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Barbie Collector: Scotland Barbie Doll
A part of the "Dolls of the World Collection," this red-headed Barbie is a girl after my own Scottish heart (well, not all Scottish, but a fair share.) She's for show, not for go but would be a brilliant start to a doll collection . . . as well as a fine celebration of the spirit, music and tartan of Scotland. Good gifting.


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Green-fingered enthusiasts in East Morton joined thousands of other gardening groups in a mass planting to celebrate 50 years of RHS Britain in Bloom.
Volunteers from Morton in Bloom had received a packet of 40 sunflower seeds, which they encouraged members of the public to plant at last Thursday's Morton Meet session. Some residents are looking after their planted seeds themselves, while the Morton in Bloom team is taking care of the rest. The group intends to plant the developing sunflowers on the village recreation ground later this year.
The seeds, provided by the Royal Horticultural Society, are among half-a-million sunflower seeds being sown across Britain throughout the year. Among the members present at the planting last week were Morton in Bloom chairman, John Crowther, and administrator, Jo Dix.
Ms Dix said: "We've got a good cross-section of the population here, from very young people to older residents. It's been going well. We should have all the seeds planted by this afternoon."
She and her colleagues are competing in the Yorkshire in Bloom contest and have already had their spring judging visit. People wanting to support Morton's Bloom efforts to enhance the village environment can meet its volunteers at 10am at the village green on the first Saturday of each month.

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Port Marina Hotel
Pefkohori, Halkidiki, Greece
Port Marina Hotel Introduction
Offering a peaceful setting in Paliouri a quiet area of Pefkohori, the Port Marina Hotel offers the comforts you need for a relaxing hassle-free holiday on the beautiful Halkidiki peninsula. Set among lush greenery and swaying palms, you'll have plenty of peace and quiet here. That's not to say you're off the beaten track though - the complex is a short distance from the pretty Pefkohori lagoon, Xenia beach and the resort centre where you'll find shops, a bakery and authentic Greek tavernas. In the heart of the grounds, there's a stunning swimming pool - plus a separate children's pool - surrounded by sunloungers and parasols, and a pool bar from where you can enjoy refreshing drinks and light snacks. The atmosphere here is fun and friendly, with well-maintained accommodation to ensure a comfortable stay.
Port Marina Hotel Facilities
• Hotel room for up to 2 adults consists of • Twin beds • Shower and wc • WiFi access (charge) • Satellite TV • Minifridge • Air-conditioning • Balcony or terrace • Superior rooms for up to 3 adults and Family rooms for up to 4 adults available at a supplement. Single rooms available on request
• Table tennis • Gym
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• Meals: Full board with buffet breakfast, lunch, and dinner. • Drinks: Locally produced alcoholic drinks including beer, wine and soft drinks including tea and coffee 10am-2am.
• Swimming pool • FREE sunbeds and parasols • Lounge • Internet access • WiFi access • FREE shuttle bus to the beach and Pefkohori
For Children
• Separate children's pool • Playground • Cots
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• Nearest Resort: 3 kms • Nearest Beach: 650 metres • Nearest Supermarket: 400 metres • 90 rooms • Child age: 2-11 years • Official rating: 3 star • Some facilities and activities may incur a local charge
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• Buffet-style restaurant • Pool bar
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Fort Hood shooter calls gunman 'brother'
Updated 2:45 pm, Wednesday, July 10, 2013
FORT HOOD — Maj. Nidal Hasan called a gunman in another 2009 fatal shooting "my brother" during early questioning of prospective panel members in a court-martial Wednesday.
Hasan, acting as his own defense attorney also voiced "frustration" that he was not permitted to say he was the assailant in the Nov. 5, 2009 shooting at Fort Hood that left 13 dead and 32 wounded.
"Are you saying I can't acknowledge I was the shooter on Nov. 5?" he asked military judge Col. Tara Osborn.
"That's not something that a lawyer would say during voir dire," the judge said.
News Channel
Osborn told Hasan he should not refer to himself in the first person "I" when asking about his actions that day, but instead use a detached third-person reference, such as "an accused."
Nine of the 14 Army officers who so far have not been dismissed from jury selection were questioned. The line of questions from prosecutors and Osborn focused on their ability to render an unbiased decision, and to consider a full range of punishment, including the death penalty, if Hasan is convicted.
Osborn also quizzed the officers on what they're seen or heard about the incident and the legal proceedings. Most said they had heard about legal wrangling in the case over Hasan's refusal to shave his beard, typically required under military standards, and knew that a new judge had been assigned to the case.
Osborn has ordered potential jurors not to focus on Hasan's beard, telling them not to "hold it against him."
Hasan faces 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the mass shooting of unarmed soldiers at the post's Soldier Readiness Center.
One officer said he was worried that the case could drag on, impacting his planned retirement from the Army early next year. But he said he could take a "holistic look" at the case and render a fair verdict.
"Have I been angered by this? Absolutely," the officer said, referring to delays in the case, with trial testimony currently set to begin Aug. 6.
While questioning another officer, Hasan referred to Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad as "my brother." Muhammad, a Muslim convert, was charged in a June 1, 2009 shooting attack on a military recruiting station in Little Rock, Ark. that left one soldier dead and another wounded. Muhammad pleaded guilty to state capital murder charges and was given a life sentence.
Hasan made reference to Muhammad when asking a potential juror about her views on the incident.
"The fact that he is my brother and my friend — will that affect your ability to serve as a panel member?" he asked.
The officer said it would not.
Hasan questioned each of the nine potential jurors about potential biases. Some of his questions centered on whether they could fairly judge an accused defendant who believes in Sharia Law, the moral and religious code of Islam.
One officer with a background in military security said he could, even though the Fort Hood shooting sent dramatic ripples to other military installations, resulting in broad measures to improve security.
"The evidence has got to follow" any arguments that the defendant is not guilty, the officer said.
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Cavaliers Assign Jones to Charge
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CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Cavaliers have assigned forward Kevin Jones to the Canton Charge, the Cavaliers exclusively owned and operated NBA Development League team, Cavaliers General Manager Chris Grant announced today.Jones has played in 15 games for the Cavs this season and is averaging 1.9 points and 1.5 re bounds in 9.0 minutes per game. He has appeared in five games for the Charge this season, averaging 23.6 points, 12.6 rebounds and 1.4 steals in 41.0 minutes. He has four double-doubles on the season for the Charge.


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CHALFONT St Peter secured their biggest win of the season as they came from behind to beat Marlow 4-1 in a derby game last night.
Jon Bennett scored his third goal in two games to put Marlow in front, only for veteran striker Scott Fitzgerald to bring Saints level three minutes later.
Remmel Clarke then turned the game on its head moments later as the visitors went in front, with their lead being extended after the break thanks to Romaine Walker and Terrell Lewis.
Meanwhile Beaconsfield SYCOB's 13 match unbeaten run was brought to a halt as they too were beaten by a Bucks side, going down 2-0 at Aylesbury United.


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Citi's Fitzpatrick – Euro Under Pressure, Ready to Collapse
July 10, 2012
Today King World News wanted to share with its global readers a portion of top Citibank analyst, Tom Fitzpatrick's latest report. Fitzpatrick, a 28 year veteran and top analyst at Citibank, which has $1.3 trillion in assets, covered the two key markets, the euro vs the dollar and bonds. Below were his comments with two important charts:
Tom Fitzpatrick latest report:
"U.S. 30 year yields held 2.50% twice – the first time in Dec 2008 and then again this year. A breach of that would leave the way open for the double top target in the 2.00% area."
Euro vs Dollar: "Lower lows confirms the trend is still down and the sub 1.20 area should be tested. The 2010 low was 1.1876 and the channel base comes in at 1.1720. Note that end of May also saw a decent trend down on EUR/USD as German yields fell to zero and a U.S. long end yields trended down.
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Dr. Mauritzio Nirenstein, noted economist and literateur, and one of the leading personalities in Argentinian intellectual circles, is dead here. He was 58 years old.
Dr. Nirenstein came to Argentine as a young boy with his father, who was among the earliest Jewish immigrants to settle here. The Nirensteins came from Galicia.
The professor was secretary of the Buenos Aires University and lectured on philosophy and literature in the faculty of jurisprudence. He also wrote considerably, and his translation into Spanish of Heine's "Romanzero" is considered among the best Spanish translations of the German-Jewish poet's works.
In his younger years Dr. Nirenstein became estranged from Jewish life, when he married the daughter of a local German scholar. His house was a typical Christian home, and his sons were raised in the Christian manner. This resulted in a great internal spiritual struggle, which became intensified after the "patriotic" anti-Semitic excesses in Buenos Aires in 1919, when his own son was one of the leaders of the patriotic anti-Semites.
This had such a tremendous effect on Dr. Nirenstein, that he again became interested in all things Jewish, and he was very active in Jewish literary circles here. He was a strong advocate for the establishment of a special chair for Hebrew literature and Judaism in the philosophy faculty here.
Dr. Nirenstein was a warm friend of Prof. Albert Einstein. Prof. Einstein had presented a picture to him on which was inscribed: "Wherever Nirenstein enters there peace doth reign."
Dr. Nirenstein was laid to rest at the aristocratic cemetery in Buenos Aires. His widow, who has a warm regard for the Jews, did not permit any Christian rites to be performed. Leaders of Argentine and Jewish literary and educational circles eulogized him. Representatives of the various student bodies also participated.


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Islamabad: Political party of Canadian-Pakistani cleric Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri may take part in upcoming general election in Pakistan, a report said.
Qadri reached a deal with Pakistan's ruling coalition on Thursday that will give his party some say over the formation of a caretaker government ahead of elections this spring.
The cleric has threatened to take his supporters to roads again if the government does not abide by an agreement that eased a political crisis, an aide said on Friday, Reuters reported.
"We will ensure implementation of the agreement with full letter and spirit," Qazir Faizul Islam, secretary of information for Qadri's charity, told Reuters.
"If the government tries to deviate, we will force them to follow through the power of the people and media."
With Qadri's long march ended, confusion still prevails what is his agenda. While some say Pakistan's powerful military is behind the cleric, many believe Qadri is working on a "foreign" agenda.
An agreement between Qadri and government was lambasted by notable Pakistani journalists, including Talat Hussain, Hamid Mir, Nusrat Javed, Mushtaq Minhas and Faisal Quraishi.


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How Silicon Valley Keeps Reinventing Itself
- How Silicon Valley Keeps Reinventing Itself
- More Important Silicon Valley Traits
2.This is where the money is.
Over the years, I have made the trek to Page Mill Road in Menlo Park with over 50 startups looking for venture money to start or grow their businesses. This is the area where most of the high tech venture capitalists reside and these are the companies that are willing to take serious risks in startups. In this one region alone, they have over $150 billion in funds to invest in mostly tech related companies. And they have one interesting secret. They want the companies they invest in to be close by. That is why when a Sand Hill Road VC invests in a company, they almost always have it settle in Silicon Valley. While many companies start with angel funds or their own money, if they want to grow, they almost always need serious capital. And these VCs basically rule the Valley. They fuel the entrepreneurial spirit in this region, and since tech is their universe, they literally breed tech start ups and nurture them here in the area. The WSJ had a great piece recently that showed how VCs are rushing to invest in high tech start ups these days and underlines the VC's role in Silicon Valley.
3. It has engineering talent.
I am convinced that I get smarter just by hanging around with the brilliant engineers that work at the many companies that I deal with in the Valley. It is estimated that there are about 100,000 engineers in the Bay Area, which has a population of around 8 million. Although this number represents a cross breed of engineering disciplines, the majority are in software programming and semiconductor and hardware design. This wealth of technical talent is one of the Valley's biggest draws for established companies and tech start-ups who continue to look for the brightest talent they can find to fuel their growth.
4. Its people have a desire to change the world
One of the more interesting things I noticed when I started covering tech 30 years ago was the rather idealistic idea that technology could change the world. This theme started inside Apple when Jobs and Woz first started the company and picked up steam during the time Apple was building the Mac. In fact, when Steve Jobs interviewed former Pepsi CEO John Sculley for the CEO job at Apple, he asked "Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?"
Over the years, I have heard this sentiment mentioned often when I talk with a new start up or even an established company who believes their technology has the ability to impact people in a significant way. And to some degree, they have a point. Look at the various new ways computers and now tablets are impacting the field of medicine. Or Facebook's affect on the current uprising on the Middle East. To underscore this theme, the Google executive who helped spur the recent revolution in Egypt, Wael Ghonim, was in Silicon Valley last week, and he implored his co-workers to "change the world with their next invention."
These tech entrepreneur's who drive much of the Valley's tech status forward all seem to have this "change the world" mentality as part of their DNA. That is why many of them, who are billionaires and millionaires and who could retire and sail the world, continue to work crazy long hours and keep pushing themselves and their teams to create the next great thing. Of course, they always have the motive of money, but consider Steve Jobs. He earns $1 a year. Yes, he gets stock, but if you know Jobs, he would still be doing what he is doing with Apple even if the stock was taken from him. He really believes what he is doing is world-changing.
Silicon Valley was first known for test equipment, thanks to HP, and then it became the center of the semiconductor world, thanks to Intel, AMD, and others. Apple and HP are key forces driving the future of the PC and CE devices. And most recently, it has become the center of the mobile world, as well as the nerve center for much of the activity in social media. I am convinced that as long as intellectual property sits at the heart of Silicon Valley and as long as it can continue tap into this wealth of engineering talent and still posses the money to fuel new companies wanting to change the world, Silicon Valley will continue to reinvent itself and thrive well into the future.
For more from Tim Bajarin, follow him on Twitter @bajarin.
Tim Bajarin is one of the leading analysts working in the technology industry today. He is president of Creative Strategies (www.creativestrategies.com), a research company that produces strategy research reports for 50 to 60 companies annuallya roster that includes semiconductor and PC companies, as well as those in telecommunications, consumer electronics, and media. Customers have included AMD, Apple, Dell, HP, Intel, and Microsoft, among many others. You can e-mail him directly at email@example.com.
More Tim Bajarin:
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Puresa Humanitarian is a non-profit 501(c)3 charitable organization dedicated to providing rescue, hope, and a way out of slavery for children and women, victims and survivors of human trafficking and sexual slavery. Puresa Humanitarian was born from a God-given vision and passion to reach and help suffering victims to receive rescue, hope, restoration, dignity and opportunity for a new life of freedom.
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This article was published 20/5/2014 (1190 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: My little brother is far too interested in the sex on our farm. I am 15 and he is only 12, but he is way too educated from the farm animals and his computer searches about how different animals "do it" and he's always reporting sightings of cats, dogs, the bull and our horses having sex. I have complained to my mother that he's crazy obsessed and they say it's part of farm life. It wasn't for me!
I can't wait to get out of this hick area and into the city, but I think my parents need to keep an eye on that kid. He's obsessed with sex and he's got weird problems. I think they should take him to the city to see a shrink. Ewww. -- Disgusted Sister, Manitoba
Dear Disgusted: Talk to both your mother and your father and cite all the examples you know of. Then suggest clearly you think he needs to talk to a psychologist outside of the general area where you live. If you recognize something is wrong with this kid, now is the time to get him help. Lots of kids are interested in how animals have sex, but if you are sure his is a weird sexual obsession, then it is for everybody's well-being that he get help right now.
Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: My friend thinks he can sing. He goes from one karaoke bar to another, and frankly, he's just terrible. I stopped going with him very often because it's painful. How do you tell someone they can't sing and that they shouldn't be singing in public?
This is my longest friendship ever -- since Grade 3. He is a great guy in every other way, but he expects me to tag along and "enjoy the fun." It is embarrassing and anything but fun to have him singing really loud off-key. I can see people wincing in the audience. None of his other friends will go any more. Do I tell him the truth about his terrible voice? He sounds like he's in pain when he sings. I feel that pain, believe me. -- 10 Years His Friend, Winnipeg
Dear 10 Years: Would you want to be told? Sooner or later someone other than his best friend is going to tell him bluntly, probably in a bar while drinking, after other singers. What you can do is let him know you are personally tired of karaoke and will not be going any more -- not at all. Be the first to ask him to do other fun activities. It's not that you want to quit being his pal, you just don't want to be anywhere he's singing. Let someone else break his heart.
Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: I borrowed my big sister's white coat without telling her and wore it on a date and spilled some red wine on it. Then I tried to take it out with salt and soda water and other methods and none of it worked. Then I took it to a dry cleaner and they couldn't get rid of it all.
Last night I confessed and showed it to her and she hit the roof. She actually cried because it was her favourite coat ever and it's ruined. I offered to give her the money from my savings and that didn't help. What else can I do? -- Deep Trouble, West End
Dear Deep: She wants the coat fixed, and nothing else. More coats, exactly like that one, will have been made. Ask her where she bought the coat, and go see them about re-ordering it. If they can't get it, you can get almost anything on eBay, so get the make, model and size of that coat and replace her coat with a new one just like it.
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"Class, Style, Elegance, Quality" are Ahura's Words. The taste for beauty is closely joined by functionality and length of time.
Since the second postwar period, the capability to work at high level both from the technical and the design point of view, brought Ahura to become the reference for research and creations, and led up to extraordinary well-known artistical excellence.
The legend tells us that the beginning of ceramics production goes back to the '400's thanks to the Venice Republic; the documents found tell us that the art of ceramics was born in Nove and Bassano del Grappa during XVII century starting an industry that will impose itself in the world. Ahura was born in 1975 in Italy and is the only one able to produce pieces perfectly decorated with first-quality gold, platinum and Swarovski Crystals.
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Re: [mythsoc] Posthumous Mervyn Peake sequel
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A fourth "Titus Groan" book, written after Mervyn Peake's death by his
widow, Maeve Gilmore, is to be published.
Here's my commentary on this, including some background that I hope will be
useful, with a link to the news article in the Guardian.
Brian Sibley, who has had much to do with Mervyn Peake, also comments on his blog, at http://briansibleysblog.blogspot.com/.
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Ask a Career Counselor for Answers ASAP
You are on the right track. I understand the Postal Service is hard to deal with in these issues; and unless you have the union or a supervisor helping you, it can be difficult.
It is easier if you can find a vacancy in the location you wish to move to. If you are on temporary assignment, it may be easier to work into a permanent position.
They are more likely to allow you to become permanent from a temporary assignment than an outright transer. This is especially true if you make yourself a valuable member of the team.
If there is no vacancy, once you are there, try to find some one who is willing to switch locations. .I do not know how strong your union is, but if you are a member, and I am sure you are, then ask a union rep if they can help to effect the transfer.
You will have to prove your hardship, so be sure to have any medical statements all ready prepared by the doctor.
your HR department should have the process and procedures for you.
If this is not the information you are looking for, be sure to let me know.
Dear Badgie,
How closely does your unit adhere to federal employee guidelines?
Dear badgie,
Thank you for your additional information. I was hoping you would confirm the OPM.
The OPM directive for hardship transfers are focused on compelling consideration of employee requests for hardship transfers based on the employee's health, but for family member health. THe policies allow them to use family member health as a consideration, but do not compel it.
In addition the OPM consideration of hardship transfers is not a point of law, except to the extent that if you show discrimination in the process, you may have recourse.
So it is not law, but directed policy.
I approach this from that perspective, because I have to think: what is it you can legally do.
Since this is discretionary, there is nothing you can do legally to compel or force them to provide an earlier decision.
The following discussion of hardship transfers is taken from the OPM:
Hardship transfers can be requested by employees that are experiencing personal problems at their current duty station. There are many reasons that people request hardship transfers; to care for sick parents; lack of medical facilities at your location for specific treatments for you or your family members; to get closer to your children after a divorce when your ex spouse has custody; and any number of other reasons that create an undue hardship on you or your family.
The key to successfully transferring to another position is professionally packaging your federal style resume. You must tailor your work histories and KSAs to the job announcement or position's required duties and qualifications that you are targeting. Use the all new 10th edition of The Book of U.S. Government Jobs to take you step-by-step through analyzing the job announcement to writing your work histories and KSAs. You can also hire a professional resume writing service to assist you if desired.
The procedure is similar to the IPP process except that you must describe the hardship in your cover letter. Prepare a cover letter requesting the hardship transfer along with an application (OF-612, federal resume, or SF-171) and give it to your immediate supervisor. Include the desired duty location in the cover letter, job series and grade of the position at the new location, and a copy of your training history. Your supervisor will forward it to the next level of management with his/her recommendation.
There must be a position available or an anticipated vacancy at the new location for the request to be considered. Check with your Human Resource department for your agency's hardship transfer procedures. Each agency has written policies that describe the process in detail.
I am not familiar with the U.S.P.S. to know if you use KSA or OF/SF forms.
However, from additional research the principles are the same.
in my opinion, in order to a decision sooner or a desicion on the draw down, you would need to convince them of the urgency of your case.


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Wednesday, 8 May, 2002, 17:12 GMT 18:12 UK
Tube 'almost' in private hands
The government's controversial privatisation of London Underground has taken a step closer.
London Transport has signed contracts with the engineering firms that will do the job of modernising the system over the next 30 years.
But the scheme will not get the final go-ahead from Health and Safety officials for another six weeks.
The underground's managing director Paul Godier said: "The Tube has today moved one vital step closer to the essential long-term funding it desperately needs."
But rail unions said the Public Private Partnership plan (PPP) would be "an unmitigated disaster".
Mick Rix, general secretary of the train drivers' union Aslef, said: "Passengers and the taxpayer will be paying for this blunder for years to come and before very long we will have to work out how to undo the PPP and restore a publicly controlled underground."
This stage in the Tube's PPP can be likened to an exchange of contracts in the housebuying process.
It came about after London Transport Board voted unanimously to proceed with the modernisation plans.
Mr Godier said: "It has been a long, hard slog to get where we are today.
"We are all working flat out to make sure the final pieces of the jigsaw are in place so that work can start, without further delay, to deliver a world-class Tube for a world-class city."
Transport secretary Stephen Byers said he shared LT's views that the plans, which will see around �16bn invested in the Underground over the next 15 years, were "the right solution and offered significant benefits for Londoners".
Under PPP, the Tube Lines consortium will be responsible for maintaining and upgrading the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines of the Tube, while the Metronet consortium maintains the rest of the lines.
The actual operation of the trains will stay in the public sector and will be the responsibility of the London Mayor and the capital's Transport Commissioner.
Mayor Ken Livingstone and the commissioner Bob Kiley have both been bitterly opposed to PPP.
Bob Crow, general secretary of the Rail Maritime and Transport union, said: "The disaster of British Rail privatisation is being exported wholesale on to London Underground.
"Londoners don't want it, our members on the Tube don't want it and the Mayor doesn't want it.
"The only people who want this to happen, apart from the government, are the privateers dribbling at the prospect of getting their snouts stuck into another trough."
See also:
15 Apr 02 | Scotland
Deal bolsters anti-PFI lobby
29 Mar 02 | UK Politics
Byers under fresh Tube attack
21 Mar 02 | UK Politics
Chunnel link 'a flawed deal'
07 Mar 02 | England
Byers 'jumped gun' on Tube plans
28 Feb 02 | England
Livingstone's threat over Tube documents
02 Feb 02 | UK
Q & A: Public Private Partnerships
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One of Hungary's most respected newspapers, Népszabadság, reported yesterday (December 5) that he was once pulled in and questioned by Thai police after the disappearance in Thailand of a Hungarian billionaire, Laszlo Csapai.
Mr Csapai, the newspaper wrote, owns "more than a hundred stores in Europe" and was spotted on CCTV at an airport in Thailand with David, shortly before he disappeared. But with nothing more to go on, Thai police had to release him.
It also reported that "Moshe David" is not the only name he goes by. He also has the name Gábor Németh, and he is wanted in Hungary for fleeing the country after being sentenced to seven years in jail for fraud.
Ferenc Chilko, a former policeman turned private investigator, was hired by Csapai's family to try to locate the missing billionaire. He is quoted by the newspaper as saying that David is, on first meeting him, a man of considerable charm.
But, he warns, David "looks for people who have more money than average, and only cares about one thing: how to take that money away from them.
"He has suave manners, good interpersonal abilities. He's a sleek man," he is quoted as saying.
The newspaper reports that Peter Reisz realised at some point after going into business with David that the sleek exterior hid a sinister interior, and he became very frightened.
He contacted the Hungarian Embassy in Bangkok to alert them to his fears, and handed them a letter setting out in great detail why he feared for his life.
The newspaper says, "According to some sources, the consulate only told him to be careful and to check in with them every other day, while others say he was advised to return to Hungary."
According to the investigator, Mr Chilko, Mr Reisz also secretly recorded a "brutal" conversation with David in which the latter told him, "You could end up like Csapai." Mr Chilko declined to say how he got hold of a copy of the recording.
Although local reports so far have theorised that Reisz may have tried to rip off his partner by forging his signature on land ownership transfer papers, the newspaper reports, somewhat mysteriously, that "several factors suggest that the … background was actually over the failure of a loan transaction; Nemeth wanted to borrow more from Mr Reisz, but he said no, and that was his undoing."
Thailand and Hungary have no extradition treaty, but Népszabadság reports that whenever a Hungarian is expelled from Thailand, the Hungarian authorities are alerted.


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The banqueting hall, built in 1295, is a national monument and Norway's oldest wooden non- ecclesiastical building. Finnesloftet is situated along the road Finnesvegen, approximately 15 minutes on foot from Voss town centre, west of Voss Railway Station.
Opening hours:
Open on request for groups of min 10 people, all year.
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday week 30 and 31 you can participate in a organized visit to Finnesloftet, traditional music and a traditional meal. The trip starts from Voss vandrarheim (Voss youth hostel) at 18.00 and the dinner is finished at 21.
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34the Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax-collectors and sinners!
The New Revised Standard Version (Anglicized Edition), copyright 1989, 1995 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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THIS RESTAURANT IS CLOSED Ahh Sushi! Restaurant Review: Ahh Sushi! offers plentiful and flavorful sushi in an airy, modern atmosphere. Unfortunately, however, this Jeremy Ranch eatery suffers from the same condition as its older Salt Lake City sister---slow service. Even with minimally-occupied tatami rooms and patio seats, it still may take two-plus hours for the selections of Las Vegas, death, spider and mars rolls to appear. The server may float miso soup, crisp tempura veggies and tender beef yakitoris your way to calm the hunger pangs but what's really needed is for the sushi chefs to step it up. Prices are reasonable.
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Just shy of 2 weeks ago, leakster @upleaks also stirred up the rumor mill by posting specs and a couple of pictures of a 64-bit capable HTC Desire phone, supposedly in the works. Dubbed HTC A11, it is said to feature a 4.7" display, 480 x 954 resolution, and be powered by the Snapdragon 410, which is a quad-core SoC.
So perhaps "what's next for smartphones" is that HTC intends to launch a range of 64-bit devices, from the low- to upper-mid range, and show its competitors 'how it's done'. Or, this could all be just whispers in the wind.
1. HTC Event invite
2. Rumored HTC A11
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Release Notes: A bugfix for multi-volume code, experimental networking code, and documentation updates.
Release Notes: Updates were made for huge volumes of data. Updates for gcc-3.0 were also made.
Release Notes: A fix for the -T option.
Release Notes: Multivolume support declared stable (enabled by default), minor documentation updates, and a configure fix for solaris 5.1.
Release Notes: Bugfixes for the experimental multi-volume support.
Release Notes: This version contains a fix for experimental multi-volume support. It should now work correctly on all devices.
Release Notes: Sanity check for multi-volume options added, and docu-updates concerning multi-volume support.
Release Notes: Showing the summary on SIGINT and SIGTERM, fixes for summary overflow, and a new experimental feature (multiple volumes on input).
Release Notes: Summary information was added. The documentation was updated. Experimental multi-volume support for output was added.
Release Notes: This release fixes sleep, which limited the performace to 1MB/s, an incorrect display of the total data transfer for >2GB, and a man page.


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China Glaze - Ruby Pumps
I don't think this one is that special, but it is one of the most popular ChG shades and maybe even one of the most popular red shades ever. This one is as famous as For Audrey. Maybe not a must have, but it's pretty. And I like it over black.
China Glaze - Sacred Heart
This one belongs to the Ink Collection which was all about the neons and other special mutant shades. If you're a red lover, this one is a must. Here's my post about this beauty. You'll get the idea of how much I love it.
Eyeko - Spicy
My second favorite red creme. It's opaque in one coat and the formula is just perfect. Let me rephrase that - this polish is perfection. Get it while you still can, Eyeko's nail polishes are now a limited edition! If you're gonna buy from Eyeko, use my code (E10655) for a free gift with your purchase.
Illamasqua - Throb
Another one coater worth mentioning. It shares 1st place with another great red creme...
Nu Colour - Scarlet
This was my long time no.1 red creme polish that now shares it's place with Illamasqua's Throb. It's so great: effortless application, awesome formula and the color... just perfect.
Rimmel - Desire
This is a VERY special polish to me. It's sooooo old... I used it 6 years and more ago. I managed to revive it with Seche Restore and now it's here with me again. A ''vintage'' Rimmel. Brings out so many memories...
Wet n Wild - Temptress
One of my favorite red shimmers. Vampy, sexy and just beautiful. Don't you think?
Honorable Mention:
Maybe you've noticed I mentioned Sacred Heart twice. Well, it's worth mentioning twice. ;)
Which are your favorite red polishes?
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Stocks don't care about macro details right now. A big GDP number doesn't mean buyers will come flying into the market. This morning looked a bit more like a few panicky short sellers covering positions rather than strong-hand buyers. Even though the "contra" trade is looking for a drop in the market, it is just about the sentiment I get from every trader I know. I'm just not sure how "contra" it is.
Twitter (TWTR) was strong Tuesday -- stronger than I anticipated. Still, it will make for a nice double, with a possibility of a little more upside, but still solid overall. I will admit it is hard not to be a little disappointed since I was leaning bullish, but I didn't commit fully to it and this is what happens when you make that choice. Fortunately, it is fleeting since green is green.
Yelp (YELP) is another big one today. This has been a big mover, but it offers a few approaches to the trade. First, the all green right-hand column means buyers come in for YELP during the day. The stock has closed higher than the open four straight times by an average of 5%, so grabbing some stock, calls or call spreads at the open is certainly intriguing. Options are a bit tougher than stock since they won't open as quickly nor as smoothly as the stock. Even the implied move looks lower around 12%. Remember, that is for the weekly options that expire Friday. The monthly options are pricing in a move around 14%, which is still much lower than past reports. The stock has moved at least 12% before expiration hit all four reports, with a move above 15% three times (15.8%, 42% and 28.9% were the maximum moves).
So, while I don't like the Aug. 1 straddles, I do like the Aug. 16 straddles around $10.50 to $10.70. I would even consider September $72.5 puts/$77.50 call strangles around $11.25. A move around 19% before September expiration is very possible in my view. I will take a small flyer on each.
For those wanting to play the front month and are willing to take an aggressive approach, ratio spreads or skip-strike butterflies would be my approach in both directions. I favor the Aug. 1 $73-85-90 call butterflies in a long 1 by short 3 by long 2 ratio, and using the same ratio on the put side with the Aug. 1 $75-63-58 strikes for $6.50 or less. Breakeven is on a 7.4% move, but this has risk on a very big move, which is where those August and September volatility plays come in. If I went with long 1 by short 2 ratios spreads for Aug. 1, they would be long on the $78 call and $70 put side with the shorts being $85 calls and $63 puts, but that trade is not for the faint of heart.


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America's Dairyland Braces For Great Wall
December 19, 2008
Don Trent wants to build a mile-long replica of the Great Wall of China next to a highway in Spring Valley, Wisconsin. He lives there in a former elementary school, along with a large collection of Chinese artifacts. No one really knows how Don got his collection, or whether or not his artifacts are real, or how he plans to fund and build his wall. Don is not Chinese, but he says that he has the support of the Chinese government.
China, too, has a history of backing attractions in the U.S. that reproduce it in miniature, such as Splendid China and Forbidden Gardens.
Maybe the Chinese see Don's wall as a way to boost the scale of their charm offensive — or maybe they saw the towering Trojan Horse go-kart track in Wisconsin Dells and got a bad idea. Could Don Trent unknowingly be sponsoring a Great Hollow Wall of China? Will it be filled with thousands of terra cotta warrior robots, ready to pour out and shanghai Wisconsin's Hodag so that it can be dragged to Asia and turned into an exotic soup?
Mmm, probably not….
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Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems
Evolutionary Dynamics and Equilibria in Finite Agent Populations
Wednesdays@NICO Seminar, Noon, January 24 2007, Chambers Hall, Lower Level
Dr. Sevan Ficici, Harvard University
Since its introduction, evolutionary game theory (EGT) [Maynard Smith 1982] has become a popular framework for modeling biological and economic systems because it obviates the need for fully rational agents. Instead, strategic behavior is evolved through a process of natural selection. The conventional EGT framework assumes an infinitely large population of pure-strategist agents. Each agent interacts with every other agent and accumulates payoff as it goes; agents then reproduce offspring in proportion to their cumulative payoffs to form the next generation of the population. Many games played under this framework lead the population to a dynamical point-attractor known as a polymorphic fitness equilibrium, where the population contains two or more of the game's pure strategies, and agents playing these pure strategies obtain identical cumulative payoffs. An infinite population makes the selection dynamics deterministic; the population's expected behavior corresponds exactly with the population's actual behavior. Nevertheless, real-world populations are finite, and selection dynamics are actually stochastic. In this talk, we investigate how well the polymorphic fitness-equilibrium attractors obtained under infinite populations predict the behaviors of finite-population systems. Though the finite population will almost always be away from fitness equilibrium, due to stochastic selection, we may naively expect that the fitness equilibrium will predict the mean population state. In fact, this is almost always not the case. We show that this divergence in outcome occurs when the selection pressures that surround the fitness equilibrium are asymmetric. We also show that the mean population state of a finite population represents, instead, an equilibrium with respect to this asymmetry in selection pressure.


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Mr Mousa, 26, the son of an Iraqi police colonel, was one of a number of workers from the Haitham hotel detained by British soldiers in September 2003.
He was taken to the UK military base near Basra where it is alleged he was killed while in custody.
His 22-year-old wife had died of cancer shortly before, leaving their two sons, aged three and five, orphaned.
British troops surrounded the hotel in Basra after guns were discovered in a safe.
Mr Mousa's father, Col Daoud Mousa, last saw his son when he went to the hotel to pick him up. He says his son and half a dozen other hotel workers were on the floor with their hands behind their heads.
A British officer reassured him that it was a routine investigation that would only last a couple of hours, Col Mousa said.
But three days later a military policeman informed him his son had died in custody and said he would need to identify the body.
Col Mousa told a High Court hearing in December last year that he was "horrified" by the state of his son.
"I was asked to accompany them to identify the corpse. When I saw the corpse I burst into tears and I still cannot bear to think about what I saw.
"Every time I tell this story I break down."
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ASANKA Gurusinha's eyes watered when he was hit in the box by Craig McDermott en route to a hard-earned Test century at the MCG in 1995, and again when a contact lens became dislodged that day, but cricket made him cry only once, after Shane Warne snatched certain victory away from Sri Lanka in Colombo three years previously.
Gurusinha had made a century in the first innings of that match and was 31 not out in the second, but stranded at the other end as the pudgy Warne skittled the tail. ''For all the players who played in that game, it will always be there,'' Gurusinha said. ''It was the biggest disappointment of our cricket lives.''
It was Warne's first imprint on Test cricket. In the next match, Muthiah Muralidaran made his debut for Sri Lanka, confounding the great Allan Border, who could not immediately say whether he was bowling off- or leg-spin.
Now Australia and Sri Lanka play for the Warne-Muralidaran trophy. Asked if, in these humble beginnings, he foresaw such a replete and storied future, Gurusinha said: ''No. That's the honest truth.''
Warne, he said, had dismissed only tailenders in that match. He was nagging like Glenn McGrath, which was unusual for a leg-spinner, but he rarely bowled a wrong-un, and made it obvious by its extra flight when he did, and so did not trouble left-handers. Murali, he said, could turn the ball from the start.
''The question was, can he keep doing it?'' he said.
Murali's watershed was that MCG Test three years later, in which Gurusinha's gutsy century was far overshadowed by the Boxing Day calling of his compatriot for throwing. ''We heard before the game that it was going to happen,'' he said. ''But on the morning of the match we were told it's not going to happen.''
Because Darrell Hair called Murali from the bowler's end, Gurusinha thought at first that it was for overstepping. When the truth dawned, he felt angry. The cricket world became a fraught place. Ultimately, Murali and the rule-makers met each other halfway, measured in degrees. ''It changed world cricket,'' Gurusinha said.
Gurusinha, distinguished by his dark beard and resolute batsmanship, is a near constant in the early annals of Austro-Sri Lankan Test cricket. He would have played in their first encounter in this country, in Perth in 1988, except that he broke his finger in the nets two days previously; he can feel it still.
He played in a two-match series the next year, in Brisbane and Hobart, against an Australian team still bouncing from its Ashes plunder. Sri Lanka was proud to extend Australia to five days in both. ''In Brisbane, they didn't even print day five tickets,'' he said.
In 1992 in Sri Lanka, he was witness to the emergence of Warne and Murali. In 1995 in Perth, he played against Ricky Ponting on his debut.
Gurusinha already had been struck by an aspect of Ponting's batsmanship in a warm-up match the previous week in Devonport. Unusually for Antipodean batsmen in Gurusinha's experience, Ponting could play high-grade spin. ''I thought he would go a long way,'' he said. ''But not that far.''
The Melbourne melodrama followed. Gurusinha remembers his pride in making a hundred against McGrath, Warne, Craig McDermott, Paul Reiffel and the off-spin of Mark Waugh, then the best attack in the world, but also that by match's end, the teams were neither mixing nor talking.
At the end of the subsequent one-day series in Sydney, combative Sri Lankan captain Arjuna Ranatunga instructed his team not to shake hands with the Australians. Deliberately, Gurusinha stayed in the dressing room, thinking of his friendship with Ian Healy. ''If 'Heals' came to me and shook hands, I couldn't have looked the other way,'' he said. ''But I felt sorry for some of the young guys.''
A third Test followed, in Adelaide. One evening, Australian captain Mark Taylor walked into the Sri Lankan dressing room, beers in hand. Gurusinha admired his spirit, but Australia had already decided to boycott Sri Lanka in the World Cup the next month, and the damage had been done.
As fate would have it, Australia and Sri Lanka met in the final, in Lahore. All tournament, Sri Lanka had chased by choice, backing its batting heft. On the morning of the final, Imran Khan told Ranatunga that he needed to bat first. Gurusinha remembered that Ranatunga smiled and said: ''I'm not doing what he says, I'm doing what we've decided.''
At night, a heavy dew fell, turning the ball into a cake of soap. Aravinda de Silva made a century and shared with Gurusinha a long partnership that made victory a formality. In his mind's eye, Gurusinha can put himself out there still. ''Right from the first ball I faced, from Fleming: it was an inside edge for four,'' he said.
But later that year, still just 30, Gurusinha retired. ''It's not a lie that Arjuna and I didn't see eye to eye at that time. It was tough at first. I'd given up something I was good at. But I realised my heart wasn't in it. There was too much politics.''
He had family in Melbourne, and previously had played two seasons for North Melbourne, so moved his young family here, found a job in publishing, and stayed. He barracks for Australia in most sports, but the All-Blacks in rugby and, of course, Sri Lanka in cricket. The trademark beard has long gone. ''Too many grey hairs,'' he said, but at least his smile is now visible.
Sri Lanka has beaten Australia only once in Test cricket, never in Australia. In 1989, said Gurusinha, it was strong in batting, but lacked penetration in attack. Frustratingly to him, it is still so. Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara are 10,000-run legends (who at last will get to bat on the MCG) and Dilshan Tillakaratne is a wonderful ''lucky dip''.
''But it always comes down to the same big question: do we have the bowlers to take 20 wickets?'' he said. ''You've got to have that extra pace, to push a batsman onto the back foot. A medium-pacer will get slaughtered.'' Mind you, he added, the same 20-wicket question could be asked about Australia.


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Wolverine: Origins TV Spot Now Online
First of three 60-second teasers on Fox
Starting last night, continuing today and concluding on Tuesday, readers in the States can tune into the FOX network and, in the sort of corporate synergy that gives Rupert Murdoch a warm glow in his special place, see three exclusive 60-second TV spots promoting the hell out of X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
Thankfully, the first of these – which aired during last night's Family Guy – has already shown up online.
This one, entitled Outcasts, juxtaposes the adult Logan's ordeal at the hands of the Weapon X programme – when his skeleton is laced with unbreakable adamantium, a procedure which looks as painful here as it did in X-Men 2 – with flashbacks to his childhood in the Victorian era, when a traumatic event shaped his destiny… forever (dum dum DAAAAAAA!).
Although word has been that Gavin Hood's stab at Wolverine's origin has been troubled, we have to say that we continue to like what we see about this movie. And while, the Victorian segments might – might – feature some dodgy acting, it is only a 60-second spot, so let's not judge too harshly. But this section does seem to hew pretty closely to the Origin graphic novel, which means bone claws, people... not to mention shocking familial revelations!
It also indicates that the young Logan, on the run for murder, teams up with a young ruffian who will grow up to become not only Wolverine nemesis, Sabretooth, but spellcheck nemesis, Liev Schreiber.
This spot is pretty light on Hugh Jackman, but we're sure that the next two spots – one to air during House, the other during American Idol – will have plenty of the Aussie star being the best there is at what he does.


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OK, we know the whole Wii as window to weight loss fad is big right now, but we can't for the life of us figure out what would inspire someone to create these prototype Wii-branded exercise weights and then shop them around to investors for mass production. For one thing, similar wrist weights are already available in practically any sporting goods store for just a few bucks. You can even get them in a stylish white to match your Wii and remote. For another thing, we're pretty sure using the Wii logo like this on a marketed product without the explicit approval of Nintendo is just asking for a world of legal trouble.
Still, the idea of using wrist weights while working out with your Wii isn't a bad one. Reminds us of those Dragon Ball characters who used weighted clothing to lower their power level as they took on their friends in Wii Sports boxing. Or something.


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Bollywood baddie Shakti Kapoor has been locked up in the Bigg Boss 5 house for 90 days with 13 beautiful girls, but the big screen"s serial molester says that he is not aware of it. The B-Town comedian also says that he does not want to go nude inside the Bigg Boss house.
When asked about how he feels to be single male with 13 females inside Bigg Boss house, Shakti Kapoor response was very surprising. "Is it? I am not aware. Please don"t scare me. I will be ripped, butchered and will be thrown out of the house in no time or I would be hanging at the entrance," the Times of India quotes Shakti as saying.
But this does not mean that Shakti Kapoor is really scared of women. The actor adds, "On a serious note, I don"t think I would have any trouble befriending the female contestants as I studied in a co-ed school and have no difficulty getting along with girls. I feel that guys bitch more than girls."
When asked about how long he will survive in the show, Shakti Kapoor says that he will be there till the end, if there is positivity around and he is a happy man. "It entirely depends on how things go inside the house," the TOI quotes him as saying. Meanwhile, he adds that he will not "go nude" inside the house.
However, the bosses of Colors had tried to bring Shakti Kapoor on the previous seasons of Bigg Boss, but their negotiations did not go well. It took them four years to agree to his price and conditions. The reason for the actor to accept the offer is the growing popularity of the show Bigg Boss.


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Wednesday, 28 October 2009
Tiki twin fin
Posted by alasdair lindsay at 20:49 1 comment:
Ocean Magic single fin by Nigel Semmens
Stephane sends us these shots of his immaculate Ocean Magic circa 1980 single fin by Nigel Semmens. I'd imagine singles were quite rare by this stage as most boards would be twinnies. Ocean Magics are always good to see, especially by Nigel, British champ in '79 and European champ in '81, the most successful surfer in the country at the time he shaped this.
Stephane also has a couple of blogs with his boards on, highlights include two early Maurice Coles, two Hot Stuffs and two Bolts , take a look at http://surfcollection.blogspot.com/ and http://vintagesurffrance.blogspot.com/ .Thanks Stephane.
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Sunday, 25 October 2009
1970s British surf mags
Surf Insight is Britain's second earliest surf mag, after Rod Sumpter's British Surfer. It was started by Paul Holmes ( who went on to be editor of Australian mag Tracks and editor of Surfer through the 80s), Fuz Bleakley and Simonne Renvoize. It was in newspaper format and included political and social issues, had a environmental page, cartoons by Fuz and wide ranging surf articles which made it an influential Rolling Stone meets surf-esque mag. It is very rare to see any copies now so thanks to Graham for sending pics of his.If anyone wants to contact Graham about his mags or possible trades email him on firstname.lastname@example.com . The Surf magazine is from the mid 70s and features Graham Nile from St Austell on the cover.
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Thursday, 22 October 2009
Tig surfboards egg by Tigger Newling
Tigger circa 1970
Surf Insight with Tigger on the cover 1972
M P in 1969 with egg.
Nice shape by Tigger Newling from the '69/'70 transition period. During this time board lengths were cut dramatically; as in this board volume was kept up with an S or domed deck. The board dimensions are 6ft x 21 1/2 x 2 3/4. When I got this board it was in a bad state, fin chewed up and hanging off and many repairs needed; I also added a leash plug which I now regret as I should have kept it in the original state. It's signed Tigger 3270 which I'm thinking may mean it was made in 1970 as I'm sure he hadn't shaped thousands of boards at this early stage. The board also has down rails which shows the 69/ 70 Australian influence.
The Newlings were a popular and successful surfing family in the Treyarnon and Constantine area through the 70s. Tigger was a lifeguard, shaper and competition surfer who wasn't afraid of tackling local heavy reefs , including Porthleven and the Cribbar. He was influenced by Australian surfing and shaping after competing in the worlds at Bells Beach in 1970, and surfed in a radical but smooth style. He won the British champs in 1973 in 6-8 ft surf at Freshwater west.
He started Tig surfboards at age 17 from a greehouse, and in 1975 was working under Gerry Lopez at Lightening Bolt in Hawaii, before returning to Cornwall to start his Jolly Good label. He moved to Australia in 1980. Tigger said ' During that trip to Australia in 1970, I saw the boards Michael Peterson, Wayne Lynch and Nat Young were riding- those really wide egg shapes with big Greenough style single fins. I liked the design, so I built some of those when I got home, and they worked pretty well for me' ( from The Surfing Tribe p. 86 ).
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Tigger Newling and friends in Ireland 1967
Here's some very rare footage of Tigger, David and Rod Sumpter and Johnny McKilroy longboarding at Ballinskelligs bay, Kerry in 1967. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnZJiD_UQeU
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Wednesday, 21 October 2009
Lord Ted part 2
Thanks to Peter Robinson of the Surfing Museum for the pic of the Surfer cover of 1982 showing Ted Deerurst with quiver and hounds outside his manor house.A classic shot and the boards are possibly some of his own shapes using the bolt logo. The Surfing museum owns the bolt he's riding on the cover of the Atantic Surfer I featured recently.
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Monday, 19 October 2009
Saved from the rocks
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French board collectors
Stephane from Biarritz has sent these photos of the first French board collectors meet a couple of weeks ago at Lege Cap-Ferret; looks like a good turn out. Stephane wonders if we have meets in the UK and as far as I know we don't but it sounds like fun and its always good to oggle at other old boards, so watch this space ...... thanks again to Stephane and I'll be putting on more boards from him soon.
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Saturday, 17 October 2009
Bilbo badges
Here's some bilbo logos on a 1970s badge, a late 60s sticker from the Welsh bilbo shop, and a 1969 sew on patch , plus a random 60s toes on the nose sticker. Thanks to Graham who bought the patch himself in 69 and has a large collection of British surfing memorabilia ;we look forward to seeing some more of his gems.
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Friday, 16 October 2009
Recent boards
Here's a couple of boards I just picked up, a nice early 80s quad and a late 80s Kamikaze thruster. The quad is 5'8 x 19 3/4 and is a Stanton shape for Erich K designs ; this name isn't familiar and it turned up no results on google - does anyone know more than google on this one ? The Kamikaze is by mutley and dated 1989 , in good nick with original deck pad and stickers, I like the fins; its 6'6 x 19 1/2.
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Thursday, 15 October 2009
Ted Deerhurst lightning bolt singlefin
Ted was born Viscount Coventry and affectionately known as Lord Ted .He grew up in Britain and then moved to California, and was the first european to join the IPS world tour. He was a popular 'playboy' character on the tour who made his mark and flew the flag for Britain . In reality he was skint for long periods of time on the tour and often had to sleep in his car. He fearlessly surfed solid waves in Hawaii and his career high came in 1978 (?) when he got through to the semis of the Jose Cuervo classic at 12 ft Sunset beach, knocking out Cheyne Horan and Shaun Tomson's brother.
Ted surfed Parrish Lightning Bolts in Hawaii and when he returned to Britain , probably to earn some cash, he started shaping and was allowed to use the bolt logo. This board is from that era, its 6'8 x 19 x 2 1/2 . He emigrated to Australia in 1979 and started his excalibur label. He died of heart failure in 1997.
Ted was deeply commited to surfing and was full of the British never say die optimism. At one point he decided to take up snowboarding with the famous last words 'at least you can't drown in the mountains' , he spent the next six months in hospital ! He starred on the cover of Surfer mag in 1982 as 'aristocratic lord ted ' with his bolt quiver and hunting hounds outside the family pile ; if anyone has a copy I would love to feature it.
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Tuesday, 13 October 2009
more ebay boards
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Friday, 9 October 2009
The Gul collection
The Gul collection is always a good place to see old boards, its just off the A30 at Bodmin and you can walk in and see them in the huge entrance hall. There's about 35 boards and they're restored and well displayed. Highlights include Creamed Honeys, Ocean magic, Zippy sticks, john Conways and lots of Bilbos including Rod Sumpters union jack model. The Sumpter model was apparently owned by a farmer in Hayle before Gul acquired it !Well worth a visit ; buy British and support companies like Gul.
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Shane Watson's magnificent performances at last year's World Twenty20 earned him the player of the tournament award. They also proved the basis for him winning Australia's Twenty20 Player of the Year for a second consecutive year at the Allan Border Medal.
For all the scrutiny the specialist batsman has faced this summer due to his lingering injuries, it has been easy to forget how dominant he was for Australia with bat and ball in Sri Lanka until his team's semi-final exit.
Watson, ranked No.4 in the ICC's list of Twenty20 batsmen and top for all-rounders, made 249 runs at an average of 498 for the tournament, as well as 11 wickets at 16 with his now-dormant seamers. Almost half of his 34 boundaries were sixes - he struck 15 across six matches - giving him a strike rate of 150 for the tournament.
For the entire voting period, which started just under a year ago, Watson scored 406 runs at an average of 40.6 and a strike rate just under what he managed at the World Twenty20.
Watson missed the two recent Twenty20 matches against Sri Lanka but this did not hurt his ability to defend his title. Runner-up David Warner's unbeaten 90 in the first match was not enough to eclipse Watson. While the spread of votes Watson received from teammates, media and umpires was similar, only 11 of Warner's 29 votes came from teammates.
Twenty20 captain George Bailey, who along with Warner and Matthew Wade played in all of Australia's 13 matches for the period, finished third on 13 votes.
The Belinda Clark Award, for Australia's best female cricketer, went to its youngest-ever winner, Jess Cameron. The big-hitting Victorian batter is only 23 but has already represented Australia in 81 matches. For the voting period, which ended in mid-January, she scored 525 runs at an average of 52.5 from first drop in the Southern Stars' batting order.


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Lady Gaga Delivers In Super Bowl National Anthem (Video)The pop music goddess was the lady in red on Sunday night, blowing the crowd away with her rousing rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner."
Lady Gaga To Perform National Anthem At Super Bowl 50Lady Gaga is set to sing the national anthem at the Super Bowl on Sunday.
American Idol Winner to Sing National Anthem at Concert"American Idol's" newly crowned winner will sing the National Anthem at the National Memorial Day concert.
Apology for Wrong Anthem for El Salvador Before Game at FedEx FieldOrganizers of a soccer match in the U.S. capital apologized to El Salvador on Sunday for playing the wrong national anthem before an exhibition game against Argentina.
Tall Ships, Blue Angels & More: Celebrate the 200th Anniversary of the Star Spangled BannerWednesday marks the beginning of the star-spangled spectacular in Baltimore, celebrating the 200th anniversary of our National Anthem.
Baltimore Gears Up for Star-Spangled Spectacular Tall ships, a Blue Angels air show and musical performances will be among the highlights of a weeklong celebration of the 200th anniversary of writing of the Star-Spangled Banner.
National Aquarium to Host 'Star-Spangled Friday Night' EventThe National Aquarium in Baltimore is launching a new series of events on Friday nights to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Baltimore in 1812 that inspired the words for the national anthem.
Washington Nationals Held National Anthem AuditionsThe Washington Nationals are hosting auditions for people who want to sing the national anthem during baseball season.
'Perfectionist' Beyonce Admits She Pre-Recorded Inauguration Day National Anthem PerformanceBeyonce faced the music at a news conference Thursday before the Super Bowl, admitting that she sang along to a pre-recorded track when she performed the national anthem on Inauguration Day.
Beyonce Reportedly Lip-Synced National Anthem at Inauguration Beyonce's rousing rendition of the American national anthem, lauded by many, may not have been left up to chance, if new reports are to be believed.
Beyoncé Lip Synced National Anthem at InaugurationBeyoncé's rendition of the national anthem at Monday's presidential inauguration created quite the buzz and drew comparisons to Whitney Houston.


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"Since You Asked..."
We ended our survey by letting respondents provide free-form comments about Windows 7. Hundreds did-including additional praise, unsparing criticism, and mixed verdicts. Here's a sampling of what they had to say.
The Good
I wish Microsoft on UPDATE TUESDAY would push through a survey like this. I mean I know they have "back end" stuff that reports to them about my PC. BUT why not just force through an OPTIONAL survey people would take. I AM AN APPLE GUY. But I LOVE Windows 7. I updated an XP Machine to Vista and my life with Windows went to hell. Windows 7 IS A way closer solution for XP to Vista non converts. I am happy with my PC again. ALSO I would just like to mention, the world can't afford new HIGH END PC's every YEAR. I am using A Pentium 4 with EMT64/HT. Be nice if people at Microsoft realized this is still a customer.
I have been testing Windows 7 since the Beta in January, and my experience has been extremely positive. Features that didn't work good for me in Windows Vista, such as Sleep, work perfectly in Windows 7 on the same machine. And while I have not needed to run any legacy programs in XP mode, I use it extensively for application and website testing in older browsers. The integration in the start menu is just great. I'm lovin' it!
It really is everything Vista should have been at the get go.
Love it. Absolutely love it. Haven't been this excited about a Windows release since Win98. (XP was too buggy for me to be excited for at launch.)
It's the first version of Windows I'm actually happy to use.
It does what I want it to do, and feels like wearing an old hat - it just fits.
I'd say that Windows 7 is probably the best version of Windows ever. I still like (Snow) Leopard much better, and I also prefer Linux - for political reasons, and because it's better suited for much of the geek stuff I do. But overall, I like W7 a lot.
Sleek, nimble, fast, compatible.
The upgrade process went extremely well, I have to admit I was surprised when compared to other Windows upgrades I have performed.
It just works - I have no complaints. The fact I don't think about it while I work tells me it's doing its job.
The Bad
It is not the second coming, despite what others would have you believe. Some of the changes were useful, others seemed to be changes just for the sake of making changes, and yet others simplified the interface (making it easier for newbs, but taking away functionality for power users). Given that the industry is moving forward on Win7, I'll stick with it.
Seems to be made for people who have no idea how it works or why it works. I am unable to locate files and features without allot of searching - they hid to many things and got rid of some. Seems to be a program for little kids to play with - do things that are not important - like the adds on TV. The people on TV say Windows 7 was their idea - no wonder it is screwed up.
Not enough has changed from Vista to make it a worthwhile purchase for a XP user. It is still horrible just as Vista was.
Surprised how well I can live with it but, as someone who has no time for eye-candy, I'm not really convinced it's that much better than XP.
I am more concerned about performance and I did not find W7 far better than XP about that. I upgraded because XP was a past product.
Overall impression is sloppiness. Hardly any actual features for the average user; essentially just a shell.
I'm very disappointed with Media Player 12. I've always use the video enhancement to tune video playback to my liking. Now the feature is on the right click context menu, you can't keep it on top where it's accessible. As soon as you click to play the video the menu disappears and the only way to get it back is to close and re-open it. The button is in the tray to restore it, but it won't bring it back on the screen. I also miss having the controls at the top where they can be accessed.
This cleaned up version of Vista, with some unfortunate bells and whistles apeing the Mac O/S just proves that there was really no problem with Vista, outside of third party providers not being ready for Vista.
It's far too expensive.
The Mixed
Though I dread the idea of returning to XP, I'm not sure that I use enough of Windows 7 new features on my netbook to merit the ~$50 upgrade cost (Family Pack price).
If buying a new system, get one with 7 preinstalled. Definitely upgrade if you're currently using Vista. If you're on XP, I don't see a real need to part with your money for 7. Some things work better on 7 over XP, some worse. The security in 7 is largely just windows asking "are you sure?" when you do anything requiring admin privileges.
The overall performance is superior to Vista, especially on file transfer times (noticable improvement) I consider windows 7 a successful implementation of the features attempted to add to vista, but without any losses from the XP System.
While the Media Center libraries are a great feature, a software implementation of a full media extender would be preferred. it's great to watch recorded tv across the network, but it would be better if machines that did not have a tuner could watch live TV like the xbox360 can, full extender experience.
Also, I have run across some file permissions issues with the media libraries in which I cannot delete TV shows recorded on the local machine. while annoying, it is not a killer problem.
I also am using some of the windows 7 touch features on my Touchscreen PC. While it is more touch friendly than any of the Previous OS's, there should be many more options for expandability on this front, similar to the Accessibility options that many generations have implemented for visual and hearing impaired persons. While windows 7 is touch-friendly, it is not touch-centric without Origami.
I first tried to install over Vista, but ran into many problems. After many frustrating days, I did a clean install and that worked fine.
I've been very happy with W7. That said, the first thing I did after installing was to disable UAC and revert the taskbar to match the style in XP/Vista. There's been a few glitches, but overall a very worthwhile upgrade.
We'll continue to keep tabs on what the world thinks of Windows 7-and might even do another survey once more people have had more hands-on time with the new OS, and some of the initial glitches have been resolved. For now, please continue the conversation in the comments, whether you're a happy Win 7 user, a disgruntled one, or somebody who's still choosing to avoid it for now....
This story, "The State of Windows 7 Satisfaction" was originally published by Technologizer.


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Colkirk is a village (population 547) situated about two miles south of Fakenham in the county of Norfolk, England. Dating from at least the time of the Domesday Book the village currently has about 500 inhabitants living in about 200 dwellings. The village has a church, (St. Mary's), in the north west corner of the village, a Village Hall, a church pond (known as the Church Pit in Norfolk dialect), a Camping Land (land once used for the game Camping, "camp" meaning battle in Old English). There is also a thriving village school for students from the age of four to eleven, a lively village Pub called "The Crown" and a playing field for soccer, cricket, rounders and school sports days.
The village lies close to the source of the River Wensum which is between Colkirk, Oxwick and Whissonsett.
The name Colkirk is an Anglo-Saxon or Danish word, meaning "the church of Cola", from "kirk" meaning church and "Cola" being the name of the builder or first owner of a church perhaps over a thousand years ago. The present church may possibly be on the same site as the original building and is of medieval origin.
At the time of the Domesday Book, the whole estate of the manor of Colkirk belonged to the bishop. At that time the cathedral was at North Elmham and the Domesday Book records how much land the bishop held in Colkirk, how many sheep and pigs he kept and how many people worked on his estate.
Details of the original moated manor house and buildings, which included a dovecote and private chapel and was situated near Long's Lane off Dereham Road, were described in a document of 1296.
Soon after the cathedral was established in Norwich in 1101, the Bishop gave Colkirk to one of the knights of his private army. This knight named himself after the village "Richard of Colkirk" and he and his successors lived at the manor house until 600 years ago, after which the house within the moat was allowed to fall into decay.
About 400 years ago in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, the village began to look more like the Colkirk of today. Brick and flint started to replace timber framed wattle and clay as building materials. Some of the earliest brick and flint houses remain today, "Starre" and "Gable End" being among the oldest houses in the village and Colkirk Hall was built towards the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I around 1595. The Timperley family were one of the first recorded occupants of the Hall. The Timperley family, after whom the Timperley Estate was named, fell on hard times and lost most of their land as a penalty for helping to defend King's Lynn against Oliver Cromwell's troops in 1643. Colkirk Hall was subsequently bought by Marquis Townshend, since when it has been occupied as a farm house.
Other changes were taking place in Colkirk at this time. One by one the small farmers who comprised the village population were becoming poor and sold their land to richer men. In this way there came to be just a few big farms in the village as there are today. With the formation of the big farms came the division of the old, big village fields into the smaller fields, bounded by hedges, which still exist today. All the land in the Parish was finally brought into use when the commons were enclosed and the big woods cut down about 150 years ago.
The period 1820 to 1845 saw a population increase in the village and a number of houses were built or rebuilt about this time. These houses can be recognised as they were generally of red brick, rather than flint. The "Crown" was rebuilt by the Parish in 1827 and Colkirk House was built in 1837.
Since then, most of the houses on the right hand side of School Road were built as model cottages, by Canon Hoare, when he was Rector of Colkirk. The School was rebuilt in 1851 and the Infants' Room added in 1894. A Chapel was established in the village in the 1830s; however, the building erected in 1875 has now been demolished.
There was a Co-op in the village founded 120 years ago, having occupied three different sites in its time and finally situated in Dereham Road was closed in the 1960s.
Other facilities, which were once part of village life and have passed into history, include a Pork Butcher's Shop, a General Store and a Carpenter and Undertaker, all on Hall Lane, together with a Blacksmith and a Baker's Shop on Dereham Road. The last to be closed being the Village Shop and Post Office which was on the junction of Dereham Road and Crown Road.
The Village Hall was built some 140 years ago by one of the Rectors of Colkirk and is now owned by the Parish.
Census population figures for the village show little change during the latter part of the 19th century and at around 450 are about 100 fewer than the present day.
In the 1883 Kelly's Directory described the village thus:
COLKIRK is a parish about two miles south from Fakenham, in the Western division of the county, Launditch hundred, union of Mitford and Launditch, county court district of East Dereham, rural deanery of Toftrees and archdeaconry and diocese of Norwich: the village is situated on a height, commanding a fine prospect. The church of St. Mary the Virgin is a small plain Gothic building of flint consisting of chancel, nave and north aisle, and tower with 5 bells, and contains memorials to the Timperley and other families: there are several stained windows. The register dates from the year 1538. The living is a rectory, consolidated with Oxwick, joint yearly value £800, with residence, in the gift of and held since 1868 by the Rev. Walter Marsham Hoare M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. The charities amount to £30 yearly, principally for fuel. The Marquis Townshend is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is mixed; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, turnips and barley. The area is 1,482 acres (6 km2); rateable value, £2,508; and the population in 1881 was 431.
The following people are listed as tradespersons in the village:
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Negotiating Alimony/Spousal Support in New Mexico
New Mexico is an alimony state. Alimony Guidelines have been established in the Second Judicial District Court in Albuquerque. The other districts throughout New Mexico follow similar guidelines.
When and How is Alimony Ordered?
There a number of considerations that go into whether or not alimony will be ordered. The threshold determination is the length of marriage. Absent exceptional circumstances, alimony will not be ordered on marriages of less than 10 years. Next, the income and income earning potential of the parties are considered. There are a few other considerations such as the age, health, and medical needs of the parties. However, the most common and most important are the length of the marriage, and income of the parties. Once this is established, the Alimony Guidelines, at least in Albuquerque, will set the parameters of alimony.
Determining How Spousal Support Will be Paid
Though the amount of alimony may be set, there are any numbers of way that the alimony may be paid. The way by which alimony is paid is largely left to the parties, and their attorneys. Some parties may choose to simply follow the Alimony Guidelines for the payment of monthly spousal support. However, the parties can elect a lump sum payment of alimony in lieu of ongoing support. Lump sum alimony basically calls for the calculation and immediate payment of the present value of future child support.
The lump sum alimony can itself be structured in a variety of ways. Basically, the parties are free to offset alimony against other assets. New Mexico is a community property state which means the parties are entitled to a equal distribution of the assets upon the dissolution of the marriage. However, the parties are free to negotiate the division of the community property. Lump sum alimony may be paid through an additional allocation of assets to the beneficiary of the support.
Community Debt and Alimony
As a community property state, the parties are also equally responsible for community debt. This provides one more option for the offset of alimony. The party owing alimony may take on a greater share of the community debt to satisfy a lump sum alimony payment.
There are many other options as well. These options depend upon the financial circumstances of the parties. In short, there is some flexibility in alimony and the challenge is to achieve a solution that meets the requirements of the statutes while also meeting the needs and abilities of the parties.
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Reasonably high quality output. Prints, scans, and faxes over network. Standalone copier and fax.
Relatively slow. Cumbersome network setup.
Bottom Line
The Canon Pixma MX860 Wireless Office All-In-One Printer offers high quality output and lots of functions, but is relatively slow for business applications.
The Good, The Bad, and The Bottom Line
In addition to the cumbersome approach to network installation, the MX860 stubbed its toe on at least one other usability feature in my tests. According to Canon, you should be able to walk up to the printer, insert a document, and scan over a network by giving the scan command from the printer's front panel. This is a highly useful feature for an AIO that's not in arm's reach of your desk, since it lets you scan in one trip, instead of going once to set up the document and a second time to retrieve it.
In my tests however, the feature didn't work. When I tried giving the scan command at the front panel, I didn't get the choice of scanning to a network-connected PC, and Canon was not able to respond with a suggested fix quickly enough for me to test it. Should you run into the same problem that I had, however, you can avoid two trips to the scanner by scanning to a USB memory key.
On the plus side, the MX860 comes with a one year warranty for parts and labor under Canon's InstantExchange service. If Canon can't fix a problem by phone for a printer under warranty, it will ship you a replacement along with a prepaid return shipping label. Canon picks up the cost of shipping in both directions.
Despite the usability issues I ran into and the relatively slow speed for business applications, the MX860 is well worth considering. You should also take a look at the two Editors' Choice printers that bracket it in price, as well as the much faster Epson WorkForce 600, but you may well find that the MX860's balance of featuresparticularly output quality (better than the Epson Workforce 310) and price (lower than the HP Photosmart Premium Fax All-in-One)makes it the better fit for your purposes.
Check out the test scores for Canon Pixma MX860 Wireless Office All-in-One Printer .
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Linux has been making inroads into PC sales lately because it runs so well on lightweight netbooks with limited RAM and processing power. Windows 7, though, appears to run well on lightweight hardware as well, which could mean that it's Microsoft's Linux killer.
At the recent PDC, where Windows 7 was unveiled, Windows and Windows Live senior vice president Steve Sinofsky claimed that Windows 7 used less than half of the 1 GB of RAM on his Lenovo S10 netbook. Making the new operating system lightweight has clearly been Microsoft's goal. In addition to light RAM use, Windows also strips out a variety of applications, including Windows Mail, among others.
Of course, it's one thing for Sinofsky for claim Windows 7 runs on a netbook. But how does it work in real life? According to this review, Windows 7 pre-beta works well on an ASUS Eee PC 1000H with a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor and 1GB of RAM.
The writer found that Windows 7 uses 485MB of RAM. Despite that light RAM use she notes:
things are pretty smooth in terms of performance...in my use of the Eee PC 1000H for the entire evening I didn't have any hang ups while simultaneously chatting on Skype, writing this post in Wordpress, editing pictures in GIMP and uploading video files using Filezilla.
She did say, however, there were some problems with video playback. Keep in mind, though, that Windows 7 is pre-beta.
I expect Microsoft to push Windows 7 for netbooks hard. It's a tremendous growth area, and it's where Linux has been gaining traction. I wouldn't even be surprised to see a netbook-specific version designed for lower-powered processors and less RAM.
Given all that, Linux's growth in netbooks may be just a blip on the radar after Windows 7 is released.
Update: For more reasons why Windows 7 may kill Linux, see this blog post, which quotes ASUS CEO Jerry Shen saying he will release a Windows 7 version of the Eee PC in mid-2009.
Preston Gralla is a contributing editor for Computerworld, and the author of more than 35 books.


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