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While trawling through this week's normal helter-skelter barrage of free software and open source news items, opinion pieces and analyzing ponderings a couple of pieces caught my eye. These are the BBC's article entitled "Charity shuns open source code" and Silicon.com's one called "CIO Jury: The Linux desktop is dead". When first seeing these pessimistic pieces of free software doom and gloom, I confess my immediate reaction, as an advocate and developer, was one of misery, depression and fed-upness. Was it all worth it? What is the point? Where is the bright side? Should I simply go outside and step under a bus?
After a nice strong cup of coffee and pulling myself together a bit, I examined the articles a little more closely. I discovered that the authors, or originators, of each had, in fact, made a very common mistake while performing free and closed software comparisons that reminded me of the old adage regarding apples and bananas...
In each of the articles various scrutinies were made between the two contestants. In the blue corner was Microsoft and it's Windows software, and in the red GNU/Linux and free software (maybe the other way around if you would prefer). The articles were eager to dive into a report of the fight between the two, but I would rather step into the changing rooms beforehand and examine the participants in a less distracting and more revealing scenario. If you will let me I would like to share my observations.
First, to examine the Microsoft camp. Microsoft is a closed software company that is remarkably successful. It sells a wide variety of software, but as far as I can tell its cash cows consist of sales of its operating system and Graphical User Interface, MS-Windows, and its office suite, MS-Office. It is very dominant in the desktop market, and Microsoft are using their top position in the market to try and maintain that dominance for as long as possible by employing whatever means it can get away with.
And now to the GNU/Linux room. Linux is the name a friend of Linus Torvalds came up with when asked to host a POSIX kernel that Linus had been working on. Free software predates this and is a method of developing and distributing software such so the end users and other developers have guaranteed freedoms of it and its derivatives, and "Open Source", also mis-mentioned in the articles, is a type of certificate, or stamp, that software licenses can obtain that will guarantee the recipients, and only the recipients, of the software these freedoms.
Now, with that in mind, looking at those two champions in the ring, things look silly. There is no contest. This is not because one is stronger than the other, but because there simply is no match. Any survey that currently looks at desktop use will always find that Microsoft is way in the lead because they are the dominant players at the moment. If the surveyors looks at servers they may well find that software running on GNU/Linux is ahead. On a more obscure note if they searched for desktop adoption in the Administration offices in the City of Munich they would find that desktops running on the Linux kernel is the dominant choice, and that the Microsoft one is being dumped. Such surveys mean little.
In the CIO Jury article, their was an interesting quote attributed to Graham Benson of Play.com:
"Linux is a great example of the old adage 'you don't get owt for nowt'. It is not free, as you pay for the support and there are so many flavours that it dilutes any potential attractiveness..
This statement is incorrect in almost every sense. To go through it point for point:
- Linux is a great example of the old adage "you don't get owt for nowt": I assume Mr Benson is referring to the GNU/Linux distributions rather than the Linux kernel itself, and in particular to desktop distributions, nonetheless my reply concerns all these. Although GNU/Linux is free (see next point) no one is claiming that it can be up and running with no investment. Training is always required, as is getting to become familiar with the system itself, and all this costs money and resource. It is worth noting that new versions of Microsoft software require similar investments in time and money as well. This saying is a generality that applies everywhere irrelevant to the discussion.
- [GNU/Linux] is not free: Actually it is. Both the GNU/Linux Distributions and the Linux kernel are free in almost all senses of the word. It is encumbered with no license fees or restrictions, and you can do almost anything with it when you get it. The only real restriction is that you cannot deny anyone else you pass the software onto the same freedoms.
- [Y]ou pay for the support of [GNU/Linux]: I do not know about you, or Mr Benson, but I do not pay for GNU/Linux support as I support my sites myself. The fact I can pay for support if I want to hardly makes it less free, and the fact I can pay anyone I like for it, not just a single master vendor or an agent of it, makes it even more free.
- There are so many flavours [of GNU/Linux] that it dilutes any potential attractiveness: What a curious thing to say. Taking that argument to its logical conclusion would be like saying a cafè should not sell ice cream because the attractiveness of that is diluted due to too many flavours available. Although I concede that different flavours of the POSIX desktops, namely GNOME and KDE, can give the illusion to software houses of complications (it doesn't, but it can give that illusion) and put them off. The fact that GNU/Linux itself is so versatile and will run on anything from wrist watches to super-computers, I would have thought, would have made it more attractive to many more tasks. Also, to reiterate a previous point, new versions of the Microsoft operating system can cause just as great headaches.
Mr Benson assumes that the lack of penetration of the GNU/Linux desktop he observes is due to technical inferiority of the free systems. The fact of the matter is that the free offerings are not significantly less advanced, and are in many aspects more so. The figures have more to do with people's unwillingness to part from what they see is the norm. Despite that, GNU/Linux adoption, including desktop inclusion, is on the increase. When it has reached a certain percentage—and it is when, not if—then you will see the system deployment analysis change accordingly.
The criticisms of GNU/Linux in the BBC article bear an even more distant relationship with reality. The crux of the argument of Mr Steven Buckley of Christian Aid, is that it was pointless for him to use free software solutions when Microsoft gives him licenses for their software for practically nothing and that it is easy for him to find expertise in it. I can accept that, and looking at the short term for his charity I can accept the logic, and I would like to take this opportunity of thanking Mr Buckley and all the people who work for Christian Aid for the marvelous work they do.
The problems I have with Mr Buckley is the arguments he gives against free software that show a remarkable ignorance of it, and he may well be missing an opportunity to save money. First of all, he has the same misconceptions of free software support as those made by Mr Benson above. He incorrectly assumes you have to pay for support if you use GNU/Linux. This is not the case. And, in fact, I know of charities that use GNU/Linux and who receive free support from IT professionals as their contribution to the charity. I do not believe Christian Aid will find support for GNU/Linux any greater—and perhaps less—in cost than that they currently receive for Microsoft solutions.
The second misconception he has is in understanding the mechanics of free software development. To quote the article...
He also explained that what is seen as one of the advantages of open-source - that the core code can be examined by anyone - could actually work against the charity.. "We are a funding organisation that ships £90m [UKP] around the world - the last thing you want to do is open up your systems to anybody to have a look at to deal with bugs," he said..
Please let me point out the error of the above supposition. Nobody is suggesting that he should open up his systems to the world if he uses free software. In fact, no one is suggesting that he should open up his free software either. Bug fixes, should they be needed, are usually distributed by the system maintainers for the package that they occur in, no matter who they are fixed by. And, they can be deployed on any system without the need of opening it up. As for the 90M UKP is concerned, Mr Buckley needs to understand that free software developers take security very seriously. The openness of the software means that developer peer-reviewing of the software's reliability and security results in an exceedingly rapid discovery, diagnosis and fixing of such problems. In my experience, this results in far more secure and reliable system functionality than is offered by Microsoft and other closed software companies.
Using discounted Microsoft software may well make short term sense for a charity, but I doubt it makes long term sense should all the requirements be properly analyzed.
I am however digressing. The discussion should not be about a fancy tag fight between GNU/Linux with free software versus Microsoft with closed software. As mentioned at the beginning of this entry the two sides of that are very different things anyway. This is about correcting misconceptions in the hunt for the best IT solution for a particular IT problem and free software's role in that.
When discussing the modern POSIX desktop solutions, the assumption normally is to think of GNU/Linux. However, the desktop using GNU/BSD, GNU/Mimix, GNU/Solaris, GNU/HURD or any other GNU/Name-your-own-POSIX-system (even closed ones like SCO) can be used (often with such similarity that you cannot immediately tell which system it is). It's even possible to run one under MS-Windows using the GNU/Cygwin layer, even though at a lesser extent. This is possible through the POSIX and the free software community's insistence on developing and following strict standards to allow not only interoperability but also component replace-ability. Should you not be happy with the operating system you are using you can replace it without breaking all your applications. With free software, lack of choice and competition are a thing of the past.
Although Mr Buckley mentions that Microsoft gives him very good deals at the moment, can he be assured that they will in future? Bill Gates is retiring, what if Microsoft starts losing money (can always happen) and Bill's successors are not so charity conscious? The corner, known as "Vendor Lock In", which Mr Buckley is painting his charity into at the moment suddenly does not seem to be that attractive.
Even if the Microsoft solution is chosen, that does not disqualify the free software solution. OpenOffice.org Office Suite, GIMP Image manipulation program and a host of other programs that largely make up the free GNU/Linux desktop solutions are also freely available for MS-Windows. These use the open standards available to all as well. This means that, even if MS-Windows is insisted on, you can still benefit from free software for your IT solution. It does not take a genius to see that blindly discounting free software as unimportant, while designing IT strategy, would almost certainly cost you money.
There is another problem with blindly following a single closed vendor for all your software, you lose the ability to perform genuine comparisons of offerings. GNU/Linux, by its nature, naturally supports thin-client technology out of the box. At a push, it can support Multiterminal technology, where several monitors and keyboards can be plugged into a single PC producing a genuine multi-user box. Use of this technology would enable re-use of old and otherwise obsolete hardware (as the thin clients) and also enabling consolidation of hardware resources producing capital investment savings. For a charity whose IT requirements require distribution of 90M UKP, this would result in quite a saving due to not having to purchase expensive hardware. Also, should one old thin client fail, all you need to do is replace it with another. Making and restoring backups for the physical desktop machine is not an issue as no data or programs are stored there. This would save significantly on hardware support. The software on the centralized application servers would also be a lot easier to maintain as data and applications are not sprawled over countless desktops but centralized on a finite number of controlled servers. This means that more money is saved regarding software support too.
The thin clients scenario is only one example of many I could rabbit on about. There is also the ability of using lightweight desktop software like XFCE that will also increase the use of legacy hardware further. Also on the same note, lightweight free office programs such as AbiWord and Gnumeric that use the same file format as the OpenOffice.org suite so they are truly inter-operable with each other. There are many other features I could point out as well, but unfortunately it is late and well past my bed time, so I had better start drawing to a close.
I would have thought the advantages of those things alone would warrant the attentions of system administrators of a large charity, and I have not even begun to mention the potential of tailoring the software itself to exactly fit the requirements wanted.
In conclusion, comparing Microsoft/Closed-Software/Locked-In Support with GNU/Linux/free software is like the old adage of comparing apples and bananas. More to the point, if you follow the closed Microsoft route exclusively you find yourself with a metaphorical, say, orange. It may be a big juicy orange, but it still is only an orange and will never be more than that. With the free software route you not only end up with an orange but also bananas, pineapples, lemons, limes, pomegranates, durians (yummy!) and anything else you may want. The choice may be initially confusing, but how many restaurants do you go into that only offer one choice of meal? Why limit yourself this way when it comes to software?
On the subject of too many flavors
I own several franchised fast food restaurants. One of the things I have learned, and our franchisor preaches to us, is to avoid the problem of having too much variety. Too much causes confusion for the consumer. Imagine walking into your favorite place and looking at the menu. Some are a bewildering area of choices. It makes you just skip past all that and order the same thing you always did. If you had never been there before, you may not order anything and leave because you can't figure out the differences or don't want to take the time. There is no familiarity or comfort area.
The same can happen with Linux. I am only now trying this OS but spent too much time trying to figure out which distribution I want to start with. When I tried looking into the *BSD OS, the choices were much easier since there are only three.
So you can narrow OS choices down to Windows, Linux, *BSD, Unix. Unix is expensive, *BSD is not known for the desktop, Linux is splintered and Windows is a singular concept.
When it boils down to the bare minimum, though. Linux is still Linux and a singular concept. What Linux should try, perhaps, is advertise Linux first, then clearly show the different flavors. Sell the ice cream first, then show the flavors.
Packaged Fast Software
I'm glad that when I go to buy a car I have multiple choices, and have the same now when looking for a new computer system. The fast software Big Gates shops all have the same packages, although even these have several dozen flavours, but when I visit my frienly Linux retailer, I can get one custom built for less than a Big Gates.
Like the article says, unless you are addicted to the palm sugar in the Gates package, you can get a diet to fit your real needs.
Using Windows under Linux
At my current workplace, we have 20 users who run Windows on thin clients. The thin clients don't actually run Windows. They run Linux. They boot Linux off a server first. When the Linux boots, it runs 'rdesktop', a free remote desktop client. Rdesktop then connects to a Windows 2000 Server running Terminal Server. The Windows 2000 server is actually a virtual machine, running under the free VMWare server, on top of Slackware Linux.
To the end user, all this is invisible. They see only Windows. To the system administrator, his job is easier because he has only the Windows 2000 server to worry about. Any changes/updates are instantly available to all 20 users. Less downtime, less hassle for everyone.
To the finance director, my boss, the beauty is the lower overall cost. Some of the thin clients are, in fact, old PCs. So we saved on the cost of buying new PCs. The others are from Diskless Workstations (http://www.disklessworkstations.com). No hardware issues, no compatibility issues.
Because the Windows 2000 server is running on a dual Xeon server with 12GB RAM, the end user feels greater performance than s/he would using the old recycled PC.
Everybody wins.
I can't imagine a charity not being interested in a win/win scenario like this. If I were the chairman of the board of that charity, the IT manager would be out of a job.
Seth Brown
Re: Should I simply go outside and step under a bus?
There are days, especially where the world is going, where the life of the sanyasi seems positively attractive, others when you feel the need to get stuck in and do something good.
*BSD is not known for the desktop?
Is the polarised argument Linux vs Windows? Or is it Unix vs Windows?
If it is Unix vs Windows then the clear winner is Mac OS X.
It has that comfortable homogeneous UI that's easily supportable and all those lovely Unix underpinnings for geeks to play with.
It comes with GCC 4.0 and X11 and all API documentation on the install DVD (yup you can code to the metal out of the box).
It comes free with that sweet looking (subjective) Apple hardware (which will also run Windows and Linux if you really want to)
Updates are managed automatically.
Installing new software is simplicity itself.
You don't have to be a geek to use it.
All your existing source will likely work with ./configure; make; sudo make install (if you have installed any extra libraries required with fink/darwinports).
I love unix as a server OS (running several hundred RedHat boxes) and I love unix as a desktop OS (running an iMac 20" and a MacBook Pro). I used to work hard to make laptops work with Linux and use all their features, but I grew tired of having to do it with every new laptop I bought. I'd just about get it configured by the time it was obsolete and I wanted a new one.
I could support my mum running the mac of her choice and assorted software over the phone. I'm not certain that she'd follow my attempts to support her running Linux even if I could intuit which window manager, desktop manager, choice of buttons/taskbar she'd decided to run (and know the default hotkey combinations)... and she's not ready for the CLI. I had enough problems with Windows when I found she'd dragged the taskbar to dock on the left hand side of the screen over the phone.
Not everyone is a computer geek. Or wants to be. Those of us who are.. really appreciate OS X: its real beauty lies under the hood (although the bodywork is pretty slick too!)
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Published: Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 12:42 p.m.
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SARASOTA COUNTY - A Sarasota man was arrested and charged Thursday with stabbing a man found dead on the street in the Pinecraft area, according to the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office.
Dushun Robinson, 40, of Sarasota is charged with one count of murder in the second degree for the death of Steven Palasz, 44.
Robinson is being held without bond.
Witnesses told detectives that on March 20 Palasz was belligerently yelling, the two men began fighting, and Robinson punched Palasz in the face in a home on File Avenue.
They took the fight outside, and a deputy found Palasz's stabbed body on the ground a short time later.
Robinson threatened to kill a witness and her family if she told anyone she saw him there that night, according to his arrest report. He has been arrested dozens of times and was previously sentenced to prison in several cases, including charges of battery, burglary and selling cocaine.
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AUGUSTA, Ga.-- Ripping open gifts on Christmas morning can be one of the best memories for a child, but some military families don't have many gifts to put under the tree.
Local motorcycle groups want to give back.
"To me, it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling. You get goosebumps all the way up," said Rex Bell.
Bell's goosebumps aren't coming from the feeling he gets from riding his motorcycle. They're coming from making sure hundreds of children have something to unwrap on Christmas morning.
"Being a veteran, I realize that military pay isn't all that great. Sometimes it's difficult to put food on the table and buy presents at this time of the year," said Vietnam veteran Larry Dodson.
So 12 years ago, he decided to organize a toy run to give back.
Bikers are asked to bring a new, unwrapped gift for a child or a cash donation of at least $10. Then, they strap the gifts to their bikes and head from Augusta to deliver the toys to the Southeastern Chapter of the Paralyzed Veterans of America (SEPVA) in Hephzibah.
All of the gifts go to the Christmas House at Fort Gordon, which provides children of military families with gifts for the holidays.
Dodson's reason for starting this toy run, he says, is simple.
"The veterans all took an oath to serve, honor, and protect the country," he said. "Just because we're no longer in the military doesn't mean that we can't still serve, honor and protect."
But you don't have to be a veteran to join the fun. Dodsonsays anyone is welcome.
"A lot of these riders are not military. They're here because they have friends or family that served in the military, but they want to support our country, and our military are the ones that are doing that."
The ride kicked off around 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the Augusta Museum of History. After the ride, the presents were collected and the veterans were treated to a warm meal.
The SEPVA provides support and services to disabled veterans in the chapter's five-state area. For additional information, call Dodson at (803) 634-0785 or SEPVA at (706) 796-6301.


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Chronic Wasting Disease has not been detected in any Michigan deer, but Michigan Department of Agriculture officials say food establishments should take precautions when they're handling venison.
Officials recommend carcasses with hides be stored at 41 degrees or less. They also say food handlers should wear gloves when handling meat.
Although Chronic Wasting Disease, which affects the brains of deer, has not been a problem in Michigan, experts advise people to avoid contact with the deer's brain and spinal fluid. Plus, all heads, legs and other body parts should be incinerated or buried in a landfill.
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New DVD releases feature an Oscar-nominated film and a very different role for a popular actor.
"Flight": A heroic pilot's substance abuse comes into question when he crashes an airplane. Denzel Washington received an Oscar nomination for lead actor for his role.
The crash at the beginning is the kind of on-screen moment that will stick with viewers long after the movie is over. But it also doesn't take long to realize that the more spectacular crash-and-burn moments are the ones Washington's character experiences after the big fall.
Director Robert Zemeckis uses a similar format to the one that made "Cast Away" such a monumental hit. Both films start with big events, then rely heavily on the star's (Hanks in "Cast Away") acting abilities to make the rest of the movie equally as memorable.
It's a gamble, because the central figure is painfully flawed but worthy of salvation. Washington is one of a handful of actors capable of playing such a complicated role. He has a way, with a simple shift of his eyes or change of tone in his voice, to make a role seem emotionally real. It would have been easy for this character to come across as a full villain or overly heroic, but in the capable hands of Washington, the character feels human -- flaws and all.
"Alex Cross": A detective's investigation reveals more about a murder case. "Alex Cross," the latest attempt to turn one of James Patterson's crime novels into a movie, should have been Tyler Perry's opportunity to establish a film franchise where he didn't have to wear a dress. But the attempt falls short because of an uneven script and sloppy pacing.
The screenplay by Marc Moss and Kerry Williamson is a series of contradictions. They have the detective, played by Edward Burns, get emotionally involved with someone, but (spoiler alert) when she's brutally murdered, he acts more like a guy upset about spilling his coffee.
Matthew Fox turns in the most psychotic performance as a killer since Heath Ledger creeped up the screen in "The Dark Knight." Fox deserves credit for moving way out of his acting comfort zone, but his escape took him just a little too far. He plays this role with over-the-top absurdity, and he comes across as cartoonish as the story plays out against a backdrop of Detroit.
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"Celeste and Jesse Forever": High school sweethearts decide to divorce. Rashida Jones and Andy Samberg star.
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"Above Suspicion, Set 2": A detective tries to prove herself in what is mostly a man's world.
"Here Comes the Boom": A teacher (Kevin James) becomes a mixed martial arts fighter to save his school.
"Caught on Tape": Sticky Fingaz stars in this tale of a bank robbery investigation.
"Little White Lies": Friends must face the hard truths of their carefree lives.
"Gunsmoke: The Seventh Season, Volume 2": James Arness plays the TV marshal.
"R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour: Volume 3": More creepy tales for young people.
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Last Modified: Monday, March 4, 2013 at 8:49 a.m.
Portions of the following information are based on facts provided by the arrested individuals. Those individuals have been booked with, not convicted of, the offenses shown. All accused should be presumed innocent until proven guilty.
March 1, 2013
Lockport Police
Casey Oncale, 34, 310 Third St., Lockport, domestic abuse battery, simple battery, disturbing the peace.
Lafourche Sheriff's Office
Sharlene Reed, 53, 434 Market St., Raceland, disturbing the peace.
Ellis Banks Jr., 20, 302 Carol St. Apt. B, Thibodaux, disturbing the peace.
Jason Guidroz, 41, 620 E. Winder Road, Thibodaux, domestic abuse battery with child endangerment.
Bryson McIntyre, 21, 420 Carol St., Thibodaux, aggravated 2nd degree battery, armed robbery.
Skylleur Hayes, 21, 948 St. Charles St., Thibodaux, contempt.
Ayla Plaisance, 19, 224 Plantation Drive, Bourg, contempt, warrant for failure to appear for theft.
March 2, 2013
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Scott Callais, 48, 517 W. 13th St., Larose, DWI, expired license plate.
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Satya Nadella, Microsoft's new CEO, needs a few quick, sharp actions to signal the beginning of the Nadella era.
Here's an easy one: Kill the "Scroogled" ad campaign, which makes Microsoft look desperate and whiny.
Spanning more than a year with multiple iterations, the series of anti-Google ads have been notable for their negative approach, especially compared to most consumer tech ads, which focus on the wonders of a company's products and services. Apple's 2006 "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" ads were about as close as we have seen in tech to attack ads, and they used whimsy to make critical points.
But Scroogled, with print, online and TV ads, has tried to sow the seeds of doubt in consumers' minds about how Google handles and mines users' personal information as well as the quality of Google products and services. They're like political ads that paint the opponent as up to something sneaky.
For example, in the latest ad, Microsoft enlisted Rick Harrison of the reality TV show "Pawn Stars" to appraise a seller's Chromebook, which he finds worthless since it is only useful when connected to the Internet.
Harrison throws in this dig, which comes off as post-Edward Snowden paranoia: "Google is always trying to find ways to make more money off of your personal information. This Chromebook hardware makes it even easier for them."
Another ad spotlighted how Google intersperses shopping results with paid advertisements, while a third trumpeted a Bing vs. Google search blind test, a la The Pepsi Challenge. Bing, of course, emerges as "honest search."
People who have seen Scroogled are more likely to try Microsoft products and services, Microsoft says. "People like brands that are feisty and stand up for themselves," said a Microsoft representative, who says the company's internal measures have found the campaign "incredibly effective." Ten million people have come to the Scroogled site after the Chromebook ad. "With regular consumers, it resonates," the representative said.
Google has treated Scroogled as a joke. When Microsoft opened up a Scroogled online store selling T-shirts, mugs and hats that said "Keep calm while we steal your data," the Mountain View search giant got its own dig in at the Redmond company: "Microsoft's latest venture comes as no surprise; competition in the wearables space is really heating up."
The company declined to comment for this column.
"It makes a mockery of Microsoft's marketing talent," said Rakesh Agrawal, a product strategist based in San Francisco. "Google didn't win search by running a great ad campaign. They had a great product."
Scroogled has struck me as shortsighted as well. Google, Microsoft and most Internet firms are essentially in the same boat, trying to get people comfortable with living online. But the Scroogled ads just emphasize that people should be afraid of stuff they don't understand. It is akin to a tobacco company attacking another over whose cigarettes have more carcinogens with images of people taken away on gurneys. All that does is make all cigarettes look deadly.
Scroogled is a reflection of the combative, turbo-charged style of Steve Ballmer, the company's voluble former CEO. To jazz up Microsoft's marketing, Ballmer tapped Mark Penn, a Washington, D.C., political operative and former pollster in President Clinton's administration, who came up with "Scroogled."
Bringing a new sensibility to Microsoft will be Nadella's first order of business.
With Nadella, a Microsoft employee since 1992, "there's a risk that he will be painted as another Ballmer," said Peter LaMotte, an analyst with Levick, a Washington-based strategic communications consultancy. "He is going to want to shape the company in his own image by getting rid of something that is seen by many as an ineffective campaign."
I am sympathetic to Microsoft's role as gadfly to Google. It has raised important questions about whether Google uses its dominant position in search to gain dominance unfairly in other arenas. Someone, even if it is a self-interested competitor, needs to point out a situation that could result in the Internet being a one-business ecosystem.
I like feisty brands too. And maybe Microsoft benefits with "Scroogled" in terms of perception. But it also stirs up a general anxiety over technology, which is a self-inflicted wound. The ads on their own make us forget that Microsoft is a formidable competitor with impressive tech chops whose best days may be in front of it.
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It's official! How I Met Your Mother will return for a ninth and final season."Through eight years, How I Met Your Mother has mastered the art of leading-edge comedy, emotional water-cooler moments and pop culture catch-phrases," Nina Tassler, CBS entertainment president, said in a statement. "We are excited for Carter [Bays], Craig [Thomas], Pam Fryman and this amazing cast to tell the final chapter and reveal television's most mysterious mother to some of TV's most passionate fans."Check out HIMYM's "Girls Versus Suits" and other memorable TV musical episodesAll five stars, Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Cobie Smulders, Neil Patrick Harris and Alyson Hannigan, will be back for Season 9, which will finally reveal the identity of the titular mother. Co-creators Bays and Thomas had previously declined to pinpoint when Mrs. Mosby would be seen.Photos: Stars who don't look their age"We're thrilled to have the entire and incredibly talented How I Met Your Mother cast back for one final season to bring the series to a proper close," Dana Walden and Gary Newman, chairmen of 20th Century Fox Television, which produces the show, said. "Carter Bays and Craig Thomas are masterful and hilarious storytellers, and we have no doubt that they will guide one of the greatest comedies of the last decade to a gratifying conclusion when they finally reveal the identity of the Mother."There's no word on an exact episode count, but Season 9 will be a full season, according to CBS. Each of the last five seasons has consisted of 24 episodes.Are you excited for more Mother?
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Image isn't everything, but it's a lot to Luke Wessman. Born in an outhouse on a hippie farm in Tennessee and raised with gangsters in Southern Cali, Wessman is one of the world's most renowned tattoo artists, known for his "traditional gangster" style.
The 33-year-old fully tattooed badass may not be as hard as he looks—he once worked as a beekeeper and his most memorable tattoo was one he inked on his ex-girlfriend, during which he shed a few tears.
Wessman spoke with Complex at the Wooster Street Social Club where he discussed his reality TV experience on TLC's Miami Ink and NY Ink, stigmas surrounding his career, progression and he shared a few stories about tattooing Silkk the Shocker and Master P—well, sort of.
Interview by Lauren Nostro (@LAURENcynthia)
So you were born in Tennessee and moved to Southern Cali, what was childhood like for you?
I was born into a hippie family in a hippie farm, they were free spirited people. My family got kicked out eventually. Hippie farms were places in the '70s that practiced organic living and they built their own societies. My dad didn't want to follow all the rules. They left, but my mom was pregnant with me and didn't know where to have me. They went back to the hippie farm and they let us in because she was almost in labor. We lived in a shack behind the main area of the hippie farm—no electricity, no water. She went into the communal bathroom, an outhouse sort of place, and I was born on the floor. They waited a bit and then we hitchhiked to California. I never really grew up in Tennessee.
For me, street life was more just being around a bunch of gangs. I always knew if I got into that, I would never saw a positive outcome. I really had a lot of respect for it. When you grow up with thugs and gangsters...they were who everyone in the neighborhood respected.
I watched your Self Made documentary and your friend mentioned one of your first jobs was as a beekeeper.
As a kid, one of our neighbors had a beekeeping business, I started working there for $6 an hour. I learned the value of hard work and making money. I worked as much as I could. My parents moved but I was so established, even though I was a young kid, because I had that job and worked at a skate shop and had other jobs.
What was street life like in Oceanside?
For me, street life was more just being around a bunch of gangs. I always knew if I got into that, I would never saw a positive outcome. I really had a lot of respect for it. When you grow up with thugs and gangsters...they were who everyone in the neighborhood respected. I had a healthy appreciation for it. Learning the codes of the street and knowing it wasn't for me exactly, surfing pulled me away from that. Oceanside is right on the beach, there are a lot of gangs right on the beach, but you were able to escape by just going into the water. My older brother messed around with gangs, they were all over. I could have easily went a different way in life.


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Fox's newest promo for "Gotham" features actual images created by former "Detective Comics" artist Jock, who puts his own spin on the origin story.
Jock, Chris Burnham and more gathered to celebrate "2000 AD," discussing how long they plan to age Dredd, the new "DREDD" illustrated screenplay and more.
Scott Snyder talks the "terrifying material" he's exploring with Jock on "Wytches," and escaping his comfort zone at Image Comics.
CBR has the exclusive first look at the cover and solicitation text for the first issue of Scott Snyder and Jock's new Image horror series, "Wytches."
Scott Snyder & Jock, the creators behind "Detective Comics: The Black Mirror," reunite for "Wytches," an ongoing horror series from Image Comics.
Joshua Hale Fialkov's long-awaited "The Devilers" debuts July 16 from Dynamite, and we have an exclusive preview!
This week, Ms. Marvel has a quiet moment, Solar goes retro, the Joker has an identity crisis and more.
When every version of Hell imaginable arrives on earth, an unlikely team storms its gates in Dynamite's new series from Joshua Hale Fialkov and Matt Triano.
Paolo Rivera, Pop Mhan, Jock, Mike Allred and Julian Totino Tedesco's offerings all vie for CBR's Cover of the Week honors.
At Emerald City, "The Losers" co-creator Jock discussed his process and his long career in artistic design including comic books, film, movie posters & more.
Mark Millar explains how his and Duncan Fegredo's "MPH" is their superheroic take on the American Dream while sharing exclusive art.
Jock, Douglas Wolk and Arthur Wyatt discussed all things Judge Dredd, announcing a "Dredd 3D" art book, a sequel to Wyatt's "Judge Dredd: Underbelly" & more.
This week, Cinderella goes two-toned, Kamala Khan gets the torso treatment and the "Sex Criminals" creative team gets a portrait & more.
Scott Snyder discusses his "black and twisted horror" take on witches in his and Jock's new Image comic, creating free digital work in 2014 and more.
A pair of "urban explorers" in Ronse, Belgium stumbled across a treasure trove of incredible Batman graffiti in numerous styles, all by artist Pete One.
"Savage Wolverine" writer/artist Jock discusses bringing Wolverine to a future alien planet during his run and shares a look at the pivotal moments.
This week, Earth 2 is ordered to "Obey," Mara finds her place among the stars, the Center for Deadly Disease Control gets official, "Morning Glories" gets romantic and Wolverine goes sci-fi.
Acclaimed artist Jock concludes his discussion with CBR by talking about his writing debut in "Savage Wolverine," reveals who gave him advice, which movie poster he mistakenly gets credit for and more.
In the first of a two-part interview, acclaimed artist Jock talks about working with design house Mondo, how "The Losers" got him the gig, designing characters for "X-Men: Days of Future Past" and more.
Courtesy of Dynamite, CBR presents an exclusive, extended preview of Andy Diggle's "Uncanny" #1. The sci-fi crime drama, featuring art by Aaron Campbell and covers by Jock and Sean Phillips, debuts June 26.
Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso discusses new faces to the Marvel U from creators Matt Kindt and Jock to characters like "Battle of the Atom's" future X-Men.
The acclaimed artist behind "The Losers" and "Detective Comics" is turning writer/artist for a new science-fiction focused arc in Marvel's "Savage Wolverine" anthology.
Mark Millar & Frank Quitely call in some friends for the second installment of the Image super family series "Jupiter's Legacy" and CBR has an exclusive first look at variant covers from Bryan Hitch and Jock.
Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo recruit Snyder's frequent collaborator Jock to draw the cover to "Batman" #21, part one of their "Zero Year" origin story.
With a loner of a thief who can borrow the abilities of others, Andy Diggle plans to give readers a different sci-fi twist on crime comics as he describes the idea behind his "Uncanny" series for Dynamite's Crime line.
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This week, Kate Kane is triumphant, Carol Danvers is wistful, "Locke & Key" is photogenic, Nova is space-bound and Wolverine is in for a world of hurt as Kevin and Steve bring you the Cover of the Week.
This week, The Stalk gets clingy, Agent Anders gets creepy, "Comeback" gets minimalistic, the Illuminati gets the fingers and Conan gets bloody.
CBR staffers Steve Sunu and Kevin Melrose count down the top 15 covers of 2012 with showings from Dave Johnson, Jock, Rafael Grampa, Paolo Rivera and more of the industry's top cover artists.
This week, Silk Spectre gets ready for her close-up, Dr. Zaius will see you now, the pint-sized Thunderbolts go a little gun-crazy, Dex Perios takes a road trip, and what Shako hates, Shako destroys!
This week, the Big Bad Wolf goes on the hunt, Wolverine goes claws out, Cyclops goes Old West, the X-Men go guns a-blazzin' and "Prophet" gets ethereal.
This week, the eyes have it, the mirror has two faces, Frank Castle takes aim, Finn and Jake fly to the rescue, and Mindy McCready kicks… teeth?
Eisner Award-winning artist Jock and "2000 AD" PR Coordinator and writer Michael Molcher spent some time with CBR TV about Jock and Andy Diggle's "Snapshot," the publisher's rising profile in the States and more.
To mark the end of acclaimed crime saga "Scalped" we asked Brian K. Vaughan to discuss the series with creator Jason Aaron, tackling character growth and creative partnerships to future projects and bald Vertigo writers.
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Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.'s "Hit-Girl" miniseries rolls on in September, and CBR has the exclusive first look at the third issue's variant cover by Jock.
Karl Urban gatecrashed 2000 AD's CCI panel to gush over his love of the Judge Dredd comics, "2000 AD" EIC Matt Smith revealed the future of the comics and IDW's Chris Ryall announced the new writer for the U.S. ongoing.
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The little girls bent at the starting gates with looks of determination on their faces. They may be in elementary school, but they are racing against arguably the greatest ski racer in the world - American Lindsey Vonn.
Vail Resorts unveiled its new EpicMix Racing course at Northstar and Heavenly this past week, and skiers and boarders of all ages are finding out how they stack up against a pro. Vail also launched Epic Mix Racing at Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge and Keystone in Colorado, bringing the pro to the public. It will likely come to Kirkwood next season.
Uniform courses are set up at all six resorts, and Vonn provides the golden standard to beat.
The course is intermediate-friendly and allows riders to race side-by-side. In fact, racing friends and family seemed to be just as popular as racing the pro last week. Ski school kids were all too happy to swing by the race course during lessons and see which friend was fastest.
The Northstar EpicMix Race course is set up on Upper Main Street and accessible by taking the Arrow Express chair from the top of Big Springs Gondola. It's open from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., and costs $8 for the first race and $4 for each race thereafter. Tickets can be purchased at the start gate.
The Heavenly EpicMix Race course is accessible from the top of Canyon Express and the finish area is near the top of Powderbowl Express. Prices are the same as Northstar.
Here's how it works. Vonn, along with race pros from each resort, set their course times on Dec. 15. Just to give some perspective, the race pro pacesetters turned in times anywhere from 8 to 30 percent behind Vonn.
As the season progresses, EpicMix Racing will assign each racer a "percentage behind Lindsey" score based on age, gender and discipline for each race. Digital medals are awarded based on a racer's "percentage behind Lindsey."
Top racers from across the six resorts will then be invited to a grand finale event on March 30, hosted by Vonn on the famed Birds of Prey World Cup Course at Beaver Creek, Colo. To qualify, participants must race at least 10 times during the 2012-13 season.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal cast a skeptical eye Monday on the country's most-restrictive abortion law, which prohibits the procedure after 20 weeks of pregnancy unless there's a medical emergency.
Even Judge Andrew Kleinfeld, a reliably conservative jurist appointed to the appeals court by former President George H.W. Bush, said Arizona's law appears to wrongly prohibit abortions before "viability," when the fetus can live outside the womb. Viability is generally considered to occur sometime after 23 weeks of pregnancy. The county's seminal Supreme Court 1973 abortion ruling, Roe v. Wade, said states cannot prohibit abortions outright prior to viability.
Bill Montgomery, the Maricopa County attorney defending the Arizona law, said the ban was enacted to protect women from undergoing a risky medical procedure. Montgomery said it's too medically risky for a woman to undergo an abortion at 20 weeks unless there's a medical emergency.
"People decide to have dangerous, foolishly dangerous, medical procedures all the time," Kleinfeld countered. He said removing prostates and other risky procedures that may not be medically necessary occur often and are not prohibited. He said such medical decisions are left up to patients and doctors without government intrusion.
Montgomery and Arizona Solicitor General David Cole fared no better with the other two judges on the panel, Marsha Berzon and Mary Schroeder, especially when Montgomery mistakenly mixed up their names during his arguments. Berzon was appointed to the appeals court by President Bill Clinton. President Jimmy Carter appointed Schroeder.
Berzon agreed with Kleinfeld that patients make risky medical decisions daily.
"Are there any statutes against cosmetic surgery?" she asked rhetorically.
The court gave no indication when it would rule.
Arizona's Republican-led Legislature banned abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy as part of a broader abortion law last spring. Three Arizona obstetrician-gynecologists, supported by the Center for Reproductive Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union, filed a federal lawsuit seeking to strike down the law.
U.S. District Judge James Teilborg, a Clinton appointee, upheld the law in July and it was to take effect on Aug. 2. But the appeals court blocked implementation until it issues its ruling.
Arizona is now among 10 states to enact versions of 20-week bans.
Others are Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, North Carolina and Oklahoma. North Carolina's ban has been in effect for decades, while Nebraska was the first of the other states to enact its law, in 2010.
A challenge to Idaho's ban was scuttled early on, so Arizona's ban is the first to be tested in court. Arizona's ban is considered to be the most stringent because the starting point it uses to calculate a fetus's "probable gestational age" is about two weeks earlier than under the others states' versions.


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1. Irving's first line of confirmation was Funfack's alleged connection to TB 47. On 6 December 1964 he had written to the Provost of Coventry [the underlining is Irving's]: 'I am myself in no doubt as to the authenticity of the document in view of having obtained it indirectly from the Dresden Deputy Chief Medical Officer responsible for disposing of the victims....'75 Likewise in December 1964 Irving and his German publisher, Sigbert Mohn, set about marketing TB 47 as authentic to the English and West-German public. A reader's letter from Irving's publisher, Dr. Dieter Struss, to a West-German newspaper on 10 December read:
...Mr. Irving has found a new document a copy of which I enclose to you. The document has been examined and has been established as authentic. The figures originate with the then deputy Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Max Funfack. Therefore the dead of Dresden need in future no longer be guessed. They are precisely counted and they were 202,040 in all. The truth is therefore much worse than one had previously imagined.76
2. On 18 December the German edition of The Destruction of Dresden was reviewed in the right-wing Deutschen Nationalzeitung und Soldatenzeitung again naming Funfack as the author of the new figures.77
3. It remains a mystery where Irving first gleaned this information from, but it had appeared in his account of his visit to Walter Hahn in November 1964, albeit with a question mark in ellipses.78 On 19 January 1965, after six weeks of frantic marketing, Irving received a letter from Funfack:
Why I should now, after twenty years, be put in the spotlight with the mention of my name in the West German papers and be named as a witness to the number of dead is a complete mystery to me. Exactly like every one else effected I have only ever heard the numbers third-hand: from city commandants with whom I was friends, from the civilian air-raid protection etc. But the numbers always differed greatly. I myself was only once present at a cremation on the Altmarkt, but otherwise completely uninvolved. Likewise I was never Dresden's Chief Medical Officer or even deputy Chief Medical Officer; rather I was always worked as a specialist urologist in a hospital. How one comes to such suppositions, is incomprehensible to me. I did not have the slightest to do with rendering any such services. The photos of the cremations on the Altmarkt as well as the "Order of the Day 47" were also given to me by acquaintances. Therefore I can give no firm [verbindliche] information about the figure of the dead but only repeat what was reported to me.79
5. From his reply on 28 February 1965 to Funfack's letter it is clear that Irving had in fact made no effort whatsoever to contact Funfack. He had made no attempt to establish the provenance of Hahn's copy, no attempt to check Funfack's for stamps or signatures if it were an original, and no attempt to confirm Funfack's alleged hand in TB 47 before going to press. Irving apologised for his delay in replying to Funfack's letter in that had only reached him a few weeks earlier. In a mixture of German and English he excused himself in that he was currently still travelling:
This was a disingenuous excuse for a number of reasons.
I am afraid that I am partly to blame for the naming Ihres Namens im Bundesrepublik ['your name in the Federal Republic']. I obtained a copy of the Tagesbefehl, and was told that you had a copy, and I mentioned this to my publishers in Gütersloh [.] [T]hey misunderstood me, and thought that you had signed (unterschrieben) the Tagesbefehl, and told Die Welt and other West German newspapers about that. Please accept my humble apologies for this mistake. I have explained this to Sigbert Mohn Verlag and they are very sorry too.80
This was a disingenuous excuse for a number of reasons.
6. Firstly, Irving had already found time on 27 January to follow up Funfack's suggestion that he contact the International Red Cross, on 10 February to write a second letter to the Red Cross, and on 20 February to write to the former leader of the Red Cross delegation in Dresden.81 Why had he delayed a month in writing to Funfack?
7. Secondly, Struss had not claimed that the report was signed by Funfack, but that Funfack was the person who had collated the figures, repeating faithfully exactly what Irving had informed him in November 1964. Irving had written: 'This information [the 202,040 dead] is naturally sensational, and because it comes from the then deputy Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Max Funfack, there is no doubt as to authenticity of the document.'82
8. Thirdly, Irving used Funfack's rebuttal as further proof of TB 47's authenticity. On 27 January he enclosed a copy of Funfack's letter to an editor of the German Der Stern magazine. Funfack's suggestion that the Red Cross, unlike Funfack himself, might be in a position to provide reliable information as to the number of dead reported at the time, was manipulated to read that Funfack's suggestion 'shows that his information [sic] is 100% reliable' because Irving had learned from other sources that a Red Cross delegation had indeed been in Dresden at the time.83
9. Fourthly, and more insidiously, both Irving and his German publisher wrote further letters defending TB 47 in the West-German press, Irving in full knowledge that Funfack explicitly denied being the author of TB 47. On 12 February 1965 Dr. Dieter Struss wrote to Die Welt, 'besides Mr. Irving found the doctor who had calculated the figures and reached the conclusion that the figure of 202,040 dead was not propaganda, but is authentic.' Struss then announced the intention to give TB 47 full prominence in a new edition of the book.84 In an accompanying letter Irving defended his rejection of Seydewitz's conclusion that TB 47 was a fake and pompously held forth, 'One learns from this that one should not accept everything one reads in books as facts. Two thirds of an historian's efforts lie not in getting hold of exact facts, but in verifying the authenticity and reliability of his sources and documents [sic].' Irving piously rounded off his defence of TB 47 with the words 'God knows, I as an Englishman have the least grounds to exaggerate the effects of the air raid on Dresden.'85
10. As evinced from his letter to the Red Cross, Irving had received Funfack's complaint on 27 January at the very latest, yet he had made no attempt to disabuse either his publisher or his public.86 Moreover in a draft article written in February for the Sunday Telegraph propagating the new source, Irving continued to insinuate that Funfack had an official connection to TB 47 [the underlining is Irving's]:
The document's pedigree is certainly impressive. It came out subsequently that my host [Walter Hahn] had obtained a copy of it some years before from one Doctor Max Funfack, who still lives in and practices in Dresden. Funfack, during the war a senior medical officer (Oberstabsartzt) in the German army, was in 1945 Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Dresden District; as such he was responsible for supervising the disposal and cremation of all the city's air-raid victims during the three months following the attack.
According to Funfack, the report had reached him during the war through the normal official channels.87
11. As late as May 1965 Irving triumphantly sent a copy of TB 47 to the RAF historian Dr Noble Frankland informing him that he had 'obtained' it 'from the doctor (still in Dresden) who during the war was Deputy Chief Medical Officer of the city.'88 Funfack had explicitly denied holding any such position and Irving had not obtained the document from him. Evidently nothing was going to stand in the way of Irving's eagerness to capitalise on his new found belief in TB 47.89
75. DJ 12, Irving to the Provost of Coventry, 6 December 1964.
76. DJ 35, Die Welt der Literatur, 10 December 1964.
77. DJ 12, Walter Lange to Irving, 2 February 1965.
78. DJ 10, New information on death roll in Allied air raids on Dresden, 1945, introduction, dated November 1964, p. 8.
79. DJ 35, Max Funfack to Irving, 19 January 1965. Partially reproduced as a plate in Weidauer, pp. 126-7.
80. DJ 35, Irving to Max Funfack, 28 February 1965.
81. DJ 35, Max Funfack to Irving, 19 January 1965; doc. 160, Irving to Croix-Rouge, Comite International, Geneva, 27 January 1965; DJ 35, P. Verbert (International Committee of the Red Cross) to Irving, 4 February 1965; P. Verbert (International Committee of the Red Cross) to Irving, 17 February 1965, refering to Irving's second letter of 10 February; Irving to Walter Kleiner, 20 February 1965.
82. Doc. 155, Irving to Struss, 28 November 1964.
83. Doc. 159, Irving to Shuller of Der Stern, 27 January 1965.
84. DJ 35, Dr. Dieter Struss, 'Umstrittiner Tagesbefehl,' reader's letter in Die Welt, 12 February 1965, p. 10. The first German edition had appeared on 10 September 1964 under Sigbert Mohn's imprint, too early to include details of TB 47. See DJ 12, 'Schlimmer als Hiroshima' in Rheinische Post, 9 September 1964.
85. DJ 35, Irving 'Die Totenziffern von Dresden,' reader's letter to Die Welt, 12 February 1965, p. 10.
86. Irving also wrote to Walter Hahn on the same day, mentioning Funfack's letter, but omitting his [Funfack's] complaint. DJ 12, Irving to Walter Hahn, 27 January 1965.
87. DJ 12, Draft, 'Two Questions on Dresden' for the Sunday Telegraph, February 1965, 15 pp., p. 9.
88. Doc. 167, Irving to Dr Noble Frankland, 28 May 1965.
89. Irving continued to market TB 47 in England in March, albeit without naming Funfack as collaborating evidence. See DJ 12 Draft, 'Bombing Dresden' for The Observer, 7 March 1965; Reader's letter from Irving, 'Death roll in Dresden,' The Observer, 14 March 1965.
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SANTA CLARA — The 49ers' already thin wide receiving corps got even thinner Friday when coach Jim Harbaugh announced wideout Quinton Patton had suffered a foot fracture in the team's 35-11 victory over the St. Louis Rams.
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Patton has played sparingly and made his first NFL catch Thursday night against the Rams for zero yards before being injured.
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I've gotten MyP2P to work as well (with sopcast and pplive).
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The channels contained in the zip is svtplay,swedish viasat and Myp2p. I'll try and mkae more. I'll also try and be better and upload this on github this time (and update grooveshark plugin there to...)
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CORPUS CHRISTI – After wrapping up the top-ranked recruiting class in the Southland Conference a year ago, the Texas A&M – Corpus Christi women's basketball team looks to the 2014-15 class with three athletes inking their National Letters of Intent.
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More Summer ReadingPosted in reading on June 22nd, 2012 by Betsy – 7 Comments
I always fought the Kindle. I love books. I love the feel of them in my hands and the smell of the pages, especially old books. I enjoy the conversations started when strangers ask you about the book you're reading because they've seen the cover. With a Kindle or Nook, you just look like you're reading a screen and plugged into yet another technological device.
BUT, I have to admit, I've been converted. David bought me a Kindle recently and I've officially fallen for it. I am tearing through books on this thing. Now I probably won't read a lot of non-fiction, history texts on the Kindle, because I like to flip back and forth between the index, the photos and the text, but the Kindle is great for summer reads. It's just so darn easy to hold too. I never thought I would fall in love with the Kindle, but I have.
So here are my first three reads on the Kindle:
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer: This work of fiction that was made into a movie last year with Sandra Bullock. While a major part of this book is about NYC and September 11th, it's more about the odyssey of a boy looking to learn more about his deceased father's past. I enjoyed this voice of this book, through the eyes of the boy, Oskar, and his grandfather, and you feel like you're a part of each story. We can all relate to Oskar as he deals with grief, the past and an unwillingness to let go of his father.
The American Heiress, Daisy Goodwin: If you enjoyed the drama, romance, and sometimes cheesiness of Downton Abbey, this is the book for your summer reading list. While the story starts in Newport, Rhode Island at the turn of the 20th century, Cora Cash (the American Heiress and main character) spends most of the story among the wealthy in England. A bit of a fish out of water in England, Cora (and her maid, Bertha) experience their own coming of age stories, full of love, heart ache and suspense.
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, Anna Quindlen: My mom sent me this memoir, written by Pullitzer Prize winner and New York Times writer, Anna Quindlen. In this book, she addresses the topics of aging, motherhood, generational differences, career, friendship, and faith. As I'm about to enter a new stage in life, I really enjoyed reading Quindlen's insights and reflections on her own life. Even though she is twice my age, I still felt like I could relate to Quindlen's stories, struggles and triumphs. Lots of Candles… is a quick read that will provide you with an abundance of food for though.
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