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Earlier this week many in Wausau were surprised when Alderman David Nutting spoke out against the city's upcoming Gay Pride Parade.
Nutting urged people to stay at home during the parade and went as far as to describe the parade as "deviant behavior."
While local gay activists strongly disagree with Nutting's comments, many of them also have concerns about the Gay Pride Parade.
They're worried about how the parade will represent the area's gay community.
The parade is set to go from Marathon Park to the 400 Block in downtown Wausau.
The parade concerns some local gay residents because of the person organizing the event.
They say the man who is in charge of the parade, Daxx Bouvier, is from California and hasn't made any efforts to work with the local gay community. So far, Bouvier has declined their requests to meet with them.
Many are also concerned that his parade may not portray Northcentral Wisconsin gays and lesbians in the best light.
"He has no credibility. He has never, to anyone's knowledge, thrown a pride event before. If you do any research on the internet there is nothing about him. Nobody knows what is going on, and I am very worried that next Saturday is going to be a misrepresentation of our community." says local gay equality activist Shannon Thomas.
That's why Shannon Thomas is organizing a separate gay equality march which will also take place next Saturday.
She hopes it will be a better representation of how local gay and lesbian residents want to be portrayed.
So far she expects at least 55 people to attend.
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On the command deck of the Excalibur, Head Secretary Calvin Campbell turned from his station to face Captain Barron. "They're ready for us."
"Is Rattan back?" Rolland asked from the captain's chair.
Campbell punched a command into the console. "Shuttle one has checked in," Campbell confirmed. "Jordan Rattan and his team are on board. All crew members accounted for."
"Alright." Rolland faced the viewscreen. Through it he could see the Kaax Gate just ahead. "Let them know we're comin' in."
"Yes sir."
"Riona -" Rolland turned to Sergeant Namarra "- Take us in."
Namarra tapped the console. The Excalibur drifted forward in space, making its way into the massive arches of the Kaax gate, until the ringed structure surrounded the ship. They stopped there, holding position as the gatekeepers calibrated the field. A tingling sensation ran through their bodies. In a prismatic flux of color, their surroundings morphed wildly. When the undulating colours quieted, the Kaax gate was gone. The blackness of the Apex region was replaced by a dense, starry vista of foreign constellations: Caldwell 57. While the crew looked into the stars of the foreign galaxy, the Avalon appeared by their side, melting into space from an ethereal rainbow.
"Location?" Rolland asked.
"Right on target," Sergeant Titus answered. "Perfect jump."
"Distance to next jump?"
Titus looked down to his console. "'Bout eleven days."
"Alright." Rolland turned to face the crew, his back to the alien stars of Caldwell 57 on the viewscreen. "We've got one more stop before we part ways with the Avalon. I want us on standing alert for the next eleven days: no EVA, no buffer hull maintenance, sentry stations manned at all times. There are pirates operating in this area. There's a lot of holes into this alley but none out -that makes it a nice spot for an ambush. I need everyone to keep an eye out for thruster signatures or anything suspicious. And be ready for a fight. This stretch is why the Avalon wanted a Sol escort. Let's prove they can count on us."
The crew on deck nodded their assent and went to work, setting eyes on their stations.
"Catrina -" Rolland turned to face the communication specialist. "Open up a channel to the Avalon."
Catrina entered the commands. "Pinging them now." A series of beeps followed, and Captain Mary Lloyd's face appeared on screen.
"Captain Barron." Mary Lloyd nodded towards Rolland through the viewscreen.
"Any problems with the jump?" he asked.
"None." Mary smiled. "All systems functioning properly. We're set to go."
"Great. We'll be right by your side, and we'll be launching sensor probes ahead."
"Thank you for your help, Captain. I believe I speak for the crew and guests of the Avalon when I say we all feel better knowing we've got you nearby."
Rolland bowed his head. "We're happy to help the Alliance."
Captain Lloyd's face disappeared from the viewscreen, which one again showed the stars of Caldwell 57. The Alliance vessel Avalon drifted by their side. Rolland watched as the Avalon accelerated towards their next destination: a wormhole, eleven days flight away, that would take the Avalon to their research site. The Excalibur hummed as it accelerated, keeping pace with the Avalon.
From the edge of the room, Erin Locke walked to Rolland. She stopped beside him, and joined him in watching the stars through the viewscreen. "Was she just being polite?"
"What do you mean?" Rolland asked.
"I mean being so thankful for our presence. I've seen the Avalon's defensive specs. They can handle themselves."
"We're military. They're scientists and politicians."
"All the same, I'm pretty sure they could outgun the Excalibur."
Rolland laughed. "Careful what you say about my ship." He turned to face Erin more directly. "On a strictly numbers level, you're right. They've got more firepower, more shields, more missiles. Yeah, they can take care of themselves. But we have a finely tuned warship with a hand-picked crew of military professionals. I'm sure they appreciate having us as around."
"I suppose so. Anyway," Erin glanced towards the exit. "I think I'm just getting in the way up here. I'm going to head over to the lounge."
"It's okay." Rolland smiled. "You're welcome on deck."
"Thank you, Captain," Erin nodded and started towards the door. "I'll keep it in mind."
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June 4 (Reuters) - NRG Yield Inc, a unit of NRG Energy Inc, said it would buy California's Alta Wind Energy Center, the largest wind farm in North America, for $870 million.
The acquisition totals 947 megawatts of operating wind capacity and includes a portfolio of land leases associated with the Alta Wind facility, NRG Yield said on Wednesday.
The deal is expected to increase NRG Yield's annual run-rate earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) by about $220 million.
Alta Wind, located in the Tehachapi Pass in California's Kern County, is owned by Terra-Gen Power LLC, an affiliate of private-equity firms Global Infrastructure Partners and Arclight Capital Partners.
In December 2013, NRG Energy said it would close down two of its coal-fired power plants in Maryland due to tightening air emission regulations.
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The Annual Laurel Case Visiting Professor Lecture will be held at noon Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014, in the Old Library Auditorium. Guest lecturer will be Eric S. Holboe, MD, senior vice president of Milestone Development and Evaluation ASGME.
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West Oso ISD appoints new school board member
CORPUS CHRISTI - West Oso ISD has appointed a former school board member to fill the unexpired term of Diana Cantu-Guerrero who moved out of the district.
Robert Sandate, a branch manager at Graybar, was one of two people to apply for her position.
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- Best Laid Plans
- Production year: 2012
- Country: UK
- Cert (UK): 15
- Runtime: 107 mins
- Directors: David Blair
- Cast: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, David O'Hara, Lee Ingleby, Maxine Peake, Stephen Graham
There are some good intentions in this movie – based loosely on John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men – and a good cast. But it really is a treacly slice of sentimental social-realism, bordering on self-parody. Stephen Graham is a small-time crook living in Nottingham with his best mate, Joseph (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), a gentle, childlike giant of a man with learning difficulties, fierce in his loyalties and handy with his fists. Danny is a drinker and a cokehead who owes a lot of money to a local gangster called Curtis (David O'Hara). Some muddled plotting takes us to a resolution whereby Curtis will forgive Danny's debts if he forces poor Joseph to take part in his illegal and dangerous cage-fighting ring; meanwhile Joseph has fallen in love with Isabel (Maxine Peake), who also has learning difficulties. The tear-jerking story is never convincing for a single moment: this is Britfilm world, filled with geezer cliches and confected grittiness. A waste of a decent cast.


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A man was taken into custody and charged after police say he fled from authorities and threw a bag of cocaine out of the window of his vehicle.
Beaumont police officers attempted to make a traffic stop on a silver Chevy Avalanche pick-up that committed a traffic violation around 9 p.m. Tuesday in the area of I-10 east at mile marker 848, according to a news release from the Beaumont Police Department.
The suspect was later identified as 38-year-old Mississippi resident Isaac Perry.
After failing to stop he continued driving into Orange County where he eluded two sets of spike strips, BPD stated.
As he was crossing the Sabine River Bridge he drove onto the shoulder and threw a bag out of the vehicle's window which contained a felony amount of cocaine, BPD stated.
He then continued through Louisiana and State Police were then able to spike his front tires, slowing him down.
Perry then drove into a tree. He exited the vehicle and was placed in handcuffs a short time later.
Louisiana State Police took over the investigation and issued charges relating to narcotics and fleeing from police.
The arrest was a joint effort between several agencies. And police said Sheriff Keith Merritt deployed his boat to find the evidence that was thrown out of the window.
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From Muppets Studio — Stars and Stripes Forever.
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From Muppets Studio — Stars and Stripes Forever.
What's on your mind?
Happy Independence Day, Friends !
petro! how's toronto tonight dood?
Hey, Suz, how's your neck of the woods, as it were? Hope all is well…. and comfortably green.
hey dearie — how's the so central coast tonight? was a clear sunny day today — a day to leave the front door open and give the house an airing out. supposed to be like this for the the next week or so
Hipp, hipp, hoorah! Happy Independence Day all Firepups!
hip hip hooray ce! how's cleveland tonight?
Suz !
Blistering hot ! We're gonna hit 113 F on Friday.
It's so hot that I saw a Margarita drinking a Daquiri … *g*
Very, warm, very quiet! Had a lakeside dinner with MSCE and Ted — fog lifted and the lake was revealed. I find it hard to remember that we live on water.
yowza that's way too forking hot…. that's so hot i would rather be in the margarita than have the margarita in me…
what a wonderful sounding evening. i'm sitting here listening to all sortza gunfire sounding off in competition with the boom and whistle of fireworks. thank goodness my neighbor let me know that handgun fire tends to happen on the fourth… finally starting to ease up — both the blowing stuff up and the gun fire…. ah, small town rural living
LOL … yes !
So what are we having to celebrate ? Jumbo Margaritas ?
what up, man
We've had a couple of days of June-Gloom, but I enjoyed a nice cook out at a friend's house with additional friends in attendance. Couldn't even see the fireworks in the harbor because the fog was so thick. But….hey, we have electricity and cool. I am NOT complaining. ":)
That was a shock to me when I moved to Ohio. Gunfire everwhere on 4 July. WTF.
its not that how down here petro — save them jumbo's for those in need — tis only 61 outside here so could ya make mine a regular please?
Vodka martinis, please?
Lime Margarita on the way, Suz …
Do random bullets manage to never strike pure innocents? So strange, really, to think that people just fire away. Freedom! USA…USA…USA… gag, gag,…… oh sorry about that.
Yes'm !
Stirred, not shaken …
113 in Toronto? Man, that's…err, evidence. of climate change, of course.
Only hit 97 here today, with breezes. Spent much of day on patio, with cats. Thunderstorms were predicted, but didn't happen.
One thing on my mind…years of watching the Boston Pops Fourth concert spoiled for good by moving it to network tv. It doesn't even start until the end of the concert! They call it the Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular,pretty much ignoring the music. Current tv "star" hosts, pop songs…ruint, I tell ya, ruint. I turned it off.
Put on my Vanguard Collectors Edition of folk songs, instead. I'm pretty close to cancelling cable altogether, so little to watch.
up here the term is june-uary. had a lotta june-uary days this year. the local station broadcasting the fireworks at ft vancouver has no sound — don't know if its a direct tv glitch or at the station and direct tv does not carry *sob* Northwest Cable News which always simulcasts the seattle show — this is the first year i've not seen seattle's show live since i moved up here.
thanks babe
In my mind, I'm in the streets.
hey tejan — i too switched it off when i saw the start was the end – taint the same for sure…. how ya doing tonight?
I think there's less gunfire here since a little girl was killed by a bullet coming down from who knows where maybew 15 years ago. It was a big shock to the city, and maybe a wakeup call to some of the fools.
hey bfl — how's the city beautiful tonight? sorry dood, didn't see ya come in…..
Watching some fireworks show. I never could 'get' Taylor Swift, but I find Katy Perry to be quite intriguing. Is that the 'old' factor?? Or is that the 'rebellious' factor??
We hit that several times in 2007-8 but the spell of hot temps has been long this year …
My question, no answer. I don't know where the bullets go…
I'm good. Goofed off mostly today; didn't make it to the pool or anywhere. Most neighbors out, so we (the cats and I) enjoyed the outdoors. But I was tired..took an afternoon nap — and didn't get around to grilling or anything. Treated myself to dessert – Blue Bell Dutch Chocolate with bananas, a little while ago.
Not terribly sleepy, but better go to bed anyway. The kittehs have had so much fresh air they're already sacked out. There was some fuss and disagreement over whether it was time to come in…but calmed down now.
Glad to hear you are cool, as usual. Shocking about Toronto…I always say this time of year that I'd like to summer in Canada…now where am I gonna go? (in fantasy, at least)
Guns and more guns. Sometimes even I, moderate old broad, get an itch to get a gun. But, no. Maybe it's the Catholic Guilt, or something, but I'm sure I'd be the one who shot up the wrong person for the wrong reason. I'll just take on the intruders with my rolling pin.
a day spent goofing off is a great day in my book tejan. so glad you stayed up and stopped by but totally understand about those forking alarm clocks in the morning….
g'nite tejan
Me, too. I can't walk by a door without catching a purse strap or a scarf end on the doorknob, drop things all the time…can't imagine being safe around a gun. Would shoot myself or one of the cats.
And now, I'd better run off to bed. Nice to see so many folks here tonight!
I don't get Taylor Swift either … syrupy sweet, unreal. Great that she's a success, though.
Katy Perry seems more real …
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Agreed (on the goofing off and the alarm clocks!)
Come in August, June & July are always very hot.
August is usually 70′s & 80′s with wonderful evenings where you can stroll forever …
Watching "Sleepless in Seattle" — heartbreaking about Norah Ephron's death.
Hmmm…tempting…August here is known as "Unbearable."
And now, I'm closing down for realz!
Exactly. I cannot make sense of Taylor, though she seems like a sweet girl. I can't think of a song that she sings or what made her popular. Katy, on the other hand, is a shit kicker of the Fundie kind….. I get a kick out of her having to step out of Pentecostal nirvana to find her own damned self…and I actually like her music. I may be old, but I can rock!
I've had enough of Lee Greenwald…or whoever… America, America.. gimme a break. Gimme some Woodie Guthrie, some of da Boss, some backtalkers!
I watched When Harry Met Sally a couple weeks ago …
Nora left her mark in this World, for all to enjoy !
or a good souza march ….
Damn….where's TBogg with the commentary????
at the bottom of the first link is a photo from one angle but that second link one is forking awesome…. at first he thought a yacht blew up in coronado according to the comment timeline on the right hand side…. holy moly
I have guns, two of them. Identical weapons. Haven't fired them in a year or so, but I've had the first one for 40 years. I can hit what I shoot at.
I will protect my family. I live in a shitty neighborhood, and my worst feat is someone pounding on the door in the middle of the night, trying to escape the cops. If they break the door down, I'll shoot to kill. I will not risk the health of my family for anyone or anything.
I am not trying to be macho, but I will protect what I love. The rest of the world can fuck off.
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Hi Suz, Petro, CE, BFL, everyone!
Hugs and happy 4th to you all.
Having some neuropathy in my feet. Hurts.
hey margot — how's the wilds of ohio tonight?
whatcha doing for it? anything help like elevating the feet or doing exercises or foot baths???
No problem, TG; I was just always kind of afraid that I'd accidentally shoot one of my own. But, in general, I'm not particularly fearful. Random break-ins are pretty rare, and I figure there are many better houses than mine to break into. I guess I just choose not to live in fear. But, hey, that's just me.
Pretty well…somewhat bemused that the coolest place east of the Mississippi is FL…
yikes.. i had not thought of the heatwave that way
Some random firecrackers going off, but way less than usual. My dog is happy about that. I like the display the city puts on…just not fond of the Whump! sound of incoming fireworks near my house.
no lions and tigers and bears roaming the streets either….
I hadn't thought about it, but yes….way fewer local firecrackers and bottle rockets than in years past. Nice, actually!
We had a bear on the USF campus yesterday…
sorry to bail early tonight pups but i was up at eight forking thirty this morning and didn't even have a good reason or excuse for doing so…. i hate it when that happens :)
thanks for letting me hang out with ya tonight…
g'nite all
Good night, Suzanne. And happy best hopes for all of our futures to you and the rest of us!
Happy Fourth, Suzanne! Hope yours was great, see you on the flip side….
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In this fantasy novel, Sanderson breaks from traditional fantasy and goes an entirely new route. In this novel, evil has already won. For a thousand years, the Lord Ruler has been the head of an Empire that has been stagnant for just as long with no end in sight. We follow the young protagonist Vin as she is pulled off the street by a rag tag group of thieves and rebels who hope to put a final end to the horror that is the Lord Ruler's rule. Sanderson has always been a wonderful fantasy writer and Mistborn is no different. We are introduced to a brilliant magic system that is truly unique in the realm of fantasy novels. The story itself stated above is one that is done, in my opinion, not often enough. Most fantasy novels follow the typical formula of a rag tag group of heroes who are trying to stop an evil force from rising. This book flips that formula on it's head and keep the reader engrossed throughout it's reading. How can you fight someone who is functionally immortal? Throughout the book, we see Vin and the others of the group fall in and out of despair. What the message portrays is that even in the darkest of times, one cannot give up hope. Hope is something you give yourself. It is the meaning of inner strength. This group of heroes struggles and fights against all odds for what they believe in and it keeps you wanting more as the last page of the book turns.
Maybe not as good as Elantris, but still a great fantasy book that manages to entertain and blur the boundary between magic and religion in a faraway kingdom.
It is hard to write about the books we love. It is even harder to write about the books most people have already written about and have done it much better.
The Final Empire has a great premise at its core. It deals with failure. Since anything else about the fact would be a major spoiler, I'll stop here (it is so huge that I don't want to tempt people with spoiler tags).
The Final Empire is a bleak land. People have forgotten that grass and the trees should be green since the nearby mountains cover the land in dark ash. The skaa, enslaved ordinary people, live in misery and fear. It was hard to read about the things the skaa have to endure. "...an official cursed and shoved a man out of the line. The skaa worker fell hard, but eventually picked himself back up and shuffled to the end of the line. It was likely that if he wasn't let out of the city, he wouldn't be able to do his day's work—and no work meant no food tokens for his family."That is one of the milder examples, and it is more than upsetting. The nobles use the skaa for manual labour and other, worse things. But they don't own them. The one who owns the skaa is the Lord Ruler, who has ruled this now horrible land for a thousand years. The skaa are slaves to their own superstitions as much as they are slaves to the nobility and the Lord Ruler.
And as it is always the case with repressive societies, there will always be someone who could offer a thread of hope. There is no completely black and white division in this world. There are a number of protagonists, but the story mostly revolves around the two major ones - Kelsier, the brilliant master criminal who survived things no ordinary person could and kept on smiling and Vin, a street thief who learned the true meaning of friendship and trust."He forced himself to smile—not out of pleasure, and not out of satisfaction. He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That was how he proved to the Lord Ruler—and to himself—that he wasn't beaten."How can you not love a character like that? It almost broke my heart reading that. Kelsier became one of my favourite heroes.
The magic system is interesting too. The way it is introduced is brilliant. You don't simply get to read that this metal does this or that metal does that. It is done through Vin's training. Each member of Kelsier's crew has something to teach Vin, an ability or in Kelsier's case abilities, and through them Vin learns how to use allomancy.
The main story is finished in this book, but certain comments made in the last few pages left an opening for another great fight against the odds.
Impressed by the whole he's been hand-picked to finish the Wheel of Time story, I needed to see what was so great about Brandon Sanderson.
And he is.
I really enjoyed this book, set in a world where ingesting metal gives you access to magical abilities. Great characters utilized in ways rarely seen in a first book in a series (vague enough?).
Intrigue, politics, and conspiracies mesh completely in a world Sanderson realizes in satisfying depth and peoples with impressive characters.
The fast-paced action scenes temper Vin's interminable ballroom intrigues, while the characters, though not profoundly drawn, have a raw stereotypic appeal.
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Brandon Sanderson, fantasy's newest master tale spinner, author of the acclaimed debut Elantris, dares to turn a genre on its head by asking a simple question: What if the hero of prophecy fails? What kind of world results when the Dark Lord is in charge? The answer will be found in the Mistborn Trilogy, a saga of surprises and magical martial-arts action that begins in Mistborn.
For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the "Sliver of Infinity," reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler's most hellish prison. Kelsier "snapped" and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark.
Kelsier recruited the underworld's elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, each of whom shares one of his many powers, and all of whom relish a high-stakes challenge. Only then does he reveal his ultimate dream, not just the greatest heist in history, but the downfall of the divine despot.
But even with the best criminal crew ever assembled, Kel's plan looks more like the ultimate long shot, until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into his life. Like him, she's a half-Skaa orphan, but she's lived a much harsher life. Vin has learned to expect betrayal from everyone she meets, and gotten it. She will have to learn to trust, if Kel is to help her master powers of which she never dreamed.
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BT Retail wheeled out Emma Sanderson, its "director of value added services", on BBC Breakfast today to account for its secret profiling and targeting of credit card advertising to 18,000 of its customers using Phorm technology in 2006. She parroted the same line we've been hearing from BT since the 2007 secret trial was …
People say I'm wrong about BT...
"Surely they can't be that bad?" they say to me.
And then more stuff like this happens. Roll on someone taking their backsides to court and getting them kicked. Hard.
BT are spewing the same bulldust Phorm do about this non-consensual wiretapping being legal and no personally identifiable data being processed. Phorm haven't come back with an open, honest answer to convince those who don't believe them and neither, I expect, will BT.
The claim that "Customers absolutely can trust BT, " is absolute bollocks. BT are, in my professional view, the lowest of the low. This merely confirms it.
Anyone with a BT provision needs to ask themselves a simple question: "Is BT really the kind of company I want to be associated with?"
Needs a "taking names and kicking ass" icon - maybe Rowdy Roddy Piper from "They Live"?
Priceless opening line from Emma Sanderson...
"We absolutely were not spying on our customers..."
But they admit to a trial where they observed customers traffic without the customers knowing about it.
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1 not known or seen or not meant to be known or seen by others.
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Put the cat back in the bag
I hope BT will be compensating everyone who is traced through the coding errors of the 2006 trials. I hope BT get to their customers before the customers get a phone call from a complete stranger asking them who they got their internet connection from.
Anonymous - BT don't know the meaning of the word.
If BT claim to not know who was in the trials, that does not say very much for the managerial control they have over the systems. If they don't know who was in the trials, how can they claim that no PII data was obtained?
Waste of time ....
Having them on Breakfast, a 6 year old press packer from newsround could have done a better job.
BBC stop calling them journalist's ...... and refer to them in their new true guise.....presenters.
BT - too powerful
How about this scenario:
Most people send some real post and receive post - both junk and non-junk. It's mainly delivered by the Royal Mail.
So the Royal Mail decide to intercept outgoing and incoming mail. They scan it, understand the content etc. It's left unaltered, you don't know it's been analysed.
They then offer to sell the information to marketing companies - in an anonymous form (i.e. they don't provide your name, just your postal address)... they don't get actual personal information, just profile information (e.g. you receive and send a lot of stuff to mail order catalogue companies). The companies buying the data can target the addresses with more appropriate junk mail - good for everyone all round!
Who'd be comfortable with that? Phorm don't mention analysing email, just browsing hence the analogy is only valid for the commercial equivalent of browsing.
Is the anything wrong with the analogy?
I'm so annoyed that 70% (by market share) of the internet users are going to be subject to this and there is nothing anyone can do about it. The remaining players can't take on more customers and the big players have locked in users with binding contracts.
Joe public has no idea what this means or the more implications. We need the equivalent of the EFF in the UK to lobby the government - no individual can afford to take BT court; their pockets will buy the best and most expensive lawyers in the country.
Telephone ads
When will BT start inserting ads into private 'phone conversations to "improve your conversational experience?"
BT: "It wasn't illegal"
So? Anyone who uses this defence probably doesn't have any scruples. Something being 'legal' doesn't automatically make it OK.
I would have had a tiny bit more respect for BT if they 'fessed up to maybe making a mistake or 'error of judgement', some other bullshit.
You can only trust BT to screw up
Everytime I call them for anything to do with my phone its a bloody drama . Each person you talk to says something different and its a damn mess . And they wonder why when they offered me adsl after the rigmarole of getting a line activated I told them to get bent .
Everyone can benefit
So let me get this straight. It was all done anonamously so they DO NOT know who they wired tapped.
So surely then EVERY SINGLE BT customer should SUE them.
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bunch of cnuts
That was the lamest most weak and watery piece of shite reporting I've ever seen on BBC brekky before work this morning - I was practically spitting blood by the time I left the house.
It was more a concillatory whitewash than any kind of reporting - "but everyone is doing it and it's completely anonymous, what's the problem?" ... what a load of utter tosh; but because it was on Aunty people are going to believe it - bastards.
so BT basically said "Yeah Phorm come on in, here's our network go knock yourself out, I'm off to the pub."
Will someone just get arrested already, please
Send the coppers in, this was a mass wiretap, end of story.
I'd give anything to see BT execs marched out in handcuffs over all this.
And well done to The Reg, and the anonymous whistleblower who's leaked all this, good on yers.
They do all this and then let us know they can be trusted? They aren't even giving credible interviews. Do you think they are lying, speaking untruths, or are engaging in a bit of misspeak? The more this goes on the more depressing it gets.
I'm really unimpressed with the whole thing, but at the end of the day they are taking a lead from the government who are just as free an easy with our private information from the introduction of ID cards and more importantly the joined up databases that will be accessible by all and sundry so they can get ya from the cradle to the grave, lost CDs, fingerprinting kids to take out library books, etc, ad nauseam.
Finally, I've still not been able to work out how our surfing data going to a bunch of shady characters (or not?) increases our security. I'd be very grateful if someone could explain this to me without spin.
The dog ate their data?
"BT doesn't know whether they were participating in the trial or not... it should reassure them."
...You mean if customers submitted a legal request for full, complete disclosure of the information the company holds about them under the Data Protection Act, they wouldn't be able to fulfil it? Oh, how shocking. Would Phorm? Shall we find out?
What scary is...
...that most internet users haven't even heard of Phorm and when the ISP's go live with this, they will put enough spin on it to make it sound like a good deal and dupe the user into it.
Well now we know it's legal to watch my webbing, how about...
...listening-in on my phone calls. Then when I mention a retailer, they could chip-in with the phone number and also suggest others that may suit, but who are obviously appropriate to me needs, just because those retailers pay BT to tell me so.
How about extending that service by warning me when I'm straying onto subjects that the government would prefer I not discus?
Then combine both to suggest a retailer for a book on a the subject and maybe recommend a title. 1984 perhaps?
Could I then wonder why it wasn't titled 2014?
We aren't quite there yet, but it's not so far now.
Big Brother has the ability to nick your details
The scariest of all the stories shown on the register regarding this 'invasion of privacy' has to be that the software they used injected Javascript code into the html of the pages that were being viewed by the users.
Now, if this actually happened, then it would be possible for users data (name/address etc. and even worse, their credit card details) to be sent to and from the PHORM software using Ajax, and the un-savy user would never know that it happened.
Now, imagine someone less than savoury is working at BT; they could decide to inject their own code into the pages to grab this information with very little effort and no-one would really know. A database created on the fly (or even something like a csv file) could then hold all this data. As as it has been created without anyone else's knowledge there's a real good chance that it would never be detected.
I think BT users have the right to be very worried about this possibility. And I'm now worried about Virgin's 'abilities' with regards to this matter.
I just hope that in 2 months I wont be reading an article about how some little b*stard has stolen users details using this scam, sorry I mean Trial :S
Nick 'em
Maybe they'll get pulled up by Ofcom? Oh no, that's right, it's full of BT's ex board members which is why they've never been pulled for any of their other violations since privatisation.
Improved browsing experience
I'm not so naive as to think that the Web can do without ads, but as someone who has a "Niven's hyperspace blind spot" for web adverts, targeted ads would not improve the browsing experience.
I wish somebody would go to prison. That would be hilarious, and also stop this whole debacle in its tracks.
Which BT?
One thing I'm still not 100% sure on is which part of BT performed the trials?
Was it the part in charge of the underlying infrastructure or BT the ISP?
Could I as a PlusNet user have been tapped due to it being performed on the underlying phone network or was it simply those who subscribe to BT Internet?
My interest is because I truly am willing to follow this up if there's potential I could've been a victim of this snooping but obviously as I don't use BT Internet and use PlusNet as my ISP it may not have effected me.
Of course, BT owns PlusNet anyway which muddies the waters somewhat.
Can anyone narrow down the set of affected users this far at least to the point we know if it was anyone attitude to BTs phone network or just people using BTs ISP?
I still sympathise if I wasn't affected of course and it was just BT Internet users, don't get me wrong but I can't take action over something that doesn't affect me either unfortunately.
antiphorm.com and antiphorm.co.uk
These domains are available for the princely sum of £28, I havnt got my credit card with me today, somebody buy them so we can fook BT and Phorm and then become internet squillionaires by reselling the user list.....LOL
""BT doesn't know whether they were participating in the trial or not... it should reassure them."
...You mean if customers submitted a legal request for full, complete disclosure of the information the company holds about them under the Data Protection Act, they wouldn't be able to fulfil it? Oh, how shocking. Would Phorm? Shall we find out?
Time to make a request methinks:
"I would like to know everything you know about me, including whether I was involved in the October 2006 trial."
What do you mean you don't know? Either I was or I wasn't, which is it??
Paris knows when she is getting screwed unlike BT customers
Usual BBC Dross then
No counter angle, no alternate interviewer to clarify the truth, just a whitewash interview allowing BT to promote their side of the story.
I notice that Phorm have gone quiet now.
@ BT - Too Powerful
"The remaining players can't take on more customers and the big players have locked in users with binding contracts."
BT Have stated that they will need to change your contract T&C's once this is going operational. At that point I am going to tell them I dont agree with the T&C's and request my MAC.
Also, anyone else angry about the BBC "Report" which made it seem that Phorm was only looking at your terms entered into search engines? not once did they tell the viewers that EVERY http packet would be profiled, opted in or out.
@Steven Freeman
"I just hope that in 2 months I wont be reading an article about how some little b*stard has stolen users details using this scam, sorry I mean Trial"
Personally, I'm looking forward to that article...with all the news about data leaks recently, the public are beginning to give a damn, and such an article would probably be the final nail in the coffin for Phorm
Vote with your feet
As an organisation we have many broadband circuits with BT which we will be migrating away from them over the next few months directly as a result of this action and loss of trust.
The supplier we move to will provide a written undertaking not to do this type of interception without prior permission.
Reassure them how ?
"We do not know whether they were participating in the trial or not... it should reassure them."
How ? I mean seriously, how is that meant to be reassuring ? BT enrolled 18,000 customers in their covert trial and didn't know which ones. How did they chose them ? Why didn't they keep any records ? If they don't know who they were, how did they count them ?
This is either serious incompetence, or BT knew they were in the wrong and sought to cover their tracks even at this early stage.
It's getting harder and harder to believe the former.
I have to agree, they WERE spying, simple as.
Soooo glad I am not, and havent for a long time, with BT. My parents are though... wont be using their PCs except through a secure tunnel.
Someone needs to sue the b******s, to let the world know they are bullshitting. And to stop this from happenning!
Come on BBC you can do better than that
Where is the investigative journalism. Why don't you hit BT with some of the good points raised here already.
Do your research.
Ask BT did they know that 121 media at the time of the 2006 trial was a well know spyware / rootkit company.
Then watch them squirm when you hit them with the: How do you know their data wasn't compromised if you don't know who was involved in the trial. Why did you trust 121 media?
These presenters let them off far too lightly!
@Stephen Gray
go to badphorm.co.uk instead..
Police investigation
Perhaps el Reg should write to a Chief Constable and ask for a criminal investigation into this illegal activity - it works for MPs.
Lets Go Shopping With Emma Sanderson
Stand over her shoulder watching what she's shopping for.
Then evry time she looks at an item we could try and sell her three other items of interest. throw three posters of the latest movie at her, ask is she happy with her current bank, mortgage, car insurance...... and is she sure that those prada shoes not for her. realy sure! go on you, want them, you do!
how long before she get P!$$£& off
Where BT's argument fails
BT's argument seems to be based on the misconception that it's ok to intercept telecommunications so long as "no information was divulged, and that people were completely anonymous."
The problem of course is that under RIPA, it is the *act of intercepting telecommunications without consent* that is illegal. Whether any personal data is stored, processed or deleted immediately is utterly irrelevant.
It is no different from eavesdropping on telephone calls and claiming it was ok because no notes were taken, or that the eavesdropper 'wasn't concentrating'.
Track the Anonymous exchange
Because of the unique way that the BT is funded we can trace the effects of the BT Phorm Trial in 2006 Serach Google for "http://ntp.sysip.net/tag/2.js"
and hey presto you have now found forum posts with strange java script inserts .. ooo very annonymous now we have usernames...
Like poor old dayglo jim here: http://www.bikegirl.co.uk/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2418&PN=1 now read that and say they weren't affected!
or duffy666 or Delise The list goes on...
What bothers me more than anything in this is that.....
Not one of our legislators or, indeed, the police seems to be taking an interest. If it was - as asserted - a mass illegal wiretap then there should be a criminal investigation and, if appropriate, prosecutions in the public interest of those executives involved. BT will not reveal who the targets were just in case the list contains some Americans or Germans who would take a much more vigorous approach to having their confidentiality maintained.
If it wasn't an illegal mass wiretap then the sooner the general public know it is quite legal for an ISP to pimp your internet usage the sooner they can start moving their accounts to the secure ISP of their choice.
As another contributor said just 'cos it may be legal doesn't mean it has to be done - or are we in a race to the lowest common denominator of standards?
If BT, Phorm and the rest get away with this continued fudge then eventually the momentum will build to let it pass and your browsing habits will be pimped by all ISP because they won't commercially - in the shareholders interest - be able to justify not doing it.
In this case there is no honour amongst thieves!
Hey this is better than 'Watergate'..
Wonder if they'll turn this Bt scandal into a film one day..
@ Ian
Taken from the Phorm website:
ISP Partners
Phorm enables ISPs to play a pivotal role in the online advertising market while offering a better and safer browsing experience for their customers and fully protecting their privacy.
Current partners include BT, TalkTalk and Virgin Media - companies representing approximately 70% of the UK broadband ISP market.
It doesnt mention however what encompasses 'BT' but it looks like you may be safe.
This also answers my question about Virgin Media... dammit
And what about the option to not have adverts?
I dont care if im looking up holidays i dont want a big advert shouting at me to go to spain.
...possible Phorm thwart ?
Since it seems a few websites are a little unhappy at this, how about an informal industry arrangement where every webpage is sent with some sort of MD5 hash in the headers ? The browser could run a comparison of the hash with one computed from the actual page.
My letter going out to news channels, gov bodies and one MEP.
Phorm and the profiteering of BT, Virgin Media and Carphone Warehouse.
Or, how your online browsing habits are up for sale.
I've just been left wondering why no decent investigation or coverage off the Phorm and BT/Virgin Media/Carphone warehouse association has not been carried out in any depth by any news media or unbiased governmental body, has investigative journalism truly died in the country? Are the laws of British citizens no longer applicable to big businesses?
Phorm, an ex adware/spyware company (placing files unbeknownst onto a user's computer without their knowledge) is run by a man called Kent Ertrugul who used to run a company, 121 media. This company would watch your browsing habits so that targeted ads could be delivered whilst you were surfing. Most antispyware programs would delete these cookies as spyware. As 121 Media they ran a series of secret trials with BT without their customer's knowledge or consent in 2006 and 2007.
Having changed their name they now intend that ad targeting be run by your internet service provider so antispyware will no longer have anything to delete. As Phorm they are being allowed to run their own proprietary software on two of the UKs largest broadband servers, BT & Virgin Media, who do not have access to their code, yet who can state with unequivocal assurance that it is safe, and that identifiable customer information cannot be seen.
How one top man, Stratis Scleparis, from BT has moved across to Phorm after the secret and illegal profiling trials of '06, '07, and how over 9000 people have signed a government petition trying to stop it has caused little to no reaction in the countries news media.
This is invasion of privacy on a massive scale yet the BBC seems hardly aware of it except for one little item where they appear to agree that the secret BT profiling trials of some 8000 customers last year may have been illegal - well, I've not seen anyone arrested yet, not even an investigation – what gives?
The opt in/opt out measures (requiring a cookie?) are a joke as all your info still goes through the profiler, which, apparently never gets to Phorm, but seeing as how the code on the ISPs server belongs to Phorm, I'm unsure how exactly the ISP's know, with such confidence, what information is (or will be when the code is updated) passed through.
Labour MP Patricia Hewitt is on the BT Board which might explain somewhat why more fuss is not being made about this issue, and of course, Stratis Scleparis, the BT Retail CTO moved over to become Phorm CTO might explain why BT are desperately pushing this through.
Thanks for reading - Tony F Paulazzo.
If you're still reading, any thoughts of what I've missed, what else needs to be said, etc, Cheers.
Valued Added Services
Emma Sanderson - Director of Valued added services.
I don't know about IT but in finance value added services is a nice way of saying screwing more money out of our client
No personally identifiable information was (...) disclosed
Um, but it was, BT apparently allowed Phorm to install their own equipment in the middle of the network, thus BT disclosed everything transferred through the network to Phorm. Whether personally identifiable or not.
Re:Telephone ads
***"When will BT start inserting ads into private 'phone conversations to "improve your conversational experience?" "***
Right after they start listening in to your private conversation in order that the inserted adverts are more appropriate. Of course the 'listening in' will be done by sophisticated speech recognition systems. All that will happen is that key phrases and words will be recognised in order to build up a profile of your likes and dislikes. No actual conversations will be recorded and your anonymity will be preserved.
I'm *sure* everyone would be perfectly happy with BT doing that? Yes?
But that is exactly what they are doing to your private *web* conversations.
Action or words?
More hot air. Are you going to email the BBC complaining about their bad reporting? That might just possibly have some effect. Whinging here will have none.
Anyway if you expect any of the national media to understand anything technical you will always be disappointed.
What about the BBC's role in this...?
Just seen something purporting to be a news item on the BBC website by one Julia Caesar. More BBC whitewash.
"The technology works by monitoring your search engine activity?" DId I mishear that? What complete garbage. As is known already, the technology works by monitoring *all* your activity, not just your search engine searches.
The "report" fails to mention the other company involved in this illegal wiretapping incident, Phorm. Why is this? Does the BBC have some hidden interest in or alliance with Phorm?
Their so called "journalists" are to that profession as I am to an international standard batsman.
@Stephen Gray
£28? where are you buying your domains from?
There's no reason to be paying more than £4 for a .com and you can get .uks at close to cost, which is £5...
Friends tell us BT will get a grilling on Channel 4 News today.
It did. And C4 interviewed one poor sod who queried the matter with BT and was toldl it must be a virus. As he couldn't remove it, he bought a new computer.
Time for the wookie defence?
How long before we hear this in the British courts?
Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense!
Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense!
Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a major communications company, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberatin' and conjugatin' the legality of BT snooping on it's punters, does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests
Good news for Pirates tho.
BT said that while they recorded IP addresses, those can not be turned into a way of identifying an individual.
So, as an ISP, who has full access to the DHCP lease logs and Customer Billing information, and (hopefully) the means to tie these together, they are claiming its impossible to say that IP address 188.8.131.52 was definately Joe Bloggs (as it could have been his wife, Jane Bloggs, or his son, Jimmy Bloggs) are they not also saying its impossible to say who is using the connection to download MP3's/DivX's ?
Also does it not through all the Police IT enquiries into Grooming and Child Pornography Rings out of the window too?
How thick can you get
So, the friendly friends at the Reg. think "that BT's statement does not answer our questions ". But if I read the BT statements, they answereed all your questions loud and clear with a resounding:
So, there you have it, glad to be of service, and if you need any further translation don't hesitate to ask.
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The Miller School's Andrew White signed his official letter of intent to join the Kansas University basketball team on Monday. He was joined by more than 50 family and friends at Alumni Gym when he confirmed his previous verbal commitment to the Jayhawks.
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"I have an opportunity to go in and compete for minutes," he said. "So nothing was handed to me but if I can go in and shoot the ball well, which is one of my strengths, and defend and rebound then I should be able to get on the court as a freshman which would mean a lot."
"He has a unique skill set, a 6'6 shooter," added Miller head basketball coach Scott Willard. "Any team, whether it's the Big 12 or any top 25 team can use a 6'6 skilled guy. He's worked for it, he's earned it and today's a special day to see that all come together."
White was rated as a four-star recruit by both Rivals and ESPN and chose KU over schools like Georgetown, North Carolina State, and Richmond.
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