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Uttlesford District Council to seek second legal opinion on Kier appeal for 300 homes in Saffron Walden
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A crucial decision on whether to fight an appeal for 300 new houses in Saffron Walden was delayed by councillors in a meeting behind closed doors last night.
Uttlesford District Council (UDC)'s chief executive urged members that it would be "impossible" to present a credible case to fight Kier's appeal for new homes, a primary school and skate park extension off Thaxted Road.
The outline application, submitted one year ago, also earmarked land for a £5m multi-sports complex.
But at the extraordinary meeting last night, councillors voted to delay the decision until more independent legal advice had been sought.
UDC chief executive John Mitchell said there were "significant inconsistencies" in the planning committee's decision to refuse the 300 homes on April 30 .
In a presentation, he highlighted that the nearby 200-home Manor Oak development had been approved on the same day that the Kier site, which had identical planning policies, was refused.
The Planning Committee decision was also made after the council voted to endorse the draft Local Plan as "sound" – which accepted the Kier site as sustainable.
Councillors voted to exclude the press and public from the discussion on the legal advice as it could prejudice the cases of third parties.
Before the debate, Jen Beaton, from residents group WeAreResidents.org, said: "There is a strong case to fight this appeal because it was refused on many sound and highly defensible grounds."
She urged councillors not to overturn the Planning Committee's refusal of the scheme.
Cllr Howard Rolfe, leader of UDC, said: "It was a full and wide-ranging debate and ultimately members decided by a substantial majority that it would be appropriate to seek a second legal opinion.
"It is a difficult subject with strong views on both sides and members felt they wanted to be absolutely sure that the ultimate course of action is in the best interests of the council and of residents."
The council could face costs of £300,000 should it seek to defend the appeal and not be able to present evidence for refusal, according to UDC.
They have until August 29 to make a decision on the public inquiry – which is expected to go ahead in December.
In June, Planning Committee members reversed their decision to reject Fairfield's plans for 800 homes near Elsenham and agreed to offer no evidence at next month's public inquiry.

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"Transformers: Age of Extinction" is a bigger hit in China than it is in the United States, according to numbers released Tuesday by China Movie Media Group, a partner in the production.
So far the film has made $134.5 million in the People's Republic in its first five days of release compared with $121 million domestically after five days in theaters. The film brought in $10.5 million Stateside on Monday and $10.4 million on Tuesday, so it's doubtful it will match those figures after Wednesday's grosses are tallied.
Moreover, the film has now shattered the record set by a China-Hong Kong production, "The Monkey King," which grossed $133 million over 11 days, and it has done it in half the time.
China Movie Media Group said "Transformers: Age of Extinction" is on track to surpass "Avatar's" record $217.7 million haul from the country.
It's almost unheard of for a Hollywood film of this size and scale to surpass its Stateside gross in a foreign country, particularly a fiercely protectionist market such as China, which often takes steps to safeguard its local productions by giving foreign films unpalatable release slots.
However, Paramount Pictures, the studio behind the franchise, took great pains to incorporate Chinese elements into the film -- shooting parts of the picture there, casting Chinese star Li Bingbing in a key role and partnering with local companies to help promote the film.
China Movie Media Group, the country's largest distributor and film promoter, collaborated for the first time with a U.S. studio, providing ad, online ticketing and other forms of support.
The previous "Transformers" film grossed roughly $165 million in China.
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Source(Added and amended Pub. L. 105–107, title V, § 503(a), (b),Nov. 20, 1997, 111 Stat. 2262; Pub. L. 108–136, div. A, title IX, § 921(d)(6),Nov. 24, 2003, 117 Stat. 1569; Pub. L. 110–181, div. A, title IX, § 931(a)(6),Jan. 28, 2008, 122 Stat. 285; Pub. L. 110–417, [div. A], title IX, § 932(a)(6),Oct. 14, 2008, 122 Stat. 4576; Pub. L. 111–84, div. A, title X, § 1073(c)(10),Oct. 28, 2009, 123 Stat. 2475.)
The text of section 202 (b) of this title, which was transferred to this section by Pub. L. 105–107, § 503(b), was based on Pub. L. 97–269, title V, § 501(a),Sept. 27, 1982, 96 Stat. 1145, § 191; renumbered § 201,Pub. L. 99–433, title III, § 301(a)(1),Oct. 1, 1986, 100 Stat. 1019; renumbered § 202,Pub. L. 102–190, div. A, title IX, § 922(a)(1),Dec. 5, 1991, 105 Stat. 1453.
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A prior section 425, added Pub. L. 103–178, title V, § 503(a)(1),Dec. 3, 1993, 107 Stat. 2038, related to disclosure of information about personnel at National Reconnaissance Office prior to repeal by Pub. L. 104–201, div. A, title XI, §§ 1112(d), 1124,Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2683, 2688, effective Oct. 1, 1996. See section 424 of this title.
2009—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 111–84repealed Pub. L. 110–417, § 932(a)(6). See 2008 Amendment note below.
2008—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 110–181and Pub. L. 110–417, § 932(a)(6), amended subsec. (a) identically, substituting "Director of National Intelligence" for "Director of Central Intelligence" in introductory provisions. Pub. L. 110–417, § 932(a)(6), was repealed by Pub. L. 111–84.
2003—Subsec. (a)(5). Pub. L. 108–136added par. (5).
1997—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 105–107, § 503(b), renumbered section 202 (b) of this title as subsec. (b) of this section and inserted heading.
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Reference to National Imagery and Mapping Agency considered to be reference to National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, see section 921(a) ofPub. L. 108–136, set out as a note under section 441 of this title.
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PHILADELPHIA - DECEMBER 10: Jason Spezza #19 of the Ottawa Senators skates against the Philadelphia Flyers on December 10, 2009 at Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)
Fresh off their first-round elimination of the Montreal Canadiens, the Ottawa Senators had a familiar face back on the ice on Sunday. No. 1 center Jason Spezza practiced with his teammates for the first time since undergoing back surgery for a herniated disk on Feb. 1 and says it was nice to take another step in his recovery. ''It's been a long process and a long season for me,'' Spezza said. ''It felt good to join the team again and get some reps in. It may not seem like it and I may not play this year, but for me it's a small victory.'' Despite speculation that Spezza could be done for the season, the fact the 29-year-old took part in a full practice was encouraging for the Senators, who will face the Pittsburgh Penguins in the second round of the playoffs. Spezza, who had been skating on his own before joining Ottawa's AHL callups for more training, says he had some ''ups and downs'' over the course of his recovery but made improvements over the past few weeks that allowed hi...
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GLENDALE, AZ - OCTOBER 15: Adrian Aucoin #33 of the Phoenix Coyotes tapes his stick on the bench during the NHL game against the St. Louis Blues at Jobing.com Arena on October 15, 2009 in Glendale, Arizona. The Coyotes defeated the Blues 3-2 in overtime. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
Last week, legendary Boston University coach Jack Parker announced he will be retiring at the end of this season, his 40th as head coach of the program. In that time, he has amassed 894 wins, won three NCAA titles, and sent 66 players to the NHL. One of those players is Columbus Blue Jackets defenseman Adrian Aucoin, who played at BU for only one season, 1991-92, before turning pro, but says Parker had a big impact on him in that brief amount of time. He had quite a bit of influence on me, said Aucoin. I mean, I was only there for a year, and he truly was like a father to us. You know I still complain every day that he never bent any rules. I was hoping to get a little something when I went there, but he wouldnt even pick us up to drive us to the rink; hed drive by us and just wave. He was definitely by the book. But as far as hockey goes, he was unreal, and I especially really appreciated him off the ice. As I said, he was kind of like a one-year surrogate dad to me, and he really ...
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A noxious left-wing crackpot is asserting that Mormons (among others) are responsible for the film that has caused such trouble in the Middle East of late..
Cassandra Hedelius brought this to the attention of my friend Scott Gordon, president of the Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research (FAIR), who brought it to mine:
I doubt that there's much to worry about from such nonsense being spread by an obscure program coming from an obscure broadcaster. I certainly hope not. But this sort of thing does irritate me, because it so casually puts innocent lives in danger.
Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpley, a conspiracy theorist of long standing, doesn't even gesture in the direction of actual evidence as he nonchalantly implicates a host of people he dislikes — including Mormons — in the production of the wretched, amateurish, historically bogus propaganda film The Innocence of Muslims. (I've provided a brief evaluation of the film itself here.)
This is especially exasperating because the attitude of Mormons toward Muhammad and Islam has, for the nearly two centuries of our existence, been unusually positive for a group of Western Christians.
Many examples could be given to support my assertion. For at least the moment, though, I offer as evidence my own biography, Muhammad: Prophet of God, which takes a view of the founder of Islam that is light years away from the absurd, hostile caricature in The Innocence of Muslims. And then there's Brigham Young University's Middle Eastern Texts Initiative, which certainly sends a message of respect for the Islamic world.
More importantly, there are a number of very positive remarks about Muhammad and Islam that have come from Church leaders and appeared in its official magazines. There is no actual evidence to suggest a Mormon connection to the dreadful Innocence of Muslims film — certainly Dr. Tarpley mentions none — and the charge is extremely implausible on its face.
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Jeremy Lin returns to MSG for the first time since "Linsanity"(which lasted 48 days), and endure what many expect to be a mixed reaction from the Knicks faithful. There is no doubt what had occurred during that stretch was anything short of remarkable, but it was best for both sides to move on. Lin got the lucrative contract (4 years 28 million) he was looking for in Houston, and the Knicks got the Point Guards (Felton, Kidd, Prigioni) needed to run Mike Woodson's system to perfection. The Knicks went from a team that was careless with the ball, to a team that may break the record for turnover differential.
The First time these two teams met, the Knicks defense was lackadaisical, and James Harden went off, getting to the hoop with ease and easily imposing his will. The Rockets won the first match-up 131-103 If the Knicks want to win this game they have to tighten up their perimeter defense. Chandler Parsons also shot 13/17 from the field with 31 points. The Knicks turned the ball over 15 times, and only took 14 shots from the charity stripe. Those two stats have to change if the Knicks plan on winning this game tonight.
Carmelo Anthony (Ankle, Knee) is questionable to play, though I'd be shocked if he doesn't suit up. Both he, and the Knicks want this game after getting blown out the first time they met in Houston. Also on the injury front, Amar'e Stoudemire continues to work hard, and its conceivable he returns on this homestand. Rasheed Wallace is OUT as he is sitting out his second straight game.
This is a game the Knicks should win, and if the 3 point shooting is hot early it can get out of hand in an instant. Tyson and Co. have to set the tone early on defense, and let it be known that you will have to work in this one to score in the paint, and nothing nothing will come easily. I do not expect Parsons to have as good as a game as he did in Houston for the main reason that he won't catch the Knicks as off guard this time. I believe Woodson keeps this team focused and prepared tonight as the Jeremy Lin media circus hits MSG, and the Knicks will come out with the W.
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Update: The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) has issued a statement about the situation at Trendy Entertainment:
According to a tweet this morning from EA's official Need for Speed twitter account, you won't be able to play the upcoming reboot of the series (simply called need For Speed) without an Internet connection. Responding to a tweet about past games requiring being connected to an EA server, EA responded by confirming that it was true.
"NFS will require an online connection, but the benefits are nice. More variety and a more rewarding experience with friends," EA said on Twitter.
In an interview with IGN to promote his upcoming film Crimson Peak, director Guillermo del Toro expressed his shock and astonishment at how roughly Konami handled both the cancelation of Silent Hills and the removal of the PT demo from PlayStation 4. del Toro, who was serving as the game director on Silent Hills, told the publication that he was surprised by the sudden cancelation of the game.
Update: In a statement released to Polygon, Microsoft has clarified that users who have been banned from Xbox Live can still use their Xbox One consoles offline.
Acording to this Gameranx report - based off a series of tweets from Twitter user pacifist_elk (Nick Cramer) - Konami's removal of the PT demo is causing all kinds of problems with DRM checks, and can effectively lock down one's Playstation 4 library if it is connected to the network.
Update #2: George Weidman tweeted that Konami has lifted the copyright claim from the original video:
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Yesterday we reported on a game called "Kill the Faggot," which appeared on Steam Greenlight. Shortly after our story was published Valve pulled the game from Greenlight. Developed by Randall Herman, Skaldic Games' sole developer and owner, the game urged players to "Murder gays and transgenders, while avoiding killing straight people," with the end goal being getting "as many points before time runs out."
In a new video, Jim Sterling highlights a game that is actually hate speech. Some people often claim a game is inappropriate or sends the wrong message, but a game called Kill The Faggot -- currently on Steam Greenlight -- has a pretty clear and concise message: LGBTQ+ individuals are different, weird and deserve to die.
Bloomberg reports that lawmakers are close to hashing out a deal on a "Fast Track" bill or "Trade Promotion Authority" that would make approving trade agreements a more streamlined process. Opponents of the measure like the Electronic Frontier Foundation say that what lawmakers are seeking with this proposal essentially takes away its oversight powers related to trade agreements.
Update: An EA spokesperson has responded to this story. You can find the response here.
Popular YouTube personality and games journalist Jim Sterling became a victim of a DMCA takedown at the hands of developer Digpex Games after he made jokes about the quality and gameplay of the company's PC game, Skate Man Intense Rescue. Sterling made light of the game in new YouTube video called "SKATE MAN INTENSE RESCUE - Welp, Videogames Have Peaked!"
Earlier in the week we reported that Capcom had removed local co-op play from the PC version of Resident Evil Revelations 2 - despite listing the feature on the game's Steam product page. Now the publisher is apologizing and saying that the listing of that feature was a "simple mistake."
Those who bought the PC version of Resident Evil Revelations 2 on Steam learned shortly after their purchase that the game does not contain local cooperative play, despite it being advertised as a feature on the game's Steam product page. Console owners of the game apparently do have the ability to play local co-op.
So why did Capcom remove this feature from the PC port of the game even as the product page on Steam STILL (as of this writing, at least) claims it supports it?
Turtle Rock Studios launched Evolve earlier in the week. Many rushed out to buy the Season Pass for the game, which - they assumed - would give them access to all the downloadable content released for the game in the weeks and months to come. But once again a game published by 2K Games offers a DLC purchasing option that leaves out a ton of downloadable content.
Valve Software is quietly telling developers that using Steam keys to bribe people to vote for their game(s) while it is going through the Steam Greenlight process is a big no-no. Buying votes is an unacceptable practice by anyone's standards, but apparently some developers desperate to get on Steam are handing them out like candy.
We have received a lot of emails from interest groups who are upset that Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) is once again pushing an anti-gambling law. The Restoration of America's Wire Act would reinstate an old federal ban on some gambling operations by extending it to include Internet gaming. The bill is almost identical to a bill Chaffetz pushed last year. This time around Chaffetz has six GOP co-sponsors and the backing of one Democrat, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii.
Another day, another clarification from Nintendo on its Creator's Program. Today the company said that those interested in submitting an entire channel to its YouTube ad revenue sharing program have to make sure that all of the videos in that channel are Nintendo-game related. On top of that revelation, Nintendo said that some of its own games can't be included in channels who want to take advantage of the 70 percent revenue split (Nintendo takes 30 percent of YouTube ad revenue on channels or 40 percent on individual videos).
Nintendo's Creator's Program is already off to an abysmal start, according to this GamesBeat report. The program, which aims to share revenue with YouTube content creators (a 30-40 percent skim for Nintendo), requires participants to submit their videos to Nintendo before they can be posted on YouTube. When Nintendo announced the program it said that it would take 1 - 3 business days.
Update: The ESA has apologized for the DMCA takedown notices, saying that there was some amount of confusion involved. Below is a statement it issued to Ars Technica:
YouTube personalities continue to rail against Nintendo's YouTube revenue sharing plan that it revealed more details on yesterday. That plan would allow YouTube video content creators to share the ad revenue generated from videos containing Nintendo-owned intellectual property, with the company taking a 30 - 40 percent cut.
Kotaku has an excellent report on the reaction from content creators to Nintendo's new revenue sharing program ("Nintendo Creator's Program") for YouTube videos that use its various intellectual properties in Let's Play videos and other video content. The company announced today that it would officially launch the revenue sharing program in May and that it would want 40 percent of ad revenue from a video containing its IP.
A report on Re/Code is making the rounds this morning, suggesting that the parent company of popular gaming site Joystiq will shut the site down in the coming weeks and lay off its staff. Citing multiple sources within AOL, Re/Code claims that the company is "likely to shutter" Joystiq and lay off its staff as part of a house cleaning of media properties that are underperforming.
What is now being described as a "mistake" and a "misunderstanding" had the Dark Souls community in a bit of a lather for the last several days. Apparently a company representing the interest of Bandai Namco sent out a DMCA takedown request to the host of a very popular Dark Souls PC mod. The company responsible for doing that is FDS File Defense Service, which was hired by Bandai Namco's US arm to remove Dark Souls debug mode patches from the internet.
We knew it wouldn't be long before some politicians and bureaucrats took the opportunity to use Sony Pictures' recent security breach as a way to push questionable cybersecurity legislation. The White House declared the Sony security breach a "national security issue" yesterday and today the FBI claimed that North Korea was directly involved in the hack.
Early adopters of Frontier Developments' space exploration game Elite Dangerous are up in arms over news that the UK-based developer will dump offline single player mode in favor of an "always-online" mode. The news came via the game's weekly newsletter, where Frontier Developments founder and game series creator David Braben attempted to explain why the company decided to take this seemingly drastic step.
Both Polygon and GitantBomb are drawing attention to the fact that Ubisoft's embargo on Assassin's Creed Unity was set so far into its launch day (today at noon ET) that it seems like it was put in place to obfuscate the fact that the latest game in Ubisoft's third-person stealth action game series has a number of serious flaws and issues.


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In April, the House passed a budget that moves Medicare and Medicaid decisively in this direction. Such a step, and a similar approach for the individual market and small employers, is essential for our health care system, and for the nation's fiscal future. If there ever is to be a grand bargain with the Democrats, Republicans must make reforms like these their absolute bottom-line demands—because our badly broken health entitlement system is at the heart of the government debt problem.
During the recent negotiations, Democrats closed off the path to real health reforms. Their top priority was tax increases. But as the president himself put it in early July, "if you look at the numbers, then Medicare in particular will run out of money and we will not be able to sustain that program no matter how much taxes go up."
For Republicans, spending cuts have been the top priority, and rightly so. But the real problem is spending on health-entitlement programs. If that category of spending is not brought under the discipline of an effective marketplace, then American health care, and our economy as a whole, will be on the road to ruin.
Genuine health care reform therefore needs to be at the core of the Republican case for fiscal sanity—a case that in turn must be front and center in the 2012 election. That election may well be the only real chance we have left to avoid a genuine debt crisis and set America back on the path to enduring prosperity and strength.
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I had the pleasure of participating in the IBM Industry Forum in Mexico City last week, where I talked about creating exceptional customer experiences to insurance executives. During the conference, speakers were asked to record their thoughts to students entering the workplace. As I prepared my thoughts to record, I also started to think about my next blog entry. In my previous entry, I said I would next focus on the "how" in transforming digitally.

One of the "hows" is recruiting the right people to drive that transformation within the business and IT organizations. So far I've seen companies hire from within to fill these positions, from adjacent industries such as Banking or from consulting firms. For what I'll call "Digital Talent", companies often face a huge hurdle in attracting the right skill set - these positions cannot be filled solely from moving employees around the organization. I've seen this from both the business and IT side. IBM's 2012 Tech Trends report found that only "1 in 10 organizations feels it has all the skills it needs to apply advanced technology for business advantage – [the skill gap] is not being closed by our universities." The study also found that over 80% of educators see a moderate to major gap to meet the skills needed for areas such as mobile, social business and in other major growth areas such as cloud computing and business analytics. The industry already faces a workforce challenge in recruiting younger employees. I can cite examples within my own network of 35 and under potential talent who have worked in some capacity for the insurance industry, but when asked if they would consider making it a career, they are not willing to consider it. When it comes to attracting digital talent to the industry, it is probably more challenging.

IBM's The Connected Generation study surveyed students globally, in undergraduate and graduate schools, within varying fields of study, about a number of topics. It also compared our 2012 CEO study responses and students' attitudes towards the work place. On the subject of digital, the report points out that only 56% of CEO (across all industries) use social media and websites to interact with customers. However, 70% of the students surveyed believe that organizations should use these digital avenues for customer interaction. These students entering the workforce, as expected, have a higher tolerance and understanding of how these new digital tools work. While they may lack the experience to lead digital transformation at the start (although some millennial student, fresh out of college may believe that they can), they come with a higher tolerance for openness, new insights, new ways of thinking about digital and the workplace, that could support any company's digital transformation strategy.

I met with one insurance company recently that recognizes this value, and saw first hand, some of the forward thinking ideas put forth by their "Digital Natives" about how to digitally transform the company. Only time will tell how many of their ideas actually make it to market, but from what I could see, they understood the value of becoming a truly digital organization with the customer at the center.

Hiring the right digital talent, in simple terms, is a combination of hiring those with the experience to lead with some knowledge of the industry and those younger digital natives, who grew up with digital tools as part of their daily lives. It is also about creating the right workplace environment to attract the right digital talent. How about creating innovation teams led by Digital Natives, or other more entrepreneurial approaches to work within the organization? Rethink the digital structure internally; since most business operate in silos, chances are that your digital talent is spread across each line of business. Finally, how do we make it cool to work for an insurance company? I personally think that the new focus on customer experience and the rise in digital, makes it an exciting time to work for the industry, but that's just me. I'd also like to see my fellow Digital Natives gravitate more to the industry and this area is an opportunity for the industry to not only attract the established leaders and thought leaders, but the next top digital talent. I'll continue the discussion in my next blog entry around another "how" for digital transformation, although I am doing some research around advertising spend and overall performance that I'd like to share, and there's also the new Customer Experience Lab.
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I nearly killed myself
Late last night, after everyone else was asleep, I was leaning back in my chair when I heard a resounding crack and all the lights went out. More worrisome, I smelled smoke.
My biggest fear was that the iPhone had blown up due to a power surge, but I had not connected it to its USB cable. It was working fine. Using the trusty Flashlight app on my iPhone, I investigated all major electronics and outlets in the vicinity: iMac, router, modem, external hard disk, printer, throttle, joystick, and rudder pedals. I found nothing wrong or warm.
I went downstairs and discovered that the downstairs was not affected. Only one circuit breaker had tripped. I flipped it on and went back upstairs. There, I noticed a grey patch on the white extension cord that leads to the printer. The cord was sliced down to the copper wire inside.
I examined my $16 folding Home Depot chair. The plastic foot is missing from one of the legs. (I should explain that I hate chairs on wheels. They distract me and are no good for flight simming.)
I conclude that the leg of the chair was on the extension cord and when I leaned back, it cut into the insulation and shorted out the circuit. The insulation melted or burned a bit, but the voltage passed harmlessly through the chair's metal leg.
I suppose I was in no real danger, but would have read this lame excuse of a blog post if I hadn't sensationalized the title? Are you even reading it now?
I am not Imre
Very late in the year, I bought myself a present.
Speaking of segues, I got two of these for my birthday:
Technically, I got one of those and its enantiomer, as we used to say in organic chemistry.
What did I buy myself? A cell phone number! Yes, I who am interviewed by folks writing articles on high tech and social media (really!) can finally text. I'm learning how to do it.
Not long after I learned my number, I received a series of texts from a Marc I do not know. He was asking me how the new job was. I tried convincing Marc that I wasn't who he thought he was sending messages to, but Marc expressed only appreciation at my attempt to put one over on him.
A week later, Marc texted me again. This time, I asked him who he thought he was writing to. I guess I convinced him, and Mark explained that he was using Yahoo Messenger to chat with Imre Glaser. Given his name, I quickly tracked down Imre. He used to have my Montreal cell phone number but had recently moved to Ontario and gave it up. Rogers recycled it to me. – but Imre had forgotten that he had set Yahoo Messenger to forward IMs to his (my) cell phone. Not many people know where their phone number came from, but I do. I should form a club.
By the way, Imre, I got call for you tonight from the Ottawa region. You should text me your number so I can send these people your way. You know my number, I assume. You can text it to me because I know how to text now.
Now, if I could only get FaceTime to connect….
Bonus apology:
I thought I would receive mail when a comment was held for moderation, but apparently I hadn't set that correctly. A few comments have been held up because of that. Also, the story of my car's unsafe liaison with another is still in progress, so I'm going to hold back on that for a bit. It's nothing major unless you count gall, and then not mine.
Hello 2012, goodbye Chrome
I had a restful holiday. The five of us spent a week and a half in Houston. I spent a lot of that time sleeping. I also bought new shoes. They look like this:
I wrote a long and detailed account of how I solved problems with my Chrome browser intermittently pooping out "Aw, Snap" and "Missing Plug-in" notifications, only to have an "Aw, Snap" page obliterate my advice. At least now I don't have to admit I was wrong.
I'm going to revert to using Safari until this is fixed.
While on the subject of tech, let me introduce one of the products my brother sells. By name, it's the GelPoint Path Transanal Access Platform. Below, you can see an animation of it in action. I recommend you expand the video to full-screen.
The GelPoint Path Transanal Access Platform may or may not be abbreviated to the GelPoint Path TAP, and surgeons may or may not refer to the procedure as "TAP that ass". The company did not answer my e-mail inquiry.
Before you get all huffy about my disrespect for a potentially life-saving device, allow me to state that I see the unquestionable value of having one's ass TAPed. So bugger off.
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Is your iTunes not syncing?
Several friends and clients have lost automatic syncing in recent iTunes updates on the Mac. It even happened to me.
Somehow, the updates to iTunes 10.4 misconfigure iTunes Helper, which is behind-the-scenes software that, well, helps iTunes weave its magic.
Here's how to fix it on Snow Leopard. This fix may or may not work in Lion, too.
Plug in your device and open iTunes. On your device's Info page, uncheck "Launch iTunes when this iPhone/iPad/iPod is connected."
Unplug your device and restart the Mac. Launch iTunes, then connect the device. Put a check back in the box next to "Launch iTunes when this iPhone/iPad/iPod is connected." If this is solving your problem, iTunes should ask if you want to install iTunes Helper. You do.
That should do it for you.
Bonus reading:
Growing up, my favourite book was "Arty the Smarty". It was about a small, wiseass fish who outsmarts everyone. I wonder what I saw in that. You can read its acid-browned pages for free online. My copy looks exactly the same.
Categorically perplexed
I'm making changes to links and link categories on my WordPress dashboard and they take fine. The changes are not, however, showing up on the blog itself.
I had just updated to WordPress 3.2.1, if that's a clue.
Is there any help out there?
Bonus update:
Stupid WordPress. I had to go to the Widgets page and put the new category in as a new Links widget. The links updates just took a while to register.
Just you and me, "Punk Rock Girl"
As promised, me at karaoke.
Elvi has already remarked at my resemblance to Julian from "Trailer Park Boys", although my rum and coke is in a taller glass.
Bonus tech solution:
The video embedding function native to WordPress will not work properly with unlisted YouTube videos. Use the Viper's Video Quicktags plug-in instead.
Sporadic wireless
For months, our wireless router has been acting up. It's a Linksys WRT54G by Cisco, possibly the most popular home Wi-Fi router on the planet. Ours is a Version 6.0.
This router would occasionally go wonky, by which I mean that it would maintain Wi-Fi connections with our laptops and my iPod touch but would not relay traffic between the devices and the Internet. The home network DHCP worked fine and all devices had valid IP addresses, but they simply could not connect to the Net.
I wasn't eager to buy a new router – we just had to buy a new stove because our old one became too costly to repair. I found this thread in the Cisco forums. It describes the same issue. Although no one directly solved the problem, I did find hints there and elsewhere online. After fiddling with a few settings, it looks like I fixed the problem.
For posterity on the Web and to help teeming crowds with the same problem, here's what I did. I'm not sure if any one step or a combination of them worked, I just know that I now have stable Wi-Fi. I opened the router management pages with my Ethernet-connected iMac and:
Having done that, I saved my configuration and reset the router. I updated the firmware, then restored my settings. The router has worked perfectly for four days.
Poor decisions in Web management
The Montreal Gazette's Habs Inside/Out site has grown over a few short years into the de facto destination for English-speaking fans of the Montreal Canadiens. The word "Habs", of course, is short for "habitants", which is what the early French-Canadians – the Canadiens – were called in the 17th century.
The Club de Hockey Canadien Inc. asked the Gazette to stop using the word "Habs" in reference to its Web site. It's arguable whether or not the Canadiens can uphold a trademark on the nickname, but the Gazette capitulated and renamed the site Hockey Inside/Out.
Notwithstanding some grumbling from the hoi polloi, such a change is easily accomplished. You register the new domain name, hockeyinsideout.com, and transfer the content of your habsinsideout.com site to the new domain. Sure, you may have to change a few links here or there with a global find and replace, but the site will remain robust.
Instead, the Gazette took the opportunity to move the entire site to WordPress. What a hellacious mistake. The site has lost all reader comments and much of contributor Mike Boone's post-game analyses. I can't even show you what the old site looked like because the Web team has trashed the CSS code it used to use. Even links to old stories no longer work.
Audiences are conservative. They don't like change. In this case, the audience is right. Take a look at this malfunctioning page of crap. It used to have dozens of comments. Go ahead and try the link to Boone's "Quick Hits/About Saturday afternoon…". Or try the link to the unhappily formatted "Afternoon delight".
I've just spent two weeks at my dad's apartment while his wife was back home in the Bahamas taking care of affairs. I did pretty darned well without a newspaper. Missteps like this make it easier.
Bonus knee news:
I can walk at about 90% efficiency thanks to physio. I can't run, skate, jump, etc. yet. I do know that jumping off a bench hurts.
I hate Bell
Marion and my dad arrived in Montreal Thursday afternoon. I spent most of Thursday arranging things for their arrival and slept over there to help get my dad to his hospital appointments Friday at dawn. I got home Friday around 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, I took Marion to flesh out her necessities. Prepaid cell phone service was going to get expensive, so we got her a Public Mobile phone. Her apartment building is supposed to come with free wireless but the only adequate thing about that is the free part. The signal is so weak, it's unusable. The building management kindly recognizes that and will take $30 off the rent for renters who get alternate Internet connectivity.
Given the uncertainty of the length of visit and living arrangements, it makes sense for Marion and her old iBook G4 laptop to get mobile Internet rather than wired broadband. And that's where our story begins….
We went to the Bell store in Place Alexis Nihon (when did it stop being a plaza?). We bought a Turbo Stick (model U998) and a three-year contract (which can be cancelled at any time without penalty thanks to the provincial government). She took the mobile-Internet stick and tried to use the building's Wi-Fi to download Bell's Mobile Connect software. Eventually, she succeeded – but she couldn't get Mobile Connect to detect the Turbo Stick. She spent some time on the phone with tech support, who couldn't help her to get it to work either.
I went over Monday to check it out and had no more success than she had, so I picked up the laptop and the stick and returned to the Bell store.
Nobody there had any idea what to do so they gave me a phone and dialed Bell tech support. An hour and a half later, tech support was able to figure out what they thought was wrong. We had installed the latest version of Mobile Connect and were trying to use it with an older version of the Turbo Stick. We needed to upgrade the firmware on the stick – but the firmware updater only worked in Windows.
Tech support asked the store employees if they could do it for me, but the employees were locked out from installing software on their computers. Tech support told me I could get it done or get a newer version of the stick at a Bell Product Assistance Centre, the closest one of which was in Plaza Cote-des-Neiges. Off I went, fighting rush-hour traffic to get there before it closed at 6:00 p.m.
I made it by 5:15 p.m. and Ivan the tech heard me explain what I'd been told was wrong. He took the laptop and the Turbo Stick into his back room.
He emerged 20 minutes later, telling me he couldn't get it to work. I asked if if he had upgraded the firmware. This time, he heard AND listened, because he said he couldn't do that. I asked if he could exchange the Turbo Stick for a newer version and he said he could sell me a new one, but that I would have to return the old one to the original store.
I admit, I lost it.
I yelled "What fucking bullshit!" and slammed te laptop shut. That wasn't smart, but I did no damage. I went home, exchanged the computer for Child Three, and headed off to Monday night goalie clinic.
I got back to laptop at 9:30 p.m. I used Elvi's Windows 7 laptop to update the stick's firmware. Guess what? That's right. It still didn't work in the iBook.
I got back on the phone with tech support. The stick worked in Elvi's laptop and it worked in my bitchin' modern iMac, so we could conclude that the problem lies in the iBook. Tech support guessed that its USB ports don't supply enough current to the Turbo Stick.
Next step in the plan, this afternoon, is to try a different model mobile-Internet device.


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Dave Granlund cartoon about the midterm election results.
Democrat Martha Coakley has called Republican Charlie Baker to concede the Massachusetts governor's race.
Collins received 61 percent of the votes cast in the county on Tuesday, beating Republican Michael Soter by 46,253 votes.
House Majority Leader Ronald Mariano, D-Quincy, beat first-time Republican candidate Patricia Kriegel of Quincy 71-29 percent.
State Rep. James Murphy, D-Weymouth, fended off a challenge from first-time Republican candidate Andrea Farretta in Tuesday's election to win an eighth term in the State House.
Weymouth Rep. James Murphy is facing Andrea Farretta, a public relations specialist and first-time candidate also from Weymouth, in the race for the Fourth Norfolk District, which comprises all of Weymouth and one precinct in Hingham.
After reading your editorial on abortion rights ("Supreme Court must stop attacks on abortion rights," Oct. 17), I felt compelled to call the voting public's attention to Question 5, which will be on the Nov. 4 ballot...
WEYMOUTH – A Republican running against state Rep. James Murphy says state aid to Weymouth and Hingham has plummeted during Murphy's time on Beacon Hill, but Murphy is accusing her of using "fuzzy math."
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