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From NBC's John Rutherford
Richard Nixon's reputation takes a fresh pounding every time the National Archives releases another batch of audio tapes from his presidency, and today's opening of nearly 200 hours of Nixon White House recordings is no exception.
Again and again, Nixon comes across as ruthless, cynical and profane in conversations with staff members.
Here are some examples, both previously released and from today's new batch. (The last two are new today.):
-- On July 1, 1971, Nixon instructs Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman to have someone break into the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.:
"I can't have a high-minded lawyer ... I want a son-of-a-b----. I want someone just as tough as I am. ... We're up against an enemy, a conspiracy that will use any means. We are going to use any means... . Get it done. I want it done. I want the Brookings Institution cleaned out and have it cleaned out in a way that has somebody else take the blame."
-- On April 4, 1972, Nixon discusses the press with Haldeman:
NIXON: "Return the calls to those poor dumb bastards ... who I know are our friends. Now do it ... We made the same mistake [Dwight] Eisenhower made, but not as bad as Eisenhower made, because he sucked the Times too much ... G-d damn it, don't talk to them for a while. Will you enforce that now?'
HALDEMAN: "I'll try."
-- On May 18, 1972, Nixon talks to Henry Kissinger about the National Security Adviser's meeting with Ivy League college presidents regarding the war in Vietnam:
NIXON: "The Ivy League presidents? Why, I'll never let those sons-of-b------ in the White House again. Never, never, never. They're finished. The Ivy League schools are finished ... Henry, I would never have had them in. Don't do that again ... They came out against us when it was tough ... Don't ever go to an Ivy League school again, ever. Never, never, never."
-- On Nov. 14, 1972, Nixon talks with his aide Charles Colson about his landslide re-election victory over Democrat George McGovern:
NIXON: "What in the hell did you think of McGovern's statement on the election? Wasn't that the sour grapes crap again?"
COLSON: "Well, it's unbelievable, the arrogance of the guy ... God, what a bad man. Just awfully glad we got him buried and put away for good. I think he is."
NIXON: "Oh, he's buried. He's buried."
-- On Dec. 9, 1972, Nixon talks to Colson about the appointment of building trades union leader Peter Brennan as secretary of labor:
NIXON: "The idea, they finally think the appointment of a working man makes them think we're for the working man."
COLSON: "That's precisely it."
NIXON: "They talk about all the tokenism. We appoint blacks, and they don't think we're for blacks. Mexicans. They don't think we're for Mexicans. But a working man, by golly, that is really something."
Today's release was the 12th of Nixon White House tapes since 1980. Approximately 2,217 hours of tape recordings are now available to the public.
*** UPDATE *** For more, including a collection of videos, and a Nixon quiz, click here.
*** UPDATE 2 *** To clarify, the newly released released examples today are from November 1972 and December 1972. The other examples were released earlier.


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Bangalore based techie Madhukar's complaint on IPaidABribe gets corrupt Aadhaar operator blacklisted
Madhukar was duped by the employee of an Aadhaar enrolment centre of Raja Rajeshwarinagar, Bangalore into paying registration fee for his card. When he realized that he was tricked, he highlighted the issue on IPaidABribe. Read what happened.
Madhukar B.V, who works for IBM had filed for Aadhaar Registration with the Aadhaar Kendra at BEML – 5th Stage, Raja Rajaeshwarinagar and had to pay Rs. 110 towards enrollment, which the operator mentioned as processing fees. Furthermore, when asked for a receipt, he was denied.
At the centre, Mr. U Naveen Kumar, the operator while registering him claimed Rs 110 as registration fee but refused to give a receipt and he unwillingly paid.
However, Madhukar smelt something fishy in the receipt-less manner the transaction was done and researched online to realize he was duped. The Centre had lied about the fee, as one is not required to pay for Aadhaar enrolment.
Regretting for being an easy victim of retail bribery, Madhukar posted his experience on IPaidABribe and warned others not to fall prey to such corrupt practices. Interestingly, he detailed his experience using his exact Enrollment number, which made it easy for tracking down the culprit.
The outreach team of IPaidABribe, headed by Dr. ST Ramesh, former DG of Police, Bangalore; immediately forwarded the complaint to the UID Vigilance and Director's Office.
The UIDAI took action and promptly suspended the officer. Here's an excerpt from their correspondence:
"The operator Mr. U Naveen Kumar working for the registrar M/s CSC e-Governance Services India Limited has been blacklisted/suspended wef 19/09/2016 as per the UIDAI policy and the EA has been directed to initiate legal action against the operator at the earliest"
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Starting in August last year we experience frequent drop-outs with our internet, which we attempted to resolve with Telstra Technical Support. After several attempts to diagnose the problem (isolation tests, line tests and purchasing another modem), I was referred to Telstra faults 19/10/15. NOTE that this was over 12 months ago...
First of all Telstra told me there was no fault. This is their standard line. My advice - don't accept it. If you are having problems, be persistent. They have created a web of beauracracy to insulate themselves and protect themselves from evil little critters like you who just want the service your are paying for - how dare you you inconsiderate person you. They will threaten you that if the problem is yours they will charge you - dont be put off, they say this to scare you, to make you go away. Dont be intimidated, stick to your guns. You [the customer] have a problem with the service they charge you for, it is their job to help you.
When they finally do admit there is a problem with your line, they will tell you [repeatedly] that they are looking into it. They will bounce you from one department to the next. They will send out a technician who will suck up your day, and maybe say something like there was a faulty switch or something at the exchange. They will then immediately mark in their system that the issue has been resolved. But it wont - its just a delay tactic. You, being the nice person you are will wait patiently, believing the system will protect you. Telstra are your friend. THEY'RE NOT. They are only interested in one thing - statistics. They want feedback - my advice, give it to them with both barrels. Don't hold back because your'e nice. It won't count for anything. If you are having problems, put it in the feedback. Its the only thing they listen to. It doesn't matter what you say on the phone, THE ONLY WAY TO GET THEIR ATTENTION IS NEGATIVE FEEDBACK.
They will play a game with you for as long as they can get away with it. Don't get sucked in. If you're not getting what you pay for GO STRAIGHT TO THE OMBUDSMEN. www.tio.com.au/
As I said at the start of this - I've been on the merry-go-round for twelve months. I have done everything I can to prove the fault is with their line. I have replaced modems, replaced cables, tried different computers, taken my modem to a friends house (to verify it works properly) - even re-wired my house because telstra kept insisting there was no fault, and yet here I am, twelve months later and the internet has dropped out twice while I'm typing this.
To add insult to injury, the NBN recently came to my neighbourhood, but guess what. Its not available at my address because there is a fault on my line! Go figure! Telstra knew this twelve months ago, and now the solution they have been waiting for is not a solution at all - just more delays for me.
Please, if I can warn just one person, this will all be worth it. Don't play nice with these guys. I am sick and tired of going around in circles with Telstra. They have continually denied responsibility for more than twelve months and now (after a year of denying there is an issue) claim it is congestion at the exchange - that they own but have failed to keep up with demand, probably because the NBN is coming. Now that NBN is available in my area, I (ironically) face further delays due "additional work required". This additional work relates to a fault or lack of capacity in the infrastructure that Telstra have been aware of for more than twelve months yet refused to address.
Anyway, I'm out of here. Lodged my complaint with the ombudsmen today and will write to every newspaper and media outlet I can think of. Telstra - thanks for nothing.
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Been with Telstra for 20+ years. Was the first in my area to be connected to ADSL, then to ADSL2+ and now to NBN. Yes, there are always teething issues, but from what I hear from my friends anf from my experience when trying to help them, it is always better to be with Telstra than with one of the othe "minor" ISPs...
One more thing - whenever they tell you to re-start your modem - DON'T! They get you to do this first so that the history gets deleted so there is no evidence. This was one little hint someone on here gave me that helped me prove to telstra there was a problem. Before that all they said was no telstra fault detected, you're modem seems to be working fine...
Games,lies and deception...
Previously worked with a Telstra Partner however I am not a Telstra Employee, just a fellow customer helping when I can.
Who Cares?
I pay my bill. I ask for help. They give me the big middle finger!
Trouble is I'm too nice. I should have done this months ago.
Surely any customer service person with any degree of competence would look at my file, see the 100's of calls I've made over more than a year BEGGING for something better than internet that drops out EVERY DAY, and is so UNRELIABLE it is worthless, and take some initiative to investigate further.
Trouble is, they are more worried about call turn-over and positive-feedback
Keep up the good work Telstra! You make it easier for your competitors every day.
NBNCo told me today
"Unfortunately, every ready for service (RFS) area has a few individual addresses or small pockets that are not yet serviceable. In these areas, it is usually a technical fault in the network, or a shortfall of the infrastructure in that location"
Either way, I was telling telstra there was a fault 12 month ago. They've done sweet fa since then - I guess they were waiting for NBNCo to fix their problem for them.
You might have guessed I'm a little frustrated, but its been twelve months and now its over to NBN with no date provided as to when this issue will be fixed.
Insult to Injury. Good onya Telstra!
Previously worked with a Telstra Partner however I am not a Telstra Employee, just a fellow customer helping when I can.
You are right DrQuerty90, but for one thing...
Telstra HAVE been given all the information and MORE than enough time to resolve.
I get what you're say re NBNCo, but it does seem like a bit of a coincidence that my house just happens to be one of 5 on my street NBNCo saying "additional work required" after 12 months of faults on the copper network doesn't it
Seems to point more to "technical fault" than "infrastructure shortfall" I would say. But who knows. I wonder if either party knows whats going on.... Hate to be pessimistic, I'm not usually that way inclined, but 12 months is a long time, but atleast I had a date - September 16 - it would all be over (that was the scheduled NBN rollout) OK it ended up being 2 months late (no surprise) but now I'm on the never-never plan and telstra have just washed their hands. Pretty disappointed it came to this. If only telstra cared enough about its customers to actually listen to them.
Until recently I would have agreed with you. Speaking with my case manager today, he told me my options
a) continue on with crappy internet (ie do nothing), or
b) go to another ISP.
or more simply:- take it up the arse or leave. either way I'm srewed.
Previously worked with a Telstra Partner however I am not a Telstra Employee, just a fellow customer helping when I can.
wher to start....
I know, how about the call I had just the other day - MONDAY the 14th November for any Telstra quality assurance specialists who want to listen to the call... ref http;/say.telstra.com.au/customer/general/forms/YHMN?ci=08b2029162c628b9&ags=D828543
I rang up to explain (once again) I had had enough. This time I had decided, until telstra fix the issue I have been complaining about for TWELVE MONTHS, I'm not going to pay any more bills and I want a refund/credit for services not supplied. I figured I needed to get their attention somehow...
I spoke with a lovely girl who answered the phone. She honestly did her best, listened to my enquiry, put me on hold, came back, then explained there are a lot of notes on my account - hold while she reads them, came back, she needs to speak with her supervisor as she is not sure how to handle this - hold again. And so this went on for a while (apparently her supervisor was very busy.
It took LITERALLY a whole HOUR of being on and off hold to talk with a supervisor. Dont get me wrong, the girl I spoke with was very nice, genuinely did her best and was very polite and appologetic, but an hour? honestly, thats bad in any language, but wait...
It gets much...much...worse...!
Now let me put this in perspective, I have a legitimate complaint. I do not receive the service I pay for, have not done so for over 12 months, see full story here:https://crowdsupport.telstra.com.au/t5/Billing-Payments/having-problems-with-your-internet-read-this...
I have finally reached my limit - enough is enough.
Supervisor listens to my story, puts me on hold, comes back, offers a settlement less than half of what I am conservatively entitled to which i refuse. i make the point that the offer doesn't even cover the cost of re-wiring my house (which i did because tesltra told me there was no fault on the line so fault must be with my equipment - didn't fix the problem BTW) let alone the twelve months of daily dropouts (read: between 3 and 19 times per day ranging from 5 minutes to 4 hours), totally unacceptable and vitually unusable service.
Next thing, some drongo (probably manager) comes on the line. doesn't introduce himself, just states I have been made an offer, I have refused, he's terminating the call. I stand there in shock. I can't believe he hung up on me. Of course I ring straight back. i'm in the mood to tear this guy a new one, but I stay calm and speak with the guy who ansers the phone. he tells me according to the notes, the last guy I spoke with was either Jason or Michael.
TOTAL TIME ON THE PHONE - 1.5 hours!
Go on. listen to the call. I know you want to. I DARE you!
Telstra - you have the WORST customer service...
Hey cul8r_telstra,
Welcome to Crowd Support
Not the experience that we like to hear of at all and I do apologise for the issues you have experienced with having this issue resolved On the other thread you have linked to this thread, you have advised that there is a case manager that has been assigned to this complaint. If you are not happy with the resolution that they have offered, then the next step is to have this raised with the governing bodies, like the TIO, to see if this can be resolved further for you. I know that this is not ideal, but is the next step if you are not happy with the resolution that has been offered from your escalation with us.
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@cul8r_ wrote:
Until recently I would have agreed with you. Speaking with my case manager today, he told me my options
a) continue on with crappy internet (ie do nothing), or
b) go to another ISP.
or more simply:- take it up the arse or leave. either way I'm srewed.
Expect same if not bigger problems.
After 13 months of absolute crap internet that Telstra have been unable to fix, they are now telling me there has been "congestion" at my exchange since August. This doesn't explain the problem over the previous 10 months, but anyway...
I think there is a problem because my internet runs really slow, but thats just my opinion. I thought I would put it out there. Who thinks this is a reasonable level of service? Keep in mind I live in San Remo NSW - population 4304. Its a typical suburb, not rural or anything like that.
I have logged internet speeds every other day for the last week. So lets put it to a vote. Is this reasonable?
Yes or No.
Recent Speed Tests:
Date Time Download Upload
7/11/16 7:28pm 0.85 0.71
10/11/16 6:31pm 1.90 0.28
14/11/16 8:21pm 0.47 0.30
17/11/16 9:25pm 2.87 0.44
22/11/16 5:01pm 0.64 0.11
well mate I feel for you and I guess we are not the only ones having the same problems let's just hope something can be done and soon
perhaps we will all have to change our servers
BUT telstra are in charge of the lines so back to square one
like you my problems started when they began in my area with the NBN
Every so often, my phone will ring and I will answer it. No-one will be on the line, just this clicking/buzzing noise. As soon as I hang up it will ring again. Again I will answer it and no-one will be on the other end, just this buzz.
so I hang up...
phone rings again - answer - buzzing
so I hang up...
phone rings again - answer - buzzing
so I hang up...
phone rings again - answer - buzzing
so I hang up...
phone rings again - answer - buzzing
so I hang up...
phone rings again - answer - buzzing
so I hang up...
phone rings again - answer - buzzing
so I hang up...
phone rings again - answer - buzzing
so I hang up...
phone rings again - answer - buzzing
This goes on and on and on for about twenty minutes. The really annoying thing is that if I don't answer it, it just keeps ringing. It doesn't time out like a normal call, just keeps ringing for 20 minutes. Theres nothing I can do to stop it. and its been doing this every so often for over a year! I have been reporting problems like this and with my internet dropping out to Telstra on a regular basis - their response: There is no fault on my line. Nothing they can do. The fault must be in my equipment. I have replaced modems, tried different computers, even re-wired my house (all at my expense) but there seems nothing I can do about it except ring tesltra (again) and report a problem. They've been out to my house at least 4 times to fix, but they just seem unable to find a problem. Is this incometence? Negligence perhaps?
My question is: Does this sound like a technical fault?
I don't know what else to do. In my opinion it MUST be a technical fault with the telstra equipment, but they wont acknowledge this. What can I do?
You missed an answer "HELL NO"
Raise a call with the TIO and watch how quick your issue will be fixed. i had a similar issues a couple of months ago, was getting 95% slower speeds than what i was paying for (Cable with Speed Boost) and in my line of work that's totally unacceptable.
Personally i don't think anyone should pay for a service that they are not receiving, especially since you cant control the infrastructure. In my line of work if i was to tell a client that it would take 10 months to fix their issues, im pretty sure they would be looking for a new supplier...
I also think that you should seek compensation for the last 10 months as you are not receiving the service that you were given.
For over twelve months I have been struggling with an exceptionally poor internet connection - ie dropouts every day and speed which rarely is above 2.0mbps download and goes as low as 0.4mbps in peak times.
I have contacted telstra support no less that 13 times to enquire as to when my line will be fixed and over that time Telstra have repeatedly claimed there is no issue with my line and stated that the issue must be with my equipment. I have replaced modems - because telstra said it must be my modem. I have tried different computers and bought new cables, filters, etc because telstra have told me there is no fault on their end, it must be something on my end. A few months ago they told me it was probably the wiring in my house, so I had a technician re-wire my house - all of this at my expense. None of this fixed the problem so I reached the conclusion it cannot be my fault - it MUST be telstra.
Over the last six months or so, I have been wondering why am I paying for this service, and when reporting the fault ask for a credit to offset the inconvenience this has caused. The standard line I get is that telstra cant issue a credit until the problem is resolved, which of course has not yet happened and meanwhile I keep paying my bill like a shmuck.
Last week I'd finally have enough and rang telstra accounts to discuss the issue and enquire WHEN I will be able to resolve the issue and WHEN I will get a credit. I spoke with Jasmin who was very nice. She listened to my concerns and spoke with her supervisor who informed her she needed to get information from the technical support team as to the nature of the disruption, which she did. Meanwhile I was on hold. Jasmin was very courteous and appologetic, coming back to me every five minutes or so to let me know she was still working on getting the info for her supervisor. I continued to hold and watch the clock tick away.
Eventually she came back to me and said she had the info and was waiting for her supervisor to become available.
OVER an HOUR AND FIFTENN MINUTES after I made the initial call, I eventually get to speak with the supervisor, I think his name was Michael. I explain the situation (again) and state that I have been paying roughly $100 a month for the 12 months this problem has been going on. I feel that I have been getting conservatively less than 50% of the service I am paying for, and that I have incurred significant costs trying to fix a problem that clearly is not mine. I ask for a $1000 credit - 50% of $1200 service fee plus $400 for re-wiring my house.
Michael proceeds to negotiate with me, claiming that I have a phone and an internet. The internet represents 50% of my bill so if I am getting 50% service on my internet that means I should only get 25% of my bill back. He offered me $400. I explained that this was not acceptable and proposed that this barely covers my out-of-pockets let alone the monthly bills I have been paying (on-time every-time).
In total I was speaking with Michael for less than 15 minutes when another "gentleman" cuts in on the phone call. I don't think he told me his name, but he did tell me that he and some other SME's (subject matter experts?) have been listening in on the call. I've been made an offer which I have refused. He has raised an complaint and is terminating the call. CLICK.
I was not rude. I was very patient. I stated my concerns clearly. I have done nothing to desrve that sort of treatment.
I HAVE A LEGITIMATE CONCERN REGARDING A SERVICE YOUR PROVIDE (more to the point DONT provide)
For anyone interested, the call was commenced at around 8:30 am on the 16th November. Have a listen...
Hi cul8r_,
I can appreciate your frustrations for sure regarding this. As you are not satisfied with the options offered so far, I would recommend lodging this as a formal complaint via this link https://crowdsupport.telstra.com.au/t5/General-Services-KB/Lodging-a-complaint-with-Telstra/ta-p/681... where a case manager will be assigned and will be in contact with you to discuss a solution further.
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I am wondering why Telstra feel they are above the law?
Services must:
Please fix my internet. I can't use it as it is and I have been telling you this for 12 months.
You have failed to meet your obligations under Australian Law. You are liable.
BTW I'm not going away. You will need to deal with me sooner or later. You can run, but you can't hide.
I think they have invented a new term for this now. They call it "congestion". As stated previously I have been having the same problem for > 12 months, but just last week they informed me the problem is "congestion" and not a fault. They have never used this new term "congestion" once in the 20+ calls I have made to and from Telstra, but I think they are getting so many complaints lately they have had to invent a new name for it so its not the same problem that they have failed to fix.
Funny thing is though, I went into the Telstra store on the weekend and they had no problem signing me up for a new internet service (I used my nextdoor neighbours address and phone number) so if they have "congestion" its because they have taken on too many customers. Meanwhile, the service they provide their existing customers gets slower and slower. They are in a world of pain, but I don't have any sympathy for them anymore. No-one to blame but themselves.
My advice:
Good luck!
Can anyone help me? I am looking for the minimum service standards telstra offer their customers. I can't find it. telstra.com.au/speeds provides information on maximum internet speeds, and provides some very basic [read: vague] information saying something like they may not actually be able to deliver those speeds, but I cant find any info on what the minimum acceptable speed is... I have aked telstra support staff this question and they don't know. They just say the maximum is 8.0mbps but not everyone gets that. This seems unusual don't you think?
If my maximum download speed is 8.0mbps, whats the minimum I should expect?
Reliability is another issue not covered in the critical information summaries. I understand dropouts will occur, but how often should I expect them?. I asked telstra support staff this question also, and they said that normally they should only happen every few months, but I am trying to work out what the minimum performance standard is. I can't find anything on the telstra website other than very vague terms like "reliable" which don't actually give me much to work with.
Are daily dropouts considered to be "reliable"?
Previously worked with a Telstra Partner however I am not a Telstra Employee, just a fellow customer helping when I can.
Thanks DrQ
I hadn't found that. If you would be so kind as to post a link to those terms I believe I might find them very useful.
Also, do you feel that 110kbps (or 1.375% of the "Up-to") speed is "fit for purpose"?
Previously worked with a Telstra Partner however I am not a Telstra Employee, just a fellow customer helping when I can.
I really do struggle with the whole speed thing. I dont have a lot of exposure to the telco industry, so I don't know what all these mbps and kbps and KBps etc mean. What I do know is that I cannot use the service for what it is intended to provide. Simple things like syncing my email acounts can take days. Browsing the web is a frustratingly slow experience. I'm not talking about gaming, just checking the news, etc. I get nervous paying bills on-line because I can never tell when its going to dropout. A number of times this has happened while my credit card details are authorising, so I don't get confirmation of whether the bill has been paid or not. Then I have to go through the whole process of verifying with the supplier whether they have received the payment or not. It even happened with telstra once, and when I rang up to find out if it had gone through they said no, so I gave them the details over the phone. Then I found out I actually paid twice!
I know I'm sounding like a real whinger, but what choice have I got. Going through the normal channels has got me nowhere. twelve months really is a long time and I'm not just talking about, "Oh dear my netflix paused for 3 seconds last week". I really have bad service. Dropouts last anywehere from 5 minutes to 4 hours. It has been common (say weekly) for it to dropout for 20 minutes or so. Surely this sort of service is below industry standard, even if I am a long way from the exchange. BTW, how is it my fault where they put the exchange?
I have been a telstra customer for more than 15 years. never missed a payment and rarely had any issues, until august last year.
NOTE: This was nearly 12 months before they started work on the NBN in my area, so whilst I accept that some minor disruption may be expected while the infrastructure work is ongoing, I don't accept the current "congestion" issue as being the cause of my problem.
Previously worked with a Telstra Partner however I am not a Telstra Employee, just a fellow customer helping when I can.
Thanks for explaining this. Still all very confusing, but you have helped me to make some sense of it all. I think I recall there were 8 bits to a byte, so if my maths is correct...
A 10 Megabyte document downloading at 1.0 megabits pers second should take 80 seconds.
Does distance affect reliability? A slow connection is one thing, but my biggest problem is the constant dropouts. Modem goes red 3+ times daily. Is this normal?
Previously worked with a Telstra Partner however I am not a Telstra Employee, just a fellow customer helping when I can.
Hi cul8r_,
I'm sorry this is still not resolved.
If you could share with me the case number involved I can look at how I can assist you further.
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@cul8r_ is this resolved yet?
ive tried to read your whole problem and didnt see anywhere these couple of minor things, in relation to Noise issues (it may have no effect on your connection speed).
1) have you replaced the phone line splitter? (may not be relavent now your supposedly on NBN) they do degrade over time and might need replacing.
2) how close to your modem/router is your house phone, fax machine, printer, TV, Telstra/ foxtel boxes, dvd/stereo? *
3) how close together are any of these items?
4)is your modem/router up high (like on top of a shelved TV cabinet or wardrobe) or sitting on a table or on the floor? the higher the better of course.
* your probably gonna say you did an isolation test, but with any of those items next to/ near your modem without them being turned off is more than likely going to effect your test results (at least with the noise side of things) its called interference and no it doesnt actually have to be connected to it to cause interference as its the radio waves from the devices causing it.
Hi Cretsiah
Yes, done all of the above. I have literally replaced every component from the lead-in - new wiring from lead-in to wall socket, new wall socket, new splitter/filter, new cables, new mode, new computer.
Modem is located on top shelf in the family room, at least 1m from any other electronic device.
Independant technician (who re-wired my house) confirms setup is top notch.
After chasing my tail since August last year I have done everything I can possibly do to eliminate any fault on my part. I can only conclude that the fault has always been with Telstra as none of this made any difference.
Funny thing though...
My area went NBN RFS in October. Before then, Telstra blamed me (or my equipment) claiming no fault on their line. Now the local infrastructure is owned by NBNCo, Telstra have found a fault. Somewhere between the nearest pillar and my house so I am told. But they can't fix it because its NBNCo's problem, not theirs.
Seems like a coincidence...?
And to add insult to injury, I can't connect to NBN. Why...? Because there is a fault on my line!
Anyway, its all been very well documented, so we will see what the TIO makes of it when they conclude their investigation next month.
All I can say to that is "is that sucks".
Do you know if its still a copper line from the street to your house? or do you have fibre upto the house?
is/was it any better during say the dry months of summer as opposed to winter?
Because I'm beginning to think there is a hairline crack in the line, it would possibly cause the noise and defintely affect the line quality.
given the fighting between the Telco's and the NBN Co over fees and allowances I really dont know how long it will take to fix for you.
but other than that i can only wish you good luck.
Currently I have;
no internet...
no dial tone...
no service whatsoever...
Been like this for more than a week.
Gone from bad to worse.
Advice from the specialist team is that it will be "at least a couple of months" before service can be restored!
After 18 months of buck passing, it seems like Telstra have just given up
What a joke. This sucks.
The only thing my phone line is good for is to hang myself.
Hi cul9r_, while we can't directly request account details or other personal information via posts on these forums for privacy reasons, I can help follow up with your case manager if you can let me know any reference numbers you've been provided in your recent contacts. These may begin with 'SR-1' or 'INT-1'.
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Thanks Greg
Appreciate your help, but she hasn't responded to my email from yesterday or my phone call today.
FWIW case number is SR 1-972264794388.
Thanks for the details - I've emailed the case manager (Chloe) and her team leader to request followup as soon as she's available next.
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Another Update...
Chloe did call me. She asked me to stop calling as there is nothing she can do, and all I'm doing is stressing myself out!She did give me a number to call though... 1300 368 387I called it - TELSTRA RECEPTION...Now I feel like I'm being treated as a joke!Its now 20 months since I reported this issue and its just gone from bad to worse.
I've now had a completely dead line for going on four weeks.
No dial tone
Still got my monthly bill though...
We are also in San Remo and suffer from internet drop-outs many times a day. We are lucky to get over 1mbps download at any time of the day. We have had the tech out who said the same thing - problem at the exchange etc we went to a diff internet provider but cant do anything about the infrastructure.
Exactly same thing happening to me 12 months now and they just told me my maximum speed is 36 mbs and am paying for 100, We had a stage where our land line was not working so customers would ring, and no ring sound, the call would go straight message bank. We followed this up and found several people could not ring our business number, so how many others are there that we don't know about. Telstra's leading man in the Philippines wants to offer compensation for the problems; he wanted me to give him a figure straight away and suggested $100, I said no. The payment I need runs into the thousands. The Telstra man told me they knew what my maximum speed was all along, and they put me through all this **bleep**. It's a small business, so I am asking 5k.
Previously worked with a Telstra Partner however I am not a Telstra Employee, just a fellow customer helping when I can.
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Schwarzenegger didn't campaign on the promise of "No New Taxes!" And evidently, he didn't campaign on paying his old ones either.
The Governor owes the IRS $79,064.00 in back taxes--$39,047 from 2004 and $40,016 from 2005--according to documents filed in LA County Superior Court and obtained by TMZ.
The governor's office was "hush-hush" on the subject but recently released this statement.
U.S. & World
[UPDATED: 11/27 - 11:15 a.m.]
The following is a statement from Aaron McLear, Governor Schwarzenegger's Press Secretary, regarding the Governor's taxes.
"The Governor has paid his taxes in full and on time. No one, including the IRS, has notified the Governor of any issues whatsoever with his taxes. We are contacting the IRS to determine if the document in question, which appears to be a penalty for missing info and not for unpaid taxes, is legitimate and if there is any discrepancy to resolve."
[UPDATED: 11/28 - 10:54 a.m. ]
A federal tax lien for nearly $80,000 filed against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is related to "a minor paperwork tracking discrepancy," and is expected to be cleared up quickly with no penalty assessed on the governor, spokesman Aaron McLear said this afternoon to the Los Angeles Times.
The governor's Twitter account remains quiet as Californians anxiously wait for the, "I terminated those taxes!" or "I said 'hasta la vista, baby' to my 2004 and 2005 taxes" tweets.


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Monday, November 5, 2012
New Studies Reinforce Stand On Limiting Sodium
New studies support limiting daily sodium consumption to less than 1,500 milligrams, according to a new American Heart Association presidential advisory.
The advisory, published in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation, is based on a thorough review of recent laboratory, animal, observational and clinical studies that reaffirm the association's 2011 advisory that limiting sodium (salt) to less than 1,500 mg per day is linked to a decreased risk of high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease, including stroke.
"Our recommendation is simple in the sense that it applies to the entire U.S. population, not just at-risk groups," said Nancy Brown, chief executive officer of the American Heart Association. "Americans of all ages, regardless of individual risk factors, can improve their heart health and reduce their risk of cardiovascular disease by restricting their daily consumption of sodium to less than 1,500 milligrams."
Some recent reports have led to confusion and mixed messages about the healthiest levels of daily sodium for all subgroups of the population.
"People should not be swayed by calls for a change in sodium intake recommendations based on findings from recent studies reporting that a reduction in sodium consumption does not improve cardiovascular health," said Paul K. Whelton, M.D., M.Sc., lead author and Show Chwan Professor of Global Public Health in the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans, La. "Our detailed review of these studies identified serious methodological weaknesses, which limit the value of these reports in setting or revising sodium intake policy.
"Our focus should be on finding effective ways to implement, not change, the existing American Heart Association policy on sodium intake."
Reducing sodium intake can help fight high blood pressure, which affects more than 76 million U.S. adults and is a major cause of cardiovascular disease.
Yet, most American adults and children consume sodium far in excess of their physiologic needs and guideline recommendations -- with an average daily intake more than 3400 mg per day. Only individuals, primarily those with specific, rare disorders, who have been advised by their physicians to do otherwise, should not reduce their sodium intake to 1500 mg/day, but this is difficult in the current environment. Most of the sodium the public consumes is "hidden" in processed and prepared foods. The American Heart Association advocates improved nutritional labeling of sodium content and stringent limits on sodium in all foods -- fresh, processed and prepared -- provided to everyone and in particular in schools, marketed to children and purchased by employers and government programs.
Study authors conclude that a comprehensive approach to cardiovascular health promotion and disease prevention is multifactorial that includes regular physical activity, healthy body weight, managing blood pressure, controlling blood sugar, avoiding tobacco and a healthy diet. Sodium reduction is a very important component of a healthy diet.
"An integral component of our campaign to improve the nation's cardiovascular health by 20 percent by 2020 is a nationwide decrease in sodium consumption," said Donna Arnett, Ph.D., M.S.P.H., president of the American Heart Association. "It will require a joint effort between health organizations, policy makers and the food industry to achieve this goal by creating an environment conducive to helping all Americans make healthy, low-sodium food choices."
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My friend Dave was pretty surprised when he walked outside to jump in his car yesterday morning. There it was, sitting on four small bricks, lug nuts clustered in little piles around each hub, missing its wheels. It's not like the car was in a crappy neighborhood; it was a couple of blocks away from the Denver Country Club.
What was chilling about the whole affair was the surgical precision and speed with which the theft appeared to have been carried out. And Dave hasn't been the only one targeted in that posh neighborhood over the last couple of weeks.
His car is nice, but it isn't especially fancy; a black 2011 Subaru WRX STI with stock everything, including the rims. But when Dave contacted the police about the theft, the officer taking the report said that his was the fourth precision wheel theft over the past two weeks. After he'd gotten over his shock and called a tow truck to take the car away for re-wheeling, he walked around the corner, where another WRX owner was picking up lug nuts off of the ground. The bricks were there, too, but the wheels hadn't been taken. The thieves had apparently aborted mission and left in a hurry.
Let me explain what I mean when I say precision. The thieves didn't waste time with any superfluous activity. They broke the passenger window, retrieved the wheel lock key from the glove box (because let's be honest, almost everyone keeps it in there), put two bricks under the rocker panels on each side, and removed the wheels. The stereo was still in Dave's car, nothing was missing from the trunk or glove box, even the cache of beer that had been chilling in the cool night air didn't attract the burglars. They were focused.
"They knew exactly what they wanted and how to do it," Dave told me, adding that the bricks crushed the little metal ridge running under the rocker panels. Although the car was set down on its back end, there didn't seem to be any other damage.
The Denver Police Department's crime statistics weren't really much help in trying to track down a trend in recent theft from vehicles, and, of course, verbal queries were directed to an ineffectual public information office, a sluggish records request process, and back to online crime statistics, which show only January - March of this year and last. By those stale numbers, theft from vehicle incidences were actually lower — by 23 and 13 percent, respectively — than the same time last year in both in the district where the crime went down and citywide.
During the day, there's nothing about the neighborhood to suggest that your car could end up wheelless at night. It teems with cyclists and foot traffic, and the houses in the area are expensive-looking and well kept. But a quiet street like that, one that winds down at night while gentry sleep, could be the perfect place to pull of a rim grab. It's a lot like last year's rash of catalytic converter thefts, although the price of platinum has been replaced by the cost of STI wheels, which area Subaru dealerships said cost about $500 each to replace.
Dave's car is at some body shop, getting its window replaced, its aluminum suspension components checked, and its wheels replaced. But somewhere out there, a team of wheel jackers lurks, waiting for their next victim. (Hat tip to Dave!)


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LONDON (Reuters) - Diageo (DGE.L), the world's biggest spirits maker, has pulled out of talks to buy a stake in top-selling tequila brand Jose Cuervo in a surprise move that could slow its race into fast-growing emerging markets.
The collapse of discussions with Cuervo, which has a distribution deal with Diageo due to end in June 2013, will leave Diageo without a major tequila brand and Cuervo without a leading distributor.
It could fuel speculation Diageo will seek a deal with U.S. group Beam BEAM.N, home of the world's No.2 tequila brand Sauza, while an industry source said French rival Pernod Ricard (PERP.PA) might now link up with Cuervo.
Faced with sluggish growth in recession-hit European economies, Diageo has been looking to tap burgeoning middle classes in Africa, Asia and Latin America, where it aims to make around half of its turnover by 2015.
A deal with Jose Cuervo, valued at about $3 billion, would have given the British group access to the emerging Mexican spirits market and a stronger product range there to go with its Johnnie Walker whisky and Smirnoff vodka brands.
Diageo, Cuervo's main distributor outside Mexico, had been expected to take a stake in the business with the possibility of gaining majority control at a later date.
But the firm said in a statement on Tuesday that discussions had broken down without agreement, after the two companies had been wrangling over price for more than a year.
Diageo shares were down 1.2 percent at 1,863.5 pence by 7:55 a.m. EDT, underperforming a broadly flat UK benchmark index .FTSE.
RBC analysts noted that Cuervo only accounted for about 3 percent of Diageo revenue and 2 percent of profit, and said the failure of the deal might free up funds for other transactions.
A weekend newspaper report said Diageo had held talks with Japanese brewer Suntory over a joint bid for Beam worth over $10 billion. Diageo declined to comment.
"Whether Diageo was just using the threat of buying Beam as a bargaining tool with Cuervo is hard to say. But now the market will probably ascribe a higher probability that Diageo will take a look closer at Beam's portfolio," said analysts at Davy.
Some analysts, however, have said Diageo may not want to pay the price Beam would command, while anti-trust regulators may also prove to be a hurdle. The maker of Jim Beam bourbon beat quarterly profit expectations last month and is considered a success story since going public.
Cuervo is owned by the Beckmann family, heirs to the Cuervo family who founded the company in the Mexican town of Tequila in 1795. The business is the clear leader in tequila's two biggest markets, the United States and Mexico, ahead of Sauza.
However, Cuervo's U.S. share has been gradually declining. It was one of Diageo's lowest margin brands and was not realizing its potential in the United States, Diageo's Walsh said when talks started in 2011.
Beckmann-owned Proximo would be the most likely distributor for Cuervo in the United States once the Diageo agreement ends, UBS analysts said.
"Cuervo has two problems at the moment: they are mono-product and mono-geography. They absolutely need to diversify the business to maintain its value," an industry source said.
The source added that Pernod Ricard, the world's second-largest spirits group and the firm behind Absolut vodka and Mumm champagne, could now look at Cuervo, and also Beam.
"Having more tequila in their portfolio would not hurt," the source said.
Diageo, meanwhile, could focus on growing its premium tequila brand Don Julio.
Premium tequila brands, which are high margin and high growth, are made entirely from the blue agave plant that grows in the Mexican state of Jalisco, while cheaper brands are mixed with spirit derived from sugar cane and other sources.
Diageo also has plenty of other acquisitions to digest.
Last month, it paid $2.1 billion for a majority stake in India's largest spirits company United Spirits, and it has also secured smaller deals for producers of baiju, cachaca and raki in China, Brazil and Turkey.
The group, whose brands also include Guinness, Tanqueray gin, and Baileys liqueur, was advised on the Jose Cuervo talks by Goldman Sachs and HSBC.
Additional reporting by Sophie Sassard; Editing by Kate Holton and Mark Potter


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Alcatel OneTouch gets colourful with POP S3
Alcatel OneTouch has decided to join the likes of Apple iPhone and add a bit of colour to its range.
The POP S3 has been released to the market and is an LTE smartphone created to follow in the footsteps of its predecessors when it comes to being 'easy to choose, easy to use'.
It boasts a four-inch display and runs on Android 4.3, making it a compact and fun option.
The POP S3's low cost – retailing at just short of £100 – means it's the perfect choice for the mass market. However, it doesn't compromise on quality.
It offers 4GB of internal memory and is run by a quad-core processor at 1.2GHz and 1GB of RAM.
Part of the appeal of the POP S3 is its customisable battery cover, available in three shades to suit the customer's taste and personality. Slate, yellow and white cases come as standard in the phone box, which will be appealing to many style-conscious buyers.
There are also plenty of user-focused features to allow for streaming over LTE and navigation is simple thanks to the one finger zoom.
Meanwhile, the full screen camera comes with video stabilisation, making it easy to take plenty of great snaps and full HD videos with great quality. The camera is five megapixel to the rear and VGA on the front.
The POP S3 is the latest installment from Alcatel OneTouch's Pop S range. Dan Dery, chief marketing officer for Alcatel OneTouch, said: "The POP S range makes an LTE smartphone fun, easy and available to all. An ideal first LTE smartphone, the POP S range offers a handset suited to every need, whether that's streaming, browsing or creating content on the go. Just as picking a T-shirt, you simply choose your size and your favourite colour."
Other phones in the range include the POP S7 and POP S9. Screen sizes and colour options differ, meaning its easy to find a phone that works for you.


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I've always known Carrie Underwood was a vegetarian. But I never knew why, until I heard some of this interview from her episode of VHI Behind the Music . In it, she talks openly about life on the farm growing up, but this time she also shared the turning point for her.
"My whole life, we always had cows. Everybody had cows. People had sheep. People had everything and I never thought why. I'd eat my hamburger, or we'd have spaghetti or bologna or hotdogs or whatever, and I just never thought about it. It never crossed my mind what that used to be," she said.
Underwood didn't make that connection until she was bringing her parents iced tea one day when they were out working in the pasture, banding calves (which is a non-surgical form of castration). "I was mortified. I said, 'Why do you do that?' And she said it will make them grow bigger. And … light bulb! I was horrified and sad and I just couldn't believe this was happening in our pasture," Underwood recalled.
"These cute adorable baby calves jumping around, playing around, would be on someone's plate someday. And I said, 'Wait, so people can eat them?' Mom just shook her head because she knew what was going to happen."
Underwood added that her mom wasn't too happy when she stopped eating what the rest of the family was eating. But she was steadfast in her vegetarian ways, even as a young girl. "I couldn't eat those precious cows. They were my babies. I bottle-fed some of them. And now I knew where they went."


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NCHSAA Wrestling
Two area grapplers qualified for the NCHSAA Wrestling Championships at Greensboro Coliseum starting Thursday.
South Lenoir�s Nathan Zeagler (28-11) came in second place will take on Robbie Hallman (40-16) out of West Lincoln. North Lenoir�s Keywan Morgan (16-3) finished in fourth place and will compete in the 285lb weight class against Dakota Bell (36-1) of North Wilkes.
The top four wrestlers from the region made the state meet. South Lenoir and North Lenoir competed in the 2A East Regional Saturday at Farmville Central. The Blue Devils finished 14th with 39 points, and the Hawks came in 17th with 24 points.
The wrestling championship will last through the weekend.
Prep basketball (girls)
AG vs Kinston at Kinston 6 p.m.
NL vs Goldsboro at Goldsboro 6 p.m.
Prep basketball (boys)
NL vs. Kinston at Kinston 7:30 p.m.
SL vs. Goldsboro at Goldsboro 7:30 p.m.
Men�s basketball
Vance Granville CC at LCC 7 p.m.
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At least since the seminal research of Menahem Yaari in 1965, financial economists have pondered why more people do not buy annuities to hedge longevity risk. Note Franco Modigliani's famous statement when he received his Nobel Prize in 1985: "It is a well-known fact that annuity contracts, other than in the form of group insurance through pension systems, are extremely rare. Why this should be so is a subject of considerable current interest and debate."
Income annuities remain widely unpopular yet would help to solve a variety of complex problems with which retirees struggle and which cannot be solved otherwise. Those who own annuities overwhelmingly say they are glad they do. Social Security, which is a lifetime annuity program, is an exceedingly popular program. Annuities provide more income than other investment choices and do so without market risk. And, subject to the claims-paying ability of the insurance carrier, an annuity will keep paying at the stated rate for as long as the annuitant lives. This quandary — why more people don't buy annuities — is called the "annuity puzzle."
Notwithstanding the above, Felix Reichling of the Congressional Budget Office and Kent Smetters of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School have recently published a new working paper on annuity optimization that concludes that the low demand for annuities isn't a puzzle at all. Instead, they claim that annuities are overused. Moreover, they suggest that, in the aggregate, the optimal level of annuity ownership may actually be negative, such that the true annuity puzzle may be why people buy them at all.
Reichling and Smetters' research, while not yet formally published, will surely foster much reaction and debate. In a recent online interview with my friend and colleague Gil Weinreich, Research's editor, Smetters hit the alleged annuity puzzle head on: "The point of our paper is mainly to simply ask: Does it actually make sense that people should buy annuities as much as conventional wisdom says? And the answer is 'no' for most Americans."
According to Smetters, longevity risk is just another in a list of frequently uninsured risks that people suffer at various points in their lives, but not the biggest one: "For workers, the big risk they face is that they could become disabled. For retirees, it is the uninsured medical costs not covered by Medicare or even Medigap policies. When you have one of these shocks — disability or a long-term care need — at the very same time your longevity outlook goes down. Had you bought an annuity ahead of time, you then have this disability shock and you have a need for income at that point."
The strengths of this working paper are its recognition of and emphasis upon the health care risks we all (and particularly retirees) face and the careful explanation of how a health shock devalues existing annuity payments by both demanding more resources and lowering life expectancy. On the other hand, such a shock increases the value of existing life insurance.
Yet the paper's major weaknesses (or so it seems to me, at least tentatively) are (a) the suggestion that because of the ways that annuities and life insurance work at cross-purposes, they are an either-or proposition; and (b) the suggestion that it isn't a good idea — when finances and circumstances permit — to insure both health and longevity risks. Moreover, the paper completely neglects the market risk (sequence risk) associated with failing to purchase an annuity. When a retiree's portfolio suffers a significant drawdown relatively close to retirement, the likelihood of portfolio failure during the retiree's lifetime increases dramatically. That risk can be mitigated substantially by purchasing an income annuity.
The paper also neglects the possibility of using an annuity truly designed for longevity risk (a "longevity" or "advanced life delayed" annuity) that only pays out if the annuitant reaches a certain advanced age, often age 85.
Smetters and Reichling are surely correct that people with insufficient means get little benefit from owning annuities. They are also correct that annuities can be purchased much more cheaply after a health shock. But since we are all prone to optimism bias (the expectation that things will turn out well even if not planned out well) and the planning fallacy (our tendency to overestimate our ability to impact and manage the future), and since we routinely and generally tend to underestimate our life expectancy, the need for some form of longevity insurance to make sure we don't run out of money entirely is likely to be much greater than we tend to think.
Examining Biases
Now, since I have brought up our behavioral and cognitive biases, it's also appropriate for me to acknowledge how and where I am prone to them. My skepticism of the Smetters and Reichling research may simply be motivated reasoning on my part. Motivated reasoning is reasoning influenced by financial or other interests that fall in line with a particular point of view. We aren't surprised, for example, that tobacco company executives are far less likely than others to concede the health risks of smoking. Their reasoning is well motivated and well compensated.
While I receive no financial incentive for advocating for any particular financial product or type of product, I have been quite public in my call for greater use of annuitization to provide — together with Social Security and any pension income — a baseline income floor to cover essential retirement needs. My unwillingness to jump on the Smetters and Reichling bandwagon so far may simply reflect my inherent desire to protect my reputation and ego.
My skepticism may also reflect confirmation bias. Confirmation bias is our tendency to see what we want or expect to see. We like to think we act like judges, carefully and dispassionately evaluating all the evidence before reaching a conclusion. Unfortunately, we're much more like lawyers, running around looking for anything that might support our pre-existing positions and that might undermine the opposition. It's why Fox News viewers think those of MSNBC are nuts and vice versa.
My own research and the research of many that I admire and respect has long supported the idea that annuitization should be used far more often than it is. Therefore, my less than full-throated endorsement of the Smetters and Reichling thesis may not reflect a serious problem with their work. It may be nothing more than my own confirmation bias.
Sadly, the greatest risk we face in this area is bias blindness, our ability to see the biases of and in others while being blind to our own. It's why we smile knowingly when the parents of a modestly gifted athlete see an athletic scholarship as virtually inevitable while remaining convinced of the obvious talents of our own children. It is really hard for any of us to change our minds when faced with evidence that contradicts or seems to contradict our firmly held convictions.
While I have read the Smetters and Reichling working paper carefully, I have not vetted it yet; the mathematical modeling that supports it is extensive and fairly complex. I am going to need to do a lot more work on the working paper itself, as well in trying to examine my own biases, to determine how persuasive I think it is. I look forward to the careful analysis and ongoing research of others to help me come to what I hope is a fair and accurate conclusion as to what the paper does and does not show. But it is surely a helpful addition to the literature examining the annuity puzzle, real or imagined.


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On September 28, 1861, at Camp Lyons near Detroit, the First Michigan Cavalry regiment received a heavily-fringed blue silk flag—a standard—with the federal coat of arms.
"More Enduring Than This Granite…"
April 6-7, 2012 marks the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Shiloh. Participants included the men of Battery B, First Michigan Light Artillery.
On the heels of hosting the first CWS event in the nation in March 2009, Michigan was notably busy during Fall 2010 with a second CWS-related conference at Grand Valley State University in October, convening of the full complement of Partners in November at the Center, the unveiling then of the website and logo, and ongoing efforts to seek and obtain funding. Since issuance of EO 2007-52, the Commission and Center had worked diligently on implementation (see the MICWS workplan for details).
The Whipping Man at JET Theatre Company
As a tribute to the one-hundred-fiftieth anniversary of the Civil War, we are pleased to present the Midwest premiere of this Obie Award winning play.
Civil War letters
I have a collection of over a 100 Civil War Letters from my great great grandfather to my great great grandmother from 1864 -1865.
A Soldier's Story
Throughout the Civil War, Alphonso Crane encouraged his father to hope for his survival, but was realistic about the dangers.
"…To His Country and His Flag"
Charles T. Foster was the first Lansing man to enlist in the Civil War.
Sesquicentennial Logo
The following is an interview by Jack Dempsey, chairman of the Sesquicentennial committee, of Nicky Intralan, student at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit who designed the logo for the commemoration.
Henry McKinstry
"Way off in the distance, I could hear the muskets roar. They said it was J.E.B. Stuart's Cavalry, come to give us all what for…"
Five Brothers Serve the Union
Loren M. Page and wife Jane E. Soper sent five sons from their home in Grand Rapids, Michigan to serve the Union in the "Slaveholder's Rebellion".
Reveille Blog
Reveille! Hear the bugle call and share your stories, tales, insights, information on the Civil War.
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US network operator Verizon has announced they are to open up their network next year, allowing devices to be attached to their network and applications to be run on it with only the most basic approval process.
Anyone using GSM networks will already be familiar with their ability to slip their operator-provided SIM into any GSM device, from a surveillance camera to a fridge magnet, and have it work instantly, but in the USA networks using CDMA technology have kept a much stronger hold on their customers and suppliers.
CDMA does have a SIM-equivalent, the R-UIM (Re-Useable Identification Module), but it's never been widely supported in handsets nor - more importantly - by operators.
Verizon is making much of the announcement and suggesting that hobbyists and small hardware companies will be able to get their equipment approved. But the real winners are likely to be Nokia and their brethren who will be able to create handsets with their own software and applications pre-installed, and sell them direct to Verizon customers.
Most GSM operators will test handsets prior to approving them for use on their network, but within any territory (such as the UK) approval by one operator generally means rubber-stamping by the others - thus, once approved, a device can use any operator's SIM. Quite how that will work in the CDMA world, where handset subsidies are calculated on the basis that the handset can never be moved to another network, remains to be seen.
But this announcement is important, and is indicative of the way the US is rapidly catching up with the rest of the world when it comes to mobile technology and applications. ®
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(update: I made each word in the list after the cut into a google search link, so you can see which -toberfests are -tobertaken. I can't believe "molttoberfest" doesn't exist!)
AUTUMN IS UPON US, and you know what that means: the sudden appearance of neologisms and portmanteaux designed to mimic the word "oktoberfest." Rocktoberfest, Shacktoberfest, pop and lock-toberfest. It's an annual profusion of textual creativity! And as readers of this blog should know, where there is a profusion of textual creativity, there is a text generator waiting to happen.
So I put it to myself to create a -toberfest portmanteaux generator with the tools most readily at hand: grep and awk. Here's the command-line I ended up with:
egrep '^[^aeiouy]*(o|aw)[^aeiouy]?[cfhkptx]+$' sowpods.txt | awk '{print $0 "toberfest"}'
The source file
sowpods.txt is my standby English word list for text generation tasks. The regular expression reads: "find me every word that has o or aw following zero or more non-vowel letters at the beginning of the word, perhaps followed by a single non-vowel letter, and ending with one or more of any of the following letters: c, f, h, k, p, t, or x." The awk program appends the string toberfest to matching words and prints them out.
The full list of portmanteaux that this simple program generates (all 365!) is below the cut, but here are a few of my favorites:
- Miami Heat fans! Start the NBA season out right with Boshtoberfest!
- Spoonflower announces a two yards for one deal during Clothtoberfest!
- Gather all ye dandies in your finest lederhosen as you celebrate Foptoberfest! (related: Tofftoberfest)
- If your -toberfest has a seating capacity of 99 to 500, and you're not in the "Broadway Box," it's technically an offtoberfest.
- Why yes, there is a festival specifically for the nineteenth letter in many Semitic abjads. It's Qophtoberfest!
- When, oh when, during the year can we get together to sharpen and polish our razor blades? Why Stroptoberfest, of course!
Lochtoberfest is already exactly what you expect it would be.
In generating this list, I had two criteria: (a) that around 90% of the generated strings "feel right" and (b) that the string "scotchtoberfest" be included in the results.
Criterion (b) was easily met, but (a) was not so easy. What does it mean for a -toberfest portmanteau to "feel right"? It's highly subjective. For me, the quality of the vowel sound is key: the initial vowel in the portmanteau must rhyme with the initial vowel in "october." I also found that the length of the vowel is key: the shorter the better, which is why my algorithm selects only words ending with voiceless consonants. (More on allophonic vowel length in English.) I singled out monosyllabic words simply because they're easier to grep for.
I'm pleased with the results. A few quick googles reveal that many of these words refer to existing festivals, but many return no results ("did you mean bocktoberfest?"). Let me know if this list inspires you to create your own -toberfest, or if you have suggestions to improve my greps and awks.
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The U.S Department of Justice announced that FBI and other international Law enforcements have disrupted two of the world's most notorious botnets: GameOver Zeus and Cryptolocker ransomware.
Game Over Zeus is one of the most notorious botnets which first emerged in September 2011 responsible for millions of infections worldwide. It is based on the original Zeus malware, attempts to steal financial information from the victim.
According to the United States Department of Justice report, the cybercriminals behind the GameOver Zeus have stolen more than $100 million.
Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, 30-year-old Russian, has been charged for his alleged role as an admin of the Gameover Zeus botnet.
Cryptolocker is a particularly nasty piece of malware that encrypts all files on the infected machine, then demands a ransom to unlock it. If the files are important one and no backup is there, victims don't have choice other than paying ransom to get a key to unlock.
DOJ report suggests that more than 200k computers have been infected by this ransomware as of April. The malware appeared in September 2013, within two months cyber criminals collected more than $27 million.
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An iPhone app that lets users auction off their parking spots might sound like a novel idea, especially in a parking-deprived city like San Francisco. Unfortunately for Paolo Dobrowolny, co-founder and CEO of the MonkeyParking app that does exactly that, the practice is also illegal.
The app violates a key provision of San Francisco's Police Code, which states that drivers who "enter into a lease, rental agreements or contract of any kind" for public parking spots can face penalties of up to $300, according to City Attorney Dennis Herrera, who has issued a cease-and-desist demand against MonkeyParking.
"Technology has given rise to many laudable innovations in how we live and work – and Monkey Parking is not one of them," Herrera said in a statement. "It's illegal, it puts drivers on the hook for $300 fines, and it creates a predatory private market for public parking spaces that San Franciscans will not tolerate."
That's not how Dobrowolny sees it. Though he's still working with his legal team to address Herrera's concerns, the MonkeyParking CEO said he fundamentally disagrees with Herrera's stance.
"As a general principle we believe that a new company providing value to people should be regulated and not banned," Dobrowolny wrote in an email. "Regulation is fundamental in driving innovation, while banning is just stopping it."
Herrera imposed a July 11 deadline to cease operations in his letter to MonkeyParking, but the app may not even last that long. By violating San Francisco's Police Code, it's already landed in hot water when it comes to Apple's guidelines for app developers, which state: "Apps must comply with all legal requirements in any location where they are made available to users." Herrera copied Apple's legal department onto the letter, so there's a possibility MonkeyParking could be removed as a result.
The use of parking apps like MonkeyParking also brings up the potentially dangerous matter of cell phone use within a moving vehicle, an issue that wasn't lost on Herrera. In his letter to Dobrowolny, Herrera wrote that MonkeyParking is "facilitating and encouraging drivers to use cellphones and other wireless communication devices in a manner that distracts them, posing a safety hazard to the public and violating state laws that prohibit using cellphones and such other devices while driving."
But since the app already appears to be in violation of the local police code and the App Store guidelines, this is simply icing on the cake.
"Worst of all, [MonkeyParking] encourages drivers to use their mobile devices unsafely – to engage in online bidding wars while driving," Herrera said. "People are free to rent out their own private driveways and garage spaces should they choose to do so. But we will not abide businesses that hold hostage on-street public parking spots for their own private profit."
MonkeyParking isn't alone in its apparent violation of city rules. Sweetch and ParkModo are two other iPhone apps that provide allegedly illegal monetization of parking spots in the city, and Herrera's office is cracking down on them as well.
Sweetch is similar to MonkeyParking, though it charges a flat fee of $5 per parking spot instead of the bidding system. ParkModo, which has yet to officially launch, will reportedly employ drivers for $13 an hour to occupy public parking spots in the Mission, according to Herrera's statement.


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I recently got a letter from a reader asking about the Dolly Dolittle figurines mentioned in Sentenced to Death. (Booktown Mystery #5.) She wanted to know if they were real, and if so, where she could buy them.
Well, they're real. They're not called Dolly Dolittle, and I have no idea where someone would buy them.
In the book I described them this way: Dolly Dolittle was an angel in Victorian garb. The cover shot showed a little girl in pastel blue, with a white fur collar. Her hands were thrust in a furry muff to match the collar, and the entire figurine was covered in iridescent sparkles.
As you can see, I was (sort of) describing the figurine/ornament (they have pink ribbons should one want to hang them on a Christmas tree). Here she is in a bigger size.
And here's her darling sister.
I remember that I saw four of them, but for some reason felt I'd already blown enough money on Christmas that year, so I didn't purchase the other two. Now I could kick myself. They're marked MADE IN CHINA, but with no manufacturer's name.
I must confess, when I became a published author, I thought I'd get a lot of questions about my books such as this one. Hasn't happened--but it still could.
Is there something about any of my other books you'd like to know about. PLEASE feel free to ask. I love to talk about my characters. (It's a lot more interesting than talking about myself. They lead much more exciting lives than me. After all, I sit in front of a computer all day giving them these adventures.)


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I have been away for way too long. It's just been really busy with the kids back in school, and both in sports and with work. Also, I have been really into reading in my spare time (my very little spare time). I feel like I only have my tomatoes (which are coming to an end of growing), my ripple blanket (which I crochet on a little bit here and there) and momma bird (who has been on her nest 3 times this summer - yes, 6 baby doves in all) to talk about. And I really don't want to bore you with repeats.
And I am sure you are remembering, just as I am, what happened 10 years ago today. Remember to keep living for the things that matter most to you, show love and kindness every day and don't sweat the small stuff.
I do want to share my new Pinterest with you. I see so many wonderful things online and I am glad I signed up for a small spot on their website. While there, check out my <3 books board. There you will see some of the Beverly Lewis books I have been reading this summer.
I also want to say a very happy birthday to my niece Sage today. Love you Sage... :o)


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Monday, November 10, 2014
1968-69 Detroit Red Wings Alex Delvecchio Jersey
On this date in 1991, the Detroit Red Wings held a pregame ceremony where they retired Ted Lindsay's #7 sweater as well as the #10 of Alex Delvecchio.
Delvecchio's #10 hangs in the rafters of Joe Louis Arena with the other Red Wings honored greats
Delvecchio left no doubt that he was ready to play in the NHL following his first and only season in junior hockey when he led the Ontario Hockey Association in assists with 72 in just 54 games. Not only a playmaker, the talented Delvecchio also scored nearly a goal a game for the Oshawa Generals as well. His 49 goals added to his league leading 72 assists gave him an impressive 121 points for the season and second place in the scoring race.
Delvecchio while a member of the Oshawa Generals
He made his NHL debut that same season with a single game for Detroit.
The following season of 1951-52 could not have gone any better for Delvecchio. After six games in the minors, in which he scored nine points, he was called up to Detroit. He scored his first NHL goal, as one of the 15 he would score that season, and played 65 games with the Red Wings before advancing to the playoffs, where they would sweep eight straight games to earn Delvecchio his first Stanley Cup in his first full season of play.
"That was a great team we had and I felt proud to be among so many players that were true stars of the game. Terry Sawchuk was in goal and in those eight playoff games against Toronto and Montreal, he only gave up six goals. We had Ted Lindsay, Sid Abel, Gordie Howe, Glen Skov, Tony Leswick, Metro Prystai and Marty Pavelich up front. Marcel Pronovost, Red Kelly and Bob Goldham were three of our defensemen," Delvecchio remembered.
His point total would jump from 37 to 59 in his second season, powered by 43 assists as he was paired with none other than Lindsay and team leader Gordie Howe on the second version of "The Production Line" following the trade of line member Sid Abel. The 59 points would stand as his career high for seven seasons. While his personal point totals would drop in 1953-54, greater things were in store for Delvecchio than personal glory, as the Red Wings would win the second Stanley Cup of Delvecchio's career. He would contribute 9 points in 15 games in the postseason.
Delvecchio may have began to think that winning was easy following the 1954-55 season, as the Red Wings again marched through the playoffs to win their third championship in Delvecchio's four seasons as he chipped in 7 goals and 8 assists in 11 games for third in team playoff scoring.
Alex Delvecchio in action
It would prove to be the final Stanley Cup of what would eventually stretch to a 24 year career.
The 1955-56 season saw him record the first 20 goal season of his career when he netted 25 . The Red Wings would once more reach the finals that season, but fell short against the Montreal Canadiens, who were just beginning a dynasty that stretch for five seasons.
1956-57 was cut short by injury, one of the rare seasons Delvecchio would play less than 70 games, although he was still productive while healthy, scoring 41 points in 48 games. Aside from 1956-57, Delvecchio would play in 1,050 out of 1,054 possible games between 1952-53 and 1967-68.
Following the 1958-59 season, Delvecchio would be named the winner of the Lady Byng Trophy following his 54 point season which saw him whistled for just 6 penalty minutes.
1960-61 was the beginning of six consecutive 20 goal seasons for Delvecchio. He was then named team captain of the Red Wings for the 1962-63 season, a post he would retain for 12 years, the longest in team history until eventually surpassed by Steve Yzerman.
The 1965-66 season was a memorable one for Delvecchio, highlighted by the only 30 goal season of his career, when he scored 31. That season would also be the fourth return to the Stanley Cup Finals in six seasons for Detroit. His season was capped off by being named the recipient of his second Lady Byng Trophy.
Three seasons later Delvecchio set a career high in points with 25 goals and 58 assists for 83 points, including the 1,000th point of his career on February 16, 1969, only the third player in league history after Howe and Jean Beliveau to achieve that feat. His efforts were recognized with the 1969 Lady Byng Trophy, the third of Delvecchio's career.
The final four seasons of his career were as productive as any that came before, with the final full season seeing his second highest point total of his career. Although it was one of the rare seasons in which he did not score 20 goals, coming up just short at 18, he had his second highest assist total with 53 for 71 points.
Delvecchio retired as a player following 11 games of the 1973-74 season when he was chosen as coach of the team. At the time of his retirement, he had established an NHL record for the most games played in a career with only one team at 1,549. In those games, he scored 456 goals and 825 assists for 1,281 points. Additionally, he played in 13 All-Star Games, a total only five players have ever surpassed.
He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1977 and His #10 was retired on this date in 1991.
Today's featured jersey is a 1968-69 Detroit Red Wings Alex Delvecchio jersey. This jersey features the captain's "C", which Delvecchio wore longer than any other player at the time and still remains the second longest tenure of any captain in Red Wings history.
This style of Red Wings jersey was first adopted in 1932 when the team changed their name from the Falcons to the Red Wings and remains essentially unchanged to this day.
Here are highlights of the 1954 Stanley Cup, when the Detroit Red Wings battled the Montreal Canadiens as well as a lively panel discussion with members of both teams hosted by the great Curt Gowdy.
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He can install car seats in under 5 minutes…
And swaddle a baby in less than 30 seconds…
He is super dad!
I think we are ready!
Did you know that today is national cat day?
And did you know that for one day only, Uber (the car service app) is letting you request a kitten on-demand. That's right – for a donation of $30 to the ASPCA, you can get a kitten delivered to your office for 15 minutes of snuggle time!
As soon as I heard about this, I immediately logged into Uber to request my kitten. Sadly, this promotion seems to have spread like wildfire and there are no kittens available.
There is nothing worse than the offer of kitten snuggles and then not being able to take advantage of it. Here are a few of my favorite cat videos as a consolation prize.
Just a cat dressed as a shark riding a Roomba, while a baby, also dressed as a shark looks on.
A couple weeks ago, I did something I almost never do. I went to an exhibition… alone. Matt's sister told me about an amazing exhibit that The New York Public Library was putting on all about Sesame Street. We both share a deep love for this show, its characters and the incredible amount of good that it has done for so many young kids and parents. So I knew this was definitely up my alley.
So after work, I made my way up to Lincoln Center and was immediately transported back to my childhood. The exhibit is full of interesting stories about the show, the performers and the incredible thought that goes into producing it. And of course, there were many muppets on display, including all of the big names: Elmo, Oscar, Bert, Ernie, Snuffy, Super Grover, Zoe, The Count, and Hoots the Owl. I walked around in awe, staring at the characters of my youth, amazed with how large the muppets were in person and how they looked just as they should.
After taking in the exhibit for a little, I made my way to the auditorium for a two hour program entitled "Making Learning a Funny Affair". The panel featured an impressive line up of Sesame Street's top individuals including the Executive Producer, a writer and the Senior Vice President of Global Educational Content. However, the two who stole the show were the two muppet performers.
As they walked on stage, one with Grover the other with Murray, the entire audience was transported back to age 5. I literally couldn't stop myself from smiling and I even teared up a bit (let's blame the baby for that display of emotions).
For the next 2 hours, SNL performer and Sesame Street die-hard fan, Bobby Moynihan moderated an interesting, and funny, discussion about the creative genius that is Sesame Street. After 60 minutes or so, Bert even made an appearance and engaged with a muppet that a young fan brought. It was amazing to see the spirit of Jim Henson live on through the performers and their willingness to support a young dreamer.
It was a truly great night – something that only the city of New York could deliver. The exhibit runs through January 31st so I definitely suggest you make a trip over at some point.
Happy Friday!
This weekend, Matt and I are just laying low. We are officially beginning the waiting game… between 3 and 4 weeks left. I'm hoping to finish our Christmas cards this weekend (pause to give you time to be impressed), and put some finishing touches on the baby's "nook" — we don't have an official nursery as of yet, but don't worry, it is cute and I will be posting pictures soon. Other than that, I don't think we have a lot planned. Sorry Matt – welcome to your new life.
Here are some of my favorite links from the week:
Loving this Between Two Ferns episode.
This is truly amazing
*warning – contains profanities
Brady, a dog and Uggs. Need I say more?
I hope my kid is this smart.
Super cute vest for fall.
This weekend, Matt and I will be FINALLY heading to Ikea to buy a dresser for the baby. This will give us a little sanity as the baby's things are just sprawled all over the guest room right now. Saturday night we will be glued to our tv as Notre Dame (#5) takes on Florida State (#2). Oh, and did I mentioned Matt's favorite person in the whole wide word, Kinsella, is visiting this weekend? So that probably means no trip to Ikea and I will be back to being the third wheel… What about you? Up to anything fun?
Here are my favorite links from the week:
I hope Matt makes this for me on Sunday ;)
Why don't all of my closets look like this?
I don't need more giraffes in my life, but if I did, this is pretty cute.
Do you think the baby will appreciate if I line their drawers? I do :)
Such a cute idea for a rustic wedding/rehearsal dinner.
Not going to lie, I am super excited for this movie to come out.