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There are two identical holiday apartments, positioned side by side and located on the hill beneath the ancient Castle of Alanya. They enjoy an elevated position with awesome views of the Red Tower, Alanya Harbour and boast unimpeded views of the coastline and sandy beaches stretching as far as the eye can see.
The complex is 200m from the city centre of Alanya, and 500 meters away from Alanya beaches. It is a short walk to some of the best restaurants and bars in Alanya, to the bustling harbour area with its boat trips and lively nightlife.
There are a total of four apartments on this small, private complex sharing a large swimming pool but they are rarely occupied at the same time. The two holiday apartment described here are positioned next door to each other on the ground floor. Both have separate entrances. Larger families or friends wishing to have their own private spaces could, subject to availability, opt to book both apartments.
The complex is 200m from the city centre of Alanya, and 500 meters away from Alanya beaches.
The Red Tower Apartment 1 and 2 each have one double bedroom, but each apartment can easily accommodates four people by using the comfortable extra sofa-bed in the open plan kitchen /diner /lounge
Wireless internet is also available so remember to bring your laptop.
|Sleeps up to 4, 1 bedrooms
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|Long term lets (over 1 month), Short breaks (1-4 days)
|No pets allowed, No smoking at this property
Features and Facilities
|Internet access, Sea view
|Air conditioning, TV, Satellite TV, Wi-Fi available
|Cooker, Fridge, Freezer
|1 bedroom, 1 bathrooms of which 1 Family bathrooms
|1 Sofa beds, Double beds (1), Dining seats for 4, Lounge seats for 4
|Linen provided, Towels provided
|Balcony or terrace, Shared garden
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The European Commission has decided to allocate €3 million to respond to humanitarian needs in Libya and neighbouring countries. This emergency funding will provide medical and food aid, shelter and mattresses, blankets and hygiene kits for both Libyans and Libya-based refugees who are crossing into neighbouring countries to flee the violence. European relief aid will also be provided for potential humanitarian needs inside Libya, once the security situation in the country allows a proper assessment.
"The situation in Libya evolves by the hour. With this emergency decision, the European Commission is responding to the immediate needs on the ground," said Commissioner Georgieva. She underlined that Libya's neighbours are so far coping with the influx of their returning citizens and refugees from Libya; "however, it is crucial that we are ready for possible massive displacements within the country and for the potential influx of tens of thousands of refugees to neighbouring countries in the days and weeks to come. By allocating and pre-positioning our aid through partners, we work on relief of suffering and saving lives," the Commissioner said.
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Gov. Mitch Daniels, who once worked for Lugar, has also endorsed him in the Republican primary election.
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Property tax relief is on the way for New York homeowners who rebuilt or repaired their homes following Superstorm Sandy.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo was on Staten Island Thursday to sign Sandy tax abatement legislation which prevents Sandy victims from being hit with big property tax hikes for making repairs to storm-damaged homes.
"In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, homeowners across the downstate region were forced to invest in significant repairs to make their homes more resilient – investments that would increase their taxes under normal circumstances," Cuomo said. "Sandy was not a normal circumstance, however, and I will not allow taxes to be raised on property owners simply because they are repairing the damage that was done and planning wisely for the future."
"This legislation will ensure that homeowners are protected as they look to build back better, stronger and safer for the new reality of extreme weather," Cuomo added.
The legislation was proposed by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and unveiled in April.
"Property owners recovering from Sandy shouldn't be forced to pay higher taxes simply because they rebuilt — and now they won't," de Blasio said. "We proposed this legislation because New Yorkers who have already been through so much deserve this basic relief."
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Curious onlookers gathered in Pioneer Square as the bravest few couples grabbed their partners and lined up, men on one side, women on the other. On the nearby stage, local rockabilly and swing band The Twangshifters warmed up.
The first 30 Hour Day was born out of an idea the three organizers had to pool together their online social networks and create an event that would help others. This time it was a much bigger production with a live appearance in Pioneer Square rather than acts recorded in a closed studio and broadcast live online.
"We really stepped it up a notch this time around with the appearance in Pioneer Square," said Rick Turoczy of Silicon Florist. "But it was experimental, and made fundraising more difficult."
Last December the event raised about $7,000 plus food and toy donations for a total of almost $10,000. The organizers feared that holding the event outside of the holiday season would mean people just weren't in the giving mood, and they were correct. They only raised $2,000 this time. The money benefited the Oregon Food Bank, the Oregon Trail Chapter of the American Red Cross and p:ear.
By comparison, the Waterfront Blues Festival raised $622,000 and 90,000 pounds of donated food over the weekend for the food bank.
"Next time we'll make sure to get someone from our community who knows a lot about the actual fundraising aspect, specifically live fundraising," said Kaos.
The entire staff, including all of the acts, was made up of volunteers. The crew of PDX.FM did most of the technical work. Local developer Brian Enigma designed and donated an iPhone app. A huge variety of people who may previously have only interacted with one another online came together offline to produce the event.
"We found an inventive way to give back," said Kaos. "As far as online fundraising goes there is a lot of simple 'click the button' types right now, but we are the first to actually create entertainment that charities can use."
The livestream was available to be embedded by anyone who wanted it, "from the blog with 0 hits this month to the site with one million hits per second" as the 30 Hour Day website stated. The content was all recorded and now is undergoing editing into segments that will be released under a creative commons license for use by charities or the various entertainers that appeared.
Social media was important at all stages of the event planning, from the beginning with gathering volunteers through Twitter and Facebook, to the end with the very way that viewers donated, through "Causes," part of Network for Good.
So while 30 Hour Day may be reviving the telethon by making it adapt to the changing face of the web and social media, the question is whether this medium of fundraising can be effective.
"Social media was the critical component to pulling the event off because it provided free tools to help promote, manage and fundraise for the event," said Turoczy. "Without social media, this kind of fundraising would be impossible and cost prohibitive."
Emma Hall is web editor for Oregon Business.
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Court filing demands NASA take closer look at Mars
Rhawn Joseph, who describes himself as a neuroscientist and astrobiologist, filed court papers this week demanding that NASA do more to investigate the mysterious "jelly-doughnut" rock on Mars.
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The saga of the jelly-doughnut-shape rock on Mars has taken a strange turn: to a federal court.
Rhawn Joseph, who describes himself as a neuroscientist and astrobiologist, filed court papers this week demanding that NASA do more to investigate the mysterious rock.
"NASA's rover team inexplicably failed to perform the basic demands of science, which is research, look again," he wrote in a petition for a writ of mandamus filed this week with the U.S. District Court in San Francisco. "The refusal to release high-resolution photos is inexplicable, recklessly negligent and bizarre."
He asks the judge to order NASA to closely photograph the rock from several angles, thoroughly examine it and share that information with the public.
The rock is mysterious for a few reasons. It has a depressed, bright-red center and a white exterior (hence the comparison to a jelly doughnut). More important, scientists working with the Opportunity rover have acknowledged that its chemical composition is unlike anything else they have seen on Mars: lots of sulfur, manganese and magnesium.
But most puzzling is that it just showed up, seemingly out of nowhere. The rock appeared in an image taken 12 days after one made at the same location that did not show such a rock.
Steven Squyres, principal investigator for the Mars Exploration Rover Mission, said he doesn't think the rock's appearance is especially exotic. He and his team have theorized that it may have been dislodged when Opportunity made what he called a pirouette just up the hill from where the rock showed up.
"It drove in such a fashion that it would drag the right front wheel kind of chattering across the ground, and we think that in that process, it kind of tiddlywinked the rock out of the ground and moved it into a location where we can see it," he said last week.
Joseph has his own theories. In the court papers, he suggests the rock may not be a rock at all, but rather a funguslike organism. If so, that would mean Opportunity has discovered life on Mars.
In a Jan. 17 post on the website Cosmology: Journal for the Advancement of Theoretical Science, Joseph makes the case that the formation is "a fully grown bowl-shaped organism resembling Apothecia," which are "a mixture of fungus and cyanobacteria."
Joseph is the author of several books, including "Biological UFOs: Evidence for extraterrestrial extremophiles and life in space" (2012) and "Astrobiology: The Origin of Life and the Death of Darwinism" (2001).
In an email, NASA spokesman Bob Jacobs said the agency was limited in what it could discuss about the filing since the legal matter is ongoing.
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Telstra 'snot boxes' challenge Turnbull's FTTN plan
Rain has been a problem for my fixed line for years. There have been other exciting ventures in broadband fail over the years, such as when a contractor set fire to a large Telstra pit and cut off 20 homes for three weeks, but rain has been the constant niggle. It most recently came to a head last weekend – March 1 – when …
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I live not-in-the-city but within 20km of the centre. We have (at the time) nice copper - much thicker wires than those used in suburbian wiring (so we maybe can get decent data rates... mine is 8Mbit/Sec!!). BUT - we have the lovely gel filled cables.
So after every heavy rain - we suffer. The service pit opposite my house fills with delightful orange clay loaded water. The phone ceases to work. The calls go in. The service techs come out, drain the pit, dry the cable joints and attempt to do something with the wet gel.
Sadly for us, NBNco vehicles were seen surveying the pits just before the last election but we're now 'off the map'. FTTN is not going to do anything for us, any attempt to re-use the cable infrastructure is doomed - crap cable, collapsed ducting and pits that fill with water... I'd guess this is a common issue. Sigh.
Australia is now on course to get a very poor form of not really broadband at a cost which is even more unknown than the technically far superior NBN FTTP solution. All because of a political move made by a (now) PM who understands nothing about any science or technology. The old copper network is way past its use by date and for anyone with a clue not worth trying to maintain when going NBN is a much better solution. At least the old copper has scrap value.
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Glad you could get it fixed though.
My personal story:
Had ADSL1 - $50/month for a 5Mbps service. Upload was pathetic - about 100kbps. I couldn't work from home reliably, and skype/Lync/facetime video calls were simply not a usable option. Every time it rains (which happens a fair bit in FNQ) the phone would go all static-y, and the internet would drop out. You'd log a job, Telstra tech would come out and leave a "I've checked the network and there's no problem, it must be inside your house, call me to arrange an at-your-cost appointment to check your house wiring" card. Service would magically be fixed though.
Recently I upgraded to ADSL2. The good news is that my upload has gone to 300k, which makes video work a usable, if choppy, option. The downside though is that my download speed has reduced to about 3.5-4Mbps, and the modem now loses line sync every 15 minutes or so.
My attenuation is showing up on the modem as just on 60db, so I guess I should be happy that I get a service at all. But at the end of the day I'm still paying (now) $80/month for a service that is slower than what I had and terribly unreliable. Neither my ISP (it's simply a Telstra wholesale port, no-one has any DSLAMS up here) nor Telstra have any interest in fixing the underlying network. Sure, we're in a regional town but it's still a large centre and we'd be lucky to be 7kms from the dead centre of town. The estate was built in the mid-70's.
To add insult to injury, I'm just outside the Telstra 4G coverage maps as well - it would probably work with a big external antenna, but I'm not sure I can stomach the cost of both the install, and the ongoing.
As an IT Pro working for a nation-wide, Bris-based company I'm the #1 advocate for being able to use tech tools to work remotely. From our branch office up here in the far north, I'm able to operate remotely, join video meetings with the rest of the team around the country or world, and generally function as a worthwhile addition to the team. When you talk about attracting and retaining key talent, work-life balance and moving away from the previous city-centric approach to assembling teams, this stuff all becomes very valuable. If only I had a reliable internet connection at home...
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"You'd log a job, Telstra tech would come out and leave a "I've checked the network and there's no problem, it must be inside your house, call me to arrange an at-your-cost appointment to check your house wiring" card"
I had this problem shortly after a tech had replaced an in-house socket. The old "we can't see a fault from here" (no shit) response. If we come out and find it's an issue your end we'll charge you $170. I told them to stick their phone line up their arse and don't have one any more. Fortunately we have a cable broadband connection (unfortunately from them) to use as it's well known the ADSL is shite in our area and we're in Brisbane.
Re: It's not an uncommon story
Looks like you need to pony up the cash to get a nice fiber connection. As a professional, you should be able to afford it, too. Just keep your hand out of my pocket.
Re: It's not an uncommon story
We were quoted at over $2000 per month on a 36 month contract to get 2Mbps fibre (Yes, TWO MEGABITS) with a quota (IIRC 200GB/month). On the Gold Coast, 2011, where there was already fibre in the street (our phone lines got cut once and the tech showed me the cables in the pit while he was repairing them), but not within the then-planned NBN 3-year plan. Our office was a few doors down from a Telstra call centre, so not out in the sticks. I'd hate to think how much a 10+ Mbps service would have cost! I was working for a small-ish business at the time and there was no way it could afford that. (It didn't even last the 36 months anyway: can I blame Telstra's congested ADSL?)
And there's no way that that $72k+ could be justified. Even if the business paid $5k installation - Malcolm Turnbull has said that paying to get fibre installed would have been cheaper than this - current NBN 100Mbps plans are around $100/month. $72k vs $8k for the same time period, for 20-50x faster? Realistically it would be even cheaper if "everyone" in an area connects at the same time, since the installation crews would do them all in a row, and the infrastructure is installed together.
The original NBN basically used the subsequent monthly fees to pay for the initial "free" installation. The quote above would have cost over $10k for the installation if there was no contract. The thing with the real NBN is there was no way it couldn't break even (eventually) as you'd have a connection for 50+ years, even if you changed retail providers every year.
Thank the Deity Australia is a Desert
After the last decent rainfall the local exchange suffered a "major outage" - both phone lines dead, internet dead. 2 weeks later we're told it's fixed - only problem is, it isn't. More calls and two days later a tech turns up. Traces the cables and finds an open joint in one of the lovely road side pill boxes. Internet speeds are currently 2703/434 according to the modem, and 41ms/2.01Mb/.25Mb according to speedtest.
We were never on the NBN Fibre footprint being 35Km from Sydney CBD and I'm not expecting things to get better anytime (well, ever really) because we're in a safe luddite (sorry Coalition) seat.
Interestingly, since Telstra said the fault was fixed they don't pay compensation for the time of the second "fault". I'm probably going to the ombudsman about that.
In a detached dwelling (and in a unit where the is no MDF) Telstra is responsible up to the first socket, so if you are happy with the current location of the phone socket you do not have to get a cabler to install anything. If you want a second socket or if you request Telstra to install a Network Terninating Device (beige box) on the side of your house then you need to hire a registered cabler or pay Telstra fee-for-service to complete that work.
The installation of an NTD is optional and despite what some Telstra subcontractors may tell you, the grey Telstra box on the side of many houses is not the network boundary and Telstras responsobility does not end there.
Sad day for the plebs!
I do not know why all you lefties complain. Just live in a 'nice' suburb and all your internet speed needs will be catered for. I live in Eltham near Melbourne and have the privilege of having both Optus and Telstra cable passing my house. My connection is 30Mbits/sec. We 'nice' people deserve all this and far more! All you plebs can wait!. Here is my speed.
Re: Sad day for the plebs!
Can you get a static IP address on your "nice" cable? That's actually stopping me from moving from 7Mbps ADSL2 to HFC.
Malcolm Turnbull's repeated assertion that FTTN is the only way
Just to be clear, can you point me to one of the places where he has written / is quoted as saying that FTTN is the "only" way?
To be fair in return, I'll point you to one of the places where Beazley said that the FTTN was going to be used for Industry, Education, and Tele-medicine, although I'm not sure which catagory you fall into.
Look on the plus side . . .
Anyone who has had much to do with ADSL(2) installations in Sydney and Melbourne* has similar stories and would be quite frustrated with the current FTTN plan because we know first-hand how terrible so much of the copper infrastructure is.
Under the FTTP plan, the known problem of homes connected with old, unreliable, limiting copper would have been solved by replacing it replaced with new, reliable, fast fibre. Sounds expensive to me.
Under Malcolm/Tony/Rupert's FTTN plan, the solution is, I am happy to report, far more efficient and definitely cheaper: ignore those homes and move on to suburbs where it'll be easier. Solved!
* - Not so sure about Brisvegas but I presume Perth is better as much of it is newer.
Re: Look on the plus side . . .
Oh no it isn't better, new or not.
We live in an isolated city surrounded by ocean and desert.
The Internet infrastructure is appalling just outside of the CBD.
I'm very lucky in my street, I have ADSL2+.
Many have dial-up and are stuck on pair gained lines.
10 year old estate.
We had pair gain until I complained and persisted to the point of getting our address re-wired from the nearby pillar.
Turnbull's plan is just BULL.
That's my normal speed in the Melbourne's Eastern suburbs and that's after Telstra rewired from my socket out to the road.
Rain knocks me offline completely, as do high-temperatures.
Rain, shine - there's always an excuse.
Even more scary than politicians talking out of their backside, is the issue of Asbestos in the pits. According to the Telstra fact sheet( http://www.telstra.com.au/uberprod/groups/webcontent/@corporate/@about/documents/document/uberstaging_241654.pdf ) The PMG box in your picture contains asbestos, which is a little more alarming than snot or dog cocks. Interesting to see what the cost of remediation will be.
Politicians make me angry
Still fighting the rage that rises every time I consider that the FTTP NBN would have started installing in my area starting this month.... meanwhile... it's raining... it's pouring... my internet is dying... - has been for the last 3 days now...
Re: Politicians make me angry
Let's be honest. Your schedule was just made up to make the NBN look good. You would in fact have been told about the 1 year delay right around now. In a year, you'd get the next notification about another years delay.
But I'll give you a smiley face because you're such an optimist.
5 Mbs
Out here, in the ass end of the universe, I'd kill for your 5 Mbs speed.
Proper system maintenance should be done
What you're really trying to tell us is that Telstra isn't doing proper system maintenance. They were hoping for a get out of jail free card from the Governement in the form of big replacement contracts from the NBN Co.
I don't have a problem with you getting a nice speed upgrade to 20, 50 or 100 MBS even. Just keep your hand out of my pocket when you're doing it.
Re: Proper system maintenance should be done
yeah, heaven forbid the government provide infrastructure for everyone.
next you'll be saying:
"oh, your water pressure allows for just a dribbling tap, you better pay to fix that infrastructure"
"oh, you want electricity that doesnt brown out under load, you better pay to fix that infrastructure"
... just apply the same sentiment to any infrastructure that YOU dont need.
sounds a bit selfish.
i dont use the bus, but i sure dont resent the service being available.
Re: Proper system maintenance should be done
" Just keep your hand out of my pocket when you're doing it."
Original NBN plan kept all hands out of your pocket. I don't understand this argument, since it was funded through loans that would have been paid back - with profit. Money that would only come from people actively using the network. Don't connect and it would cost you nothing, not even from taxes.
Are you also accusing me of taking "your" money when I got my home loan (albeit at ~1/100,000 the scale) to stop renting and purchase a property?
I cant' discuss this topic anymore. It fills me with anger that people voted in the Coalition and they are destroying the only project that would have brought this country a new lease of life in the 21st century. Whenever I hear a complaint I just say, did you vote for them? You made your bed,... now you lie in it. Bloody Idiots.
There is of course the very real possibility that we voted in the coalition because the ALP are a bunch of corrupt union shitkickers for whom gaol time is a very real possibility (incl. the former PM Ms. Gillard who is heavily implicated) and that there are more important things on the Australian economy agenda than the broadband network.
That aside, Conroy is a moron and not a very nice person either.
I have to say that I also have been impressed by the promptness of Telstra's techs fixing faults. Not impressed that the line has to be completely (or almost-completely) dead before they'll do anything though.
I've had to report my line being down twice over the last six years. Both times it was actually fixed on a holiday (once a Saturday and once on a public holiday, Queens birthday IIRC). The first time it was actually just the voice that dropped out: ADSL2+ continued to work and I could report the fault via VoIP. The second time the ADSL2+ kept dropping out every couple of minutes and you could barely hear the other person on the end of the line through the scratchy sounds. They did tests and couldn't fault it but couldn't deny the noises on the line. The tech even called and said "it sounds perfect" - no, they had diverted the line to a mobile. He plugged his own handset in at the pole and confirmed the fault was upstream, then he switched us to another line and everything came back. I do worry how many spare lines there are!
Thinking back, every house I've lived in during my adult life has had issues with the phone line at one point or another. Whether "too far" from the exchange to get ADSL (when next door neighbours on both sides had it already) or simple water damage. I'm not sure if FTTP would be better in this regard, but it couldn't really be worse!
ADSL tropical misery
I work for an small IT company in Darwin, much of our job involves spending hours on hold to Telstra about our customers ADSL issues.
If you phone them they push all the blame back on to the Customer. It happens like this They spend an hour on hold get told to reset the modem, yes reset, nor reboot, usually clearing the config and username and password. After this fails to get them back on line Telstra say its the modem, even if it isn't.
They can tell the sync speed from the exchange end, and they can see if your username is hitting the radius server. However they won't check that untill you on a second level, repeated call at minimum. They can tell the historical sync speeds and the fact that before your line died it was deteriorating, again you have to get up to very senior level before that comes out.
After a while they have no choice but to call me.
If they are lucky they have a modem I can retrieve the password out of, or they pay me for an hour blagging it out of Telstra. If they are really unlucky I've given away, lent out or mislaid my red dust encrusted old analogue phone. Test one: Does the line even work? Often the answer is "no" - oh and its the modem according to Telstra.
Effectively If you don't have a spare modem, and the nous to set it up (and your adsl username and password), with which to test your line you'll get nowhere.
A mate got me to help out with her Internet - after hours of phone calls to Telstra, she called me I picked up the line she'd been using to call telstra and the noise was dreadful. Telstra support could barley hear her over dreadful telephone line and are helping her to reprogramming her Router!
Fibre was so ideal for Darwin, we have lousy power, cuts and spikes. My all my office's phones phantom ring on lighning strikes. "the Cloud" has lightning bolts raining out of it. This time of year the rain will make Noah Swear and don't get me started on the bugs.
Now we have to put up with unmaintained copper - cos if you were Telstra and the NBN was coming you'd really have spent the last few years investing in the old wires.
And avoid Naked DSL because Testra Engineers told me "we just plug in till we find a quiet pair and assume its free."
So lucky...
We got our NBN order in before the election. We are now totally on an FTTH connection for voice & data. The install of the termination was done to 10 townhouses in our block but so far we seem to be the only ones taking up. Prior we had ADSL2+ costing $130 a month plus a telstra phone & line rental
for about another $40 a month. This is now a single account for $95 a month including voice & data.
We run a VOIP phone with the old number migrated across. The old ADSL was lucky to get 5mbps
out of an advertised "up to" 24mbps. Our new FTTH gets 70/30mbps during peak periods and
about 90/35mbps offpeak out of an advertised 100/40mbps. The equipment installed included
the terminator outside. When they turned up to do the internal setup, they wanted to go right
through the wall where our TV was on the other side. Instead we requested the link to go upstairs
in our home office. There was an issue with cable length associated with this, as it is Single Mode
fibre, But they worked it out and an ONT fibre to ether box and a little UPS plugged into the mains
to keep it up. The cost of this equipment I was told was about $2500 including installation
but it only cost me $50 setup fee via the ISP who arranged the NBN guys to turn up. Excellent
There are downsides to this. We still need a UPS to keep the gigabit switch and
the phone up, as we drive the VOIP off that. The switch we use hangs up sometimes and has
to be restarted or it will not keep VOIP registration going. The ISP we use is non interventionist
and resells bandwidth from big suppliers so tech support depends your own initiative. But the
service is excellent and we are planning to launch a set of small enterprises on it eventually.
Older than that.
My guess is sometime in the 1970s, and I said so, and he looked somewhat downcast.
As the PMG was officially defunct after 1975, the chances are that the pit is a damned side older--the PMG having been officially inaugurated in 1901 with Australian federation.
From the look of that photograph, I'd reckon that it was constructed in the 1950s-'60s (I recall that style being installed from when I was a kid). If the lead encased cables have been replaced with plastic sheathed ones, then this could have occurred anytime from the late 1960's onward.
FTTN wiring
FTTN/FTTC is just ADSL with more frequencies and fancier coding - squeezing a bit more bandwidth out of the same wire. No need to replace copper that works with ADSL, just connect a different filter/splitter at the first socket and replace the modem.
Now, if you have a lousy line, yes, it'll still be lousy - and if it's bad enough to need replacing anyway, or you're building a new development and putting in fresh wire anyway, FTTH/FTTP makes perfect sense.
Here in the UK, we're going FTTC (fibre to the cabinet, FTTN in NBN-speak) almost everywhere, with FTTP limited to some new sites and an expensive option for those who really, really want it enough to pay through the nose for it. (Personally, I'd love to make the jump to actual fibre - but when I get 80/20 down plain old copper with FTTC, it's too hard to justify the expense for now.)
Faults are still a pain though: I had *SIX* engineer visits recently, before BT admitted there was actually a core network fault - and then auto-closed the trouble ticket. Then tried to arrange a seventh visit before agreeing to re-open the ticket until the problem was actually fixed. Thank goodness for having a tenacious enough ISP to fight BT for as long as it takes to get the issue fixed properly!
Doesn't this just show that fibre is going to be costly?
Your neighbour's connection was working wasn't it? If you have to pull those connections for all the working premises, aren't the costs going to be way higher than just leaving the copper that works? Of course, when you have to replace the last mile because of an issue like this, you replace it with fibre. It's not that hard to do this piecemeal.
Re: Doesn't this just show that fibre is going to be costly?
But then your local cabinet has to cater for both copper AND fibre. If you're doing that then you might as well go fibre end to end rather than mess about with the expense and complexity of maintaining two different technologies and two different end to end communication methods.
Meanwhile in New Zealand
At least here in NZ we seem to be going in the right direction. FTTN was in place for most urban areas about 5 years ago, and VDSL is available for those nearest the cabinet. I get 14Mb/s ADSL2+ on an unremarkable suburban street, and the fibre guys were digging around last month so 50/20 or 100/50 fibre broadband is on its way too, for the same price as ADSL. There are some funding issues with the fibre program but it should mostly all get done before 2020 at least.
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In a recent news story we mentioned that Target will have gift (prepaid) cards available starting this Sunday, February 15. Readers have commented that some Target stores are already selling them, and we suspect that other department stores will offer them as well. Apple has updated the iTunes Music Store with a new section to redeem prepaid cards and Terms & Conditions. Prepaid cards expire two years from date of issuance with exceptions in some states. Redemption codes appear on the back of prepaid cards. iTunes 4 (free download) or later and an iTunes Music Store account is required.
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Posted by azdude_15gb on February 14, 2004 at 4:39 PM (CST)
Sadly, you will still need the credit card to sign up for an account at the music store. I've got nieces and nephews who'd love to have accounts, but with no credit cards, it's a no-go.
Oh well, anybody that wants to buy ME cards is welcome to. =)
Posted by James on February 14, 2004 at 5:28 PM (CST)
If we still need a CC to get an account, dosn't that defeat the purpose of these cards? I mean, what is the pont if you have and can pay with a credit card? Why would you go to the store to buy one of these cards?
And no, gift giving is not a reason either, because that's what the store gift certificates are for.
Posted by Sraphim on February 14, 2004 at 7:08 PM (CST)
Giving a gift IS a reason, actually. My grandmother doesn't trust online stores with her credit card, and there aren't any Apple stores near here. But now instead of getting me a crappy Best Buy gift card for my birthday, she can get me an iTunes gift card instead. She pays in cash, I add the amount to my account (since i'm not afraid to use my credit card with iTunes) and all involved are happy.
Posted by people are dumb on February 14, 2004 at 8:19 PM (CST)
James, Sraphim—
What makes you would need a CC?
You do **NOT** need a credit card to redeem a regular iTMS gift certificate, so why would you need one for this?
Just click the "Redeem Gift Certificate" button *BEFORE* you try to log in or create an account. If you do things in this order, it will not require you to enter a CC when making an account. I can't imagine signing up with a prepaid card would be any different.
Posted by Jerrod H. in TX on February 14, 2004 at 8:20 PM (CST)
Azdude is right, you do not have to enter a credit card if you redeem the GC first, then go thru the process of setting up the account. These gift cards are definitely a good thing. That's just more stores where Apple can get exposure for the iTMS.
Posted by OC on February 14, 2004 at 8:24 PM (CST)
California law states gift certificates of any kind can not have expiration dates. Since Apple is based in California and anyone purchasing these cards in Cali', I'm curious if the fine print mentions exclude to us Cali' folks.
Posted by Sven Rafferty on February 14, 2004 at 9:55 PM (CST)
"Prepaid cards expire two years from date of issuance with exceptions in some states."
point made peace
Posted by BIGP in Texas on February 14, 2004 at 10:13 PM (CST)
i guess apple has done this with the european market in mind. The credit card are not as popular here as in US. And young people cant get them easily,
Posted by coleco on February 15, 2004 at 4:21 AM (CST)
Sven, the Terms & Conditions section specifically excludes California, Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts from the two-year expiration, FYI.
Posted by rdlink in Denver on February 15, 2004 at 6:49 AM (CST)
Also, let's not forget the Allowances feature of the ITMS. The whole reason Apple set that up was so that parents of kids with no credit card could give them the ability to buy songs. So a credit card is definitely not need for an ITMS account.
Posted by rdlink in Denver on February 15, 2004 at 6:52 AM (CST)
when purchasing one of these gift cards do you have to pay sales tax? when using the card are you charged sales tax?
Posted by Travis on February 15, 2004 at 7:34 AM (CST)
Nah, gift cards aren't taxable in many states because they're as good as currency.
Posted by Sraphim on February 15, 2004 at 9:21 AM (CST)
does anyone know if I can use my AOL screenname to redeem these cards without entering a CC?
Posted by Jeremy Yip on February 15, 2004 at 9:58 AM (CST)
I bought one of these cards today at my Target and when I tried to enter in the PIN it made me sign up for an account and enter in my CC.
Posted by John on February 15, 2004 at 3:52 PM (CST)
The reason they ask you for a CC is just in case you go over your spending limit for iTunes.
Posted by Johnny G on September 5, 2004 at 7:39 PM (CDT)
how the hell am i supposed to get music off of the itunes store with a gift card if i dont have a credit card?!? I am 13, I DONT HAVE A CREDIT CARD. Why do they need our credit card if we have a gift card anyway?WTF?
Posted by confused/angry person on June 12, 2005 at 1:15 AM (CDT)
Posted by another confused/angry person on June 12, 2005 at 1:18 AM (CDT)
This is really annoying. I got about 3 Itunes Music Store Cards for my B-day. I finally can use them. When i create an account it asks for my CC. WTF? where is the Gift card stuff? HELP ME!!!! I don't see any link to click on to use the gift card. Anyone know where it is on the screen?
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4/30/2014 (6 months ago)
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We do not call abortion "choice" because it is never a moral choice. It is murder. Two persons of the same gender cannot enter into marriage. It is ontologically impossible. So it's quite silly for us to begin describing marriage as "traditional" vs. "same-sex" because it's drawing a distinction between marriage and something that can never even exist in the first place. There is a better way to draw a distinction and that's the way Deacon Keith Fournier has been doing all along: using the word true. True marriage only happens between a man and a woman.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (Catholic Online) - Don't shoot me, but I think maybe the choir is singing the wrong tune. At least I think they're getting the lyrics mixed up a bit. So I'm sticking my neck out (I may regret it) and piping up. Here goes...
Honestly, more and more these days I find myself feeling like Eliza Doolittle. "Words, words, words, I'm so sick of words..." (Campaign season does nothing to help. Ugh.) Especially since words are being twisted into such wildly contorted things; words are being drained of their real meaning and stuffed with something cunning and artificial; words are being hijacked and deformed. And sadly, words have always made pretty powerful weapons.
So it's all the more incumbent on us as Christians in a culture descending into an immoral abyss to choose our words wisely and use them well. Let's make sure what we say accurately reflects what is true about the human person; about God; about marriage and the family. Above all, we must make sure our words aren't crafted to cause harm but to shed light.
I want to scream when I read articles containing the ever-popular term "fertilized egg." It's a favorite of the abortion industry because it's a handy dehumanizing term in their rhetoric war against the fact that life begins at conception. But I've also seen the phrase used by pro-lifers and people of faith.
The term drives me nuts because it's wholly inadequate at best, and just plain inaccurate at worst. Fertilization is a singular event in time when a sperm joins with an ovum and once it happens, what you have is no longer an egg (fertilized or otherwise) but a newly-conceived human -- an entirely new and distinct being.
Think of it this way: it takes yellow and blue to make green. Once you mix yellow and blue, what you have is not "yellowized-blue" or "blueized-yellow" but green. You could no longer separate the yellow from the blue if you wanted to. They have combined to create something entirely new and different and it has its own name.
We're now caught up in a similar word-game with marriage.
I have a little bone to pick with well-meaning people who are using the phrase "traditional marriage" to refer to marriage, in an attempt to distinguish it from same-sex "marriage." This idea is everywhere these days in secular as well as religious media. It posits that there is "traditional" marriage (between a man and a woman), and now other, more modern, progressive forms of marriage as well (same-sex couples). Christians and other people of faith have begun adopting this language right along with the rest of society.
I politely suggest it needs to stop. Language matters. We are not doing marriage any favors by using such terminology, no matter how good our intentions, or even if we're just seeking clarity in dialogue. The world has decided that marriage will now be classified into types and that same-sex "marriage" is now one of those types. We cannot go along with that classification.
Marriage means something. It has an intrinsic and unchangeable nature. If we reduce marriage to simply an agreement between any two people who love each other then we have utterly destroyed the meaning of marriage. It will become a trivial, throw-away concept because its core will be only self-seeking.
In the same way that we do not call abortion "choice" because it isn't in any way a legitimate moral choice but is in fact murder, so we cannot succumb to the easy temptation to call marriage "traditional" in order to set it apart from same-sex "marriage." Two persons of the same gender cannot enter into marriage. It is ontologically impossible. So it's quite silly for us to begin describing marriage as "traditional" vs. "same-sex" because it's drawing a distinction between marriage and something that can never even exist in the first place.
Using the green analogy again, no matter how forcefully I insist that I want to make green with two yellows or two blues, it will never happen. It's just not possible. The nature of green cannot be changed.
There is a better way to draw a distinction and that's the way Deacon Keith Fournier has been doing all along: using the word true. True marriage only happens between a man and a woman. Some may feel that's a more provocative term, but it is accurate and faithful to the integrity of marriage.
There is only marriage, and it only happens between a man and woman. That's not my plan or your plan; it's God's plan. We have to understand this, and be unflinching in stating it and defending it. Whatever relationship of sexual intimacy, fidelity, and love exists between two men or two women, it can never be marriage. That's not bigotry or discrimination or hatred no matter what the world says. Leave the hyper-charged feelings aside for a moment: refusing to call a thing what it isn't is nothing but logical, reasonable, and factual.
For thousands of years human civilization has known that marriage is only between a man and a woman, as the foundation of society, ordered toward the raising of children, but now suddenly in our so-called enlightened age those of us who refuse to part with reason and morality are on the wrong side of history? Absurd.
So there's my two cents'. Fellow defenders of true marriage, choose your words wisely and well. Don't join the rest of the world in declaring what is true to be merely "traditional."
Our challenge is to be unafraid and resolute without ever abandoning love. That's not an easy task, and I admit I have failed often. We're not wielding weapons, and we don't seek destruction or discrimination.
For myself, I don't write with animosity or any desire to wound. But like so many others in America today, I won't be bullied into capitulation either. I won't forsake what I know is true. I won't call something that is not marriage, marriage. It's that simple.
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