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August 23, 2007 11:06 AM PDT
Can small business count on VoIP?
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Hampton, who runs what is essentially a one-woman Web development company in Kansas City, said she was glad she had her cell phone handy when she was unable to make or receive calls from clients for 48 hours during last week's Skype outage. She had decided to make Skype's $40-a-year unlimited domestic calling her primary phone system to save money when she started her company.
"I always knew I needed a backup for Skype," she said. "I was annoyed by the disruption, but since I was able to use my cell phone, it wasn't that big of a deal."
Hampton's point is well taken: while many large companies have already made the switch to IP telephones, small business may not want to cut off their traditional phone services just yet.
Indeed, many experts agree that it's risky for small businesses to rely too heavily on services that use voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology that leverages the public Internet. The reason is simple. The public Internet is still what is considered a "best-effort" network. Priority is not given to any type of traffic once it hits the public Internet. And even though voice packets don't take up much bandwidth, the technology is very sensitive to latency, which means that late-arriving packets could distort voice quality or cut off voice calls altogether.
While dropped calls or garbled connections may be tolerated by some consumers, business users generally have higher expectations for quality and reliability.
"The Internet itself is not business class," said Lisa Pierce, a vice president at Forrester Research. "Performance of the network is largely unpredictable. It's like the freeway. Sometimes you can sail through with no traffic, and other times you can be stuck in a traffic jam for hours."
Different for enterprise VoIP
By contrast, big companies deploying VoIP technology from suppliers, such as Cisco and Avaya, don't use the public Internet to transport their voice traffic. They use their own IP networks to transport calls within their campuses. And for calls traveling to other branch offices, they use leased data links rented from service providers like Verizon or AT&T. As a result, large VoIP installations often require companies to invest millions of dollars to upgrade their local-area and wide-area network infrastructures.
There's no question that these enterprise-class VoIP systems are too expensive for companies with fewer than 50 or 100 employees. But even the small-business offerings from Cisco and Avaya are often too pricey for many companies, especially those with fewer than 10 employees.
And yet the tiniest of companies want the features and flexibility that IP technology provides. Skype claims that nearly 30 percent of the 220 million people who have downloaded its peer-to-peer calling software client around the globe use the service for business purposes. In January, the company developed a special product called Skype for Business, which builds upon its existing calling features, such as Skype-to-Skype, Video Calling, SkypeOut, SkypeIn, conference calling, file transfer and chat.
But even though Skype is going after the "business" market, the company says it's only addressing the very low end of the market.
"Skype is not intended for enterprise-level needs," said Skype spokeswoman Jennifer Caukin. "Small businesses, however, should find it a very useful tool that complements their existing communications methods, and helps them reduce communication costs and increase productivity."
Caukin said last week's outage was regrettable, and she added that the company has always encouraged customers to have backup communications.
"It is important to remember that Skype is not a replacement telephony service," she said. "While Skype is extremely resilient, users, especially businesses, are advised to have alternatives in place for the unlikely event that Skype access is disrupted, either because of Internet access problems or other reasons."
Will the public Net suffice?
But some companies, such as 8x8 and Vonage, are marketing their services as a replacement for traditional telephone services. 8x8 offers a hosted PBX service called Virtual Office that provides call functions like four-digit calling, call forwarding and auto-attendant, plus some unified communications features, like e-mail-accessible voice mail. The service starts at just $49.99 per month.
A PBX, or private branch exchange, is used within a private telephone network and allows users to share a certain number of outside telephone lines for making phone calls.
Like Skype, 8x8's service uses the public Internet to carry voice packets. Huw Rees, vice president of sales and marketing for 8x8, said concerns about the reliability of VoIP over the Internet are overblown.
"The public Internet is more than adequate for providing a business-class voice system if you have a decent broadband connection," he said. "We have more than 8,000 business customers who range in size from 2 to 600 employees using our service. There may have been issues with Internet VoIP a few years ago, but not anymore."
But Chris Lyman, chief executive for a software PBX company called Fonality, disagrees with Rees. He said businesses that can't afford to invest in upgrading their own wide-area and local-area networks should use a hybrid solution that allows them to fall back on the traditional phone network if their Internet connection is interrupted. Fonality sells a software PBX solution that does just that.
"The public Internet just can't provide the kind of quality of service that is needed to offer a business-class service," Lyman said. "And small businesses don't typically have the money to upgrade their networks. So they shouldn't rip out their analog service to go purely to VoIP. They're not ready for it."
Fonality's products are similar to ones offered by Cisco and Avaya. But because Fonality's software is based on open-source technology, Lyman says it costs 40 percent to 80 percent less than competing products from these big companies. Using open-source and standards-based technology means Fonality's software can be deployed on any server and any desktop phone. By contrast, Cisco's IP PBX solution runs on Cisco hardware and companies using it must buy Cisco's IP phones.
Even Fonality's solution, however, can be too expensive for some businesses. It costs roughly between $300 and $500 per employee.
At the end of the day, small companies looking to deploy VoIP must weigh the pros and cons of the services or solutions they can afford.
"There is a portion of the market at the low end that simply can't afford these more expensive options," said Forrester's Pierce. "So an Internet-based VoIP solution may hit the right price point. Call quality and service reliability may suffer, but it's a tradeoff. And compromises have to be made."
Indeed, Shawna Hampton said that as her company grows, she will likely invest in a more robust phone system. But until then, she will continue to use Skype.
"For right now, Skype is a great service for me," she said. "But I'm glad I have a cell phone, too."
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21 commentsJoin the conversation! Add your comment
- Landlines Are Resilient? Cellular Is Resilient?
- Let's see, a few years ago AT&T had a major service outage on the East Coast when a rollout of new switching software failed. Then there was Hurricane Katrina, which wiped out cell towers. More recently, the collapse of the bridge in Minneapolis overloaded the cell network with calls, because it could not handle peak load.
Conceptually, the Internet is more resilient than either landline or cell service. Remember, it was engineered by DARPA to survive a nuclear attack. The bottom line though is that everyone should have at least two ways to make and receive phone calls AND email. Yes, don't forget about email. Loss of email service can be almost as disruptive to business as loss of voice service.
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- Internet is more resilient
- The internet is more resilient than landlines and cellular phones. Really, the internet at a business should almost never go down, unless the lines coming from the pole to the business go down. Otherwise, it can just re-route around the problem areas, and keep on trucking.
I've also read that the reason that Skype went down is because a lot of computers went down and restarted at the same time, thereby overwhelming Skype's log-in server.
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- Internet not designed for voice
- latency and dropped packets make this less then ideal for real time voice communications, better to have a dedicated line (or cellular signal) that does not suffer this issue.
Also if the phone line gets cut, yes you can't use the phone, but if your internet service line gets cut you won't be able to use the internet.
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- Backup your voice system
- Two tin cans: Free from the trash can
Kite string: $1.49
Look on the dumb secretary's face when she tries to install the battery into it: Priceless.
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- Not Ready for Primetime
- Sorry, but you should be signing a contract with a provider that spells out uptime requirements and how they will make good in the event that they cannot fulfill their obligations. Nothing is 100% guaranteed, but you at least owe yourself that peace of mind.
Otherwise, you're just playing at business.
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- Fonality based on asterisk (which is free)
- Perhaps the reporter should have asked the company that made the software FOR FREE that Fonality has modified and currently sells? http://digium.com http://asterisknow.org
http://360oregon.com
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- Exactly
- Don't forgot Trixbox which is also based on the free open source asterisk. It bundles the freepbx web interface to configure your asterisk with little to no linux knowledge.
http://trixbox.org - Free open source IP-PBX
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- Small businesses getting ready
- I think small businesses are interested and ready. but as always, you have to be cautious enough. Murphy's law is always ready to act.
When you see events like the one organised by Profoss (http://www.profoss.eu) titled "Asterisk and VoIP" ( http://www.profoss.eu/events/october-2007-asterisk/ ), I think it shows the market is ready and interested to evaluate the options available.
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- Magicjack is an option...
- Magicjack - the usb dongle that gives a dial tone is one option for telephone calls via VOIP.
Ramon Ray, Editor & Technology Evangelist, Smallbiztechnology.com
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- Skype Outage
- Skype or Hype?
The scary thing is that people actually believe that Skype is actually a small business product.
It isn't and never was intended to be. Fact is it will work on any PC that has an internet connection, but that isn't the qualifier for small business when it comes to a reliable service. Small business looks first at price, then reliability, but will always go with price until you have a 2 day outage, then and only then do they understand the damage it causes.
There are still low cost solutions to help small business's, that don't get the attention they need from a Skype. Small business, needs simplified billing, customer service, reliability, and features that will extend their business to the customer base.
Skype doesn't answer this question, and most business's know this, but the internet community doesn't understand the value proposition in this regards. Skype would barely rank as a qualified Residential product, much less run your business on it.
The answer to the question is " HYPE"
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- Consider A Hybrid Model
- There's a place for Skype in business, and it doesn't have to be an all or nothing proposition. My recent experience working with a small business customer:
1) I was able to save my client $6,000 a year on phone charges by renegotiating their contract with a mainstream, traditional dialtone provider. Insteading of paying exhorbitant per-minute charges for in-state and out-of-state long distance, they now just pay one fixed price for all-you-can eat service. This is standard telephone service, regulated by the PUC, and includes 911 support.
2) Even with the new rate plan, the carrier's per minute charge for international calls is too expensive. So I bought a couple of Linksys Skype phones for the employees to use when they make those calls. Skype-to-Skype international calls are completely free. Skype-to-landline/cell calls are just a few pennies a minute vs. our carrier's 30 cents a minute. After a couple of international calls the phones have paid for themselves in LD savings. An added benefit is that the Skype phones are cordless, which is handy for walking around the office when you're on a call.
3) By having two carriers, one providing traditional dialtone and one providing VoIP, we have some measure of redundancy in case of phone failure. Not 100% redundancy, but better than a single point of failure.
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- VOIP is fine if you have a reliable system
- Don't depend on cheap solutions.
A well managed network can handle VOIP with no problems whatsoever.
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- Every technology has caveats
- Small business/large business - all have to understand the technology before deciding what's best for their case. If public internet IP Telepphony is OK for you, then you understand that there is no gaurenteed QoS. On the other hand, securing your own dedicated resources via a traditional vendor or from a new SIP vendor gives you PSTN quality at the same reliability as aything else out there. And please, Cell service is not in the same league. People understand and heck, even expect to drop calls/get dropped or endure long pauses or get rejecdted when trying to make calls.
It's all about understanding the caveats of the technology. Right?
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- Skype a public internet service.
- One has to remember that Skype is service that runs on the public internet. So therefore it is not possible to guarantee reliability. This is entirely different from running voip on a private intranet. There is some things Skype could do such as deploying it's servers at critical locations such as major ISP's.
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- PBXtra
- I purchased a PBXtra system for our office nearly a year ago and it has proven itself to be a dependable product. As a CPA office with 13 employees, the flexabilty and ease of use has been wonderful. A similar system would have cost over $10K, but Fonality came in just under $6K out the door. The most amazing thing was the ease of setup. First you plug it in, then push the power button and it just works. My clients in the Telecom business couldn't believe it.
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- Try Unia Telecom, VOIP alternative
- Unia Telecom - sounds like they're the good guys. at least they try. visited the site http://www.uniatelecbsi.com and also called them and was surprised to learn their whole operation is US based, unlike the other providers quick to run to India. they seem to be very well footed and reliable..tested the service too.
Regardless, the fact that they give a percentage of their earnings to humane / humanitarian causes will definitely serve them very well in the future...thinking of signing up for the service....
Shelly G.
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- We started to offer small business voip to our customers a little while ago. Please feel free to let us help you find the right voip service -
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- Part of the problem is installation services. It can be difficult to get these small business voip systems up and running. Usually the router and switches will need to be swapped out and voice will need to be prioritized. To fix this we now offer free setup with our RingCentral packages.
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She is survived by nieces, nephews and cousins, including Alice Bryant of Carmi and a special friend Alice Dial of Carmi.
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In today's times Give a person a digital camera and he can become a filmmaker. In India there are so many short films floating around on the internet that it would take an exhausting curative exercise to select the best from the lot.
Amongst all this Anurag Kashyap, Sudhir Mishra and Chakri Toleti embark on an adventure of discovering new filmmakers through this experimental film called The Last Act.
Though it claims to be India's first collaborative feature I think last year's Project 11 was the first one to attempt something like this.
The film takes off from a plot written by Anurag Kashyap which is about a mutilated dead body found with 12 clues on it. 12 directors from across India were chosen to make 12 short films that would connect the dots and make sense of it as a full length feature film.
Starting off with Mumbai the film travels to Ghazibad,Kolkata, Delhi, Kalyan, Pune, Chandigarh, Bengaluru, Hisar, Lucknow,Chennai and Gwalior.
Out of the 12 short stories the ones set in Ghaziabad, Kolkata, Kalyan and Pune are quirky and interesting. The Pune and Kolkata act stands out amongst them and the actor in the Pune act leaves a strong impact. The Pune act also has the best humour in the film.
The film derails in the 2nd half. The Chandigarh act is the worst amongst the entire lot in the 2nd half. It felt that either the director is highly inspired or was giving his personal tribute to Anurag's No Smoking. Post that every act starts crumbling under the impressive acts put up in the 1st half.
By the end the film became loaded with too much information and stories to handle and retain. With 4 acts less it could have been a tighter and better film.
Even though it doesn't work as a whole there is a lot going for it in parts.
Most of the directors show talent within the limited means but I would like to see more of the ones who directed the Kolkata and Pune act.
Word of mouth - The Last Act is an interesting experiment that needs to be seen. It should be aired on T.V. as a miniseries
Rating - *** (above average)
Ticket Meter - worth 150 bucks


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After serving 19 years walking on chalkline as vice president under the towering powers of President William VS Tubman, William R. Tobert, Jr., assumed the presidency upon the demise of Tubman in 1971.
Tolbert had been handpicked by his predecessor following the mystery death of vice president-elect B.G. Freeman of Careysburg. Tolbert's long tenure as vice president must have prepared him to first zoom on punctuality and hard work for government officials and employees just as he was exemplary for workers on his Belefanai farm in Bong County.
That example focused on sound practice of honesty and probity for which Tolbert's detractors misunderstood and satirically accused him of selling charcoal and bitter balls at the Executive. His disgust that corruption permeated government circles and society at large led Tolbert in 1974 to create by executive ordinance the National Force for the Eradication of Corruption (NFEC), comprising law enforcement gurus and legal luminaries having teeth enough to investigate graft cases and recommend appropriate penalties for guilty persons.
But corruption outlived the NFEC so much that young AFL soldiers who overthrew the government in 1980 accused it not only of corruption, but "rampant corruption". Soon on his second day in power, Master-sergeant Samuel Doe, made the following independent statement to then Principal Robert Kemokai on corruption while on a tour at Central High School in Buzzi Quarters: "There are some people...when they receive 25 loaves of bread for their students, they eat 15 and only 10 reach to the students. That is rampant corruption...anyone found doing that will not live to tell the story".
Soon than later 'you will not live to tell the story' became a household expression in Liberia.
As the crackdown waned with time while the junta enjoyed the paraphernalia of power, Doe once publicly declared: "Corruption cannot be completely eradicated, but can only be minimized."
Therefore it became an irony that he later perished in a gorilla rebellion whose masterminds accused him of being a dictator engaged in rampant corruption.
Earlier this year, corruption typified itself to me at one Hathai shop downtown Monrovia where some young people castigated persons outside their midst for being corrupt. Upon hearing them in the debate, a keen passerby suddenly invited one of their kind to follow him for "something" for them to buy their tea. Their envoy later came back with US$20 saying the man: "I accompanied sent this for us all."
Everyone expressed delight for the offer and began ordering more tea. But it was not too long when the giver appeared, asking: "Did you guys see what I sent you?" "You mean the 20 dollars," one of them shouted. He replied, "No! I sent you 100 dollars." His colleagues suddenly got raged, knocked him over and forcibly ripped pockets where 80 dollars found hidden was removed by the group.
Upon hearing the true story, some onlookers at the scene commented: "But he did well she, he should have divided the money 50-50"; he should have gone home with the whole amount and not return to the Hathai shop".
So, see how corruption is alive with us even after President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf declared it was "enemy number one" during his first inaugural speech seven years ago."
Now Cllr. Frances Johnson Allison, head of Liberia's Anti-Corruption Commission, is shedding tears over the entrenchment of corruption, though expressing courageous optimism that it can wiped out or minimized through wholesome involvement of every citizen in the battle against this menace.
Cllr. Allison complaint that inadequate human and logistic capacity posed a challenge to investigate corruption cases clearly indicates that her agency is being overwhelmed by graft cases due to these constraints and uncooperative attitudes of partner institutions.
Furthermore, her assertion that "corruption is entrenched within the society; it cannot be fixed in a single day; it takes time," is a warning to Liberians to get ready now to put on their armor for an epic battle with corruption, otherwise it will sooner than later ruin the fabric of our society.


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Throughout the testimony, statements and affidavits of witnesses plus official police and FBI documentation and various other sources, there are numerous suggestions that whilst he may not have held a Driver's License, Oswald was certainly capable of driving a car. These suggestions --- and some of them are very positive --- were either totally ignored or given no more than a perfunctory glance by those investigating the assassination and Oswald's background.
In this paper, I do not propose to delve deeply into each individual piece of evidence suggesting that Oswald could drive. Rather than that, I will merely outline a few examples, together with relevant sources and maybe a few brief comments of my own. I then leave it up to the reader to decide on the credibility of each example --- and finally on the overall validity of the sum of these examples. I would be a fool to claim that I have unearthed every example of evidence that Oswald could drive a car. I have, however, listed what I feel are the most important.
Purely for convenience I have listed these examples in the order in which they should logically have occurred --- obtaining a driver's permit, learning to drive, taking a test, etc. As will soon become apparent, however, this was not the sequence in which these events (or alleged events) did occur.
I leave it up to the reader to decide whether these examples apply to the 'real' Oswald or to one or more 'lookalikes'.
The earliest reference I can find to the potential purchase of a motor vehicle by the Oswalds comes on the third page of a Dallas FBI teletext presumably sent to J Edgar Hoover's office. Unfortunately I do not have a date for this document but it appears to marry up with similar communications of early December 1963. It was originally RESTRICTED but was released under the JFK Act on 24th October 1995 [1].
It deals with an interview of Marina Oswald and includes the following paragraph:
"Marina stated she had insisted on several occasions that Oswald buy a car but he objected that he did not have sufficient money to buy it, and, further, the car would require repairs. She knows of no occasion when he saw anyone about the purchase of an automobile or mentioned to her that he had seen someone or intended seeing someone about the purchase of an automobile."
Does the reference to the car requiring repairs indicate that they were discussing a specific vehicle? On 24th October 1963, Michael Paine had paid $200 for a 1955 or 1956 blue and white Oldsmobile sedan which he apparently offered to Lee Harvey Oswald [2]. The second sentence of the FBI teletext extract above is very positive in saying that Lee never did go along with Marina's request. However ...........
On the morning of Saturday 9th November 1963, Ruth Hyde Paine drove to Oak Cliff with Lee and Marina Oswald, their two daughters and her own two children as passengers. There are several available accounts of this important event but I will restrict myself to just one --- that which appears in an affidavit executed by Mrs Paine on 24th June 1964. It contains the following statement:
"On the occasion of Saturday, November 9, 1963, about which I testified before the Commission, when I took Marina and Lee Oswald in my station wagon to the Texas Automobile Drivers Bureau in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, Texas to enable Lee Oswald to make application for an automobile driver's learner permit, each of my two children and both of the Oswald children, June and Rachel, accompanied us.
Upon our arrival at the Automobile Drivers License Bureau, which was located in a shopping center area in Oak Cliff, we discovered that the Automobile Drivers License Bureau was closed ......." [3].
When Mrs Paine had been interviewed by the Dallas FBI on 26th November 1963, she had added that the reason the bureau was closed on the 9th was because that was an election day [4].
This incident, which I have no reason to believe did not occur, is surely an indication of Oswald's serious intention of learning to drive. There is, in fact, a report that he returned to the Automobile Drivers License Bureau the following Saturday (16th) but although "he had arrived before closing time but still too late to get in because there was a long line ahead of him ......." [5].
The earliest intimation I can find concerning Lee Harvey Oswald being given any sort of driving tuition comes from a letter written in Russian by Ruth Paine and sent to Marina Oswald, living at this time with Lee in New Orleans. It is dated 24th August 1963 at a time when Ruth was staying at the residence of Arthur Young (her husband's step-father) in Paoli, Pennsylvania [6].
The English translation of the relevant paragraph reads as follows:
"Lee told me that he learned a little from his uncle how to drive a car. It would be very useful for him to know how to drive. It is hard to find time for this when he works every day." [7]
During her lengthy testimony before the Warren Commission, Mrs Paine was questioned by Assistant Counsel Albert E Jenner, Jr. about that particular paragraph. He stated that "the Commission is very interested in the subject matter of Mr. Oswald, of Lee Oswald being able to drive a car." [8]. Now why were they so concerned with that?
There exists solid and apparently irrefutable evidence that Oswald was receiving driving instruction from Ruth Paine --- presumably in Ruth's own car, a 1955 light green Chevrolet station wagon, one of three vehicles owned by the Paines [9].
A letter written by Ruth to her mother on Monday 14th October 1963 includes the following passage:
"If Lee can just find work it will help so much. Meantime, I started giving him driving lessons last Sunday (yesterday). If he can drive this will open up more job possibilities and more locations" [10].
There is corroboration of this in the testimony of Michael Paine as the following brief exchange with Assistant Counsel Wesley J Liebeler indicates:
Mr LIEBELER: "Did your wife ever tell you that she had seen Oswald driving a car or she was trying to teach him how to drive a car?"
Mr PAINE: "Yes; she did."
Mr LIEBELER: "Did she indicate what proficiency he had at operating an automobile?"
Mr PAINE: "She thought he was, she observed how much one has to learn in order to drive a car. He had a difficulty in some manner, perhaps it was in judging when to turn the wheel when parking. And I think she said he over controlled it, turned too far." [11]
In her own testimony, Mrs Paine answers a string of questions about Oswald's driving efficiency [12] and she has this to say about the course of lessons upon which she seems to have embarked with him:
"I offered to give him --- give Lee lessons on Sunday afternoons and we managed to do it a few Sunday afternoons, I think three altogether and there were a couple of weekends when we didn't get the lesson in, something intervened. ..... I think the last lesson was November 10, being the last Sunday." [13]
The following is taken from the Warren Commission testimony of Buell Wesley Frazier, Washington DC, 11th March 1964:
Mr BALL: "From that time until November 22, did he ride home with you every weekend?"
Mr FRAZIER: "No, sir; he did every weekend except one."
Mr BALL: "And why did --- did he tell you why he wasn't going to ride home that weekend?"
Mr FRAZIER: "Yes, he did. He said he was working on his driving license and he was going to take a driving test."
Mr BALL: "Did you ever ask him afterward if he had taken his driver's test?"
Mr FRAZIER: "No, sir; I never did. I assumed that he had taken it and passed it what part of the test he was taking." [14]
A little later in this testimony, there is the following:
Mr BALL: "Did you ever talk to him on whether or not he could drive a car, knew how to drive a car?"
Mr FRAZIER: "Well, I say, I believe the first afternoon, the first time we was going home and we were talking about that and he said he was working on his driving license then, and then naturally like I told you several weeks later, then he told me he was going to take his driving test and I assumed he could drive a car as being as old as he was because most everybody in the State of Texas by the time you are my age if you can't drive a car something is wrong with you." [15]
A single-page Dallas FBI report, released under the provisions of the JFK Act on 17th October 1995, deals with an apparent enquiry by Lee Harvey Oswald concerning motor insurance [16]
The report, written on 2nd December 1963, stated that an Edward A Brand had telephoned the office earlier that day and had reported a visit made to his insurance office by an individual identifying himself as O.H. Lee "approximately two weeks before President John F Kennedy was assassinated." Brand's insurance company, known as the Tower Insurance Agency, was situated at 1045 North Zangs Boulevard --- "directly across the street" from Oswald's rooming house at 1026 North Beckley Avenue.
Brand stated that Mr Lee was enquiring regarding automobile liability insurance. However he (Brand) was unable to quote any exact insurance rates as the gentleman said that he did not own a car, but intended to buy one in the near future. Brand suggested that Mr Lee return after purchasing a car.
Let me quote directly from the report:
Brand also was of the opinion the only identification he saw of Lee's was a Texas drivers license, but did not notice if the initials were O. H., but believed the last name was Lee on this drivers license.
Brand concluded by saying he did not immediately recognize Lee Harvey Oswald's photograph in the Dallas newspapers, or on television, until after reading Oswald had in the past used the name Lee, at which time he did recognize Oswald's photograph as being the individual who contacted him regarding insurance under the name of O. H. Lee.
One of the cornerstones of the theory that there was a concerted and determined effort to create a number of "false" Oswalds prior to the assassination involved a well-documented incident centred on the Downtown Lincoln-Mercury agency at 118 East Commerce Street, Dallas. This remains the best-known example of Lee Oswald --- or a deliberately-created lookalike --- driving a motor vehicle.
Albert Guy Bogard was the unfortunate car salesman at the centre of this incident. In his Warren Commission testimony [17], Bogard was certain that the incident had taken place in the early afternoon of Saturday 9th November and he described it thus:
A gentleman walked in the door and walked up and introduced himself to me, and tells me he wants to look at a car. I show him a car on the showroom floor, and take him for a ride out Stemmons Expressway and back, and he was driving at 60 to 70 miles an hour and came back to the showroom. And I made some figures, and he told me that he wasn't ready to buy, that he would be in a couple or three weeks, that he had some money coming in. And when he finally started to leave I got his name and wrote it on the back of one of my business cards, and never heard from the man any more.
And the day that the President was shot, when I heard that --- they had the radio on in the showroom, and when I heard the name, that he had shot a policeman over in Oak Cliff, I pulled out some business cards that I had wrote his name on the back on, and said, "He won't be a prospect any more because he is going to jail," and ripped the card up.
Bogard, having lost what could have been a sale, threw the card away. It was never recovered but he confirmed that the name he had written on it was "Lee Oswald" --- the name given by his potential prospect. Bogard further explained that the car in question had been a red Mercury Comet Caliente, a two-door hardtop, with a $3,000 price tag on it.
In addition to mentioning the speed at which his prospect had driven, he also made the following significant comment: "He might have drove a little reckless, but other than that, he knew how to drive." [18]. Bogard's story was corroborated by his sales manager, Frank Pizzo, and two salesmen, Oran Brown and Gene Wilson, who were present at the time of Oswald's visit. [19]
As stated above, this incident occurred on the afternoon of Saturday 9th November 1963. It was during the morning of that day that Ruth Paine had driven Oswald to Oak Cliff on his unsuccessful attempt to obtain an Automobile Driver's Learner Permit. She was adamant that Oswald had spent the afternoon of that day at her house in Irving. As she said in her affidavit of 24th June 1964:
" ..... all of us entered my home where we remained throughout the balance of that day and evening." [20]
Furthermore, an internal FBI memorandum dated 14th January 1964 authorised the Dallas office to conduct a polygraph examination of Bogard. This was in part due to the fact that "Mrs Ruth Paine places Oswald in her home on 11/9/63 (election day) and states that in her opinion it would not have been possible for Oswald to have travelled to the automobile agency on 11/9/63 as he was not out of her sight for a sufficient portion of that day to have made the trip. Accordingly, it appears that Bogard's story is untrue." [21]
When Bogard took his FBI polygraph test in Dallas on 24th February 1964 "the responses recorded were those normally expected of a person telling the truth." [22].
Unfortunately, however, that was not the result required so "the Commission has placed no reliance on these results." [23]. If that sounds familiar, cast your mind back to what was said when the paraffin test applied to Oswald's left cheek failed to indicate that he had fired a rifle --- it was almost identical!
There are several well-documented reports of Lee Harvey Oswald driving a car. I will mention just three. One important alleged sighting puts Oswald in the town of Alice, Texas on 3rd October 1963 but since this incident is currently being examined in depth by my friend and fellow researcher Chris Courtwright of Carbondale, KS, I will not cover it here.
This incident is probably the best-known and most frequently quoted in connection with the 'multiple Oswalds' theory. It also includes very strong (and corroborated) evidence that Lee Harvey Oswald drove a car --- if, indeed, it really was Oswald! Funnily enough, the incident came to light through the curiosity of a prominent British journalist, Lady Jean Campbell, the U.S. Political Correspondent for the London Evening Standard. Lady Campbell was normally based in Washington DC but like many other journalists, she was assigned to Dallas immediately following the assassination.
The following account is based on various FBI documents [24] and on Lady Campbell's published piece in her newspaper [25].
On her daily drive from her temporary accommodation to downtown Dallas, Lady Campbell noticed that a shop she passed at 149 East Irving Boulevard, Irving displayed a sign with the words GUN SHOP in red letters above the door. She felt that maybe Oswald could have visited the shop. ("I knew that he was as fascinated by guns as some women are by diamonds.")
Lady Campbell spoke with the proprietor of the shop, Mrs Edith Whitworth, and with her friend, Mrs Gertrude Hunter, who was in the shop at the time. To her surprise, Lady Campbell found that the shop sold second-hand furniture rather than firearms.
In answer to Lady Campbell's query about Oswald, Mrs Whitworth told her that he had visited her shop between 2.30pm and 3.00pm on Thursday 7th November 1963, together with "his wife, their two or three week old infant and an older daughter about two years of age." Oswald enquired whether if he could get a plunger for a gun but was informed that the shop sold only furniture. Mrs Whitworth referred him to the Irving Sports Shop. The Oswalds looked around for a few minutes before leaving.
Lady Campbell stated that Mrs Hunter told her "that when the Oswalds left the store, Marina placed the older child into a 1956 or 1957 two-tone Ford or Chevrolet and then entered the vehicle herself with her infant daughter. Oswald entered the vehicle, sat behind the steering wheel, and turned the vehicle around and proceeded in the direction of the Irving Sports Shop."
According to Lady Campbell, "Mrs Hunter related that Oswald, in doing this, was proceeding the wrong way on a one-way street and had to turn the vehicle around again."
Clifton M Shasteen was the proprietor of Clifton's Barbershop at 1321 South Storey, Irving. He testified before the Warren Commission that Oswald had his hair cut several times at the shop and that he had personally cut Oswald's hair "three or four times" He had no doubt about this customer's identity and recalled a conversation they had once had about a pair of unusual yellow shoes which Oswald was wearing. Shasteen said that Oswald told him he had got them "down in Old Mexico." [26]
Shasteen's certainty about this man's identity is given great credence by the fact that he knew Ruth Paine by sight and had seen them together.
Midway through his testimony, Shasteen was asked by Assistant Counsel Albert E Jenner, Jr. whether Oswald had ever driven an automobile up to the shop. Shasteen replied: "He drove that there 1955, I think it's a 1955, I'm sure it's a 1955 Chevrolet station wagon. It's either blue and white or green and white --- it's two-toned --- I know that." [27]. There is little doubt that Shasteen was describing Ruth Paine's car --- with Oswald driving it!
I consider this one of the oddest, most important and also the most-neglected alleged examples of Lee Harvey Oswald driving a car. It also represents one of the best examples in the whole case of the Dallas Police Department dragging its heels to such an extent that it 'lost' a potentially valuable witness!
An internal DPD report dated 11th December 1963 contained the following:
(A confidential) "source states that she was told by another person that a mechanic from a garage in the downtown area who regularly services Jack Ruby's automobile, had stated that subject (Lee Harvey Oswald) had driven Ruby's car several times prior to the assassination of President Kennedy." [28]
An unattributed footnote rejected the content of the report and stated that "subject did not know how to drive an automobile."
Perhaps because of that footnote, no action was taken for almost three months. Another DPD internal report (dated 3rd April 1964) repeated the content of the first, adding that the mechanic had mentioned that Oswald "had been driving Jack Ruby's automobile for approximately two months and that he (the mechanic) knew this because Oswald had brought Ruby's car to his garage for repairs" [29].
The report named the mechanic as William J Chesher and stated that the previous day, 2nd April 1964, Detectives Biggio and Stringfellow had attempted to contact him (presumably for the first time) but "the officers were informed that subject (Chesher) had died on March 31, 1964 of a heart attack."
Chesher's untimely death was sufficiently suspicious to gain him a place in Craig Roberts and John Armstrong's excellent book on the subject [30].
An "Urgent" teletype memorandum from SAC, Dallas to SAC, San Antonio dated 30th November 1963 opens with a brief item of information on Oswald's return to Dallas from Mexico. It then continues with what is almost certainly a reply to a previously asked query concerning Oswald's ability to drive. At the risk of becoming involved in semantics, I am personally intrigued by the final two words of the second sentence. The presence of those two words in that position tends to imply that Oswald did know how to drive. Judge for yourself:
To date investigation has not reflected that Oswald has ever been in possession of automobile. He does not have a driver/s license and is not believed to know how to drive very well. [31]
Whilst I am not prepared to say categorically whether or not Lee Harvey Oswald had the ability to drive a car, I feel that on the balance of probabilities, it is likely that he could. In this short paper I have merely presented some examples of conduct, sightings and various items of conjecture which may tend to indicate that Lee Harvey Oswald was indeed a driving force.
I must offer my gratitude to Malcolm Blunt, that most stalwart of British researchers, for spending much time and effort in 'liberating' my source documents from the depths of Archive II at Washington, DC.
The willing assistance and encouragement of Chris Courtwright (Carbondale, KS) and Nancy Wertz (San Gabriel, CA) is also acknowledged with thanks.
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this flash tool isn't working at all. i followed the instructions on how to download and install. i also follwed the instructions on how to use it. but my neo v isn't appearing on this EMMA flashtool. useless!
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The MIT Sloan Trading Room Task Force recently took first place in the seventh annual Rotman International Trading Competition hosted by the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management in downtown Toronto.
The team consisting of undergraduates Joseph Huan, Benjamin Huan, and Gama Le Bouder, all SB '11, and Kanjun Qiu, SB '12, took home $5,000 CAD in the three-day competition which featured 44 teams of graduate and undergraduate students from 39 schools all over the world. Joseph Huan and Benjamin Huan are double majors in management science and electrical engineering and computer science (EECS). They also co-lead the MIT Sloan Trading Room Task Force. Bouder is pursuing his SB in economics and Qiu is a sophomore in EECS. Professor Andrew Lo, director of the MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, is the team's faculty adviser. The Trading Room Task Force team has competed in the past, but this is the first time it has won first place.
Professor Lo said, "The MIT Sloan Trading Room Task Force has accomplished remarkable things, of which the recent win at the Rotman International Trading Competition is just one of many examples. We congratulate Ben, Joe, Gama, and Kanjun for this singular achievement and expect great things from them in all their future endeavors."
Qiu said winning was a pleasant surprise. "Honestly, until the moment they announced us first, we all thought that winning was impossible. We definitely weren't expecting to do as well as we did, and it was a great surprise," she said.
The team's longtime administrative adviser, Virginia Gifford Reckley, said the team could attribute its first place win to a powerful work ethic and solidarity among the four members. "I am overjoyed for them. All of their hard work has come to a successful culmination," she said.
The top five teams in the competition were (in descending order) the MIT Sloan Trading Room Task Force, Babson College, University of Queensland (Australia), University of Reading (United Kingdom), and Texas A&M University.
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Got my tax return everybody! Spent it already. lol damn. Well I had to lay down my bit for tickets to the Rock on the range show in May. The music fest is the last three days before I walk across the graduation stage. I'm hoping my travel agent mom can hook me up with some living arrangements. Who else is planning on going? Tons of great bands. of course Korn is my main interest at the venue.
What's been up? It's been a while since I've been on. I am moved into a new place and my roommate likes Metallica and Korn so we should be just fine. Kinda lonely in a queen size bed by myself though but at least I have music and internet lol. Well I have books too, and I'm working on Head's Stronger right now. Its really religious but it has some pretty good points and I'm really proud of Head...
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AMES, Iowa – The Iowa State University Horticulture Research Station is host for the annual Iowa Turfgrass Field Day, July 23 from 8:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. This year's program includes demonstration projects for those interested in lawn and turfgrass research presented by Iowa State University scientists and ISU Extension and Outreach specialists.
AMES, Iowa – The Iowa State University Horticulture Research Station is host for the annual Iowa Turfgrass Field Day, July 23 from 8:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. This year's program includes demonstration projects for those interested in lawn and turfgrass research presented by Iowa State University scientists and ISU Extension and Outreach specialists.
The annual event is offered to golf course maintenance crews, athletic field managers, lawn care companies and homeowners and presents the opportunity for earning continuing instructional credit for their commercial pesticide applicator license.
"The field day will highlight athletic field and golf course turf, sod production, general lawn care and several other areas of turfgrass management," said Dan Strey, research associate in horticulture with Iowa State University and turfgrass manager at the Horticulture Research Station north of Ames.
"We're offering educational sessions for golf course, sports turf and lawn care professionals," Strey said. "Even homeowners and master gardeners can benefit from Iowa State's lawn care research."
Learning opportunities for homeowners will feature use of Midwest grass species, different mowing heights, weed control, fertilization, thatch and aerification techniques and grass seeding options.
"Kentucky bluegrass is the most common grass species used for Iowa lawns," said Ryan Adams, lecturer and extension turfgrass specialist with Iowa State University. "The best time of the year to sow grass seed is mid-August and September. Iowans have become accustomed to using the same treatments for every lawn even though they may have different grass species and maintenance requirements."
Specific topics for the master gardener and homeowner program include fertilizing with organics, pollinators, ash tree replacements, mowing maintenance, grass alternatives, rain barrel irrigation, pest management and tour of a home demonstration garden.
ISU scientists and ISU Extension and Outreach specialists from horticulture, agronomy, plant pathology and entomology, as well as visiting certified sports field managers, will offer expert advice for turf, lawn and landscape professionals. Research information presented will include herbicide and rhizomatous tall fescue studies. There also will be a chance to view a variety of trials on creeping bentgrass, buffalograss, tall fescue, perennial ryegrass and Kentucky bluegrass.
Presentation topics for turf professionals include information on the National Turfgrass Evaluation Program and working with administrators, research results on ornamental grasses and rhizomatous tall fescues, treatment options using Group 27 herbicides, T-1 green management, fertilizers, phosphites, integrated pest management, mitigating localized dry spot and diseases, and maximizing granular and foliar applications. There also will be examples of sports field construction, golf course mound building, level lift and irrigation tips and options for ash tree replacements. Field day demonstrations will highlight fraise mowing and painting athletic fields. See the program schedule for sessions and presenters.
Pesticide Applicator Training sessions start at 10 a.m. and include Drift Reduction/Calibration/Safe Application, Phytotoxicity, Weed Walk and Right-of-Way. Continuing instructional credits are being offered to certified pesticide applicators for recertification of commercial or private licenses in categories 3O (Ornamental Pest), 3T (Turf Pest), 3OT (Ornamental and Turf Pest), 6 (Right-of-Way) and 10 (Research and Demonstration).
Check-in opens at 8 a.m. on Thursday, July 23 at the ISU Horticulture Research Station, 55519 170th St. Ames. Program sessions begin at 8:45 a.m. and pre-registration is preferred.
All registration fees include morning refreshments, a catered lunch by Hickory Park and session materials. Credit cards, purchase orders and checks made payable to Iowa Turfgrass Institute are accepted. For more information, contact the Iowa Turfgrass Institute office at 515-635-0306 or email@example.com.
Iowa State University sponsors the field day in cooperation with Iowa Turfgrass Institute, Iowa Professional Lawn Care Association, Iowa Golf Course Superintendents Association and Iowa Sports Turf Managers Association.
[PHOTO] Find out what grass species to use in Iowa and which are native to North America (Kentucky bluegrass isn't one them) at the next Turfgrass Field Day, July 23. Photo by Christopher Gannon, Iowa State University
ROCK RAPIDS, Iowa – Visitors can enjoy a horticulture tour through the Lyon County Fair Grounds gardens and taste locally-sourced food at the Iowa State University Research and Demonstration Garden Tour and Local Food Tasting Tuesday, July 21, in Rock Rapids, Iowa. The three-hour tour starts at 5 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
ROCK RAPIDS, Iowa – Visitors can enjoy a horticulture tour through the Lyon County Fair Grounds gardens and taste locally-sourced food at the Iowa State University Research and Demonstration Garden Tour and Local Food Tasting Tuesday, July 21, in Rock Rapids, Iowa. The three-hour tour starts at 5 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
"A local master gardener will demonstrate growing vegetables using straw bales. This is a great opportunity to learn about this popular idea of straw bale gardening," said Margaret Murphy, horticulture educator for the ISU Extension and Outreach Lyon County office. "The special children's 'Pizza Garden' tour starts at 5:30 p.m., and is part of ISU Extension and Outreach 4-H Youth Development's children's gardening curriculum called Growing in the Garden."
"This year's theme for all of the garden field days is 'Gardens of North and South America,'" said Cynthia Haynes, associate professor in horticulture at Iowa State.
"Food tastings at the Lyon County Fair Grounds will feature 'salad on a stick' made from delicious, locally grown vegetables," Haynes said. "Later field days, held in September, will highlight vegetables from the two continents."
Murphy and Josh Sievers, superintendent at the ISU Northwest Research and Demonstration Farm, will be available for questions during the tour.
The Lyon County Fair Grounds are located at South Fifth Ave. and Tama St. in Rock Rapids, Iowa. From state Highway 9, turn on Tama St. and go south three blocks. From state Highway 75, turn on S. 5th Ave. and go eight blocks east to the fair grounds.
Sponsors of this annual event are the Lyon County Master Gardeners and the Lyon County 4-H clubs. To learn more about the Home Garden Field Days, visit http://farms.ag.iastate.edu/field-days.
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RESTORE Act will fund research in Florida and other Gulf states
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States affected by the 2010 oil spill will share 80% of the fines BP is ordered to pay. U.S. Senator Bill Nelson celebrated the news in St. Petersburg at USFâs College of Marine Science in front of about 50 people.
Nelson, a Democrat, was one of the sponsors of the RESTORE Act. The measure, which he says President Obama will sign into law tomorrow, defines how money awarded will be divvied among five Gulf States including Florida. Twenty percent will feed the Oil Spill Liability Trust fund. Ninety-five percent of what remains will be used by state, local and federal task forces. How much that will mean for Florida, Nelson says is still unclear.
âWe know that there were five million barrels of oil. So, depending on what a judge approves as a result of a settlement or a trial â and there is word that theyâre getting close to a settlement between BP and the United States government.â
But there are some estimates on what Florida, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Texas could expect.
âAccording to the culpability of the entity that spills â namely BP â a per-barrel penalty will be levied. It is estimated, since 5 million barrels have been spilled, that that penalty could be anywhere from $5 billion to $20 billion.â
Nelson based estimates on a $10 billion penalty which he said would leave states splitting $4 billion. One of Nelsonâs aides later said in an email that figure is actually $8 billion. Some of which will be used for marine research.
âWhat you will now have is a well funded research program not only for the long-term health effects, but also whatâs happening to the fish populations so we will know for our recreational fisherman and our commercial fisherman whether or not they will have the fish population in order to fish.â
Republican U.S. Senator Marco Rubio voted against the legislation but it is considered one of very few bi-partisan efforts during the Obama administration. It passed the U.S. House 373-52. Former St. Pete Mayor Rick Baker is glad it passed.
âThere is nothing more important for the economy of the state of Florida than the Gulf of Mexico and making sure that its fisheries are healthy for the recreational fisheries, commercial fisheries for our tourism industry and for everything else that touches our state. This is huge and good news.â
Baker, who is vice president for economic development at USF, has good reason to be happy. A small percentage of the money will be given to research institutes the legislation calls centers of excellence. The Florida Institute of Oceanography partners with the USF College of Marine Science and will be receiving some of the funding. USF president Judy Genshaft said the money will be put to good use.
âThe future health of the gulf now rests in the resources which can be made available to study the gulf, understand it and protect it. It is heartening to the FIO and its member institutions that good science will guide the gulfâs future.â
Based on Senator Nelsonâs $10 billion estimate he said the Florida Institute of Oceanography will get about $50 million. Their director, Bill Hogarth said the organization will start planning how to spend the money today. But for right now he said it will definitely be used to increase studies in the Gulf of Mexico.
âThat would give us the effects that we need to know if something else happens to the health of it. Itâs not real time stock assessments and the data to do good scientific stock assessments.â
Nelson said whatever funding is allocated to Florida is guaranteed to go directly to the places that need it most.
âBut it is pursuant to Florida law, it doesnât go to the state of Florida. The Florida law is that it goes to the counties along the gulf.â
If BP doesnât reach a settlement with the federal government, a Louisiana court will decide whether the oil spill was a result of gross negligence. The amount the oil company will be fined will be more if they are found negligent.
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iOS 5 beta 8 coming Friday, GM coming September 28, iPhone still on track for early October?
Boy Genius says, according to their trusted sources, iOS 5 beta 8 will be released this Friday, September 16, followed by the gold master (GM) on September 28, paving the way for an early October release just like TiPb heard a while back.
If September 28 is indeed the go date for the GM seed, will Apple hold their special fall event on or around that date? Apple has often used events to announce both first beta and GM seed releases in the past, and it would leave a week or two for developers to hammer on it before an iPhone 5 release on October 7 or October 14.
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iOS 5 beta 8 coming Friday, GM coming September 28, iPhone still on track for early October?
same here. provided i'm not highly disappointed after all this hype of course...
They don't usually do this many betas, do they?
And Apple still won't hurry up? Bastards. Have you told them you're tired of waiting?
They just need to release at least the invites for the meeting already. Sheesh!
Same shit different day.
if this iphone 5 or 4s is the same layout and design with a few more bells and wistles they can keep there damn iphone.
What's with the deceiving title??? "IOS 5 beta 8 coming Friday..." You mean it's being sent to iphone 5 manufacturers. Huge difference! C'mon Rene, you know what you're doing.
So they can get it produced faster kid, do ur math! they have contracts with manufactors with huge machhines that does the job quickly, if only 1 company it wouldnt get produced in time!
"learned a new lesson today"
yes but it gets to the top by people people buying it and being happy with it now people arent gonna buy if they don't update it and they won't be happy with two year old technology you basically want them to see how long they can survive at no.1 without releasing anything new is a STUPID self-destructive plan that apple would never follow


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The way pairing works is you send a paring request, the other phone receives it and the owner inputs a number (any number) then the signal goes back to you where you have to imput that number in your phone. This is for security reasions, so people dont go up to each other and steal info from each others phone.
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Baghdad orphans lose parents and freedom
(AFP) / 29 May 2005
BAGHDAD - Fourteen-year-old Iman Hussein says her most painful memory is that of seeing her mother shot dead. But now she endures the daily sadness of a Baghdad orphanage, separated from three of her four sisters.
Her plight is shared by a growing number of children whose parents are killed in Iraqs merciless daily violence as well as those who are abandoned by families feeling the bite of an increasingly harsh economic situation.
Imam recalls the night in September 2004 when the sound of shooting woke her.
As I got out of my bed I saw from behind a curtain four masked gunmen shooting my mother in the head, she says, clasping two-year-old sister Hanned closely to her waist.
It was only the next day that I realized what happened as neighbours carried my parents coffins to be buried in Balad a town north of Baghdad.
The killers stole the familys savings and the five girls -- Iman, Hanned,Marwa, 12, Sura, 6, and Aliyaa, 9 -- were taken in by another family in Baghdads Kadhamiyah northern district.
But they found it hard to look after five new family members and ended up handing them over to two institutions: Iman and Hanned to Salihiyah orphanage and their three sisters to Al-Ulwiyah orphanage.
The only wish I have left is to live together with my sisters in one house. Tomorrow Im visiting my three sisters in the other orphanage, says Iman.
As the eldest daughter, Iman feels responsible for her sisters but doesnt know when she can be properly reunited with them, probably not before she is a married adult with the means to support her family.
A tragic increase in numbers
The problem is that Salihiyah only takes babies and children under six.
Nevertheless, orphanage director Najat Shakir Mohammed says Iman is allowed to stay because her little sister now looks on her as a mother.
Ive been trying to train Iman to work here as she is very kind and polite, says the director of this orphanage, home to 75 children.
Only the youngest children are available for adoption, which means that even toddlers may remain in care well into adulthood.
Sometimes families come looking for wives, and they can take girls from age 14, although the girl has the final word on whether to marry or not.
Some families believe that orphan girls are meek and obedient and not choosy about their husband. Other think that by marrying an orphan you will be rewarded by God.
If girls do not find a husband by the time theyre 30, many have little option but to go to work in other orphanages as Iraqi society frowns on women living on their own.
Iraqs orphanages have seen a tragic increase in the number of children they look after since the US-led invasion more than two years ago and the often-indiscriminate killing of the ensuing insurgency.
Since after the war, there has been an increase in the number of children being brought to us, says Mohammed.
Prevailing sadness
The building itself looks like a normal home, although up to 10 children sleep in each bedroom.
But because of the security situation, the girls miss out on outdoor activities, such as picnics, essential for psychologically well-balanced children.
The children are kept inside the building all day long, she says.
After the invasion the number of parentless children has risen because of the security situation. Many also are victims of divorce cases because of the mounting unemployment, says Hameeda Hassan, director of this orphanage which houses 60 children.
Before the war there were 20.
Some children are simply abandoned on the mean streets of Baghdad, scene of daily car bombings, shootings and kidnappings.
Police increasingly find abandoned children on the streets and bring them to orphanages. We usually put notices in the media so someone can come forward for the kids, says Hassan.
But usually no one comes, so we decide to bring them up ourselves.
For most children, school holidays are a welcome break, but for Baghdads orphans, who attend state-run schools, isolation makes holidays the hardest time.
Kids here are especially sad during holidays as no one comes to bring gifts, there are no parents to say happy Eid (feast). They cannot go outside and lead normal lives like other kids their age, she says.
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Shot on video. Man, that right there is kryptonite to me. I cannot tell you how many times I have passed on some horror movie cheapie because word circulated that Movie X had been captured for all time on some kind of video camera, professional grade or otherwise. There are dudes in the horror filmmaking community who made their names in SOV circles but I just couldn't be bothered to take a look. Videotape handles light so much differently than film and I find the effect jarring. Watching a movie shot on film, even lower grade, outdated formats is like looking at the world with your own eyes but videotape adds this intensity to the light that makes edges too sharp, oversaturates colors and additional frames in the playback make motion seem a little too fluid for comfort. I just don't care for it.
There are exceptions to this rule, however. If you're dealing in a product that is just weird enough to pique my interests, I may set aside my prejudices and take a look. Case in point: Sledgehammer. The 80's is that era most closely associated with slasher pictures but the real gold rush of slashers took place in the early part of the 80's following the success of Friday the 13th. Low budget slasher movies raked in huge box office returns and everyone wanted in on the action. So much in fact that they were willing to let just about anything slide even if that meant filming some nonsensical body count flick on a VHS camera and sending it straight to market as a relic for the video store age. When crap like Sledgehammer started to slip through the cracks is it any wonder that the slasher wave crashed as quickly as it gained momentum?
Here's a familiar scenario. Young people roll up to a remote house in the country with a van full of beer and condoms. Their plan is to spend the weekend partying their asses off. Just their luck, years prior to their arrival some kid is stuffed in the closet of that very same house and his horny mother and her lover are bludgeoned to death by a hulking maniac with a sledgehammer. Connection? Probably. Sledgehammer is just full of surprises when after a lengthy period of not much happening apart from beer drinking, ass slapping and food fighting, either a hulking maniac or a small child starts knocking off the partying guests who just happen to be stranded in this place and what's worse, the killer, either the kid or the maniac, seem to be the same entity since they frequently shape shift into one another. The titular murder weapon also has a spectral quality to it and nothing is ever explained.
There are bad movies and then there's Sledgehammer, a film so patently horrible that its director, David Prior, seems nothing less than ashamed of it in interview features that accompany this inexplicable DVD release of the VHS horror era's most easily forgotten titles. Sledgehammer, a capitalist piece of Art Brut, makes absolutely no attempt to do anything of any real value, instead piling on scene after scene of absurd bullshit stocked with exceptionally terrible and weird characters. Our cast, a group of body builders portraying what is usually a group of teens or early 20-somethings, is a loathesome bunch of assholes who don't seem to like each other much, nor do they seem to know each other very well. The guys all seem to drink to excess, bicker and grope their female companions for a solid hour of the movie's running time before anything horror seems to happen and when it does, look out!
See, Sledgehammer is a slow moving piece of amateur filmmaking that was used as a stepping stone for director Prior to make his way to features and somehow it fucking worked. He would go on to direct a lot of schlocky b-actioners that you've never heard of with the exception of maybe Deadly Prey, a fucking hysterical combination of Rambo, The Most Dangerous Game and cut-off denim shorts. While that movie is a work of pure hilarity, the goings on in Sledgehammer are a serious head scratcher. Our killer, a shapeshifting ghost in a translucent mask, is never explained. Ever. There isn't even a hint of his background here. Is he the kid from the closet at the beginning of the movie? Did this spirit exist prior to that? Just how does a hammer blow to the chest leave a bloody wound anyway? The entire movie is this forceful piece of gonzo filmmaking that begs to question, did anyone involved in the production know what they were doing? It's not even clear if Sledgehammer even had a script since most of the time, the cast, directed to fraternize and party, seem to be shouting over one another in order to be heard. Every now and then, the killer shows up and knocks someone off with a mighty blow from his hammer.
Obviously, it sounds like I'm shitting all over Sledgehammer and while I certainly can't say that there's anything genuinely likable about it, it is the kind of movie that appeals to fans of exceptionally terrible movies. Intervision has entered into a diabolical partnership with Severin Films to add to their swelling library of movies so bad they threaten to destroy the fabric of space and Sledgehammer is a mighty entry into that library. It isn't nearly as fun as The Room or Birdemic but it has such a spectacularly shitty quality to just about every aspect that it becomes a party movie gem, every frame begging to be heckled. What's best about it is that the seeming dead weight of its run up to the kill scenes, a nearly interminable parade of talky scenarios, is the best part about it. Everyone is so particularly stupid and goofy that their behavior is on par with persons suffering from brain damage or mental retardation. To supplement this, the ultra-bizarre kill scenes are nerve wracking, claustrophobic affairs for all the wrong reasons. Mostly it has to do with the movie being shot in the Kubrickian labyrinth of hallways that impossibly exist in Prior's own apartment. Stalk scenes are shot in tight quarters from a low angle and our killer follows the slasher movie rules to the letter, in particular, walk don't run.
Sledgehammer is making the rounds in cult film circles now thanks to enthusiastic support from a few influential fans. DVD extras on this Intervision release would have you believe that what you're watching is some kind of lost treasure of the Video Paradise but one viewing makes it clear why this movie faded into obscurity. It's fucking awful. Even by b-movie horror standards. Sledgehammer is peppered with moments of inspired madness and the weirdness goes a long way to save it but let's face facts here. Sledgehammer is a really bad movie made by people who had no business making a movie in the first place. There is nothing that approaches a narrative and the strange, unexplained nature of the killer accidentally suggests so much but Sledgehammer winds up being an artifact for collectors of genuinely niche cinema rather than a sensational bad movie.


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Amy Chesser, of swamp buggy fame, to appeal felony battery conviction
NAPLES - Nine months after she was sentenced to three years in prison, award-winning Swamp Buggy racer Amy Chesser will be in Tampa today to watch her attorney argue that she was denied a fair trial.
Defense attorney Donald Day of Naples will tell three judges sitting on the 2nd District Court of Appeal that Collier Circuit Judge Elizabeth Krier barred evidence that would have helped 27-year-old Chesser show jurors she was acting in self-defense when she fought with Eliza Masco in 2007.
Day also contends jurors should have been allowed to hear that Masco repeatedly texted her ex-husband, Brian Langford, a key witness, to try to get him to change his testimony; that Masco wanted to bolster her attempt to claim $69,000 from the state victim fund; the judge didn't allow jurors to hear about Masco's past aggressive incidents; and that she was angry and aggressive shortly before the altercation, not calm as she'd testified.
"It was Ms. Masco's intent to be the aggressor and not the innocent victim, as she claimed," Day argued in Chesser's 27-page appeal.
The appeal contends Chesser's constitutional right to confront and cross-examine her accuser were violated.
In her 31-page reply brief, Assistant State Attorney General Donna Koch argues that the judge correctly excluded evidence and if there were any errors, they were harmless and wouldn't have changed the verdict or sentence. Koch represents the state in the case, which was prosecuted by Assistant State Attorney Mara Marzano, who works for the State Attorney's Office in Naples.
Both Day and Koch cite numerous cases from the state's appeal courts and Florida Supreme Court to support their arguments.
Day declined comment until after the appellate court rules, which likely will take three months.
Chesser isn't allowed to comment, but those who know her, her racing history and volunteer work for the Swamp Buggy Queen Pageant don't want her sent to prison.
"I hope that doesn't happen because she's a good person," said Linda Buchanan, a technician who checks Swamp Buggy engines before the races. "I think she's done a lot of good work."
Chesser's appeal comes just three days after her father, Leonard, 70, retired from Swamp Buggy racing after 53 years in a sport that's become nearly synonymous with the Chesser name.
Masco and her parents also couldn't be reached for comment.
On May 20, a jury acquitted Chesser of second-degree aggravated battery, but convicted her of felony battery, a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison.
Branding the injuries severe, Krier sentenced the Bonita Springs woman to three years in prison, followed by two years of probation. Chesser was jailed immediately after the conviction, but due to the appeal, she was released on bond a day after sentencing.
Chesser testified Masco threatened her so she defended herself at about 10 p.m. on Aug. 15, 2007, when they fought outside Masco's gated community, Key Royal Villas in North Naples. Chesser said drove there with Langford because Masco's boyfriend, Robbie Daffin Jr., called and said he wanted to fight with Langford.
Masco, then 37, had repeatedly texted Langford, Chesser testified, contending Masco had called her derogatory names in text messages to Langford, threatened her, saying Chesser didn't know who she was (dealing) with."
The men fought and got black eyes, but didn't press charges, while Daffin drove Masco to a hospital and she pressed charges. At trial, Chesser testified _ and Day argued _ that Masco injured herself when she charged at Chesser, pushed her, then slipped on wet grass and hit the bumper of Chesser's truck before hitting the ground.
Masco, a mother of two, suffered a fractured right eye socket, a broken nose, a concussion, a detached retina, broken teeth, cuts, bruises and neurological damage.
Among evidence that Day contends Krier shouldn't have barred: two past incidents showing Masco as a violent aggressor in other fights, that she had a past history of mental issues, and that she'd urged Langford, whom Chesser was dating, to change his testimony to benefit her.
"Ms. Masco claimed she was so traumatized she could not return to work for almost two years," Day argued, noting that the cosmetologist was claiming to have lost $60,000 in wages and $9,000 in bonuses.
He pointed out Masco testified she'd participated in recreational activities during that time, including horseback riding and traveling.
When Krier barred him from cross-examining Masco about her claim for $69,000, Day contends, it was reversible error.
"That cross would have shown that the alleged victim has a financial interest in obtaining a conviction...," the appeal says.
Day also argued Krier didn't allow jurors to hear that Masco texted her ex-husband more than 100 times before trial, attempting to have him change his testimony. Day called that troubling and wanted to use that to tarnish Masco's credibility.
When Krier prohibited him from asking Masco about her 19-year history of mental health issues and medications, it prevented jurors from deciding if her memory loss was caused by medications and mental illness or her injuries.
Day also contended jurors should have heard about a boyfriend who obtained a restraining order against Masco after she repeatedly texted she was "going to get him."
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Trooper Hurt In Drunk Driving Crash Released From Hospital
State police say a drunk driver crashed into trooper's cruiser overnight on Route 93 in Randolph.
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A scene of domestic violence frames the action of Iris Murdoch's The Black Prince. Bradley Pearson, the novel's first-person narrator, is telephoned by his best friend, novelist Arnold Baffin, who reports that he has just murdered his wife with a blow from a fireplace poker. Baffin has not actually succeeded in murdering his wife, Rachel, but by the novel's ending Pearson receives yet another phone call, this time from Rachel, claiming that she has indeed murdered her husband with this same fireplace poker. Subsequently, Bradley Pearson is himself convicted of Arnold's murder, and the novel becomes a work of art in his retelling of his love for the Baffins' twenty-year-old daughter, Julian. Bradley's life-long pilgrimage in …
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Reading glasses suck.
I realize that use of the word "suck" is not becoming, because a) it implies that I have no intelligence, b) implies that I have no class, and c) the word is greatly overused. I also realize that eyeglasses cannot actually suck. In fact, I'm a far better reader/writer with them than without them. And things could always be worse if I were to look at the glass as being half full.
But having to depend on reading glasses is no picnic. Keeping a pair on hand at all times is challenging. Trying to find a pair of those elusive glasses just to read a text message from my starving daughter that says "Mom! Help! I'm out of lunch moneyyyy!!!" is annoying. And the fact that there's just no way to make a pair of granny glasses fashionable or flattering is frustrating.
So I've decided that the word "suck" is quite appropriate here.
My disdain for glasses goes back quite a few years. I was plugging along in life quite nicely until I was diagnosed with a lazy eye when I was 15. You can probably guess that this big discovery occurred at the DMV–on the big day that I was supposed to be getting my driver's permit. The scary lady at the DMV made me place my forehead on that big scary vision contraption and read the appropriate line. I did so, yet she insisted there was more. I insisted that there was not more. We had reached a stand-off, and the scary DMV lady got the last word.