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YAY! Shipping~ Everyone loves it! I know its a little early in the RP to start making perfect judgements on such things but I just wondered what you guys thought. BY THE WAY, MAKE SURE TO STIR THINGS UP ALITTLE, EVERYONE LOVES COMPLICATED LOVE.

Got any ideas of whom would make a good couple?

Or maybe even a hate relationship?

Or just who you like as good friends?

I really really really really really like Ace and Jennifer, but I just want to see how things work out, or even if anything works out at all. I like twisting RPs.

As for Faith, well I want to just see where things land from there. Again I think I would like to stir things up here.

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Copyright laws designed to protect corporations, not creative work ...

Did you know that there?s a good version of ?Star Wars Episode 1?? It?s called ?The Phantom Edit,? and it was put together by a fan with a knack for editing film. The so-called Phantom editor tightened up some of the action sequences, cut out a lot of Jar Jar?s dumb antics and released his much-improved fan edit on the Internet.

Fan edits like this one have always existed in the fuzzy gray area of what constitutes copyright infringement, but LucasArts is aware of ?The Phantom Edit?s? existence and hasn?t taken any legal action against it ? a good gesture for building a fandom that can add their own value to a creative work. Now try to imagine a Disney-owned LucasArts doing the same with its new fandom. Yeah, I can?t imagine it either.

Disney has a history of going to great lengths to protect its copyrighted properties. In 1998, Congress passed the Sonny Bono Act, which extended copyright terms to 70 years after the author?s death. Before the act was passed, copyright terms were soon to expire, so media groups like the MPAA, RIAA and Disney began lobbying Congress to extend the terms 20 years (Disney spent an estimated $800,000 on campaign contributions alone), and it worked.?

In fact, the Sonny Bono Act was the eleventh time in 40 years that Congress had extended copyrights and prevented works from entering the public domain. Disney, owner of many very old movies that are still profitable, has obvious incentive to keep its copyrights alive, and I wouldn?t be surprised if Disney tries lobbying again in 2018 when the Sonny Bono Act runs out, and every 20 years after that.

I always find it curious that American copyrights are extended past the lifetime of the author at all, let alone 70 years past. It comes down to a question of what copyright is supposed to do. If the purpose is to protect authors and encourage creativity and innovation, a posthumous copyright is overkill, to say the least.?

A copyright gives a creator incentive to create something by ensuring that others won?t take away his audience and income with their own versions of his work. If incentivizing creativity is the goal, a copyright need only exist as long as the work is profitable to the original author.

On the other hand, Disney seems to view copyright not so much as a way to encourage creativity, but as a way to protect its revenues. Extending the copyright on ?Cinderella? didn?t benefit Walt Disney at all, and I can?t honestly believe that a modern filmmaker or writer would decide a project was worth creating because he was waiting for his estate to be guaranteed 70 years of profits instead of 50.?

The fact that there is any protection whatsoever after the author?s death means that copyright law is protecting people who aren?t the original creators, like estates and corporations that happen to own some of those extraordinarily rare works that continue to be popular and profitable decades after being published.

In addition to protecting estates, I would argue that our overextended copyright is actually detrimental to modern creators. TV characters almost never sing ?Happy Birthday? because that song is copyrighted, and it won?t enter public domain until 2030 (unless copyrights are extended again).?

Until 2038, musicians and filmmakers can?t record their own versions of George Gershwin?s classic ?Rhapsody in Blue,? or even use passages from it, without paying royalties to the Gershwin estate.?

Eric Eldred, an Internet-based publisher, actually went all the way to the Supreme Court (and lost) in Eldred v. Ashcroft over his inability to publish remixed versions of Robert Frost poems on his noncommercial website, The Eldritch Press. Ironically, Disney?s lobbying is preventing others from following its own brilliant model of retooling classics for a new generation in a new medium.

It?s easier than ever to access and share creativity and to create something, even for a casual hobbyist, but more difficult (and less legal) than ever to draw from the works of others. This points to a larger problem with our model of copyright: It wasn?t prepared for the information age.

Brian Hampel is a senior in architecture. Please send comments to opinion@kstatecollegian.com.?

Source: http://www.kstatecollegian.com/2012/11/30/copyright-laws-designed-to-protect-corporations-not-creative-work/

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Every little thing nowadays is run by technology. Safety program runs the Safety for our residence, internet hosting monitors our internet web site, and programmable computer software does our activity such as recording, calculating, and information transferring. You just have to system it to do a certain job, and it will do what you wish it to do. No concerns ask. That is how fantastic technology can do to folks these days.

On the other hand, let us not often appear at the excellent side since Every thing has a negative side as effectively. Pc technology also, has it. It is not all the time that it operates the way we require it to be. There will come a time that it will quit operating. Why? It is simply because of several factors. For instance, our Pc gets infected by a Pc virus and you do not know it simply because the Computer system virus is also powerful that the antivirus that we have cannot detect it. This virus can go by way of our files and software program, destroy it, and quit it from operating. When this occurs, carrying out your everyday job will quit also. When it is left behind, it can lead to worse issues such as destruction and deletion of our files, and even method failure. If this occurs, you may well even want to replace your Personal computer with a new a single.

With all of this, you nonetheless can?t rely on your whole job with the use of technology. Make it a point that you too do it your self even some occasions.

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Six new non-Euro cardinals mean real change in the Church

Pope Benedict XVI said he wanted his Nov. 24 consistory, the fifth of his papacy, to express the universality of Catholicism. His choice of six new cardinals from every continent except Europe was designed to convey, as he put it Saturday, that the church belongs "to all the peoples" and expresses itself "in the various cultures of the different continents."

If my experience at Rome's Urban College yesterday is any indication, you can consider the point made.

Over the years I've covered seven consistories, the events in which a pope creates new cardinals. As part of the experience, I've also attended scores of post-consistory receptions, both the ones staged by the Vatican inside the Apostolic Palace (the only time that the doors of the place are flung open to the general public), and ones hosted by other parties ? diplomatic embassies, Catholic organizations such as the Knights of Columbus, and so on.

By any standard, the reception my wife and I witnessed on Sunday afternoon was not your typical Roman affair. It featured not one but three different African dance and vocal troupes, a buffet with classic African dishes such as tuwo shinkafa (a thick rice pudding served with spicy soup), and the new cardinal himself sashaying to the head table as drums pounded and Ibo singers serenaded his arrival.

The guest of honor was Cardinal John Onaiyekan of Abuja, Nigeria, one of six new cardinals elevated over the weekend. Aside from American Cardinal James Harvey, the longtime prefect of the papal household, the other five came from outside the West. In addition to Onaiyekan, they were:

• Patriarch Boutros Ra? of the Maronite Church in Lebanon.
• Cardinal Cleemis Thottunkal, Major Archbishop (and "Catholicos") of the Syro-Malankara Church in India.
• Cardinal Rub?n Salazar G?mez of Bogot?, Colombia.
• Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila in the Philippines.

One bit of proof that this consistory belonged to the whole world, and not just the West, is that the Lebanese contingent celebrating?Ra?'s red hat included a delegation from Hezbollah, which is seen in the West as a terrorist group but which functions in Lebanon as a political party and mainstream social movement.

Each consistory tends to have its rock star cardinal, the one guy who towers over the others in terms of media appeal, the size of the crowds he draws, and so on. This time the rock star was probably Tagle, mostly because he's seen as "the great Asian hope," meaning the most credible contender from his part of the world to become pope someday.

The 55-year-old Tagle is the real deal, a genuine intellectual with a popular touch, and perhaps the best natural communicator among the Asian bishops. During the recent synod on evangelization, he won both hearts and minds by arguing for a humbler, simpler church with a greater capacity for silence.

Yet each of the new cardinals illustrates the staggering universality of the church, and Onaiyekan is a good case in point. Not only is he a reminder that Africa is still under-represented in the College of Cardinals relative to its Catholic population, but Onaiyekan's biography also reflects the unique social role church leaders often play on the most intensely religious continent on the planet.

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Amazon Web Services Drops S3 Storage Service Pricing About 25%

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced on stage at AWS re:Invent that it has dropped pricing about 25 percent across the board for its S3 storage service. Senior Vice President of Amazon Web Services Andy Jassy said the price drop will go into effect December 1. AWS has dropped prices 23 times since 2006. Jassy attributed the price drops to what he sees as a virtual circle that has emerged as AWS has expanded. More customers leads to more AWS usage, which fuels the need for more infrastructure. As more is added, AWS gets economies of scale in lower infrastructure costs and, as a result, can lower prices. Jassy said the differences between AWS and its competitors come down to margins. The large, enterprise giants such as Oracle, IBM and HP work on high margins. That has been the way they have historically made their revenues. But now the world is different. The new reality is scale and super-thin profit margins. The big technology giants of the past are making up for this lack of capability to scale with “private cloud” solutions that are nothing more than an effort to “cloudwash,” a term that refers to the habit of these big tech providers to put the cloud name on its legacy hardware. AWS still faces steep competition from the likes of Google, which earlier this week lowered its cloud storage costs by 25 percent.

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Outrage at "Jewish list" call in Hungary parliament

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - A call in the Hungarian parliament for Jews to be registered on lists as threats to national security sparked international condemnation of Nazi-style policies and a protest outside the legislature in Budapest on Tuesday.

The lawmaker, from the far-right Jobbik party, dismissed demands he resign, however, and said his remarks during a debate on Monday had been misunderstood - he was, Marton Gyongyosi said, referring only to Hungarians with Israeli passports.

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside parliament, many wearing the kind of yellow stars forced on Europe's Jews in the 1940s and some chanting "Nazis go home" at Jobbik members.

"I am a Holocaust survivor," local Jewish leader Gusztav Zoltai said by telephone. "For people like me, this generates raw fear." Though he dismissed the comments by Jobbik's foreign affairs spokesman as opportunistic politicking, the executive director of the Hungarian Jewish Congregations' Association, added: "This is the shame of Europe, the shame of the world."

The centre-right government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban issued a statement on Tuesday condemning the remarks by Gyongyosi, whose party surged into parliament two years ago on a campaign drawing on suspicion of Roma and Jewish minorities and attracting support from voters frustrated by economic crisis.

But in Jerusalem, the Simon Wiesenthal Center criticized the government for a tardy response, more than 16 hours after the event, and called the failure to penalize Gyongyosi as "a sad commentary on the current rise of anti-Semitism in Hungary".

About 500,000 to 600,000 Hungarian Jews were killed in the Holocaust, according to a memorial centre in Budapest. Some survivors reached Israel. Some 100,000 Jews now live in Hungary.

"TALLY UP JEWS"

Gyongyosi's intervention in parliament on Monday afternoon came after discussion of last week's fighting in the Gaza Strip and after a junior minister at the Foreign Ministry had made a statement to the house saying the government favored a peaceful resolution of the Middle East conflict as it would benefit Jews and Palestinians in Hungary and Israelis of Hungarian descent.

The Jobbik member, one of 44 in the 386-seat parliament, said: "I know how many people with Hungarian ancestry live in Israel and how many Israeli Jews live in Hungary."

In his remarks, a video of which Jobbik posted on its party Web site, he went on: "I think such a conflict makes it timely to tally up people of Jewish ancestry who live here, especially in the Hungarian parliament and the Hungarian government, who, indeed, pose a national security risk to Hungary."

The deputy speaker chairing the debate was a Jobbik member and did not intervene. Socialist opposition lawmaker Pal Steiner, himself Jewish, said on Tuesday: "There was little reaction beyond sheer shock ... We couldn't really digest what we'd heard, we're so used to remarks like this from Jobbik."

Slomo Koves, chief rabbi of the Unified Hungarian Jewish Congregation, recalled references by Jobbik members to historic Christian bigotry against Jews and wrote: "Jobbik has moved from representing medieval superstition to openly Nazi ideologies."

Gyongyosi later indicated he was questioning the loyalty of Hungarians who held dual Israeli citizenship. In a posting on Jobbik's Web site, he said: "I apologize to my Jewish compatriots for my declarations that could be misunderstood."

At a news conference reported by national news agency MTI he said he would not resign and considered the matter "closed".

MEMORIES OF GENOCIDE

Parliamentary speaker Laszlo Kover, who is from Orban's Fidesz party, issued a statement calling for tighter rules to allow for such behavior to be punished.

The Hungarian government spokesman's office said: "The government strictly rejects extremist, racist, anti-Semitic voices of any kind and does everything to suppress such voices."

Outside parliament on Tuesday, protester Andras Fodor, 28, said: "I thought we were done with this in our history ... If you say things like that, you don't belong in parliament."

There was no immediate comment from the European Union, which has raised concerns before about intolerance and minority rights in Hungary and about Orban's own commitment to democracy as critics accuse him of trying to entrench his party's power.

In Israel, which has voiced concern about the rise of anti-Semitic parties and attitudes across Europe, Foreign Ministry spokesman, Yigal Palmor, said his government urged Hungarians to act against such intolerance: "We call upon all the democratic forces in Hungary to do all they can in order to end the actions of anti-Semitic, xenophobic and racist elements."

Efraim Zuroff, the Israel director of the Wiesenthal Center, which works to bring Nazi criminals to justice, said Gyongyosi's statement was "sadly reminiscent of the genocidal Nazi regime which murdered hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews with the help of numerous local collaborators"

Calling Jobbik the heirs of wartime Hungarian fascists, he added: "Today's condemnation of the statement by the government is welcome but the total silence yesterday and the fact that the perpetrator of anti-Semitic incitement will apparently pay no price for his demagoguery will only encourage Jobbik to continue their campaigns of hatred against Hungarian Jews and Roma."

Opponents have condemned anti-Semitic and anti-Roma slurs by Jobbik as electioneering for a vote due in 2014 at which analysts say it could end up holding the balance of power.

Gyongyosi, 35, is a diplomat's son who grew up in the Middle East and Asia. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, he worked in Ireland for the accountants KPMG before becoming active in Jobbik in 2006. He was elected to parliament in 2010.

(Editing by Alastair Macdonald)

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One child mothers with pre-eclampsia at higher risk of heart problems

ScienceDaily (Nov. 27, 2012) ? Women who develop pre-eclampsia during their first pregnancy (known as preterm pre-eclampsia) -- and who don't go on to have any more children -- are at greater risk of dying from heart disease in later life than women who have subsequent children, finds a study published on bmj.com today.

Women who develop the condition only in the final weeks of pregnancy (known as term pre-eclampsia) are at less risk.

This high risk to one child mothers has not been previously reported and suggests that these women need special monitoring, especially if their pre-eclampsia was preterm.

Pre-eclampsia is a serious condition where abnormally high blood pressure and other disturbances develop in the second half of pregnancy. The condition carries a higher risk of cardiovascular disease in later life, but studies have tended to focus on the risk for women with pre-eclampsia in first pregnancy, without acknowledging the importance of later reproduction.

So a team led by Professor Rolv Skjaerven at the University of Bergen in Norway, set out to assess the association of pre-eclampsia with later cardiovascular death in mothers according to their lifetime number of pregnancies, and particularly after only one child.

Using the Medical Birth Register of Norway, they tracked 836,147 Norwegian women with a first singleton birth between 1967 and 2009 for cardiovascular mortality.

More than 23,000 women died by 2009, with 3,891 from cardiovascular causes.

As expected, women with pre-eclampsia in their first pregnancy had a higher risk of cardiovascular death than women without the condition. Those with preterm pre-eclampsia who had no more children were at a nine-fold increased risk of cardiovascular death, whereas those who went on to have additional children had a 2.4-fold risk.

The vast majority of women with pre-eclampsia can expect a long life just like other women, say the authors. Previous studies have been incomplete in that they do not take the woman's overall reproduction into account. It turns out that if the woman has more children, she has no excess risk of early death. This study shows that the main conclusion from previous studies is not generally correct.

Women who have pre-eclampsia in their first pregnancy, and deliver at term (after 37 weeks), but also those who have severe pre-eclampsia (delivered before 37 weeks) are not at increased risk for premature death, provided that they go on to another pregnancy, they add. The latter group of women have a higher risk for cardiovascular death, but they have a lower risk of non-cardiovascular death, and the net effect is no overall excess for an early death compared with other women.

The authors suggest that, rather than regard all women with pre-eclampsia as candidates for special monitoring (as current clinical guidelines recommend), "consideration should be given to one child mothers -- especially if their pre-eclampsia was preterm."

Overall, the study represents good news for most women with pre-eclampsia during pregnancy. Cardiovascular death in women with pre-eclampsia in their first pregnancy is clearly concentrated mainly in women with no additional births, say the authors.

This applies only to a small group of women with one pregnancy, and in Norway this group is small and represents only 15% of all women.

The reason why some women do not have more children, or choose not to have more children, may be due to underlying health problems, such as diabetes, that discourage or prevent further pregnancies rather than to pre-eclampsia itself, conclude the authors. It is known that diabetes is related to reduced fertility, and also to cardiovascular disease.

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Capitol Hill gets new apartment building - Inside Real Estate News

The Logan, a green apartment building, has opened in Capitol Hill.

The Logan, a green, five-story, 57-unit apartment building has opened in Capitol Hill. The developer ?believes it is the first new apartment building in the neighborhood in at least a decade.

The Logan was developed by the Denver-based Forum Real Estate Group on a vacant land parcel at East Sixth Avenue and Logan Street that it purchased in 2011.

?This is the first new apartment building to be built in this part of the city in a very long time, and is also one of central Denver?s first new apartment buildings to market,? said Adam Sivakoff of Forum Real Estate Group.

?There has been incredible demand for apartments in the Capitol Hill area in the past few years as evidenced by skyrocketing rents and extremely low vacancy rates,? he continued.

?Many older buildings are being renovated to try and capture the increased need for higher-end apartments in the neighborhood, but as this is new construction with underground parking, it will be a step above anything others are building,? Sivakoff said.

Renter appetite for a Class-a apartment building in Capitol Hill is huge, he said.

?We?re filling a need for luxury apartments in this prime location and we feel very fortunate to be an active participant in the apartment market, and provide people with a building that they?ll be very comfortable in, and appreciate calling home.?

The Logan includes studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments, with monthly rent rates ranging from $1,090 per month to $1,990 per month.? There are also 49 parking spaces, including one level of underground parking.

Some of the buildings ?amenities include:

• Front loading washers and dryers.
• Keyless unit entry.
• Controlled access building.
• Outdoor courtyard with grills and fire pit.
• Resident lounge.
• Bike kitchen and maintenance room.
• Sudz dog wash.
• Artwork by local artists.
• Elevator access.
• LED lighting.
• Floor to ceiling windows in some units.
• Loft style available in select units.
• Energy Star appliances.
• Recycling chutes on all floors.
• Low-E windows.

The building is ?built green.? ?and is 35 percent more energy-efficient when compared to a standard building, providing energy cost savings for residents.

Boutique Apartments has been appointed as the property management company for the Logan.

For more than a decade Boutique Apartments has specialized in the management of unique, higher-end properties throughout central Denver.

More interested in buying than renting. Check COhomefinder.com for homes for sale in the Capitol Hill area.

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Australia apologizes to military victims of abuse

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Rod McGuirk, The Associated Press | Last Updated:Mon, 26 Nov 2012 07:10:56 GMT

CANBERRA, Australia - Australia's defence minister on Monday apologized to military personnel past and present who were sexually abused or otherwise mistreated during their service. He also started an inquiry into hundreds of allegations of abuse over six decades.

Defence Minister Stephen Smith made the apology in Parliament on behalf of the government in the latest step in a two-year effort to reform the culture of the Australian military and it make more accepting of women.

"Young men and women have suffered treatment which no member of our defence force or our community generally should experience," Smith said.

"Young men and women have endured sexual, physical or mental abuse from their colleagues which are not acceptable and do not reflect the values of a modern, diverse, tolerant, Australian society," he added.

He noted claims that officers had abused their positions of trust through their own behaviour or by turning a blind eye to the actions of others.

Smith also announced that retired judge Len Roberts-Smith had been appointed to examine allegations of abuse by more than 1,000 alleged victims across every decade since 1950s.

The earliest case relates to the alleged abuse of a 13-year-old navy trainee in 1951, while the most recent relates to events in 2011.

A preliminary review of these allegations by a law firm found that 750 were "plausible," Smith said.

The three-month inquiry could result in compensation of up to 50,000 Australian dollars ($52,000) for each victim and the alleged perpetrators being referred to criminal authorities for prosecution.

Smith said some of the perpetrators could still be serving in the military.

The government started inquiries last year in response to a young woman's allegation that a fellow cadet had secretly filmed a sexual encounter between the pair and broadcast it to their colleagues at the Australian military officer training academy. The incident and the attention the government focused on it provoked a wave of complaints of sexual misconduct over the decades.

Source: http://www.tonightnewspaper.com/2012/11/26/australia-apologizes-to-military-victims-of-abuse/

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Korean Startup Accelerator SparkLabs Unveils Its First Class, Bolsters Its Advisory Board

It seems like it's been ages since SparkLabs revealed its intentions to nurture a handful of promising startups in South Korea (it was actually the end of July), but now the accelerator has officially pulled back the curtains on its inaugural class.

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Communications : By Using Fax To Email Software Old Equipment Is ...

By Marilyn J. Roberts

There are so many technological advances that most people simply take for granted but anyone that stands back for a moment and contemplate the incredible speed with which things have changes cannot help but be astonished. It seems like yesterday when the facsimile was brand new technology. Many people still use them, but most people see it as obsolete. Luckily, fax to email technology allows computers and old fashioned facsimile machines to talk to each other.

This technology is possible because there are many similarities between the way in which old fashioned facsimile machines communicated with each other and the way in which modern computers do it. Facsimile machines basically consist of a printer, a modem that lets it contact another machine and a scanner that converted the images or text into electronic format.

The basic fax via internet technology has been developed to allow computer users with electronic mail accounts to send and receive documents from people and organizations that do not have the advantages of internet technology. It is not only possible to send a facsimile from a traditional machine to an email account, but also to send an email to a facsimile machine.

There are other uses for the technology as well. Many internet users want to communicate written material, diagrams, plans and other hard copy to other computer users. In such cases it is really easy to simply use an internet to internet facsimile service. It is even possible to transmit from an internet facsimile account to an electronic mail account.

There are many online services that offer software that will allow anybody with internet access the use of fax through email technology. In most cases basic versions of the software can be downloaded free of charge. The new client will be allocated a free telephone number and any owner of an old facsimile machine can use that number to transmit material to the electronic mail account of the internet user.

There are many people that simply cannot imagine any other people without access to the internet. Yet there are millions of people and businesses in remote and poor areas of the world that have no choice other than to rely on old technology. For such people the ability to send a variety of documents with an ordinary facsimile machine to a computer user using online faxing software is heaven sent.

There can be little doubt that fax to email technology has done much to increase the efficiency with which people with different technological means can communicate with each other. It is an unfortunate fact that not everybody is able to keep up with the latest software, equipment and tools. For such people this technology is often a life saver.

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The UN/ITU respond to Google's #freeandopen campaign as the EU ...

An intergovernmental organisation, which few people have heard of, wants to take control over the management of the internet?potentially harming freedom of speech and increasing censorship, according to a chilling warning from Google.

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) @ITU, an organ of the United Nations which consists of world governments and telcos, will be convened on December 3 2012 in what Google is calling a ?closed door meeting? to debate whether governance of internet (as distinct from the web) should be handed over to it.

The ITU contests this suggestion by Google?and says that a large number of ?private sector companies and civil society organizations have registered to attend [December?s conference],? ??according to the organisation?s Head of Communications and Partnership Promotion Division, Paul Conneally.

Calling its campaign #freeandopen, Google has set up an online petition, which it is encouraging users to sign, to protest against these changes to internet governance.

?Some of these governments are trying to use a closed-door meeting in December to regulate the Internet.

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is bringing together regulators from around the world to re-negotiate a decades-old communications treaty.

Proposed changes to the treaty could increase censorship and threaten innovation.

Some proposals could permit governments to censor legitimate speech ? or even allow them to cut off Internet access.

Other proposals would require services like YouTube, Facebook, and Skype to pay new tolls in order to reach people across borders. This could limit access to information ? particularly in emerging markets.?

The company has released this infographic showing the growth of the internet since 1969.

Google says that the independence of the web is being increasingly threatened by governments; it says 42 countries filter content and in the past two years 19 new laws have been introduced which threaten internet freedom.

Google is not the only group which is resisting the potential move ? the European Parliament voted last week overwhelmingly in favour of a proposal which would see the 27 member states vote against the proposals. ?This is the second significant time in a year that the EU has contested changes to internet management.

Dutch MEP (Member of the European Parliament) Marietje Schaake was damming in her assessment of the potential outcomes should the ITU gain more powers over the management of the internet. ?She said;

?Some international telecommunications regulations reform proposals being presented by the ITU member states would negatively impact the internet, its architecture, operations, content and security, business relations, internet governance and the free flow of information online.?

Adding; ?the ITU?is not the appropriate body to assert regulatory authority over the internet.? ?Google and the EU look to be in agreement on this point; Google warns that the ITU should not be given control over the internet due to its lack of transparency;

?The ITU is the wrong place to make decisions about the future of the Internet.

Only governments have a voice at the ITU. This includes governments that do not support a free and open Internet. Engineers, companies, and people that build and use the web have no vote.

The ITU is also secretive. The treaty conference and proposals are confidential.?

The ITU says that it has gone through a ?very thorough and inclusive preparatory process? in the lead up to the conference. It added, ?We regret that Google did not take the opportunity to choose to join ITU as a member, which would have enabled it to participate in its own right in the WCIT-12 preparatory process?

Each of the EU?s 27 nation states are members of the ITU (193 nations in total are members of the organisation) and, following the vote in the EU Parliament, they will vote as one bloc against the measures granting more power to the ITU.

?[The European Parliament] calls on the Council to give a clear and transparent mandate to the Commission to coordinate a single EU strategy among Member States, aimed primarily at ensuring and preserving the openness of the internet, protecting the rights and freedoms of internet users online and coordinating the negotiation of the revision of the ITRs on behalf of the European Union, on the basis of inclusively gathered input from multiple stakeholders.?

Some measures that the ITU wants to enact, according to Google and the EU, would see companies being charged for providing content into certain jurisdictions.

Currently, several organisations from ICANN, to W3C, and private companies manage the development of the internet and the web in what?s called a Multi-stakeholder model. ?ICANN, the organisation which manages the development of DNS, IP, and other functions, describes its activities as;

?[one that] treats the public sector, the private sector, and technical experts as peers. In the ICANN community, you?ll find registries, registrars, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), intellectual property advocates, commercial and business interests, non-commercial and non-profit interests, representation from more than 100 governments, and a global array of individual Internet users. All points of view receive consideration on their own merits. ICANN?s fundamental belief is that all users of the Internet deserve a say in how it is run?

A blog post on the ITU?s website, tweeted by the UN yesterday, says that Google is mistaken and misleading in its belief that the organisation wants to control the internet. ?It says that the activities of the ITU are governed by several UN articles, including the Universal Declaration on Human Rights;

?The freedom of expression and the right to communicate are already enshrined in many UN and international treaties that ITU has taken into account in the establishment of its Constitution and Convention, and also its mandate by the Plenipotentiary Conference, which is the Supreme Organ of ITU. These treaties include Article 19 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

These Articles ? as well as Article 33 and 34 of the ITU Constitution ? clearly establish the right to communication and the limits that governments can impose on those rights.

Since the ITU Constitution prevails over the International Telecommunication Regulations (ITRs), nothing in the ITRs has the power to result in a reduction of freedom to communicate.?

The ITU?s Paul Conneally added;
?We must keep the Internet open for business to sustain growth in the vast and inter-dependent global digital economy.?

The debate over the internet?s governance comes a year after Google and other technology companies began their campaigns against SOPA and PIPA.

Source: http://sociable.co/business/the-unitu-respond-to-googles-freeandopen-campaign-as-the-eu-votes-to-condemn-changes-to-internet-governance/

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Egypt's political foes dig in their heels

Egyptian protesters gather in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012. President Mohammed Morsi edicts, which were announced on Thursday, place him above oversight of any kind, including that of the courts. The move has thrown Egypt's already troubled transition to democracy into further turmoil, sparking angry protests across the country to demand the decrees be immediately rescinded. The banner in Arabic, top center, reads, "members of the Muslim Brotherhood are not allowed." (AP Photo/Ahmed Gomaa)

Egyptian protesters gather in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012. President Mohammed Morsi edicts, which were announced on Thursday, place him above oversight of any kind, including that of the courts. The move has thrown Egypt's already troubled transition to democracy into further turmoil, sparking angry protests across the country to demand the decrees be immediately rescinded. The banner in Arabic, top center, reads, "members of the Muslim Brotherhood are not allowed." (AP Photo/Ahmed Gomaa)

Egyptian security forces, background, clash with protesters near Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012. Supporters and opponents of Egypt's president grow more entrenched in their potentially destabilizing battle over the Islamist leader's move to give himself near absolute powers, with neither side appearing willing to back down. (AP Photo/Ahmed Gomaa)

Egyptian security forces clash with protesters near Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012. Supporters and opponents of Egypt's president grow more entrenched in their potentially destabilizing battle over the Islamist leader's move to give himself near absolute powers, with neither side appearing willing to back down. (AP Photo/Ahmed Gomaa)

FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008 file photo, Egyptian brokers work during a session at the Egyptian stock market in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt's benchmark stock index on Sunday plunged by more than 9.5 percent in the first trading session since the country's Islamist president issued decrees to assume sweeping new powers, while police in central Cairo fired tear gas at protesters who accuse the Egyptian leader of a blatant power grab. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008 file photo, an Egyptian broker gestures during a session at the Egyptian stock market in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt's benchmark stock index on Sunday plunged by more than 9.5 percent in the first trading session since the country's Islamist president issued decrees to assume sweeping new powers, while police in central Cairo fired tear gas at protesters who accuse the Egyptian leader of a blatant power grab. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

CAIRO (AP) ? Supporters and opponents of Egypt's president on Sunday grew more entrenched in their potentially destabilizing battle over the Islamist leader's move to assume near absolute powers, with neither side appearing willing to back down as the stock market plunged amid the fresh turmoil.

The standoff poses one of the hardest tests for the nation's liberal and secular opposition since Hosni Mubarak's ouster nearly two years ago. Failure to sustain protests and eventually force Mohammed Morsi to loosen control could consign it to long-term irrelevance.

Clashes between the two sides spilled onto the streets for a third day since the president issued edicts that make him immune to oversight of any kind, including that of the courts.

A teenager was killed and at least 40 people were wounded when a group of anti-Morsi protesters tried to storm the local offices of the political arm of the president's Muslim Brotherhood in the Nile Delta city of Damanhoor, according to security officials.

It was the first reported death from the street battles that erupted across much of the nation on Friday, the day after Morsi's decrees were announced. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media, identified the boy as 15-year-old Islam Hamdi Abdel-Maqsood.

The tensions also dealt a fresh blow to the economy, which has suffered due to the problems plaguing the Arab world's most populous nation since Mubarak's ouster.

Egypt's benchmark EGX30 stock index dropped 9.59 percentage points Sunday in the first trading session since Morsi issued his decrees. The losses were among the biggest since the turbulent days and weeks immediately after Mubarak's ouster in a popular uprising last year. The loss in the value of shares was estimated at close to $5 billion.

The judiciary, the main target of the edicts, has pushed back, calling the decrees a power grab and an "assault" on the branch's independence. Judges and prosecutors stayed away from many courts in Cairo and other cities on Sunday.

But the nation's highest judicial body, the Supreme Judiciary Council, watered down its opposition to the decrees on Sunday. It told judges and prosecutors to return to work and announced that its members would meet with Morsi on Monday to try to persuade him to restrict immunity to major state decisions like declaring war or martial law or breaking diplomatic relations with foreign nations.

Morsi supporters insist that the measures were necessary to prevent the courts, which already dissolved the elected lower house of parliament, from further holding up moves to stability by disbanding the assembly writing the new constitution, as judges were considering doing. Both the parliament and the constitutional assembly are dominated by Islamists. Morsi accuses Mubarak loyalists in the judiciary of seeking to thwart the revolution's goals and barred the judiciary from disbanding the constitutional assembly or parliament's upper house.

Opposition activists, however, have been adamant since the crisis first erupted that they would not enter a dialogue with Morsi's regime before the decrees are rescinded.

Protesters also clashed with police at Cairo's Tahrir Square, the birthplace of the mass protests that toppled Mubarak, and in the side streets and avenues leading off the plaza. The Interior Ministry, which is in charge of the police, said 267 protesters have been arrested and 164 policemen injured since the unrest began a week ago, initially to mark the anniversary of street protests a year ago against the nation's then-military rulers. Forty-two protesters were killed in those demonstrations.

The ministry did not say how many protesters were injured in the latest clashes in Tahrir, but security officials put the figure at 260.

Hundreds of protesters staging a sit-in in Tahrir have vowed not to leave before Morsi rescinds his decrees. The two sides also have called for massive rival protests Tuesday in Cairo, signaling a protracted struggle.

Morsi's office issued an English-language statement late Sunday defending his decrees and repeating the argument he used when addressing supporters Friday outside his Cairo palace ? that they were designed to bolster the country's transition to democratic rule and dismantle Mubarak's old regime.

"The presidency reiterates the temporary nature of the said measures, which are not meant to concentrate powers," it said. The statement also pledged Morsi's commitment to engaging all political forces on the drafting of a new constitution. Secular and Christian members withdrew from the panel drafting the document, alleging that the Islamists who dominate the body have hijacked the process to produce a charter with an Islamist slant.

Nader Omran, of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice party, said any changes to the decrees were "out of the question" but Morsi might "make pledges, vows or addendums explaining his position to clarify the decrees."

He said Morsi would hand over his legislative powers to parliament's upper chamber once a new constitution is adopted in a nationwide referendum and ahead of parliamentary elections. The presidency did not confirm the claim, but doing so would leave the Egyptian leader with the state's executive and legislative powers until around April.

The move also has caused some internal discord among the Morsi camp, with one aide, Samer Marqous, already resigning to protest the "undemocratic" decree.

Another Morsi adviser Ayman al-Sayyad wrote on his Twitter account that the president met Sunday for the second time in as many days with his 17-member advisory council and three of his assistants.

"I think it (the meeting) produced a genuine realization of the gravity of the situation ... We were candid today in our meeting with the president and we now expect practical steps on the ground." He did not elaborate.

Leading Egyptian democracy advocate Mohammed ElBaradei, a Nobel Peace Laureate and a former director of the U.S. nuclear agency, warned Saturday of increasing turmoil that could potentially lead to the military stepping in unless Morsi rescinds his new powers.

Egypt's liberal and secular groups ? long divided, weakened and uncertain as Islamist parties rose to power in the months after the revolution ? are seeking to rally in response to the decrees as the stakes are high. The fractured opposition came together as the engine of the 18-day uprising that forced Mubarak to step down after 29 years in power, bringing millions out on the streets, but they have failed to recapture that energy after months of setbacks.

Morsi, meanwhile, already has backed down twice in high-profile battles with the judiciary in the five months he's been in office. The U.S.-trained engineer failed to challenge the court ruling dissolving parliament's powerful lower chamber and had to rescind his decision to fire the country's attorney-general, Mubarak-era appointee Abdel-Maguid Mahmoud, in October. He fired him on Thursday as part of his edicts.

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Associated Press writer Aya Batrawy contributed to this report.

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Running Charity Miles to Fight Hunger and Cancer - Blogcritics ...

On Thanksgiving I got the chance to raise money for three charities: Stand up 2 Cancer, Feeding America, and the World Food Programme. All this by simply running and using a free app called Charity Miles.

I bought an Android phone a couple of months ago and downloaded the free Charity Miles app. You select a charity and choose whether you are going to run, walk, or bike. The app keeps track of your miles. Every mile you cover leads to a donation to the charity of your choice. The results of your runs get posted to your Facebook page.

I started out on Thanksgiving day with a three-mile run and took a little break to submit the results so Stand up 2 Cancer could earn the donation. The three miles I ran donated about seven minutes of cancer research.

The next three-mile run was for Feeding America and this donated about eight meals. As a member of the Feeding America Blogger Council I was also busy getting an online petition set up to support America's foodbanks. So please sign this petition.

After another much-needed break especially considering the very hilly terrain I was running (the place is called Western Hills), my plan was to next run for the World Food Programme (WFP). My phone had a glitch so I lost about a mile's worth. However, I did run a little over two miles after that, leading to a donation of five meals to WFP.

I also was able to mention Charity Miles to a few people I passed along the way.

Just as I am writing this I have received a message from Charity Miles stating:

"Yesterday was Charity Miles' biggest day ever! Over 8,900 miles in one day ? nearly half of which were for Feeding America, helping to feed over 15,000 people! What a great way to celebrate Thanksgiving!"

I am happy to be nine of those miles yesterday and to raise money for causes I am very involved with. My column here, primarly about world hunger, is nearing its 500th article.

I was glad to see Stand up 2 Cancer recently added to the Charity Mile list. I know how deeply devastating this disease is. My mother passed away from lung and brain cancer this summer.

There are many other charities as well that you can help when you join. I never used a cell phone or Android before starting this, so for experienced people it should be relatively easy to set up.

Source: http://blogcritics.org/culture/article/running-charity-miles-to-fight-hunger/

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Crocs takes the right steps ? Business Management Daily: Free ...

John McCarvel, 56, is president and chief executive of Crocs, a global apparel and accessories company that began as a shoemaker. He joined Crocs in 2005 and ran its Asia/Pacific business before becoming CEO in 2010. The Colorado-based company, which has evolved from a ?one-shoe wonder? into a thriving global lifestyle brand, has about 5,000 employees.

EL: Crocs has grown quickly in recent years. Why?

McCarvel: We?ve be??come an $850 million global business by putting our customers first. Everyone here knows that customers are the most important part of the business.

EL: Many companies say they?re ?customer-centric. How do you follow through?

McCarvel: We created a mission statement and a culture that revolves around the customer. The executive team shows how we live the culture in staff meetings.

EL: But how can you tell if employees buy into the mission?

McCarvel: In 2010, we put our mission in writing along with our creed, code and culture. One night, I got into a ?discussion with the president of our American business about our mission statement. He argued that people do care. But I wasn?t so sure. I?ve found many employees don?t live the organization?s mission. So he and I started asking employees, ?Do you know our mission statement?? and ?Do you live it??

EL: What did you learn?

McCarvel: We found that about 50% knew it and, of those, about 50% live it. But when you?re the CEO, people don?t always tell you the truth. Maybe they claimed to live it but really didn?t. So we sought to have it develop into the backbone of how we operate.

EL: How did you do that?

McCarvel: We reinforced the creed?what we believe in?and the code?the rules we live by as an organization. We wrote it all down. Part of our creed is we believe in teamwork, having fun and bringing passion to the job. In terms of rules, one example is taking ownership. You?re accountable for what you do.

EL: How about culture?

McCarvel: We made sure our culture was driving our actions. For example, we wanted a culture of sustainability. So we put in a water filtration system and gave everybody a Crocs water bottle. When visitors come, we give them a Crocs water bottle to keep. Also, all of our employees get a plastic laminated card that lists our creed, code and culture.

EL: How did you come up with the 3 Cs?

McCarvel: I had gone through a similar process in my personal life during ?pre-marriage counseling. I found it extremely important. Formulating what we believe in, setting basic rules and talking about culture creates a foundation of values that are aligned. After 24 years of marriage and three kids, I?m extremely happy.

EL: You?ve lived and worked in Tokyo, Singapore and France. What did you learn overseas?

McCarvel: These experiences molded my leadership. I learned to be more collaborative and to be more methodical. I also learned to place a very heavy emphasis on planning.

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Tim Burgess: How Twitter Made Tim Peaks a Surreal Reality

Some stories just write themselves. That sounded quite good but then I wrote it and I think we all know it didn't write itself so I'm going to start again.

What I maybe mean is that some stories just sort of happen - instead of just running aground, the next episode comes along and things keep rumbling along. They never reach a conclusion and you kind of never want them to.

A good story needs a twisty turny plot, some surreal elements, music and a cool cast. This one involves David Lynch, Gerardo Camacho a coffee farmer from Costa Rica, a cartoon version of me with a soundtrack from Edwyn Collins, Nick Heyward and Roddy Frame. It even got made into a film.

Where did it start? As befits this something this odd, it started with a tweet.

I was the new kid on on the Twitter block and I wasn't sure what it was for - I kind of had me a broken down MySpace that had fallen into disrepair, a Facebook that had seen better days and I was hearing about this new thing that was taking the world by storm - you could like send a picture of what you were about to eat and people would look at it. Lattes seemed to be high on the list of what people wanted other people to know that they had in front of them.

I had 4,000 people knowing what I was going to say and it was going up each day - I was letting people know about gigs and what the weather was where I was but I thought there should be more to it. But what? That bit I didn't know. So far, so non story with no characters.

Then came the Tweet:

"Morning tweets x coffee?"

Boom! That was it. It was 7am and people were about to go about their day and a hundred people reacted.

"Yes please mate, send us one to Preston, got a ceiling to plaster and am running late"
"Konnichiwa from Tokyo Timcka, cappuccino for me"

That kind of thing - I wasn't sure what it was but it sure was something.

A few people asked about music and gigs but it was the coffee Tweet each morning that would get a big reaction. The numbers grew and it became surreally unreally real - each morning there'd be a song, the breakfast banger - from The Fall to Two Fingers to Jim O Rourke - songs that people knew, songs that they didn't.

It was kind of like an inverse version of The Emperor's New Clothes - nobody pointed out there was no actual caffeine and nobody burst the bubble. It was metaphysical and metaphorical and it was a daily routine.

It needed a name. Tim Peaks was born. We got a logo. We made some mugs - all 48 snapped up in an hour. We made some more. They went too. This carried on until we'd sold over 500. ?5,000 - all for charity. Kind of made me scratch my head and wonder what was going on.

We started listening parties for all The Charlatans' albums - hundreds of people in dozens of countries pressing play/ dropping the needle on an album, all the same time. From Argentina to Kyoto via a bloke in his car in his garage in Kettering as he only had Some Friendly on cassette and no tape player in the house.

The numbers went over 8,000 and BBC 6Music rang - they asked me to do shows on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve with an hour being done from Tim Peaks. It was becoming more real but we still didn't know what it really was.

Tim Peaks on Twitter was taking up to an hour each morning - the jukebox was real enough. 18,000 people getting the chosen records in their feed by the end of last year.

The shutters came down on the tweety Tim Peaks with plans being plotted - the time I'd saved each morning was now invested in making the whole thing from the metaphysical to the physical and the metaphorical to the, er, phorical.

I'd played at a brilliant festival called Kendal Calling in The Lake District and they called offering us the most perfect log cabin that for three days this summer became Tim Peaks for real. Real jukebox, real diner booths, real everything. Even down to our own blend of coffee. I was summoned to Glasgow by a coffee roaster and questions were asked, thoughts were shared, beans were ground and blended and after a day of slurping and some spitting out we'd made it. Tim Peaks Coffee was real and it was fantastic.

We got us a gang together and invited some friends together. Over the three days we served over 1,000 cups of Tim Peaks Coffee, 800 cups of Yorkshire Tea - they sent their tea van Little Urn with a present of freebie tea bags and love. Cherry Pie? Check. Hot Vimto? Check. Afternoon tea? Check. Our very own Kellogg's breakfast cereal. Er, yeah, like, check.

In amongst the Tweets there was one that had a bigger impact that the others. I'd been out in Manchester and heard some hipster kid use the newspeak phrase 'Totes Amazeballs' - it sounded like something Willy Wonka would come out with. The sugariest sweet confection you could ever imagine. So I staked a claim for the name. I Tweeted that I'd invented a breakfast cereal with that name. That it was fantastic and that Kellogg's had been in touch and they were interested in making it.

Except, of course, they weren't. But then, of course they were - a box was designed and a recipe was come up with and especially for the festival Totes Amazeballs would be served. 400 bowls of them.The story of the cereal seemed to take over the world for one day back in February. Like a disaster movie where you see the impending doom reported on a TV in lots of different languages, we had bemused phone calls from Japan and India - radio shows in Australia and Canada. Features in Rolling Stone, The Metro, The Daily Mail and on TV stations in Spain and France were calling to ask about the cereal. Surreal indeed. I was kind of getting used to what Twitter could do.

So, we couldn't just give this stuff away, for fear of being Lynched - no pun intended - by the stall holders who shell out hard earned cash to sell their goodies at festivals. Nope, but we definitely couldn't keep it. The story was so nuts and so pure that we had to think of a suitable place to benefit.

It didn't take more than a minute to decide. We'd kind of borrowed the name from David Lynch and I'd done some work for his foundation and the story was as far fetched as some of his own. The log cabin at Kendal Calling could have come straight out of Twin Peaks. So this was writing itself. Except, you know that I just wrote that.

At the festival we had the Wurlitzer jukebox loaded up with the songs we'd be playing on twitter and some of the original Tim Peaks customers came and drank the coffee for real. DJ Yoda, Maximo Park, James and Th Inspiral Carpets stopped by for a cuppa. We said we'd close at 10pm each night but things were still swinging at 3am the next morning.

Kyle from The View did an hour of cover versions, Nick Heyward was a revelation - we only knew him from Twitter - and he brought about an amazing singalong that 250 people crammed into a log cabin will never forget. Did I do a set? Well I could hardly not - Edwyn Collins and Roddy Frame had both showed up and Aztec Camera and Orange Juice classics were keeping everyone going. I did a half hour of stripped down Charlatans' set and then Roddy, Edwyn and me finished the whole thing off with a rendition of A Girl Like You.

When the weekend was over, we knew it couldn't be over. It was like Pandora's box, but the box was full of good things - like rainbows or something. Anyway, it was open.

We had our own coffee. It was the most amazing Fairtrade blend. We got messages from the farms and farmers who were supplying the beans - this unreal reality had now hit Ethiopia, Uganda and Costa Rica.

We sent Tim Peaks Coffee to some friends and twitter lit up with rave reviews from superstar DJ Erol Alkan, crime writer Ian Rankin, BBC 6 Music's Lauren Laverne, Sunday Brunch's Tim Lovejoy, footballer Gary Neville and Coronation Street's Antony Cotton. The first time all those people have featured on one list, surely

News travelled fast about Tim Peaks at Kendal Calling. Like, they so obviously asked us to do it again and we so agreed. Earlier that Summer I'd done a book reading - yeah, I've got a book out, I just don't go on about it. Telling Stories. Penguin 15 quid - anyway, I'd been reading from my best selling autobiography that Q Magazine had said was 'like the best parts of all the best rock memoirs rolled into one'.

The point is that I was reading it at The Isle of Wight Festival in their Last Chance Saloon venue, a cross between a victorian ballroom, a hall of mirrors and a Wall of Death at a fairground. This is getting confusing but you've kind of guessed it anyway. Yep, they offered us The Last Chance Saloon at The Isle of Wight to have as Tim Peaks in 2013. And there's more. Festival Number 6, the most psychedelic mediterranean fishing village, film set of a festival invited us too for 2013. Naturally we accepted these invitations and we might just see you there next year.

The Tweets carry on and there's 45,000 people now - I'm reading this in Richard Dreyfuss's voice, like at the end of Stand by Me. Or maybe Morgan Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption. I was never good at impressions and I can't tell who it sounds like. Maybe Ronnie Corbett

Can you go to Tim Peaks now you say?

Why, sure you can.

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