - Revealed!
Re: Without knowing the ins and outs of this..
Simple - they're all rent-seeking vested interests that stand to lose out if CAGW is exposed for what it is, ie., a fraudulent scam.
Google "BBC pension fund climate". Then research how much money greenpeace makes. Then research how much taxpayers' money is wasted on grants to the ecotards for the purposes of lobbying etc. Then look at how much money is stolen from everyone who pays an energy bill by types of power generation that don't work and wouldn't exist without subsidies.
This is a big deal because it betrays the BBC for what it really is: a nasty bunch of lefties, in bed with other nests of nasty lefties, all conspiring to lie to everyone about the climate and using taxpayers' money to do it.
The lot of them should be marched outside, put against the nearest wall and shot.
Re: Impartiality about what?
"All of human research, then and now, points...Human-Engendered Climate Change being real."
Please supply a link to a peer-reviewed paper, published in a mainstream science journal, that demonstrates, unequivocally and beyond a shadow of a doubt, a real, attributable, detectable human signature in the Earth's climate. I'm sure you can find one - after, we have "all of human research" to pick from.
The only "flat earthers" I can see are those people who treat CAGW as an article of religious faith, and don't bother to ask for - or simply don't require - the actual evidence that such a thing exists.
17 years and counting of no warming...
Dinosaurs were DRAINED of blood by GIGANTIC HORROR FLEAS
Re: That looks like a picture of a lawyer.
Tom Watson?
Educating Rory: Are BBC reporters unteachable?
Humanities Graduates...
Rory Cellan-Jones is supposedly a "Technology Correspondent" for Al-Jebeeba. Wikipedo says he has a BA and a MA, so he's an Eloi, not a Morlock, hence the standard of tech reporting with regard to coding.
A humanities graduate pointing at an airliner and saying "magic silver bird!" - who'da thought it?
At least he's not an "environment" correspondent - they truly are the stupidest people in the world. Richard Black, Louise Gray...
Shale gas fracking ruled safe, but must stop at drop of a hat
Blackpool in danger? Oh dear...
Be honest, who the fuck would care if Blackpool slid down an enormous fracking hole and plummeted at high speed towards the Earth's molten core?
If we could throw in the resulting hole all the global warming bedwetters and the other assorted commies, even better.
Greenpeace calls out cloud names on green claims
Re: Blimey
@Elmer Phud:
Greenpeace opposes, at every turn, economic progress. Without exception, wealthy countries are cleaner and exhibit far greater awareness of the environment, lower pollution levels etc.
If you oppose economic growth, you therefore oppose improvements to the environment. Ergo, Greenpeace are environmental criminals who, by opposing growth and wealth creation, actually retard the cause of a cleaner environment.
Simple economics, oh and a little thing called the truth, something you will not find in anything published or broadcast by the left/green f*ckwits.
...don't you just hate them?
Greenpeace was an environmental movement for about 5 minutes in the 1970s, now they, and the rest of the crooked "green" bastards, are nothing more than front organisations for the hard left.
You don't need to read very hard between the lines of anything the "greens" say to discern their real agenda: the destruction of democracy and the free market. What the commies failed to achieve with tanks, they now want to achieve using lies about any and all aspect of the natural world.
Nuke them from orbit - it's the only way to be sure.
RIP wind power: Minister blows away plans for more turbines
"The arguments against nuclear power plants (terrorism etc.) can be levelled at dams as well.."
Dam failures have killed *a lot* of people throughout history, so no wonder envirofreakazoids like them. No carbon (or even CO2) and they reduce overpopulation.
Re: Here's a thought
@Silent but Deadly:
"Wind farms are best placed..."
...back in the pages of history to which they were consigned by the steam engine ~200 years ago.
Powering anything other than a yacht with the wind is utter stupidity. Trying to power a G7 economy from something that works maybe 20% of the time is total insanity, and proof - as if it were needed - that all politicians are utter f*ckwits.
Re: reverse nimby...
"so we can only have nuclear powerplants if we agree to have them built in our own back yard?"
Having a nuke plant built in your backyard does not worry James Lovelock, environmentalist and inventor of the "Gaia" theory. Nor would it worry me: I've worked in them.
I wouldn't want to live near a coal plant (far too much radiation) or near windmills, as they are very noisy and prone to exploding in fireballs.
Suggest people check WHO stats on deaths in energy. Wind power has killed many more people in the last 30 years than nuclear :-)
Re: Laugh? I nearly cried.
"I want to see the reactor design of a real reactor which can passively dissipate heat immediately after SCRAM."
Thorium-fuelled molten salt reactors can do this.
Re: Laugh? I nearly cried.
"Fukushima has shown PWR's to be faulty by design "
No it hasn't.
"(containment vessel unable to withstand the pressure of hydrogen buildup)"
Hmm, not sure that's right.
"We need less power, and less consumption,"
Why don't you and all the other communists bugger off and live your eco utopia in a mud hut by candle light, and leave the rest of us normal people to INCREASE our consumption and live in a progressive technological society where living standards, life expectancy and quality of life all increase as a direct benefit if access to cheap power?
You don't need to be tory to downvote this garbage. Possession of common sense is more than enough.
Re: Workable form of mass electricity storage
"It has been invented – the electric car and smart meter."
Electric cars are utter crap and smart meters are solely about allowing the power companies to remotely disconnect people to control demand - useful when your network has a lot of rubbish windmills.
Amount of ice in Bering Sea reaches all-time record
Re: I love satire truthiness
"doing anything except going straight for smearing actual science and nature organisations"
Oh really? This would be the same "science and nature organisation" that had its charitable status in New Zealand revoked on the grounds that it's now nothing more than a political activist marxist/communist front organisation clothing itself in green?
US ecosystems basically unaffected by global warming, studies show
Re: Selectively picking through the data to create "evidence"
"Denialists". Another drone from the hive mind collective helpfully marks their post with "DO NOT BOTHER READING".
Ice age end was accelerated by CO2
Re: Stop reading at "denier"...
@Some Beggar.
1. The so-called "consensus" doesn't exist now, and never did exist, except in the minds of politicians and the gullible/stupid.
2. People who cite "consensus" when discussing science know nothing about science or the scientific method.
3. Geniuses - they work in Apple stores, right?
4. Describing the word "denier" as innocuous betrays you as someone fundamentally ignorant of the history of the global warming hysteria.
5. Your post suggests your are an expert tosser, so I'll leave the coin thing to you. Heads it warms up, tails it cools down. Even you could be a climate scientist!
Re: Stop reading at "denier"...
The idea I would take offence if a moron calls me names is ridiculous.
You miss entirely the point of my comment. If you want to debate the (non) issue of global warming on the facts and the science, fine - let's do that. If, however, you begin your argument by declaring to the world that you are a f*ckwit by using the divisive term "denier" then you give up the right to ask people to take you, or what you have to say, seriously.
Re: Stop reading at "denier"...
:-) you can afford to run a V8?
Stop reading at "denier"...
I stopped reading at "deniers". Anything you ever read on the global warming religion that uses the word "denier" is guaranteed to be the foam-flecked rantings of a fully brainwashed, fully indoctrinated acolyte activist of the church of global warming, and therefore certain to be factually incorrect in every way possible.
Check out Wattsupwitthat.com for a breakdown of all the errors in this alleged piece of climate "science":
I had considered the Reg to be one of the few places on the web you could come for a grown up's perspective on the global warming hysteria. I do hope they don't plan on giving airtime to this kind of drivel on a regular basis.
Counter-Strike sequel aims for 2012 target
All well and good, but...
...what about the cheating?
Unless Valve do something about the cheating scum that have ruined CS/CSS, a new CS is frankly irrelevant.
UK electricity crisis over - for now
Nuclear Waste - some myths exploded
No less a person than Prof James Lovelock, the "father" of the modern green movement, has called for the building of new Nuclear power plants. According to Prof Lovelock, the entire amount of high level radioactive waste we have in the UK is equivalent in size to a small car. Most of it emits Alpha radiation. Alpha particles have a range of a few cm in air, and are stopped dead by a sheet of paper.
The solution to radioactive waste disposal is/was "vitrification", a process pioneered by BNFL whereby waste was mixed with, and thus sealed inside, molten glass. These could be dropped into a deep ocean trench, beyond the reach of pretty much anyone.
Consider also that if coal-fired stations had to operate under the same rules and license as a Nuke station, they'd be closed immediately. Burning coal releases significant amounts of naturally occurring radio-isotopes. Consider also that everything you eat, drink and touch, the air you breath and the sea you swim in is radio-active.
Tinfoil hat time
No one's remarked on the fact that all these "coincidental" shutdowns have ramped the wholesale price of power up 35%. Very profitable, I'm sure.
I worked on Sizewell B back in the early 90s. It was a huge, and hugely prestigious, civil engineering project. The people who built it felt, and feel today, very proud to be able to say they worked on it.
The tragedy we face now is that if we wanted to build anymore PWRs like Sizewell B, they'd have to be built by foreign companies and foreign engineers. I suppose there'd be one or two jobs for the natives, as they'd need people serving in the canteen and the toilets would need cleaning.
UK to outlaw cartoons of child sexual abuse
Time to leave I think...
C'mon ffs - "Broon" didn't pop his cherry 'til his late forties, and then only for political expediency as it didn't look right him not having a wife and kids. Are we really to take our moral lead from a bloke who has had sex twice in his life? Are we seriously to believe that our "leaders" entertain no sexual fantasy darker than "lights out, missionary position " and then only on St Andrew's Day? I think not.
Perhaps, instead of dreaming up more ways of controlling what we think with censorship that will actually increase the number of dirty paedos, that useless shower of wankers in govt might like to do something useful for a change. Like resign.
With the lights going out as our antique power stations trip offline with increasing regularity, we won't be able to read anything considered morally outrageous by that bunch of self-righteous Scottish puritan prudes running the show, except by candlelight.
I wouldn't park there, mate - Honda adds sat nav warnings
@ Ralph B
Honda makes a very good car. Obviously, if you're the kind of insecure, shallow individual who is more worried about the badge than the engineering, then buy some of that German rubbish. That way, when you're talking about how much negative equity you have, you can throw in how much your car has depreciated for a bit of light relief, or remark on how many times it's broken down.
Monroe BJ film goes for $1.5m
So, Norma Jean...
...played the skin flute for Jack? Who'd have thought it?
Billy Bragg: Why should songwriters starve so others get rich?
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|Third Day packs Metheny
Thursday evening, a capacity crowd of approximately 2,500 people filled Metheny Fieldhouse to hear Dove and Grammy Award-winning Christian band Third Day and their special guests Tenth Avenue North and Trevor Morgan. The artists presented the audience with over three hours of music, including top 10 singles, classic songs and brand new material.
"The show was fantastic," exclaimed Geneva College Student Union President Gwen Ward. "I am surprised there is still a roof on the fieldhouse."
As the evening began, Ward joined Geneva College President Dr. Ken Smith and junior Tyler Schoenberger, described as "Third Day's number one fan on campus," in welcoming the audience.
"If you're here for a concert with great Christian music, you're in the right place," said Dr. Smith.
Opening act Trevor Morgan performed first, singing three songs from his new album The Blessed and the Broken, including a setting of Psalm 23. Trevor is a guitar player and singer/songwriter based in Nashville, TN.
Tenth Avenue North continued the show on an expanded stage, playing material from their new album The Light Meets the Dark. "Geneva College, I thoroughly enjoyed tonight's concert," Tenth Avenue guitarist Jeff Owen tweeted following the performance. "Please have us back. Every last one of you is amazing."
Finally, Third Day took the stage, performing a set featuring music from their Dove-award winning album, Move, which won "Rock/Contemporary Album of the Year" this February. In addition to their standard stage act, they also performed while standing on the floor in the middle of the audience–and even took requests from the fans, playing songs they haven't performed on stage in years.
"Third Day was awesome, especially when they played in the middle of the crowd," said senior Valerie Hamilton. "It was packed and hot, but well worth it."
Ward said, "Compared to other Third Day shows, this was by far the best. The intimate setting of the fieldhouse was great."
Apparently not wanting the evening to end, the audience cheered Third Day on to multiple encores.
"Saying that the crowd enjoyed the show is an understatement," said Director of Marketing Services Cheryl Johnston. "To say God was glorified in word and song is true."
And Third Day members had a memorable experience, also. They describe the Geneva concert on their website: "Hello Beaver Falls, PA! Wow...what a show! Somehow we shoehorned about 3,000 of you into the gym...not sure how. We felt bad for you guys up in the corner on the side of the stage...but you guys certainly delivered a memorable night for us with your great energy…We will remember this show for sometime as it was one of [our] favorites on the Make Your Move tour."
Click here to view photos from the concert.
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Pick of the Best: handbags on sale
If you're looking for some new arm candy to wear in the new year, now is the time to get shopping, as we've seen some fantastic bargains on the high street, at designer outlets and from many of our favourite labels - with many deal appearing in the past 24 hours. You'll need to act fast to take home something special, but we've picked out some real gems so you can go straight to the front of the queue of the best deals...
1. Jaeger
We are always coveting Jaeger's bags and accessories, always made from great quality materials and in beautiful designs that become instant classics. There are some reductions well worth checking out online at the moment, including £100 off the original large-size Olympia bag and the fabulously versatile mini Olympia for just £125. There are also some generous reductions on party pieces, including the Nicole pouch bag for just £60.
2. Neiman MarcusFor the serious handbag afficionado, the Neiman Marcus sale is an event not to be missed. As ever. it's a great source of reduced items from the likes of Michael Kors, Lanvin, Diane Von Furstenberg and of course, Kate Spade - whose bags are still hard to come by in the UK. Thankfully NM handles shipping to the UK particularly well, so this is a great shopping opportunity if you don't mind a bit of excited anticipation after making your purchase! Best of all there is an extra 40% off (yes we had to double check that too) all sale purchases made online during Friday 28th!
3. Tory Burch at The Outnet
The Outnet, or 'fashion's bargain bin' as we like to call it is an all-year-round sale site, but at this time of year they reduce the items even further. This is one of your best chances to get designer items at their lowest price, so we had a quick browse as soon as the sale began to see what leaped out. First to hit our editor's radar was the Tory Burch contrast leather clutch which is half price and will look great with SS2013's key colours. From the same designer, this beautiful textured black leather 'Dorothy' clutch is just £190 - it's rare to find pieces in neutral colours here so this is a bargain not to miss.
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Every Lulu Guinness piece we've ever seen is a classic in its own right, so you can be sure to find something worthwhile in the label's sales. This year's is quite extensive, and we've already seen several pieces we'd love to snap up, many of them now under £100. For those after a practical accessory we think the small quilted lips Jamie shoulder bag is a great buy at £97, and for a real signature piece, many Lips clutches are down to £206.50. Don't miss the lovely brollies and cosmetic bags at the end of the page for some even more bargainous buys!


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Hopkins has the unique distinction of being the trailhead for the Southwest Regional LRT Trail and the North Trail Corridor. It also contains 18 parks and recreational areas, a large percentage of its 4 square miles.
The Hopkins Pavilion opened in 1991 and has since become one of the premier facilities of its kind in the Twin Cities Area. For more information, visit the Pavilion's website.
Hopkins teams up with the City of Minnetonka to offer a wealth of recreation programs for residents during all seasons. Together they publish three seasonal brochures a year with comprehensive listings of activities. Visit the City of Minnetonka website for more information or call Recreation Services at 952-939-8203.


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The ultimate golf dream today is the same as it was 25 years ago win the lottery, move to Monterey and play every day at Pebble Beach, Spyglass Hill and, in the fantasy sequence, the very private Cypress Point.
You need serious coin and connections to access that triumvirate regularly. The question is, can regular guys enjoy a golf vacation on the Monterey Peninsula and still have money left over?
Absolutely. Save Pebble for special occasions. Here's where else you should play in Monterey.
The Links at Spanish Bay
6,821 yards, par 72 Greens fee: $250-$280
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Architects: Robert Trent Jones Jr./Tom Watson/Sandy Tatum
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13 September 2013
Bristol Rugby boss Andy Robinson is delighted to be back into the day-to-day cycle of club coaching and wants to reward his club's ambition by winning promotion from the Greene King IPA Championship this season.
Former England and Scotland head coach Robinson took up his role at the Memorial Stadium in February, but could not quite guide Bristol to a play-off place – eventually finishing fifth on the league ladder, just two points adrift of semi-finalists Leeds Carnegie.
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However, bolstered by some astute signings, such as former Wales international fly half Nicky Robinson from London Wasps, the West Country outfit can be confident of an improved campaign.
Indeed, mindful of the local supporters' collective enthusiasm – as well as the desire and know-how of those above him – their director of rugby is going to be setting some high standards.
"In January I met with Chris Booy the chairman," Robinson said. "He talked to me about the vision he had for Bristol Rugby – the structure of the club and some of the players there – and I went away for a couple of weeks and thought about it.
"I realised it was a great opportunity for me to get back into coaching at a club with the ambition of being at the top table. To be able to start at a Championship club and grow it was something that really attracted me.
"Also, I know the Bristol supporters from when I was a Bath man, playing and coaching against them for so many years. In understand what it means to the people in the area and the Bristol supporters are tremendous.
"The fact that an average of 5,000 people come to the Memorial Stadium in the Championship just goes to show that."
While admitting that an 11-year career as a Bath back-rower does still earn him some light-hearted heckling from the Bristol faithful, Robinson feels very settled in his current post.
Still, he is also aware that the honeymoon period is over. When the new campaign begins on Sunday with a tough tussle against Cornish Pirates at Sandy Park as part of the Championship's 1 Big Rugby Weekend – thrusting all 12 clubs into action in a triple bill of double-headers around the country – wins are essential.
"Like all things, the proof is in how we play – the performances we put in and the results we get," explained the 49 year-old. "That is what you are judged on.
"The beauty of coaching in the Championship is that the next game comes around very quickly. At international level, you are judged on 10 games and everyone has an opinion the performance, the selection, the result. You very much have to win those games.
"Here, it is more about the development of players, the structure of the season and growing a squad that I believe can get back into the Premiership."
Praising the Championship as a prolific breeding ground for youngster, Robinson outlined the relationship between Saracens and Bedford Blues, who have groomed many players – British and Irish Lion Owen Farrell among them –through their dual-registration programme.
But as well as developing his squad, promotion back to the top tier is a key goal for Bristol's director of rugby.
"That's the aim for everyone involved at the club and, you'd hope, everyone involved in the Championship, too," Robinson concluded. "All the teams and their supporters want that.
"You've got to take a look at Exeter and what they have done over the past few years. I thought London Welsh did well in the Premiership last year, too – they really added to the division.
"I like the pressure, and putting that on the players. We've got to enjoy the pressure, because if you can handle it you can become a successful side. The more pressure the better for me."


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Miramar police: 6-year-old killed in hit-and-run
Published On: Jan 10 2013 09:43:19 AM EST
Police say a hit-and-run driver struck and killed a 6-year-old boy who was crossing a road with his uncle after leaving a McDonald's restaurant.
Authorities say the uncle was holding a baby in his arms Wednesday night as he crossed Miramar Parkway with the boy. A car hit the child and the boy was thrown onto the vehicle's hood.
According to police, the driver swerved a couple of times and the child fell off the car and run over. The boy was taken to Memorial Regional Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The uncle and the baby were not injured.
Police are searching for a newer model white sedan with damage to the front end.
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Really? With the dog? Really?
All My Babies
All on my bed. Not much better to find in my life. All so delightful. I live a life full of warmth and delight, filled with hair that gives me allergy attacks.
Corresponding Again!!!
This year with NaNo, I found myself not having the time for letters and postcards. I was so excited to find myself with a day full of snow and some time after my doctor's appointments today to get started back on my correspondence. Boy howdy was there a pile to come back to, and I'm psyched to get started back with my great letter love.
After getting home from the doctor, back from the post office, and out of the snow I gathered my supplies and my postal helpers and got started.
First was the sorting into tidy piles.
Then the clipping of my tidy piles. Clips are important, never underestimate clips and mail and how they are important to each other. Sorting and clips go together. They so totally go together and sometimes I wish I had more sizes, ooo or several colors.
I started with some fantastic postcards. This is the first batch that I decided to work on, aren't they fantastic? There are colors, and art, and a couple of boats, and then fantastic illustrations. It is a good haul, and was a wonderful place to start.
It was really grand to get back into my postcard collection and pick out things to send. There was some Doctor Who, some animation, Jimmy Stewart in Telluride, and all kinds of portraits! I am just thrilled to be back to writing post, and writing just a few less words a day than I was with NaNo. It was a great snowy day.
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December is here!
Today is beautiful and I feel so happy!
I have a kitten – two kittens! It is the life of luxury!
I have a great family.
I have fantastic friends.
I sometimes am brave enough to leave the house.
I did yoga today!
I totally did everything on my list for today!
Yay Yay Yay for December.
I feel so optimistic here at the end of the year.
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Orange Book, Pen, and Bag
On the 1st I wrote a crap ton of words for my NaNo thanks to all the sprints from Friday Night Writes, and I feel super good about where I stand and how things look from here…I mean obviously there is still lots to come, but this fat stack of words makes me feel really good, and I am excited for what comes next!
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Journals and Half-Price Costumes
Today is the first of November, this means that today I started writing for NaNoWriMo like a lunatic and I went and bought costumes for half price for my kittens, also like a lunatic.
Both things were obviously well thought out and will be considered brilliant ideas, once I recover from all the wounds I suffer from both undertakings.
Our facility is located behind a Toys-R-Us. There is some kind of joke there, other than cosmic.
I keep thinking to myself that I've made the right decision. Right? This has to be the right decision. You have to make a good decision to get better. That is what they keep telling me.
They they they they – Every they.
The words seem like they should make sense and it all seems like I should agree.
I should agree. always agree
But there is something terribly off about all these people agreeing that things will be better knowing I've made the decision to get help and be better.
Get better.
Feel Better.
Get Better.
Things can only get better if we crack you open.
Crack you open and see inside.
See inside.
See inside.
Where all the rot,
and worms reside.
That must be better,
must be better.
I listen to the words all these people say. I nod and agree. always agree
But it doesn't feel better.
It doesn't feel better to crack me open and see all the pieces inside.
I feel like I'm letting everyone down.
How very useless I am.
I can't even keep it together.
I can't even keep it together.
In some ways psych facilities feel a lot like S&M sex dungeons. They both are way creepier and scarier in your imagination than they ever are in reality. When you actually encounter either place you just manage to find every single cliché alive and well and groping around in the dark just like you.
I didn't want to be trapped in my head anymore and tried to find a book to read. The book selection – befuddling. There is a Raymond Chandler mystery, in Italian. Then there is Madame Bovary – just what every OCD suicidal depressive needs to conquer – and that one is in French. Every Cat murder mystery book every written apparently, two books from a Jane Austen as a detective mystery series, and two different collections of porn short stories. I found a copy of Flowers for Algernon, that will have to do I guess.
I'm writing with a golf pencil. I can't have a real pencil, nothing with an eraser, and fuck no I can't have a pen – and my actual journal with stickers is totally not allowed. I was looked at, looked over for scars and marks and issues, and my bra was taken because it has wires, my shoes because they have laces, and my purse because it had anything remotely normal in it I guess. I know this is all safety related. I know this is all to ground me in to this place, this time, my mind, my issues, where I'm at, this is to keep me safe. But I have a hard time giving a shit what anyone says if they can't spell aspartame for my allergy wristband.
Suicidal Depressive – I want to go home.
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Two Henderson Police Captains Graduate from Northwestern University School of Police Staff and Command
May 13, 2013
Henderson, Nev. – Two Henderson Police captains graduated Friday from Northwestern University's School of Police Staff and Command, an intensive program for law enforcement managers.
Captain Marc Cassell and Captain Dane Mattoon completed the 10-week program held locally. Northwestern University launched the program in 1983 to help prepare law enforcement managers for senior command positions by combining academics with practical applications.
"I am very proud of the hard work of Captain Cassell and Captain Mattoon. I know firsthand the benefit of Northwestern University's School of Police Staff and Command," said Henderson Police Chief Patrick Moers, who graduated from the program in 2005. "We at the Henderson Police Department are committed to professional and educational development not just for the command staff, but for all employees."
In keeping with that emphasis on education, earlier this year Chief Moers implemented a new educational requirement for new promotions.
The major topics of study at the School of Police Staff and Command included management and management theory, organizational behavior, human resources for law enforcement, budgeting, staffing allocation and personnel deployment.
The School of Police Staff and Command had 35 students from a variety of local and nearby law enforcement agencies. The school is considered one of the best for executive development in law enforcement.
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DeSOTO, Texas — A mother and her teenage daughter were among four people fatally shot at two Dallas-area homes in a domestic dispute blamed on a man caught at the second crime scene.
Dallas and DeSoto police on Thursday said charges are pending against Erbie Bowser. Two youths were wounded at each of the homes.
DeSoto police Cpl. Melissa Franks says investigators are trying to determine how Erbie Bowser knew the victims. No motive was immediately announced.
Investigators say a mother and daughter were slain at a Dallas home where a 14-year-old boy and a 17-year-old girl were wounded. A relative discovered the bodies.
Two women were killed at a house in DeSoto where officers — who were tipped by Dallas police — found the victims. Boys ages 11 and 13 were wounded.


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We just got back from a great overnight wild-camping trip on the River Wye. Weather was good, but very windy on day one which made the mailes hard going at times, but it cleared beautifully in the evening for our camp. We knew heavy rain was coming early the next morning so set about getting good tarp-rigs up for some protection, which worked great. Here's some photos from the trip.
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Cold October Canoe Trip
A sudden down-turn in the temperatures in mid October didn't put us off a planned canoe trip on the river Wye. We set off for a short trip with an overnight wild camp on the river, Autumn sunshine and the trees just beginning to turn, we had a brief shower once we got on the river, but sheltered under a huge oak tree, with acorns dropping all around us as the squirrels above were busy feeding before winter. There were a lot of pheasants around too, and we saw them scatter as the sound of a Goshawk called loudly from the tree just above us, something I'd never heard before – I still haven't ever seen one of these elusive predators, even though the Wye valley and the Forest of Dean are one of the best places to see them, they are making a great comeback in recent years after being persecuted, like many birds of prey to the verge of extinction in the UK in the past. But the pheasants certainly know about them!
We canoed downstream in the most beautiful sharp autumn light late in the afternoon, the shower brought out the best rainbow I've ever seen, reflected in the river and reaching right across the sky. Arriving at our camp spot as dusk drew in, the temperature was dropping sharply, so with one strike from the firesteel on some birchbark and dry twigs gathered along the way we had a fire going, and set about organising the camp. With a bit of rain still in the air Hawkeye set up his usual tarp rig as a back-up, but we planned to sleep out until any rain came. In fact the sky cleared completely during the evening, but that meant the temperature really began to drop fast – with the fire roaring we were warm but a little apprehensive about how cold it would get during the night. The owls hooted all around the valley in the dark, and the sound of the fire crackling and the river running past made for a fantastic evening around the fire. We ate strips of rump steak on sticks over the flames, and big roast potatoes cooked straight in the embers – the best way: the ferocious heat in the embers cooks the potato much hotter than an oven, and really brings out the best sweet flavour, we both agreed that you need no more than potatoes cooked this way with some butter for a great camp meal. They were in about 40 minutes, then pulled out to cool: the surface turns to a kind of charcoal egg-cup, once cool you can hold that, break open the top and scoop out the soft potato inside, your hands get a blackened, but holy smoke it's worth it!
The stars were soon out, full moon rising too over the treeline, and later we retired to the swag and sleeping bags with the fire still providing plenty of warmth. I fell asleep with the freshening air, looking up at a billion stars, with the sound of the owls and the river, an unforgettable magical experience.
Sure enough during the night it got very cold: I pulled the canvas swag over my head to keep off the breeze, and slept soundly, perfectly warm and dry: still nothing better for me than an australian canvas 'swag bag' and sleeping out, no tent required. Worst case if you get heavy rain a small tarp over the top would do the trick, but unless you get heavy rain you can sleep right out there in the open, in comfort too.
Hawkeye woke early, and got the fire re-started from the remains of last nights logs, then poked my swag with a stick to wake me so I wouldn't miss the most beautiful morning scene on the river I've ever witnessed: the cold meant a thick mist was swirling around over the water, shifted around by a light breeze, the river and the forest around was stirring. H had the Kelly Kettle on too so I had no excuse but to jump up, get some clothes on quick and enjoy some hot tea by the fire, just watching the day begin. The cold was such that a thick frost had formed on most of our gear, and it felt like a winter trip rather then autumn! Warmed my hands on the fire as they were getting numb it was that cold, definitely sub-zero by one or two degrees.
After some coffee and hot porridge on the fire cooked in the trusty crusader mugs, we got into the canoes and pushed off to explore up river, paddling quietly through the swirling mist, the forest all around – a magical experience I'll never forget.
So here's the video of the trip… watch it full screen if you can, hope you enjoy it.
Sevylor Colorado Inflatable Canoe Review
We've been asked a few times about our views on inflatable canoes, and in particular the open varieties like the Sevylor Colorado or the Back Country by Stearns – the ones that try to emulate a true open canoe. Well we really had to shrug our shoulders as we hadn't actually tried any of them. So time to change that then!
We decided to start with a video trip report of the Sevylor Colorado with a canoe-camp visit to the Upper Wye. We've produced some photos of the Colorado in action and a video – the highlights of a great 2 day trip where we learned a lot about this craft. See the video review for how it pumps up and also how it paddles.
What were our thoughts then on the Sevylor Colorado? Well we were much more than pleasantly surprised! It was a great, fun boat to live with, tough and durable, makes no noise when paddling, easy to lift and of course folds up in the back of a car at the end of a trip. It was much quicker and easier to inflate than we expected too. On the water it handles very differently to a hard-shell canoe, and is basically slower, but more maneuverable – it's not for speed: but the flexibility it offers of putting in anywhere, transporting easily, and even storing easily makes it a phenomenal product for the relatively low price tag. The idea of being able to just bring your canoe along in the car "just in case" you decide to Get Out on the water is a great one, and it really is a reality with this boat. I've heard it used from the beach in the surf and around the coats of Dorset for which I think it would be excellent. Kids are happy in it too, as the inflatable nature of it makes them feel more secure. Inflatable open canoeing now fits in our plans for the future, particularly when travelling on quick overnight camp trips and going 'minimal'. The canoe itself makes a fantastic camp bed with just a tarp pulled over it. It doesn't handle anything like an open canoe, although it was great fun in the little rapids we encountered, but then it's not meant to replace a real open canoe – it's meant to fill another need: ultimate portability on the river… and it does that perfectly.
Woodland Camp
We just got back from a fantastic woodland swag camp in a local nature reserve. Given special permission, we were able to camp in a place not normally open to that activity, surrounded by the sights and sounds of a protected woodland and grassland nature reserve. We were treated to young Roe deer and even a badger wandering past our camp, as well as a large male Roe deer passing by and letting off loud barking calls just outside our camp. We'll write up the trip in full soon, but here's a pic of the woodland camp scene – you'll spot the green Australian "swag" wild-camping bedrolls rolled up in the pics below.
May on The River – Overnight Camp
Took a trip to the River Wye at the end of May with our Australian visitor "OZMan" to show him what it's like in a country that has rather more water and lush growth than they get down under. A fantastic trip again in gorgeous late spring weather, OzMan even took a dip in the river and climbed tup to the top of Yat Rock, he was really struck by the beauty of our English countryside. I lent him one of our genuine Australian swags so he'd feel right at home! Somewhere along that lazy river as the evening drew in towards dusk I spotted a rare "Hobby" falcon flashing over the surface of the water catching bugs, something I've never seen before – a really beautiful bird, with a very distinctive agile flight full of twists and turns as it races after dragon-flies and moths, eating them on the wing. As the canoe drifted silently on the water we came very close, right under a branch where it had stopped to rest for a while, so I could see that striking red underside and dark moustache features. But it's in flight you want to see this bird – a really magical experience, and one you'd be unlikely to see except from down at the water level in a canoe, approaching silently on the water.
Stoatally Different Canoe Trip…
On Saturday 24th, we took 'Old Red' (our newest canoe, an Old Town Discovery 158) on its 3rd trip, on another 'over-nighter' on the River Wye. The river was quite low with the recent fine weather and Spring has now properly arrived at last. We didn't see the Peregrines this time but were treated to a lengthy sighting of a Stoat, hunting alongside the riverbank.
It moved quickly in the cover but we could see the distinctive white chest and black tip of the tail clearly – How to tell a Stoat from a Weasel? Just remember this old rhyme: A Stoat is Weasily recognised, as it Stoatally different from a Weasel!
I rigged up an improvised shelter with my tarp as we expected some rain at night and sure enough, at around 3am, the showers started.
The birdsong took over from the rain at 6am and it was incredible to hear this chorus again. The protective Canada Goose we'd seen on the last trip left us alone as we passed this time – he seemed a bit more relaxed about canoeists. Mrs Goose was still up on the nest as he eye-balled us from the other side of the river. Only a few Buzzards this time and the Owls were fairly quiet – and no visits from the Mink at camp – all in all, a Stoatally different trip!
"Old Red" on the water again
'Old Red' our new Old Town Discovery 158 canadian canoe had its 2nd outing on Sat 10th with an overnighter involved. The usual and amazing magic of the Wye Valley featured again on this trip. Daytime temperatures were up to 17 degrees on the Saturday with quite a chilly 5 at night as we lay out under the stars in the Swags. The trees still looked very Wintry and they're late this year, but up close, you could see the buds of Spring bursting out everywhere. Another few warm days and that should make a huge difference.
We heard the Peregrine Falcons calling in the distance and soon after saw one of them zooming down the valley like a jet, and disappearing over the trees. We also encountered a very defensive male Canada Goose who wanted to fight anyone that passed; to keep Mrs Goose safe. We met him two weeks ago on that trip and he was fairly touchy then to any passers by. We kept away both times to give them some space. Countless Buzzards soured in the warm air and a Sparrowhawk darted around the trees just yards from Old Red as we drifted silently. In the morning, we were awake by 6am listening to what sounded like hundreds of birds singing at the same time. At camp, I was pleased with my improving skills with a striker and small pieces of Birch bark shavings to get a small camp fire going, for directly boiling the Kelly Kettle and cooking some meat that I propped on a sharpened green stick.
During the night, I lay there listening to the Tawnys and my eyes had adjusted quite well under the fairly bright night sky. I heard a worrying noise on the pebbles and stones about 20 yards from me and picked up the outline and profile of a large Mink bounding towards our spot, closer and closer.
The Mink then stopped very abruptly, sniffed the air, and did a 'I just smelt a bloke' kind of U turn back to the river. As he raced away, he tore up stones behind him, like a car doing wheel spins! I heard the splash as he hit the safety of the Wye again.
On day 2, only 3 other canoeists were seen by us so it really felt like we had the Valley to ourselves which was a great feeling on that warm Sunday morning, as the lambs skipped on the banks along side us.
First Trip and First Days of Spring on the River
Last weekend saw us make it on the first river trip of the year, finally after a very cold and rather drawn out winter this year. It was fantastic to finally get out on the water, and with the river Wye in quite a bit of flow after yet more rain the river itself felt as eager to move down stream as we were! A highlight was taking our new red Old Town Discovery 158 out for a maiden trip, and I have to say she is a lovely boat – there's something classic about the red colour – perhaps it's from the Bill Mason days (see below), and whilst our green one blends in visually with the surroundings, the red one seems equally at home out in the wilds. There was really no sign of spring yet, despite it being the very end of March – just some wild garlic in the woods with it's rich pungent aroma as you walk through breaking the leaves and releasing the scent, and a few daffodils of course in the churchyards and gardens. But otherwise it felt like we were there at the very start of spring – the first day was much like winter, cold wind and grey clouds, no greeness in the trees at all. But when the sun came out after the nights camp on an island in the river, and all the birds in the valley burst into song it seemed like suddenly spring had gotten underway. Buzzards soared in breeding pairs above our campsite, the river flowed past, and overall it was a pretty special trip – here's to many more this year! View the trip in video below:
Some still photos of the trip:
Landrover-Bushcrafting in Somerset…
Autumn colours make getting out into the woods a must…
For more "Bushcrafting By Landrover" see our LandroverExplorer.co.uk website – follows the same "Get Out & Stay Out" philosophy but applied to on-land travel instead of on water!
Autumn on the River Wye
At the first sign of it getting colder and the leaves turning we loaded up and headed for an overnight trip down the Wye to catch the early autumn mood – leaving enough time for a late Autumn trip to follow before winter hopefully…


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Microsoft, Asus launch anti-Linuxbook campaign
But, but...
But "Familiar" Yes because through market domination, anti-competitive practices etc windows is more familiar to a lot of people.
"Trusted" Even my family who use nothing other than windows don't trust it. Who trusts windows. I don't. Its always going wrong. I've had Ubuntu 8.04 installed on this laptop since the day of release and nothing has gone wrong with it. It is compatible with the laptop's inbuilt wireless card, the on board graphics card, keyboard shortcuts, my printer and my camera.
Every time I want to add a new device to my windows running computers (which I don't use that much) I need this CD or to download that driver and go through an extremely irritating set up process.
The reason that microsoft doesn't want linux based operating systems to gain ground in this arena is very simple. People might like them. If people like using them and find out they can use them with their regular computer there would be less demand for windows operating systems for everything. If there were more demand for linux, vendors would sell it to us in the desktop market etc, then games companies etc would cotton onto the trend and hey presto microsoft will suddenly have competitors. The thing about these competitors though is they're offering something for nothing. Its very hard to compete with free, especially if the user finds it works better. Oh and they don't go round with smarmy advertising campaigns.
I was considering a new eee, but don't want windows, and don't want to pay for it. If I had the option of getting it with out (even if I had to go to all the painstaking trouble of installing an operating system on it myself*) I would. But Asus has lost another sale.
*Which not being windows, wouldn't be instant, and I would have compatibility issues, obviously. We need windows to protect us from having to use our brains once in a while.
Brown red in face after blusher found in cab
Please may I be the first to say.........
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, WAHAHAHAHAHAHHA, HAHAHA, HOHOHOHOHO, *Chuckle* slight pause, BAHAHAHA.
Paris, she's also careful when applying make up.
UK gov squeezes 'best pricing' pledge from MS
Or why not
just use linux based distros? That way they could save a heck of a lot more than they would haggling with M$. What does an MP actually do? Writes letters, reports and such (open office) Browses the web to engage with the yoof, send and receive e-mail from those who elected them and read articles about themselves and errrr "research." Firefox is capable of all of that.
I fail to see how a linux distro like Ubuntu can't be adopted. When it comes to public spending MPs should put up with a minor learning curve. It is minor, they don't have to use terminal or anything even slightly complicated. All they need to do is learn the gnome environment.
By using a free operating system the tax payers gain and MPs lose about 10 minutes being told that they won't see the "start bar" anymore.
BOFH: Defiling the profile
Keyboard, coffee etc.
Very well written, worth the wait, but any chance of more BOFH?
Cops taser JCB thief in 'slowest police chase ever'
@ Greg.
The reason it was an ARU is that they double as traffic units. They are treated as traffic units until such a time that fire arms are needed then they in effect become an ARU
Teen-bothering sonic device now does grownups too
@ Guide dogs.
Yes they do.
Same place where I can't eat outside, I'm not welcome to do that, because, I'm under 20. It may also have something to do with the fact I have long hair, but thats going out on a limb.
Anyway its a supermarket lots of people coming and going. Their was a blind guy and his Pal, must have 35, 40, wouldn't have been able to hear the device. The dog started playing up (as far as they were concerned) for no reason, just as they got close to the device. I let them know what was going on and it being the probable cause. The dog was trying to get away from the thing. The dog could easily have pulled the guy into the road. It fell silent about 2 minutes after they went into the store. I wonder if they might of had a word.
It affects wildlife, guide dogs, cats, anything that can hear with in that range. They are about the same frequency as a dog whistle a friend of mine owns.
@ Guide dogs.
"if an innocent teenager can put forward a case for WHY they need to hang around outside a newsagent/shop/private dwelling after dark"
erm, I'm allowed out after dark am I not? its my right to go where I want (obviously a public place or where I have permission to be) when I want. I don't hang around in front of shops. Its boring. But it says "I don't want you here" and I don't hear it only if I'm loitering so it affects me if I'm walking past, I get an ear full of nails down the blackboard type noise.
Further, they are employed during the day too.
there is one of these things
outside a local supermarket, I went in to buy some food, then wanted to sit outside and eat the food I had just bought, but in the time I was inside they'd turned the thing on. There was an older lady there doing the same thing, eating her food outside the supermarket, on the bench that they supplied, why do I have any less right to do that?
UK.gov says extreme porn isn't illegal if you delete it...
Enough of this Nanny state.
If I want to ride my motorcycle with out my helmet on, I should have every right to do that. At the same time, I shouldn't expect the NHS to clear up after me. If I want to watch extreme porn then I should be able to do that. If I want to use recreational drugs, I should be allowed to do that.
I'm not suggesting I want to do either. I don't. but people should have the right to make their own choices, regardless of nulabour's puritanical hogwash.
Lords told to listen to science on cannabis
Whacky Jaqui
Still won't listen. She doesn't do reason, we all know that.
Tens of thousands of kids need to be protected from ContactPoint users
@ If I ever had kids.
Reminds me strangely of an XKCD comic.
I shall right an adaptation.
GA (government agent) - "Hi this is the government, we're having some computer trouble"
DBAP (database admin parent" "oh? Did he break something"
GA "in a way. Did you really call your son John')DROP TABLE children;-- ?"
In all seriousness though, This stinks of backtracking to me.
http://cu.nniling.us/327/ - original comic from XKCD
Texas cop tasers himself
I don't think he was asking, "why was the gun loaded?" but rather, why was it in a such a state that just pulling the trigger would fire a round. Surely if it was loaded but first need cocking (Ie no round in the chamber) then it would be far less likely to erm accidently discharge. Also I'm not an expert but I'm reasonable sure that other than the trigger, there is no saftey mechanism on a Glock 40.
Porn breath tests for PCs heralds 'stop and scan'
Oh dear.
So Johnny Peado-terrorist has a USB Flash drive, He has Truecrypt on his laptop, Given this program is "just" looking for images, and they aren't going to take a look at your flash drives then all he has to do is go through border control insert flash drive, apply his encryption key. It doesn't matter if they want to have a look at the Flash drive either, because this program won't find anything of suspicion on there either.
When will people learn.
High-speed train toilet attempts to eat Frenchman
most modern train toilets
have "suction flush" so if your sitting on it when you flush and get a bit unlucky qell lets just say a relative of mine who is a train driver has had to release a few people on this side of the pond because the loo wanted to suck them in. There is a release valve. How ever they'll be a nice red ring all round your um, yeah.
Top prosecutor warns against growing state power
its all a matter of time.
A Reasoned public debate that will, in turn be duly ignored. Jaqui knows what she wants, and she'll keep on throwing her teddy out of the pram until she gets it and to hell with what anybody else thinks! We should be used to this. The public at large though (out side of IT profesionals) tend not to care very much. To them a Database means nothing, they don't think about what else it could be used for.
I can see the data that are stored on the Databases that will keep us all in check being sold to big companies for marketing purposes, to fund the things.
anyway sorry for the almost certian spelling mistakes.
Wacky Jacqui's yoof ID site goes silent
Whacky Jacqui?
As much as I like that, I'm not sure she is whacky, more cold, controlling and manipulative. When 42 days was revoked she said something along the lines of "Some people don't take the security of Britian seriously." Surely that is for the benefit of Daily Mail readers who will lap it up? One wonders wether she takes human rights seriously.
Aside from that, this is encouraging, The whole point of that site was to influence the yoof and say how positivily they responded. Its great to see that those who took part, blew it right back in her face. If I want proof of Age etc, I'll use my driving licence, why would I bother with a seperate card - aside from privacy issues.
Anonymous hacks Sarah Palin's Yahoo! account
this is why
We always use secure passwords of no less than 10 characters with upper and lower case letters, numbers and upper case characters and a few special characters two, we also do not under any circumstances use a real word, nor do we write our password down.
She should have been taught all of this.
I can not believe they think this is secure, I don't know about Yahoo! e-mail system but if it isn't encrypted all the way through (I suspect it is isn't) why is she using it? It could have been side jacked. She could at least use gmail and use the https always option.
This woman is beyond belief when you think about her, Abstinence only sex education, please tell me how that works, Kids are gonna have sex anyway.
Paris, because this has happened to her too!
Secret of invisibility unravelled by US researchers
News Flash
The US military has invested in suits to make their troops seemingly disappear. Now that they have got the so called invisibility cloaks it would appear that the Russians have just brought 80 million paintball markers!
the above is fiction.
Mozilla insists Firefox 3.1 won't hit bum note for developers
Baptist church in assault rifle giveaway
Assault riffle?
I don't think a semi-automatic actually counts as an assault riffle, I thought to be an assault riffle it had to be fully automatic, and those are banned even in the USA. Though still giving any gun to kids is not a good idea. In fact giving guns to Americans is a bad idea.
Microsoft pledges to fight Vista 'myths'
I have no interest in Vista at all.
Its not that its a bad OS, it isn't too bad really. but my laptop, which is about a year and a half old now, wouldn't run it very well, so it makes sense to use Ubuntu on it, because it is fast stable OS with good support for most applications, and I can do everything I want to do with my laptop using ubuntu. My main desktop uses XP. Its a pretty good OS, and runs rather smoothly, and whilst it remains to be a good, well supported OS, I have no interest in moving to Vista, because XP is perfectly good.
Singapore forum 'scammer' faces caning and prison
oh lord the grammar nazis are out in force. Hi how are you? Well to be honest, he deserves it. I hate it when electrical companies don't deliver on time.d
Paris - Because she delivers.
Chrysler shoves hotspots into hot rods
I think we can all see this one going wrong!
UK abandons train and tube scanners
For once, the man sees sense.
This government is like a badly behaved toddler, you tell them "don't touch that, Its hot." Then they do it anyway and then they wonder why the public burns them. Honestly. it doesn't matter who tells them that their stupid schemes are stupid they do it anyway. Then for once they do realise "hmmm stupid scheme is stupid" but it isn't far enough. they need to realise that the nanny/police state we are walking into is unacceptable too. School teachers are afraid to let kids climb in trees, or go pond dipping, we have more CCTV cameras than anyone else, The government is also behaving more and more like the NSDAP.
Trojan heralds OS X's 'new phase of exposure to malware'
well it was a matter of time
the problem is that all computers (like it or not) are vulnerable. It reminds me of that poster in my old school computer room a few years a go "The only secure computer is one that is buried in concrete, with no power and the network cable cut" they all have exploits. Which is exactly why I think the advertising campaign that apple ran was highly irresponsible. to tell the users "you are in no way vulnerable" is inherently wrong (yes you are more secure than a windows user - true) but when people start believing this and pay for macbooks that cost £700 and give you one gig of RAM, more exploits will come out of the woodwork. The other issue is anyone stupid enough to make such a transaction, isn't going to be the most technically minded of people, and so will properly help the exploits along. "It just works" indeed.
Brando attempts to get climbers hooked to storage
I'll pass
Hmm, I'll stick to my UIAA approved 25KN + 3 Sigma rated biners thanks.
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Scouts from 26 NFL teams were on grounds Monday morning to watch Virginia football players work out at the school's annual Pro Timing Day. UVa seniors Morgan Moses, Luke Bowanko, Tim Smith, Jake Snyder, Brent Urban and former Cavalier Perry Jones were all on hand at the George Welsh Indoor facility.
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ntl:Telewest forgets who its customers are
Some Virgin customers have been without ADSL services since this morning thanks to a breakdown in authentication, though things should be back to normal now. The problem was with ntl:Telewest Business division, which started choking at 08.30 this morning when the servers responsible for checking usernames and passwords failed …
Outsourcing the delivery does not relieve you of the responsibility
Outsourcing the delivery does not relieve the service owner of the responsibility of delivering the service, neither in common sense nor in the legal sense.
Put another way, it may not have been ntl:Telewest's (aren't they Virgin then?) fault, but it's still their responsibility. Off with their heads, down with their SLAs, whatever.
Not fixed Yet
Dont think it fixed. Still a large number of customers are still down.
Bottom Rung
In fairness ADSL is the bottom rung of what could be called credible business internet and unfortunately you get what you pay for. My guess, as we are 2mb leased with a 4 hour SLA, that ADSL is far worse and NTL are well within the SLA on this. My advice, if you afford it, is get another service from another provider as backup.
TW Fail
No it's not back up and running. Though TW aren't exactly hot off the mark telling you when it's fixed - we've been having intermittent DSL issues since last Friday and all TW do is blame someone else.
Generally that someone else is BT....
Not there fault?!?!?!?!?!?!
Help me out here because my struggling with the whole this stuff is outside our network therefore not out fault.
Is that third party Virgin?
When ringing up NTL business support they don't know who we are and tell us we don't have a connection with them. After several call transfers we get somewhere.
why bother with passwords?
why does ADSL even need passwords? it's not like someone's going to break into my house with their own ADSL modem and try to use it is it?
DSL passwords...
...allow the operator to turn a customer off at the non-drop of a dime. Frequently, as in our case, a virtual ISP toggles the customer on and off by making entries into a RADIUS server, thus requiring no access to TELCO equipment or computers once the original line is set up.
We actually do have one customer that takes her ADSL modem from her summer home in some Northern clime to her warm and toasty Arizona Winter quarters.
What happened was that Phorm equipment was hacked by the Chinese just at the moment that Google was trying to suck all the data out of Beijing, meanwhile..........
NTL originally outsourced their IT to IBM - and TUPE'd a load of people at the same time. This was a few years back so could conceivably have changed supplier in the meantime but I don't recall seeing any announcement.
No one was to blame
Judge to the Ramsbottoms (Albert and the Lion)
"Its not our fault....
...we bought our servers from a guy on the street who looked like jesus for 2 pies from gregs. Its his fault for supplying inferior kit"
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I'm sorry my last payment did not reach you. This was due to an error in my outsourced payment service provider, and beyond my control. I am currently working closely with my payment provider to rectify the situation.
3rd Party is.......
.... BT Wholesale.
All LLU unbundled providers, with the exception of 1 or 2, use kit managed by BT Wholesale / BT Openreach (they outsource physical management to Alcatel) - as someone else eluded to, a RADIUS username/password is required to authenticate - the authentication is done on BT servers.... so as much as it pains me to say it, this probably wasn't NTL/TW's fault.
proof that legacy customers get left behind
this further confirms my belief that legacy customers get left behind. you would be far better asking to be upgraded or side graded to whatever the current owner is offering. not only could you negotiate a really awesome deal for being a long standing customer, but you won't suddenly get dropped when your account gets forgotten about.
in the past ISPs bought and sold each other all the time causing all sorts of confusion that customer service would have to sort out.
Could be worse at least they didn't blame the customer
Yep, if it was here in the USA and you were a customer of Verizon through one of their broadband services then they will spend many hours telling you that you have changed a setting and then screw up every setting that was set perfectly on your computer and after many hours on the phone they will say that it is something you have done and that it is all your fault.
Finally after a further few hours of going round in circles they will admit they have a problem and that you will have to sit it out and wait for your connection to come back. Unfortunately by this time they have messed with so many settings that your computer will no longer make a connection with the network when it comes back online.
Why can't these companies that supply these services get a backbone and say WE SCREWED IT UP AND IT IS OUR FAULT.
The age of accountability is over
Led by our politicos, it is no surprise to see enterprise wear thick coats of teflon. I reckon that I am well out of Virgin Media nee Telewest, the shower of shites that they were.
Blame someone else
"...owned and managed by a third party"
Who cares? Is this third party the one that takes the money and with whom the customer contract exists? Thought not. Will they start blaming the poor quality toilet paper delivered by their sanitation outsourcer for the discomfort of key staff causing a chain of events that leads to network meltdown.
Perhaps they should move into sanitation if the ISP business doesn't agree with them - they've certainly plenty of experience in talking shit.
Virgin, ntl Telewest confusion.
Once there were dozens of little cable companies, and for a while this was good...
Then came Cabletel, and Telewest, backed by big American banks, who between them acquired almost all of the cable companies, including the Independent Broadcasting Authority's privatised network - "National Transcommunications Limited" - Cabletel adopted their acronym as their new name ntl:).
The Broadcast network was sold off and turned into Arqiva. Telewest then bought ntl:, although they told the BBC, ntl: bought Telewest to avoid a contractual penalty, due to a change-of-ownership clause written into the agreement for UKTV, a joint venture with Telewest's Flextech content division. "ntl: Telewest" then bought into the Virgin brand, while acquiring virgin.net in the process. Thus creating the following:
Virgin Media - Internet, TV, Telephony, Mobile.
ntl:Telewest Business - Business data, and Telephony.
These two distinct entities are part of the "VirginMedia Group Of Companies".
As for this recent ADSL Radius issue, that's internal. The support is 3rd party vendor support, but that's common as hardware support partners are rarely internal unless the hardware was exclusively developed by the company.
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