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Steve Vickers updates us with the latest news from the world of travel, which this week includes Indian visas, emails you can physically track and luxury doggie bags….
Indian visa update
Last year we reported that India would be simplifying its visa application process, and now more details have emerged. As soon as October this year, tourists from 180 countries will be able to apply for a 30-day visa on arrival at nine international airports, including Delhi, Mumbai and Goa. For the time being, the visa application process for most tourists remains bafflingly complex, and involves a wait of around one week.
How far do your emails travel?
Keeping in touch with distant friends and family has never been easier. But have you ever wondered how far your emails actually travel when you hit 'send'? This new plug-in being pitched on Fund Anything is designed to show recipients how far their email has physically travelled and provide the names of the countries the message has passed through, along with a map of the route. The purpose of the project, according to Email Miles founder Jonah Brucker-Cohen, is to expose the 'disconnect' we experience when sending data over huge distances. After Edward Snowden's surveillance disclosures, there is another potential use: drawing attention to the complex routes our personal messages take, often through multiple countries.
A luxurious travel bag – for your dog
If you love dogs as much as you love travel, why not treat your pooch to this luxurious new dog carrier designed by suitcase manufacturer Tumi, which comes with its own leather passport holder? Well, because dogs like walking, and their pet passport would fit perfectly well in your pocket. Not to mention that the £375 price tag could buy you – and Fido – a nice holiday somewhere warm.
Swedish streets get even
Sweden's second-biggest city is putting equality on the map. According to local news reports, more newly built streets in Gothenburg will be given 'female' names as local authorities try to promote gender equality. Since 2006, just 20 new streets in the city have been given names relating to women, while 38 have taken their names from men. Also on the agenda are plans to introduce new street names that better reflect the cultural diversity of the city.
Doctors on call
Top-end hotels in Florida have begun using an app to help poorly guests find a doctor without leaving their room. So far, around 160 hotels in the Miami area have started using the Skydoc app, which allows doctors to communicate with patients remotely and check their vital signs. If necessary, doctors can then visit the patient's room and administer medication, avoiding unnecessary trips to hospital or a clinic. If the pilot programme works out well in Florida, it could be rolled out to luxury hotels around the world.
London to New York the quick way
Concorde is no more, but quick trips to New York could soon be back on the cards. Spike S-512, a super-fast business jet, is currently being developed in the USA and could be up and running by 2018. With room for up to 18 passengers, the supersonic jet will be capable of flying at 1,100mph, which, in theory, would make it possible to travel from London to New York in less than four hours. Part of the designers' plan is to completely remove windows from the cabin (windows require heavy structural supports that could slow the plane down) and instead use cameras to stream panoramic views onto the interior walls.
The Age of Aquarius
This month, the Public Aquarium of Brussels is hoping to attract new visitors by offering free entry to anyone whose star sign is Aquarius. The aim is that the 'fish' offered free admission between 21st February and 21st March will take time to learn more about their endangered cousins in the tanks, and help to protect threatened species for future generations.
Final call
Made up of footage originally intended for a tourism campaign, this video by Ninja Milk flits between shots every couple of seconds, giving us a whistle-stop tour of Oman.
OMAN IN TWO MINUTES / A Travel Diary from Ninja Milk - Social. Content. on Vimeo.
Head to the Rough Guides Twitter or Facebook pages for all the latest travel news as it happens.


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Dead Sea Scrolls Resources
The Oldest Known Bible Translated for the First Time into English
The discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls in 1947 heralded a new era in the understanding of the Old Testament. For much of the past half century, however, the significance of the scrolls for the Bible has been obscure to the public. Recent popular translations of the Old Testament cite the different readings found in the scrolls, but only occasionally; for example, reference is made to the scrolls in the notes to the ESV (30 times), NIV (36 times), and the NRSV (87 times).
Thus the appearance in 1999 of The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible: The Oldest Known Bible Translated for the First Time into English by Martin Abegg, Jr., Peter Flint, and Eugene Ulrich (HarperSanFrancisco) was a major event, making available to the public an authoritative, accessible, and affordable translation of the biblical manuscripts and fragments found among the scrolls.
Introductory articles to the volume as well as for each book provide overviews of the place of the biblical scrolls in context as well as provide synopses of the characteristics of individual books. The copious footnotes (for example, numbering nearly 1,500 to Isaiah and nearly 600 to the Psalms!) clearly present the similarities and differences between the scrolls and the other major witnesses to the Old Testament, namely, the Masoretic Text (MT), the Samaritan Pentateuch (SP), and the Septuagint (LXX). The amount of labor that these notes represent will not be lost on scholars!
The Accordance module of this valuable Bible translation (DSSB-E) and notes (DSSB-E Notes) embodies all of these characteristics and adds the power and flexibility that is a hallmark of Accordance modules:
You can search, highlight, and annotate the DSSB-E like any other Bible module:
You can compare texts!
You can search the reference tool DSSB-E Notes by field. For example, you can search for all places where the Scrolls and the Septuagint agree and read differently from the Masoretic Text:
You can also search for every occurrence of a particular scroll manuscript:
Want to know more about a particular scroll manuscript? Amplify to the very handy Qumran Index, and get details on what biblical passages are included and where to find the primary publications of the scroll (attention, scholars: the Qumran Index by itself can save you hours of research time in the library!).
The DSSB-E presents a treasure trove of information that will be extremely useful to both laypersons and scholars.
The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible is now available for purchase. See Reviews.
Check all the Dead Sea Scrolls Resources here.

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New grants by the Canadian Heraldic Authority
Darrel Kennedy of the Royal Heraldry Society of Canada has notified that the Canadian Heraldic Authority has posted 101 to 200 of Volume V of the Public Register of Arms, Flags and Badges of Canada.
You could find the list of all those arms in this link.
As you will notice, these are arms granted from January 15, 2007 through February 15, 2008
As you will see there, the province of Alberta was granted new arms on January 15, 2008. The image is that above and the blazon of the arms is: Azure in front of snowy mountains a range of grassy hills proper, in base a wheat-field Or surmounted by a prairie proper, on a chief Argent a cross Gules.
However, my favorite are the arms above granted (with differences) to Christopher William Cook, Michelle Evelyn Cook and Nicole Carlita Cook. The blazon is very simple: Or two square flaunches Purpure.
I especially like the dragonfly supporters. I can honestly say that this is a first for me.
I strongly suggest going through the whole list to see some of the excellent work done by the CHA.


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The DaleCarnegie Train The Trainer
•Plan and organize professional presentations • Develop your own natural and relaxed communication s tyle • Learn to sell your ideas with clarity and force that inspires others • Create an open, inclusive and s timulating learning environment • Approach challenges in a w ay that leads to victories and success for participants • Coach and develop participants to empower them and lead them to continuous improvement
Lo que aprenderás
This workshop is for aspiring and experienced trainers and is designed to turn participants into top-notch facilitators. On completing this workshop, participants will be able to facilitate engaging and impactful training programs and have the skills to create a highly interactive learning environment. The program helps participants enhance their core training competencies, which include Building Business Context, Coaching, Presenting, Handling Disruptive Audience and many more.
Por qué lo deseas aprender
The Carnegie instructor coaches participants through the exercises and helps them practice the skills they need to create a highly interactive learning environment. Along the way, students hone their power of observation to help perfect their own coaching techniques. Participants also gain specific tools for dealing with disruptors and facilitate engaging and impactful training programs.
Cómo te ayudará
Program helps both experienced and novice trainers polish the skills they need to facilitate Training that's participative, fun, and has a lasting impact.


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I live in Oakhurst, New Jersey, about three miles from the shoreline, and as you might imagine, it has been an eventful week for us so far. All things considered, we were fairly lucky in my neighborhood, where we were spared much of Hurricane Sandy's rain, but bore the worst of the storm's winds. As a result, we lost power early on as the big trees on everybody's yard began falling like dominoes. And yet, it could have been so much worse. Had it been raining hard all the while, we probably would have lost every tree In Oakhurst. And even then, that would have been small hardship compared to what folks are living with all up and down the Jersey shore right now.
At the time of this writing, I am sitting in my dim and unheated house, having just returned from a trip to the towns of Loch Arbor, Deal and Allenhurst, where the storm surge wrought horrific damage. In Deal, one house on the beach was exploded by the storm; its back half was simply missing and there was a couch on the front lawn. Its insulation was blown all over the neighboring houses. As there were leaves all over my neighborhood, little shreds of this house were likewise distributed on neighbors' lawns and rooftops, a grim reminder of what could have been for any other home along the stretch of beachfront.
In Allenhurst, we found the local beach club's ticket booth intact, but a block inland. The surge and flooding had pushed it off its moorings and left it smack in the middle of the intersection one street over. The street itself leading from the relocated booth to the beach was covered in some two feet of sand. Before anybody living on that street can travel, they will have to excavate their way out.
Overhead, news helicopters and Army Blackhawks surveyed the damage while police tried in vain to keep curious onlookers from crossing caution-taped areas prone to collapse. And as we went back home from all of this, we knew that the damage we saw paled before the utter devastation that had virtually destroyed the towns of Seaside Heights, Sea Bright, Mantoloking and Atlantic City. The barrier islands and most low-lying coastal developments are all gone, either smashed and reclaimed by the ocean, or buried under the tons of sediment washed forward by Sandy's surge.
The house is quiet now, and I have the opportunity to reflect on what this storm has taught me so far. I must get my thoughts down now before night falls and everything goes dark once more. This is what I know today; who knows what I will realize tomorrow?
1. People can and will ignore deadly peril.
Governor Chris Christie has done a remarkable job on this storm, and right at the beginning, he was informing the public about the storm's dangers. Anybody in a low-lying area had to get out. Anybody on the barrier islands had to get out. "Tell me I'm wrong from the comfort of your friend's couch," he said in one of his many press conferences, and he was right. He knew only too well that many New Jerseyans felt foolish for fearing Tropical Storm Irene as they did, and as a result, they figured that perhaps Sandy would likewise be a relative non-event. They would be wrong, and Christie tried in vain to warn them. Even the mayor of Atlantic City, which was scheduled to be near to Sandy's landfall, refused to order a mandatory evacuation. The result was that, as the water rose, emergency centers were overwhelmed with distress calls from those who thought they were too smart for the storm. At present, the body count is only a few dozen. As recovery efforts get underway, I suspect that number will climb considerably.
How often have we seen this before, whether it is people second-guessing the severity of an oncoming disaster, or people confronting the planning needs of their own mortality? We all only have so many years; eventually we will leave our family and our loved ones behind. Nobody likes to think it might happen to them sooner rather than later, but everybody owes it to the ones they care about to plan for it, and that is where a solid insurance and financial strategy comes in. Incredibly, many people just don't bother with this, much to the frustration of those in the life insurance business. To meet a prospect with no use for life insurance must be like knocking on the door of a shoreside homeowner with news of an impending hurricane only to have the door slammed in one's face. It makes no sense, and yet it happens. So sad.
2. What we have is more fragile than we think.
As I toured my local sea walls, the power of Sandy's storm surge was evident. Anything within the surge's reach was destroyed, as if caught under a giant's fist. Telephone poles were floating in the surf that we figured came from a few towns over. Entire beachfronts had been wiped clean of all development. Even sturdy concrete infrastructure looked like it had been hit by a bomb. There was only one way to survive the harshest effect of Sandy, and that was to get the heck out of its way. There was simply no withstanding power of this magnitude.
This was a clear reminder that, especially in a nation as highly developed as ours, it is easy to forget how thin the line is between comfortable living in the 21st century and something well below that mark. We are a great nation that has built great things, but those things are so easily swept aside, and we forget that time and time and time again. Before the storm, I pruned dead branches from my trees and secured anything vulnerable to high wind because I didn't want some piece of my property turned into a deadly missile aimed right at my living room during the height of the storm. We are safe most of the time, but in reality, we only feel safe. The truth is, we are never more than one really bad day from seeing everything we ever worked for, everything we ever built, and every person we ever loved taken away from us. The peril of life is real, and it is something we must never forget … even though almost all of us will once the power comes back on.
If only we could keep disasters like this in mind, how much future damage might we avoid? It is impossible to tell, but such mindful preparation would do much to protect our so-easily destroyed achievements. The role insurance has to play in this is obvious, especially for our friends in the property & casualty industry, who will have quite a few checks to sign once this is all over. But it is also true for the life and health world, too. Insurance has long been sold on the premise of how little we can foretell the future, especially the darker parts of it. And it is something people simply do not like to think about.
That said, while no insurer should seek to callously benefit from this disaster, there is a point to take advantage of the heightened awareness Sandy has left behind to remind people that it really pays to plan ahead.
Photo: A parking lot full of yellow cabs is flooded as a result of superstorm Sandy on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012 in Hoboken, NJ. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes)
3. What you know and what you feel are two different things.
I had read up on Sandy quite a bit before it arrived. I have covered hurricanes in the past, and I had a decent idea of what to expect, even taking into consideration that this storm was a weird hybrid of hurricane and nor'easter. I knew that the winds of this storm were likely to uproot trees and send loose debris flying, but it was really unlikely to peel my roof back. And even though there was the risk of toppling trees, the truth was that there were none that were big enough and close enough to my home to present any clear and present danger.
I knew these things. And yet, when the storm came, where was I? At my windows, looking at the big trees near my yard, expecting them at any moment to proof or crack in half, falling toward my home like some ancient instrument of revenge. Presented with the inescapable reality of the storm, I had only my fear of the storm's uncertainty and the conviction of how much I had prepared dueling within my head, like the proverbial angel and devil on one's shoulder. Ultimately, the angel won out, as I did not descend into some kind of crazy panic, but this was a keen reminder of how inadequate our plans can feel when they are put to a full and sudden test.
How certain are we to have prepared adequately for the loss of a breadwinner or loved one? What is the line between what we think we need to prepare for, and what we feel like spending on our future security? And then, what is the line between all of that and what we really need when the hard times come? We all have to confront this kind of reality check. Not all of us will fare so well when pressed to it because we are either too optimistic or too cheap to make an accurate assessment of our needs and then see to them appropriately. Those can make those calls on their own enjoy quite an advantage over those who don't. Thankfully, there is an army of advisors at the ready to help make sure people have what they need when they need it. Whether people can admit to themselves that they have needs, well, that is another question.
Photo: Brian Hajeski, 41, of Brick, N.J., reacts after looking at debris of a home that washed up on to the Mantoloking Bridge the morning after superstorm Sandy rolled through, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in Mantoloking, N.J. Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
4. There is no such thing as being too prepared.
In the run-up to the storm, we prepared well in advance. We keep a hurricane preparedness kit in the basement and restock it every year. When storms begin looking certain to visit our area, we get go bags ready, even though we do not live in a flood-prone area and are not at direct risk of storm surge damage. We do a lot to ensure that when it is a day or two before the storm, we are not hitting the store in a frantic search for things people have already bought out. Water. Batteries. Dry goods. Medical supplies.
And yet, for all of that, we could have done better. We don't have a generator of our own; we rely on our neighbor who has one (and, truth be told, rather enjoys being the guy with the generator). We don't even have a long enough extension cord rated for outside use to reach the generator. We don't keep extra cans around to stockpile extra fuel. We didn't board our windows, nor did we install storm shutters — something I considered last year after Irene blew through but which I later 86ed, thinking that it would be overkill. Well, it sure would not have felt like overkill Monday night, I can tell you.
The point is, there is a tendency to think that we have prepared too much, that there is a line we might cross between wise pre-planning and paranoid survivalist. But really, should there even be such a line? That we might feel self-conscious about protecting ourselves says much about how little we regard the dangers around us, and how certain we are that bad things only ever happen to other people. This is a mindset we should jettison posthaste. The truth is there is no such thing as being too prepared. Doomsday peppers look like idiots until one day, they don't. That carries over to any kind of preparedness, really. When was the last time anybody ever complained about being over-insured? Surely not when a claim check came in.
Photo: People wade and paddle down a flooded street as Hurricane Sandy approaches, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in Lindenhurst, N.Y. Gaining speed and power through the day, the storm knocked out electricity to more than 1 million people and figured to upend life for tens of millions more. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)
5. When hardship hits, community matters.
For me, this disaster has been a very local experience. My neighbors are a bunch of good-natured, tightly knit folks, and when bad things happen, we collectively come together and make sure everybody has whatever they need. It is hard to overstate just how good a feeling it is to know that when things get tough, there are people you know, or a group to which you belong, that will help look out for you. Even if the material aid that group provides is marginal, the psychological aid can be immense. You know you are not isolated, that you are going through the same thing everybody else is and that, together, you are all going to pull through.
Without that kind of backup, disasters — whether a big shared experience like Sandy or a personal disaster such a death or illness in the family — have a way of making you feel isolated and overwhelmed. As much as we can try to prepare tactically for hard times, the wider relationships we build are in some ways our best safety net.
In the life and health world, I often hear agents and brokers speak of their relationship with their clients. To some customers, this might sound like hollow sales-talk. But I recall once reading a 100-year-old book on life insurance that began with notes like "Life insurance is just a contract until it is signed by a widow's tears." To a modern audience, that sounds awfully melodramatic, but it cuts to the heart of what the idea of a proper relationship between agent and client should be. Not one of mere transaction, but one of constant contact, where the mercenary elements of buying and selling are softened by the reminder that behind it is a professional seeing to our well-being. Nostalgic? Idealistic? In a world where life insurance takes a distant back seat to selling retirement products, perhaps. But times like Sandy and the long recovery to follow are stark reminders that sometimes there are needs more pressing than our future retirement. Sometimes there are needs that must be met right now, and industries like insurance are some of the few who can be there for us when we really need them.
Photo: Residents fill sandbags in Baltimore's Fells Point neighborhood Monday, Oct. 29, 2012 in preparation for Hurricane Sandy. Hurricane Sandy continued on its path Monday, forcing the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial markets, sending coastal residents fleeing, and threatening a dangerous mix of high winds and soaking rain. (AP Photo/Alex Dominguez)


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HID Remotes
Generic HID "MCE" Remotes
This is for any generic remote that uses the USB HID keyboard drivers. These remotes tend to be very popular on eBay, advertising themselves as MCE Remotes and originating from Asia. One popular model at the moment is the YAOCOO MCEY06
The HDPLEX internal remote is also a USB HID Device that can benefit from these techniques.
These remotes act and look just like a USB keyboard (and sometime a mouse as well) to the system. There is no need for any LIRC drivers for this to work, provided a sufficiently recent kernel.
When plugging in one of these, dmesg should show something similar to the following:
usb 1-2: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3 usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice input: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [HOLTEK USB To PS2 Devic] on usb-0000:00:0b.0-2 input,hiddev96: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [HOLTEK USB To PS2 Devic] on usb-0000:00:0b.0-2
Unfortunately the keypresses simulated by these remotes may not all work with MythTV. For example, the remote linked above uses Ctrl+b, Ctrl+p, Ctrl+f for reverse skip, pause, and forward skip, while using Ctrl+B, Ctrl+P, Ctrl+F for rewind, play and ffwd. I don't believe MythTV keybindings are case sensitive so the Ctrl+b and Ctrl+Shift+b are indistinguishable from each other. In addition to this, there are a number of keys that generate unmapped keycodes which don't work in MythTV.
There are two ways to solve the problem created by the mapping of these devices. You can use xmodmap, which was the first solution proposed in the MythTV wiki. Unfortunately, using xmodmap means that if you connect a usb keyboard to your frontend it's keys will also be remapped. This will leave you unable to type a capital P, B, F, etc... The other solution involves the use of XKB remapping, a more complex approach that does permit remapping on a per device basis.
Ctrl+Shift keys
In order to make those Ctrl+Shift keys work we need to remap the shifted keys to a different character. First, using xev, run through all the buttons on your remote making a note of which buttons generate which keys. Second, choose some unused shifted characters for use in the remap. For example, if not used we can make Shift+b = '<', Shift+p = '?' and Shift+f = '>' using xmodmap.
In your .xinitrc place the following:
xmodmap -e "keycode 56 = b less" xmodmap -e "keycode 33 = p question" xmodmap -e "keycode 41 = f greater"
Now in your MythTV keybinds, you can use Ctrl+< for the skip back button, Ctrl+? for the play button, and Ctrl+> for the skip forward button.
Restart X and mythfrontend then verify that the keys work as expected. You can go ahead and add more lines into your .xinitrc for the remaining double keys
Unknown keys
If you have buttons on your remote that generate no valid keys but valid keycodes, you can assign some keys to those buttons and set them in your mythtv keybindings.
xmodmap -e "keycode 167 = F1" xmodmap -e "keycode 223 = F2" ...
Other buttons
If you still have buttons on your remote that do nothing in xev and are NOT for the mouse component (if exists), then you may have a remote that created two /dev/input/ entries, one for the USB HID Keyboard and another for a USB HID Consumer device. The consumer device can likely be used with LIRC to get the remaining keys functions. Please have a look at the Snapstream firefly mini article for more information on this configuration.
XKB Remapping
This solution is pretty much the same as the one proposed for xmodmap, however it allows the remapping to occur on a per device basis. This allows you to remap your remote while leaving other input devices, such as USB keyboards, functioning normally. This example is based on the Internal IR remote in the HDPLEX system, running on an installation of ubuntu 11.04 with openbox as the window manager, but the principles and some specifics should apply in to any USB HID remote device, OS and window manager.
This work is heavily based on this page on XKB remapping, I also found this other page helpful in understanding what goes into a keyboard layout.
The first requirement is ensuring that you have a version of xbcomp > 1.2.0 with per device support. This was added in this commit, unfortunately this version is not included in ubuntu 11.04. To build a version with support use the following diff file against the apt-get source of x11-xkb-utils. You can and then you can build an updated version of the package with per device support.
Here is a complete log showing the commands in the build process.
johnf@argon:~/src/custom_xkb$ apt-get source x11-xkb-utils Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done [...] dpkg-source: info: extracting x11-xkb-utils in x11-xkb-utils-7.6+2 dpkg-source: info: unpacking x11-xkb-utils_7.6+2.tar.gz johnf@argon:~/src/custom_xkb$ wget http://zioncluster.ca/mythtv/ubuntu_xkb_diff_file [...] 2011-08-22 22:02:16 (264 MB/s) - `ubuntu_xkb_diff_file' saved [2575/2575] johnf@argon:~/src/custom_xkb$ patch -p0 < ubuntu_xkb_diff_file patching file x11-xkb-utils-7.6+2/debian/changelog patching file x11-xkb-utils-7.6+2/debian/patches/12_per_device_xkbcomp patching file x11-xkb-utils-7.6+2/debian/patches/series patching file x11-xkb-utils-7.6+2/xkbcomp/xkbcomp.c johnf@argon:~/src/custom_xkb$ cd x11-xkb-utils-7.6+2 johnf@argon:~/src/custom_xkb/x11-xkb-utils-7.6+2$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b dpkg-deb: building package `x11-xkb-utils' in `../x11-xkb-utils_7.6+2-johnf1_amd64.deb'. dpkg-deb: building package `x11-xkb-utils-udeb' in `../x11-xkb-utils-udeb_7.6+2-johnf1_amd64.udeb'. dpkg-genchanges -b >../x11-xkb-utils_7.6+2-johnf1_amd64.changes dpkg-genchanges: binary-only upload - not including any source code dpkg-source --after-build x11-xkb-utils-7.6+2 dpkg-buildpackage: binary only upload (no source included) [...] johnf@argon:~/src/custom_xkb/x11-xkb-utils-7.6+2$ cd .. johnf@argon:~/src/custom_xkb$ sudo dpkg -i x11-xkb-utils-udeb_7.6+2-johnf1_amd64.udeb
Now that we have xkbcomp with per device support we can put it to use.
We will need to locate the unique string that will allow you to identify your remote. We will use the command xinput list to view input devices.
mythtv@argon:~$ xinput list ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ HOLTEK id=9 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ Lite-On Technology Corp. ThinkPad USB Keyboard with TrackPoint id=11 [slave pointer (2)] ⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)] ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Power Button id=7 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ HOLTEK id=8 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Lite-On Technology Corp. ThinkPad USB Keyboard with TrackPoint id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
My remote is identified by the string HOLTEK.
Knowing the string for the remote, we can now create a script to remap the HOLTEK HID input specifically. This script is adapted from a very usful article on the subject of XKB remapping. I have placed this script in /home/mythtv/scripts/remap_remote, it is called from the .xinitrc file I use when starting X.
remote_id=$( xinput list | sed -n 's/.*HOLTEK.*id=\([0-9]*\).*keyboard.*/\1/p' ) [ "$remote_id" ] || exit mkdir -p /tmp/xkb/symbols cat >/tmp/xkb/symbols/custom <<\EOF xkb_symbols "remote" { key <I166> { [ Escape ] }; key <AD10> { [ p, question ] }; key <MENU> { [ I ] }; key <FK04> { [ XF86Sleep, XF86Sleep] }; }; EOF setxkbmap -device $remote_id -print | sed 's/\(xkb_symbols.*\)"/\1+custom(remote)"/' | xkbcomp -I/tmp/xkb -i $remote_id -synch - $DISPLAY 2>/dev/null
This command remaps the buttons that I am concerned with. In order, they are the exit button (remapped to escape), the play/pause button (upper case P remapped to question mark), the MENU button (remapped to I) and the power button (remapped to XF86Sleep). I don't use the fast forward / rewind buttons, but they could be remapped as described in the xmodmap section.
You will need to update your remote configuration using mythweb, and tell it to use Ctrl+? as the play button. The other remappings shouldn't require mythtv configuration changes.
By default the remote generated alt+shift+F4 when you press the power button. I remapped this to XF86Sleep, however the Alt keypress remained and/or openbox didn't handle it properly. To have the box suspend with the power button I edited my openbox configuration (.config/openbox/rc.xml) and added the following in the <keyboard> section:
<keybind key="A-XF86Sleep"> <action name="Execute"> <command>sh -c 'sudo /etc/acpi/sleep.sh'</command> </action> </keybind>
This should have your remote fully functional, while allowing other input devices to be used normally.


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I am so excited to see this movie! It has great stars -- Christopher Walken, Kevin Spacey and Jennifer Garner -- and a cat -- my favorite animal! Nine Lives promises to be funny and touching, a wonderful movie to watch with the whole family. Read on to learn more about the movie, watch a video, and enter to win some awesome prizes!
Tom Brand (Kevin Spacey) is a daredevil billionaire at the top of his game. His eponymous company FireBrand is nearing completion on its greatest achievement to date -- the tallest skyscraper in the northern hemisphere. But Tom's workaholic lifestyle has disconnected him from his family, particularly his beautiful wife Lara (Jennifer Garner) and his adoring daughter Rebecca (Malina Weissman).
Rebecca's 11th birthday is here, and she wants the gift she wants every year: a cat. Tom hates cats, but he is without a gift and time is running out. His GPS directs him to a mystical pet store brimming with odd and exotic cats where the store's eccentric owner, Felix Perkins (Christopher Walken), presents him with a majestic tomcat named Mr. Fuzzypants.
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In the face of gentrification, a waning sense of belonging is being felt in gay neighborhoods across the country.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 24 — This Halloween, the Glindas, gladiators and harem boys of the Castro — along with untold numbers who plan to dress up as Senator Larry E. Craig, this year's camp celebrity — will be celebrating behind closed doors. The city's most popular Halloween party, in America's largest gay neighborhood, is canceled.
The once-exuberant street party, a symbol of sexual liberation since 1979 has in recent years become a Nightmare on Castro Street, drawing as many as 200,000 people, many of them costumeless outsiders, and there has been talk of moving it outside the district because of increasing violence. Last year, nine people were wounded when a gunman opened fire at the celebration.
For many in the Castro District, the cancellation is a blow that strikes at the heart of neighborhood identity, and it has brought soul-searching that goes beyond concerns about crime.
These are wrenching times for San Francisco's historic gay village, with population shifts, booming development, and a waning sense of belonging that is also being felt in gay enclaves across the nation, from Key West, Fla., to West Hollywood, as they struggle to maintain cultural relevance in the face of gentrification.
There has been a notable shift of gravity from the Castro, with young gay men and lesbians fanning out into less-expensive neighborhoods like Mission Dolores and the Outer Sunset, and farther away to Marin and Alameda Counties, "mirroring national trends where you are seeing same-sex couples becoming less urban, even as the population become slightly more urban," said Gary J. Gates, a demographer and senior research fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles.
At the same time, cities not widely considered gay meccas have seen a sharp increase in same-sex couples. Among them: Fort Worth; El Paso; Albuquerque; Louisville, Ky.; and Virginia Beach, according to census figures and extrapolations by Dr. Gates for The New York Times. "Twenty years ago, if you were gay and lived in rural Kansas, you went to San Francisco or New York," he said. "Now you can just go to Kansas City."
In the Castro, the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society held public meetings earlier this year to grapple with such questions as "Are Gay Neighborhoods Worth Saving?"
With nine major developments planned for Market Street, including a splashy 113-unit condominium designed by Arquitectonica, anxiety about the future is swirling. Median home prices hover around $870,000. Local institutions like Cliff's Variety, a hardware store selling feathered boas (year-round) are not about to vanish from this storied homeland of the gay rights movement. But the prospect of half-million-dollar condos inhabited by many straight people underscores a demographic shift.
"The Castro, and to a lesser extent the West Village, was where you went to express yourself," said Don F. Reuter, a New York author who is researching a book on the rise and fall of gay neighborhoods, or "gayborhoods."
"Claiming physical territory was a powerful act," Mr. Reuter said. "But the gay neighborhood is becoming a past-tense idea."
In the Castro, the influx of baby strollers — some being pushed by straight parents, some by gay parents — is perhaps the most blatant sign of change. "The Castro has gone from a gay-ghetto mentality to a family mentality," said Wes Freas, a broker with Zephyr Real Estate. The arrival of a Pottery Barn down the street from the birthplaces of the AIDS quilt and the Rainbow Flag is a nod to change.
Sakura Ferris, a 28-year-old mother of a toddler, moved to the Castro because she liked its new eclecticism. At the Eureka Valley Recreation Center, a parent hot spot rife with Froggie pull-toys, Ms. Ferris's tot mingles with infants in onesies that read, "I Love My Daddies."
The Castro remains a top tourist destination for gay and lesbian visitors. But Joe D'Alessandro, president and C.E.O. of the San Francisco Convention and Visitors' Bureau, and a gay parent who lives in the Castro, predicted that eventually the neighborhood would go the way of North Beach, "still a historic Italian neighborhood though Italians don't necessarily live there anymore."
The Castro became a center for gay liberation in the late 1960s and early 1970s in a declining Irish Catholic and Scandinavian neighborhood. At its helm was Harvey Milk, the first openly gay city supervisor in San Francisco whose slaying in 1978 by a disgruntled former supervisor, Dan White, galvanized the community and set off riots when White was convicted of manslaughter instead of murder.
Decimated during the AIDS epidemic of 1990-1995, the neighborhood rebounded in the boom economy of the late 1990s. But the social forces that gave rise to the Castro and other gay neighborhoods like the West Village and West Hollywood may be becoming passé.
While the state's Eighth Congressional District, which includes the Castro, saw an increase of about 20 percent in the number of same-sex couples from 2002 to 2006, surrounding districts had a 38 percent increase in same-sex couples, according to Dr. Gates.
In West Hollywood, another traditional gay haven, the graying of the population and the high cost of real estate have resulted in once-gay watering holes like the Spike and the I Candy Lounge going hetero. A new kind of gentrification is under way in which young gay waiters and school teachers move instead to Hollywood and other surrounding neighborhoods. "We often clamored for equality where gay and straight could coexist," said Mayor John Duran of West Hollywood, who is gay. "But we weren't prepared to give up our subculture to negotiate that exchange."
While the Castro has been the center of a movement, it is also home to "an important political constituency," said Elizabeth A. Armstrong, an associate sociology professor at Indiana University and the author of "Forging Gay Identities: Organizing Sexuality in San Francisco 1950-1994"
"When people were angry about Dan White they were able to assemble quickly, spilling out of the bars," Professor Armstrong said. "Physical location mattered."
The Castro still has the city's largest progressive Democratic organization, the Harvey Milk Club. A survey of registered voters earlier this year by David Binder, a San Francisco political analyst, found that 33 percent of the Eighth District identified themselves as gay or lesbian, compared with 13 percent citywide.
The Castro's activist legacy continues to exert a strong emotional pull: the corner of 18th and Castro Streets, where Harvey Milk; Diana, Princess of Wales; and Matthew Shepard were mourned and where gay marriage was fleetingly celebrated, is for many a mythic homeland.
Amanda Rankin, a 40-year-old tourist from Hamilton, Ontario, was taking a "Cruisin' the Castro" walking tour with three lesbian friends the other day.
"In America there still seems to be a lot of sexual repression left over from Puritanism and the pilgrims," Ms. Rankin said. "Then there's San Francisco."
But its legacy has not prevented the neighborhood from harsh urban realities. As San Francisco real estate skyrocketed in the 1990s, the Castro had the city's highest concentration of evictions, as speculators "flipped" buildings, many of them housing people with disabilities and AIDS, to convert to market-rate apartments, said Brian Basinger, the founder of the AIDS Housing Alliance.
Even before Halloween, the Castro was grappling with violence and crime. Allegations of racial profiling at the Badlands, the neighborhood's most popular bar, led to a widespread boycott in 2005 and intervention by the city's Human Rights Commission.
The highly publicized rape of a man in the Castro in September 2006 led to the formation of Castro on Patrol, a whistle-wielding citizens' street brigade. In that attack, Mark Welch was raped five blocks from a store he managed on Castro Street. He said in that he later learned there had been two previous similar rapes in the neighborhood, but that had not been widely reported.
He said it took months for it to surface on a sex-crimes Web site maintained by the authorities. There are signs that the dispersing of gay people beyond the Castro vortex and the rise of the Internet are also contributing to a declining sense of community. An annual survey by the San Francisco Gay Men's Community Initiative indicated that in 2007 only 36 percent of men under 29 said there was a gay community in the city with which they could identify.
Doug Sebesta, the group's executive director and a medical sociologist at the San Francisco Department of Public Health, said, "I've had therapists who have told me they are asking their clients to go back to bars as a way of social interaction."
The Internet is not a replacement for a neighborhood where people are involved in issues beyond themselves, said John Newsome, an African-American who co-founded the group And Castro For All after the Badlands incident. "There are a lot of really lonely gay people sitting in front of a computer," he said.
Which is why the cancellation of the Halloween party by the city has provoked such a sense of loss. Many residents say that their night has been taken away. "It's proof that whatever sense of safety we have is incredibly tenuous, " Mr. Newsome said.
The city is shutting down public transportation to the Castro on Halloween and has begun a Web site, homeforhalloween.com, that lists "fun" alternatives, including a Halloween blood drive and a "Monster Bash" — in San Mateo.
On a recent Saturday, Sister Roma, a member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, an activist coterie of drag queens, sashayed down Castro Street in heavy eye shadow and a gold lamé top. Though she looked well prepared for Halloween, she said she planned to be in hiding that night.
She wasn't feeling too deprived, however.
"Sweetie," she said, "every day is Halloween in the Castro."


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It's in no danger from the dark lord Sauron's minions, but one of Vancouver's two "Hobbit Houses" is up for sale with the realtor hyping the potential to tear it down and build a bigger and newer home.
The 83-year-old faux thatched-roof home is located at 587 W. King Edward Ave. and listed for $2.86 million. Realtor Mary Ellen Maasik refers to it as "infamous" in the listing and touts its proximity to a Canada Line station as well as its "huge potential for rezoning as a part of the City Cambie Corridor Plan." The city's planning department aims to increase the density of an area stretching from 16th Avenue to the Fraser River in the coming years.
The 2,416-square-foot home sits in a neighbourhood of handsome smaller homes from the 30s and 40s that are being torn down in favour of larger, more contemporary homes.
The city's heritage register lists the home in the 'B' category as a good example of a particular architectural style – storybook style – which means council must approve any potential buyer's plan to demolish the building, according to the city's website.
"The Vancouver Charter also allows Council to delay approving the demolition of a building either on the Heritage Register or a building that may be heritage property, through temporary protection for a period of 120 days," the city's website states. "During this time, a heritage inspection may be ordered to assess the value of the site."
Heritage expert Don Luxton told The Sun's John Mackie in 2009 that the Hobbit-style roof was a 1920s take on a traditional English thatched roof.
"Of course we can't build with thatched roofs in our climate, so it's done in cedar shingles," he explained.
The undulating roof was part of a playful storybook style which was popular in North America in the 1920s and '30s.
"In the period between the wars, America was a very cozy, traditional place," Luxton said.
"They'd never been bombed and destroyed [like Europeans], so they didn't embrace modernism the way that people in Europe did. Europe was sitting there with a pile of rubble going, 'Oops, I guess we'd better build some new buildings.' In the States they really fell back into a period of what I call 'entrenched traditionalism,' a kind of cozy domesticity. The idea of the home almost became this storybook, Snow White kind of fantasy for people."
The house was constructed by Brenton Lea, a builder. The architect was Ross Lort, who also designed the Casa Mia mansion on Southwest Marine Drive. Lea also built the city's other surviving storybook house (3979 W. Broadway) in 1942.
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Sexual predator patterns may also apply in college, military rapes
The Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault addressed sexual violence at its annual Fall Forum, including a Boston-based study suggesting a surprising number of men who admit to having committed a sexual assault.
The study asked the question of students under a guarantee of anonymity. It found more than 5 percent of men interviewed said they had committed sexual assaults and 3 percent had averaged about 6 rapes by the time they reached their mid-20s.
Forensic consultant Dr. David Lisak said the vast majority of the rapes in these cases, as much as 85 percent, often involved a victim and attacker who knew each other. He said the serial offenders usually manipulate a target's weaknesses and vulnerabilities, using alcohol or physical force.
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"We're now having to apply that knowledge in the domain of non-stranger rape and in colleges and in the military environments, where we historically haven't done that," Lisak said.
He said the key to preventing sexual assaults in the future is to educate communities across the country so people can identify when sex offenders are targeting a woman, so they can intervene before something happens.
Students at the University of Missouri-Kansas City reacted to the study.
I was pretty shocked," said UMKC student Nataska Nazie. "What if it was my lab partner or someone I walked to class with? I wouldn't know it makes girls or anyone, every individual on campus, vulnerable to an assault like that."
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Hundreds of children will line the banks of the Oconaluftee River in Cherokee this weekend for the annual Talking Trees Children's Trout Derby.
The trout derby — held from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 7, at Island Park in the heart of Cherokee — exposes children under 11 to the world of fishing. Kids are provided fishing polls and bait, and volunteers are on hand to help first-timers. Kids get a T-shirt, breakfast and lunch all for free.
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The pound dropped below $1.60 for the first time in five weeks on speculation Bank of England officials meeting this week will signal they may introduce additional stimulus as the economy struggles to recover.
The U.K. currency weakened against all except one of its 16 major counterparts after a government report showed the trade deficit narrowed less in November than economists forecast. Policy makers, who started a two-day meeting today, will announce their decision on interest rates and so-called quantitative easing tomorrow, while minutes of the gathering will be released Jan. 23. Gilts were little changed.
"There's been some loose talk with some people thinking there might be more QE highlighted tomorrow," said Jeremy Stretch, head of foreign-exchange strategy at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in London. "Subsequently sterling has taken some heat so cable has had a go through that $1.60 threshold. If we close below the $1.5995 level that probably suggests we will see further weakness."
The pound dropped 0.3% to $1.6012 at 4:38 p.m. after declining to $1.5993, the lowest level since Nov. 30. Sterling was little changed at 81.52 pence per euro, after depreciating to 81.62 pence yesterday, the weakest since Dec. 31. Cable refers to the pound-dollar exchange rate.
Bank of England policy makers will keep the benchmark interest rate at a record-low 0.5% and the asset-purchase target at 375 billion pounds tomorrow, separate Bloomberg surveys show.
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Policy makers voted 8-1 to leave their bond-purchase program on hold in December as immediate dangers from the euro- area crisis receded and near-term inflation risks persisted, according to minutes of that meeting released Dec. 19.
Most members of the Monetary Policy Committee "agreed that developments on the month had done little to alter the balance of arguments between maintaining and increasing" stimulus, according to the minutes. The current level of quantitative easing "seemed appropriate for the present," it said.
The trade deficit was at 9.16 billion pounds compared with 9.49 billion pounds in October, the Office for National Statistics said in London. The median forecast in a Bloomberg News survey of 20 economists was 9 billion pounds.
The pound has fallen 0.9% in the past week, the worst performer of 10 developed-market currencies tracked by Bloomberg Correlation-Weighted Indexes. The dollar gained 0.7% and the euro weakened 0.4%.
U.K. Gilts
The 10-year gilt yield was at 2.03% after falling as much as two basis points. The price of the 1.75% bond due in September 2022 was 97.595.
"Investors are unwilling to take major positions ahead of tomorrow's BOE meeting," said Nick Stamenkovic, a strategist at RIA Capital Markets Ltd. in Edinburgh. "We remain bearish about the medium-term outlook, targeting 2.60% for 10-year yields by year-end."
The 10-year break-even rate, the difference in yield between gilts and index-linked securities, narrowed for a third day amid speculation officials will adjust the way the retail- price index is calculated. The rate shrank less than one basis point, or 0.01 percentage point, to 2.66%.
The U.K. will announce the results tomorrow of a consultation into amending its RPI calculation to counter a widening disparity with the consumer-price index, the basis for the Bank of England's policy target.
"Likely changes to the measurement of U.K. RPI inflation would be significantly negative for holders of gilt linkers," Alan James, head of inflation-linked bond research at Barclays Plc in London, wrote today in a note to clients. "This may limit international demand for nominal gilts."
Gilts lost 1.3% this month through yesterday, according to indexes compiled by Bloomberg and the European Federation of Financial Analysts Societies. German bonds dropped 1.1% and Treasuries fell 0.5%.


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Charlie Sheen gets Selma Blair fired
Charlie Sheen got his wish and Selma Blair got fired.
The producers of "Anger Management" canned Sheen's co-star on the FX sitcom, after Blair complained to them about Sheen's work ethic and tardiness. Sheen found out and said that if Blair wasn't let go, he'd quit.
Apparently Charlie Sheen has more clout in Hollywood than Selma Blair. Go figure.
"We are confirming that Selma Blair will not be returning to Anger Management and we wish her the very best," a rep for Lionsgate, which produces the show, said in a statement to Us Weekly.
Blair played Kate Wales, therapist and best friend to Sheen's character.
TMZ previously reported that Sheen wanted the show to hire Mila Kunis for 10 episodes at a salary of $1 million per episode. There's no word on whether that may happen, and Kunis has not commented on the supposed offer.
Kunis is, of course, the girlfriend of Ashton Kutcher, who replaced Sheen on "Two and a Half Men" when Sheen clashed with producer Chuck Lorre and demanded that he was fired.
Sheen lost that battle. So I guess this makes him 1-1.


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She connects to their loss as they connect to hers.
The planes hit the towers in a rampage of destruction. On Sept. 11, tragedy swept on a nation in cries of fear and loss. The day before, a teenage girl in Maine received devastating news – she was diagnosed with synovial cell sarcoma, a critical illness soft-tissue cancer.
The timing of these heart-wrenching events was not lost on 18-year-old Brandi. So when it came time for a wish, Brandi knew she wanted nothing else than to receive hope by giving hope for the victims of 9/11. She wanted to deliver guardian angel pins to children and families who lost loved ones that day – a wish that grabbed at the hearts of many Americans.
"When I got sick, I was given a lot of guardian angel pins," Brandi says. "I believe they helped me in my battle against my illness. I hope these pins will bring comfort to other people who received devastating news just one day after I received my diagnosis."
With the collaboration of Make-A-Wish® Maine and Make-A-Wish® Metro New York Brandi was on her way to New York City.
In the Big Apple, Brandi tours the FDNY headquarters, FDNY Ladder 11, the NYC Police Department headquarters, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and New York Public School IS 289 – agencies most affected by the terrorist attacks.
While there, Wish volunteers provide Brandi with pins to present to the firefighters, officers, widows and students she meets. Brandi gets to know the FDNY Ladder 11 firehouse as she sits down with them for lunch and then talks to sixth graders who attend school just blocks from Ground Zero. She connects to their loss as they connect to hers. Their shared personal encounters of tragedy enable them to help each other through the healing process, to lean on each other as they all reach out for the slightest grasp of hope and strength to move forward.
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Houston Dynamo coach Dominic Kinnear is beginning to see the injury-related problems he can tolerate.
For a team that has made due with only one forward and has lost half its starting midfielder since the season opener, the Dynamo are slowly getting healthy again. And that forces Kinnear to make difficult choices on incorporating players off injury back into the lineup.
Richard Mulrooney is the first on the list, after playing a full 90 minutes in the Dynamo's win over Chivas last Saturday and reporting no discomfort in his knee.
"It was great, I was a little winded, but that's the process," Mulrooney said. "I have hit every step in terms of getting back into the 18, and now I have played a full game. The knee injury is in the past, but we obviously keep an eye on it so we don't have any setbacks."
Forward Brian Ching also traveled with the team over the weekend, but was held on the bench while Kinnear opted to take a conservative approach with his captain.
Ching feels confident he will be available for significant minutes when the team travels to face Real Salt Lake on Thursday.
"I felt great," Ching said. "Physically I am fine; it's just a matter of getting my lungs back."
Forward Cam Weaver will likely miss the Real Salt Lake match, but returned to full training with the team this week for the first time this season.
"It's another step, I want to keep trying to continue on the progression," said Weaver, who's recovering from a right knee injury. "It's been really tough with the timing of everything right before the season, thinking it is going to be a couple of weeks, and it being a couple of months; it's tough."
While the team is getting healthier, they are still not free and clear of injuries. Defender Eddie Robinson also won't be available against RSL after suffering a right knee sprain against FC Dallas last week.
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Golf writer Tom Ramsey dies at 75 in Australia
BY foxsports • June 30, 2011
Longtime Australian golf writer Tom Ramsey has died at 75.
He fought cancer for a decade and died Wednesday.
Tom Ramsey was News Limited newspapers' chief golf writer for more than 40 years and was inducted the Memorial Tournament's Hall of Fame in 2001 by Jack Nicklaus.
News Limited chairman John Hartigan called Ramsey a ''stubborn Northern Irishman'' who covered 141 majors. Hartigan said Ramsey was ''afraid of no one and regularly dished it out to the likes of Greg Norman despite his iconic standing in this country.''
Sydney's Daily Telegraph said Friday that Ramsey was cremated and his ashes will be spread at his favorite course, Royal County Down in Northern Ireland.
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An executive from Sony said Monday that concerns about Comcast's discriminatory data cap are giving the firm second thoughts about launching an Internet video service that would compete with cable and satellite TV services. In March, Comcast announced that video streamed to the Xbox from Comcast's own video service would be exempted from the cable giant's 250 GB monthly bandwidth cap.
Sony's Michael Aragon was speaking at the Variety Entertainment and Technology Summit. Aragon reportedly said Sony was "waiting on clarity" about whether regulators would allow Comcast to exempt its own video services from the broadband cap.
"These guys have the pipe and the bandwidth," he said. "If they start capping things, it gets difficult."
Sony isn't the first Comcast rival to complain about the bandwidth cap. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has also blasted Comcast's discriminatory bandwidth cap as a violation of network neutrality.
Comcast controls more than 20 percent of the residential broadband market, which means that Comcast effectively controls access to one-fifth of any American Internet video service's potential customers. Given that Comcast is in the video business itself, the risk to would-be competitors is obvious. Indeed, Comcast itself has estimated that replacing its own video service with an Internet video alternative would require more than 250GB of bandwidth.


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A field trip to view the elk rut season in Cataloochee Valley will be held by the Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust on Tuesday, Sept. 28, as part of the eco tour series.
There will be a special talk by Park Ranger Joe Yarkovich, the Smokies' elk specialist, as well as a picnic dinner in the valley.
The "rut" is the season when the male elk, or bull, compete for dominance and the right to mate with the female elk, or cow. An important, and quite enchanting, part of the process is the bull warning call to other males, known as the "bugle." The call, which has been described by many as eerie or haunting, provides an audible cue that fall has arrived at Cataloochee Valley.


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Family continues push to make Hannah's Law reality
An Iowa family continues to push for strict new requirements for window screens following the death of their daughter.
Shanda and Jamie Geneser lost their daughter Hannah, 4, two years ago when she fell out a window.
The Genesers told their story again to lawmakers on Monday and asked for their backing of a new law that would change safety requirements for window screens in new and remodeled residential buildings.
The couple said the new safety requirements help prevent accidents like the one that killed their daughter.
Screens required in most buildings in Iowa can hold up to about 13 pounds before they collapse, but the new requirements in the SF 381 bill would increase those requirements.
Installation costs would be higher for the new screens, but would save on maintenance costs.
The Genesers said parents should never assume their windows are safe and hopes their efforts help save other children.
"Hannah's accident was in a home that was as safe as ours in one of her favorite places that she ever played in. It was a family home. Just take extra precautions and secure your upstairs playrooms, your upstairs bedrooms. Trust me, you don't want to go through what my wife and I go through," said Jamie Geneser, Hannah's father.
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Giants fan Stow's attackers sentenced
Two men pleaded guilty Thursday to the 2011 incident outside of Dodger Stadium that left a Giants fan seriously injured, according to The Associated Press, and were sentenced.
Defendant Marvin Norwood pleaded guilty to one count of assault likely to produce great bodily injury to Bryan Stow, the 45-year-old Giants fan who attended Opening Day in Los Angeles, and was sentenced to four years. Co-defendant Louie Sanchez pleaded guilty to one count of mayhem that disabled and disfigured Stow and was sentenced to eight years in prison with credit for 1,086 days.
"I don't know the mentality of the two gentlemen who were sentenced, but to sit in a cell for four and eight years [over the outcome of a ballgame], it really doesn't make a lot of sense and I hope that's what people start to see," said Giants reliever Jeremy Affeldt, who has visited Stow on several occasions and spoke to the crowd before the Giants played the Dodgers at AT&T Park nine days after the attack.
"Does it really make that much sense to cause that much pain to a family and cost yourself four and eight years or more? It's not worth it. Like I said [three] years ago, the rivalry's on the field. And after the game's over, there's no more rivalry."
According to deputy district attorney Michele Hanisee, Norwood could be released immediately because his credit for time already in custody seemed to account for at least the majority of his sentence. However, federal authorities have charged both men with weapons possession, which could add 10 years in prison to their sentences.
The Dodgers released a statement following the sentencing: "We are pleased that the culpable parties have finally accepted responsibility for their actions and have been sentenced for their crimes."
Sanchez and Norwood acknowledged their involvement after being arrested during a number of secretly recorded phone calls.
Norwood told his mother over the phone that he was involved, saying, "I will certainly go down for it."
Sanchez acknowledged he attacked a Giants fan, saying: "I socked him, jumped him and started beating him," according to a transcript of the conversation.
The men were unaware they were being recorded.
"You still can't take back what's happened," said Giants manager Bruce Bochy. "But hopefully for the family, it gives them a little sense of justice for what happened to their son."
Corey Maciel, who attended the game with Stow, said he saw Stow being attacked and threw himself over Stow to prevent further injuries.
"As soon as he was punched, he was unconscious and fell back on his head," Maciel testified. "He was unable to brace himself. I saw his head bounce off the concrete. I heard the crack."
Stow was then kicked in the head at least three times and again in the torso, according to the testimony.
Stow, who returned home last spring after two years in hospitals and rehabilitation centers, still requires physical therapy and remains severely disabled.
"Hopefully it brought some closure," said Affeldt, who recently donated $25,000 toward Stow's recovery as part of third-base coach Tim Flannery's ongoing fundraising via concerts and CD sales. "I don't know what the family was hoping for with the sentence. This is just a step along the way in [Stow's] journey."
A civil suit by Stow against the Dodgers and former owner Frank McCourt is still pending.