With a Tegra 2 Tegra 2-esque ARM A9-based processor confirmed Tegra 2 inside, 9.7″ wide screen, and a full gig of RAM, these tablets from Foxconn (unnamed and undated) look to be pretty serious pieces of hardware. They run Android, which I’ve always thought is unsuited for tablets that size, but hey, until something nicer comes out, it’s free and it works. More info over at Giz. Netbook News has a video for you, as well (thanks for the Tegra confirmation).
Phil Vettel, the Chicago Tribune’s food critic, notes a certain whiff of hypocrisy in First Lady Michelle Obama’s food-focused campaign to solve Americans’ weight woes. While she’s preaching about access to fresh veggies, her husband goes on the road and happily noshes on wings, burgers, and fries.
Vettel writes of the presidential palate:
I mean, the cheeseburger with fries at Peggy Sue's Cafe in Monroe City, Mo., in late April? Yikes. And then, a few days ago, a stop at Duff's for buffalo wings? Double yikes. Buffalo wings are so loaded with fat they make cheeseburger fans feel better about themselves.
I realize that, as a man of the people, you have to dig into what the locals eat. When in Buffalo, N.Y., as you were this month, delivering a speech on the troublesome economy to a particularly hard-hit city, you're not going to be grabbing a steaming mound of quinoa at the local veggie restaurant. …
Mr. President, you're a gym rat, and from what I can tell, you're exercising away all those calories and then some.
And that’s the heart of the matter: President Obama is as fit as a fiddle, known for his dedicated gym routine six days a week. We’d argue that he makes a great advocate for the benefits of regular physical activity, but not such a perfect spokesman for a fanatically restricted diet that only MeMe Roth would love.
While activists are fighting to push treats off our tables, scores of studies have shown that Americans are most seriously lacking in the physical activity department. Only eight percent of elementary schools and six percent of middle and high schools require students to take phys ed. These are habits that have lifelong consequences: On a state-by-state basis, the leanest areas of the country are also the places with the most active people.
The link between inactivity and obesity is unambiguous. And President Obama is living proof that regular exercise compensates for cheeseburgers and the occasional DC visit to Ben’s Chili Bowl.
Filed under: Sedan, China, Technology, Roewe
With the Google I/O developer’s conference going on and General Motor’s spate of announcements about the future of OnStar and its Android-integrated smartphone app for the Chevrolet Volt, there’s been a fair amount of virtual ink spilled over the search giant’s mobile software and its integration into automobiles.
However, Roewe has taken the biggest leap yet and installed Android into its new 350 sedan.
The system, developed in conjunction with the Chinese automaker and Inkanet, employs a 3G internet connection through China Unicom to deliver everything from weather to stock market information, and connects to phones and other multimedia devices through either a cable or Bluetooth connection. As you’d expect, GPS and traffic data is integrated into the system, and users can make phone calls, along with sending and receiving emails and text messages. An on-screen QWERTY keyboard is incorporated into the custom user interface, and unlike some of the hack jobs we’ve seen on netbooks and vaporware tablets, it’s actually an attractive implementation of the Android operating system.
The whole package will set Chinese consumers back around $600-900 when it arrives later this year, and includes 24 months of free service through China Unicom. Check the gallery below for a walk through of its features.
Gallery: Roewe 350 with Android
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One of the fathers of modern acoustics and founder of speaker/microphone manufacturer Sennheiser, Prof. Dr. Fritz Sennheiser died on Monday. He was 98 years old. More »
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Reverend the Hon. Dr GORDON MOYES [3.37 p.m.]: I thank previous speakers for their lucid presentation of this case. On behalf of Family First I speak on the Mining and Petroleum Legislation Amendment (Land Access) Bill, the object of which is to amend the Mining Act 1992 and the Petroleum (Onshore) Act 1991. In particular, this bill amends the definition of “landholder” so that an exploration company only needs to make an access arrangement with a person who has exclusive possession of a property or a right to exclusive possession. It removes the requirement for exploration companies to negotiate access arrangements with secondary landholders such as easement holders or mortgagees. It retains the right for secondary landholders to claim compensation if their interests are adversely affected during exploration, and it provides an exploration company with the flexibility to make more than one access arrangement when there is more than one landholder for a property.
I want to discuss two issues about the bill at this stage. The first issue is the introduction of this bill, which shows the New South Wales Government’s complete disregard for a decision of the New South Wales Supreme Court. The amendments to the mining and petroleum Acts will validate all existing property access agreements and force into the Land and Environment Court the Caroona agreement set aside by the Supreme Court. Finally, I will discuss the consequences of the legislation in securing Australia’s food supply. The legislation before the House today shows that the New South Wales Government has no regard for the law or the New South Wales Supreme Court.
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Justice Schmidt ruled that BHP had breached the Mining Act 1992 by failing to notify all interested landholders, including mortgagees, and that the New South Wales Wardens Court, since abolished, had made serious legal errors in finding in BHP’s favour. In addition and importantly, Justice Schmidt found that BHP had not adequately detailed how it intended to protect the environment during its exploration operations, validating a key community concern. The Hon. Robert Brown spoke about the significance of that community concern and I do not need to repeat it.
This bill is an attempt by the Government to overcome a recent decision of the New South Wales Supreme Court. In common law countries such as Australia, the doctrine of the separation of powers is an indication of a working government and democracy. Evidently it is non-existent in this State. In the current case before the House, the Government perceives the Supreme Court decision as an encroachment and erosion of its power. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition outlined the concerns of the Law Review Committee and the New South Wales Bar Association about this very matter. In a High Court comment a former Chief Justice of the High Court said:
It is self-evident that the exercise of judicial review will, from time to time, frustrate ambition, curtail power, invalidate legislation, and fetter administrative action The High Court from time to time disappoints the ambitions of legislators and Governments. This is part of our system of checks and balances. People who exercise political power, and claim to represent the will of the people, do not like being checked or balanced.
How true that is in this case. The Supreme Court decision highlights that judicial decisions can hamper the execution of important government policies. Their effect can be to work against ” administrative efficiency”, Justice Schmidt said. For the public service in particular, decisions made by the judiciary can mean that plans are thwarted, policy is impossible to implement, and there is an increased expense in carrying out administrative procedures. Private property rights, although subject to compulsory acquisition by statute, have long been hedged about by the common law with protections. These protections are not absolute but take the form of interpretative approaches where statutes are said to affect such rights. The common law caution to the Legislature in exercising its power over private property is reflected in what has been called a presumption, in the interpretation of statutes, against an intention to interfere with vested property rights. In Clissold v Perry, a land resumption case, Chief Justice Griffith said:
In considering this matter, it is necessary to bear in mind that it is a general rule to be followed in the construction of statutes such as that with which we are now dealing, that they are not to be construed as interfering with vested interests unless that intention is manifest.
The High Court decision considered the infringement on individual property rights. The High Court judgment considered the following approach:
In its application to property rights, this long-standing interpretive principle is consistent with international developments in the recognition of human rights since World War II. Although not specifically protected by the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the right to property was recognised in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in various other international instruments.
Australia is a signatory to that Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Let me consider for a moment the issue of property rights. Firstly, limiting the definition of “landholder” to a person who has exclusive possession or a right to exclusive possession of a property, and removing the requirement for exploration companies to negotiate access arrangements with easement holders or mortgagees, seeks to completely reverse the recent New South Wales Supreme Court decision in Brown & Anor v Coal Mines Australia Pty Ltd, in which the landholder’s rights were upheld by Justice Schmidt and BHP Billiton’s license to explore for coal on the landholder’s property were deemed invalid due to a lack of consultation with all landholders.
The Supreme Court decision provides greater certainty of rights of farmers whose land is covered by an exploration agreement. The Supreme Court judgment was concluded after careful consideration of the facts and evidence presented to the court. This bill raises question as to whether leaseholders or even squatters may be deemed to potentially have exclusive possession or a right to exclusive possession over land, so would the proposed amendments to the bill seek to allow those parties to have the right to enter into access agreements with mining companies? Secondly, another interpretation of the bill may be that it nullifies a recent decision by the Land and Environment Court, in Rosane Pty Ltd v T & P Clarke, that exploration licence conditions should and can be attached to access agreements. As a result of those two aforementioned judgments the rights of landholders with regard to mining exploration have significantly improved. So a detailed review of the proposed bill needs to be undertaken with an area of express interest being the proposed amendments to section 141.
Thirdly, proposed amendments to section 158 also pose some concerns. Presently access agreements terminate when a bound landholder either ceases to be a landholder, or dies. Significantly the bill seeks to provide that access agreements with two or more parties do not terminate if one party ceases to be a landholder. Rather, in the circumstance in which the land under an access agreement changes landholders, the agreement will continue to operate until it is replaced by a new agreement, whether by agreement or by the determination of an arbitrator or the Land and Environment Court. This amendment could result in significant impacts to property values should the landholder seek to sell his or her property.
Finally, I want to talk about the significance of the Liverpool Plains area and our national food security. Agriculture is a vital contributor to the New South Wales economy with New South Wales being Australia’s most productive agricultural State. Agriculture contributes $10.2 billion to the New South Wales economy and employs more than 122,000 people. This represents 26 per cent of the total value of Australian agricultural production. As well, agriculture is the biggest land user in New South Wales with an estimated 63.6 million hectares or 79 per cent of the landmass of New South Wales being used for agricultural activity.
The Liverpool Plains is critical for the nation’s food security and contributes $332 million to the gross domestic product annually. The Liverpool Plains is part of the Namoi catchment that feeds into the Murray Darling Basin. According to National Dryland Salinity Program, it is the only catchment where cropping is the major land use, and is by far the most fertile and productive. I have spoken about the Liverpool Plains in a previous speech and on that occasion went into some detail about the significance of what is regarded as the most productive form of agricultural land in Australia. The Liverpool Plains is well managed with high-output aquifers, it has reliable summer and winter rainfall, and has high water holding capacity with exceptionally fertile volcanic soils. I will not repeat what I have said in other speeches, but let it be said that the Liverpool Plains is outstanding agricultural country.
The National Pollutant Inventory confirms that the Liverpool Plains does not produce food in an environment contaminated by any industry waste. The mining industry liberates tonnes of toxic metals, fine silica dusts or carcinogenic petroleum hydrocarbons. It also leaves a legacy of acid mine drainage, poisoned rivers and creeks, highly saline evaporation ponds, and unpredictable methane scalds. The ability to produce quality food is directly related to the environment in which that food grows. On the Liverpool Plains, local farmers produce food from clean air, clean water and nutrient-dense soil.
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The future of every organic farmer in this part of Australia, which brings added value to their crops and assures overseas sales for the benefit of Australia, is placed in total jeopardy if mining access continues. As discussed before, the Liverpool Plains yield 40 per cent of the national average. The 16-year average produced by the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries shows consistent, drought-proof winter and summer annual crop production to be over 180,000 tonnes of wheat, over 200,000 tonnes of sorghum, over 5,000 tonnes of oats, over 2,000 tonnes of soybeans, over 60,000 tonnes of barley, over 29,000 tonnes of corn, over 19,000 tonnes of sunflowers, and over 1.2 million tonnes of cotton.
According to the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics, the food bowl of Liverpool Plains brings to our table each year the following items: 365 million loaves of bread, 62.5 million packets of pasta, 144 million bottles of beer, 5.4 million packs of muesli, 8 million litres of sunflower oil, 58 million boxes of cornflakes, 276 million pairs of jeans, over 200 tonnes of sorghum for cattle and chickens, $110 million worth of beef production and massive production of chickpeas, soybeans, mung beans, canola, olives, turkeys, pigs, lamb and wool.
And lentils and pulses, if you like. Lest people think that mining exploration does not interfere with this production, I will an email sent to all members of Parliament by Mark Stewart. He writes:
Dear Members,
I believe that this bill is before you this week, I write to you so that you may be aware of the disruption to landholders caused by miners and the environmental damage miners have caused in this area. I am sure that other areas have suffered even more.
Basically I think that entry for exploration should be a matter between the landholder and the explorer. Our experience with our local miner, Hillgrove mine (Straits) has been dismal.
Their first contact with us was by letter which had a return address upon it. When we replied to them the letter was returned ‘not known at this address’. We then wrote to their office in W.A. with what we considered to be our requirements for access – no reply from them. We were then in touch with their local people and virtually denied them access (a moot point, as they have the NSW govt. behind them in this regard).
The exploration of neighbouring properties was quite disruptive to us, drilling rigs about 600m from us for months, very noisy and dusty. My wife was suffering a Menieres attack at this time and on several days we had to vacate our home due to the noise. The plumes of dust were going several hundreds of metres up and depositing all around including on our roof and drinking water catchment. This dust was admitted by Straits to contain heavy metals such as lead, arsenic etc.
During this exploration they cut a neighbour’s fence for drilling rig access and did not fix it properly, as a result Mr Coventry’s cattle escaped onto the Grafton Rd resulting in the police being called. The explorers also entered crown land, Clark’s Gully travelling stock reserve where they carried out maintenance on their rig with a resulting oil spill. The above were photographed and sent to the relevant dept. (at the time Primary Industries, mining division). To the best of my knowledge there was not any follow up by the Dept.
Hillgrove village was also subject to visual, aural and smell pollution during their mining operations.
This experience of a so called responsible miner has firmed our opinion.
In closing he writes:
Our experience of the previous operator of Hillgrove mine was similar. An open cut mine approximately 600m from our property was very troublesome, once again noise, dust and explosions which shook our house severely…The site has been left as a hole which is visible on the southern side of the Grafton Rd (Waterfall Way) about 22 kilometres from Armadale, just near the Old Hillgrove Road. The promises made by the miner about mediation etc were not carried out and nobody seems to know what happened to the supposed bond put up by the miner. The conditions of the council approval were also not complied with and the council were not interested in policing them, instead when the mine was for sale they donated some of the ratepayers funds to the seller to help him sell.
Another fault with the exploration and any subsequent mining is that the landholder may be compensated to some extent but the neighbours receive no compensation or consideration under the mining rules.
I feel that some of the above problems could be minimised if the landholder had more say about what happens on his land and more say in the granting of exploration rights and any subsequent mining activity, because I believe that the landholder is the person most interested in his local environment being looked after.
There is no question about the authenticity or the accuracy of that statement and I thank Mr Stewart for it. In conclusion, whatever uncertainties we face with the world economy, protecting prime agricultural land will ensure that Australia will always be able to feed our population with high-quality, safe, nutritious and affordable food. Liverpool Plains must remain a pre-eminent food exporter contributing to Australia’s gross domestic product, export growth and international leverage. Australia now has less than 6 per cent of arable land. We must protect the prime areas, in particular the best of all, the Liverpool Plains. It is Australia’s vital source of food security. According to the Australian Farm Institute, the productive capacity of Australia needs to be sustained if each farmer is to continue to feed 150 Australians and 650 people overseas.
Food security is vital for the future of Australians and farmers’ rights are vital for all Australians. Farmers are sustainable managers of their land and the environment and they play a vital role in driving regional and national economies. If governments take away their fundamental right to manage their land and cultivate a productive sustainable return, then governments should compensate them significantly for that loss. It is fundamentally for this critical reason that I support the farmers of this nation and strongly oppose this legislation.
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At Google I/O today, PayPal announced the Mobile Payments Library.
The Mobile Payments Library allows you to add checkout functionality for donations, personal payments, physical goods and services sold through apps on the Android phone without having to worry about keeping customers’ personal financial information secure.
It was recently released beta to the iPhone development community and now available for Android. Download it today from http://www.x.com. (And yes that URL is correct and goes to PayPal’s X Developers Network).
Are you a Dev, tell us what you think! PayPal user? Would you pay for purchases with your account within apps without the need of a credit card? Tell us in the comments below.
Important reminder: members of the Judging Panel will recognize the Finalists and the 3 Winners in an Awards Ceremony Call on Monday, noon-1pm Pacific Time.
In order to participate in the call:
Out of the 40 organizations that submitted entries to the inaugural 2010 Brain Fitness Innovation Awards, the 10 Finalists (ordered by approximate age of end user population, from younger to older) are:
Arrowsmith School offers a comprehensive suite of cognitive programs for students with learning disabilities, targeting 19 areas of the brain most commonly involved in learning. The Arrowsmith Program, which originated in Toronto, is now offered in schools in Canada and the US.
USA Hockey, Inc., is the National Governing Body of the sport of ice hockey in the United States. With a membership of nearly 600,000 players, coaches, officials and volunteers that span all 50 states, USA Hockey seeks to promote the growth of hockey and provide the best possible experience for all participants by encouraging, developing, advancing and administering the sport.
Nationwide, based in Columbus, Ohio, is one of the largest and strongest diversified insurance and financial services organizations in the U.S. and is rated A+ by A.M. Best. The company provides a full range of personalized insurance and financial services, including including auto and life insurance, pensions, health and productivity services, and more.
University Behavioral HealthCare (UBHC) was established in 1971 as a division of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) and is one of the largest providers of behavioral healthcare services in the country.
Allstate (NYSE: ALL) is the nation’s largest publicly held personal lines insurer. Allstate is reinventing protection and retirement to help individuals in approximately 17 million households protect what they have today and better prepare for tomorrow.
The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety has a mission to identify problems, foster research that seeks solutions, and disseminate information and educational materials that promote good safety practices.
Saint Luke’s Brain and Stroke Institute, part of Saint Luke’s Health System in Kansas and Missouri, covers the entire spectrum of care including acute intervention, prevention of complications, secondary prevention and neurorehabilitation.
Oakland Unified School District has a mission to ensure that all students graduate as caring, competent, and critical thinkers, as well as fully-informed, engaged, and contributing citizens, prepared to succeed in college and career. Adult and Career Education services empower adults through through education and training.
The Mental Health Association of Rockland County, in New York State, is a non-profit organization with a mission to prevent mental illness and foster mental wellness through community outreach, direct service and advocacy for legislation and programs.
SCAN Health Plan has been focusing for more than 30 years on the unique needs of people with Medicare and is now the country’s fourth largest not-for-profit Medicare Advantage plan. The company currently has nearly 120,000 members in California and Arizona.
What are these organizations doing in order to be recognized as Finalists of the 2010 Brain Fitness Innovation Awards? Which among them will be the 3 Winners? Stay tuned…answers on Monday.
I was surprised to read about Panera Bread’s new cafe in St. Louis dubbed the St. Louis Bread Company Cares Cafe. The concept is simple yet groundbreaking… take whatever you want to eat or drink and instead of paying a cashier, drop whatever you can afford into a donation box. And if you don’t have any money, you can donate your time. Crazy concept, I know.
According to a great article in USA Today, Ron Shaich, who stepped down as Panera’s CEO last week, is “trying to find out what human nature is all about” and is banking on our humanity. He said he’s dreamed about doing something like this for years. So the question is will Panera’s social experiment prove that goodness does exist in the human condition or that we are fundamentally selfish creatures at heart?
by Agence France-Presse
WASHINGTON—The U.S. agency that regulates offshore
drilling was broken up into three separate agencies Wednesday as part of a move
to end cozy industry relationships exposed by the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster,
officials said.
The shake-up
came a day after Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told lawmakers the Minerals
Management Service, which issued lucrative offshore exploration leases and was
also responsible for enforcing safety rules, needed to be cleaned up.
The MMS was
severely criticized for being lax on safety after explosions sent a BP-leased
offshore oil rig to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, unleashing a catastrophic
oil spill.
President Barack
Obama ordered “top to bottom” reform of the agency after it was
accused of allowing BP and other oil companies to drill in the Gulf without
first obtaining required permits.
Salazar broke
MMS into three separate agencies, each independent of the other and handling
one of the three missions once handled by the agency.
The first of the
three new agencies, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, will be responsible
for developing offshore energy resources, both renewable and conventional, and
will be in charge of leasing activities.
The new Bureau
of Safety and Environmental Enforcement will be responsible for safety and
environmental protection in offshore energy activities, and will have the
authority to levy penalties on violators.
The third new
agency, the Office of Natural Resources Revenue, will collect and distribute
revenues generated by activities including oil and gas exploration, coal
mining, and renewable energy resources.
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Filed under: Classics, Convertible, Ford, Celebrities
Here’s a fun little fact for you: When the economy began tanking in late 2008, sales of men’s underwear followed, plummeting nearly 12 percent. In fact, male undergarments are one of Alan Greenspan’s key market indicators. Why? If you don’t have a job, suddenly outdated undies are the least of your concerns. How about another one? On average, men only buy underwear for 17 years of their lives. No, your grandfather isn’t wearing the same boxers he picked in Hanoi, but typical guys only buy their own unmentionables from age 19-36. Otherwise, the duty falls on the heads of mothers, girlfriends and wives.
And why do you care? Because both of those tidbits go a long way toward explaining why Jockey, a company that specializes in men’s underwear, seems to think most Americans would want to go on a road trip with George Clooney. Don’t get us wrong. Clooney seems like a stand up guy, and we certainly wouldn’t turn down having a beer with the actor-turned-philanthropist if the opportunity arose, but we could probably come up with a few other persons of interest when it comes to hopping in the car and heading for the horizon. We’re thinking the results of the survey may have been slightly skewed to the female end of the spectrum.
The info also keys us in to why Jockey is offering everyone and their cousin the chance to win a gorgeous 1965 Ford Mustang Convertible to go on their very own all-American road trip. The car will be towing a small Airstream from coast to coast to stir up interest, so you can either catch it along the way or sign up here. Here’s hoping there’s a 289 under the hood. Hit the jump for the PR, and be sure to leave us your pick for a road trip companion in ‘Comments.’
[Source: Jockey]
Continue reading George Clooney voted best road trip companion by… underwear company survey?
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Recently, I was privileged to participate on a judging panel in an international printing contest. One of the categories was environmental printing. In that category, an entrant had submitted a very interesting postcard made of 100% recycled paper and containing seeds in the paper fiber, enabling the postcard to be planted.
The message was environmental, and the use of 100% recycled stock and the ability to plant the resulting postcard and return it to the earth made a strong environmental statement. But the paper was fragile, so the postcard had to be mailed in a clear envelope to protect it during the mailing process.
As I was working on my SageTV 7 post, Dave at ZatzNotFunny! picked up the latest on the next version of Plex:
“The Mac OS X port (er, fork?) of the XBMC project continues to push forward. Like a Boxee, Plex turns our Macs into media centers — designed to be controlled via a 10′ interface. However, as the team’s sneak peek of recent alpha builds (video above) indicates, there are times when it’s more practical to manage our content libraries at the computer… rather than from the couch. With that in mind as we drive towards v1.0, Media Manager functionality has been removed from the primary, remote-controlled Plex UI and is accessed as a separate app, best worked by mouse. Additionally, Plex looks to embrace the whole home concept and pretty seamlessly links up to additional Plex Mac installs.”
Plex/Nine First Peek from Elan Feingold on Vimeo.
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Are you an attorney licensed to practice law in the United States? If you are, EFF needs your help to fight spam-igation.
The U.S. Copyright Group has quietly targeted 50,000 Bit Torrent users for legal action in federal court in Washington DC. The defendants, all Does, are accused of having downloaded independent films such as “Far Cry,” “Steam Experiment,” and “Uncross the Stars” without authorization. U.S. Copyright Group has recently announced that it will also be targeting unauthorized downloaders of the film “Hurt Locker.” News reports suggest that the attorneys bringing these suits are not affiliated with any major entertainment companies, but are instead intent on building a lucrative business model built from collecting settlements from the largest possible set of individual defendants.
The lawsuits proceed similarly to the RIAA lawsuits against unauthorized music downloaders: US Copyright Group files a copyright infringement suit in federal court in Washington DC, against thousands of Does, identified by IP address. Then it presents ISP’s with the list of IP’s and dates and subpoenas the billing address of the user who had that IP at that date. The ISP’s then contact then contact their customers, inform them of the subpoena, and give them an opportunity to file a motion to quash.
In the event that no motion to quash is filed, the ISP gives up the identity of the user. US Copyright Group’s attorneys then contact the user and offer a settlement, usually starting at $2500.
EFF is seeking as many attorneys as possible to advise the targets of these lawsuits and, where appropriate, file motions to quash. Respondents’ contact information would be added to a website that will act as a resource for the targets of these lawsuits.
If interested, please contact [email protected] with your contact information or the contact information for your firm, and the states in which you are licensed to practice law.
Seesmic- one of the most popular social software clients on Android -announced the integration of Google Buzz into Seesmic for Android today. Users will now be able to manage Google Buzz in Seesmic for Android, as well as Seesmic for Web, Ping.fm, and Seesmic’s preview version of the next generation of Seesmic Desktop.
Seesmic for Android (which is only available to attendees at Google I/O who attend the Seesmic booth but not yet available from the Android Market) allows users to add a Google Buzz account and view, search and post to the personal Buzz feed. It even supports to add comments and likes to streams. It is very comprehensive.
Seesmic has yet not announced when Seesmic Mobile for Android with Google Buzz support will be available to the public from the Android Market. Hopefully they do soon. I for one, can’t wait.
Are you excited about this? Do you want to see Google Buzz support in Seesmic? Would you rather see a native Google Buzz app from Google? Let us know!
Source: Unwired
Noah checks out the massive display case of Android phones at Google I/O 2010. It’s not every Droid ever, but it’s close.
Designing within the MCAD environment using Concurrent CFD shortens the design lifecycle, enhancing workflow leading to optimal more robust designs.
The Android Amazon Kindle app: Coming this summer. The Android Amazon Kindle hands-on video: Coming right now, after the break. It’s not a bad little app. Download and read ebooks right on your phone, change the font size and background color, and all the usual bells and whistles you’d expect. Check it out.
With all eyes on Africa for the world’s biggest football tournament next month, Oxfam is today launching Don’t Drop the Ball on Aid, a global game of keepy uppy that will link fans worldwide in an amazing video chain.
Football connects people all around the globe and Oxfam is looking to turn that passion into something genuinely world-changing by asking fans to upload a video of their tricks to the website, www.dontdropaid.org.
The campaign calls on governments not to drop the ball on overseas aid, which helps to pay for kids to go to school and for medicines and bednets that save the lives of millions of people who would otherwise die from HIV or malaria.
For added inspiration, the campaign will launch with a video featuring UK freestyle football champion John Whetton and Harry Hardy, the country’s oldest referee, age 83, showing off their keepy uppy skills. John said: “It doesn’t matter if you can do one kick up or 100, it’s about having a bit of a kick about and supporting a good cause.”
Charles Bambara, a former player in the Burkina Faso premier league who works for Oxfam in West Africa, said: “Across the continent, from Algeria to Zambia, football brings a massive ray of hope to people’s lives.
“We want to tap into all of that energy to say: don’t drop the ball, don’t loose sight of the goal, which is to end poverty and make life better for the world’s poorest people.”
The launch of the action comes on the day Oxfam releases a new report, 21st Century Aid, which says that although aid has its faults, it has made a massive difference to the lives of millions of poor people in Africa and beyond. Mozambique – which was the poorest country in the world just 20 years ago – has increased its spending on health care by over half, and in the past decade the number of children who die before their fifth birthday has been reduced by almost 20 per cent.
Oxfam’s report argues that whilst some money is lost through corruption, rather than cutting aid, it should be used to help reduce corruption and give ordinary people the ability to hold their own government to account. The rise in scepticism towards aid is giving some rich countries an easy way out of meeting aid commitments, which were originally made 40 years ago – in the same year England defended its World Cup title.
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A range of materials including photos and case studies are available to download at: http://drop.io/21stcenturyaid
Login password: oxfamaid
For more information, a copy of the launch video or a copy of the report: 21st Century Aid, please contact: Sarah Dransfield, Oxfam Press Officer, on 01865 472269, 07767 085636 or [email protected]
